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  • Fine words and dramatic gestures are not enough!

    February 19 2019
    Mary Burke

    The article by Rita Ferrone on Vox Clara: https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/revisiting-liturgiam-authenticam-part-i-vox-clara

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  • Fine words and dramatic gestures are not enough!

    February 19 2019
    Joe O'Leary

    Correction, the second trial did NOT include live evidence from the complainant but only a video of his evidence at the earlier trial. Correct story is here: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-ne

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  • Fine words and dramatic gestures are not enough!

    February 19 2019
    Joe O'Leary

    Doubt grows.... https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/blogs/andrew-bolt/pell-case-more-doubters-come-forward/news-story/4f594f60d59dbb90c230143e93a2683c I see one commenter draws the Dreyfus analogy: "

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  • Fine words and dramatic gestures are not enough!

    February 19 2019
    Joe O'Leary

    Paddy, I think you confused his abandonment of an application for bail with abandonment of the appeal. The former is mentioned here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtoUNNBQHxQ Pell has virtues of pl

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  • Fine words and dramatic gestures are not enough!

    February 19 2019
    Joe O'Leary

    As everyone is saying, the process is not complete until the appeal. See https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-03-03/pell-case-needs-appeals-court-hearing-before-judgement-church/10865634 Pell is very unp

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  • Fine words and dramatic gestures are not enough!

    February 19 2019
    Mary Burke

    In this 2017 article from Commonweal, entitled 'Revisiting Ligurgiam Authenticam. Part 1. Vox Clara, Rita Ferrone makes the following devastating comment: (Interestingly Ferrone's money is on Father A

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  • Fine words and dramatic gestures are not enough!

    February 19 2019
    Paddy Ferry

    Joe, you said at the beginning of this that we had to let due process take it's course. Now, that process is complete and Pell has been found guilty. So, why can you not accept that. I read during t

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  • Fine words and dramatic gestures are not enough!

    February 19 2019
    Joe O'Leary

    Here is a heartfelt response to the Pell conviction. Apparently the author is himself a victim of abuse: https://catholicoutlook.org/bishop-vincents-pastoral-letter-clergy-and-people/?fbclid=IwAR2lkKG

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  • Fine words and dramatic gestures are not enough!

    February 19 2019
    Joe O'Leary

    Mary, we are all being bullied by Pell every time we have to pray not "stand in your presence and serve you" but "to be in your presence and minister to you" -- if it is true that Pell insisted on th

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  • Fine words and dramatic gestures are not enough!

    February 19 2019
    Paddy Ferry

    Joe@20, I think you are being grossly disrespectful to the memory of Alfred Dreyfus. I am sure you know that this sordid affair became the great symbol of modern day injustice and the principal cause

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