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  • Email received re New Missal

    February 7 2012
    seán eile

    Isn't there something 'unbiblical' about this policy of 'one size fits all' for the english liturgy. To my understanding we have FOUR gospels because our forebearers in the faith weren't interested in

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  • Email received re New Missal

    February 7 2012
    Soline Humbert

    Talking about gnats and camels, what about the camel in the living room of the 2012 International Eucharistic Congress:No mention either during the Congress per se or the theological symposium before

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  • Clogher ACP meeting: Clones, 25 Jan 2012

    February 4 2012
    Dominic Wallace

    I am with Joseph on this. When John Waters reports that, "Pope Benedict speaks about this culture and uses the image of the ‘bunker’ to describe it, that place where man’s understanding is limit

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  • Email received re New Missal

    February 7 2012
    Nick Young

    Thanks to Fr Coyne for his comment. However, where ‘even a priest’ might not be allowed to change the wording (Even if it retains the same prayer) is it really a crime against humanity ? How can

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  • Kevin Myers on Church & State in Ireland today

    February 14 2012
    Eddie Finnegan

    Shane, I think every reader of the Irish Times, formerly, and the Irish Independent, currently, knows that Kevin Myers relishes the role of contrarian, of delivering a shock to those who see themselve

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  • Kevin Myers on Church & State in Ireland today

    February 14 2012
    Medb Kennedy

    I came across this article by accident when I was searching for the date of Ruairi Quinn's opinion that 'Ireland is now a post-Catholic country'. I was wondering whether there is a direct line from th

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  • Kevin Myers on Church & State in Ireland today

    February 14 2012
    Association of Catholic Priests

    Shane, I think you have missed the point of this article. In my reading of it, it is saying the opposite to what you suggest. Who else in the Irish media would defend the religious sisters. And, incid

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  • Email received re New Missal

    February 7 2012
    Mary Burke

    Fr Sean Coyle, no one is objecting to change per se. It's the inferior quality of the changed translation and deficient English syntax which is objectionable. Secondly, because fewer people were consu

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  • Email received re New Missal

    February 7 2012
    Joe O'Leary

    The weak spot in the old translation was the preces (collect, etc.), which were excellently translated in 1998 and dumped by the Vatican, a spiritual loss to English-speaking Catholics over the last 1

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  • Kevin Myers on Church & State in Ireland today

    February 14 2012
    Shane

    This man's idiocy never ceases to astonish me. Ireland was never 'ruled' by the Church. Politicians in the past implemented Catholic inspired legislation because that's what the voters wanted at the t

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