On a bright June morning we came across one another: the first day of the priests’ annual retreat now held in a Monaghan hotel instead of in All Hallows College – our stomping grounds for decades. Like other seminaries long closed and now enjoying a new incarnation as universities, All Hallows was off limits – The Times they are a- Changin’ as Bob Dylan puts it. So, we are latter-day children of Israel by the rivers of Babylon.
‘Where are you now?’