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Post by Alaisdir Ua Séaghdha on May 28, 2008 9:49:10 GMT
Killaloe is a diocese of nearly 115,000 Catholics in 58 parishes served by 142 priests, including religious. It is made up of most of Co Clare with substantial parts of North Tipperary and Offaly and parts of counties Laois and Limerick. Its official website is: www.killaloediocese.ie/. Bishop Michael Harty was Bishop of Killaloe from 1967 to 1994 when he was succeed by Bishop William Walsh, who had been Coadjutor Bishop for a few months prior to his predecessor's death. Though SSPX activity has been thin on the ground in Killaloe, Birr, Co Offaly is the centre of Bishop Michael Cox'es ministry. Bishop Cox now styles himself as a Patriarch of the Latin Tridentine Church has been something of a travelling road show since his consecration at the hands of Palmarian sectarians in the 1980s. Most notoriously, he purported to 'ordain' Sinead O'Connor to the priesthood. Not long after the promulgation of Ecclesia Dei Adflicta, a petition drive was organised in Ennis, Co Clare. Bishop Harty reacted strongly against it. The matter was carried in a conservative Catholic magazine in circulation in Ireland at the time, Faith and Family, which was banned from the shelves of Veritas. Bishop Harty later suggested the (then) Latin Mass Society of Ireland change their name as there was a possibility of Novus Ordo Masses in Latin. The society duly obliged and became Ecclesia Dei Ireland instead of asking Bishop Harty where such Masses were available in his diocese. Bishop Willie Walsh is known to be a liberal prelate. This liberalism does not exclude him from being liberal with traditionalists too. Between 2001 and 2003, there was an annual pilgrimage to the Shrine of the Little Ark, Kilbaha, Co Clare near Loop Head. This was abandoned because it was in an out of the way location. In 2006 and 2007, the traditional Mass was offered in Ss Peter's and Paul's Cathedral, Ennis, Co Clare. Bishop Walsh was very quick to furnish the necessary permissions on all occasions, often replying personally by e-mail to the petitioners. One priest of the Killaloe diocese has said the Mass in Clare and Limerick on several occasions, but at present he is serving in the Apostolic Nunciature in Uganda.
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Post by Alaisdir Ua Séaghdha on May 29, 2008 16:06:02 GMT
I am reminded that the society for Tradition, the Family and Property (TFP) ran a 'father and son' camp at the Cistercian Abbey Mount St Joseph's in Roscrea, Co Tipperary last year with the traditional Mass. Apparently the Fr Prior OCSO there is favourable to tradition.
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Post by Alaisdir Ua Séaghdha on Jul 1, 2008 10:35:54 GMT
It is interesting to see that Bishop Willie Walsh was the first Irish prelate to take of the 'Order of Marian Apostolates' which is affiliated to some species of Old Catholic group.
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Post by Alaisdir Ua Séaghdha on Feb 25, 2009 10:10:11 GMT
In the event of the Institute of Christ the King moving permanently to Limerick, Ennis will be an early beneficiary.
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Post by hibernicus on Feb 26, 2009 11:10:41 GMT
I didn't notice the post about TFP before. They are a decidedly mixed blessing, based on what little I have heard of them. Bishop Castro Mayor, who was Archbishop Lefebvre's closest ally, worked with their founder Plinio Correa Oliveira for many years but broke with them because he thought that as Plinio aged he allowed himself to become the focus of an extravagant personality cult. Castro Mayor's judgement was open to question, but i tend to be suspicious of a group which strongly emphasises property rights in such a socially divided society as Brazil. By the way, is it only a coincidence that TFP also stands for the Vichy slogan "Travaille, Famille, Patrie"?
