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  • News for ACP members

    March 8 2012
    Peter O'Reilly

    I am glad to hear that the ACP is meeting with Ian Elliott to discuss the real concerns of priests as to the manner in which allegations against priests are handled. If you need a vision of how the pr

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  • The New Missal – Michael Commane OP

    January 10 2012
    Elizabeth Cleary

    Hi Fr Michael Two months have passed since the last comment on the New Missal, that's four months some of us are still struggling, still stumbling, still distracted by the unfamiliar words, still torn

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  • New Members of the Association

    March 2 2012
    Ned Quinn

    Just read the report from the Bishops' Spring Conference. No mention of their meeting with the ACP leadership. Maybe it's under "any other business"!

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  • New Members of the Association

    March 2 2012
    Paddy Ferry

    This is really great news and must reflect the ever-increasing importance with which the Association of Catholic Priests is regarded. It is a pity more ACP members do not contribute with their wisdom

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  • Moncrieff Show’s National Priest Survey 2012

    February 29 2012
    Sarah Flynn

    I hope you don't mind, but I would like to respond in very plain simple language expressing the views of a young Irish Catholic girl. I don't see why people, namely the media, are so fixated at trying

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  • The NCR applauds Sean McDonagh

    February 23 2012
    Eddie Finnegan

    Fr Seán McDonagh has a welcome in his 'Rite & Reason' article in today's Irish Times (6th March) for the Vatican's belated U-turn on its decades of support for civilian nuclear power for all coun

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  • Announcement of Assembly

    February 11 2012
    Denis McDonald

    Is this event open to anyone to attend? I don't think we have to change the world, but we must have some channel of communication from the ground up. The Holy Spirit working through good hearts will m

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  • Interim Guidance on Leave from Ministry

    March 2 2012
    Rory Connor

    Page 5: "As part of a risk management plan, the making of a public statement is a matter of necessity where the respondent remains resident in the parish/congregation." <> Why is this? If a lay school

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  • Trust between priest and bishop has been replaced by suspicion

    February 28 2012
    Rory Connor

    The above responses to Fr Gregory O'Brien's letter are a little bit obscure. Would anyone care to explain exactly why a priest would need a witness - or even a solicitor - if summoned to a meeting wit

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  • ACP Leadership meeting with bishops

    March 2 2012
    Eddie Finnegan

    For once I find myself agreeing with Kyle and Sean(Derry). That communiqué seems curiously lacking in words like "frank" and "robust". Or is that just because Colm O'Reilly and John Kirby are 'dacent

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