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  • ‘Ireland’s Troublesome Priests’ feature on BBC Radio 4

    September 24 2012
    Eddie Finnegan

    As I listened to this programme over lunch yesterday I found it like the curate's egg (if we had curates or could afford the eggs), covering the field and state of play more or less for a wider 'Table

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  • Vatican process against Basque theologian continues

    September 17 2012
    John Lindsay

    As someone else has already commented, [it's] one of the most inspirational books on Jesus and the Reign of God I have ever read, and am still reading. I find myself reading lots of pages 2 or 3 times

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  • Complete a survey on the new Missal

    September 16 2012
    Sean (Derry)

    Hi Eddie, always enjoy your comments even though I often disagree with them. Sometimes I even have to use Google first to understand the ones that go over my head before I can disagree with them. God

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  • Complete a survey on the new Missal

    September 16 2012
    Eddie Finnegan

    Hi Sean. Almost missed your cappa magna crack. Thanks - nice to be remembered. Hope all's well in Stroke City and glad to hear Long Tower's surviving.

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  • Vatican process against Basque theologian continues

    September 17 2012
    Debbie

    I have never been able, to reconcile the image of the father in the prodigal son, with God the Father who demands our repayment of sin in Purgatory. Does anyone have an answer? I would really apprec

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  • Sin of clericalism is at heart of sexual abuse crisis

    September 18 2012
    Stephen Edward

    The link between a very high proportion of priests who are homosexual and sexual crime against, mainly, adolescent males by clergy has been clearly identified. This scandal is finally being faced and

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  • Shame over sexuality has blinded Church to sex abuse

    September 19 2012
    Paddy Banville

    We do have the John Jay Report (as far as I know the only scientific study to date), "The Causes and Context of Sexual Abuse of Minors by Catholic Priests in the United States, 1950 - 2010", by the Jo

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  • Sin of clericalism is at heart of sexual abuse crisis

    September 18 2012
    Paddy Banville

    Clericalism is such a vague description. I really don't understand the meaning of the word and at times I think its like an imaginary enemy! A malign version of the flying spagetti monster! Are the

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  • Vatican process against Basque theologian continues

    September 17 2012
    Joe O'Leary

    He's probably not saying anything more dramatic than this: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/derek-flood/did-jesus-die-to-save-us-from-god_b_1865020.html

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  • Shame over sexuality has blinded Church to sex abuse

    September 19 2012
    Joe O'Leary

    The mutual intrication of the "Catholic magisterium" and "Irish society" at that time is obviously so intimate and complex that it is no solution or clarification to talk of the magisterium "coming cl

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