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  • 4th Sunday Ordinary Time – Intercessions etc

    January 29 2012
    T Hayes

    Thanks for these.

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  • Back to the cloister – Brendan Hoban

    January 21 2012
    A view from an incense filled cocoon

    As a seminarian, I write this short note. Firstly, I thank Fr Brendan for sharing with us his thoughts of how seminary life looks from the outside. I do not think that one needs to elaborate on how t

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  • Back to the cloister – Brendan Hoban

    January 21 2012
    Maureen Mulvaney

    I would like to ask the seminarian, Patrick Anthony and the woman from Ballina what changes would they like to see in our Church? Changes involving equality, and changes that would make it possible fo

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  • Victim support and/or mandatory reporting?

    January 14 2012
    Marie

    As someone who experienced abuse at the hands of a doctor and a dentist, I have the deepest sympathy for those who were abused by priests. I also have great compassion for those who have been innocent

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  • Back to the cloister – Brendan Hoban

    January 21 2012
    Eddie Finnegan

    Poor old Rabbi Gamaliel - they have him run off his feet again! Little did he think when, with one eye on the interfering Romans, he played safe among the hotheads of the Great Sanhedrin, that he'd be

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  • Back to the cloister – Brendan Hoban

    January 21 2012
    A woman from Ballina

    I have followed the comments on this website over the last week, and I am fascinated by the concern that many people have for the training of our future priests. Firstly, I wish to congratulate Patri

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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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