CHURCH OF IRELAND NOTES
For Saturday 30 January 1999
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Medical Ethics Lecture Series
A series of public lectures, sponsored by the Adelaide Hospital
Society, on "Medical Ethics and the Future of Healthcare"
begins on Monday and continues on the following three Mondays. The
lectures will be held in the Lecture Theatre of Education Centre at the
new Adelaide and Meath Hospital in Tallaght, and will begin at 8.00 pm.
The first in the series will be delivered by Professor James
Childress, from the University of Virginia, who will give "An
Overview of Bioethics on the Brink of a New Millennium". Subsequent
speakers will be Professor Walter Prendiville, a gynaecologist from the
Adelaide and Meath Hospital, Ms. Verena Tschudin, editor of Nursing
Ethics, and Dr. Marianne Arndt from the University of Stirling. They
will address ethical issues in womens' health, ethics and holistic care,
and ethical considerations in the allocation of resources in healthcare.
Booking by individuals and groups for this series of lectures is
strongly recommended by the organizers and details may be had from Dr.
Fergus O'Ferrall, Director of the Adelaide Hospital Society, Adelaide
and Meath Hospital, Tallaght, Dublin 24 (Tel: 01 414-2072, fax: 01
414-2070).
Coincidentally a revised edition of Kenneth Kearon's Medical
Ethics. An Introduction has just appeared. Canon Kearon, who will
shortly take up his new position as Director of the Irish School of
Ecumenics, lectures on ethics in the Church of Ireland Theological
College and in Trinity College, Dublin. Medical Ethics has been
published by Columba Press and the APCK at IR£7.99.
Tomorrow (Sunday) morning RTE will broadcast a studio service
conducted by the Rector of Rathdrum, the Revd Christopher Halliday, who
is a member of the Church of Ireland Broadcasting Committee. In Ferns
Cathedral the preacher at the St. Edan's Patronal Festival will be the
Provost of Tuam, the Very Revd Robert MacCarthy, while in Kildare
Cathedral there will be a Choral Eucharist on the eve of the Feast of
St. Brigid. In Belfast the Annual Service of the Church of Ireland Men's
Society will be held in Holy Trinity Church, Joanmount. The service will
be conducted by the Revd S.S. Heaney and Bishop Samuel Poyntz and the
preacher will be the former Dean of Down, the Very Revd Hamilton Leckey.
On Monday the Archbishop of Armagh, Dr. Robin Eames, will launch the
Church of Ireland Children's Charter in Malone House, Belfast. This is a
three year programme focusing on the church's ministry with children
which will run in the province of Armagh until the December 2002.
A new series of lunchtime lectures begins in Christ Church Cathedral,
Dublin, on Tuesday on the theme "Christ Church in Stuart Dublin.
the 17th Century Cathedral". The first speaker will be Dr. Kenneth
Milne, the Church of Ireland Historiographer, who will consider
"Christ Church. The Smallest of Dublin's Liberties".
Subsequent lecturers will be Mr. Douglas Bennett on the cathedral plate,
Dr. Colum Kenny and Dr. Edward McParland who will consider aspects of
the Four Courts at Christ Church. The lectures begin at 1.15 pm and will
be illustrated.
On Tuesday evening at 8.00 pm in St. John's Church, Sandymount, the
Feast of Candlemas will be celebrated with a Sung Eucharist by
Candlelight. The preacher will be the Rector of Tullow, the Revd David
Oxley.
In the Chapel of Trinity College, Dublin on Wednesday the Church of
Ireland Chaplain, Dr. Alan McCormack, together with Fr. Richard Sheehy,
will co-ordinate a liturgy in celebration of human diversity as part of
the Trinity College Rainbow Week. At Choral Evensong on Thursday, in the
presence of his predecessor, the Very Revd Peter Barrett, Dean of
Waterford, Dr. McCormack will dedicate a new altar frontal for use in
the College Chapel.
Church of Ireland Notes appear in the Irish
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