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  • The ACP supports Tony Flannery

    January 21 2013
    Joe O'Leary

    " I have understood the Catholic cultic priesthood to have evolved essentially from the Judaic experience. Of course, the priesthood, evolved from there." I don't know how true this is, but the New Te

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  • There’s far more at stake than the future of just one priest

    January 21 2013
    Brian McKee

    Do these "guardians of the faith" appreciate just how crazy their actions appear to people in the pews and on the streets? You dont have to agree with Tony Flannery's views to stand in amazement as th

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  • The ACP supports Tony Flannery

    January 21 2013
    Joe O'Leary

    Alas, the statement that "some time after Jesus, a select and privileged group within the community who had abrogated power and authority to themselves, interpreted the occasion of the Last Supper in

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  • Tony Flannery is not the problem!

    January 23 2013
    Mary Cunningham

    Very well said, Séamus. Creeping fundamentalism is the problem. It is indeed time to shout stop. Dialogue and not silencing, listening with respect, is the only way forward. The gentle,compassion

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  • Tony Flannery is not the problem!

    January 23 2013
    Fr Sean Thornton

    You all seem so bitter and out of date Try to move with the times. The Holy Spirit is guiding and leading the Church, don't get left behind. God bless our Holy Father Pope Benedict

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  • Tony Flannery is not the problem!

    January 23 2013
    Laura Kuntz

    Thank God for brave priests and religious who will speak. Thank you so much, Fr. Ahearne. I will do what I can to spread the word in the USA, but I believe that above and beyond all, the leadership

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  • Tony Flannery is not the problem!

    January 23 2013
    Darlene Starrs

    I have a postscript for my comment above. Another way, of understanding what the "problem" at the Center is, is to recognize that the Church's Dark issue is simply "the abuse of power". The abuse of

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  • There’s far more at stake than the future of just one priest

    January 21 2013
    Bob Hayes

    On here we read plenty of 'freedom of conscience' arguments supporting Fr Tony Flannery. I wonder if people supporting Tony Flannery will engage the same arguments in support of Fr Tom Brodie who has

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  • The Church should listen to its priests

    January 9 2013
    Andrew

    I would suggest that the 1000 priest members of the ACP, resign from their dioceses and set themselves up along with those who have supported them from their parishes, and then see how long it will ta

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  • Tony Flannery is threatened with excommunication

    January 20 2013
    Andrew

    This whole scenario is both rather disturbing and frightening. We have an institutional church living out a siege mentality; alienating itself daily from the realities of the everyday life and faith e

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