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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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  • Synod on the Family – Please fasten your seat belts

    October 13 2015
    Sebastian

    I really think that this synod is one of the greatest scandals of our time. The level of manipulation and conspiracies is alarming and sadly starting from the head. You here may disagree but I think t

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  • Annual General Meeting, Tuesday, 24 November

    November 23 2015
    Soline Humbert

    Any hope that the ACP might put Tony Flannery's appeal( http://www.associationofcatholicpriests.ie/2015/10/the-equality-of-women-and-the-question-of-ordination/)on its agenda for discussion? Any hope

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  • Faith; the ability to live with uncertainty

    October 5 2015
    John

    Law : "So, my dear brothers and sisters, this is the point: You died to the power of the law when you died with Christ. And now you are united with the one who was raised from the dead. As a result, w

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