Two Irish bishops reflect on future of Catholic Church in separate homilies

Two Irish bishops have today reflected on the future of the Catholic Church in a more secular and pluralist society predicting a greater evangelical role for lay people and people of faith amidst new models of ministry and pastoral care.

Speaking this afternoon at the ordination of a priest in the Diocese of Down & Connor, Bishop Noel Treanor suggested that in the coming decades the face of the life of the Church would likley see much change with "the emergence of new models of ministry and pastoral care"