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  • Tony Flannery is threatened with excommunication

    January 20 2013
    Lloyd Allan MacPherson

    Fr. Tony, when you do seek legal advice, rememember the words of St. Thomas Aquinas. He trumps all Canon Law - it is his voice you hear when you think you are acting out of your own conscience. Ever

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  • Irish Redemptorists are ‘deeply saddened’

    January 21 2013
    M Manning

    Thank you, Tony Flannery, for your courage. I have no doubt it will be punished by the Vatican, while it is admired by many Catholics.

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  • Tony Flannery is threatened with excommunication

    January 20 2013
    Teilhard

    Is there anything in this church where the People of God are in agreement with the hierarchy of Rome? The Second Vatican Council taught that the Sprit of God works upward to the hierarchy from the Pe

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  • Irish Redemptorists are ‘deeply saddened’

    January 21 2013
    Richard O'Donnell

    Fr Tony is, indeed, one more of many voices, crying out in the wilderness. He walks in the footsteps of such biblical giants as Isaiah and John the Baptist. “Those who dance are considered insane by

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  • Tony Flannery is threatened with excommunication

    January 20 2013
    Darlene Starrs

    It would appear that most of what may be said in response to the actions of the CDF towards Father Flannery has been commented. I am deeply saddened again, that we have a church leadership that knows

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  • Tony Flannery is threatened with excommunication

    January 20 2013
    Tom Morally

    It is with shame and hurt I have learned that my church has engaged in such shameful tactics to one who has given a lifetime of service to people the length and breath of this country. To hear them th

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  • Tony Flannery is threatened with excommunication

    January 20 2013
    Elizabeth

    "...accepting the Catholic Church can never ordain women to the priesthood and accepting all Church stances on contraception, homosexuality, and the refusal of the sacraments to people in second relat

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  • The ACP supports Tony Flannery

    January 21 2013
    Frank Gregg

    Dear editor, I find it difficult to keep my composure when news like this emanates from the centre of our church. The same treatment was meted out to the the priest in the USA recently , without consu

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  • The ACP supports Tony Flannery

    January 21 2013
    Elizabeth

    Sadly the message of Jesus has been missing from the Vatican for a long long time. Without integrity a person is nothing. Although Jesus had a flock people are not sheep; they think and they feel and

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  • The ACP supports Tony Flannery

    January 21 2013
    Pascal O'Dea

    Fr Flannery deserves our support.The call by Fr Flannery (RTE NEWS) that the Irish Bishops declare their view on his treatment is a valid request.The Bishops' response, or not, will be awaited by an i

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