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  • ACP expresses solidarity with Fr Tony Flannery

    April 9 2012
    MARY O'MAHONY

    I was delighted to hear Fr. Sean McDonagh earlier on radio. I have never heard Fr. Tom Flannery preach, but my friends who have were positively impressed by his sincerity and genuine belief in th

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  • ACP expresses solidarity with Fr Tony Flannery

    April 9 2012
    Val

    I stumbled upon this website after reading articles in the Independent and Irish Times. I thought the likes of Patsy McGarry and RTE's left, liberal stance were the Catholic church's main critics, how

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  • Tony Butler laments the “silencing” of Tony Flannery

    April 9 2012
    JeannieGuzman

    Val: Living in Ireland for about 200 years was the closest thing to living in a theocracy that one could imagine. Just look at the horrors that have arisen out of that collective experience for the I

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  • Rome’s intervention is a sign of fear – Peter McVerry

    April 9 2012
    Sean MacArdhail

    I am deeply shocked, saddened and disgusted at the Church hierarchy's treatment of two of the finest priests in service of Ireland today - Tony Flannery & Gerry Moloney. I am a practicing Catholic

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  • ACP expresses solidarity with Fr Tony Flannery

    April 9 2012
    Soline Humbert

    Here are some pertinent comments on the issue of silencing in the church,from a presentation by Sr Jeannine Grammick (herself a victim of that unjust treatment). "The Second General Assembly of the 19

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  • Rome’s intervention is a sign of fear – Peter McVerry

    April 9 2012
    Christine Gilsen

    Seminarian II, a good example of how the magisterium is allowing fear to block the gifts of the Spirit is the implementation of Canon 129 which excludes decision making by lay people. It is worth noti

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  • ACP expresses solidarity with Fr Tony Flannery

    April 9 2012
    Brian de Búrca

    I am a priest and religious. I have not worked in Ireland since 1983, but for a long time I have admired Fr Tony Flannery, and had great hopes for the Irish Catholic Church when the Association of Ca

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  • ACP expresses solidarity with Fr Tony Flannery

    April 9 2012
    Padraic

    I offer this to demonstrate my solidarity with Fr. Tony Flannery and with all others in a similar position of seeking ... There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said th

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  • ACP expresses solidarity with Fr Tony Flannery

    April 9 2012
    Lee Cahill SMA

    I accept that Pope Benedict is our present day successor of Peter Simon bar Jonah. But I can't leave it just like that. Benedict does share with Peter in a Jesus-given authority. But look: Peter was

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  • A Response to the news about Tony Flannery

    April 6 2012
    Margaret Lyng

    I am very upset and angry that Fr. Tony Flannery has been silenced. The Reality magazine is just a waste of space from here on in. Regarding women priests to quote Dr. Hampson in the letter page of to

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