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  • The ACP supports Tony Flannery

    January 21 2013
    Eddie Finnegan

    Thanks to the ACP leadership for that clear statement in Fr Tony's defence. Now may we hope for a similarly robust statement from the four Archbishops, all of whose flocks have gained from Tony's noma

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  • Tony Flannery is threatened with excommunication

    January 20 2013
    G. Armour Van Horn

    I take exception with only one item here, that Fr Flannery asserts his current experience is "reminiscent of the Inquisition". No, Father, let's use our words for clarity: This is the work of the Inqu

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  • Tony Flannery is threatened with excommunication

    January 20 2013
    Mike Riordan

    Have to say I am appalled at the way 'our' Church is treating Tony Flannery, not sure what I can say or do about it, except express my support for Tony Flannery and my abhorrence at the way he is bein

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  • Tony Flannery is threatened with excommunication

    January 20 2013
    Teresa Mee

    "I am the Way, the Life and the Truth". How does the Church leadership identify with the Way, the Life and the Truth? Hardly through sending out unmanned missives. The people of God deserve an explana

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  • Tony Flannery is threatened with excommunication

    January 20 2013
    Eleanor Dixon

    Dear Fr Flannery You are such an inspiration to those of us Catholics appalled by the evil that has been perpetrated and tolerated within the Catholic Church in recent decades. To see a leader who fol

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  • Tony Flannery is threatened with excommunication

    January 20 2013
    Ciara Clancy

    Fr. Flannery, I offer you my support and praise as you face what can only be called bullying from the CDF and its ultimate boss Josef Ratzinger, who will not even allow debate on the issue of the ordi

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  • Tony Flannery is threatened with excommunication

    January 20 2013
    Sean O'Driscoll

    So sad to hear Rome has to resort to threats and bullying. Tony, you have my full support in this time of trial. What is Rome afraid of? If they have a genuine counter argument, then let's hear it. Le

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  • Tony Flannery is threatened with excommunication

    January 20 2013
    Tom Morgan

    In 2010 the Vatican silenced Owen O'Sullivan for his Christian views on homosexuality. (See The Furrow Vol 61 No 3 March 2010 "On Including Gays"). Then they silenced Tony Flannery and Gerard Moloney

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  • Tony Flannery is threatened with excommunication

    January 20 2013
    Amos

    It looks like a replay of the George Tyrrell travesty in the early 1900s. The only difference is, this time around, the Irish bishops are in no position to carry the water for the pope and his curia a

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  • Tony Flannery is threatened with excommunication

    January 20 2013
    Raymond Hickey Bordine

    This latest action on the part of the Vatican against enlightened thinkers who have broken out of the Middle Ages mentality in theology reeks of undeveloped and retrograde reasoning. Fr. Tony Flanner

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