American media picks up on Ireland’s Association of Catholic Priests.
By Annabel Roberts, NBC News correspondent
LONDON -- A Roman Catholic Church with women cardinals? And priests who are not celibate?
That is the controversial hope of a group of priests who claim to represent the majority of Irish Catholics.
More than 1,000 lay church-goers and priests attended a meeting in Dublin this week to discuss these ideas and others they believe are essential to the survival of the Catholic Church in Ireland.
'A mere trickle'
Their over-riding concern is, given the average age of priests in Ireland is 64, that in just 20 years there will not be enough priests to serve the country's congregations.
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