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  • The ACP supports Tony Flannery

    January 21 2013
    Sue Brown

    So heartened to see a conscientious, thoughtful priest get real support from fellow priests who value his ministry. The institutional Church is becoming frighteningly conservative, suppressing natura

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  • The ACP supports Tony Flannery

    January 21 2013
    roy donovan

    I want to add my full support to Tony and it is very sad that the CDF continues to treat so many priests like this and builds up a culture of fear and intimidation. It gives further credance to the ex

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  • Provincial Leadership Team of the Irish Redemptorists issue statement

    January 20 2013
    Fiona Duffy

    I think the new nuncio is behind all this. Remember until last year he was a senior man in the CDF/Inquisition. It was with his arrival in Ireland last year that all of this really got going. He may b

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  • Tony Flannery is threatened with excommunication

    January 20 2013
    Willie Collins

    Many words of support for Fr. Flannery are important at this time. Then having satisfied our conscience we slide back into our comfort zone and tip our cap to the establishment. What are You prepared

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  • Tony Flannery is threatened with excommunication

    January 20 2013
    John Donnelly

    I think a lot of Catholics need to see the issues at stake here. Fr Flannery has spoken out but some of the issues on which he speaks are against Christ Himself. For starters he doesn't seem to see th

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  • Tony Flannery is threatened with excommunication

    January 20 2013
    Aideen McGarrigle

    My full support to you Tony - - - I have lost all hope of my Church ' s hierarchy coming along with us THE CHURCH into the 21st Century so sad that a bunch of older men are cocooned in their palaces

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  • Irish Redemptorists are ‘deeply saddened’

    January 21 2013
    Mary Wood

    'Saddened' - and regretful. . Is this what passes for 'brotherhood' in the Redemptorist congregation? Come on, chaps, you're not blind and deaf. You've seen the way the Roman authorities have been a

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  • The ACP supports Tony Flannery

    January 21 2013
    John Wotherspoon

    Each new gun massacre in the USA causes more and more people to call out "enough: the gun lobby must be opposed". Each new person or group silenced/excommunicated by the Vatican causes more and more p

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  • Tony Flannery is threatened with excommunication

    January 20 2013
    Martin Murray

    "The documentation Fr Flannery received, apparently from the CDF took the form of a typed A4 page (not a letterhead) which was unsigned. "The only reason that I can be sure that this came from the CDF

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  • Irish Redemptorists are ‘deeply saddened’

    January 21 2013
    Anne

    I read about Rev. Flannery's in the NYT today. His courage and willingness to discuss ideas in the face of threats from the hierarchy is to be commended. Having recently returned to the Church I love,

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