Parishes in transition
By: edited by Eugene Duffy
Publisher: Columba Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Dublin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781856077064
Subjects: Church renewal; Catholic Church; Priests; Church management
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The Irish parish in historical perspective  -- Liam Irwin; title: Early Irish priests and their areas of ministry AD 700-900  -- Catherine Swift; title: Community and parish in contemporary Ireland : the challenge of rapid social change  -- Desmond McCafferty and Brendan O'Keefe; title: Migration and community building  -- Eoin O'Mahony; title: Parish life : facing a challenging future  -- Donal Murray; title: Clustering parishes : practice and theology  -- Eugene Duffy; title: Clustering parishes : insights from the Dutch experience  -- Henk Witte; title: Parish pastoral councils : from a theological vision to a lived reality  -- Myriam Wiljens; title: The priest and clustering : law and practice  -- Patrick Connolly; title: The diocesan priesthood in the 21st century  -- Eamonn Fitzgibbon; title: Sunday liturgies in the absence of the eucharist  -- Thomas R. Whelan; title: Experiences of clustering parishes  -- John Kernan, Noirin Lynch and Dermot Meehan; title: Leadership and management skills in a pastoral context -- Eamonn Conway.