Priest, poet and author

RTE carried a tribute to the late Fr John O'Donohue on Sunday evening.

Among the points the late poet, priest and writer made were:

Fundamentalists can never have a real conversation with history.

The church has a pathological fear of women.

When we go into a restaurant we never order everything on the menu so why not a la carte Christianity?

Few are availing of the Sacrament of Reconciliation and yet we are living in a time when so many people are 'confessing' at every possible public forum.

Certainly great topics for discussion.

There was a wonderful newness and openness to the ideas expressed by the late John O'Donohue in the Would You Believe programme last evening.