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  • Presider’s Page for Monday 17 March (Lá Fhéile Pádraig)

    March 16 2025
    ACP

    Joe's excellent meditation appeared in two different posts in the Liturgy section. Presider’s Page for Sunday 17 March (Lá Fhéile Pádraig) and 17 March: St Patrick, Patron of Ireland Please see

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  • Presider’s Page for Monday 17 March (Lá Fhéile Pádraig)

    March 16 2025
    Eddie Finnegan1

    Paddy Ferry@2, I am glad to see you are still allowed to recognise and praise Joe O'Leary for his excellent meditation on St Patrick. Perhaps only one lay offering is allowed as my own earlier comment

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  • Airbrushed out of Church…. – Elephant in the Church

    March 12 2019
    Maureen Mulvaney

    Well done, Roy for your splendid and excellent article and review of the launch of Mary T. Malone's book, " The Elephant in the Church, Revised Edition. 1 You have started a conversation going here, o

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  • Deanery Meeting – An Unhappy Experience

    March 17 2019
    Sean O'Conaill

    Jo O'Sullivan's recorded experience of a deanery meeting (presumably in Dublin) is valuable in documenting the rearguard clericalism that still baulks at implementing the Catholic principle of the equ

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  • Time running out to save the church

    March 8 2019
    Joe O'Leary

    Here is the text of the article, in case it’s blocked to non-subscribers: A young Catholic activist faces expulsion from Queensland’s Liberal National Party after she called on fellow party membe

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  • Deanery Meeting – An Unhappy Experience

    March 17 2019
    Mary Vallely

    The Deanery meeting ( a new term for me) was handled very badly, Jo, and I applaud you for taking your courage in your hands and writing about it here. Do please go to the next meeting and report back

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  • Deanery Meeting – An Unhappy Experience

    March 17 2019
    Phil Greene

    Thank you Jo taking pen to paper and sharing your experience with us, it is definitely very valuable information. I am curious in that your own Parish Priest must be a forward thinking priest who act

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  • Deanery Meeting – An Unhappy Experience

    March 17 2019
    Gerry O'Hanlon

    Jo O'Sullivan has written a quietly brilliant description of the clericlalism, witting or unwitting, that continues to thrive, even as new institutions and structures are introduced designed to elimin

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  • Absolutely nothing but the truth will set us free

    March 4 2019
    Joe O'Leary

    The Pell affair is attaining the proportions of the Dreyfus Affair. Cowardly institutions are punishing those who doubt Pell's guilt, in contempt of freedom of speech: https://www.theaustralian.com.au

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  • Absolutely nothing but the truth will set us free

    March 4 2019
    Joe O'Leary

    More comment on Pell: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ht7cWkd-KF4 Arroyo is incorrect to say the second chorister "recanted" -- in fact he seems never to have made any allegation.

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