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  • Brendan Hoban: Irish history shows that O’Connell was right             

    August 24 2025
    M G-B

    When will we ever learn? Jesus call to non-violence seems to be inaudible today with the deafening sounds of wars. "Where Have All The Flowers Gone?"

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  • 31 Aug 2025 – 22nd Sunday

    August 31 2025
    Peadar O'Callaghan

    22nd Sunday … by the humble he is glorified. Homilists, and those who sit in pews listening, may benefit from the forthcoming publication of Dom Andrè Louf’s Blessed Weakness: Homilies for Sund

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  • TONY FLANNERY WRITING IN THE JOURNAL

    August 18 2025
    Peadar O'Callaghan

    I was dismayed and a little perplexed when I read in Fr. Tony Flannery’s article in Opinion - The Journal, the phrase “Lay people, including women,”; since when? However, I welcome the reference

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  • TONY FLANNERY WRITING IN THE JOURNAL

    August 18 2025
    Paddy Ferry

    Sean, my clear understanding from what I have read in recent years is that there is now a clear consensus among scholars that (1) Jesus did not ordain anyone at the Last Supper. The Last Supper was no

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  • TONY FLANNERY WRITING IN THE JOURNAL

    August 18 2025
    Paddy Ferry

    Excellent piece, Tony. I have shared with many friends, lay and clerical.

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  • Joe O’Leary: Pope Leo’s First 100 Days

    August 21 2025
    Joe O'Leary

    Sean, if Leo XIV has anything like the longevity of Leo XIII, we will have this safe, dull pope until 2049. He is the most popular world leader and by playing "the invisible man" (GKC -- the postman)

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  • ACP Statement on Allianz

    August 21 2025
    Paddy Ferry

    This is an excellent statement from the ACP. Thank you. We should all share the statement as widely as we can on FB, for example, which I have already done.

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  • Joe O’Leary: Pope Leo’s First 100 Days

    August 21 2025
    Sean O'Conaill

    "Leo XIV has not put a foot wrong." So is that the only task of the moment - knowing where to put your feet so you don't wake the dragon? When the challenge issued by Pope Francis - to face the

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  • 24 Aug 2025 – 21st Sunday (C)

    August 24 2025
    Thara Benedicta

    Key Message: Discipline is the chisel and direction is the touch of the Divine Sculptor... Homily: Testimony: A 34-year-old cancer patient went to the nurse for flus

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  • ACP Statement on Allianz

    August 21 2025
    M G-B

    For 50 years, congregations of Catholic Sisters have refused to invest in corporations whose business goes against Catholic social teaching. (Detailed article in NCR September 7/2023.)

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