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  • “Don’t treat divorced Catholics as outcasts”. Pope Francis

    August 5 2015
    Con Devree

    Richard O'Donnell at 4 No one has the power to deny access to God in the Eucharist except God and the person him/herself. The New Testament which is the message God desires humans to receive prohibi

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  • “Don’t treat divorced Catholics as outcasts”. Pope Francis

    August 5 2015
    Kevin Walters

    Michael Maginn @1 Open doors, open minds, open hearts ------------------------------------ Michael I have made a long post on The ACI Site under the heading The ACI discusses marriage and the family w

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  • “Don’t treat divorced Catholics as outcasts”. Pope Francis

    August 5 2015
    Richard O'Donnell

    Perhaps I am a bit thick and being from the West of Ireland, that is possible, if not indeed probably. How, I wonder can any man - and it is men who are involved here- who considers himself even reaso

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  • “Don’t treat divorced Catholics as outcasts”. Pope Francis

    August 5 2015
    Patrick

    My wife divorced me and remarried. The children have now decided not to practice their faith because their parents have to remain seated in full view of the parishioners during Communion like outcasts

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  • “Don’t treat divorced Catholics as outcasts”. Pope Francis

    August 5 2015
    Prodigal Son

    “Parsing the words of Pope Francis” in this instance is not quite the “notoriously hazardous undertaking” that John Allen claims. He is mistaken in claiming that while “what the pope said

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  • Fr. Willie Cleary R.I.P.

    August 7 2015
    Bernard Cotter

    Thanks, Martin, for a wonderful summary of the life of a great priest. Willie was unique and wonderful. Not only was he a planner and a strategist but he never lost touch with people and their needs.

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  • “Don’t treat divorced Catholics as outcasts”. Pope Francis

    August 5 2015
    Michael Maginn

    Nurse (for C) Not of her own choosing my friend is married outside the Church. For her abusive marriage of more than twenty torturous years still stands. Ministering to the Body of Christ during her w

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  • Fr. Willie Cleary R.I.P.

    August 7 2015
    Brendan Hoban

    My compliments to Martin Kennedy on his tribute to Willie, God rest him. I can't say that I knew him well but he has been, for many years, one of the prophets of our time, unusual in Ireland and, I su

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  • Fr. Willie Cleary R.I.P.

    August 7 2015
    Peter Farrelly

    Thanks, Martin for a well deserved, sensitive and perceptive tribute... Willie's strengths and weaknesses, his faith and vision. We miss him.

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  • Fr. Willie Cleary R.I.P.

    August 7 2015
    ts

    Maybe now would be a good time to say thank you to all the good priests we have in Ireland. The last number of years haven't been easy but they served and continue to serve. Despite whatever difficult

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