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Post by Michael O'Donovan on Nov 29, 2007 22:55:57 GMT
www.ferns.ie/Bishop.shtml is our bishop in Ferns. I have not met him and I don't know what he is like, but he has taken over a diocese with a very bad record of child abuse. He has a hard job to do.
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Post by royalosiodhachain on Dec 22, 2007 16:46:34 GMT
Michael, I copied from the catechism:1550 This presence of Christ in the minister is not to be understood as if the latter were preserved from all human weaknesses, the spirit of domination, error, even sin. The power of the Holy Spirit does not guarantee all acts of ministers in the same way. While this guarantee extends to the sacraments, so that even the minister's sin cannot impede the fruit of grace, in many other acts the minister leaves human traces that are not always signs of fidelity to the Gospel and consequently can harm the apostolic fruitfulness of the Church. A Bishop or Priest cannot be voided the effect of Sacramental Grace due to the failings of their own personalities.
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Post by Alaisdir Ua Séaghdha on Apr 14, 2008 14:56:31 GMT
Does anyone know anything about Bishop Brennan, who seems to be the most silent member of the hierarchy?
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Post by Michael O'Donovan on Apr 14, 2008 22:05:55 GMT
Not much. According to some newpaper report I read, he did well, under the supervision of Bishop Walsh, in dealing with the people who were abused and molested by Ferns priests. However I have heard nothing much of him since he was appointed. The Ferns website page about Bishop Brennan at www.ferns.ie/Bishop.shtml\ has nothing since he was appointed two years ago and I have heard nothing since (I live in the diocese).
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Post by Alaisdir Ua Séaghdha on Apr 15, 2008 22:05:04 GMT
This concurs with what I read, but it is how he's doing as bishop which is the matter under discussion. You live in Ferns, Michael, but to everyone Bishop Brennan seems a great mystery.
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Post by Michael O'Donovan on Apr 16, 2008 20:46:37 GMT
I'm afraid he is to me, too. I know nothing more than I said in my last post. Bishop Comiskey's high profile may have made this man decide to keep his head down.
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Post by Alaisdir Ua Séaghdha on Apr 18, 2008 12:14:45 GMT
I understand. But for all intents and purposes, he seems to be the most silent member of the hierarchy. One doesn't hear much from Bill Lee in Waterford & Lismore or Martin Drennan in Galway, but one hears nothing from Bishop Brennan.
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