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Post by Alaisdir Ua Séaghdha on Feb 26, 2009 15:10:55 GMT
I didn't notice the post about TFP before. They are a decidedly mixed blessing, based on what little I have heard of them. Bishop Castro Mayor, who was Archbishop Lefebvre's closest ally, worked with their founder Plinio Correa Oliveira for many years but broke with them because he thought that as Plinio aged he allowed himself to become the focus of an extravagant personality cult. Castro Mayor's judgement was open to question, but i tend to be suspicious of a group which strongly emphasises property rights in such a socially divided society as Brazil. By the way, is it only a coincidence that TFP also stands for the Vichy slogan "Travaille, Famille, Patrie" This is a good topic for discussion, but the thread here refers to something else. In the 1980s and early 90s, there was a magazine in circulation in Ireland known as Our Family and subsequently Faith and Family. There was a local in Ennis who led a petition drive and presented a sizable petition to Bishop Harty I think in 1989 (or 1990 - very early into the Ecclesia Dei Adflicta era). His mentor was Tom McFadden, editor of Our Family/ Faith and Family, and Mr McFadden carried the story in his magazine. However it is hard to read the article and to listen to the petitioner's version of events without getting the sense that Mr McFadden was actually winding the petitioner up and making mischief for Bishop Harty, especially as Mr McFadden, who has since returned to his native Washington DC, no longer attends Traditional Masses, favouring Novus Ordo Latin. TFP are another story and one gets the impression that some of their members are living in Professor Plinhio's fantasy. TFP is a propos of Killaloe and more so Limerick in this respect - one charge made about the Institute of Christ the King is that it is very close to TFP. I have only one observation on this score: I was unaware personally of the extent of the presence of TFP in Ireland until the Institute came to Limerick. That could be unfair: TFP people in Dublin would be lost in the congregation, but they would stick out in Limerick.
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Post by hibernicus on Feb 26, 2009 17:11:57 GMT
I have started a thread on TFP in the General Forum so the discussion can continue there. OUR FAMILY was a good magazine to begin with but it got a bad dose of Fr. Faheyitis. the McFaddens were Americans who settled here to promote natural family planning wiht the Couple to Couple League - the magazine closed when they moved on to continue this work in Eastern Europe.
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Post by Alaisdir Ua Séaghdha on Feb 27, 2009 10:42:03 GMT
You are right on both counts re: the McFadden magazine. And I take it that is why Doris Manley did a whole Ballintrillick Review on the Jews around that time.
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Post by hibernicus on Feb 27, 2009 18:29:44 GMT
You are right about the Ballintrillick Review issue; it was specifically meant as a reply to the McFaddens' antics, but she wasn't able to mention them or the magazine by name because a law had just been passed making various forms of racist speech illegal, so if she had named them they could have sued her on the grounds that she was accusing them of a criminal offence. Of course they wouldn't have had a leg to stand on in court, but the legal costs would have crippled her before she could have got a decision. The McFaddens weren't just promoting Fahey by the way - they were also advertising a book on the Talmud by IB Pranaitis, a Catholic priest who testified at the Mendel Beiliss trial in Kiev in 1913 that Jews practised ritual murder of Christian children. Pranaitis was totally discredited in court (when Beiliss' defence counsel asked him a question incorporating the title of the first book of the Talmud, his answer showed he thought this was the name of a person) but the ad hailed Pranaitis as a saint who had sealed his testimony with his blood under the Soviets.
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Post by Alaisdir Ua Séaghdha on Mar 3, 2009 13:20:57 GMT
Father Pranaitis' dubious writings about the Talmud enjoy the same sort of circulation as the Protocols of the Elders of Zion - among Bishop Williamson fans, trad loonies and Islamic fundies, with all the other gallery of anti-semites. I know Tom McFadden was on the edge, but I didn't know he went that far.
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Post by Alaisdir Ua Séaghdha on Sept 11, 2009 14:28:53 GMT
To return to the point of the thread, Bishop Willie Walsh has come through again.
The EF Latin Mass will take place in Ss Peter & Paul Cathedral in Ennis, Co Clare at 4.30 pm on Sunday, 27 September. The celebrant will be Mgr Séamus Horgan, a priest of the diocese working in the Papal Nunciature in Switzerland.
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Post by hibernicus on Sept 14, 2009 14:30:18 GMT
I notice that a new Father Prior (very young - he had to get a dispensation) was installed at Roscrea some months ago, and Bishop Walsh of course has just submitted his retirement on age grounds. Does anyone know how these changes are likely to affect te situation in the diocese, or will we have to wait for the Bihop's successor to be named?
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Post by Alaisdir Ua Séaghdha on Sept 23, 2009 14:23:08 GMT
This is one of a number of dioceses were a resignation is submitted or is impending - in Clogher, Bishop Duffy submitted his resignation in the New Year.
