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

    October 1 2019
    Paddy Ferry

    I find this piece tonight in the NCP really interesting. This, in fact, really surprised me. I don't think Garry Wills explained in "Why Priests" the change in the understanding of ordination from th

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  • 13 October, 2019. 28th Sunday (C)

    October 13 2019
    Seamus Ahearne

    Explorers and Adventurers:I am quite ignorant in regard to Facebook/Instagram/Whatsapp. I haven’t a clue. But I hear that the ‘youngsters’ can use some of these, as weapons. ‘To Friend’

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  • Synod – “high expectations” and “infinite hope”

    October 9 2019
    Joe O'Leary

    This synod session has a wonderful buzz -- to see good sensible spiritual Catholics shaped by Vatican II and liberation theology share their insights and aspirations and respond so passionately to the

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  • 06 October, 2019. 27th Sunday (C)

    October 6 2019
    Pádraig McCarthy

    Thanks, Séamus. "We would have done anything for you." Without counting the cost - without even thinking of cost. That sums it up. We do not "earn" or "deserve" the gifts of God: they are gifts. In e

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

    October 1 2019
    Paddy Ferry

    Iggy, we were well into a very pleasant conversation, about my time in Dublin as a student, going to Westland Row on holydays and how it was always packed and then when I went back recently it was

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  • What Happened to Fr Seán Fagan? by Angela Hanley

    October 1 2019
    Iggy O Donovan

    I purchased Angela's book on Sean Fagan at the ACP gathering in DCU on Saturday. I read it at a single sitting. It beggars belief. How the Lord can speak through such corruption and injustice defies c

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

    October 1 2019
    Iggy O Donovan

    Paddy @6. Diarmuid Martin may have agreed with you that Tony Flannery's views on the priesthood were mild compared with Gary Wills who was not challenged. Nevertheless Diarmuid has kept a deafening si

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  • 06 October, 2019. 27th Sunday (C)

    October 6 2019
    Mary Vallely

    I heard these words read at mass this morning.“ God did not give us a spirit of cowardice, but rather a spirit of power and of love and of self-discipline.”I committed them to memory intendi

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  • 06 October, 2019. 27th Sunday (C)

    October 6 2019
    Seamus Ahearne

    No more than our duty.I had friends in Sydney many years ago. S & A. Their daughter M took sick with a serious kidney problem. S wrote to me. He was considering donating a kidney to his daught

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

    October 1 2019
    Paddy Ferry

    Thanks, Eddie for pointing out "definitely/definitively". I usually read these pieces at least twice before I post but often I later see errors --usually the complete omission of a word.Thanks, Joe,

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