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  • Head of ‘We Are Church’ in Austria excommunicated by Pope Francis

    May 23 2014
    Darlene Starrs

    Father Flannery's comments pretty much say it all for me....Interestingly, todays readings has Jesus warning the apostles that they (Pharisees and Sadducees) will be throwing them out of the synagogu

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  • Irish Hierarchy being remade in image of Pope Benedict

    May 22 2014
    Seamus Ahearne

    Ooch. Kevin that was strong. I hope The Mayo People can take it whatever about the rest of us. The discussion does need to happen. What does a Nuncio do? I’m not sure. I feel sorry for Charles Brown

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  • Irish Hierarchy being remade in image of Pope Benedict

    May 22 2014
    Pádraig McCarthy

    Pope Francis said at the Regina Caeli last Sunday, 21 May, commenting on the day's first reading from Acts 6 about the situation which resulted in appointment of deacons: "Today the reading of the Act

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  • Irish Hierarchy being remade in image of Pope Benedict

    May 22 2014
    Eddie Finnegan

    The only word in Kevin Hegarty's article I would demur from slightly is the noun "liberal". Nothing whatever wrong with the adjective, but the repeated use of "liberal" as a badge or label of identity

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  • The Catholic Church is Beyond Reform

    May 15 2014
    Joe O'Leary

    Beware of Google quotations. "If something doesn't seem right, there's usually a reason" -- yes, and in the case of lending money at interest the reason was that it was unnatural for a dead mineral to

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  • Irish Hierarchy being remade in image of Pope Benedict

    May 22 2014
    Mary Wood

    I have discovered with interest and awe the procedure my C of E friends are undertaking. Their Bishop has announced he will retire this November and the diocesan website has this page http://gloucest

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  • The Catholic Church is Beyond Reform

    May 15 2014
    Lloyd Allan MacPherson

    If it's good enough for a definition, it always makes a healthy argument, Joe @ 25. If Aquinas saw these acts as against Natural Law, then what did he mean by the statement : "when the Natural Law and

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  • Irish Hierarchy being remade in image of Pope Benedict

    May 22 2014
    Mary Vallely

    "Gandhi's first rule of nonviolence is nonacceptance of anything that is demeaning. Check. The second rule is active nonviolent resistance to oppression. Check. One way of actively resisting is stagin

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  • The Catholic Church is Beyond Reform

    May 15 2014
    Joe O'Leary

    "natural defined as what simply happens in nature" is not good enough as an argument. Aquinas recognized that the homosexual instinct happens in nature and it in that sense natural, but he still saw h

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  • Church urged to be more open in debate

    May 15 2014
    Nuala O'Driscoll

    The Church describes contraception as 'shameful and intrinsically immoral', 'a very grave crime', 'an offence against the law of God and nature, and those who commit it are guilty of grave sin'. Eith

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