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  • Denial is not an option for bishops

    June 23 2014
    Clare Hannigan

    Could the crisis in vocations be related to the fact that the vast majority of teenagers and young adults have completely abandoned the faith into which they have been baptised. Apart from blaming th

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  • The priest: from oracle to ignoramus

    June 16 2014
    Con Devree

    By way of clarification. On questions of conscience I have to rely greatly on the Vatican documents, on the Catechism and on Blessed John Henry Newman. There are three possible freedoms associated wit

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  • The priest: from oracle to ignoramus

    June 16 2014
    Nuala O'Driscoll

    Con, Joe, MJT, Eddie, W. Wordsworth,curious how the male members of the Church don't seem to mind being bound in freedom. The nuns would not have had a problem with Humanae Vitae.

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  • Denial is not an option for bishops

    June 23 2014
    Willie Herlihy

    Brendan, with respect you are whistling in the dark, for the following reasons; 1. The Irish Bishops have been selected, by Pope John Paul II and his successor Pope Benedict XVI. 2. They were selected

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  • The priest: from oracle to ignoramus

    June 16 2014
    Eddie Finnegan

    Nuala@26: "Con, how can a 'bound' conscience be free?" I think that most practising Catholics would conscientiously follow a well known catchphrase that is older than Con or HV: "With one bound s/he

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  • The priest: from oracle to ignoramus

    June 16 2014
    mjt

    Nuala, See W.Wordsworth`s "Nuns Fret Not at Their Convent’s Narrow Room" about the paradox of finding freedom in discipline.

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  • The priest: from oracle to ignoramus

    June 16 2014
    Nuala O'Driscoll

    @25. 'of mice and men' would that Lambruschini had the courage of his convictions. He wouldn't even have lost his head like Thomas More. How , Joe, can any male cleric who knows what you know remain s

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  • The priest: from oracle to ignoramus

    June 16 2014
    Nuala O'Driscoll

    @23. Con, how can a 'bound' conscience be free?

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  • The priest: from oracle to ignoramus

    June 16 2014
    Joe O'Leary

    Whether artificial contraception is "intrinsice inhonestum" is not really a live issue except as some shibboleth of Catholic identity. It is certainly not in any sense infallible, and the first person

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  • Association of U.S. Catholic Priests criticize head of doctrinal congregation for rebuke of LCWR

    June 18 2014
    Association of Catholic Priests

    Pope Francis has received a letter from a number of prominent U.S. theologians and nonprofit Catholic groups criticizing the Vatican's treatment of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR),

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