Principles into practice:Taking Catholic Social Teaching to Irish Travellers throughsacramental preparation

DEACON DAVID LAWRENCE
27 March 2025, The Tablet

For many on the margins of parish life, word-heavy teaching resources are not the expression of welcome and inclusion they are intended to be. Different approaches need to be explored

Historical experience has made Travellers ‘wary of those outside of their community’.1 The Margaret Clitherow Trust (MCT) reports that ‘congregations and clergy tend not to understand or wish to understand their brothers and sisters from the Travelling culture’.

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