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  • Annual General Meeting 2018

    October 21 2018
    Mary Vallely

    I would really just like to offer a few words of encouragement to the leadership and members of the ACP. If I were a priest I would take great comfort in knowing that such a body as the ACP was there

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  • 21 October. 29th Sunday

    October 21 2018
    Pádraig McCarthy

    On this World Mission Sunday, it may seem difficult to speak with enthusiasm for the mission of a church which seems beset by bad and tragic news stories on all sides. How can one promote a church, ho

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  • The Retirement of Priests

    October 13 2018
    Ann Keevans

    I was really surprised to read that Diocesan priests were not guaranteed a pension in their old age. Surely it is time that each Diocese should register as the employer of every member of the clerg

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  • Papal Visit – What people think

    October 18 2018
    Ann Keevans

    The main reason why people did not attend the Papal Mass was because of the long walks to and from the Park. Since the majority of practicing Catholics at present in Ireland are the older generation

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  • Leadership vacuum in Church in the U.S.A. causes problems world wide

    October 19 2018
    Paddy Ferry

    What an excellent editorial from NCP! Two paragraphs, in particular, jumped off the page/screen as I read it. "It also bares as pretenders those who previously claimed the high ground of “orthodoxy

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  • Homily of Pope Francis at Mass of Canonisations, 14 October 2018

    October 14 2018
    Eddie Finnegan

    While front-running papabili in conclave do not have to convince their electorate that, if elected, they will serve only one papal term, perhaps, before the winner is asked whether he accepts his elec

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  • One man, one vote; One woman, no vote ….. ?

    October 18 2018
    Phil Greene

    The report is good , but "yawn" ... aren't women such an inconvenience to the Vatican and other Alpha male places .. clearly men(in frocks and out) are far superior beings ..women are there to clean c

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  • Papal Visit – What people think

    October 18 2018
    Eddie Finnegan

    "The Papal Visit - What People Think" ??? Well no. Maybe "The Papal Visit - What some people seem to think in response to some leading questions." And, for a survey of all-Ireland thinking on faith,

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  • The Retirement of Priests

    October 13 2018
    Roy Donovan

    Mattie, Well over on a brilliant paper and the work put into it. The Irish Bishops, I am given to believe, have a retirement pension whereby they receive 25k salary annually. It's a pity that the

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  • The Retirement of Priests

    October 13 2018
    Fr. Tresphor Mutale

    Pension for priests is something serious as posited by the author above. In our case here in Zambia not even do we discuss the issue of pension for priests. Because of the unknown future security for

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