Questions from John Lonergan Speaker to the Audience

Q1: If being an Active Christian in modern Ireland was a crime;would there be any evidence to convict me?

Audience Summary Answer Points

      • Be not afraid – to speak out.
      • You corrupted my message – Love
      • You crucified me again.
      • Healing cannot happen until all the poison is poured out.
      • Where are Women?
      • Lack of unity.
      • Have more women involved as equals. Would the abuse have happened if they had had a more meaningful role in decision making?
      • Where are my people?
      • How could it have happened?
      • Hard to recognise what is left.
      • Would Jesus have challenged us how we have organised ourselves?
      • Where are you at?
      • What bits of church are valid
      • Pools of love.
      • St. Vincent de Paul. Peace & Justice.
      • Disconnect between Churches.
      • Need for recognition of the Real Church – The people of God
      • How do people of God get inspired – to give something back ?.
      • He would say we have lost our way
      • We do not act as community in Church

Q2: Is Money more important than justice?

Audience Summary Answer Points

      • Justice is more important than money
      • Yes is the answer from Modern Ireland.
      • Distribute money justly.
      • Human call to service.
      • Dignity and respect for human person.
      • Spirituality (lay). Social Justice.
      • Be an effective witness for justice.
      • Assess the damage – don’t plaster over it
      • Work together – give credence for the gifts of all baptized
      • Lay voices need to be heard – the voices of the abused especially
      • Hurts and concerns shouldn’t depend on individuals
      • Return ordination to pastoral work – not management
      • Have we organised ourselves so that all baptised seen as equal?
      • We need structures that recognise the different gifts.
      • Gifts seem to be corralled into ordained Ministry.
      • De-arrange to all involved in Church
      • If you want to repair something the bad parts need to be demolished
      • He would say that he loves us and we should go out and love others
      • Can we organise ourselves so that all baptised are equal.
      • Both ordained and non ordained have equal gifts to offer pastorally.
      • Service as model rather than authoritarianism.
      • Opportunity for Adult Faith Formation.
      • More women involved as equals – abuse would not have happened. Jesus listened
      • I was a stranger and you fed me. Love one another as I have loved you
      • What have you done to the Spirit?
      • Pray..Listen to my Voice…Bidding prayers…
      • Reach out to the marginalized
      • Repair my Church to reflect new ideas among the people
      • Compassion for the sinner and the abused
      • New kind of religion
      • Developing Church Community

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