Prophetic voices or complicit functionaries?
Irish priests and the unravelling of a culture
in Tracing the cultural legacy of Irish Catholicism
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https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526117199.00015
Online Publication Date:
06 Apr 2017
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This chapter takes a number of priests with a public profile and examines the extent to which they are prophetic voices or complicit functionaries. Choosing the French priest-writer Jean Sulivan (1913-1980) as a comparator, Eamon Maher examines the published work of Joseph Dunn, Vincent Twomey, Mark Patrick Hederman and Brendan Hoban, before concluding that they all share the prophetic tendency of raising uncomfortable and often unpopular issues while remaining within the institution. He further argues that being so closely aligned to the Church makes it difficult, and professionally dangerous, for priests to criticise certain practices within the institution. However, while retaining a huge love of, and devotion to, the main tenets of Catholicism, these men nevertheless feel obliged to point out things that are going wrong, even when expressing such views can often involve them in conflict with their superiors at home and in Rome.

Tracing the cultural legacy of Irish Catholicism

From Galway to Cloyne and beyond

Editors: Eamon Maher and Eugene O’Brien
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9781526117199
Publisher:
Manchester University Press
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Subjects:
Sociology
Keywords:
Irish Catholicism; Catholic identity; Irish culture; Secularism
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(249 total)
Publisher:
Manchester University Press

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