We need to re-energise modern Church through the laity: Catholic Bishop

A Catholic Bishop has warned that many parishes and dioceses in Ireland are still functioning in an unhelpful clericalist mode.

We need to re-energise modern Church through the laity: Catholic Bishop

A Catholic Bishop has warned that many parishes and dioceses in Ireland are still functioning in an unhelpful clericalist mode.

In a homily to mark the ordination of a priest in his diocese, the Bishop of Derry, Donal McKeown, said such a focus was not helping those who saw the need to re-energise the modern Irish church.

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