Coffin leaving the church after the Mass of Farewell at the Church of the Assumption of
Our Lady in Dalkey last Friday. Photo: John McElroy. A parish priest has called for better communication between clergy, undertakers and parishioners after an experience that left him questioning whether ministry is drifting from relational to transactional. Writing in his Notebook column for The Irish Catholic, Fr Martin Delaney describes visiting a woman in his parish monthly for several years, bringing her Communion, and attending…
