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A warm welcome to our new Birmingham area members. Thank you for your support. Here's the latest local Newsletter with all the diary dates (some new)  and some optional extra reading.  

The string of Chicago messages is my way of sharing the rich experience I was privileged to enjoy at a conference in Chicago last week for the International Network of Priests' Associations and Church Reform Groups. ACTA was one of the 42 groups invited. More about that in the Newsletter. Jean Riordan 

 I hope you find the material interesting. 6th Local Newsletter October 25th 2106 ; Chicago 1st Topic Pope Francis ; Chicago 2nd topic Women ; Chicago 3rd topic Clericalism ready ; Chicago 4th topic Lobinger ready ; Chicago 5th topic LGBT ; Chicago 6th topic Bishops

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A message from ACTA Chair, Martin Bennett in Liverpool

My preparations for the delegates' and leadership conference in Birmingham, Sept 24th, had some questions mixed in with the usual sense of anticipation and enthusiasm which the reports from diocesan groups around the country normally produce, (reports available on the website).

Pope Francis Among the Wolves

Where are we going with Pope Francis? That’s the question for ACTA’s annual conference. If you can, grab the chance to hear a top observer of the Vatican and the Catholic Church, Marco Politi, on the same subject. During his visit to the UK from 12 to 14 October, and then in Ireland, Politi will illuminate Pope Francis’s renewal polices and the opposition to them, along the lines of his latest book, Pope Francis Among the Wolves. He wants to know what British Catholics think, and there will be discussion after each lecture.

For more than 40 years, Politi has been commenting from Rome on the struggle to update the Catholic Church. As well as studying Pope Francis, he has followed Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI on more than 80 trips around the world, and has regularly contributed to the BBC, CNN and ABC.

The book he wrote with Carl Bernstein, His Holiness, was an international best seller.

He believes there is a battle going on for the soul of the Catholic Church, in which we are all involved, and where there is no certainty that Pope Francis will win. Come to hear the insights and analysis of a journalist and writer on the inside track.

John Wilkins

Chris McDonnell CT 2nd September 2016 To have and to hold and to give

Two weeks ago I wrote a few words about a good man, Bishop Edward Daly who went to the Lord on August 8th. In recent days there has been an appreciation of his life published on the website of the Association of Catholic Priests, ACP, the forum of Irish priests that has been a voice for reform within the Irish Church. Written by Fr. Paddy O’Kane, who knew Edward Daly, his words reflect on the many facets of his life, a well-rounded man in his appreciation of others.

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