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  • Is our child protection system open to grave injustice?

    March 23 2012
    david

    So you would rather leave priests accused of abuse in place until all matters are concluded, would you? You have stated only a few complaints are false - which means that the majority of prests accus

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  • Is our child protection system open to grave injustice?

    March 23 2012
    Martin

    The best thing to do is preach about the sacredness of the Eucharist, the church etc... in a homily. You don't have to reach every fish but when you do, lots of fish will be listening who need to hear

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  • Brendan Hoban on Apostolic Visitation findings

    March 21 2012
    Hierophilos

    We must understand what dissent is before we accuse. The judgements of dissent that are handed down at the court of neo-con orthodoxy are fundamentally mis-informed, and these distract from the real p

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  • Brendan Hoban on Apostolic Visitation findings

    March 21 2012
    Shane

    "The world was ressured by Gaudium et Spes and all it stood for" And that is precisely the problem with Gaudium et Spes, "and all it stood for". The Gospel is not supposed to 'reassure' the world - qu

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  • Brendan Hoban on Apostolic Visitation findings

    March 21 2012
    Seminarian

    Joe, I agree the Council was a 'total' event. But to suggest the interpretation of the documents through the well fogged lens of culture is restrictive. The Council was an event of the Church Universa

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  • Brendan Hoban on Apostolic Visitation findings

    March 21 2012
    Eddie Finnegan

    Good to see everyone agrees that the inhabitants of Seminarialand have a right to a front door like the rest of us and that they don't have to leave it on the latch all night. But if a picture is wort

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  • Brendan Hoban on Apostolic Visitation findings

    March 21 2012
    Joe O'Leary

    Vatican II was a total event and its pallid documents, read without reference to context, cannot convey its full meaning. The world was ressured by Gaudium et Spes and all it stood for as it never had

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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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