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  • Supervision for clergy: how it works in an Australian Anglican diocese

    February 6 2014
    Andrew

    All chaplains ministering in the British Armed Forces receive an Annual Appraisal of their performance as ministers and priests in whatever job they have been assigned to. The chaplain owns the report

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  • Pope’s G8 group member criticises CDF chief

    January 21 2014
    Pól Ó Duibhir

    Paul Vallely, in a talk in St. Mary's, Haddington Road, had some very interesting things to say about the past and present complexity of Pope Francis. I have just started into his book which promises

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  • Atonement: why do Irish clergy avoid this issue?

    February 6 2014
    Darlene Starrs

    The reason for atonement? The answer may be found in the question that is put to us by Jesus.....Can Satan cast out Satan? Who, other than Christ, is able to guarantee that those who belong to the F

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  • Atonement: why do Irish clergy avoid this issue?

    February 6 2014
    Rosaline

    Sean, thank you a thousand times for this excellent and thought-provoking article. You ask the crucial question, "Why is it that we absolutely never hear this issue broached by our Catholic clergy in

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  • Atonement: why do Irish clergy avoid this issue?

    February 6 2014
    Martin Murray

    This is a key part of our inherited Christian narrative that needs to be revisited revised and refocused. The image of God it projects is totally at odds with the image of God that Jesus revealed. B

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  • Atonement: why do Irish clergy avoid this issue?

    February 6 2014
    K

    I'd like to hear more from religious/clerics on this one, too. All that's been done 'in the name of God'. What's not been done because of a 'THEORY' 'of atonement'. The roads to hell often paved with

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  • Atonement: why do Irish clergy avoid this issue?

    February 6 2014
    Paddy Ferry

    I want to thank Seán for this excellent piece. It reminds me of the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification agreed by our Church and the Lutheran World Federation in 1999. I had never rea

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  • Religion shouldn’t make people miserable

    January 26 2014
    Ronan Coghlan

    One of the things I have noticed about certain Evangelical Protestant groups is the joy they have in their religion, which is manifest in their ceremonies where there is merriment on all sides. Perha

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  • Atonement: why do Irish clergy avoid this issue?

    February 6 2014
    Eamonn O Carragain

    Thank you, Sean, for a most thoughtful contribution; and for the link to your website, which has a rich gathering of equally thoughtful and convincing pieces by you. Good to know that such a lucid and

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  • Clogher priests acknowledge the fragility of priesthood

    February 3 2014
    Mary O Vallely

    As usual, it is a tonic to read a report from the Clogher ACP group. I don't think any other diocesan ACP group publishes its report so full plaudits to the men of Clogher. I am always struck by thei

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