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  • ‘the world has changed and so must the Church’

    January 22 2020
    William Herlihy

    Brendan, I so admire Priests like you. Sadly in my parish, we have regressed, back to the days when the  priest was the church. I was a member of the parish pastoral council,we were all sacked by the

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  • No exceptions to respect for human life

    January 20 2020
    Anne Stack

    I immediately thought of abortion when the terrible news came of the unimaginable horror of the torture and murder of Keane Mulready Woods. Also, I thought "abortion" when I heard of the slaughter of

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  • ‘the world has changed and so must the Church’

    January 22 2020
    Jo O'Sullivan

    I’ve always read and valued Brendan’s pieces on the ACP site. From my perspective, he’s one of the guys who “gets it” and who’s willing to say so. I’ve just read this piece and my immedi

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  • Retired Pope did not co-author book with Cardinal Sarah

    January 14 2020
    Sean O’Conaill

    #14. Same story here, Aidan - north-west. And of course we lay people are on the other side of a wall erected out of clerical fear of admitting the scale of the crisis or the possibility that we, the

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  • 19 January, 2020. 2nd Sunday (Year A)

    January 19 2020
    Seamus Ahearne

    Misspellings irritate me. Text spelling and short-cuts annoy me. How could a misspelling find its way into the above script? It should be impossible. Many years ago, back in the 60s, I worked in

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  • Retired Pope did not co-author book with Cardinal Sarah

    January 14 2020
    Aidan Hart

    Paddy, the problem with thinking that the Amazonian region is the only area with a dire shortage of priests is that it ignores the fact that Ireland and many parts of the UK, Europe and American are

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  • Retired Pope did not co-author book with Cardinal Sarah

    January 14 2020
    Paddy Ferry

    Michael Sean Winters, writing in NCP, says Archbishop Ganswein --Georgeous George --has got to go !! https://www.ncronline.org/news/opinion/distinctly-catholic/whole-co-authoring-drama-looks-bad

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  • 19 January, 2020. 2nd Sunday (Year A)

    January 19 2020
    Seamus Ahearne

    A SICK CALL: There was a sick call. We stood around the bed. I asked the family to talk about their mum. They did it beautifully. I said – that this is the real Anointing. The story of her life.

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  • 19 January, 2020. 2nd Sunday (Year A)

    January 19 2020
    Pádraig McCarthy

    Addendum: The Baptist here speaks of the Spirit descending on Jesus and remaining on him. Again a link with John 19: As Jesus dies, he sends forth the Spirit. Then, in John 20, at his first encounter

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  • 19 January, 2020. 2nd Sunday (Year A)

    January 19 2020
    Pádraig McCarthy

    Look! There he is!!! None of the translations I've seen seem to communicate the energy, the surprise of in what the Baptist says. Would you just look at that! Imagine! Can you believe it? That's the l

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