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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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  • 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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