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  • Hang onto your hats for 2014: it may be a bumpy ride

    December 30 2013
    Shaun the Sheep

    Benedict had true humility even though he is compared unfavourably with Francis. We just didn't hear much, if anything about it. Humility is like that: it doesn't boast. One definition of humility is

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  • Hang onto your hats for 2014: it may be a bumpy ride

    December 30 2013
    Anthony

    Does anyone else think that it inappropriate and unChristian to refer to another person as 'hapless' as Pope Benedict is referred to in the 2nd paragraph? Surely we are all trying our best to live out

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  • Diversions for Advent Sunday 4A!

    December 22 2013
    Eddie Finnegan

    Pádraig, is this inclusion of the translation of 'I(E)mmanuel' (which a Hebrew or Aramaic reader or listener would understand without interpretation) not a small but prophetic warning sign to Vox Cla

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

    December 12 2013
    Joe O'Leary

    I saw the movie here in Milan yesterday -- Judi Dench was stunning. The film is slanted by political correctness and Holllywood conventions in many places, and contains false information such as the c

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  • Unity must not be confused with uniformity

    December 16 2013
    Paddy Ferry

    I would like to say that I certainly share Mary OV's view of Bob Hayes @7. I am sure virtually everyone who contributes to this site and who supports Tony, in his suffering, will too. I would also lik

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  • Diversions for Advent Sunday 4A!

    December 22 2013
    Antonio

    The additional words "quia Nobiscum-Deus" [sic] are in the editio typica of the Latin lectionary (1970), on which the English translation is based; presumably the Jerusalem version was checked against

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  • 23rd December. Monday in the 4th Week of Advent

    December 23 2013
    Deacon Cosmas Muli

    Good one.

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  • Unity must not be confused with uniformity

    December 16 2013
    Mary O Vallely

    And a happy Christmas to you, Bob Hayes @7! Whatever about the terms, silencing, censuring, censoring etc; they should not have to be used at all among thinking adults who should be allowed to have th

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  • Unity must not be confused with uniformity

    December 16 2013
    John Collins

    Thank you Gabriel .. It is so good to hear a voice such as yours being raised to keep Tony's story alive. We have not forgotten you Tony... Wishing you and all a Happy Christmas .. I pray for Good New

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  • Unity must not be confused with uniformity

    December 16 2013
    Bob Hayes

    Is there any chance that people will stop using ludicrously exaggerated hyperbole such as 'the silencing of Fr Flannery'? . Bishop Oscar Romero was silenced by bullets, Bishop St John Fisher was silen

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