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  • The Catholic Church is Beyond Reform

    May 15 2014
    Lloyd Allan MacPherson

    Well said Darlene @17.

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  • The Hamster Wheel of Sacramental Routine:

    May 17 2014
    Rosaline

    Just think about this--wonderful preparation for Confirmation throughout the year, inspirational talks, mini-retreats etc. all culminating in a beautiful Confirmation ceremony. And then Seamus tells u

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  • The Hamster Wheel of Sacramental Routine:

    May 17 2014
    maureen mulvaney

    Well spotted, Padraig! I can say "YES" to that. I have experienced that after my years in primary education and being involved with First Holy Communion and Confirmation. The limousine and entertainer

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  • Church urged to be more open in debate

    May 15 2014
    Nuala O'Driscoll

    It is hard to take the Church's teaching on Life Issues seriously, when Church teaching goes so far as to depict young and not so young married couples, who use contraception to plan their families, a

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  • The Hamster Wheel of Sacramental Routine:

    May 17 2014
    Nuala O'Driscoll

    Padraig McCarthy @1. It appears we have something in common Padraig. We are both selective in what we read in the weekend edition of the Irish Times. You do not read Ross O'Carroll Kelly's weekly arti

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  • Church urged to be more open in debate

    May 15 2014
    Lloyd Allan MacPherson

    A child dies on this rotating sphere every 10 seconds of malnutrition. I really don't think it was a kick in the teeth that he was offering up to those people (Shaun @ #1). It was possibly a reminde

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  • The Catholic Church is Beyond Reform

    May 15 2014
    Darlene Starrs

    Hello Willie #14...I am commenting on your words: "Fast forward two thousand years and the shepherd has become a figure head and the eleven assistants have become irrelevant." The scripture says, "The

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  • The Catholic Church is Beyond Reform

    May 15 2014
    Malcolm R

    At the Eucharistic Celebration on on Friday 16th May, Pope reflected on the best way for people to get to know Jesus, describing it as the most important work in their lives. He warned that studying

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  • The Catholic Church is Beyond Reform

    May 15 2014
    Sean O'Conaill

    #9 Joe O'Leary "The routinization of the eucharist and the fetishism of mass attendance is the core of this problem. If we could all emphasize the perpetually life-giving resources of scripture, tradi

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  • The Hamster Wheel of Sacramental Routine:

    May 17 2014
    Pádraig McCarthy

    I have never previously read the page by Ross O’Carroll Kelly in the Irish Times magazine, but the title on Saturday 17 May caught my eye: ‘Do you know how difficult it is to get a window cleaner

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