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  • Abolish the priesthood!

    May 4 2013
    Noel Campbell

    All very well! I only hope there is enough in the kitty to give us poor guys our redundancy money when we are disbanded. Poor ACP hardly had time to establish itself. A lot of people will be at a huge

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  • “The Young Priest and the Old Man” – a sad story

    May 1 2013
    Fr. Peter M. Banda

    It is pathetic that the so-called young priest behaved in the manner described herein. The best thing ought to have been to talk to him in person after the Eucharistic Celebration and to inform him ho

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  • Abolish the priesthood!

    May 4 2013
    Darlene Starrs

    The most powerful words in Garry Wills book are on pages 20 and 21, where he suggests, more implicitly, than explicitly, that the people need not wait upon the priest for the Eucharist, as well as, th

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  • “The Young Priest and the Old Man” – a sad story

    May 1 2013
    Bob Hayes

    'So many of the young men being ordained to-day seem to be in the mould of right-wing zealots, full of arrogant self-righteousness. And, I can assure their presence is not confined to Ireland.' Paddy

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  • Abolish the priesthood!

    May 4 2013
    Patrick Rogers

    According to Gary Wills, “there were no priests and no priestly services; there was no re-enactment of Jesus’ Last Supper; no ‘sacrifice of the Mass’; no consecration of bread and wine; nothin

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  • Abolish the priesthood!

    May 4 2013
    Sean O'Conaill

    "For Wills, the first and necessary step in any meaningful reform process is the repudiation of the sacrificial interpretation of the Eucharist and a return to an understanding that is more consonant

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  • Abolish the priesthood!

    May 4 2013
    John

    This article refers to the 16th century as when the church established the ability of the priest to transform bread and wine. Jan Hus a catholic priest and theologian from Prague was burned at the s

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  • “The Young Priest and the Old Man” – a sad story

    May 1 2013
    Mary O Vallely

    Lloyd, I do admire your defence of the young. You obviously have a deep love of young people. I think though that what the story does highlight is that old fear of challenging the ordained, to be hon

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  • “The Young Priest and the Old Man” – a sad story

    May 1 2013
    Paddy Ferry

    Lloyd, there is really no mystery at all why this account of "The Young Priest and the Old Man" has stirred us. So many of the young men being ordained to-day seem to be in the mould of right-wing zea

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  • “The Young Priest and the Old Man” – a sad story

    May 1 2013
    Lloyd Allan MacPherson

    I can't really get over the reaction this is stirring. I would have loved to have seen an elderly priest have the same reaction (albeit tongue-in-cheek) with a very young attendant at his service. T

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