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  • Mix of fact and fiction in ‘Philomena’ takes from its impact

    December 12 2013
    David

    Thanks Joe. I have heard of situations where legally the birth parents cannot contact a child that they have "put up" for adoption but that the child once over the age of 18 can ask for the adoption a

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    April 17 2014
    Paddy Ferry

    Yes, Joe, I think I am inclined to agree with Fr. Iggy on this one.

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    April 17 2014
    Joe O'Leary

    I am still stunned by Breda O'Brien's statistic that priests and religious are responsible for 3% of child sexual abuse in Ireland. If true, it means that a priest is about ten times likelier than any

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    April 17 2014
    Clare Hannigan

    The Gospel teaching on truth and justice sometimes appear to be in conflict with the laws of the Church. In the book Click Click, June Kavanagh describes making her first Confession in Ballyfermot in

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    April 17 2014
    Shaun

    Isabel Sinton, Welcome to Easter 2014! I hope you had a good one! - Confession is a sacred Sacrament of the Catholic Religion, and, in the interests of your core values of tolerance, diversity, and pl

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    April 17 2014
    Eddie Finnegan

    Surely it is possible for thinking people to hold two distinct, though related, ideas of justice in mind - alongside one another or even simultaneously? In this case, while the overarching idea must b

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  • Mix of fact and fiction in ‘Philomena’ takes from its impact

    December 12 2013
    Joe O'Leary

    The raggedwagon piece to which Brendan links seems to be wildly over the top. The sisters in Drumcondra seem very clearly getting a bum rap from sensation hunters. I think it would be irresponsible to

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    April 17 2014
    Joe O'Leary

    Paddy, surely the "nail" that people are hitting, not only in Ireland but in many other places where the church did not enjoy such hegemony as in Ireland, is the scandal of clerical child abuse? The r

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    April 17 2014
    Paddy Ferry

    Sean@8 hits the nail right on the head as he always does -- " Ireland's case has to do with a continuing reaction against the immense prestige and power of the clerical Catholic church from 1922

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    April 17 2014
    Suzanne Sears

    That priests are taking the time to complain about a cartoon, when they could be using that time instead to figure out how to build a case against their Superiors who covered up abuse is disturbing. A

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