The open letter dealt with the free-sheet Alive and the relationship between the free-sheet and the Irish Dominicans.
Some days later this blog wrote to the free-sheet, seeking information on the editorial team of Alive. Who is the current editor of the free-sheet?
So far there has been no reply from the provincial or the free-sheet.
It displays the poorest of management skills not to reply to correspondence.
Gregory Carroll has been provincial of the Irish province for a long, sad and lethargic eight years. In that time he has earned a reputation for not replying to correspondence.
It simply is not good enough and he should be held to account for his behaviour.
As to the fact that the free-sheet Alive has not replied to the correspondence, simply is another reminder of the type of journalism that it peddles on every page in every edition.
There is something systemically wrong with the Irish Catholic Church at present. And it seems there is little or no interest in attempting to examine, and subsequently putting to right the malaise.
Of course there are great people right across the organisation but it seems those with influence at present belong to a dark merciless right-wing grouping, that always seems to have the ability and resources to raise its ugly head.
And then there are those underlying serious problems that are never mentioned.
The church has a knack of talking the talk. Dioceses and religious congregations talk about their treasured ethos and charism. Unfortunately, those words today are synonymous for spoof, gobbledegook, laziness and crass mismanagement.
And no importation of right-wing evangelical-style US religion is the answer.
It is a tragedy.
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