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  • Vatican process against Basque theologian continues

    September 17 2012
    Dairne Mc Henry

    I have been reading Pagola's book over recent weeks. It is one of the few books I have ever read which has really made Jesus come alive for me. I am greatly looking forward to finishing it, so that I

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  • Why people fail to confront sexual abuse

    September 6 2012
    Kevin

    I have wondered what justice meant - more punishment. God makes all things new. May justice prevail and mercy see renewal of all in all. God please help us trust again and bring to being the beginning

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  • I am the youngest Kildare priest

    September 14 2012
    Kevin

    God bless you Paddy. You are a light in darkness. I will pray for you. I know none of you have easy vocations. Mary asks we pray for you all and that is enough for me. You take care of you too and d

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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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