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  • Swiss abbot appeals for church reform

    December 21 2012
    Stephen Edward

    In contrast we have the Trappist Abbot of Mariawald, Germany deciding to roll back all post-conciliar 'reforms' in the abbey. This is being done because 'there have been no visible fruits' of the chan

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  • What we WISH the Irish bishops had said to the ACP

    December 17 2012
    Lloyd Allan MacPherson

    There is nothing depressing about this website. It's firmly planted in a reality that most of us will never know unfortunately; one that most readers can barely read let alone live. The world is wro

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  • What we WISH the Irish bishops had said to the ACP

    December 17 2012
    Eddie Finnegan

    @Matthew O'Hora: "I have huge praise for the English Bishops because they are not afraid to speak out and make themselves heard when they need to." Well knock me down with a feather! - how in my nearl

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  • Is the Budget a topic for a homily on the Good News?

    December 15 2012
    Patrick Rogers

    Padraig, You make an excellent case for risking mixing a bit more political and social commentary into our homilies. The Gospel message needs to be coherently anchored in current realities. Because of

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  • Swiss abbot appeals for church reform

    December 21 2012
    Mary O Vallely

    There is nothing earth shattering in anything Abbot Martin Werlen says. It's all very reasonable. Parishoners/local clergy to have a say in episcopal appointments, the Cardinalate open to all with ele

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  • What we WISH the Irish bishops had said to the ACP

    December 17 2012
    Matthew O'Hora

    In my view the Irish bishops - most of them not all of them - are afraid to act in any matter brought before them. I was reading an interview in an English Newspaper where Bishop Mark Davies was inter

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  • Ordination of women would correct injustice, says NCR

    December 3 2012
    Anne

    Dr. Norma Jean Coon who last year renounced her alleged 'ordination' said the following: '“I confess to the truth of Pope John Paul II's Apostolic Letter ‘Ordinatio Sacerdotalis’,” she stated

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  • Swiss abbot appeals for church reform

    December 21 2012
    Forbolg

    For the foreseeable future the official church position will remain an obsessional preoccupation with sexual morality as distinct from building the kingdom of god on earth.

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  • Ordination of women would correct injustice, says NCR

    December 3 2012
    Sean (Derry)

    Joe @25, good old Fr Nice certainly knows how to please 'us humans' and 'us people' at 'his' Christmas vigil Mass. No need for all the boring prayers, readings, gospel or sermon, at 'his' mass, he rep

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  • Abortion: is rational debate possible?

    December 20 2012
    T.Mac

    We are living in the 'Culture of Death.' I am so surprised to hear so many Catholics agree with abortion in the cases of rape. This is a horrible situation for any woman to face but abortion will have

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