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  • Helpless but not Hopeless

    March 21 2020
    Paddy Ferry

    Seamus, a friend posted this, below, on Facebook this morning by a John O'Donohue, I am presuming it is the John O'Donohue of Anam Cara fame. God rest his soul. There is hope. Dr. Ken Egan, the reti

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  • Fr Tony Flannery – Update re his position

    March 17 2020
    Kay McGinty

    Well whatever it takes to keep the pressure up, it must be continued.. Tony is not getting any younger ( like the rest of us), and it will be a great sadness and wrongdoing if that ridiculous sanction

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  • after all this is done and gone

    March 19 2020
    Lloyd Allan MacPherson

    Fish have returned to the Venetian canals since humans have stopped polluting them. Up to 80,000 PREMATURE deaths caused by air pollution will have been avoided in 2 months in China. Was this a lega

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  • The Sacrament of Reconciliation in the current pandemic

    March 20 2020
    Eddie Finnegan

    Peter Worn@1 I think Cardinal Piacenza's announcement yesterday went into great detail about special Plenary Indulgences granted to C-ViD patients and their carers "under the usual conditions". The fr

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  • Fr Tony Flannery – Update re his position

    March 17 2020
    Iggy O Donovan

    The CDF use Religious Congregations to impose sanctions on "rebel" members. It looks as if the CDF are holding the whip and the Orders go along with them meekly. Colm Holmes (1) is correct. Tony is wh

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  • The Sacrament of Reconciliation in the current pandemic

    March 20 2020
    Kevin Walters

    “they need God’s tender mercy–in whatever form we can help impart it” Yes, now and in the future. Many years ago (1970’s) I attend mass at St Michael's on the Isle of Eriskay in the Outer

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  • Fr Tony Flannery – Update re his position

    March 17 2020
    Joe O'Leary

    Once the church gets down a medieval rabbit-hole it can never climb out again.

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  • The Sacrament of Reconciliation in the current pandemic

    March 20 2020
    Joe O'Leary

    General absolution is a classic form of that sacrament, but here the Vatican resisted all nudgings of the Spirit and let the sacrament die instead.

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  • The Sacrament of Reconciliation in the current pandemic

    March 20 2020
    Eddie Finnegan

    On our first day of Self-Isolation, Wordsworth's Sonnet 'Nuns fret not ...' seemed a suitable metaphor: 'NUNS FRET NOT at their convent's narrow room; And hermits are contented with their cells; And

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  • The Sacrament of Reconciliation in the current pandemic

    March 20 2020
    Peter Worn

    As the numbers of priests go down; as the age of priests go up; as so many of us have compromised immune systems...NOW is the time for general absolution-- as people are scared and confused--they need

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