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  • Ireland needs ‘creative wingers’ for bishops – as well as ‘dependable centre-backs’

    May 15 2013
    Eddie Finnegan

    It seems to me to be no coincidence or accident that the one bishop who feels comfortable enough to sit regularly among his co-diocesan members of the Association of Catholic Priests is not a man "fro

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

    May 1 2013
    wiliam o'b

    It seems we have created a whole generation of clergy who are focused on the externals and a love of rituals that are truly foreign to them and their experience. A quick look at the vestments that are

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  • Abolish the priesthood!

    May 4 2013
    mjt

    Seáinín, I explained my references to you as in your responses @27 and 28 it appeared to me that perhaps you hadn`t seen them, though I can see now that you had merely chosen not to see them. I had

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  • Abolish the priesthood!

    May 4 2013
    MM

    Surely thanks is not appeasement, or at least it shouldn't be otherwise it isn't authentic. Isn't it possible that the account of Abraham's offering of Isaac marked a new level of awareness in human

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  • I am being impersonated on Twitter: Tony Flannery

    May 11 2013
    Pól Ó Duibhir

    I agree Lloyd (@17) regarding "impersonation". There are a lot of very funny spoof accounts on Twitter and they can brighten the day enormously. There used to be one on Mary Coughlan (Tánaiste not si

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  • I am being impersonated on Twitter: Tony Flannery

    May 11 2013
    Pól Ó Duibhir

    I agree Brendan (@16) and I have been replying to the Pope's daily tweets on those lines, suggesting that he apply the various virtues he is promulgating on Twitter to his own dealings with the silenc

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  • Abolish the priesthood!

    May 4 2013
    markdask

    Seáinín @35 - how far back would it be right to go, perhaps to when Galileo was under house arrest for the remainder of his life for saying that the earth went around the sun? The Vatican has since

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

    May 1 2013
    Rory Connor

    @Fr Joe O'Leary I don’t see the point of posting this uncheckable anecdote. Is the ACP turning into a club for masochistic flagellants? .. <> As I am opposed to a lot of what Fr Joe writes,

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  • I am being impersonated on Twitter: Tony Flannery

    May 11 2013
    Eddie Finnegan

    Ah, well Lloyd, so long as it makes the man happy. And I'm glad to see my take on it got you thinking. 🙂

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  • I am being impersonated on Twitter: Tony Flannery

    May 11 2013
    Lloyd Allan MacPherson

    Oh and Eddie, (13) a few questions about your comment concerning sending out a daily prayer: would you have recommended that the Pope not send out a daily prayer via twitter? Do you often recommend

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