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  • Tony Flannery is threatened with excommunication

    January 20 2013
    jim murray

    Just goes to prove why diversity in the Church is needed: when like-minded people get together constantly they only become more convinced in extremist views. True of the Taliban and the Vatican. Is

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  • Tony Flannery is threatened with excommunication

    January 20 2013
    Patrick T. Darcy

    Bob Hayes (45) Thank you for your comment. In citing the CCC texts, I was trying to make clear that a person has to follow his conscience. I am fully aware that the Catechism teaches that a person

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

    January 21 2013
    Sue Brown

    Joe O'Leary's reply is very thought-provoking...the Christian way can never mean you act against your own conscience, and sadly each of the figures he quotes felt he had to add 'even if you are excomm

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

    January 26 2013
    Fr. Doug Walker

    I am deeply saddened by the action of CDF and the Vatican. I also support Fr. Tony's obedience to his conscience which under the guidence of the Holy Spirit must supersede his vow of obedience to the

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  • The ACP supports Tony Flannery

    January 21 2013
    Charlie Meagher

    Source: www.ascensioncatholic.net/ The document on the Church in the Modern World #16 stated clearly the important role of conscience in the life of the Christian. Commenting on paragraph #16 of the a

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

    January 21 2013
    Darlene Starrs

    The CDF excercises Church authority in and through the delusion that they are protecting God and the Church!. I, as a woman called by Christ, have known no other form of Church leadership! I certainly

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  • Tony Flannery is threatened with excommunication

    January 20 2013
    Paddy Ferry

    I want to send my complete support to Tony at this terrible time for him. I greatly admire and respect him and, like the overwhelming majority of those who have contributed to this site since we becam

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

    January 21 2013
    Rev. Fr. PP

    As a parish priest - not a Redemptorist- working in a rural parish in Ireland, I only pray for one of two things tonight: One, that I had the moral courage of Tony Flannery to speak the same truths th

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  • The ACP supports Tony Flannery

    January 21 2013
    Anne

    There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right. -Martin Luther King Jr.-

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

    January 21 2013
    Joe O'Leary

    "He who acts against his conscience loses his soul." (Fourth Lateran council, 1215) "It is better to perish in excommunication than to violate one's conscience." (St. Thomas Aquinas) "I shall drink .

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