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  • Pope reaffirms critique of American Religious

    April 15 2013
    Fergus P Egan

    Love requires Trust; Trust requires Justice; Justice requires Truth. Love, which is so strongly espoused as a defining characteristic (Christians – see how they love one another) , is elusive when

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  • Pope reaffirms critique of American Religious

    April 15 2013
    Mary O Vallely

    I'll admit my heart sank when I read this news BUT Pope Francis is new to the job so he's hardly going to immediately undo a process set up under the previous papacy (said she, possibly clutching at

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  • Church should stand its ground on school patronage

    April 11 2013
    Eddie Finnegan

    Do you reckon I'd be taken out and shot at dawn if I were to suggest that the 2.2% online vote for some sort of School Reform in Ballina compares not unfavourably with the 0.4% / 0.7% / 1.47% expressi

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  • Church should stand its ground on school patronage

    April 11 2013
    Mary Cunningham

    Micheál, How is it that any reservation about the robustness of the survey design is brushed aside when Fr. Michael Drumm in the same opinion piece quoted by Brendan Hoban, claimed that ‘The surv

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  • 14 April 2013. 3rd Sunday of Easter

    April 14 2013
    Mark

    Such powerful, instructive and beautiful homilies. I loved the thought ('The Big Catch') of the queer assortment of fish who will be left spluttering and gasping at the breadth of God's mercy. We some

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  • Church should stand its ground on school patronage

    April 11 2013
    Mícheál

    Unfortunately there is no relationship in this survey between sample size and representativeness. The latter only applies where the sample is a true random sample. In this case, the respondents are s

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  • Church should stand its ground on school patronage

    April 11 2013
    Mary Cunningham

    On examining the full report on http://www.education.ie/en/Publications/Policy-Reports/Report-on-the-surveys-regarding-parental-preferences-on-primary-school-patronage.pdf, and focusing on the statist

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  • Church should stand its ground on school patronage

    April 11 2013
    Joan Murphy

    Wonderful article claiming our right as Catholics to speak our truth. Yes Brendan the church may be on its knees but with clarity, conviction and courage we can still be true to ourselves and our pari

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  • Church should stand its ground on school patronage

    April 11 2013
    patrogers

    Wonderful! A great piece, Brendan. I hope it's brought to Ruari Quinn's attention, so he can maybe moderate his overblown plans for intervention and change. Could he perhaps change his focus to ensure

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  • 12 April 2013. Friday in the Second Week of Easter

    April 12 2013
    Mark

    Jo, well said. We've all been told, from our youth, to obey the Church's teaching and to respect our elders. But it's not that simple, is it? Four things occur:- Firstly, as in all areas of expert

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