Comments

All recent Comments

  • Back to the cloister – Brendan Hoban

    January 21 2012
    Thomas Doyle, O.P.,

    Brendan Hoban is right on target. I didn't go to Maynooth but his description matches religious and diocesan seminaries throughout Europe, Canada and the U.S. The small cadre of hierarchs and priest

    Read more 46 comments
  • David Quinn congratulates Fr Kevin Reynolds and the ACP

    November 18 2011
    Mick Leahy

    I would like to express my gratitude to the ACP for their support of Fr Reynolds. It was obviously a Gracious act. I think it goes without saying that supporters of this position are like-minded follo

    Read more 15 comments
  • Back to the cloister – Brendan Hoban

    January 21 2012
    Eddie Finnegan

    As one who spent four or five years as part of that last cohort of the "old Maynooth" (1961-68), I have at times regretted missing out on "Maynooth of the transition", the years of Brendan, Joe O'Lear

    Read more 46 comments
  • Back to the cloister – Brendan Hoban

    January 21 2012
    Jhn Shuster

    More cloister = more secrecy and less accountability. Do Catholics want to keep funding more of the same?

    Read more 46 comments
  • The New Missal – Michael Commane OP

    January 10 2012
    Sean (Derry)

    David, so why were the Churches not overflowing prior to the recent changes in the missal?

    Read more 37 comments
  • The New Missal – Michael Commane OP

    January 10 2012
    Martin

    I don't think so David, any more than the churches where they say my beloved 1962 missal are overflowing. I don't think people care very much about the 1973 missal. I certainly don't think the old Col

    Read more 37 comments
  • Back to the cloister – Brendan Hoban

    January 21 2012
    Martin

    I remember my own time at uni (about 4 years ago) and I recall that we shared an IT suite with immature young people. So we were in our twenties, at uni, trying to study and revise for exams, and thes

    Read more 46 comments
  • Back to the cloister – Brendan Hoban

    January 21 2012
    Marianne

    One unmentioned difference between Fr Hoban's Maynooth and the seminary of today: then there were about 500 seminarians, now it's more like 50. The formation system of recent decades just isn't workin

    Read more 46 comments
  • Back to the cloister – Brendan Hoban

    January 21 2012
    Eileen

    Thank you, Brendan, for the above. The seminarians, if there are any, can only be impoverished by being deprived of the spiritual insights and wisdom of the vast student population. This proposed move

    Read more 46 comments
  • Back to the cloister – Brendan Hoban

    January 21 2012
    Carol

    Thanks for this article Brendan, and particularly for sharing your experience of life in Maynooth seminary in the '60's ... The current reforms raises two questions for me..... 1 ) Did the apostolic v

    Read more 46 comments

Categories