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The conference agreed on the need to recapture \u201cas a matter of urgency\u201d the reforming vision of the Second Vatican Council and called on all who were \u201cconcerned with the future of our church, including our church leaders, to participate in this dialogue.\u201d <em>The Irish Times<\/em> report:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/newspaper\/ireland\/2012\/0508\/1224315744299.html\" target=\"_blank\"> &#8220;Meeting hears calls for dialogue at all levels in Irish church.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As <em>The Belfast Telegraph<\/em> reports, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk\/news\/local-national\/republic-of-ireland\/silencing-us-wont-solve-catholic-churchs-problems-say-priests-16155442.html#ixzz1uHbC1TgS\" target=\"_blank\">Silencing us won&#8217;t solve Catholic Church&#8217;s problems, say priests<\/a>.&#8221; The Holy See has silenced six priests in Ireland, it has recently become known, for their criticism of Church authorities and their calls for reforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 1,000 Catholic laity, priests and nuns called for dialogue in the Irish church at a day-long conference in Dublin yesterday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[1081],"tags":[355,252],"class_list":["post-14575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-reform","tag-association-of-catholic-priests","tag-ireland"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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