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  • What did the bishop achieve?

    September 2 2015
    John

    Cloyne now going in ever decreasing circles? The parish council of Killeagh have more than "missed an opportunity...". What has very publicly happened is that a group of adults have been asked to

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  • What did the bishop achieve?

    September 2 2015
    Peter Clifton

    I am grateful to the moderator for restoring the comment box on this post. I have now re-read "A Question of Conscience." Neither reading was undertaken in the spirit of a heresy-hunt. But the book i

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  • Camouflaging an inevitable reality.

    September 14 2015
    Brian Eyre

    Preparing for Married Priests Who would ever think that the day would come when the Catholic Church, of the Latin Rite, would be talking about married priests. Thanks to Pope Francis, who recently ope

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  • Camouflaging an inevitable reality.

    September 14 2015
    Lloyd Allan MacPherson

    Well, the law is the law. How do laws change? They are challenged. How do you challenge Canon law? Is Ireland party to the UN Charter of Human Rights? Article 16. (1) Men and women of full age

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  • Camouflaging an inevitable reality.

    September 14 2015
    Anne

    Married Anglcan Priests who covert to Catholicism replacing Catholic Priests who leave to get married, ?Widowed men allowed to join the priesthood only after the death of their wives,? I sometimes t

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  • Report on ACP Meeting, 09 September 2015

    September 12 2015
    Lloyd Allan MacPherson

    I guess the most compelling reason for the ACP to stay in existence is because things haven't changed enough yet. You jump into this battle for human rights to claim victory, not to turn around and s

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  • Camouflaging an inevitable reality.

    September 14 2015
    Chris McDonnell

    What follows was published in the UK Catholic Times last September 11th, to whom I am grateful for publication. As Secretary of the Movement for Married Clergy here in UK, I would like to share it wit

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  • Camouflaging an inevitable reality.

    September 14 2015
    Mary Vallely

    Yes, entirely agree with Brendan Hoban and those words of Enda McDonagh on an RTE programme a few years back, echo through my head still. Enda shook his head sadly and said, "I think we have to be bro

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  • Camouflaging an inevitable reality.

    September 14 2015
    John

    There is one possible benefit from the situation described above - namely the withering of the population of bishops and the culture that many of them inhabit.

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  • Camouflaging an inevitable reality.

    September 14 2015
    Michael C.

    Why are the Irish Bishops so afraid to grasp any nettle, even when prompted to do so by Pope Francis. They run to Rome for the least reason, e.g. They have failed to produce a new "pre- nuptial enquir

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