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  • I felt ashamed of my Church

    January 28 2013
    John Quinn

    Paddy This John Quinn is Liverpool born(Bootle to be precise) Irish Catholic now living in Canada and you can check my theology at http://www.facebook.com/NewCatholicTimes?ref=hl and at www.scouserqui

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  • I felt ashamed of my Church

    January 28 2013
    Ciaran

    Humiliation? "What was wrong with our Church, I wondered, that it felt compelled to humiliate this good man by forcing him to publicly stand by his conscience.." What is a conscience worth if we never

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  • I felt ashamed of my Church

    January 28 2013
    Wendy Murphy

    I no longer call myself a catholic. but I am very moved by what I read here. You are such good people, and Tony seems to represent that goodness. I do hope his present suffering and all of your faithf

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  • Petition provided to have Fr. Tony Flannery returned to priestly ministry

    January 31 2013
    Eddie Finnegan

    Brendan, you tell me "We now live in an e age . . .". Now I wonder where you think I live? I've just signed two e-petitions in the past six hours: 1) a HM Government petition on SADS (Sudden Adult De

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  • Petition provided to have Fr. Tony Flannery returned to priestly ministry

    January 31 2013
    Darlene Starrs

    Friday, February 1, is the Feast Day of St. Brigid of Kildare. I am a firm believer in prayer, and in intercessory prayer. I know that "prayer power lines" are quite well developed in our neighboring

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  • I felt ashamed of my Church

    January 28 2013
    Paddy Ferry

    Thank you, Brendan, another excellent article and spot on as usual. If that is John Quinn of San Francisco we are privileged to have you contribute to our site. I have read " The Reform of the Papacy"

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  • I felt ashamed of my Church

    January 28 2013
    Chris McDonnell

    The words of the great Irish playwright, Samuel Beckett, come to mind: “Ever tried, ever failed. Never mind, try again, fail better” Faith demands that we stick with it, whatever the difficulties.

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  • I felt ashamed of my Church

    January 28 2013
    John Quinn

    "The treatment of Tony Flannery is reminiscent of what happened to theologians in the decades before the Second Vatican Council (1962-65). That Council effectively apologised to those theologians and

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  • I felt ashamed of my Church

    January 28 2013
    ger gleeson

    I can only assume Fr Brendan, that when the CDF silenced Priests in the past, those Priests simply kept their mouths shut. They obviously have not heard of the song "The west's awake". Fr Tony has not

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  • I felt ashamed of my Church

    January 28 2013
    Raymond Hickey Bordine

    With appreciation to President John F. Kennedy, I borrow words from his Inaugural Address of 1961 about responsibility to office when he asks when executing that office, did we show courage, judgement

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