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  • Cancerland

    December 29 2014
    Paddy Ferry

    Brendan, I wish you all the very best in 2015. Thank you for all your excellent, thought-provoking articles in 2014 and I look forward to more of the same in 2015. Paddy.

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  • Cancerland

    December 29 2014
    Cathy McCarthy

    HiBrendan My lovely friend Tony Flannery made me aware of your article on cancer. As I have also walked down that dark tunnel, I can relate to everything in your article. It is a word you never wish

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  • Lima’s call for Climate Action

    December 18 2014
    Sean O'Conaill

    # 5 Your good wishes at Christmas were greatly appreciated, Con - and are reciprocated to you for the rest of this end-of-year season. I agree wholeheartedly that the Christian response to the envir

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  • Pope Francis to the Curia: “Priests are like airplanes”!

    December 23 2014
    Eddie Finnegan

    Many thanks, Pádraig, for taking the trouble (both here and in the Irish Times) to give real context to what our Irish Times tabloid correspondents are content to see as mere diatribe or putting mann

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  • Pope Francis to the Curia: “Priests are like airplanes”!

    December 23 2014
    Paddy Ferry

    Interesting piece by Robert Michens in the NCP reflecting on the deeper significance of Francis' recent words. http://ncronline.org//blogs/roman-observer/francis-gives-roman-curia-officials-coal-chris

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  • Pope Francis to the Curia: “Priests are like airplanes”!

    December 23 2014
    Pádraig McCarthy

    Official Vatican translation now available on http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/speeches/2014/december/documents/papa-francesco_20141222_curia-romana.html

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  • Pope Francis delivers a Christmas message with a bite to the curia in Rome.

    December 22 2014
    Paddy Ferry

    I agree completely with Seamus,Eileen and Darlene. Though he got some stick at the time, I thought Enda Kenny's famous 4 words in his Dail speech a few years ago were spot on though he could have gone

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  • Pope Francis delivers a Christmas message with a bite to the curia in Rome.

    December 22 2014
    Bob Hayes

    The Holy Father's stern message was delivered to prominent members of the Curia, but - as Eileen and Padraig have noted - applies to the whole Church and all Christians. This Christmastide, as well as

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  • Lima’s call for Climate Action

    December 18 2014
    Lloyd Allan MacPherson

    This discussion is what I find rather maddening about bureaucracy in general. There is always a road to take but so few who wish to take a true stand and point the direction. We'll let that be the c

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  • Pope Francis delivers a Christmas message with a bite to the curia in Rome.

    December 22 2014
    Darlene Starrs

    And to think, many people of various associations and places within the Church, sneered at Gary Wills book, entitled..."Papal Sin, Structures of Deceit". Pope Francis has elaborated on the "sin of the

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