Jun 2, 2010 / 22:48 pm
Marking the closing of the Year for Priests, Archbishop Timothy Dolan of New York gave a keynote address at an Irish bishops' seminar, where he reflected on the recently surfaced clerical abuse cases within the Irish Church and exhorted priests to be “grounded” in humility.
Archbishop Dolan was named a member of the Apostolic Visitation to the Church in Ireland on May 31 and has been tapped to work along with the Congregation for Catholic Education in examining centers of priestly formation, including the Irish College in Rome.
The archbishop made his remarks on the crisis within the Irish Church last Thursday at a seminar co-hosted by the Irish Bishops' Conference and Saint Patrick's College in Maynooth in honor of the upcoming closing of the Year for Priests.
In his address titled “God is the only treasure people desire to find in a priest,” Archbishop Dolan underscored the importance of priests being grounded in humility, rooted in holiness and more concerned with their identity as “being” fathers rather than “doing” numerous administrative tasks effectively.