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  • Fine words and dramatic gestures are not enough!

    February 19 2019
    Mary Burke

    Anthony Ruff at Pray Tell pointed out two or three years ago that Vox Clara no longer appeared in Annuario Pontificio. George Pell had been its chair. In light of Magnum Principium his comment about a

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  • 01 March: Friday of Week 7

    March 1 2019
    Jim Mc Hugh

    Commentary as grace-filled as the very Scritures themselves

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  • Fine words and dramatic gestures are not enough!

    February 19 2019
    Joe O'Leary

    https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2019/02/the-pell-affair-australia-is-now-on-trial The Pell Affair (which is sparking much controversy among Australians just now) is eerily reminiscent of t

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  • Fine words and dramatic gestures are not enough!

    February 19 2019
    Paddy Ferry

    This, below, is from the Tablet FB page tonight. Seems there is a bit of history to all this. When I think of Pell I always remember his quote in relation to the imposition of the then new liturgy.

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  • Fine words and dramatic gestures are not enough!

    February 19 2019
    Frances Burke

    I must admit I shed a few tears while watching this. https://player.vimeo.com/video/319939187

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  • 25 February. Monday of Week 7

    February 25 2019
    Pat Rogers

    Here's an interesting commentary on that episode, entitled:

    "Silent no more"

    The healing of the epileptic boy raises questions as to how we are to read the he

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  • Fine words and dramatic gestures are not enough!

    February 19 2019
    Joe O'Leary

    The news about Cardinal Pell is not new, except in Australia where it was under embargo: https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2018/12/14/after-guilty-verdict-questions-raised-about-pell-trial/ The swi

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  • Fine words and dramatic gestures are not enough!

    February 19 2019
    Frances Burke

    I’m sure there are plenty of people in the Vatican that could answer the question Paddy. Maybe with all the transparency that is being mooted at the moment an answer will be forthcoming!! However, I

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  • Fine words and dramatic gestures are not enough!

    February 19 2019
    Paddy Ferry

    Christine, I was really taken aback by the strident tone with which you expressed your certainty that clerical sexual abuse is all caused by the levels of homosexuality in the institutional church. I

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  • Fine words and dramatic gestures are not enough!

    February 19 2019
    Jane Ireland

    In the book Potiphar's Wife by Kieron Tapsel it says that sexual abuse was covered by the political secret. This came in in 1922.The bishops were not allowed to inform the secular authorities.The rot

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