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  • Young Mr. Newman – St. John Henry Newman

    October 12 2019
    Pádraig McCarthy

    The Irish Times article Paddy #3 refers to above is by Katie Ascough, who was formerly president of the UCD students’ union. She was badly treated by the students’ union. Yes, Paddy, the church in

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  • 16 October, 2019. Wednesday of Week 28

    October 16 2019
    Eddie Finnegan1

    Saint GALL (Gallus), saint of the day: If GALL in his hermitage near what became Sankt Gallen on Lake Constance, unable to say Mass for ?three years even in private, got a glimpse of Romans 2:1 in tod

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  • Young Mr. Newman – St. John Henry Newman

    October 12 2019
    Eddie Finnegan1

    In Evangelii Gaudium Pope Francis's four principles, or mantras, include: "realities are more important than ideas". Realities of a University may indeed be more important than the Idea - though nobod

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  • Climate change and the Church OR Climate change in the Church

    October 15 2019
    Mary Vallely

    Don’t worry. No one will be turned away if not registered beforehand. It’s a rare opportunity to meet together outside of Dublin and to engage on matters pertaining to the good of the Church but

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  • Young Mr. Newman – St. John Henry Newman

    October 12 2019
    Joe O'Leary

    Colin Barr's devastating account of Newman in Ireland (Oxford Handbook of JHN) ends with this: "As the Irishman Constantine Curran put it, in place of a university Newman 'gave us a book.' It was thou

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  • Young Mr. Newman – St. John Henry Newman

    October 12 2019
    Paddy Ferry

    I must say I felt saddened reading this. When I was a student at UCD in the 1970s every second lecturer was a priest and there were many professors who were priests too especially in the departments i

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  • Women’s Equality is Essential for our Church – ACP

    October 1 2019
    Joe O'Leary

    Nicholas Lash urged Macy's book on me long ago. But the quote from Congar puts it gives a more startling picture than I gleaned from looking through Macy, from whom I got the impression that women wer

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  • Women’s Equality is Essential for our Church – ACP

    October 1 2019
    Paddy Ferry

    I am wondering if I am the only person surprised by the revelation in the NCR article above of the change that took place in the understanding of ordination from the 1st to the 2nd millennium --Joe,

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  • Young Mr. Newman – St. John Henry Newman

    October 12 2019
    Paddy Ferry

    I enclose, below, the leading article in this month's Open House here in Scotland. I have asked Mary Cullen, the Open House editor, if I could share it on our ACP site and she is happy for that to ha

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  • Young Mr. Newman – St. John Henry Newman

    October 12 2019
    Joe O'Leary

    https://www.catholicbishops.ie/2019/10/08/canonisation-of-cardinal-john-henry-newman/A superb new book on Newman is "The Oxford Handbook to John Henry Newman."

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