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  • A letter from Alan Hilliard to Tony Flannery

    February 21 2013
    Joe O'Leary

    Garry Wills is here: http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/423715/february-11-2013/garry-wills?xrs=share_copy These people, including Spong, who throw the baby out with the bathwater

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  • What the new pope should do

    February 18 2013
    Joe O'Leary

    "I find the Church perfectly ‘credible’ as it is. " How so, when so many of the faithful are deprived of the eucharist?

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  • ‘Priests should be allowed to marry’ – Cardinal Keith O’Brien

    February 23 2013
    Rosaline

    This story reminds me of a line from a Leonard Cohen song: "There is a crack, a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in." Perhaps Cardinal O'Brien has begun to let in a small chink of light

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  • Irish dioceses should imitate the courage of Pope Benedict

    February 22 2013
    Ian

    It will be interesting to see the fall out from Cardinal Keith O'Briens public statement of support for marriage as an option for those entering the priesthood which was aired on the BBC today. A sma

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  • What the new pope should do

    February 18 2013
    Stephen Edward

    I find the Church perfectly 'credible' as it is. I know that the homo-mafia need to be identified and removed asap and the SSPX reconciled if possible but beyond that I am content. I am certainly not

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  • A letter from Alan Hilliard to Tony Flannery

    February 21 2013
    Stephen Edward

    Shelby Spong! Oh dear, he believed that Jesus was God's adopted son and as human the rest of us. A bit worrying (if not altogether surprising) that a Catholic priest would quote a heretic.

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  • Irish dioceses should imitate the courage of Pope Benedict

    February 22 2013
    Soline Humbert

    Thank you Mattie for your clear-sightedness. This very good piece reminded me of what happened to a bishop, also living at the edge, who dared raise similar issues, the Australian bishop Morris: He g

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  • Irish dioceses should imitate the courage of Pope Benedict

    February 22 2013
    Teresa Mee

    Mattie, what a wonderful example of a meeting of minds and hearts on the challenges and unanswered questions facing the People of God, bishops and priests included. Doesn't change begin and proceed th

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  • A letter from Alan Hilliard to Tony Flannery

    February 21 2013
    ger gleeson

    The issue is truth, is it not”? You are right Bain Wellington @ at 7 above, but it is also about governance. I would love to cross swords with you on scripture interpretation, but being honest I wou

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  • Large number of clergy attend ACP meeting in Athlone

    February 22 2013
    Cyril North

    Looks like the ACP is proceeding both responsibly and pro-actively in face of the current crisis in the church. The participants at the meeting were not confrontational. It remains for the hierar

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