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  • Sean Fagan — a friend speaks out

    April 16 2012
    Damien O'Dwyer

    Independent thought is alive and well. Those of us who are the Church need to take a stand in support of Priests who similarly have independence of thought - we don't necessarily need to agree with th

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  • Sean Fagan — a friend speaks out

    April 16 2012
    Fintan Sheerin

    I had the pleasure of meeting Sean some years ago at the launch of a book in Milltown. I spoke to him on a number of occasions. I have always been impressed by his unfailing drive for justice and righ

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  • Tony Flannery can wear the Holy Office-imposed Silentium badge with pride

    April 13 2012
    Eddie Finnegan

    Thank you all for your kind comments: Adrian, Paddy, Soline, Mary, Eileen. Looking forward to Soline's Rite & Reason tomorrow. Mary, I'm sure you're right about Christoph's going over the head of

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  • Sean Fagan — a friend speaks out

    April 16 2012
    Sheila McHugh

    I concur with everything that has been said above. If there is a good human rights lawyer who has read what appeared in yesterday's Sunday Times, then I suggest that the case of Sean Fagan be taken up

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  • A Tuam priest reacts to the treatment of Fr Tony Flannery

    April 14 2012
    A Rural Priest

    Catherine, did you read the text of the ceremony? As it is women themselves who go through the experience of childbirth and often had to stay away from church due to the physical demands of late pregn

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  • Sean Fagan — a friend speaks out

    April 16 2012
    Paddy Ferry

    I am absolutely shocked. And I agree completely with Seán eile, Pól, Eddie, Anne and Catherine above. I would also like to sincerely wish Seán Fegan peace. I have just, last week, finished reading

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  • A Tuam priest reacts to the treatment of Fr Tony Flannery

    April 14 2012
    catherine muldowney

    Reply to A Rural Priest. If churching of women was not a purification ceremony but a thanksgiving , why weren't new fathers churched as well? I remember asking my mother not to go through with it

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  • A Tuam priest reacts to the treatment of Fr Tony Flannery

    April 14 2012
    Margaret Power

    I read with sadness that Fr. Tony Flannery has been silenced. He speaks for many people and they cannot all be silenced. I doubt that he can be effectively silenced. Truth is very sacred and complex.

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  • Sean Fagan — a friend speaks out

    April 16 2012
    catherine muldowney

    I am deeply saddened by the silencing of certain Catholic priests in Ireland and elsewhere. It echoes the last Pope's silencing of all the well-known theologians, of the time, Hans Kung, Leonardo Bo

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  • A Tuam priest reacts to the treatment of Fr Tony Flannery

    April 14 2012
    ger gleeson.

    In a way Rome has done us Catholics a favour by silencing both Fr's Flannery and Moloney. They have woken us up from our slumbers. Roll on May 7th.

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