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Taney Superhero Fête Saturday 9th June, 1-4pm This year be a SUPER HERO in your own community and help out. We are looking for helpers before and on the day of the fête. We need old crockery, for the Superhero Smashing Crockery stand & clean clothes for the Taney Outlet – men’s, women’s, children’s & babies. They can be left from now on behind the reception desk - Taney Parish Centre. We are also looking for items for Granny’s Attic & White Elephant. These could be left the Friday before Fete 8th June at Taney Church. As always raffle prizes are very welcome! Please call us if you need any further information or have any queries Ciara Maleady 086 669 1075 • Jennifer Armstrong 086 879 9902 Dave Murphy 086 261 8606 • Jackie Rohu 086 851 3225 Willaim Hourie 087 679 1322 TO TANEY FÊTE & BEYOND! Damer Court Single Units Available to Rent Damer & Fortick Charity was founded in 1724 as a sheltered housing complex to provide independent living accommodation to members of the Protestant Community. We have 23 single (bedsit) units and 10 Double Raise yo apartments, a garden and parking facilities. 3 members ur V f! of staff cover a 24 hour day 365 days per year. We are oic oo e to Raise the R administered by a Board of Governors – predominately Church of Ireland members and chaired by the Dean of Christchurch Cathedral – Dean Dermot Dunne. The Archdeacon of Dublin, Canon Rev. David Pierpoint Hymnathon is our Chaplin assisted by Rev. David MacDonnell. We have a weekly Church Service. A social programme includes trips to various places of interest, Quiz Sandford Parish Church evenings, Joe Mac concerts and visits from St. Georges Saturday 9th June, 10.30 a.m. to 5.00 p.m. Brass band. We will be singing a wide variety of hymns from Please apply in writing to: the Church Hymnal, assisted by local choirs. The Secretary, Come along for as long or as short as you like! Mr. Michael Kenny, Damer Court, Upper ADMISSION FREE Wellington St., Donations sought in aid of essential works to be Phibsborough, Dublin 7. carried out on Sandford Rectory. Telephone 01 8307145 2 ChurCh review CHURCH OF IRE LAND UNITE D DIOCE S ES CHURCH REVIEW OF DUB LIN AND GLE NDALOUGH ISSN 0790-0384 The Most Reverend Michael Jackson, Archbishop of Dublin and Bishop of Glendalough, Church Review is published monthly Primate of Ireland and Metropolitan. and usually available by the first Sunday. Please order your copy from your Parish by annual sub scription. €40 for 2012 AD. POSTAL SUBSCRIIPTIIONS//CIIRCULATIION Archbishop’s Lette r Copies by post are available from: Charlotte O’Brien, ‘Mountview’, The Paddock, Enniskerry, Co. Wicklow. E: [email protected] JUNE 2012 T: 086 026 5522. The cost is the subscription and You may be quite different in this respect but, speaking for myself, very often I don’t appropriate postage. really notice things until they are right in front of me. Making a vain attempt recently to brush the floor in the back part of the house, I noticed that in fact there is no such COPY DEADLIINE thing as ‘the floor.’ There are four floors. They are all different, some of them very small All editorial material MUST be with the in size, and they mark various extensions and improvements which enhance and Editor by 15th of the preceeding expand the house and what we can do in it. What I concluded as I contemplated ‘the month, no matter what day of the floor’ is that in reality there may well be, in this case, no such thing as ‘the floor.’ There week. 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Lynn Glanville, T: 087 2356472 Wouldn’t it be truly wonderful if E: [email protected] Professor Beard could be persuaded to do such a Series in such a way on Single copies are available from: ‘the floor’ of our faith, the Bible? • The National Bible Society of Ireland, Dawson Street. • The Resource Centre, Holy Trinity † Michael Church, Rathmines. COVER STORY: PRIINTIING Dublin and Glendalough faith and Church Review is Printed in Ireland by policy coordinator, Jennifer O’Regan; DCG Publications Ireland former All Ireland Mothers’ Union T: 048-90551811. F: 048-90551812. president, Ann Barrett; and Dublin and E: [email protected] Glendalough president, Joy Gordon. ChURCh RevIeW 3 CREATING PROBLEMS THAY MAY INCREASE APATHY AND ANTIPATHY TOWARDS THE CHURCH Patrick Comerford In a couple of days They come and take me away But the press let the story leak. And when the radical priest come to get me released we was all on the cover of Newsweek Paul Simon’s 1972 song, ‘Me and Julio down by the schoolyard,’ recalls the story of Daniel Ellsberg, a government employee who leaked secret papers on the Vietnam War. The “radical priest” who visited Ellsberg in jail was Daniel Berrigan, the anti- war Jesuit, and that visit made the front cover of “Newsweek” in the early 1970s. The Berrigan brothers Dan and the late Vatican censorship... the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith has censured at Philip, were radical priests and peace activists least five Irish priests in recent months. throughout the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. Dan Berrigan developed a reputation as a radical, working actively against poverty and on changing the relationship between priests and laypersons. Philip, who later left the priesthood and married, was a member of the Josephites, an order set up to work with Black Americans against racism and segregation. The Berrigan brothers were regarded as being so radical that they were both on the Left: Father Brian D’Arcy... speaks of himself as a voice for people who have no FBI’s “10 most wanted” list in the 1970s. They voice at all. Centre: Father Tony Flannery... told to “take time out for spiritual and were proud of their Irish ancestry, and when theological reflection”. Right: Father Gerard Moloney... Redemptorist, editor they visited Ireland no-one was surprised that banned from writing on a number of issues in his own magazine. Dan was a Jesuit. Radical priests in those years might have been Jesuits – but hardly ever were scene in teen and pop magazines. He went on World, which included a letter from a reader they Passionists, Redemptorists or Capuchins. writing a weekly column, entitled “A Little Bit of on homosexuality. In the Ireland of the 1950s and the 1960s, the Religion,” in the popular tabloid, the Sunday Father D’Arcy has said in the past that some of Redemptorists were known for their missions World. Some suggest that his style inspired the the blame for the sexual abuse of children must and – on their own admission, on one of the comedian Dermot Morgan’s characters Father go back to Rome, and he argues that if there is own websites – as “hellfire and brimstone Trendy and Father Ted Crilly. secrecy and no questioning within the Roman preachers.” The Passionists, based in Mount Two years ago, when Pope Benedict XVI Catholic Church, then no child will be protected.