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  • Priests are under unique and damaging pressures today

    November 16 2012
    Kevin's

    Thanks for sharing that Gerry. One thing I'd thought about in the past, that victims/survivors of abuse and those clerics so abused by wrong claims share so much that they might actually support each

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  • Priests are under unique and damaging pressures today

    November 16 2012
    Paul Walsh

    Thanks for your honesty, Gerry. As one who has recently returned from Australia, I am finding it distressing to see family and friends following the secular agenda with little reference to God. The Au

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  • Priests are under unique and damaging pressures today

    November 16 2012
    Joe O'Leary

    Good article; but why single out for opprobrium those who left the priesthood? They may have been led by the Spirit. And the Pope's performance at Ballybrit was a far more superficial event than peopl

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  • Don’t deny the chalice to the laity!

    November 12 2012
    Soline Humbert

    I personally know a parish in the Dublin Diocese (2 churches) where the congregation partakes from the chalice at all Masses, Sunday and weekdays. If it is possible there, it is possible everywhere: w

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  • Don’t deny the chalice to the laity!

    November 12 2012
    Rosaline

    It is very refreshing to read Patrick’s positive, inspirational contribution to this discussion. I love his account of how he celebrates daily Liturgy in his parish. (Lucky parishioners!) It speak

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  • Don’t deny the chalice to the laity!

    November 12 2012
    ellen

    Rosaline, I read your prophetic article, "Don't deny the Chalice to the Laity." Thank you for pleading with Church Leadership to catechize the Laity in Liturgy. It saddened me to know that people are

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  • People in power in the Church should ask themselves ‘Could I be wrong?’

    November 12 2012
    Jo O'Sullivan

    Thank you to each of you who has responded to my posting. I have to smile when reading them because even in nine comments it’s so clear that we have differing realities! Con D, thank you for wanting

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  • Don’t deny the chalice to the laity!

    November 12 2012
    Catherine

    Heartiest congratulations Rosaline for raising this most important issue for us, the laity. I find your article speaks eloquently and expresses so well what many of us yearn for. I have often wondere

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  • Who do the Irish bishops think they are?

    November 6 2012
    Con Devree

    Kathleen, thank you for your good wishes. I was merely quoting from Acts 2:42 "teaching of the apostles"

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  • Don’t deny the chalice to the laity!

    November 12 2012
    Peter Stobart

    Please forgive me if I am a bit slow of the mark, but I cannot see how much of what Kevin says relates to what Rosaline originally wrote. Can you enlighten me Kevin? Thank you!

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