Probably not totally relevant, but my step father is from wexford. He said a
few years ago there were serious problems with kids going out with other
kids in schools, as the parents had been a bit busy with people they
shouldn't have been, so often there would be two kids who would be half
brother and sister but wouldn't know it. Basically this meant that the kids
wouldn't be allowed to go out together and the parents would get angry, but
the kids didn't know why.
Since my step father kndew of this I know thsi kind of stuff is common
knowledge, but whether or not he knew every specific instance I do not know.
But that might help...
On 1/10/07, Patrick Maher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On the subject of priests being local or not. I agree with Anton and
> Oisín
> that Priest are rarely, if ever local, but they can be in a parish for
> some
> considerable years (between 10-20) if they are ordinary secular priests.
> If
> they are moved it is usually somewhere in the Diocese (it is the Diocese,
> after all, that employs them) but that doesn't man that they can't move
> themselves and effectively get a job elsewhere. I have an old friend who
> is
> a catholic priest. When I first met him he was a curate in Ballymun Road,
> a
> suburban parish in Dublin. He then, for his own reasons (political as it
> turned out), moved jobs to New Ross which, being in Wexford, is in a
> different Diocese (Ferns to be precise) and served in 2 separate parishes
> there (at the Diocese's whim) during which time he managed to go into a
> monastery for a while and come back out. Effectively he jacked in the job
> in Ferns, went to another job, didn't like it and got his old job back.
> Eventually, for the same political reasons he moved to the States where he
> has served in 2 different parishes in the same Diocese (one of them twice)
> and is now the parish Priest in a parish in Florida. Point: He moved
> himself around a lot when he moved from Dublin to Ferns, to the Monastery,
> back to Ferns and then the States, but in each Diocese he has been moved
> around as they needed him. He has been the PP in Florida for about 10
> years
> now. That said, if the parish is non-secular and is the responsibility of
> one of the Orders like the Carmelites (Berkley Rd., in Dublin) Vincentians
> (Phibsboro and Dominic St. in Dublin) or any one of the many Catholic
> Orders
> that do parish work alongside other, more traditional, non-secular work,
> he
> may find himself (the Priest) moved quite a distance as their coverage
> areas
> tend to transcend Dioceses. Another associate, who is Carmelite and from
> Donegal had served, last we spoke, in 3 separate parishes in the UK, 2 in
> Dublin, 1 in Cork, a school in Cork and a retreat centre in Dublin, in
> less
> than 20 years and the turnover of priests in the Carmelite parish that he
> worked in and I lived in was quite high compared to my experiences in
> secular parishes. That said, I do believe, and I could be corrected here,
> that most rural Irish Parishes are secular and Priests, especially Parish
> Priest's, tend to remain a long time in one place
but I have been told by
> a
> Priest that if they get too 'comfortable' in one place they will be moved.
> Priests tend to keep their relation ships with their parishioners purely
> professional and keep their personal, non-priestly, friendships outside
> their parish.
>
> As for the woman walking out of nowhere after 13 years
tongues would wag,
> their would be gossip and it would be a 9-day wonder. People would be more
> interested in where she had been (and where was her daughter) than the
> fact
> she didn't look like she had aged. In this day and age that can be
> explained away by healthy living, exercise, make-up, cosmetic surgery
> etc
.
> People would be more interested in the scandal of where she, and her
> daughter, had been/still was and what had happened 20 years ago. As for
> the
> Sidhe
although we throw a nod to the traditions and myths I don't think
> anyone seriously believes them. She probably wouldn't tell the truth to
> anyone who wasn't 'in the know' (Kinfolk, Garou, Sidhe etc.). She is more
> likely to have concocted a cover story like she had gone to stay with
> Siobhan in the States.
>
> Ciao, Pat :-)
>
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