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  • Synod: Final Document Published

    October 27 2024
    Joe O'Leary

    The Final Document attempts to give a feel of concrete achievement by listing specific items, none of which is particularly striking. “The areas of the life and mission of the Church that they hav

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  • 03 Nov 2024 – 31st Sunday (Year B)

    November 3 2024
    Thara Benedicta

    Key Message: All pain is momentary. We will enjoy everlasting happiness in Heaven!! Homily: The takeaway from the first reading: We may wonder when

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  • Vatican News online: Safeguarding Minors: First Report calls for ‘rigorous’ response

    October 29 2024
    Sean O'Conaill

    Predictably this report has been met with scepticism by survivor advocacy groups in the USA. A New York Times report also points out that Hans Zollner SJ, a leading papal adviser on child safeguarding

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  • Synod: Final Document Published

    October 27 2024
    Seamus Ahearne

    PS To comment No 7. I meant to add this but I forgot to do so: We are doing a painting job in the Church here. We struggled to agree colours. We questioned each other's taste. Eventually we r

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  • Synod: Final Document Published

    October 27 2024
    Seamus Ahearne

    I understand Roy and all who have commented. I agree with much of what has been written. However, I also have some problems with the frustration and exasperation expressed, and at times, the certainty

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  • Synod: Final Document Published

    October 27 2024
    Joe O'Leary

    It is thoroughly disheartening to see the much-trumpeted synodal process end in such a morass of hypocrisy and paralysis. Rather than bring the church over a new threshold, the entire expensive advent

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  • Synod: Final Document Published

    October 27 2024
    Sean O'Conaill

    There is no acknowledgement in the document itself of the depth of the chasm of distrust caused by the failure - over generations - to implement what earlier documents clearly heralded. For me the

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  • Synod: Final Document Published

    October 27 2024
    Paddy Ferry

    Very, very well stated, Roy, Miriam and Colm. I too had such high hopes for the Synod and the whole synodal process. I had such faith in Francis. So, now, sadly, such a disappointment.

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  • Synod: Final Document Published

    October 27 2024
    Miriam Costello

    Thank you for putting into words what l deeply feel, Roy. Because of a sense of shame born of an ingrained, misguided loyalty to the institutional Church, l feel guilty about owning my alienation, a

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  • Father Sean Fagan RIP — a brief appreciation

    July 15 2016
    Gerardine Grace

    The Church in Australia was established by Irish priests and nuns. Our faith was ingrained from the cradle but always with the threat that damnation loomed for those who sin. Familiar? Vatican II refo

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