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  • How the ACP relates with the Irish Bishops

    October 30 2012
    patrogers

    I felt that your June 2012 letter to Cardinal Brady expresses very well the critical situation of the Church in this country, and is pretty much the view of most active priests in Ireland, not only of

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  • Discerning a Way – Pádraig McCarthy

    January 4 2012
    D. M. Drew

    A good essay. I would like to make a comment on Pope St. Pius X's quotation who said, "the pastoral body alone rests the necessary right and authority for promoting the end of the society." St. Pius

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  • Austrian priests share our concerns

    October 25 2012
    Kevin Walters

    Chris ------------------------ To break any evil (Chain) involves suffering, words are not always enough, what is needed is unity of purpose (Will) by our Sheppard’s in the form of resistance or pre

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  • How the ACP relates with the Irish Bishops

    October 30 2012
    Mary O Vallely

    Yes,it comes across almost as dismissive and the gap between sending the letter in June and having to wait 4 months on a reply seems disrespectful. I am wondering, having watched the BBC documentary o

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  • Austrian priests share our concerns

    October 25 2012
    Kevin

    I'd never read anything of Aquinas. 'Natural law' was something with which to beat people over the head and kill dead things, so I wasn't interested. Came out of Mass this morning and lifted a book. O

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  • Open meeting of the ACI to coincide with ACP annual meeting

    October 23 2012
    Ned Quinn

    Looking forward to the meetings of the ACI and the ACP. I sincerely hope that there will be a representative of the Irish Hierarchy in attendance. I presume all the bishops have been invited. Surel

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  • Austrian priests share our concerns

    October 25 2012
    Lloyd Allan MacPherson

    Between now and the time of Jesus Christ, there has not been one individual who has held more influence over the minds of priests and bishops alike as St. Thomas Aquinas has. Natural Law and all it e

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  • Exodus of young people is the Church’s core problem

    October 18 2012
    Anne

    Something that is not mentioned here much is Prayer which is vital for a relationship with Christ. Young people continue to come out in their thousands to hear the Holy Father at World Youth Day. Th

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  • Austrian priests share our concerns

    October 25 2012
    Chris McDonnell

    Thanks Sean for an informative post. One of the questions raised at the recent Heythrop Meeting in London which I attended, was the appointment of conservative bishops by those of like mind. How can t

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  • Austrian priests share our concerns

    October 25 2012
    Kevin

    "They are often afraid to join, as it may affect their career paths in the Church." 'Career paths.' Speaks volumes. Maybe it's just one of those days. Some times those words just roar in your ear, "w

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