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  • Northern Regional Meeting, ACP

    October 3 2018
    Eddie Finnegan

    For 'Northern Regional Meetings' isn't it time ACP recognised the remaining two-thirds of Ulster and of the Primatial Ecclesiastical Province? It is an All-Ireland / Whole Island Church after all. No

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  • Call for Action by Christians in Response to the Housing Crisis

    September 29 2018
    Brendan Butler

    Thank you Peter for your continual prophetic stand for the homeless in word and action. Now that the Irish Catholic Bishops have talked the talk about homelessness will they now walk the walk under th

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  • 30 September. 26th Sunday

    September 30 2018
    Joe O'Leary

    Pat, your mention of Bonhoeffer also chimes with the sermon I heard yesterday: Fr Bulson mentioned Bonhoeffer and "costly grace." It looks as if something like an approved tradition for dealing with s

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  • 30 September. 26th Sunday

    September 30 2018
    Paddy Ferry

    Thanks, Pat, and Joe too. Oiche mhaith.

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  • The Passion of a Priest

    September 30 2018
    Thomas Keane

    Do people normally go into the confession box and ask a priest for a blessing. I have done it once and felt mad doing it. I dont know why I did it, it just came out of me when I was struggling with di

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  • 30 September. 26th Sunday

    September 30 2018
    Pat Rogers

    Fair point, Paddy (1). I did not venture into that minefield of hyperbole, where literal interpretation would lead to self-harm .... and the sort of dangers mentioned by Joe (2). Kieran O'Mahony's co

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  • Call for Action by Christians in Response to the Housing Crisis

    September 29 2018
    Mary Vallely

    This is very much a pro-life issue and it is a searing indictment of our country that so many are homeless or are stressed to the hilt worrying about how to pay the rent. To think that the governme

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  • 30 September. 26th Sunday

    September 30 2018
    Joe O'Leary

    The Anglican priest I heard this morning told us that when he was a chaplain he was warned never to read that text in the hearing of psychotic patients who would be quite capable of putting it into pr

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  • Call for Action by Christians in Response to the Housing Crisis

    September 29 2018
    Donal Dorr

    Dear Peter, How could I NOT come there after reading your passionate and convincing piece. Thank you. Donal

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  • When Words prevent Prayer – the current state of the Eucharistic Liturgy

    September 21 2018
    Paddy Ferry

    I had a 4th, Joe, Scottish Independence. Thank God there were enough sensible people in Scotland not to let that catastrophe happen.

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