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28 August 2016

Shifting winds in Maynooth - but Church must embrace change or lose its flock

Another day, another flavourless statement from Maynooth. It is remarkable how an institution as vibrant and effective as the Catholic Church during its 2,000-year history should become now so lost within a gilded labyrinth.
There is a way out of this maze of its own construction, as leaders from Pope Francis to Archbishop Diarmuid Martin realise. But their dilemma is how to secure buy-in for essential reforms from the Church's management class.

http://www.independent.ie/opinion/columnists/martina-devlin/shifting-winds-in-maynooth-but-church-must-embrace-change-or-lose-its-flock-34999553.html