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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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  • Unity must not be confused with uniformity

    December 16 2013
    Peter Shore

    The writer is correct to say that the New Testament never justifies *gratuitous* exclusion from the Church. It's MUCH more serious than that. In Jesus's own words, Matthew 18:15-18 says: "If your

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  • ACP report on Yvonne Murphy investigation published

    November 6 2013
    Paddy Ferry

    Mary@60, thank you for the link. Excellent contribution from Marie Collins. I also completely agree with Tony Flannery on the urgent need for our Church to look again at the whole question of our huma

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  • The Church never treats women as fully independent adults

    December 12 2013
    Sean O'Conaill

    #11, #13 . A very thorough and up-to-date scholarly study of early female ordination is 'The Hidden History of Women's Ordination: Female Clergy in the Medieval West' by Gary Macy (OUP, 2008

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  • The Church never treats women as fully independent adults

    December 12 2013
    Shaun the sheep

    Jane the deaconesses were used in the early Church to assist with adult lady baptism. This was to preserve modesty. There is no need for this today, hence we don't need deaconesses. Also they were not

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  • Unity must not be confused with uniformity

    December 16 2013
    Kevin Conroy

    The silencing of Fr. Flannery involves not only theological issues but moral issues about how it was done. And if that process is legal, that is an ongoing scandal.

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  • Why I am not willing to complete the synod survey

    December 13 2013
    stan mellett

    Michael forget the questionnaire format and send in your piece as it stands. The valuable information it contains will hopefully be read by someone and its contents fed into the preparatory work for t

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  • Fr Joe McGuane was an honest priest

    December 18 2013
    Eddie Finnegan

    Thanks Tim. Your tribute fills out so much more of the man we nearly knew.

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