“We all need to be conscious of the negative effects our public communications have on people’s perceptions of the province. Several serious enquirers have been strongly discouraged by the blog of an individual brother speaking negatively of the province. The content of this blog goes unchallenged and is doing irreparable damage to the work of vocations promotion. The continuance of this type of communication and web presence must, in my opinion, cease immediately.”
The above paragraph is a direct quote from the report of the vocations director, Fr Gerard Dunne, to the upcoming chapter of the Irish Dominican province.
This blog referred to the comment last week.
Between 1976 and 1979 the then vocations director ‘warned’ this blogger in an abusive and threatening manner that if he continued to talk to the novices in the way he did, he would see to it that he be removed from the novitiate house.
At the time this blogger was attending UCC and living at St Mary’s Pope’s Quay.
In the context of history the comments of the then vocations director are ironic.
The comments of the current vocations director tell their own story.
The pomposity right through the report of the vocations director, Gerard Dunne, is breathtaking.
When someone refuses to call someone by his/her name he/she takes greatly from the dignity of that person.
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4 comments:
I am,to say the least, bemused by the quotation from the vocations director. Is there something negative about the fact that possible aspirants discover that there are differences of opinion within the Irish Province? Is subjection to thought policing a characteristic of being a Dominican? What's wrong with openness and discussion?
Sadly, the thought police seem to be in the ascendancy at persent.
Thought police without too much thinking.
When will Michael Commane ever grow up
'Dora'!
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