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  • Beloved Amazon

    February 12 2020
    John A. Waters

    Just a few points, 1. Celibacy is not necessary for a healthy functioning catholic church. 2.The Vatican, in enforcing the rule of celibacy, has no consideration or respect for the challenges of le

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  • 23 February, 2020. 07th Sunday, Year A

    February 23 2020
    Seamus Ahearne

    The Diceman: There is an exhibition in The Little Museum of Dublin. It is of Thom McGinty and his works. Twenty five years after his death. He was called the Diceman, The High King of Grafton Street

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  • First Communion Preparation – Undermined?

    February 18 2020
    Sean O'Conaill

    I am stunned at Pádraig's complaint! Will someone be asking why its raining in Ireland next? Back in 2014 this site published Archbishop Michael Neary's address on the ending of Christendom in Irela

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  • First Communion Preparation – Undermined?

    February 18 2020
    Kevin Walters

    Undermined? Yes, creating something spiritual into something worldly My own first Communion day was marred by guilt, unable to read I could not say the communion prays, while the theme of Fr Omaraâ

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  • First Communion Preparation – Undermined?

    February 18 2020
    Helen Dryden

    It sounds as if the equivalent for myself, growing up in a non-believing family but nevertheless in a Church of Scotland environment (as all schools in the 60s had this input), was to have 'pennies' w

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  • First Communion Preparation – Undermined?

    February 18 2020
    Joe O'Leary

    What a crass culture we have created! Maybe the Irish Church should postpone first communion to a later age, to ensure a modicum of reflection and reverence.

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  • Beloved Amazon

    February 12 2020
    Eddie Finnegan

    What's much worse, Pat@30, is that Bill Conway did not have the good grace over six years earlier to respond to my letter of resignation as I left Maynooth on 31st March 1965 after two terms of Theolo

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  • Time stops still as we remember

    January 27 2020
    David O'Neill

    Why Shrewsbury?

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  • Beloved Amazon

    February 12 2020
    Sean O'Conaill

    #26 "At that Synod, Cardinal Conway declared that we Irish — non nobis, Domine, non nobis — have never had a problem with celibacy. (see Schillebeeckx, Ministry)" Meaning? Supposing, for example,

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  • 16 February, 2020. 6th Sunday in Ordinary Time

    February 16 2020
    Pádraig McCarthy

    It must have seemed an impossible challenge to the disciples. The scribes and the Pharisees were the public face of the faithful practice of the people of Israel, to which the ordinary uneducated peop

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