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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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  • 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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