Paddy, thanks for posting this eye-opening account of bullying in the high ranks of the church in the 21st century. Good Jesuits like James Keenan, Francis Clooney, Thomas Reese, James Martin had to k
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Many lay Catholics in Ireland felt harmed and deprived by your silencing plus the chilling effect on thoughtful open minded discussion in what is after all our Church; the body o
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I was on lay ministry duty yesterday and I took Holy Communion to four housebound parishioners.
When we began the Year A of readings a few weeks ago and we were told that Matthew's Gospel would figur
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Donald Cozzens
17 May 1939-9 December 2021
Chris McDonnell First published in La Croix International December 2021
We heard this week of the passing of the A
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