“There are people who object to these community centres being owned by the Church, in the same way as there are people who object to the fact that so many schools are church-owned,” said Fr Oliver O’Reilly.

Kilmore priest warns that the Church must never hanker for the certainties of the past but work towards creating a new expression of what it means to be Church in this time and this place.

An icon of the Holy Family, commissioned for WMOF2018, will be on display in Ss Patrick and Felim Cathedral

Assembly will offer broad directions for diocese which will be developed into a pastoral strategy for the next five years.