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  • A Suffering Church

    September 8 2018
    Eddie Finnegan

    I agree, Frances@16, that this is great news. This may finally, after more than fifty years of their existence, force national or regional Bishops' Conferences around the world to become what the Seco

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  • A Suffering Church

    September 8 2018
    Frances Burke

    This is great news. The 'protection of minors' will be the theme of this world gathering. https://www.ncronline.org/news/accountability/francis-summons-worlds-bishop-presidents-rome-meeting-clergy-a

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  • RTE’s Coverage of Church and Faith Matters

    September 2 2018
    Sean McDonagh

    I agree with Finian Connaughton's article that much of the media coverage of Pope Francis’ visit to Ireland and the World Meeting of Families 2018, was biased. A group of us meet under the umbrell

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  • What did we learn from the papal visit? – In ten easy lessons

    September 11 2018
    Eddie Finnegan

    #2: "As a man given to asides during his speeches I wonder had he more to say privately to the bishops than appeared in the official script." My thoughts too as I read the script. No mass episcopal r

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  • A Suffering Church

    September 8 2018
    Joe O'Leary

    Those who blame the child abuse scandal on homosexuality scoff at the Jay Report and Thomas Plante. In the link given by Frances above we read: 'Most of the clerical sexual abuse perpetrators have be

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  • A Suffering Church

    September 8 2018
    Frances Burke

    There is no doubt that the conservative wing in the Catholic Church are using the current scandals to undermine the popes plans for reform. Blaming the abuse of children on gay priests is a complete d

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  • A Suffering Church

    September 8 2018
    Joe O'Leary

    Thanks for your rational intervention, Padraig. Your piece on abortion will appear in the Japan Mission Journal on Friday, Here is my editorial: Pope Francis has been fiercely resisted by a certain f

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  • Erring Shepherds

    September 10 2018
    Sean O'Conaill

    "There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it." (Lord Acton 1887) https://history.hanover.edu/courses/excerpts/165acton.html Note that Acton wrote this in the same lette

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  • A Suffering Church

    September 8 2018
    Pádraig McCarthy

    It is good that we come to know the full story about sexual abuse, whether of children or of others, in the church. Christians acknowledge their sinfulness regularly. Even just one case of such abuse

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  • A Suffering Church

    September 8 2018
    Chris McDonnell

    The Jesuit journal AMERICA reports today that The Council of Cardinal Advisors issued a statement on September 10 expressing their “full solidarity with Pope Francis in the face of what has happen

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