Seán, I so admire your continued patient reasoning, eloquently expressed, in the debate above. One sad aspect of all this is that for the first time, I think, there is a real divide between "them
When a serious complaint is made against a priest as my wife (now deceased) made over thirty five years ago the church can and does use its worldly power to protect its IMAGE against the accusation of
I think it is worrying to see people like Barrack Obama lauding the present Pontiff. "Blessed shall you be when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you, and shall reproach you, and cast
A very interesting article but no surprises. Given that the Church decided to stop teaching the Catholic Faith in the 60s it is hardly surprising that the end result is atrophy and death. I am often
The common rhetoric on this topic is that of a vast, deliberate conspiracy of enablers of child abuse, bishops, whom people like Gerry Slevin want to see in jail. The actual texture of the mistakes ma
The statements attributed to justice Scalia were satirical, and not made by him. http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/borowitzreport/2013/09/scalia-forms-search-committee-for-new-pope.html
I wouldn't get too excited just yet by believing that Pope Francis’s views on Vatican II are somehow in line with those of the ACP.
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Pope Francis recently wrote to Archbishop Agostin
I still can't get that image of Fr Brendan Hoban's "topping a hard-boiled egg in the gloom of a February evening as the winter wind whistles in the chimney" out of my mind. It is as vivid an image of
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November 6 2013Seán, I so admire your continued patient reasoning, eloquently expressed, in the debate above. One sad aspect of all this is that for the first time, I think, there is a real divide between "them
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What disenchants the Irish diocesan clergy
November 18 2013A very interesting article but no surprises. Given that the Church decided to stop teaching the Catholic Faith in the 60s it is hardly surprising that the end result is atrophy and death. I am often
ACP report on Yvonne Murphy investigation published
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Some Irish media commentators love their Church ‘not wisely but too well’
November 22 2013The statements attributed to justice Scalia were satirical, and not made by him. http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/borowitzreport/2013/09/scalia-forms-search-committee-for-new-pope.html
Some Irish media commentators love their Church ‘not wisely but too well’
November 22 2013I wouldn't get too excited just yet by believing that Pope Francis’s views on Vatican II are somehow in line with those of the ACP. ............... Pope Francis recently wrote to Archbishop Agostin
Some Irish media commentators love their Church ‘not wisely but too well’
November 22 2013I still can't get that image of Fr Brendan Hoban's "topping a hard-boiled egg in the gloom of a February evening as the winter wind whistles in the chimney" out of my mind. It is as vivid an image of
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