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Immigrants in the Irish church
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Tuesday May 23, 2006 18:07 by Liam Ó Maoláin - Freelance Journalist
Whilst making a TV documentary on the effects immigrants are having on the Irish church, I interviewed Father Kevin Doran of Glendalough Parish. Kevin is also one of the Vocation directors of the Dublin diocese, and he has previously spoken on behalf of the Catholic Church in Ireland. Q. Do people from other cultures have anything to teach us? |
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3Nice to see more original reporting on Indymedia.ie - well done.
It's not due to the sex scandals.
It's deeper than that.
There is simply no clear proof that he God exists because that is a purely metaphysical idea.
For many years Irish people were in contact with only one metaphysical tradition simply because there were was no modern mass communications technology and few people travelled far from where they grew up in their entire lives.
Now Irish people are part of a globalised society - free movement of people, goods and most importantly ideas are taken for granted - the old certainties are gone.
They served their purpose in past during times of famine and grinding hardship but not today.
No longer do we consider ourselves sinners in need of repentance and in dread of a hostile satanic world with only blind faith in a benevolent hereafter to sustain us.
Church attendance is down because the mass moved into English - which is not a good medium - to transport the mystique of the Catholic church - Latin is the match fit - ''introibo ad altare dei'' - even permeated Joyce's speech - the english language has robbed the church of its mystique - though you may think that it exposed it for what it is - an empty veil of hypocricy - I think the opposite - the mystique is everything - just as first impressions are - the delivery is everything - and the delivery was usurped by that blasted english language.
It's too easy to jump all over the church these days - with corporal punishing brothers being exposed here and there - sexual predators as well - but for all its misgivings - it still gives and gave a lot to the people. There are a lot of very simple people out there who need to have faith in something, some pillar in the community to lean on. There are too many among you who take the church too literally, the ten commandments, the confessional, and all that stuff, but there is beauty in the processions, the hymns, the pagentry, the ceremonies like the christening, the communion and of course, the angelus (not the RTE one but even that one has a certain mysticism to it). The angelus swells - infesting ballads it does - more imagery and beauty for all to behold. Look beyond the templates, not to be saved from the world, but from thyself.