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  • Challenges for Priestly Ministry in Ireland Today: Marie Keenan

    October 6 2011
    Joseph O'Leary

    Surely Marie Keenan is the best commentator on the Irish Church today. Her command of objective, scientific reasoning brings a healing perspective to bear on the murkiest situations and her suggestion

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  • Priestly Ministry Today, An insider’s view: Kevin Hegarty

    October 6 2011
    Joseph O'Leary

    If all this is true, and it seems to be -- I felt that torpidity as long ago as 1977 --, then what is to be done? Creative, independent initiative, open discussion, a church that is dialogal, explorat

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  • Two ACP members reflect on the AGM

    October 6 2011
    Joseph O'Leary

    The AIP now come across as a more dynamic group than the bishops, and certainly as more capable of organizing the national Assembly Fr Stanley calls for. There was a national assembly of British Catho

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  • Priestly Ministry Today, An insider’s view: Kevin Hegarty

    October 6 2011
    Eamonn Keane

    Most of what I have read in reports on proceedings from the ACP’s recent annual conference paints a very negative picture of the quality of life for priests in Ireland today. This image of priestho

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  • Priestly Ministry Today, An insider’s view: Kevin Hegarty

    October 6 2011
    Paul Burns

    Bravo, magnificent. Keep up the good work. 'There is nothing to fear but fear itself'.

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  • RTE Apology to Kevin Reynolds

    October 6 2011
    Bernadette

    This is an extraordinary case - an injustice that must ring bells of horror and fear for every priest in the country. One can only imagine what Fr Kevin, his family and his parishioners must have expe

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  • Priestly Ministry Today, An insider’s view: Kevin Hegarty

    October 6 2011
    Martin

    ''The Church’s official theology of sexuality fails to resonate with the actual experience of human intimacy. Most Catholic couples ignore Humanae Vitae’s prohibition on contraception. '' I'm not

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  • RTE Apology to Kevin Reynolds

    October 6 2011
    Rory Connor

    This is a brilliant result for Father Reynolds (and congrats to the Association as well). I hope it will be a turning point in the saga of allegations against priests and religious made decades after

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  • RTE Apology to Kevin Reynolds

    October 6 2011
    Martin

    I think Veneranda and Sheila have a bit of explaining to do. Criminal prosecutions should be brought against them if they wilfully made false allegations, for that would be a crime and a grave sin.

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  • Minutes of the Business Meeting at the AGM

    October 5 2011
    Gerard Flynn

    Congratulations to all involved in the organizing of the AGM and for providing members and the church in general with a vision and hope for the next stage! Some ecumenical contact both at an organisat

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