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  • ACP report on Yvonne Murphy investigation published

    November 6 2013
    Nuala O'Driscoll

    A learning curve? The heirarchy, the Vatican City State, Cannon Law, mighty institutions that have lost their way, Matt.18:5-7.

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  • Synod preparatory document is now available to all

    November 3 2013
    Sean O'Conaill

    Tom Finnigan #5 . I'm not depending on getting a simplified list of questions, Tom - and Derry is my diocese too. . Isn't the fact that some of the language is impenetrable significant in its own way

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  • Synod preparatory document is now available to all

    November 3 2013
    Tom Finnigan

    Has this Vatican document been distributed by each Irish diocese? I am a member of Derry Diocese and not aware of any consultation so far. As the original questions are complex and presume a sophistic

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  • Dermot Lane commends and challenges the ACP

    October 31 2013
    Kevin Walters

    Sandra Mc Sheaffrey@17 We all associate Jesus with love (compassion and mercy) but the essence of love is Truth and if this Truth is not incorporated into all our actions (Word and deed) they become w

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  • Synod preparatory document is now available to all

    November 3 2013
    Treasa Healy

    I'm trying to puzzle out for whom this document and questions are aimed? Why the lengthy preamble i.e. catechesis on Marriage and the Family? The 'questions' are based on Vat.II Documents, supposing

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  • ACP report on Yvonne Murphy investigation published

    November 6 2013
    Sean O'Conaill

    Joe O'Leary #12 . "Basically, Canon Law seems quite unfitted to deal with child abuse, since its concern is mostly with the regulation of the sacraments (including matrimony) and with clerics and rel

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  • ACP report on Yvonne Murphy investigation published

    November 6 2013
    Joe O'Leary

    Mary, what the link shows is that the Code of Canon Law (misleadingly described as the Church's theology cast in legal form -- but this points to the limits of its bearing) is incorporated into Vatica

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  • Dermot Lane commends and challenges the ACP

    October 31 2013
    Malcolm R

    I totally concur with Pat Rogers' words; "Many thanks, Dermot, for those thoughtful and timely pointers to what the way forward in Church life could be — if only a majority could be found in sup

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  • ACP report on Yvonne Murphy investigation published

    November 6 2013
    Mary Cunningham

    See section 2d and 3a in link below for status of Canon Law in Vatican State Law http://www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/Vatican.htm

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  • Dermot Lane commends and challenges the ACP

    October 31 2013
    Patrick Claffey

    Thanks Dermot for an excellent piece - it would have made the basis of a very good chapter! There seems little doubt that we are in a very positive current at moment and one can only hope that will c

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