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  • 24 March: 3rd Sunday of Lent

    March 24 2019
    Seamus Ahearne

    God’s love letter this weekend:In the cheap language of today; words such as WOW, AMAZING, AWESOME are hurled around. Their use is regularly cheap. Such words need to mean what they say. With

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

    March 16 2025
    Joe O'Leary

    I really fear that Catholic churches are on their way to becoming lightning rods for terrorist attack just like synagogues and mosques. Indeed it's already begun: https://aleteia.org/2019/02/16/string

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  • Time running out to save the church

    March 8 2019
    Paddy Ferry

    Eddie, when my Polish nurse first arrived 16 years ago she was distraught when I could not share her exalted view of her Polish pope. Gradually over the years, as I presented evidence to support my po

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

    March 16 2025
    ACP

    At this stage there has been extensive comment on this site about the Cardinal Pell case. Sincerely held opinion has been expressed as to the innocence or guilt of Cardinal Pell following the recent

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  • Deanery Meeting – An Unhappy Experience

    March 17 2019
    Phil Greene

    Pat @ 7 "Sadly, not much is expected from Deanery Meetings, unless the participants, and especially the Chair, are actively seeking a way forward."This is quite sad indeed Pat, as such meetings are

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  • Time running out to save the church

    March 8 2019
    Eddie Finnegan1

    Paddy@4, if we can at least talk of rescinding knighthoods, withdrawing Nobel prizes, unnaming Ozzie shooters in Christchurch, laicising paedophile clerics, defrocking archbishops, "reducing" cardinal

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

    March 16 2025
    Paddy Ferry

    Thanks, Colm, for sharing the link to Fr. Peter Murnane's response to those who think Pell is innocent. It is a must read for everyone exercised by this case.

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

    March 16 2025
    Eddie Finnegan1

    Indeed, Paddy@9, I had expected the Polish Bishops' Conference to conclude by saying, "We are grateful to Pope Francis that he is not a canonised Pole."

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

    March 16 2025
    Paddy Ferry

    This is on the Tablet Facebook page tonight. We have Polish nurses in our practice who have been telling me about this.https://www.thetablet.co.uk/news/11495/polish-bishops-vow-to-improve-child-p

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  • Time running out to save the church

    March 8 2019
    Paddy Ferry

    I think I have said on more than one occasion on this site that in my humble opinion JP11 was the instigator of the policy of cover up in the clerical sex abuse scandal. In last weeks Tablet Clifford

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