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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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  • 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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