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  • Beloved Amazon

    February 12 2020
    Mattie Long

    I wonder what is at play with this non-decision. After all Pope Francis told the bishops to ask for change if that was what they wanted. They asked, but so far are left unanswered. Could it merely be

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  • Beloved Amazon

    February 12 2020
    Chris McDonnell

    It is the lack of acknowledgement of the reality of the problem facing us that is so disheartening. When a real difficulty exists, ignoring it is not a solution. It is not as though we didn't know tha

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  • Beloved Amazon

    February 12 2020
    kyril rocha

    Cardinal Czerny and Fr. Spadaro sj made it clear: Pope Francis sees the Amazonian Synod as a process; a departure point not an arrival point; a long road is ahead. Questions about viri probati and wom

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  • Beloved Amazon

    February 12 2020
    Eddie Finnegan

    Seamus, 'No Tigers in Africa' John Charles told Radharc's Joe Dunn as he set off for his first filming venture. Much later Joe got a good book title out of it: 'No Lions in the Hierarchy'. If there ar

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  • Beloved Amazon

    February 12 2020
    Iggy O Donovan

    The first chapters of Beloved Amazon are perfect. There is beautiful material on conservation, ecology, environment etc. Attenborough could have written it. What confuses me is that Francis in the fi

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  • Beloved Amazon

    February 12 2020
    Seamus Ahearne

    Francis clearly doesn’t like elephants. There definitely was an elephant in the room. Or more likely a stampeding herd of elephants had taken over the Amazon. His dislike of these marvellous animal

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  • Beloved Amazon

    February 12 2020
    Joe O'Leary

    The course of the barque of Peter is firmly set: straight for the iceberg!

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  • Beloved Amazon

    February 12 2020
    Frank Graham

    Fine, eloquent words. Who could not but be inspired by them or not agree with them! But I'm afraid that they will be like 'water off a duck's back' to those responsible for the degradation of the plan

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  • Beloved Amazon

    February 12 2020
    Pat Rogers

    In their well-written piece in the New York Times, Jason Horowitz and Elisabetta Povoledo describe the pope's decision as "a victory for conservative forces who had warned that change there would put

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  • Beloved Amazon

    February 12 2020
    Nessan Vaughan

    Very disappointing, although not surprising. While there are excellent passages on the environment, social justice, inculturation, respect for indigenous peoples, etc, ultimately Pope Francis remains

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