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    Roy Donovan ACP Leadership Team responds to Bishop Coll on Synodality…

    March 4 2026
    Dermot Quigley
    I spent some of my Childhood years in the Archdiocese of Westminster where I made my first Holy Communion. Back in those far off days, the Archbishop of Westminster was the late Cardinal John Heenan. He gave his imprimatur to the old Red Westminster Penny Catechism which I learned at School in Fulham. This Catechism is characterized by two virtues in short supply in our Church today: Brevity and Clarity. I don't know Bishop Coll. Based on my reading of his adduced remarks, young people will find the Doctrinal Solidity they seek in the Heenan Red Westminster Penny Catechism. Published by TAN USA, it retails for €8 in Knock Shrine Bookshop, well within the pocket money of young people. It is selling like Hotcakes. A Priest of Allen Hall Seminary in the Archdiocese of Westminster has confirmed to me that this Catechism remains in force and hasn't been abrogated. Keep the Faith devastatingly Traditional and Simple. As the old Trappist saying goes: "All for Jesus, through Mary, with a smile."
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    Roy Donovan ACP Leadership Team responds to Bishop Coll on Synodality…

    March 4 2026
    Sean O'Conaill
    "Predestination has deep roots in Christian theological thinking but it never means that predestination is the ONLY cause" (Joe O'Leary) Isn't the term 'predestination' itself problematic, as a logical non-sequitur of 'foreknowledge'? To understand the Father as having foreknowledge of the opposition to Jesus is not at all the same thing as believing that he willed or predetermined or 'predestined' that opposition. Everything could be resolved simply by distinguishing between the positive and determinative will of God on the one hand, and the merely permissive will of God on the other. He permitted but did not predetermine the violence of the Crucifixion, but did positively will Jesus' non-violence, to associate the Trinity with resistance to violence rather than the perpetration of it. All Catholic Catechisms could and should make that distinction - including YouCat. They also need to make that connection between pride - 'superbia' - the desire for superiority - and violence - because that too is part of Catholic 'solid doctrine'. To the extent that the magisterium baulks at admitting 'superbia' in the cover-up of abuse it currently lacks credibility re the teaching, ruling and sanctifying authority claimed in CCC 886-896. It is not accidental that YouCat blanks 'superbia - 'pride' - altogether, given its date of publication - 2011 AD.
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    Roy Donovan ACP Leadership Team responds to Bishop Coll on Synodality…

    March 4 2026
    Joe O'Leary
    Reading Fr James McTavish's horrendous article on "same-sex attraction" (the current Vatican jargon for what it called "homosexualitatis problema" forty years ago) in September's Gregorianum, I well understand that one would not wish to place one's children in such hands. The article, relying heavily on a 7 pages article in the extreme rightwing Linacre Quarterly, proposes one contrarian view after another, affecting superior scorn for "secular" medicine and psychology. It makes much of the supposedly wise distinction between transitory and deep-seated SSA (recalling some notably embarrassing utterances of Cardinal Grocholewski), and then pleads with the Magisterium to clarify the distinction and to consider that there could be conditions located between the two, and which would be neither transitory nor deep-seated. How does a seminarian prove that his SSA is merely transitory? Apparently, by admitting that SSA is not an innate but an acquired condition (and therefore curable?), due to poor relations with his father or to an incapacity for sports and the wholesome male camaraderie they promote. Seminarians must not be so dishonest as to hide their SSA and the help of professionals may be invoked to discern whether it is really deep-seated whether they merely think they are gay--while at the same time the author protests against a secular culture that puts pressure on gays to "come out." Against the common view that the peak of male sexuality is in the late teens and early twenties, the author declares that 30-50 is the peak -- which might apply to clerics. All of this is codology under the guise of jejune moral theology and pseudo-scientific psychology. But more seriously, it is calculated to do great damage to those who take it seriously. Enough of this trafficking in neurosis! The author denounces especially gay men who consider themselves perfectly normal. Happily there are plenty of normal men, whether straight, gay, or bi, who can expose Fr McTavish's hole-in-corner ruminations to the light of day.
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    Roy Donovan ACP Leadership Team responds to Bishop Coll on Synodality…

    March 4 2026
    Paddy Ferry
    Also well said, Seán, infact incredibly well said. And thank you for alerting us to YouCat— well me, anyway, as I knew nothing about it. Now, reflecting on your last paragraph, Seán, not feeling you could recommend our church to your grandchildren despite being a committed member of our church. I am also a committed and very active member of our church in many ways but I am relieved that my children, now thinking young adults, all university educated young adults, have had the presence of mind and basic intelligence to reach the correct conclusions about what is not acceptable in our church teaching. It took me so so much longer to reach the same conclusions and I spent an embarrassingly long part of my life trying to defend the indefensible. Thank you, Seán.
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