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  • We Remember Maynooth: A College Across Four Centuries

    October 1 2020
    Eddie Finnegan

    Right Joe. I was 'up' for the bicentenary and that's only a brief 25 years ago. We live in an age of 'awesome', 'incredible', 'humongous' linguistic inflation, so no wonder that Maynooth has fallen fo

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  • The Challenge of Same-Sex Unions – Angela Hanley

    September 24 2020
    Soline Humbert

    @6 Well said Mary. But I don't think the bishop is unaware. It's just the fiction that there are no gay bishops, popes, cardinals, priests, seminarians, monks, religious, nuns which must be preserved

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  • 01 October, 2020. Thursday of Week 26

    October 1 2020
    Soline Humbert

    @2 Yes Joe, Thérèse did live in a very different world from ours. But that desire is still a forbidden desire for catholic women. What is interesting is that her sister took great pains to reveal, u

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  • The Challenge of Same-Sex Unions – Angela Hanley

    September 24 2020
    Mary Vallely

    Bishop Timmerevers comes across as a true pastor. God bless him. However when he asks, “How do we deal with same-sex people in our pastoral work...” I must say I find it disturbing. It is as if

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  • We Remember Maynooth: A College Across Four Centuries

    October 1 2020
    Joe O'Leary

    4 centuries already? It was only 2 in 1995. Why not say 2 millennia! It's wonderful that thanks to Jeremiah Newman Maynooth now thrives as a university, ensuring that the old place and its history wi

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  • Joe Mulvaney (We Are Church) on the CDF, Galileo and Tony Flannery…

    September 29 2020
    Bernard Whelan

    May I offer a reply to Oliver Stansfield’s comment? Tony Flannery attracted such sympathy and support not because of his views, which are barely relevant to the case, but because of the way he has

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  • 01 October, 2020. Thursday of Week 26

    October 1 2020
    Joe O'Leary

    Fascinating detail, Soline, and yes, it does seem to have been buried in silence. I'm not sure how much of her mental world carries over to today, though.

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  • The Challenge of Same-Sex Unions – Angela Hanley

    September 24 2020
    Paddy Ferry

    Fr. James Martin SJ writing today: "The Bishop of Dresden, Heinrich Timmerevers, has called on the Catholic Church to reposition itself on homosexuality. “It is my wish that we further develop and

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  • New Papal Encyclical – What’s in a Name?

    September 22 2020
    Soline Humbert

    Brothers All? https://voicesoffaith.org/conversations-1/2020/9/24/an-open-letter-to-pope-francis-regarding-the-title-of-the-forthcoming-encyclical-fratelli-tutti

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  • 01 October, 2020. Thursday of Week 26

    October 1 2020
    Soline Humbert

    About st Thérèse of Lisieux,there is a very interesting testimony by Sr Genevieve OCD (her sister Céline),for the beatification process, (1910). «In 1897, but before she was really ill, Sr Thérè

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