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  • Back to the cloister – Brendan Hoban

    January 21 2012
    Paddy Ferry

    Joseph, you are so right. That contribution from "an incense-filled cocoon" must surely be one of the most depressing we have seen on the ACP site. If that is the future of the Church,then God help u

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  • 02 Feb. Thursday: Presentation of the Lord

    February 2 2012
    Cronan Glynn

    Thank you for the homily notes which I found very helpful. There is a small point about the age of Jesus at the time of the Presentation. Was it not forty days rather than eight days? Shouldn't this r

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  • Priests out of Ministry

    January 30 2012
    Pádraig McCarthy

    A relevant interview is at http://www.catholicworldreport.com/Item/1029/the_truth_about_falsely_accused_priests.aspx.

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  • Back to the cloister – Brendan Hoban

    January 21 2012
    Joseph O'Leary

    "A view from an incense-filled cocoon" -- very nice, very idealistic, and very hothouse! "Why is there a disparity between the youth and the aged together and all that has passed in between?" I don't

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  • The Truth About Falsely Accused Priests – Dave Pierre

    January 7 2012
    Kevin Walters

    Regarding double standards when we bear witness to Christ (Truth) there is only one standard and it is the standard we profess as Christians to darken the light of Christ in any is to betray him. We

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  • The Truth About Falsely Accused Priests – Dave Pierre

    January 7 2012
    Kevin Walters

    Several years ago as I was watching the news on the television a shot of a priest was shown surrounded by a hostile crowd been taken into a courthouse in the USA. As I observed his countenance I was

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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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