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  • The people have spoken …

    May 25 2015
    Joe O'Leary

    We are so used to being bullied by stupidity from prelates that the insulting remarks of the Vatican Secretary of State will probably go unreprimanded. One Italian commentator on a Facebook thread see

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  • The people have spoken …

    May 25 2015
    Joe O'Leary

    Is it not true that the Church regards all civil marriages as dissoluble in favour of the faith if one of the spouses wants to marry a Catholic?

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  • “There is a battle going on within the Irish Catholic Church at the moment.”

    May 20 2015
    Joe O'Leary

    The Vatican document Homosexualitatis Problema received strong condemnation from two Irish priests, Bernard Lynch and myself, just after its publication. It is still proudly displayed on the Vatican w

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  • The people have spoken …

    May 25 2015
    JimK

    Padraig McCarthy@11 is correct, my mistake, the church does recognise civil marriages between two non-Catholics as valid. Thanks for spotting the error. I suppose the point I was trying to make is tha

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  • The people have spoken …

    May 25 2015
    Pádraig McCarthy

    There's an overview of Constitutional provisions of various European countries, and of some European and International Law, at https://www.academia.edu/12599627/European_and_International_Comparative_

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  • “There is a battle going on within the Irish Catholic Church at the moment.”

    May 20 2015
    Pádraig McCarthy

    Mícheál @ 10: I think condemnation can be counter-productive: it can make a person become defensive and closed. Condemnations are more suited to media headlines, and can serve to draw more attention

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  • The people have spoken …

    May 25 2015
    Joe O'Leary

    "Selfconfessed" illustrates what Mrs McAleese referred to as the needless suffering and loneliness of young gays, for which coy clerical silence bears considerable blame. The message sent by the refer

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  • The people have spoken …

    May 25 2015
    ACP

    Very interesting article in the Irish Times by Noel Whelan about the organisation of the Yes campaign. He said; "This level of coordination meant that very little happened in the campaign that was not

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  • The people have spoken …

    May 25 2015
    G Kelleher

    An entirely different approach is necessary where the Church represents Christ and Christianity for the first time even though there is quite a lot of historical baggage to deal with before that happe

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  • The people have spoken …

    May 25 2015
    Joe O'Leary

    Martin Henry, the Catholic Church has never taught that homosexual orientation is a choice -- see Persona Humana 1975 and Homosexualitatis Persona 1986. More strikingly, the bishops in the recent refe

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