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  • Shame over sexuality has blinded Church to sex abuse

    September 19 2012
    Mary O Vallely

    As usual, Sean O Conaill has hit the nail on the head and confronts us all with some painful truths. It is appalling that no study has been done on why and how clerical sexual abuse of children was al

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  • Complete a survey on the new Missal

    September 16 2012
    Chris McDonnell

    Paul, ouch! back to the holy comfort zone

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  • Complete a survey on the new Missal

    September 16 2012
    David Walsh

    I agree the new translation does not sound as if it was meant for reading aloud. I sometimes squirm for a priest trying to get his tongue around difficult words. After two attempts yesterday Fr. J gav

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  • Complete a survey on the new Missal

    September 16 2012
    Sean (Derry)

    Careful there Paul, the cappa magna is a bit of a sore point with Eddie. Good to hear you too value the recent changes in the liturgy. In Long Tower Church, here in Derry there is a increasing number

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  • I am the youngest Kildare priest

    September 14 2012
    Ger Gleeson.

    I personally have no interest in the seminaries being full. They were full in the 40s, 50s,and 60s and look where we are as a church today. Honesty and Integrity in both identifying and dealing with o

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  • Complete a survey on the new Missal

    September 16 2012
    Paul Andrew

    Mr O'Leary, they're personal perceptions. Growing up in the post-Vatican II Church, I nevertheless had a very clear feeling that the English translation of the Novus Ordo was sorely lacking, both in

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  • Complete a survey on the new Missal

    September 16 2012
    Joe O'Leary

    "the new translation is a great gift to the Church; the liturgy is immeasurably enhanced by its introduction" -- are these slogans or personal perceptions?

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  • Sin of clericalism is at heart of sexual abuse crisis

    September 18 2012
    M.P.Burns

    I have long believed that the time has come for the abolition of the clerical state in the Church. The mindset of too many among the clergy is revealed in the phrase "reduced to the laity". Of cours

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  • Vatican process against Basque theologian continues

    September 17 2012
    Jo Rider

    Many thanks for this. I have just ordered the book on Amazon. It was quite expensive but it sounds as though it will be worth every penny. So far every theologian I have come across thanks to the CDF

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  • Meeting about new lay umbrella group held

    September 13 2012
    David Walsh

    A good start. We really have to have patience Margaret. Last week at a Pastoral Conference on "Communion and Co-Responsibility in the Church" under the auspices of the Irish Bishops Conference, we hea

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