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  • Message to the priests of Cloyne from Rory Connor

    August 14 2011
    Mary Burke

    Father Gabriel, if the tone of your communication from your pulpit to your parishoners resembles in any way the inappropriate tone of your reply to Rory, I'd imagine that communication is scant, terse

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  • Message to the priests of Cloyne from Rory Connor

    August 14 2011
    Rory Connor

    Father Gabriel A couple of years before the Ryan Report was published, I spoke with a leading member of a religious congregation hoping to getting her to make some sort of statement about the evil all

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  • Response to Vincent Twomey by Brendan Hoban

    August 5 2011
    Patrick Downey

    A minor observation from a non-Catholic: "I don't wish to be unkind to Fr Twomey..." Of course the author wishes to be unkind to Fr Twomey - I read the rest of the paragraph. Why can't Christian clerg

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  • Message to the priests of Cloyne from Rory Connor

    August 14 2011
    Fr Gabriel Burke

    Rory, I find your rant presumptuous. Do you think that the only way we communicate with our parishioners is from the pulpit. This is Cloyne, a rural Diocese, we meet our parishioners everyday in a va

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  • Message to the priests of Cloyne from Rory Connor

    August 14 2011
    Rory Connor

    I am afraid that the response from priests here tends to confirm my view that the clergy will do nothing and simply allow the media to vent their hatred. The fact that Judge Murphy used a key chapter

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  • Message to the priests of Cloyne from Rory Connor

    August 14 2011
    Anthony J. Butler

    Gabriel, I am indeed happy that you have received such support. I thank Tim for his wise pastoral approach. That nourishment of suppport is so necessary. Reading the words of the antropologist Ma

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  • Message to the priests of Cloyne from Rory Connor

    August 14 2011
    Mary Burke

    Father Gabriel, of course you have every right to hold that view and to express it. It strikes me as quite narrow-minded, and if you'll pardon the pun, parochial. The analogy of family breaks down imm

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  • Message to the priests of Cloyne from Rory Connor

    August 14 2011
    Fr Gabriel Burke

    Liam, I for one would not have been comfortable discussing these matters with priests from outside the Diocese. I have great respect for the C&R Clergy, having worked with many over the years but

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  • Message to the priests of Cloyne from Rory Connor

    August 14 2011
    Liam Kelleher

    I am sure that like me, most of my fellow clergy are still in a state of shock since the publicatin of the Cloyne report. The only major source of support and concern for our welfare and feelings, as

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  • Message to the priests of Cloyne from Rory Connor

    August 14 2011
    Tim Hazelwood

    As a priest of the diocese of Cloyne I wish to respond to comments made by Rory especially as he tells us how we should have responded after the publication of the report. These views are my own and I

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