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  • Back to the cloister – Brendan Hoban

    January 21 2012
    Fr S Corkery

    Hi one and all, Can I try to make a positive suggestion. This stuff about Maynooth is like one of them "Chinese Whispers." We have gone from Michael Kelly to Noel Whelan to Fr Hoban and now others are

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  • Back to the cloister – Brendan Hoban

    January 21 2012
    Carol

    Like Eddie, I welcome the comments from "someone" who knows Maynooth.... The sooner we see the results/recommendations of the AV enquiry the better. At least we would have something concrete to look a

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  • Back to the cloister – Brendan Hoban

    January 21 2012
    Joseph O'Leary

    It sounds like the proposed changes at Maynooth are very slight. If the notion of "seminary" still has any meaning, one would think that a distinctive space for the seminary community and lifestyle is

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  • The New Missal – Michael Commane OP

    January 10 2012
    Joseph O'Leary

    The churches were not overflowing with the 1973 missal but it's a pretty sure prediction that they will be even less so with the soulless and styleless new translation. I used the new Eucharistic Pray

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  • Back to the cloister – Brendan Hoban

    January 21 2012
    Martin

    carol, my seminarian friend at maynooth welcomes this change. eileen - the maynooth seminary is these fella's home. everyone deserves peace in their own home. they shouldn't have to drive to a retreat

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  • The New Missal – Michael Commane OP

    January 10 2012
    Paul Burns

    "Canoodling couples", "lovely girls"?? This discussion sounds like the script from an episode of Father Ted. Thanks for the light hearted input everyone in these troubled times.

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  • Back to the cloister – Brendan Hoban

    January 21 2012
    Patrick Anthony

    As a seminarian, I would respectfully request that the writer inquire closer as to actual events in Maynooth rather than have his opinion handed to him by the speculators in the Irish Times. Further,

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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