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

    December 30 2013
    Tony Hoey

    Benedict v. Francis, what does it matter? Surely we must go with St Paul when he say something about 'leaving all that is behind, we press forward'. Six months ago the Holy Spirit moved in the Church

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  • On Prayer and Paedophilia.

    September 16 2011
    Joanie

    Steve How refreshing to here your your very reflective and benevolent words. I remember listening to your refreshing words from a catholic pulpit on Just For Today, Radio Scotland, but on the same wa

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

    December 30 2013
    Paddy Ferry

    I thank Brendan for another excellent article, summing up very succinctly the wonders of the last nine months in our Church. I do find it hard to believe that there are still those who cannot believe

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

    December 30 2013
    roy donovan

    I wonder if the statistics for the past few decades were known of priests who have left Irish dioceses since the 1980's. I think in or around 25 or more have left in each of the dioceses of Limerick,

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  • Daily Mass readings app launched

    January 2 2014
    Patrick Rogers

    Hi there! Many thanks for the insert re. Daily Word app. Clearly I hope that some ACP readers will find it helpful. there are 2 points I want to reply to and one to add. 1. The daily input includes tw

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

    December 30 2013
    Joe O'Leary

    "they stopped the rot" -- Gene, are you not aware of the famous statement of seminary rector Donald Cozzens that the legacy of John Paul II to the church is a gay priesthood?

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  • Survey for the Synod on the Family is available here

    December 7 2013
    Joe O'Leary

    "It was either Humanae Vitae or my marriage" -- which suggests that the encyclical and the clergy who preached it or failed to resist it were destroying marriages. Has Pope Francis mentioned contracep

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  • Daily Mass readings app launched

    January 2 2014
    Tracy

    It'd be good to have some details on the site re who set it up and who the homilies are by.

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  • Survey for the Synod on the Family is available here

    December 7 2013
    Cathy

    It is time that this is brought to the fore. It seems very wrong that single catholic people are 'persecuted' if they marry a divorced person and therefore prevented from receiving Holy Communion. A

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

    December 30 2013
    Gene Carr

    Malcolm R (no. 10) speaks of a "long winter of discontent, spanning two papacies" and then "wonders how many men, who have withdrawn from the ministry, would no have done so . . ." Someone correct me

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