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  • Brendan Hoban on responses to the ACP survey

    April 19 2012
    Elaine O'Neill

    I am baffled by David's response here and don't think he makes a credible argument. As a reader or listener when I hear or read his thoughts on issues, I do so, seeing them, as coming from him in all

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  • Brendan Hoban on responses to the ACP survey

    April 19 2012
    joannes sacredotus

    Well said Jim Stack!!! Veritas Libera Vos.

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  • The Catholic Church is in deep crisis. Nessan Vaughan

    April 19 2012
    Fintan Sheerin

    Thanks Nessa for a very though-provoking piece. I totally support what you have written. You mention the effect on young people. I was leader of a youth choir in St. Augustines in Drogheda for about 1

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  • THE EUCHARISTIC CONGRESS IN DUBLIN, JUNE 2012

    April 19 2012
    Mary O Vallely

    "Christians must achieve communion on Rome’s terms before we can have communion on Christ’s terms." Wow! Hadn't thought of it like that.Takes me back to this morning's Reading where Peter says tha

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  • Brendan Hoban on responses to the ACP survey

    April 19 2012
    Jim Stack

    I would love to be as optimistic as Fr Hoban about the future of the Irish Church, but the emergence of the ACP with this large number of members, and the results of the ACP survey (which I see no rea

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  • Brendan Hoban on responses to the ACP survey

    April 19 2012
    Margaret Lee

    I acknowledge David Quinn's assertion that, when he writes for the Irish Independent, he is not writing as a member of the Iona Institute. However, I have heard Dr. Patricia Casey speaking on radio t

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  • THE EUCHARISTIC CONGRESS IN DUBLIN, JUNE 2012

    April 19 2012
    Pól

    Now there's a challenge for the Congress and all those associated with it. . I thought the non-real-presence eucharist as a ceremony in which non Roman Catholics could participate was a disgusting and

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  • THE EUCHARISTIC CONGRESS IN DUBLIN, JUNE 2012

    April 19 2012
    Sean O'Conaill

    I wish I could read this, and that the author understood the need for way-stages called paragraphs - to rest the eye and the mind and make reading a little bit less like climbing the north-face of the

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  • Brendan Hoban on responses to the ACP survey

    April 19 2012
    David Quinn

    Quick response to Fr Hoban's article. When I write in The Irish Independent it is not as director of The Iona Institute. The Iona Institute didn't comment on the survey at all nor did we take to the a

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  • A Tuam priest reacts to the treatment of Fr Tony Flannery

    April 14 2012
    Padraic King

    I am saddened to read that Frs Tony Flannery and Gerard Moloney have been 'silenced'. I just wish to offer them my support at this difficult time. The Church which I believe in is founded on the Comma

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