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  • Return from Exile

    May 2 2020
    Mattie Long

    I would counsel a note of caution. Is there a temptation to do too much too soon, to run before walking? There cannot be any grand re-opening on 20 July, or in any of the weeks or even months immedia

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  • Return from Exile

    May 2 2020
    Pádraig McCarthy

    Thanks, Mattie for your most appropriate heading: Return from Exile! We have eleven more Sundays of exile before the Return ... but the Lord is with us in our exile. Seán (#3): Yes, definitely th

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  • Return from Exile

    May 2 2020
    Seán Ó'Murchú

    It is great to see that the discussion has commenced. Go raibh maith agat (Thank you) Pádraig. I remember many years ago in a Dublin parish, when the debt on the parish church had been cleared and it

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  • Wrestling with God, an angel or life itself

    May 1 2020
    Eddie Finnegan

    Seamus's daily exercise now includes all-in wrestling with Virtual Masses and what those re-ordered and disordered sanctuaries reveal. He's not alone. Over the weekend the website of the Bishops' Conf

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  • Return from Exile

    May 2 2020
    Paddy Ferry

    I am always amazed, Eddie how you get all this insider information.

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  • 03 May, 2020. 4th Sunday of Easter

    May 3 2020
    Stella Stephenson

    The church is full of hypocrites and yes there is always room for one more. That’s right, we all are hypocrites. We are not perfect. Sometimes in life we say one thing and do something else. W

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  • Australian highest Court overturns Cardinal Pell’s sex abuse convictions

    April 29 2020
    Joe O'Leary

    Also it's quite incorrect to say that Sky News Australia is something like Fox News (a judgement that may reflect bias against Pell and Andrew Bolt).Here is a fact check on that: https://mediabiasf

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  • Return from Exile

    May 2 2020
    Eddie Finnegan

    Meanwhile, Pádraig, a whole 79 days before 20 July and a mere 166km or 103mi north of Leo on the same island, Ballymurphy's Parish Priest is merrily hearing confessions, whether at Corpus Christi par

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  • Australian highest Court overturns Cardinal Pell’s sex abuse convictions

    April 29 2020
    Joe O'Leary

    Australian Catholics are very divided, it seems, chiefly about women and lgbt folk. Joshua's remarks on Pell are rather odd and do not seem to add up. Even if resistance to women and others did not co

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  • Expanding our view of Christian Faith

    April 13 2020
    Paddy Ferry

    Thank you so much for sharing that, Colm. I have only recently become aware of Fr. Diarmuid. Prompted by Tony Flannery's essay, The Language of Doctrine, I began, for the first time in my adult life,

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