14 Facts About Bernard Kennedy

Bernard Peter Mel Kennedy was born on 20 May 1952 and 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.

Bernard Kennedy 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 Ireland's Crashing Catholicism, Bernard Kennedy offers three causes for the Church's declining power in Ireland:.

Since September 2017, Bernard Kennedy has been the pastor of Enniskerry, holding the position of priest of the Archdiocese of Dublin.

Bernard Kennedy subscribes to the psychoanalytic system of Lacanianism, believing in the importance of desire.

In 2005, Bernard Kennedy explored transference, identification, and sublimations in his publication St Teresa, Mysticism and That's Not It.

In 1979, the first year of its running, Bernard Kennedy won the National Council Educational Award in Philosophy, issued by the Higher Education and Training Awards Council.

Bernard Kennedy is a member of several academic associations, including the European Association of Psychoanalysts, the Irish Psychoanalytic Association, and the Association for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in Ireland.

Since 1989, Bernard Kennedy has held the position of vice president at the Bracken Boxing Club.

Bernard Kennedy is a member of the Leopardstown Club of Leopardstown Racecourse.

Bernard Kennedy has written a number of papers on homosexuality, some on its relationship with organised religion.

Bernard Kennedy has previously spoken out about the need for Ecumenism within Christian communities.

In 2009, Bernard Kennedy officiated the funeral mass for his "longtime friend" actress Anna Manahan.