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  • First Communion Preparation – Undermined?

    February 18 2020
    Joe O'Leary

    What a crass culture we have created!Maybe the Irish Church should postpone first communion to a later age, to ensure a modicum of reflection and reverence.

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    February 12 2020
    Eddie Finnegan

    What's much worse, Pat@30, is that Bill Conway did not have the good grace over six years earlier to respond to my letter of resignation as I left Maynooth on 31st March 1965 after two terms of Theolo

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  • Time stops still as we remember

    January 27 2020
    David O'Neill

    Why Shrewsbury?

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    February 12 2020
    Sean O'Conaill

    #26 "At that Synod, Cardinal Conway declared that we Irish — non nobis, Domine, non nobis — have never had a problem with celibacy. (see Schillebeeckx, Ministry)"Meaning? Supposing, for example,

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  • 16 February, 2020. 6th Sunday in Ordinary Time

    February 16 2020
    Pádraig McCarthy

    It must have seemed an impossible challenge to the disciples. The scribes and the Pharisees were the public face of the faithful practice of the people of Israel, to which the ordinary uneducated peop

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    February 12 2020
    Pat Rogers

    Looking back to see what was said about possible changes to the discipline of celibacy at the 1971 Synod, I found this New York Times article: https://www.nytimes.com/1971/10/20/archives/celibacy-seen

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    February 12 2020
    Pat Rogers

    Heartily agree with Joe O'Leary (#25) that the analysis of "Querida Amazonia" by Massimo Faggioli in COMMONWEAL magazine is masterly. For any who may have difficulty in downloading Faggioli's entire t

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    February 12 2020
    Neil Bray

    Pope Francis states he is in “total harmony with the thought of St. John Paul II with respect to the priesthood.” Does this reality feed into a discernment on the part of Pope Francis that he sh

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    February 12 2020
    Brendan Butler

    Just because Francis seems to be our only present hope for change it doesn't mean we have to defend him when he relinquishes his authority to Sarah ET alii. Francis probably had a chapter ready in p

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  • 16 February, 2020. 6th Sunday in Ordinary Time

    February 16 2020
    Gabriel Guckian

    Just to say how perceptive and practical were the observations and hints by Thara Benedicta in the Response 1. There might be one or two typos eg. to loose = lose? heaven in the text, but a really gre

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