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  • A Response to the news about Tony Flannery

    April 6 2012
    Tom Finnigan

    I've been re-reading Luke's Acts of the Apostles. I'm encouraged by the number of times Paul gets into trouble. In Thessalonika, he and Silas annoyed the religious establishment so much that citizens

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  • A Response to the news about Tony Flannery

    April 6 2012
    MM

    The quote of a young Catholic in posting No. 56 above is both appalling and worrying if indeed it is as typical as Fr Egan suggests. Clericalism, sectarianism and sexism, all embraced in one short sta

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  • A Response to the news about Tony Flannery

    April 6 2012
    Seminarian II (aka Gearóid Mary)

    Joe, I was referring to the dialogue that is going on at the bottom. The kind that rises like damp and over times does untold damage. A certain event in May is indicative of this. Why is there a desi

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  • ACP expresses solidarity with Fr Tony Flannery

    April 9 2012
    Catherine E Walshe

    I wish you every success in implementing The Second Vatican Council and want to congratulate you on your humanitarian and brave support of Fr. Flannery. God bless. 84 year old great-grandmother.

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  • We cannot lose heart, writes Seamus Ahearne

    April 8 2012
    Noirin

    Hi Jim, I'm a traditional Catholic too, also not a priest. Ive come to almost the exact opposite conclusion. These men's committment (even when I disagree with the argument) gives me hope! The reason

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  • ACP expresses solidarity with Fr Tony Flannery

    April 9 2012
    Noirin

    Well said. No mention though of Enda's speech. Surely that's the fear McVerry speaks of, of clergy agreeing publically with criticism of Rome. If Tony Flannery was to be silenced for speaking on the o

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  • We cannot lose heart, writes Seamus Ahearne

    April 8 2012
    Brendan McCarthy

    Jim Stack cannot say that he and those who think like him speak for the "stickers rather than the quitters". Most life-long Catholics would differ sharply.

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  • A Response to the news about Tony Flannery

    April 6 2012
    Pól

    You really have to try and keep a sense of humour in the midst of this turbulence, even if only for a few seconds at a time, in order to stay sane and control your anger. . I read in the current issue

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  • We cannot lose heart, writes Seamus Ahearne

    April 8 2012
    Jim Stack

    I am a traditional Catholic, not a priest. I logged on to your website after reading Patsy McGarry in today's Irish Times. It is obvious from the contributions posted so far that many priests feel a d

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  • We cannot lose heart, writes Seamus Ahearne

    April 8 2012
    Soline Humbert

    The first session of "Towards An Assembly Of The Irish Church" on May 7th is "NAMING THE REALITY". The censorship of the REALITY magazine is now part of this Reality: Secretive,abusive,oppressive and

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