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Bernard Kennedy
Bernard Peter Mel Kennedy (born 20 May 1952) is an Irish psychoanalyst, poet, and priest.
Bernard Peter Mel Kennedy was born on 20 May 1952 in Rathfarnham, Dublin to William Augustine Kennedy and Alice Kennedy (née Hughes).
Kennedy was ordained in 1979 at Dublin's Holy Cross Seminary (previously known as Clonliffe College). He holds a Master of Arts (MA) in psychoanalytic studies from the University of Sheffield, having matriculated in 2000 and graduated in 2002 with a thesis titled On freudian understanding of Sexuality; he holds a Master of Science (MSc) in psychoanalytic psychotherapy from University College Dublin, which he attended from 2002 to 2004 and for which his thesis was titled On Homosexuality and the relation to the father. His Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) focuses on symptomatology in the works of Freud and Lacan in a 2006 thesis titled The Freudian Understanding of the Symptom.
Beginning in 1978 at the age of 26, Kennedy was deacon at the Church of the Good Shepherd in Churchtown, Dublin, a position he held until his resignation the following year. He was ordained in 1979 at Dublin's Holy Cross Seminary and in the same year became the youth ministry coordinator at Dublin's Church of Our Lady of Victories and a teacher of religious education at Dublin's Sallynoggin College of Further Education. In 1982, he became the spiritual counsellor of Mater Misericordiae University Hospital. The following year, he left all previous posts and became the chaplain of the Loreto Convent in Balbriggan and the Balbriggan Renewal Group in Dublin, and spiritual advisor to the North Dublin Charismatic Movement until 1988.[citation needed]
In Ireland's Crashing Catholicism (2013), Kennedy offers three causes for the Church's declining power in Ireland:
"It may be that too many centuries of being dazzled by outside control have drowned the Patrician opening text of Ego Patricius, peccator. An obsequiousness towards being ruled from outside is perhaps at root. Obedience to mother, the matriarchal principle transferred to Mother Church and the diminishment of Father, is a third possibility. After all, Catholic iconography edits the male from its iconic artwork in favour of mother and son. Except for God many of our religious symbols in the west are fatherless. We might call this the Joseph syndrome."
Since September 2017, Kennedy has been the pastor of Enniskerry, holding the position of priest of the Archdiocese of Dublin.
Kennedy subscribes to the psychoanalytic system of Lacanianism, believing in the importance of desire.
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Bernard Kennedy
Bernard Peter Mel Kennedy (born 20 May 1952) is an Irish psychoanalyst, poet, and priest.
Bernard Peter Mel Kennedy was born on 20 May 1952 in Rathfarnham, Dublin to William Augustine Kennedy and Alice Kennedy (née Hughes).
Kennedy was ordained in 1979 at Dublin's Holy Cross Seminary (previously known as Clonliffe College). He holds a Master of Arts (MA) in psychoanalytic studies from the University of Sheffield, having matriculated in 2000 and graduated in 2002 with a thesis titled On freudian understanding of Sexuality; he holds a Master of Science (MSc) in psychoanalytic psychotherapy from University College Dublin, which he attended from 2002 to 2004 and for which his thesis was titled On Homosexuality and the relation to the father. His Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) focuses on symptomatology in the works of Freud and Lacan in a 2006 thesis titled The Freudian Understanding of the Symptom.
Beginning in 1978 at the age of 26, Kennedy was deacon at the Church of the Good Shepherd in Churchtown, Dublin, a position he held until his resignation the following year. He was ordained in 1979 at Dublin's Holy Cross Seminary and in the same year became the youth ministry coordinator at Dublin's Church of Our Lady of Victories and a teacher of religious education at Dublin's Sallynoggin College of Further Education. In 1982, he became the spiritual counsellor of Mater Misericordiae University Hospital. The following year, he left all previous posts and became the chaplain of the Loreto Convent in Balbriggan and the Balbriggan Renewal Group in Dublin, and spiritual advisor to the North Dublin Charismatic Movement until 1988.[citation needed]
In Ireland's Crashing Catholicism (2013), Kennedy offers three causes for the Church's declining power in Ireland:
"It may be that too many centuries of being dazzled by outside control have drowned the Patrician opening text of Ego Patricius, peccator. An obsequiousness towards being ruled from outside is perhaps at root. Obedience to mother, the matriarchal principle transferred to Mother Church and the diminishment of Father, is a third possibility. After all, Catholic iconography edits the male from its iconic artwork in favour of mother and son. Except for God many of our religious symbols in the west are fatherless. We might call this the Joseph syndrome."
Since September 2017, Kennedy has been the pastor of Enniskerry, holding the position of priest of the Archdiocese of Dublin.
Kennedy subscribes to the psychoanalytic system of Lacanianism, believing in the importance of desire.