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  • Seamus Ahearne OSA responds to the Visitors Report

    March 26 2012
    Mary O Vallely

    I cheered a little reading this simply because it echoes my own thoughts. "What kind of Church do we want to create?" asks Fr Seamus. I am reminded of Richard Rohr's advice "The best criticism of the

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  • Is our child protection system open to grave injustice?

    March 23 2012
    Sheila McHugh

    To follow on Jo Sullivan's piece. I cannot say it any better than this from Sr. Joan Chittester and published in this month's Spirituality Magazine. Details at end of article. "The Eucharist Dilemma

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  • Brendan Hoban on Apostolic Visitation findings

    March 21 2012
    Jo O'Sullivan

    “Theologians (and others) can propose their views as hypotheses to be considered and tested by other theologians and ultimately to be judged by those who have, within the Church, the solemn obligati

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  • Dave Pierre replies to Sean O Connaill’s critique

    March 19 2012
    DPierre

    Sean - Anyone can say they are "telling the truth." But what EVIDENCE does Rossetti have to back up what he's saying? (I find it curious that you did not ask him this.) Never was it Rossetti's job

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  • Brendan Hoban on Apostolic Visitation findings

    March 21 2012
    Kevin Walters

    Eddie, The Truth (sets us free) teaches us to see ourselves as we really are (I speak of myself here): sinful, broken and riddled with frailties. When we truly carry this image in our hearts we are hu

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  • Brendan Hoban on Apostolic Visitation findings

    March 21 2012
    Hierophilos

    Martin, I do not call the dogmas of the faith and the teachings of Holy Mother Church ‘teachings of our own making'. What I seek to challenge are those voices (the alternative magisterium) that do s

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  • Brief Response from the ACP to the Vatican document

    March 20 2012
    Margaret Lee

    Ah, now lads, don't go all soft. I bet there were other topics that you raised with the "visitors" (who invited themselves!) besides the ones mentioned. The report gives no indication that the churc

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  • Brendan Hoban on Apostolic Visitation findings

    March 21 2012
    Eddie Finnegan

    Martin, I'm sure you're misinterpreting Hierophilos. What was that Elizabeth Tudor said about not "making windows into men's hearts"? Maybe we should be content to be no more visitatorial than the vat

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  • Brendan Hoban on Apostolic Visitation findings

    March 21 2012
    Eddie Finnegan

    "Then the Lord appointed also other seventy and sent them two by two before his face, into every city and townland whither he himself was about to come." - Luke, 10. And I suppose into every virtual

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  • Is our child protection system open to grave injustice?

    March 23 2012
    Simmary

    Certainly in my experience in England our hierarchy (and some religious superiors) have not and still do not take sufficient care to investigate the reliability of complainant accusers. They listen,

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