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  • When I Was Growing Up

    November 15 2019
    Michael Maginn

    GUESS WHAT... when archaeologists unearthed those skeletons complete and perfectly intact, they could not tell: gay from straight, rich from poor, black from white, slave from free, male from female

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  • We Are Church Ireland – “Vatican hypocrisy and hopes for our church”

    November 6 2019
    Eddie Finnegan

    Colm Holmes@4, May I refer back to Dr Mary McAleese's car-crash of an encounter with Bishop Karol Wojtyla's 'Love and Responsibility' at the beginning of November? I hope that she and all her passen

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  • 17 November, 2019. 33rd Sunday (C)

    November 17 2019
    Paddy Ferry

    Eddie and Seamus, in the leading article in todays Tablet , "Test of conscience of the Cardinal", referring to Vincent Nichols, one paragraph jumped off the page at me: "The evidence heard at the In

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  • 17 November, 2019. 33rd Sunday (C)

    November 17 2019
    Eddie Finnegan

    Seamus: "The major Public[=Private]Schools (Benedictines) in the UK are shamed. Vincent Nichols is in trouble." Sometimes death for a bishop or cardinal is a smart career move. Young Basil Hume went

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  • 17 November, 2019. 33rd Sunday (C)

    November 17 2019
    Ned Quinn

    Seamus, in his wonderful contributions, often mentions the importance of spending time with families who have been bereaved. It is a time for sharing with them and listening to their cares and memori

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  • 17 November, 2019. 33rd Sunday (C)

    November 17 2019
    Seamus Ahearne

    Crisis. What crisis? (Brian Lenihan Sn). The word ‘crisis’ is very familiar. In political terms – Syria, Turkey, the Kurds, Spain, Chile, Bolivia, Venezuela, Brazil, the UK Parliament

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  • We Are Church Ireland – “Vatican hypocrisy and hopes for our church”

    November 6 2019
    Colm Holmes

    If you missed Fr Bernárd Lynch's profound talk - Please listen to this video recording. The title of his talk was "Vatican hypocrisy and hope for our church" but the title should really be "The Meani

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  • Letters from the Synod of the Amazon

    November 11 2019
    Seamus Ahearne

    Those letters were so refreshing. The rich Church of the Amazon was sharing with the poor Church of the West. Our poverty is shown in our weariness; in our negativity; in our cynicism; in our coweri

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  • Letters from the Synod of the Amazon

    November 11 2019
    Donal Dorr

    Thanks for these fine letters. There seems to be a delay in the Vatican sending out an official English translation of the final Synod document. So, in case any of you would like to read an unofficial

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  • 10 November, 2019. 32nd Sunday (C)

    November 10 2019
    Pádraig McCarthy

    Paddy #7: I don't know if there's an "official" distinction between homily and sermon. I tend to think of a homily as bringing out the spiritual message and inspiration in a reading or occasion. I try

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