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  • Tony Flannery is threatened with excommunication

    January 20 2013
    Pól Ó Duibhir

    An unsigned A4 piece of paper for a lifetime of service. Says it all. An Irish civil servant who issued such an unsigned letter would run the risk of dismissal. Not only must such letters be signed bu

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  • Tony Flannery is threatened with excommunication

    January 20 2013
    Soline Humbert

    Submitting to these threats would be a surrender to abusive power and a betrayal of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Time to stand firm and to stand together in solidarity, rooted in God's love.

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  • ACP expresses solidarity with Fr Tony Flannery

    April 9 2012
    gerard toomey

    Go Tony, don't back down. I as a child went to the novena with my mother Essie toomey RIP and I was always impressed with your honest and sincere sermons in Limerick. We are with you, best of luck.

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  • Tony Flannery is threatened with excommunication

    January 20 2013
    Joe O'Leary

    The CDF is the Inquisition and the Church has never disowned the Inquisition. Too many have accepted these procedures which are incompatible with the Gospel and with the Church's own teaching, not to

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  • Tony Flannery is threatened with excommunication

    January 20 2013
    Kevin

    "The choice facing him, he stated at a press briefing today, Sunday 20th January, was between deciding between Rome and his conscience." Jesus said, "render unto Caesar....." and that's all you should

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  • Tony Flannery is threatened with excommunication

    January 20 2013
    John Kelly

    I fear Fr. Flannery is whistling into the wind! More priests need to get on board to confront the CDF.

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  • Tony Flannery is threatened with excommunication

    January 20 2013
    GeorgeW

    Oh dear. Surely not another priest being silenced. Is the CDF so fearful for the future of the Church that it is unable to respond other than by silencing the "dissident" and worse, by disowning him t

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  • Tony Flannery is threatened with excommunication

    January 20 2013
    Mary O Vallely

    “I could not possibly put my name to such an article without impugning my own integrity and conscience,” he said today. We would expect nothing less of Fr Tony Flannery and I hope and pray that he

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  • Tony Flannery is threatened with excommunication

    January 20 2013
    Lloyd Allan MacPherson

    This is the problem with being the "seekers" and not just the "messengers" - the whole idea of insubordination. I can only look at this through a "civilian" eye but I completely understand where they

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  • Tony Flannery is threatened with excommunication

    January 20 2013
    Margi

    I am appalled at what the Church that we all love is doing to himself!! Where is the feminine element in the Church? Suppressed is she? They say all empires destroy themselves from within. Has the Chu

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