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  • Joe O’Leary criticises ACP leadership

    July 24 2011
    Association of Catholic Priests

    Monday's news: Enda Kenny got messages of support from "hundreds of priests" around the country.

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  • Joe O’Leary criticises ACP leadership

    July 24 2011
    Rory Connor

    Andrew Since I was mainly responsible for the Wikipedia article on Nora Wall, I am supplying a fuller extract. I compare the attitude of Kevin Myers to her original conviction in June 1999 with that o

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  • Joe O’Leary criticises ACP leadership

    July 24 2011
    Andrew Harper

    Following the last post I just googled the Nora Wall case and found this observation which could today be applied to the attitude of many bishops: "The young woman their hearts were going out to, was

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  • Joe O’Leary criticises ACP leadership

    July 24 2011
    Richard Shannon

    I agree that the Association has been let down in relation to An Taoiseach's speech. This speech was nothing more than political opportunism and grandstanding. The record of successive governments o

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  • Joe O’Leary criticises ACP leadership

    July 24 2011
    Andrew Harper

    I am not a member but might I suggest that the bishops have also let down priests by their silence on Enda Kenny's speech, I know some have spoken but only in vague terms. I find it amazing that with

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  • The Cloyne Report: Tony Flannery

    July 14 2011
    Joe O'Leary

    I think the Association of Irish Priests have let down Irish Priests by their uncritical embrace of the Cloyne Report and Enda Kenny's speech.

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  • Brendan Hoban on the debate over the Seal of Confession

    July 15 2011
    Máire

    Correction to my earlier attribution: Joe O'Leary linked to the piece by Mary Kenny on the Des Wilson article on this topic, not this article by Hoban: "Excellent piece from Mary Kenny: http://www.ind

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  • Brendan Hoban on the debate over the Seal of Confession

    July 15 2011
    Máire

    You're using a false analogy, Joe: "doctors, psychoanalysts and priests cannot be dragooned as police snitches without grave damage to all their clients and to their healing role." Giving absolution

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  • 24 July, Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

    July 24 2011
    SAKALA YORAM

    i would like to be receiving Homilies for each Sunday.

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  • Brendan Hoban on the debate over the Seal of Confession

    July 15 2011
    Joe O'Leary

    Maire, you don't realize that doctors, psychoanalysts and priests cannot be dragooned as police snitches without grave damage to all their clients and to their healing role. I am not sure you even und

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