The Association of Catholic Priests The Society of St.Peter and Paul

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The society was founded in 1994 by a group of priests from the Diocese of Southwark who felt that they could no longer remain within the existing fraternal organisations for Anglo-Catholic priests, such as the Society of the Holy Cross, which had taken conservative positions on the ordination of women to the priesthood. The development of that particular trend is very well illustrated in the new book of essays on Cardinal Cullen, which quotes two letters written by him at different stages in his career. Presumably the members of the ACP refused to include it in their Mass because of it's " sexist " nature ! Deacons can baptise, preside over funerals, preach at the pulpit, I think they can anoint the sick but not give the Last Rites (happy to be corrected there). The Association of Catholic Priests is trying to organise an "Assembly of the Irish Church" in a Dublin venue on 1 May of next year, and to recruit sympathetic laity and clerics to take part.

I have posted this item on this thread because the ACP have established links to the Austrian group and frequently cite them as kindred spirits. How sad then that it has always been a hallmark of Modernism to seek to obliterate the distinction of roles among the various members of the Body of Christ!What a truly apostolic mind - so like the apostle who said "This could have been sold for three hundred denarii and the money given to the poor" (Mark 14:5). Its objective is to promote the formation and support of priestly spirituality and Catholic evangelism.

It should be about “modelling the kind of church it seeks to bring about, especially in its relationship and work with laity,” the meeting in Athlone was told. In the SCP NA, professed but unordained members of religious communities may also be admitted as full members. A final thought, isn't amazing that the blessing of the love shared between two human beings can get some people so het up yet the scandal of disunity in the Body of Christ is meekly accepted.Their advocacy of an end to celibacy does not stand alone - it is part of a wider desire to do away with any distinction between the priestly and lay states - hence the suggestion to ordain simplex priests who would train on the job rather than attending seminaries and who would not be differentiated from the "community".