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  • First Sunday of Lent — Prayers of the Faithful etc

    February 26 2012
    Matthew O'Hora

    I would just like to note that the New Translation of the Mass clearly states that the response to the Prayer of the faithful should be Priest: Let us Pray to the Lord. People: Lord, hear our Prayer.

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  • PRIME TIME INVESTIGATES GETS AWARD!!

    February 11 2012
    Margaret Lee

    I think that Michael (No 9) is getting the issues a bit mixed up. In my opinion, there is no necessary connetion between the payment of our household charge (and impending property tax) and the Prime

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  • The NCR applauds Sean McDonagh

    February 23 2012
    Wendy Murphy

    Eddie, in your post 3. above, you ask where we camp-followers have been on Creation/Ecology Social Justice etc. It's true that I, at least, only came across this site last Autumn because of despondenc

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  • The NCR applauds Sean McDonagh

    February 23 2012
    Eddie Finnegan

    Martin, "Am I being too harsh?" you ask. Well, in comparison, the Vatican Council's 'Gaudium et Spes' with its insistence on the dignity of the 'conjugal pact and act' and 'the various values and purp

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  • The NCR applauds Sean McDonagh

    February 23 2012
    Mary O Vallely

    I have an image of Christ walking through the shanty towns of the world, watching children competing with the rats and flies as they scavenge for food, parents desperate to know how they will feed th

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  • The NCR applauds Sean McDonagh

    February 23 2012
    Joe O'Leary

    Sean, the Catholic bishops in the Philippines do suggest that NFP is the answer, and even made excommunicatory noises against politicians who proposed distributing artificial contraception. Margaret S

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  • The NCR applauds Sean McDonagh

    February 23 2012
    Joe O'Leary

    "If you don’t want more children, then you either abstain, or else you practise NFP " or else you use some form of artificial contraception.

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  • The NCR applauds Sean McDonagh

    February 23 2012
    Martin

    People can control themselves, can't they? If you don't want more children, then you either abstain, or else you practise NFP - if you've a good reason not to have more kids. I get fed up hearing abou

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  • The NCR applauds Sean McDonagh

    February 23 2012
    Sean (Derry)

    Fr Joe, did the 'Catholic propaganda against contraception' ever suggest that the solution or answer to poverty was NFP? I have however, heard many others suggest that if we can get rid of the poorest

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  • Back to the cloister – Brendan Hoban

    January 21 2012
    Sean (Derry)

    Eddie, a very logical explanation by Msgr Hugh Connolly but conspiracy theories are much more interesting.

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