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  • If these walls could speak.’

    June 17 2020
    sean walsh

    ‘Ode to the Church’Carlo CarrettoCarlo Carretto, an Italian monk who died in 1988. For many years, he lived as a hermit in the Sahara Desert."How much I must criticize you, my church and y

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  • Table for Transparency Scores of Dioceses in 2020

    June 20 2020
    Tom Hayes

    The annual accounts of the Diocese of Cork and Ross have been published on the diocesan website since 2002 - when the website was launched. See http://corkandross.org/annual-financial-reports/ They ar

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  • 28 June, 2020. 13th Sunday, Year A

    June 28 2020
    Joe O'Leary

    BACK TO LIFEToday St Paul tells us that when we were baptized we were baptized into the death of Jesus. This means that all the lonely miseries and anxieties that have oppressed us in the time of

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  • ACP Statement on the re-introduction of Public Masses

    June 15 2020
    Sean O’Conaill

    Re transparency, Covid-19 and the need for parish pastoral councils to take responsibility for opening churches - the ACP must surely now be polling its members to discover how many parishes have PPC

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  • If these walls could speak.’

    June 17 2020
    sean walsh

    Casus: He is out of ministry quite some time. Now in his 70's, he is in Stay In, Stay Safe mode, as is his wife, also in her 70's. No mass,communion... A parish life they miss, dearly; they had been d

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  • Table for Transparency Scores of Dioceses in 2020

    June 20 2020
    Colm Holmes

    Dear Eddie Finnegan,Here is the link to the 2018 Transparency Table:https://wearechurchireland.ie/diocese-of-ferns-is-top-of-the-table-for-transparency-scores-in-2018/VoTF used a 60 point scale

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  • Bishops are free to publish their ad limina reports; but they prefer to keep them secret

    June 18 2020
    Colm Holmes

    A very interesting response from one of our readers:What really struck me is the mention of the letter/ response that the 3 groups, WAC, ACI, ACP sent to all the Irish bishops 3 years ago.In 19

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  • ACP Statement on the re-introduction of Public Masses

    June 15 2020
    Jo O'Sullivan

    Oops! My apologies to Brendan. I had been reading his article on the struggle for the soul of Catholicism and somehow got it conflated with the statement from the ACP. Mea culpa. I still stand over wh

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  • Table for Transparency Scores of Dioceses in 2020

    June 20 2020
    Eddie Finnegan

    Are these transparency Scores for 2019/20 Financial Year? I cannot find the Table for 2018 mentioned in the final column.Without the original model on which these tables are based, they do not make

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  • ACP Statement on the re-introduction of Public Masses

    June 15 2020
    Tim Hazelwood

    I can't but smile at he irony of the post by Jo, #5, accusing priests of trying to "pass the buck" of responsibility on to PPC's, while at the same time the post addressed comments to Brendan while th

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