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  • Ambition; oxygen and energy to the evils of clericalism

    December 9 2019
    Joe O'Leary

    You can meet Vatican bureaucrats easily if you stay at the Domus Internationalis Paulus VI near the Piazza Navona (welcoming to all priests). They are fine people and they live modestly and cheaply.

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  •  The Association of Catholic Priests is now on Twitter

    December 7 2019
    Pat Rogers

    Dear Thomas. as far as I am concerned you are most welcome to put any content that you like from the resources section on your own Facebook page. I don't use Facebook yet myself. Patrick Rogers

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  • Ambition; oxygen and energy to the evils of clericalism

    December 9 2019
    Pádraig McCarthy

    As Paul says: "Be ambitious for the higher things. And I'm going to show you a way that is better than any of them... If I am without love ..." (1 Cor 12:31; 13:1ff). The article says: "It is time to

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  • Ambition; oxygen and energy to the evils of clericalism

    December 9 2019
    Michael Forde

    I have real admiration and respect for the pastors I knew growing up and also in St Jarlath’s College in Tuam! And in my later encounter with the Redemptorists both in Ireland and in Brasil, I was r

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  • Ambition; oxygen and energy to the evils of clericalism

    December 9 2019
    Sean O'Conaill

    Ambition is indeed not at all the same thing as the impulse to develop one's gifts. It is essentially the pursuit of admiration, an insatiable greed for 'positive feedback' from others on one's own su

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  • Outstanding Characters!

    November 28 2019
    Eddie Finnegan

    Joe@6, JPII certainly wasn't looking at the next in line when he wagged his finger in the face of Nicaragua's Minister of Education, Fernando Cardenal SJ - unless perhaps his brother Ernesto Cardenal

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  • Ambition; oxygen and energy to the evils of clericalism

    December 9 2019
    Mary Vallely

    Yes, I agree with every word. I don’t know why we put up with the ridiculous titles and trappings of hierarchical status. Too few priests speak out about how hard it is to keep young people on board

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  • 10 December, 2019. Tuesday of Advent, Week 2

    December 10 2019
    Fr Pepin DANDOU

    Hello, l am à catholic Priest In the USA. I like your reflections on the readings of mass. Your reflections are so inspiring and useful for homélies. Thank you so much. Continue what you do for the

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  • Ambition; oxygen and energy to the evils of clericalism

    December 9 2019
    Pól Ó Duibhir

    An extraordinarily perceptive and well written piece. It's all there. Time for action.

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  • Outstanding Characters!

    November 28 2019
    Joe O'Leary

    Pádraig, that's one of the great lessons of Pope Francis.Here in Japan he was totally present to everyone whose hand he shook -- in accord with the Japanese saying ichigo ichie https://en.wikipedia

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