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

    January 21 2013
    Darlene Starrs

    The CDF excercises Church authority in and through the delusion that they are protecting God and the Church!. I, as a woman called by Christ, have known no other form of Church leadership! I certainly

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  • Tony Flannery is threatened with excommunication

    January 20 2013
    Paddy Ferry

    I want to send my complete support to Tony at this terrible time for him. I greatly admire and respect him and, like the overwhelming majority of those who have contributed to this site since we becam

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

    January 21 2013
    Rev. Fr. PP

    As a parish priest - not a Redemptorist- working in a rural parish in Ireland, I only pray for one of two things tonight: One, that I had the moral courage of Tony Flannery to speak the same truths th

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  • The ACP supports Tony Flannery

    January 21 2013
    Anne

    There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right. -Martin Luther King Jr.-

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

    January 21 2013
    Joe O'Leary

    "He who acts against his conscience loses his soul." (Fourth Lateran council, 1215) "It is better to perish in excommunication than to violate one's conscience." (St. Thomas Aquinas) "I shall drink .

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  • The ACP supports Tony Flannery

    January 21 2013
    Tony McDermott

    I have just discovered ACP through the courageous messages from Fr. Tony in the Irish Times and on the web. He is a communicator and a thought leader. Experiencing the strength of his Faith and his co

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  • Tony Flannery is threatened with excommunication

    January 20 2013
    Ann Walsh

    It is with a weary heart I have followed the developments re Tony Flannery. And while I never supported the idea of silencing him I was open to the reasons why the CDF may need to communicate with him

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  • The ACP supports Tony Flannery

    January 21 2013
    John F Deane

    It is clear to me that the CDF are showing the greatest disrespect to Fr Flannery in not engaging personally with him and in making demands that they know he, in conscience, cannot comply with. But th

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  • Provincial Leadership Team of the Irish Redemptorists issue statement

    January 20 2013
    Joe O'Leary

    I am "deeply saddened" that we have had to send people to concentration camps. Come on, Redemptorists, you can do better than that.

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  • Tony Flannery is threatened with excommunication

    January 20 2013
    Joe O'Leary

    "Fr Flannery will be allowed back into ministry only if he writes, signs and publishes an article (pre-approved by the CDF) accepting the Catholic Church can never ordain women to the priesthood and a

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