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  • Quo Vadis? — Mary McAleese speaks

    September 29 2012
    Sean Mac Giolla Domhnaigh

    @Gene It takes quite a leap of imagination to compare the vatican on homosexuality to the prophets of Israel or Jesus. As the proverb states: Ní dhéanfaidh an saol capall ráis as asal.'

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  • General Meeting of ACI announced

    September 27 2012
    Joe O'Leary

    Mel, Vatican II talks of the infallibility of the kingdom of God -- do they mean the infallibility of sheep who keep silent or do they mean a chorus of voices expressing Christian truth in rich harmon

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  • What Archbishop Martin thinks of the ACP

    September 24 2012
    Joe O'Leary

    The Archbishop's reported remark sounds like the quintessence of touchy, defensive clericalism. I hope the good nature and common sense of the ordinary faithful and their ministers can overcome this m

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  • Quo Vadis? — Mary McAleese speaks

    September 29 2012
    Joe O'Leary

    "the mere spirit of the age" -- we heard that before about slavery, interest on loans, closing the Spanish Inquisition, respecting freedom of conscience and freedom of religion. The Vatican is isolate

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  • Quo Vadis? — Mary McAleese speaks

    September 29 2012
    Gene Carr

    I found this interview disappointing in that McAleese's responses were so utterly predictable and strictly within a circumscribed range of "approved and accepted opinions" --as applauded and echoed by

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  • What Archbishop Martin thinks of the ACP

    September 24 2012
    Kate Kerrigan

    People like me are still attending mass for one reason. The kind of kind practical, courageous priests represented (at last!) by the ACP. We go DESPITE clericIsm, not because of it. Disingenuous comme

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  • 30 September. 26th Sunday in Ordinary Time.

    September 30 2012
    Ger Gleeson.

    Fr Da Casta, Cead Mile Failte (Welcome). As a lay member of the ACP, I hope you find happiness and comfort within your new family.

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  • General Meeting of ACI announced

    September 27 2012
    Mel

    I feel the following "the consequent right of all the baptised to have their voices heard (Sensus Fidelium) in the formation of church teaching" is an odd statement, as if the Church makes up its teac

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  • Quo Vadis? — Mary McAleese speaks

    September 29 2012
    Pádraig McCarthy

    The book, Quo Vadis, by Mary McAleese, is about Collegiality in the Code of Canon Law (168 pages). (It does not deal with homosexuality - this topic was introduced by Pat Kenny in the interview.) It's

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  • Vatican process against Basque theologian continues

    September 17 2012
    Debbie

    Sean (Derry) # 40 Sean, I think that maybe we have been given a mis-understanding of Who goes to Purgatory. What if Purgatory is in fact a gift from God,or a kindness if you will, where the people who

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