Archive for June 2007

Drawing the curtains on ethics

Jun 29th, 2007 | By | Category: Ministry

We have a new Rectory.

It is a nice Rectory. It sits at the corner of Killiney Avenue and Church Road, with a fine view of the Dublin Mountains and Sugarloaf Mountain in Co Wicklow. It is finished to a very high standard, marble tiles, wooden floors, granite worktops in the kitchen, lots of gadgetry.

It raises a dilemma.

The parish could never have afforded such a house. We got it because our 1970s bungalow sat on 0.4 of an acre, enough land for a builder to build two large …