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  • ACP Leadership calls for transparency in the Irish Church

    February 14 2014
    John

    Perhaps the present bishops are soul brothers of the leadership of the Garda Siochána. One way of getting the results might be to arrange a leak. Maybe there's a mole. Or a bug?

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  • ACP Leadership calls for transparency in the Irish Church

    February 14 2014
    Eddie Finnegan

    Mary Wood@9, thank you, thank you! You've made my day by identifying me and my opinions with Fr Brendan('s). As Brendan Hoban is a good five years my junior that's really put a spring in my step. You

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  • Is the New Evangelisation a crusade of fear?

    February 12 2014
    Sean O'Conaill

    As Jesus' primary message was always the nearness of the Kingdom of God, not what may happen to us after physical death, there can be no effective 'New Evangelisation' that doesn't follow the same pat

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  • ACP Leadership calls for transparency in the Irish Church

    February 14 2014
    Mary Wood

    :Not everything that is done in the supposed interests of instant transparency works towards reflective conclusions for the good of all." Fr Brendan - above . It seems to me that Fr Brendan's case fo

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  • Is the New Evangelisation a crusade of fear?

    February 12 2014
    Con Devree

    Taking into account the teaching of the Catechism, the Bible, Fatima, Pope Francis, (on October 11, the Pope said “there is a battle, and a battle where salvation is at play, eternal salvation”),

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  • Atonement: why do Irish clergy avoid this issue?

    February 6 2014
    Sean O'Conaill

    #18 Joe O'Leary . You say: . 'The “intentionality” of the Father is to overthrow sin and death through the one supreme sacrifice of the beloved Son, offered once for all. One could say that the Fa

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  • ACP Leadership calls for transparency in the Irish Church

    February 14 2014
    Brendan Butler

    The Irish Bishops say it's ' a matter for the Synod of Bishops not the local Church ' and so refuse to publish results of the Synod survey. The Bishops of Wales and England say ' that in accordance w

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  • ACP leadership to meet diocesan reps

    February 15 2014
    Eddie Finnegan

    A welcome Spring Initiative, surely. Let's hope all 26 dioceses will be represented. A meeting of 50 or 60 genuine parish priests from all four provinces should be just right to thresh out those and o

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  • ACP Leadership calls for transparency in the Irish Church

    February 14 2014
    Gene Carr

    it hardly seems to make any difference whether they are published or not; we can guess the results. In recent decades most Catholics have probably rarely heard any homilies on contraception, abortion

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  • Atonement: why do Irish clergy avoid this issue?

    February 6 2014
    Joe O'Leary

    Sean, the NT language is very rich and complex but all of it is valuable; it is understandable, however, that fundamentalists or unsophisticated believers might be confused by it. However, can you giv

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