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  • Tony Flannery is threatened with excommunication

    January 20 2013
    Darlene Starrs

    Actually, Bob, I wouldn't know about her "prochoice stance" if she has one........my point was to highlight what "research" she has done from the scripture in regards to women in the Church. My perso

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  • Vigil to support Fr Tony to be held at Papal Nunciature

    January 26 2013
    Fr. Ian Byrnes

    I am an Irish Priest ministering in England. I was in sorrow , yet hopeful to what has happen to my brother priest, Tony. As I reflect on the Pope's visit to England to beatify John Henry Newman. The

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

    January 21 2013
    Kevin

    PS. Be assured on my heart felt prayer for you Tony and all of you in this. Every success. I'm done trying to meet the needs of others for justifying my existence, life - spiritual or otherwise. They

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  • Tony Flannery is threatened with excommunication

    January 20 2013
    Bob Hayes

    Darlene (58), you evidently share Joanna Manning's views expressed in her book 'Is the Pope a Catholic'. Is this by any chance the same Joanna Manning who supports Catholics for Choice? In its own wor

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

    January 21 2013
    Kevin

    If split comes, so beat it. I won't be losing sleep over leaving. I am not telling anyone to get out. But if that is what you really want - OK I'll go and you are welcome to your perfectly, obedient a

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  • Tony Flannery is threatened with excommunication

    January 20 2013
    Paddy Clarkin

    Lads and Lassies I am absolutely gob-smacked at some(I stress some) of the ideas that have been bandied around in this discussion. Obedience, dont question, dont protest, church encyccals. Surely, we

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  • The ACP supports Tony Flannery

    January 21 2013
    Darlene Starrs

    I agree with the ACP that the issue is about shutting down the ACP, more than it is about sanctioning Father Flannery. If the CDF are successful in their excommunication of Father Flannery, they will

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

    January 21 2013
    Eileen

    But Dominic, (15, above), the Catholic Church is NOT the CDF or the Vatican. The Church is the people of God. Jesus established a community of believers. The Catholic Church, in its true sense, is abo

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  • Provincial Leadership Team of the Irish Redemptorists issue statement

    January 20 2013
    Darlene Starrs

    I don't know if I understand you correctly, but when you say, "Our Redemptorist Constitutions" that means you are a Redemptorist priest? I grew up in the St. Alphonsus Parish, of Edmonton, Alberta,

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  • The ACP supports Tony Flannery

    January 21 2013
    Darlene Starrs

    Thank you Bob, fo reiterating for us a specific suggestion on the part of Father Flannery. That is helpful. I don't know the perameters of Father's research. Most theologians say what they say wit

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