Clogher Youth leader training; Historical Society Meeting; Inter Faith conference; Connor Ordination; Press review – Priest blasted Mary Robinson in family’s church; Irish RC child protection head addresses major conference in USA; Dublin Archbishop says Catholic Church hierarchy must learn from outcry
Clogher Youth leader training
On Saturday 6th October a free training event is being held for all youth ministry leaders and volunteers 16yrs+ Hosted by Youth Link: NI in conjunction with Clogher Youth Council this day will be jam packed with training, practical workshops, teaching and new ideas to help with youth work and ministry.
Time – 9:30am – 4:30pm. Venue – College of Agriculture, Enniskillen
Workshops include: Arts and crafts, Creative drama, Music and worship, New games and activities, and Resourcing Youth Ministry. Morning coffee and Lunch provided.
Places are limited, to book contact Jonny Phenix – dyo@clogher.anglican.org by Friday 28th September to avoid disappointment
C of I Historical Society Meeting
The next meeting of the Society will be held in the Chapter Room, Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin on Saturday 3 November.
Parking is available in the high–rise commercial car park – Christ Church public car park – behind Jury’s Hotel, which is opposite the cathedral. It is accessed from St Werburgh’s Street
PROGRAMME
10.30 – Coffee and registration
11am – Dr John Cronin, ‘Strafford’s “right–hand” in exile: Sir George Radcliffe during the Interregnum’
12pm – Professor Eugenio Biagini, ‘Southern Protestants and the Ulster Crisis, 1912’
1pm – Lunch
2pm – Mr Paul Huddie, ‘“Sacred to the memory of…”: Church of Ireland memorials to the Crimean War, 1854–6’ [Research Paper]
3pm – Dr Rachel Finnegan, ‘The Travels & “Curious Collections” of Richard Pococke’
Speakers:
• Dr John Cronin obtained his PhD from the European University Institute, Florence in 2007. In addition to teaching at NUI Galway, UCD, the City of Dublin VEC and in the Oscail programme in DCU, he has also worked on the Irish Battlefields Project and has overseen local history projects in county Galway. He is currently preparing a number of articles for publication, including a book about the Irish royalist social elite in exile for Four Courts Press.
• Prof. Eugenio Biagini is Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at Sydney Sussex College, Cambridge. He is an alumnus of the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa. His current interests include various aspects of Irish and British history since the early twentieth century, with particular reference to democracy, civil rights and religious minorities. Among his numerous publications is his British democracy and Irish nationalism (CUP, 2007)
• Mr Paul Huddie MA is a graduate of UCD. He is currently studying for this PhD in Queen’s University, Belfast. He is particularly interested in Ireland’s various responses to the Crimean War as an aspect of the growing interest in Ireland’s role in British imperial wars.
• Dr Rachel Finnegan has a BA from Trinity College Dublin & a PhD from NUI Maynooth. She has lectured at Waterford Institute of Technology since 1994. In 2008 she published a new edition of Richard Twiss’s A Tour of Ireland in 1775 with UCD Press. She also edited and published in two volumes Letters from Abroad: The Grand Tour Correspondence of Richard Pococke & Jeremiah Milles in 2011 and 2012.
Registration:
There will be an opportunity for members to renew their annual subscriptions, if they have not done so already. The annual subscription was fixed last November at £35 or €40. Non–members are most welcome. They are asked to subscribe £7 or €10 to assist with the expenses of the conference.
The Church of Ireland Historical Society meets twice a year: in the Public Library, Armagh, in April, and in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, in November. It exists to promote scholarly interest in the history of the Church, and to facilitate publication.
Queries may be addressed to Adrian Empey, Hon. Sec.
Telephone +353–1–4055056 or e–mail: empeya@tcd.ie
Inter Faith conference
Questions of religious diversity and education will be discussed at a half-day seminar on Inter Faith issues to be held in Saint Thomas’ Church, Eglantine Avenue, Belfast, on Saturday 13 October. The conference entitled “Educating for Understanding” is being organised by the Inter Faith Working Group of the Church of Ireland.
Speakers on the day will include the Rev Dr Inderjit Bhogal (Leader of the Corrymeela Community), Dr. Katy Radford (a Social Anthropologist working at the Institute for Conflict Research and a member of the Executive Council of the Northern Ireland Jewish Community) and Norman Richardson (lecturer in religious education and diversity/intercultural education at Stranmillis University College, Belfast). The seminar will begin with lunch at 1.00pm and finish at 5.30pm.
The Secretary of the Inter Faith Working Group, the Revd Darren McCallig, said, “Our increasingly multi-cultural and multi-religious society raises many challenges and opportunities for us. In particular, those involved in education, both formal and informal, face many unprecedented issues. This half-day seminar will provide a space to address some of the theological, pastoral and practical implications of ‘Educating for Understanding.’”
The cost of the conference (including lunch and tea/coffee) is £20 or €25. Students may attend free of charge. The fee can be paid by cash or cheque on the day but those wishing to attend should register in advance with the Revd Darren McCallig by email mccalld@tcd.ie or by telephone (+3531) 896 1402.
Connor Ordination of Priests in St Anne’s
Six priests were ordained at a Service in St Anne’s Cathedral, Belfast, on Wednesday September 12 2012. They were: The Rev Iain B Jamieson to serve the curacy of Ballymena and Ballyclug; the Rev Matthew HT Milliken to serve the curacy of Christ Church, Lisburn; the Rev Jonathan D Campbell–Smyth to serve the curacy of Coleraine; the Rev Emma C Rutherford to serve the curacy of Coleraine: the Rev Jacob Caldwell to serve the curacy of Larne & Inver with Glynn & Raloo; and the Rev Mellissa Jeffers to serve in the Non–stipendiary Ministry in the Curacy of Finaghy and Upper Malone, Belfast. Preacher at the service was the Most Rev Michael Jackson, Archbishop of Dublin and Bishop of Glendalough
Priest blasted Mary in family’s church
Herald.ie – Former Irish president Mary Robinson has revealed how her parents were left distressed after she was denounced from the pulpit during Mass. HER deeply religious parents, Aubrey and Tessa, were upset after a cleric publicly complained about Robinson’s fight for family planning rights for Irish woman.
http://www.herald.ie/news/priest-blasted-mary-in-familys-church-3233482.html
Irish RC child protection head addresses major conference in USA
John Morgan, chairman of the National Board for Safeguarding Children in the Catholic Church in Ireland, said. Four separate public inquiries by civil authorities into sexual abuse cover-ups in Irish Catholic institutions — the Ferns Report in 2005, the Ryan Report and Murphy Report in 2009 and the Cloyne Report in 2011 — “so destroyed the credibility of the institutional dimension of the church that nothing less than a full examination of all files under the control of the bishop or congregational leader [of a religious order or missionary institute] dealing in any way with child abuse was warranted. … Nothing less would suffice for survivors of abuse, for priests and for lay faithful.”
http://ncronline.org/news/people/voice-faithful-seeks-expand-its-challenges-sex-abuse-church-structures
Dublin Archbishop says Catholic Church hierarchy must learn from outcry over …
Belfast Telegraph – The Archbishop of Dublin has urged the Catholic Church not to simply move on from the controversy surrounding bizarre comments made by Bishop John Kirby about paedophilia. But Diarmuid Martin stopped short of calling for the Bishop of Clonfert’s resignation over his comments that he once saw paedophilia as “a friendship that crossed a boundary line”.
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/republic-of-ireland/dublin-archbishop-says-catholic-church-hierarchy-must-learn-from-outcry-over-bishops-paedophilia-comments-16212213.html