Bishop Walsh has been very generous to any request made to him, but there is no organised group or even a determined individual in this diocese yet. But that might be about to change. Traditional Mass is also scheduled for the Franciscan Friary on Tuesday 29 September (Feast of St Michael and 30th anniversary of Pope John Paul's visit here) at 6 pm. Once again, Mgr Séamus Horgan is celebrating.
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Post by monkeyman on May 20, 2010 1:22:55 GMT
Leading religious on Roman scene named new bishop in Ireland by John L Allen Jr on May. 18, 2010
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By JOHN L. ALLEN JR.
Society of African Missions Fr. Kieran O’Reilly, a leading voice among religious in Rome and a veteran missionary in Liberia and Nigeria, was appointed this morning the new Bishop of Killaloe in Ireland by Pope Benedict XVI.
O’Reilly has served as Superior General of the Society of African Missions since 2001.
O’Reilly replaces Bishop William Walsh, who resigned for reasons of age. Three other Irish bishops have recently stepped down amid that country’s sexual abuse crisis, with two other resignations offered but not yet accepted. Given that there are just 31 members of the Irish bishops’ conference, Benedict XVI is effectively overhauling the country’s episcopacy.
It’s the nature of a crisis that sometimes choices with important long-term consequences are made on the fly. In the case of O’Reilly, his nomination has at least three implications worth pondering, beyond its immediate implications for the sexual abuse crisis:
• It adds an important figure from religious life to the episcopacy, perhaps easing what many observers have long regarded as a breach between some of the more progressive religious orders and the church’s official leadership structures; • It adds a politically and theologically moderate voice to the English-speaking hierarchy, someone especially concerned with the church’s peace-and-justice teaching; • It also adds a bishop well positioned to help Catholicism navigate the demographic transitions underway, preparing for a future in which the church’s center of gravity is increasingly in the southern hemisphere.
O’Reilly, 57, was born in Cork and ordained a priest for the Society of African Missions in 1978. He served as a missionary in Liberia before obtaining a license in Scripture from the prestigious Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome. He then taught scripture in Nigeria before serving in a series of leadership roles within the Society for African Missions, culminating in his election as Superior General in 2001 and reelection in 2007.
O’Reilly has long been a leading figure within the Union of Superiors General, the main umbrella group for men’s religious orders in Rome, sometimes representing USG at Synods of Bishops – most recently, last year’s Synod on Africa. He’s also a frequent speaker at events organized by SEDOS, a forum for missionary orders, and a leader within the Justice, Peace and Integrity of Creation group for religious orders.
He arrives in Ireland at a time of division within the bishops’ conference, related in large part to contrasting impressions of Archbishop Diarmuid Martin of Dublin. Martin has earned high marks in the press and the general public for his forthright handling of the sexual abuse crisis, but has suffered backlash from some fellow bishops and clergy who believe he’s essentially thrown them under the bus.
Perhaps reflecting that pressure, Martin recently complained of “strong forces” in the church who “would prefer that the truth did not emerge,” and about “signs of a rejection of a sense of responsibility for what had happened.”
Like Martin, who came to the job in Dublin in 2003 out of Vatican service, O’Reilly has never served as a diocesan bishop in Ireland and is therefore untainted by the scandals documented in the government-commissioned “Murphy Report” and elsewhere.
He’s generally seen as an able administrator and an engaging and media-friendly personality, meaning that he may be able to help Martin carry some of the public weight for the church’s response to the crisis.
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Post by Michael O'Donovan on May 23, 2010 22:14:52 GMT
• [His appointment] adds an important figure from religious life to the episcopacy, perhaps easing what many observers have long regarded as a breach between some of the more progressive religious orders and the church’s official leadership structures; • It adds a politically and theologically moderate voice to the English-speaking hierarchy, someone especially concerned with the church’s peace-and-justice teaching; • It also adds a bishop well positioned to help Catholicism navigate the demographic transitions underway, preparing for a future in which the church’s center of gravity is increasingly in the southern hemisphere. Monkeyman, is this another grey-shirted media-friendly Vatican II clone? God forbid.
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