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  • Young Mr. Newman – St. John Henry Newman

    October 12 2019
    Paddy Ferry

    I must say I felt saddened reading this. When I was a student at UCD in the 1970s every second lecturer was a priest and there were many professors who were priests too especially in the departments i

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  • Women’s Equality is Essential for our Church – ACP

    October 1 2019
    Joe O'Leary

    Nicholas Lash urged Macy's book on me long ago. But the quote from Congar puts it gives a more startling picture than I gleaned from looking through Macy, from whom I got the impression that women wer

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  • Women’s Equality is Essential for our Church – ACP

    October 1 2019
    Paddy Ferry

    I am wondering if I am the only person surprised by the revelation in the NCR article above of the change that took place in the understanding of ordination from the 1st to the 2nd millennium --Joe,

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  • Young Mr. Newman – St. John Henry Newman

    October 12 2019
    Paddy Ferry

    I enclose, below, the leading article in this month's Open House here in Scotland. I have asked Mary Cullen, the Open House editor, if I could share it on our ACP site and she is happy for that to ha

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  • Young Mr. Newman – St. John Henry Newman

    October 12 2019
    Joe O'Leary

    https://www.catholicbishops.ie/2019/10/08/canonisation-of-cardinal-john-henry-newman/ A superb new book on Newman is "The Oxford Handbook to John Henry Newman."

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  • Women’s Equality is Essential for our Church – ACP

    October 1 2019
    Paddy Ferry

    I find this piece tonight in the NCP really interesting. This, in fact, really surprised me. I don't think Garry Wills explained in "Why Priests" the change in the understanding of ordination from th

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  • 13 October, 2019. 28th Sunday (C)

    October 13 2019
    Seamus Ahearne

    Explorers and Adventurers: I am quite ignorant in regard to Facebook/Instagram/Whatsapp. I haven’t a clue. But I hear that the ‘youngsters’ can use some of these, as weapons. ‘To Friend’

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  • Synod – “high expectations” and “infinite hope”

    October 9 2019
    Joe O'Leary

    This synod session has a wonderful buzz -- to see good sensible spiritual Catholics shaped by Vatican II and liberation theology share their insights and aspirations and respond so passionately to the

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  • 06 October, 2019. 27th Sunday (C)

    October 6 2019
    Pádraig McCarthy

    Thanks, Séamus. "We would have done anything for you." Without counting the cost - without even thinking of cost. That sums it up. We do not "earn" or "deserve" the gifts of God: they are gifts. In e

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  • Women’s Equality is Essential for our Church – ACP

    October 1 2019
    Paddy Ferry

    Iggy, we were well into a very pleasant conversation, about my time in Dublin as a student, going to Westland Row on holydays and how it was always packed and then when I went back recently it was

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