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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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  • 24 February. 7th Sunday (C)

    February 24 2019
    Pat Rogers

    Thanks to both Joe and Padraig. Your comments always add texture and quality to the Sunday resources. Please keep them coming! Pat

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  • 25 February. Monday of Week 7

    February 25 2019
    Jim Hepp

    I liked your homily. I was trying to understand what Jesus meant when he said "This kind can only be driven out by prayer". I was thinking Jesus was referring to the boy's father since the father's

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  • A prayer on the occasion of the Vatican Summit on abuse in the church

    February 16 2019
    Joe O'Leary

    Massimo Faggioli applies Girard to this: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10218079096477407&set=a.4936257692724&type=3&theater&notif_t=nf_photo_story&notif_id=15510122075120

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  • Fine words and dramatic gestures are not enough!

    February 19 2019
    Paddy Ferry

    That's a good question, Frances. How would we ever know. However, what I am sure about, from what I have read over the years, is that John Paul II was the main instigator of the policy of cover-up. No

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  • Fine words and dramatic gestures are not enough!

    February 19 2019
    Paddy Ferry

    Joe, you must listen to this --I hope the link works. There is a rather long recitative, "Deeper and deeper still" which you will have to listen to first but it is well worth the wait to get to the ma

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  • Fine words and dramatic gestures are not enough!

    February 19 2019
    Joe O'Leary

    Thank, Paddy, for recommending Kenneth McKellar -- what a beautiful voice! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUXWaeYPkKA

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  • 24 February. 7th Sunday (C)

    February 24 2019
    Joe O'Leary

    Thanks, Padraig. [1 Sam 26 -- the reading continued until Saul's blessing of David in the church here] A heart-stopping moment: will it be another tale of tit for tat revenge, as David [or rather Abi

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