CONVENT CLOSES AS CHURCH CRISIS BITES.A CENTURY old convent convent: see monasticism. yesterday become the latest victim of the Church vocation crisis. The Mercy Convent in Graiguenamanagh, Co Kilkenny, is to close after 92 years because there are only five nuns left there. Three will remain on to run a home for the elderly in the area while the other two will move on. One the of the last of the nuns, Sr Ethel McGee, thanked the people in Graiguenamanagh for almost 100 years of hospitality. She explained that nuns got a "frosty frost·y adj. frost·i·er, frost·i·est 1. Producing or characterized by frost; freezing. See Synonyms at cold. 2. Covered with or as if with frost. 3. Silvery white; hoary. 4. reception" when they arrived in 1908, but won over the local people after helping victims of a fever epidemic. The future of the convent building is now in doubt, but sources have denied rumours that it will be used to house refugees Individuals who leave their native country for social, political, or religious reasons, or who are forced to leave as a result of any type of disaster, including war, political upheaval, and famine. . The Catholic Church has been selling numerous properties around Ireland as the vocation crisis continues to bite. St John's in Waterford, St Kieran's in Kilkenny and St Peter's in the Diocese DIOCESE, eccl. law. The district over which a bishop exercises his spiritual functions. 1 B1. Com. 111. of Ferns Ferns can refer to:
The hierarchy is already looking at radical proposals to tackle the problem such as sharing priests among rural parishes, and tempting young African priests back from the missions to Ireland. |
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