Dear Editor, At a time when the role of third level chaplains is being questioned (IC 14/04/2016 ‘Mass attendance a crude measure of chaplaincy support services’) perhaps it is time to look again at clergy deployment priorities. The question I would ask is, why are some parishes being deprived of their full-time priest and yet colleges are being blessed with full-time priest chaplains? There are many good potential lay chaplains and perhaps future deacons, who can be supported at term time Mass times by parish clergy.
Yours etc.,
Alan Whelan,
Killarney,
Co Kerry.
