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  • Shame over sexuality has blinded Church to sex abuse

    September 19 2012
    Kevin

    Teacher sexuality and shame of same ? Since when did, do teachers, other than ordained clerics act 'In Peronna Chrisi' ? Sorry if I misunderstand you Gene. Not difficult on this thing. But a teacher

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  • I am the youngest Kildare priest

    September 14 2012
    Ger Gleeson.

    Clear and to the point Joe O Leary. Thank you.

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  • Sin of clericalism is at heart of sexual abuse crisis

    September 18 2012
    Mary O Vallely

    It's a very sweeping statement, Joe, to say that all families have experience of child abuse. Perhaps "many" or "some" but not all. It's almost as if the abuse is an accepted fact and that shocks me.

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  • I am the youngest Kildare priest

    September 14 2012
    Eric Conway

    Hans Kungs diagnoses are totally refutable. Are you suggesting that the Lutheran Minister who replied to him was making things up. The fact is that the " solutions " suggested by Hans Kung have alread

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  • I am the youngest Kildare priest

    September 14 2012
    Joe O'Leary

    I just read Küng's recent book "Ist die Kirche noch zu retten?" and I failed to find anything in it with which I could disagree. The irrefutability of his diagnoses is what drives his critics crazy,

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  • Vatican process against Basque theologian continues

    September 17 2012
    Joe O'Leary

    When good theologians are suppressed or discouraged their places are taken by mediocre pietists, with the result that Catholic theology as a whole deservedly loses esteem and becomes labeled as a sect

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  • Sin of clericalism is at heart of sexual abuse crisis

    September 18 2012
    Joe O'Leary

    I think every institution and family has experience of child abuse and of hushing it up. The vast discourse on clericalism now invented by the politically correct "experts" is a great example of mysti

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  • Shame over sexuality has blinded Church to sex abuse

    September 19 2012
    Joe O'Leary

    It is odd to call for an investigation when you already know the answers, and when anyone who doubts the answers is going to be discouraged from speaking up.

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  • I am the youngest Kildare priest

    September 14 2012
    Eric Conway

    While wishing all the best to Fr. Byrne, I would have to agree with Stephen Edward. One is reminded of the reply of a Lutheran Pastor to a lecture given by Hans Kung, in which the latter advocated mar

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  • Sin of clericalism is at heart of sexual abuse crisis

    September 18 2012
    Gene Carr

    This is an interesting and probably accurate indictment of the evils of clericalism. But the author has not shown how this clericalism has any causal connection with the abuse issue.

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