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  • The Encyclical Ecology and Justice

    May 1 2015
    Sean O'Conaill

    John Allen is forecasting a negative reaction to the forthcoming encyclical from the Catholic right, apparently on the grounds that prioritisation of global ecology must lead to the subordination of t

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  • Unable to bear much reality

    May 4 2015
    Cornelius Martin

    In the midst of squabbles where does one turn? To more squabbles? Surely not. In Choma diocese (equal in area to the Irish Republic) in Zambia in the 1970s a major portion of the Catholic communi

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  • Unable to bear much reality

    May 4 2015
    Martin Harran

    Another aspect of reality, is that sometimes we just have to let things run their course. I am becoming less and less bothered about things are happening or not happening in our Church. There is not a

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  • Unable to bear much reality

    May 4 2015
    Ann Walsh

    One of the aspects of my catholic church that always concerns and frustrates me is the fact that the hierarchy won't or don't do conversations with their people. The answer to every call for discussio

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  • Unable to bear much reality

    May 4 2015
    Darlene Starrs

    I propose that no one understands the reality, even those who are deeply aware of the disintegration...

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  • Unable to bear much reality

    May 4 2015
    Rosaline

    Speaking of facing reality, I wonder if anyone else felt the heart sink this past weekend when yet another highly respected public figure announced on TV that she had decided to leave the Church? I ag

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  • The Encyclical Ecology and Justice

    May 1 2015
    Sean O'Conaill

    #2 "The primordial cells that inhabited the early earth had ‘unconscious imitation’ in spades. It was and is a survival mechanism." Until it becomes in the end a mechanism for extinction, as is ha

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  • Stray thoughts from Finglas

    April 29 2015
    sara

    I like the way you see things Seamus. "Where there is no love, put love in - and you will find love" (St John of the Cross). When people are badly behaved it can be because they have been used, abused

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  • Stray thoughts from Finglas

    April 29 2015
    Mary Vallely

    "We are arrogant if we stick with the ‘book stuff’ or if we let them in, only on our terms. We go out. We meet them. They teach us. We learn from them. Our words are shaped by their stories. We ha

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  • The Encyclical Ecology and Justice

    May 1 2015
    Nuala O'Driscoll

    The earth will be here long after we are gone as a species. There have been mass extinctions on earth since the very first life forms appeared. Early species such as cells came and went and mutated, i

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