No unity in Church without leadership

The prophetic voice is not authentic if it seeks to redefine long-established Church teaching according to its own reading of the signs of the times, according to Margaret Hickey

The recent media publicity generated by the Bishop of Cloyne’s decision to ban silenced Redemptorist Tony Flannery from speaking in Killeagh parish raises interesting questions.

On face value, we have a story of parishioners and their parish priest being summarily over-ruled by episcopal diktat and forced to withdraw a speaking invitation to a well-known cleric.