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  • Atonement: why do Irish clergy avoid this issue?

    February 6 2014
    Joe O'Leary

    Sean, you are mostly attacking distortions of sacrifice, not the teaching of Paul, Hebrews, 1 John, 1 Peter, Anselm (who talks about justice and mercy not about any vengeful God), Luther, Calvin, or T

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  • Is the New Evangelisation a crusade of fear?

    February 12 2014
    Joe O'Leary

    Abp Diarmuid Martin was nagging about a theological deficit in the Irish Church some time back. I think an excessive interest in exotica, visions and relics (even of the beloved Thérèse de Lisieux)

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  • ACP Leadership calls for transparency in the Irish Church

    February 14 2014
    Mary Wood

    Bishops of England & Wales made the same daft decision. Do they intend to airbrush the results before they send them on? Anyway, this is what the TABLET editorial said - free access http://www.th

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  • ACP Leadership calls for transparency in the Irish Church

    February 14 2014
    Mary O Vallely

    I suppose we shouldn't be too surprised by this. It is entirely in keeping with the clericalist mindset but it is actually rather ridiculous that we should be asked for our views and then forbidden

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  • Is there room for two clergy organisations in Ireland?

    February 11 2014
    Brendan Cafferty

    I wonder would new group have been set up were it not for the presence of ACP. I note there is a Bishop among the founding fathers! Don't think the ACP could manage that, but thought it a major victor

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  • Is the New Evangelisation a crusade of fear?

    February 12 2014
    Lloyd Allan MacPherson

    Dear Frank, I'm no theologian but I do have a concept of the questions you ask from a more realist point of view. Do you not feel somewhat responsible for the injustices of the world today but at the

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  • It’s time for the bishops and the ACP to talk

    February 8 2014
    cathy swift

    yes, I can see that and all politics are compromise and negotiation and for that to work, one needs to be realistic. But as somebody outside that particular loop and maybe not sufficiently worried abo

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  • It’s time for the bishops and the ACP to talk

    February 8 2014
    Sean O'Conaill

    Wasn't the logjam in the North breached first by one or more back channels - completely invisible communication through intermediaries between those most at odds in the public sphere? . I don't see th

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  • Is the New Evangelisation a crusade of fear?

    February 12 2014
    Mary Cunningham

    This leaflet, which I picked up at the back of a church, may go some way to answer Frank Gregg's question http://www.divinemercy.org/component/virtuemart/leaflets/hell-hasn-t-gone-away-detail.html

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  • Is the New Evangelisation a crusade of fear?

    February 12 2014
    Con Devree

    Fr Joe O’Leary Of course “the religion of Vatican II, and of Scripture as used in the Church’s public worship” are among the basic sources our religion. One could argue the case that we coul

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