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  • Priests have earned the right to speak about the state of the Church

    October 2 2012
    Fr. Bob Cushing

    Brendan, we are walking with you. As our board for the Association of US Catholic priests met yesterday again, our thoughts were of you, our brothers across the sea, and how you continue to speak and

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  • Quo Vadis? — Mary McAleese speaks

    September 29 2012
    Gene Carr

    Sean Mac Giolla Domhnaigh: My Gaelic is not great, but I gather that you have a rather poor view of donkeys. But you should remember that Our Blessed Lord had a very soft spot for donkeys, as Chester

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  • I am the youngest Kildare priest

    September 14 2012
    Brendan

    Debbie and Raymond, I am sorry if my fidelity to the Church and my experience of the Catholic faith, especially amongst the Youth are so offensive to you. As for your likening me to Hilter Youth not o

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  • Priests have earned the right to speak about the state of the Church

    October 2 2012
    Brendan Butler

    Brendan writes that ‘ at one fell swoop we would have solved the Eucharistic famine already knocking at our doors’ by ordaining ‘viri probati –men of proven worth , with minimal formation or

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  • Priests have earned the right to speak about the state of the Church

    October 2 2012
    Kevin Walters

    So where do we go from here? Do we sit and wait for church after church to empty and eventually to close? ---------------------------------------- The Head of our church is God’s only begotten Son J

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  • Vatican process against Basque theologian continues

    September 17 2012
    Joe O'Leary

    "It seems to me that the idea of ‘hell’ as something eternal has always been a part of the consciousness and ‘lived experience’ of humanity." As far as I know, Buddhism, which is one of the mo

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  • I am the youngest Kildare priest

    September 14 2012
    Joe O'Leary

    "Benedict XVI is now under investigation by the International Criminal Court at The Hague for crimes against humanity due to his involvement in the global Catholic clerical abuse massacre." Don't forg

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  • Quo Vadis? — Mary McAleese speaks

    September 29 2012
    Joe O'Leary

    "provide no warrant in logic for the conclusion that same-sex sexual activity is therefore a good as I am sure you are well aware." The new Vatican teaching, since 1986, is that the orientation itself

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  • General Meeting of ACI announced

    September 27 2012
    Association of Catholic Priests

    I wish to congratulate all concerned in the great work undertaken to date in establishing the Association of Catholics in Ireland. I fully support the Statement of Objectives. I feel strongly, however

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  • I am the youngest Kildare priest

    September 14 2012
    Sean (Derry)

    Raymond @ 16, can I take from your comments that you are not a Catholic and do not recognise Pope Benedict XVI as the Vicar of Christ, as the visible head of his Church on earth? It would help with fu

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