Bishop-elect Fintan Monahan, who will be ordained
Bishop of Killaloe this Sunday, September 25, said that the annual
training course was “great – a very good experience, probably more so
from the point of view of just meeting the other 150 guys who were on it
and in the same boat, and establishing contact with the guys from the English speaking world”.
Content
While praising the content of the course, Bishop-elect
Monahan said that encounters with his fellow new bishops were probably
even more advantageous than the course’s official content.
“It was great to meet the guys and establish what issues
they have, and what’s working well in those dioceses and what’s not
working and what the problems are, that sort of things,” he told The Irish Catholic,
adding, “from that point of view it was fantastic”.
Among these, he
said, were bishops with Irish connections, not least the new Cork-born
Los Angeles auxiliary bishop, Dr David O’Connell.