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  • Victim support and/or mandatory reporting?

    January 14 2012
    Mary o Vallely

    Most victims simply want to tell their story and to be believed and any support group should provide that confidential safe outlet. To be obliged by law to hand over such confidential details is to su

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  • The New Missal – Michael Commane OP

    January 10 2012
    Eileen

    Wow, Joseph! You got it! That explains a lot!!! And Mary, your contributions are always sound. Thanks to everyone else too, for keeping the discussion going, even if we don't agree with each other!

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  • The New Missal – Michael Commane OP

    January 10 2012
    Joseph O'Leary

    Latin marks: Mary, A; Sean, C. So "prevenient" in the Dec 8 prayer is even more recondite that I'd guessed... And what kind of person talks like this: "grant that, as we profess her on account of yo

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  • The New Missal – Michael Commane OP

    January 10 2012
    Mary Burke

    Martin, are you based in the US? Anyone who knows anything about Irish seminarians knows that the issue of immodestly dressed girls is most likely to be the least of their concerns.

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  • 13 Jan. Friday of Week One

    January 13 2012
    Eileen

    Once again, thanks! I appreciate the input from the Old Testament, historical background etc. I like the point about Jesus showing how to cope with change and yet maintain peace. And, of course, the t

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  • The New Missal – Michael Commane OP

    January 10 2012
    Martin

    Come on Eileen! I know a couple seminarians in Maynooth. I hear that in the hot summer months they see young couples and immodestly dressed girls relaxing on the expansive lawns. Now those areas have

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  • The New Missal – Michael Commane OP

    January 10 2012
    Sean (Derry)

    My understanding (as best as I understand the Catholic Church theology) of the term ‘PREVENIENT GRACE’ as used in the Prayer over the Offerings on the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, … ‘Gr

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  • Priests and Pastoral Workers in Dublin – Paddy Moran

    January 1 2012
    Mary Burke

    Would you expect priests and bishops to work for nothing? (As it is priests are paid a pittance.) What about sacristans? Organists? Music Directors?

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  • A model which could help the Assembly of the Irish Church?

    December 16 2011
    Mike Waring

    Looking at this in Australia We have had our share of troubled priests including one that truly shocked me..... It appears a greater tightening of selection process(personality) needs to be looked at

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  • The New Missal – Michael Commane OP

    January 10 2012
    Joseph O'Leary

    PS, Trent uses the expression: "The Synod furthermore declares, that in adults, the beginning of the said Justification is to be derived from the PREVENIENT GRACE of God, through Jesus Christ, that is

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