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  • Bridging the Gap

    October 14 2015
    Kevin walters

    The greatest gift we have received is the gift of life, given by God through the action of our parents, refusing to fully partake in His creation by deliberately denying another the opportunity of lif

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  • Bridging the Gap

    October 14 2015
    Peter Shore

    "A recent survey showed that 76% of Irish Catholics disagree with this teaching." A recent survey commissioned by the Association of Catholic Priests showed that 65% of Irish Catholics don't go to Mas

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  • A church quartered?

    October 13 2015
    Martin Molloy

    As someone who fits into your Ultra-traditional category, the hierarchy are certainly not sympathetic towards nor bullied by us. They have refused to show leadership when needed and have been more out

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  • The church I long to see

    October 8 2015
    John

    Call to repentance : It's not a practical proposition for a person, divorced and remarried with several children to abandon his second wife and children.

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  • Synod on the Family – Please fasten your seat belts

    October 13 2015
    Joe O'Leary

    What's emerging at the Roman Synod? -- something quite deflationary: bishops have not been thinking seriously about the issues at all (discouraged by the 2 previous popes) -- they seem to be mere bure

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  • Healthy Confusion at the Synod

    October 10 2015
    Joe O'Leary

    A brief glimpse at some of these language groups reports suggests that the bishops are feebly groping around rather than bringing any substantial input to their task. They are like schoolboys musing o

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  • The church I long to see

    October 8 2015
    Aidan

    I would respectfully suggest that it is not ‘discipleship’ that is the redeeming experience; it is God’s unconditional love for us, even while we are sinners. God’s love cannot be seen as ‘u

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  • A church quartered?

    October 13 2015
    Joseph McMahon

    My own research indicates that there are 147 different strands in Catholicism. Add in the four interesting variations to be found in Mayo and you have 151. They all despise the new missal

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  • Healthy Confusion at the Synod

    October 10 2015
    Pádraig McCarthy

    Healthy confusion? You can judge for yourself. It took some time to track down the text of the 13 reports on the first section of the Instrumentum Laboris. The website of the Irish Catholic bishops ha

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  • Synod on the Family – Please fasten your seat belts

    October 13 2015
    Michael C

    Pope Francis ; "the hermeneutic of conspiracy"—which in English would be called "the conspiracy theory" ......... “is sociologically weak and spiritually unhelpful.” He asked instead to engage i

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