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

    June 18 2014
    Chris McDonnell

    Leadership is a two way process for in listening to each other faith grows and is vitalised. The days of diktat are gone as we struggle to find expression for faith in this present tense. That is the

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  • The priest: from oracle to ignoramus

    June 16 2014
    Con Devree

    #7 Agreed. But I would emphasise an important distinction between the first and the other two. #9 I think the “fourth” kind of opprobrium, (Luke 17:1-3 ) is the same as the “first” (#5). I

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  • Tuam babies

    June 13 2014
    Gene Carr

    I think that Fr Twomey (todays Irish Times) is not correct in attributing a excessive moral rigourism and "distrust of the body" to the Counter-Reformation. Such new rigourism were more characteristi

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  • Tuam babies

    June 13 2014
    Joe O'Leary

    Thanks to Vincent Twomey for insisting on historical perspective. Another good article is: http://americamagazine.org/content/all-things/galway-horror-part-ii

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  • Tuam babies

    June 13 2014
    Association of Catholic Priests

    Link to Irish Times article by Vincent Twomey SVD http://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/catholic-church-should-set-up-its-own-commission-of-investigation-following-mother-and-child-home-contro

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  • The priest: from oracle to ignoramus

    June 16 2014
    sarah

    It's all about the relationship between the clergy and the laity. When my son was little he worshipped me he thought I knew everything. When he got to 14 he could see right through me. He despised

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  • Tuam babies

    June 13 2014
    Eddie Finnegan

    As always, thanks to Pádraig McCarthy for attempting to place all this in the context of "not just an Irish problem" (his penultimate paragraph above). Thanks, too, to Des Gilroy@12 for his rational

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  • The priest: from oracle to ignoramus

    June 16 2014
    Nuala O'Driscoll

    @8. It seems we agree on something Con. We each believe we know something about God. You believe the idea of God is immutable and I believe that the idea of God evolves. Our agreement probably ends th

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  • Will the U.S. bishops follow Pope Francis?

    June 12 2014
    Association of Catholic Priests

    Did you miss the byline? Jesuit priest, Thomas Reese, writing in the National Catholic Reporter, comments on the meeting of U.S. bishops. The meeting could be a turning point but he asks, will they sa

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  • Tuam babies

    June 13 2014
    Des Gilroy

    Thanks to Padraig McCarthy for his balanced piece on the story emerging from the Tuam mother and baby home over the past fortnight. Regretably, too many commentors have gone overboard on this partic

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