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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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  • 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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