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  • Brendan Hoban on Apostolic Visitation findings

    March 21 2012
    Seminarian

    Brendan, finally someone has arrived at the conclusion that the doors in Maynooth are geared towards privacy. In an ever-expanding campus it is a great addition to be able to go to one's own quarters

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  • Brief Response from the ACP to the Vatican document

    March 20 2012
    Seminarian

    We would all like to see the full report being published; but on reflection what will it achieve? However, if one eighth of the recommendations are implemented, it might not be a waste of time. Let us

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  • Brief Response from the ACP to the Vatican document

    March 20 2012
    Peter O'Reilly

    As Garry O'Sullivan, the editor of the Irish Catholic, suggested this week the devil in this report is in the detail, the detailed information on every Diocese, every Bishop in Ireland, information wh

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  • Brendan Hoban writes on the ACP’s May gathering

    March 14 2012
    David Walsh

    It is quite natural for our clergy to be despondent at times, even to show little signs of despair. I hate to see that in any priest. It's as if he has the whole weight of his church on his shoulders.

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  • Brief Response from the ACP to the Vatican document

    March 20 2012
    Con Carroll

    Well said Adrian. This nonsense about dissent from offical guide lines: we live in 2012. People do have a right to express their views on so-called controversial areas, such as the Virgin birth, the

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  • Brief Response from the ACP to the Vatican document

    March 20 2012
    Gail

    Perhaps ACP might enquire as to why the full report is not being released. If this is part of the Vatican's blueprint for the future of the Irish church, should it not be made public?

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  • Dave Pierre replies to Sean O Connaill’s critique

    March 19 2012
    Paddy Ferry

    What really baffles me, having read Dave Pierre's response to Sean O'Conaill's critique,is how someone like Mgr.Stephen Rossetti whose "crediblity is seriously questionable" -- (I am quoting Dave Pier

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  • Brief Response from the ACP to the Vatican document

    March 20 2012
    Adrian Egan

    Extraordinary! Truly extraordinary!! I'm having a 'the Emperor's got no clothes' moment! Think about this for a moment.... a high powered delegation of vatican appointed investigators, accompanied by

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  • Brief Response from the ACP to the Vatican document

    March 20 2012
    Seminarian

    I must commend the Association in this matter. This is an issue that needs addressing. If the Association keeps it aims with the confines of such - many seminarians, myself included, would be keen to

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  • Thoughts on leadership: how solitude helps a leader

    March 20 2012
    Eddie Finnegan

    "Solitude - concentration - introspection - leadership" I think William Deresiewicz might agree that provision for a bit of 'productive solitude' might be an even more essential daily staple for semin

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