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  • Deanery Meeting – An Unhappy Experience

    March 17 2019
    Bobsie Stephenson

    Words from a friend when I sent him the above: “that is powerful, I really, when reading it, have to agree wholeheartedly, though I may be called hypocrite because again I didn’t say what I felt

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  • Presider’s Page for Monday 17 March (Lá Fhéile Pádraig)

    March 16 2025
    Joe O'Leary

    Eddie, here's another Pell piece -- I don't find it tedious at all; rather it's exciting in the way the Dreyfus Affair was. https://www.patheos.com/blogs/geneveith/2019/03/did-australia-convict-an-in

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  • Deanery Meeting – An Unhappy Experience

    March 17 2019
    Séan Ó'Murchú

    Oh rookie chairperson Jo. It is so disheartening and should not happen. I have been involved in many organisations over the years, some with many layers. I implore you to attend and participate at the

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  • Presider’s Page for Monday 17 March (Lá Fhéile Pádraig)

    March 16 2025
    Eddie Finnegan1

    Ah thank you, ACP@4. Mysterium nunc dissolutum est, and my two middle sentences @3 may now be a little redundant. Indeed Joe's meditation was worth a repetition. You can say that again, Joe. And I mig

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  • Presider’s Page for Monday 17 March (Lá Fhéile Pádraig)

    March 16 2025
    ACP

    Joe's excellent meditation appeared in two different posts in the Liturgy section. Presider’s Page for Sunday 17 March (Lá Fhéile Pádraig) and 17 March: St Patrick, Patron of Ireland Please see

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  • Presider’s Page for Monday 17 March (Lá Fhéile Pádraig)

    March 16 2025
    Eddie Finnegan1

    Paddy Ferry@2, I am glad to see you are still allowed to recognise and praise Joe O'Leary for his excellent meditation on St Patrick. Perhaps only one lay offering is allowed as my own earlier comment

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  • Airbrushed out of Church…. – Elephant in the Church

    March 12 2019
    Maureen Mulvaney

    Well done, Roy for your splendid and excellent article and review of the launch of Mary T. Malone's book, " The Elephant in the Church, Revised Edition. 1 You have started a conversation going here, o

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  • Deanery Meeting – An Unhappy Experience

    March 17 2019
    Sean O'Conaill

    Jo O'Sullivan's recorded experience of a deanery meeting (presumably in Dublin) is valuable in documenting the rearguard clericalism that still baulks at implementing the Catholic principle of the equ

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  • Time running out to save the church

    March 8 2019
    Joe O'Leary

    Here is the text of the article, in case it’s blocked to non-subscribers: A young Catholic activist faces expulsion from Queensland’s Liberal National Party after she called on fellow party membe

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  • Deanery Meeting – An Unhappy Experience

    March 17 2019
    Mary Vallely

    The Deanery meeting ( a new term for me) was handled very badly, Jo, and I applaud you for taking your courage in your hands and writing about it here. Do please go to the next meeting and report back

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