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  • Discernment, dithering or disaster? Has the church the luxury of time to wait on decisions? 

    February 24 2020
    JAMES MC HUGH

    Brendan, many thanks, again, for your reasoned cri de coeur. Am I alone in drawing hope/light from Pádraig Mc Carthy's closing remarks in his contribution on Francis letter : "Yes, I am convinced

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  • First Communion Preparation – Undermined?

    February 18 2020
    Kevin Walters

    Thank you, Sean @ 4, for your link; ref Archbishop Michael Neary’s address on the ending of Christendom in Ireland:In which Des Gilroy commented, Bishop Neary …. “very strong on analysis …

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  • Jacinta’s Smile: Awareness of Sibling Bereavement

    February 20 2020
    Mary Vallely

    This is Church in action, isn’t it, Church ALIVE! We shouldn’t have to wait on priests or religious to organise support groups as people can do it for themselves. For too long those of us older ge

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  • Jacinta’s Smile: Awareness of Sibling Bereavement

    February 20 2020
    Michael Sullivan

    Very well done a cailini agus a buachailli !This is the kind of small support groups that are needed within a living church guided by the Holy Spirit...

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  • Diversity in the Catholic Church

    February 21 2020
    Michael Sullivan

    Maybe it behoves us to keep in mind and ponder the phrase "a city or an empire divided against itself "Keeping in mind the well worn phrase almost a cliche at this stage of our evolution as a Chu

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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 worldlyMy own first Communion day was marred by guilt, unable to read I could not say the communion prays, while the theme of Fr Omara

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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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