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  • Message to the priests of Cloyne from Rory Connor

    August 14 2011
    Tim Hazelwood

    Joe, thank you for your observations they are welcome. In reply I need to apologise for being presumptuous as I believed that people now believe what is the accepted fact that the majority of abuse ha

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  • Message to the priests of Cloyne from Rory Connor

    August 14 2011
    Rory Connor

    The following story by Eoin English appeared in the Irish Examiner on 20 December 2008 entitled "DPP Was Sent 4 Files on Priests But No Charges Brought" [extracts below plus link to full article] http

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  • Message to the priests of Cloyne from Rory Connor

    August 14 2011
    Fr Gabriel Burke

    Joe, welcome back,it has been a while since you posted. I suppose on this issue it is damned if you do and damned if you don't. I tried on my own blog to bring some objectivity to the debate. I must

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  • Request from some priests out of ministry

    August 6 2011
    Kevin Reynolds

    Priests out of ministry meeting together for support and solidarity looks like a good idea;its a dark and loenly place to be especially when there's little or no hope of returning to ministry with the

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  • Message to the priests of Cloyne from Rory Connor

    August 14 2011
    Joe O'Leary

    Fr Hazelwood, when, oh when, will we stop slitting out own throats on the sacrificial altar? "I felt that I had to take into account A) the reality that many victims of sexual abuse are present in an

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  • Message to the priests of Cloyne from Rory Connor

    August 14 2011
    Malcolm

    Can I just throw in my Catholic layman's two cents? I'm sick to the back teeth of reports on sex abuse and all the analysis. I'm sick of having my Church kicked to death because of some awful things t

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  • Message to the priests of Cloyne from Rory Connor

    August 14 2011
    Fr Gabriel Burke

    Mary Burke, Have you read comments to me, your description matches all your comments. A case of the kettle calling the pot black I don't know what parishes you are referring. None of the above practic

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  • Message to the priests of Cloyne from Rory Connor

    August 14 2011
    Mary Burke

    Father Gabriel, if the tone of your communication from your pulpit to your parishoners resembles in any way the inappropriate tone of your reply to Rory, I'd imagine that communication is scant, terse

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  • Message to the priests of Cloyne from Rory Connor

    August 14 2011
    Rory Connor

    Father Gabriel A couple of years before the Ryan Report was published, I spoke with a leading member of a religious congregation hoping to getting her to make some sort of statement about the evil all

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  • Response to Vincent Twomey by Brendan Hoban

    August 5 2011
    Patrick Downey

    A minor observation from a non-Catholic: "I don't wish to be unkind to Fr Twomey..." Of course the author wishes to be unkind to Fr Twomey - I read the rest of the paragraph. Why can't Christian clerg

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