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  • Email received re New Missal

    February 7 2012
    Mary Burke

    Fr Sean Coyle, no one is objecting to change per se. It's the inferior quality of the changed translation and deficient English syntax which is objectionable. Secondly, because fewer people were consu

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  • Email received re New Missal

    February 7 2012
    Joe O'Leary

    The weak spot in the old translation was the preces (collect, etc.), which were excellently translated in 1998 and dumped by the Vatican, a spiritual loss to English-speaking Catholics over the last 1

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  • Kevin Myers on Church & State in Ireland today

    February 14 2012
    Shane

    This man's idiocy never ceases to astonish me. Ireland was never 'ruled' by the Church. Politicians in the past implemented Catholic inspired legislation because that's what the voters wanted at the t

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  • Announcement of Assembly

    February 11 2012
    Eddie Finnegan

    A Phádraig, sincere thanks for linking to this HyperStack project on the Confessio. A source of sources that raises 'synoptic' to a whole new level. Surely Patrick's opening lines are the best argume

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  • Email received re New Missal

    February 7 2012
    Mary O Vallely

    I think we have moved far away from the original question which was what do we say to older parishoners who are afraid of getting the responses wrong. This wasn't supposed to be a rant against either

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  • Email received re New Missal

    February 7 2012
    Martin

    Fr Joe, you said: ''God was very angry with people who laid unnecessary burdens on the little ones, and who falsified the language of prayer turning it into battalogia '' Too right! The old translati

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  • Email received re New Missal

    February 7 2012
    Joe O'Leary

    "God isn't too worried about our difficulty in adjusting" -- which being translated means, quit groaning and get with the program! But we do know that God was very angry with people who laid unnecessa

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  • Email received re New Missal

    February 7 2012
    Martin

    Mary O'V - you make old people sound right helpless. I know many's a feisty old lady who could teach me a thing or too. I just haven't met these helpless old folks you seem to run into, filled as they

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  • PRIME TIME INVESTIGATES GETS AWARD!!

    February 11 2012
    Paddy Ferry

    Eddie, once again you are spot on. I am so pleased that you have the time to contribute as frequently as you do. And you are the essence of wisdom and common sense.

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  • Email received re New Missal

    February 7 2012
    Margaret Lee

    Fr. Sean Coyle, I suppose I should accept your lecture but I am afraid that I have not reached that level of humility. Many members of the parish with whom I celebrate the Eucharist have told me tha

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