Struggling to cope with a wave of priests retiring, and already short of clerics due to a decline in vocations, the Diocese of Kerry is laying the ground for a new kind of church — with laity at its core.
This shift from a priest-dependent to people-centred Church will be "radical". The move is being billed as one of the most dramatic changes the Irish Church has ever encountered, becoming "circular rather than a top down", in the words of one of the strategists responsible.
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