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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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  • The people have spoken …

    May 25 2015
    Self confessed

    I am a gay man in my mid 50’s Members of The Association of Catholic Priests may wish to read my blog It is about my coming out of my closet of denial and the experience I had in the late 70’s, wh

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  • The people have spoken …

    May 25 2015
    Martin Henry

    It really is remarkable on so many levels how deeply ignorance runs in the Catholic Church. Commenting on any lesbian and gay issues is not a matter of "sexual morality" since being gay or lesbian isn

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  • The people have spoken …

    May 25 2015
    Pádraig McCarthy

    The subject of homosexuality and marriage have been widely and publicly discussed in Ireland. Even if the vote had been No, the debate would have helped promote the dignity and safety of all gay peopl

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  • The people have spoken …

    May 25 2015
    Sean O'Conaill

    "For the Catholic Church, the campaign has been an unmitigated disaster." I can understand why Catholic bishops tend to equate 'the church' with themselves, but why on earth does Brendan do that? Is

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  • 26th May. Tuesday in Week 8

    May 26 2015
    Kit Algarme

    Good Day, I would like to thank you for creating this website truly it is very helpful for us.

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  • What has happened to the Irish and their Church?

    May 23 2015
    Joe O'Leary

    Nuala, perfectly right. The human intelligence of the electorate shows up the sad and tawdry and unintelligent world of clericalism.

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  • The people have spoken …

    May 25 2015
    Joe O'Leary

    The nice thing is that the vote just transcended all the clerical issues and went straight for the human core values of freedom, equality and fraternity. Church obsessives are fretting about nothing.

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