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  • Who do the Irish bishops think they are?

    November 6 2012
    Tony Butler

    I am grateful for this contribution. Recently I heard the following comment on BBC Radio4: " The patients are unhappy waiting for surgery but the doctors are cowards." Exactly my sentiments on hearing

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  • Petition to end compulsory celibacy launched

    November 2 2012
    Soline Humbert

    Like Therese I place my wholehearted faith in the Holy Spirit and the power of prayer to effect the massive breakthrough we seek. May the saints of Ireland whose feast is today help us!

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  • Petition to end compulsory celibacy launched

    November 2 2012
    Therese Tynan

    All of the contributors here would appear to be male. Perhaps we women are more cynical by nature. The changes we need to see within our church would inevitably relieve the Vatican of its absolute pow

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  • How the ACP relates with the Irish Bishops

    October 30 2012
    Margaret Lee

    The Nuncio, in my opinion, is a very "political" person. I suspect that when he appears to praise the priests who work without "fanfare and publicity" he is really having a go at the Association of C

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

    October 23 2012
    Elizabeth Byrnes

    The most hopeful developments in our Church in recent years have been the emergence of the ACP and the ACI and I continue to admire and applaud those who have had the courage to bring them about. I wa

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  • Complete a survey on the new Missal

    September 16 2012
    Louie Macari

    I tried to enter my thoughts on the US site but entries are closed so I thought I could express my views after a year of attending Mass in the new format. Some things are OK however some of the langua

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  • How the ACP relates with the Irish Bishops

    October 30 2012
    Tony Conry

    The refusal of the Irish bishops to accept dialogue with the ACP should neither surprise nor disappoint us. It was as expected. They seem to be lost in a time machine, determined to relive the power s

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  • Sean McDonagh and Donal Dorr launch books

    October 24 2012
    Eddie Finnegan

    With all these books hitting the stands before the Regency and the Christmas, I trust the ACP, the IMU, Trócaire and of course Senator Martin McAleese all have healthy global re-forestation programme

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

    October 23 2012
    Pádraig McCarthy

    The description "turbulent priest" has commonly been used of Thomas (à) Becket, whose death led to "repentance" by the king and his support for the Templars, who came and set up Templetown in Co Wexf

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  • 05 November . Monday of Week Thirty One

    November 5 2012
    Kevin

    "But when you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, and the blind. And you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you, for you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteou

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