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

    May 20 2015
    Mícheál

    I realise that some priests, like Padraig @8, have been critical of the way society has treated gay people over the years, have been opposed to homophobia, and have reached out pastorally to the LGBT

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  • What has happened to the Irish and their Church?

    May 23 2015
    Nuala O'Driscoll

    I reject the notion that a 'yes' vote is based on emotion or sympathy. There is a 'knowing' that cannot be gleaned from books, theological, legal or political manuals. It is the kind of knowing that i

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  • The people have spoken …

    May 25 2015
    Damien Murphy

    So Fr. Hoban calls the Same-sex "marriage" an unmitigated disaster. Well, maybe it would not have been this way if the ACP had actually taken a stance on the issue

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  • The people have spoken …

    May 25 2015
    Eugene Sheehan

    Eoin O'Sullivan, OFM Cap. wrote an article in the May 2010 edition of The Furrow titled "On including the gays" for which he received a severe sanction from Rome & continues to require approval fr

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  • The people have spoken …

    May 25 2015
    JimK

    In ways its as if people were voting on two different questions. If someone believed it was primarily about equality and inclusion, then it was obvious any Catholic had to vote yes. If someone believe

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  • The people have spoken …

    May 25 2015
    Eddie Finnegan

    As he has done over the past five years here, and especially over the past five weeks or more both here and in The Western People, Brendan has been calling on the bishops for a reality check across th

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  • The people have spoken …

    May 25 2015
    Joe O'Leary

    I interpret the referendum as showing the world the true face of Irish Catholicism. My support for gay marriage was swept from the relatively "notional" to the fully "real" (in Newman's terms) in the

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  • The people have spoken …

    May 25 2015
    Garrett O Hanlon

    Well said....I despair...no leadership...no vision...no prayer...who cares...do i care..

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  • What has happened to the Irish and their Church?

    May 23 2015
    Anne

    I remember a few years ago I attended a "Listening Meeting" in a local church .it was attended by parishioners from around the district. From the start it became apparent that we had been invited to

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  • What has happened to the Irish and their Church?

    May 23 2015
    Mícheál

    In one sense, this referendum had nothing to do with the church. It was a civil matter and the majority of voters recognised it as such. In a different sense, this referendum hs a lot to do with the c

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