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  • Back to the cloister – Brendan Hoban

    January 21 2012
    Mary Burke

    Manly courage is more exclusion of women.

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  • Back to the cloister – Brendan Hoban

    January 21 2012
    Martin

    Paddy, today the Gospel has the same power it had in the beginning. What is needed is a supernatural outlook which can be nothing but hopeful, joyful, and zealous. Times of crisis in the Church are ti

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  • Christmas Cookies Recipe (revised translation)

    December 20 2011
    Brian

    Shouldn't there be a cautionary note to not overcook the cookies, lest they be greatly burned through your fault, through your fault, through your most grievous fault?

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  • Back to the cloister – Brendan Hoban

    January 21 2012
    Eileen

    My comments (11, above) referred, not so much to buildings, as to the symbolic separation and the patriarchy that it would inevitably engender. This would foster the 'bizarre clerical sub-culture,' me

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  • Back to the cloister – Brendan Hoban

    January 21 2012
    Martin

    I've just read that Eugene Cullen Kennedy article in NCR and I'm a poorer man for it. What a dreadful article with horrible aspersions cast at the end concerning today's seminarians in Maynooth. Shame

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  • Back to the cloister – Brendan Hoban

    January 21 2012
    Paddy Ferry

    Fr. Corkery, how can anybody who cares deeply about the importance of proclaiming the Gospel feel any sense of "zeal, joy and enthusiasm" in today's Catholic Church, in Ireland or anywhere else?

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  • Back to the cloister – Brendan Hoban

    January 21 2012
    Spencer

    If the 'open' system created the modernist, anti-Pope, anti-Church priests we have in so many numbers today, then let's get back to something else and fast.

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  • Back to the cloister – Brendan Hoban

    January 21 2012
    Eileen

    This is a lighter, 'Down Memory Lane' kind of contribution. In response to Seminarian's question (24) above, I stayed in Maynooth for some summer courses run by the Irish Church Music Association. I a

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  • Back to the cloister – Brendan Hoban

    January 21 2012
    Carol

    Sincere thanks to the seminarians and to those familiar with Maynooth who took the time to respond to my questions. I'm relieved to hear that you are not all enclosed in a "prison" like environment as

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  • The New Missal – Michael Commane OP

    January 10 2012
    Michael Commane

    In the 'General Instruction of the Missal' paragraph 135 'reader' is spelled with a lower case 'r' but 'priest' is spelled with an upper case 'p'. Why? 'Homily' is with upper case 'h' but 'cantor' wi

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