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  • The NCR applauds Sean McDonagh

    February 23 2012
    Joe O'Leary

    "If you don’t want more children, then you either abstain, or else you practise NFP " or else you use some form of artificial contraception.

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  • The NCR applauds Sean McDonagh

    February 23 2012
    Martin

    People can control themselves, can't they? If you don't want more children, then you either abstain, or else you practise NFP - if you've a good reason not to have more kids. I get fed up hearing abou

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  • The NCR applauds Sean McDonagh

    February 23 2012
    Sean (Derry)

    Fr Joe, did the 'Catholic propaganda against contraception' ever suggest that the solution or answer to poverty was NFP? I have however, heard many others suggest that if we can get rid of the poorest

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  • Back to the cloister – Brendan Hoban

    January 21 2012
    Sean (Derry)

    Eddie, a very logical explanation by Msgr Hugh Connolly but conspiracy theories are much more interesting.

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  • PRIME TIME INVESTIGATES GETS AWARD!!

    February 11 2012
    Joe O'Leary

    Michael Commane, where is your sense of justice? The TV program blackened a man's name and was publicly found to have done so. You see no problem with that?

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  • The NCR applauds Sean McDonagh

    February 23 2012
    Joe O'Leary

    Part of the Catholic propaganda against contraception is that the population explosion is a myth. In the Philippines, which is in the throes of a huge population explosion, the bishops see under their

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  • Back to the cloister – Brendan Hoban

    January 21 2012
    Eddie Finnegan

    As a postscript and in the interests of balance, perhaps Maynooth President Msgr Hugh Connolly's reply (20 Feb) to the NCR article by Eugene Kennedy should appear here also. The original was linked to

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  • The NCR applauds Sean McDonagh

    February 23 2012
    Eddie Finnegan

    The saddest aspect of this whole issue is not something we can just blame "the bishops" or even "Rome" for. At least the Irish Bishops' Conference 'showed willing' in 2009 with "The Cry of the Earth"

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  • The NCR applauds Sean McDonagh

    February 23 2012
    Sean (Derry)

    "... the whole population issue. You can’t discuss it, you can’t raise it at all.” What does that mean?

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  • The NCR applauds Sean McDonagh

    February 23 2012
    Mary O Vallely

    To think that Fr Sean could have been lost to canon law! (and I am in agreement with Mr Bumble the Beadle's opinion on the law} The culture of blind obedience in the Catholic Church mystifies me. No d

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