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  • Christmas is a strange time.

    December 21 2014
    Roy Donovan

    I want to thank Brendan for his inspirational, honest and creative thinking and writings. It is so liberating and uplifting that there is somebody who names things and faces reality as you do. You h

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  • 25 December and Sol Invicta and all that!

    December 20 2014
    Fergus P Egan

    Could it be that we simply celebrate the moment of Jesus' birth, when the light shone in the darkness – “the people who dwelt in darkness have seen a great light"? What better time, symbolically,

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

    December 22 2014
    Eileen

    What an honest, fearless challenge to all of us! Francis sure is a man of deep integrity. He certainly continues to engender hope as he speaks the truth with love. Bless him!

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  • The Shortest Day highlights our need of Hope.

    December 21 2014
    Brendan Cafferty

    There is indeed a lot of negativity about, we are recovering as a nation from the apocalypse we were in, yet what we hear from most media like RTE and other channels is a constant whine non stop from

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  • Response to comments made by Senator Rónán Mullen on Newstalk Radio

    December 17 2014
    John Collins

    Sen Mullen should go on the radio more often and gain the argument for equality .. I was trying to remember why I took him off my email contacts list .. It had something to do with looking for a vote

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  • The Shortest Day highlights our need of Hope.

    December 21 2014
    Darlene Starrs

    Father Tony, without Christ, the light, we have no way of journeying in this world's darkness, anywhere...

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  • Lima’s call for Climate Action

    December 18 2014
    Sean O'Conaill

    #3 "The catholic priest by virtue of his calling and reception of the sacrament of Holy Orders is equipped to guide people in this way under the guidance of Church teaching." Sorry, Con - this comes

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  • 25 December and Sol Invicta and all that!

    December 20 2014
    Pádraig McCarthy

    Two addenda to the above article: Augustine (354-430 AD)writes of the tradition that Jesus died on the same date as his conception: "He is believed to have been conceived on the 25th of March, upon wh

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  • 25 December and Sol Invicta and all that!

    December 20 2014
    Clare Hannigan

    My mother taught us the Hail and Blessed be the Hour and Moment prayer. We said it when lighting the advent wreath each evening during advent and when lighting the Christmas candle on Christmas Eve. I

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  • Blessings

    December 19 2014
    Donal Dorr

    Thanks, Tony. Lovely.

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