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  • Removing Planks

    February 1 2016
    Soline Humbert

    "-if a huge patriarchal plank is stuck in the church’s eye,..." No"if": should have gone to Specsavers!

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  • Is ‘secularism’ just another ‘religion’?

    January 27 2016
    Joe O'Leary

    A quote from Mary Doak's article: "Nevertheless, Cavanaugh and Bell’s unrelenting opposition to any form of authoritative centralized government is cause for concern, especially as this repudiation

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  • Is ‘secularism’ just another ‘religion’?

    January 27 2016
    Joe O'Leary

    Actually it is very hard to say exactly what Cavanaugh wants. He is an anarchist in his attitude to the modern state, which he identifies with its crimes, such as torture. What is to replace it? Here

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  • The Ballot Be Yours

    January 31 2016
    Roy Donovan

    I know a number of women who had an abortion. Everybody knows some women in their extended family who had an abortion. I would like to get the message across that everybody is welcome in our Churches

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  • The Ballot Be Yours

    January 31 2016
    Willie Herlihy

    As usual, Brendan is a rock of common sense. As an armature student of history, it is plain to me that the Catholic Church is a quasi political organisation, that morphed in and out of Christianity w

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  • Is ‘secularism’ just another ‘religion’?

    January 27 2016
    Sean O'Conaill

    #10 "Those engaged in dialogue with the secularist project are confronted with the incapability of both liberal and left wing secularism to embrace the notion of pluralism." As I don't know this to b

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  • Is ‘secularism’ just another ‘religion’?

    January 27 2016
    Sean O'Conaill

    #11 "Cavanaugh seems to want something stronger than Civil Religion ..." Citation needed here again, Joe. I still don't know whether you are simply attributing a position to Cavanaugh on the basis o

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  • Is ‘secularism’ just another ‘religion’?

    January 27 2016
    Joe O'Leary

    The US "Civil Religion" is quite democratic, and refers to the deity in the most indeterminate terms. I think the French revolutionists did so as well. The Protestant hijacking of the US revolution (w

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  • Is ‘secularism’ just another ‘religion’?

    January 27 2016
    Con Devree

    Despite the ambiguities in # 8, does it not bear out the content in # 6 - secularism as a state-backed and state-funded belief system/religion? That is not to deny secularism’s positive elements. A

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  • The Ballot Be Yours

    January 31 2016
    Padraig McCarthy

    Brendan writes: "Authority and influence are no longer judged in terms of position or numbers but have to be earned in the market-place by responding respectfully and maturely to complex moral and soc

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