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  • The priest: from oracle to ignoramus

    June 16 2014
    mjt

    An ignoramus is not merely a person who is ignorant, that is, who lacks knowledge about something. It`s someone who is determinedly opposed to knowledge. But may be that fits the bill too, a church wh

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  • The priest: from oracle to ignoramus

    June 16 2014
    Nuala O'Driscoll

    A fourth kind of opprobrium is described in Lk 17:1-3. For centuries up until relatively recently in the Church's history the Church had a captive audience. Hundreds of thousands, millions, over the c

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

    June 12 2014
    patrogers

    While I liked the article: "Will the U.S. bishops follow Pope Francis?" I would wish to know who wrote the piece, as it bothers me to find on the ACP website articles without attribution. Just as we l

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

    June 18 2014
    Mark Mohan

    In recent times we use the words of Christ in John 17:21 at inter-church gatherings, now with inter-church dialogue quite agreeable should we use them at a presbyteral level ?

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  • The priest: from oracle to ignoramus

    June 16 2014
    Con Devree

    #3 "God’s word is not immutable" What does this mean? Surely not that God changes his mind, makes mistakes and then corrects them. Or does it mean that the Church misinterprets "God's Word" from ti

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  • The priest: from oracle to ignoramus

    June 16 2014
    Joe O'Leary

    "The Church attracts two types of opprobrium, one self-inflicted, the other arising out of the Church’s specific mission of being a sign of contradiction." Media frenzy and pharisaic scandal generat

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  • Tuam babies

    June 13 2014
    Joe O'Leary

    The terrible treatment unmarried mothers received is quite a different thing from how mother-and-baby homes handled the great number of mothers and babies confided to their care by the state and by th

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  • Tuam babies

    June 13 2014
    Paddy Ferry

    Rory, I have to say fair play to you, you have mounted a strong and well-researched defence and I sincerely hope you are right and this is just a sensationalist false alarm. I say that even though I

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  • Tuam babies

    June 13 2014
    Rory Connor

    I wrote above: "What MAY have happened is that bodies were buried in the general area of what once was a water tank." I just came across the following from a Daily Mail article on 2 June http://www.da

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  • The cumulative effect of scandals has a devastating impact on the Church

    June 17 2014
    Darlene Starrs

    I have a further thought to the one I provided above......We may have known what was in the Mind of God for the Church...if it is understood absolutely that St. Francis was directed by the Lord to "Re

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