RE: Decline of religion
December 18, 2023 at 1:41 am
(This post was last modified: December 18, 2023 at 1:42 am by Fake Messiah.)
Ordinary parishioners to oversee funerals for first time in Catholic diocese due to lack of priests in Ireland
Traditionally, Catholic funerals are led by a priest as the ceremony usually includes Mass, which can only be said by a priest. However, due to the decline in vocations and the lack of priests in Ireland, the church is introducing new lay ministries and adapting services to offset the lack of manpower.
The 40 funeral ministers in Clogher will operate in 12 parishes. Other parishes in the diocese, which has a wide geographical spread, encompassing all of Co Monaghan, most of Co Fermanagh along with portions of Tyrone, Donegal, Louth and Cavan, have indicated their willingness to nominate people for another training course for lay funeral ministers in the Spring of next year.
Last July, Bishop Duffy wrote to the people of his diocese warning them that the figures indicated that in less than 20 years there will be fewer than 10 priests covering all of its parishes and churches and at most, there will be just one priest ordained in the next seven years.
Encouraging lay people to embrace a different way of doing things where laity and priests work together, he warned, “We cannot afford to wait any longer!”
Earlier this year, Bishop Donal McKeown warned that very soon it might “no longer be the norm” for every individual to have a Mass as part of their funeral.
https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/ordi...70616.html
Traditionally, Catholic funerals are led by a priest as the ceremony usually includes Mass, which can only be said by a priest. However, due to the decline in vocations and the lack of priests in Ireland, the church is introducing new lay ministries and adapting services to offset the lack of manpower.
The 40 funeral ministers in Clogher will operate in 12 parishes. Other parishes in the diocese, which has a wide geographical spread, encompassing all of Co Monaghan, most of Co Fermanagh along with portions of Tyrone, Donegal, Louth and Cavan, have indicated their willingness to nominate people for another training course for lay funeral ministers in the Spring of next year.
Last July, Bishop Duffy wrote to the people of his diocese warning them that the figures indicated that in less than 20 years there will be fewer than 10 priests covering all of its parishes and churches and at most, there will be just one priest ordained in the next seven years.
Encouraging lay people to embrace a different way of doing things where laity and priests work together, he warned, “We cannot afford to wait any longer!”
Earlier this year, Bishop Donal McKeown warned that very soon it might “no longer be the norm” for every individual to have a Mass as part of their funeral.
https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/ordi...70616.html
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
