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  • Brendan Hoban on Apostolic Visitation findings

    March 21 2012
    Jo O'Sullivan

    “Theologians (and others) can propose their views as hypotheses to be considered and tested by other theologians and ultimately to be judged by those who have, within the Church, the solemn obligati

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  • Dave Pierre replies to Sean O Connaill’s critique

    March 19 2012
    DPierre

    Sean - Anyone can say they are "telling the truth." But what EVIDENCE does Rossetti have to back up what he's saying? (I find it curious that you did not ask him this.) Never was it Rossetti's job

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  • Brendan Hoban on Apostolic Visitation findings

    March 21 2012
    Kevin Walters

    Eddie, The Truth (sets us free) teaches us to see ourselves as we really are (I speak of myself here): sinful, broken and riddled with frailties. When we truly carry this image in our hearts we are hu

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  • Brendan Hoban on Apostolic Visitation findings

    March 21 2012
    Hierophilos

    Martin, I do not call the dogmas of the faith and the teachings of Holy Mother Church ‘teachings of our own making'. What I seek to challenge are those voices (the alternative magisterium) that do s

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  • Brief Response from the ACP to the Vatican document

    March 20 2012
    Margaret Lee

    Ah, now lads, don't go all soft. I bet there were other topics that you raised with the "visitors" (who invited themselves!) besides the ones mentioned. The report gives no indication that the churc

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  • Brendan Hoban on Apostolic Visitation findings

    March 21 2012
    Eddie Finnegan

    Martin, I'm sure you're misinterpreting Hierophilos. What was that Elizabeth Tudor said about not "making windows into men's hearts"? Maybe we should be content to be no more visitatorial than the vat

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  • Brendan Hoban on Apostolic Visitation findings

    March 21 2012
    Eddie Finnegan

    "Then the Lord appointed also other seventy and sent them two by two before his face, into every city and townland whither he himself was about to come." - Luke, 10. And I suppose into every virtual

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  • Is our child protection system open to grave injustice?

    March 23 2012
    Simmary

    Certainly in my experience in England our hierarchy (and some religious superiors) have not and still do not take sufficient care to investigate the reliability of complainant accusers. They listen,

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  • Dave Pierre replies to Sean O Connaill’s critique

    March 19 2012
    Sean O'Conaill

    I have managed to contact Mgr. Rossetti to convey to him the references made above. He responds: "Thanks - it's not so bad being criticized for telling the truth ..."

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  • Is our child protection system open to grave injustice?

    March 23 2012
    Martin

    Jo, in the early Church, folks weren't permitted to witness and participate in the sacred mysteries until they were fully catechized and initiated into the life of Christ. Perhaps we need to restore t

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