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  • Shortage of priests is having drastic consequences

    September 5 2012
    Eddie Finnegan

    LP, indeed you're right. Now why didn't I know that when I have an old classmate priesting in Shrewsbury? And he's still doing funerals and requiem Masses!

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  • Why people fail to confront sexual abuse

    September 6 2012
    Eddie Finnegan

    @Kevin Walters and "The Little Yellow Book": Kevin, the question is not "Whatever happened to the Little Yellow Book" so much as Whatever happened to its main author/compiler, Fr Laurence Soper? Lon

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  • Why people fail to confront sexual abuse

    September 6 2012
    Sean O'Conaill

    What I take from Fr De Souza's article is that one cannot expect any institution to have complete moral integrity. So what happens then to an institution that claims (unlike any sporting organisation

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  • Why people fail to confront sexual abuse

    September 6 2012
    Gene Carr

    This is an interesting essay. It seems to me to illustrate the invasion of a subtle 'secularizing' tendency within the church from the 1960s onwards in dealing with the abuse of minors and children

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  • Why people fail to confront sexual abuse

    September 6 2012
    Mary Cunningham

    On reading and reflecting on this article by Fr. Raymond de Souza, I had an uneasy sense that it was a not so subtle attempt to diffuse and deflect clerical sexual abuse. This has been a tactic emplo

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  • Shortage of priests is having drastic consequences

    September 5 2012
    LP

    Sean (Derry) - I agree that the deacons might solve some of the problem. There are many cases in which a family might want to have an ordained minister conduct a funeral service but in which, beca

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  • Why people fail to confront sexual abuse

    September 6 2012
    Kevin Walters

    To contend means at times to confront, to fight. It is not easy. What could be more difficult to do than that in the cause of justice and right? We can feel that we are stepping away from God. But we

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  • 08 Sept (Saturday). The Birthday of Our Blessed Lady

    September 8 2012
    Kevin

    And Mary said: MAGNIFICAT My soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior; Because He has regarded the lowliness of His handmaid; for behold, henceforth all generations shall ca

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  • Update on AGM: November 9/10: Regency Hotel, Dublin

    August 30 2012
    Kevin

    And I'd suggest you start by taking your own advice and stop pandering to your ego. Leave the 'liaity lone. Had more than enough interference thank you very much. Prayer should be core to all, of cou

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  • Full text of Cardinal Martini’s interview shortly before he died.

    September 4 2012
    Mary O Vallely

    "Good people around me make me feel their love." What a blessing! I am so glad that Cardinal Martini was aware of this love before he left this earth. As I read this "Spiritual Testament" I thought o

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