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

    April 14 2012
    Maureen Mulvaney

    Yes, Catherine, I fully agree with what you have said above Re: The churching of women. I too witnessed my mother going through the same ritual at that time. However, I wasn't as precocious as you wer

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  • Sean Fagan — a friend speaks out

    April 16 2012
    Michael Commane

    It is reported in today’s Irish Times that Fr Sean Fagan has been advised by Rome that if any word of their latest action against him reached the media he would be stripped of his priesthood. If thi

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  • Sean Fagan — a friend speaks out

    April 16 2012
    Joe O'Leary

    Let's hope the next pope will have the guts to declare that the Inquisition was a bad idea (in 2000 Card. Ratzinger gutted any critical purification of memory on that point, speaking instead of violen

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

    April 14 2012
    Gerard

    Fr Donnellan prayed that we 'be tolerant of those whose opinion or way of life is different from ours.'... .   Wait a minute !! ....  We must NOT tolerate a way of life that is sinful .  This is wh

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  • A Redemptorist writes from Brazil to support Tony

    April 16 2012
    Michael Commane

    It is reported in today's Irish Times that Fr Sean Fagan has been advised by Rome that if any word of their latest action against him reached the media he would be stripped of his priesthood. If this

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  • Sean Fagan — a friend speaks out

    April 16 2012
    Damien O'Dwyer

    Independent thought is alive and well. Those of us who are the Church need to take a stand in support of Priests who similarly have independence of thought - we don't necessarily need to agree with th

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  • Sean Fagan — a friend speaks out

    April 16 2012
    Fintan Sheerin

    I had the pleasure of meeting Sean some years ago at the launch of a book in Milltown. I spoke to him on a number of occasions. I have always been impressed by his unfailing drive for justice and righ

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  • Tony Flannery can wear the Holy Office-imposed Silentium badge with pride

    April 13 2012
    Eddie Finnegan

    Thank you all for your kind comments: Adrian, Paddy, Soline, Mary, Eileen. Looking forward to Soline's Rite & Reason tomorrow. Mary, I'm sure you're right about Christoph's going over the head of

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  • Sean Fagan — a friend speaks out

    April 16 2012
    Sheila McHugh

    I concur with everything that has been said above. If there is a good human rights lawyer who has read what appeared in yesterday's Sunday Times, then I suggest that the case of Sean Fagan be taken up

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

    April 14 2012
    A Rural Priest

    Catherine, did you read the text of the ceremony? As it is women themselves who go through the experience of childbirth and often had to stay away from church due to the physical demands of late pregn

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