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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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  • The Catholic Church is Beyond Reform

    May 15 2014
    Lloyd Allan MacPherson

    Sean @ 21 - the fact that you relate homosexual relationships as fashionable says a lot. The idea that you'd speak of it as an evil in society makes it sound like it is contagious disease that is bei

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  • The Catholic Church is Beyond Reform

    May 15 2014
    Joe O'Leary

    " I find it difficult to see how the Catholic understanding of sexuality could evolve into an acceptance of active homosexual behaviour as valid and licit behaviour." . Actually, the argument is quite

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  • Church urged to be more open in debate

    May 15 2014
    Clare Hannigan

    Is it not a bit strange that the Church is so clear on its teaching about contraception but on a learning curve when it comes to child abuse. Am I correct in thinking that abortion is a reserved sin

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