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  • Fine words and dramatic gestures are not enough!

    February 19 2019
    Joe O'Leary

    Not sure what point Paddy is making by posting that miscellany of well-know facts.The sentencing today was entirely predicated, as the judge himself said, on taking the jury's verdict as correct; he

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  • Airbrushed out of Church…. – Elephant in the Church

    March 12 2019
    Kevin Walters

    So having once again reflected on the problem of creating an inclusive Priesthood I have concluded that it will not be resolved, until the authoritarianism and elitism that is embedded within Clerical

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  • Fine words and dramatic gestures are not enough!

    February 19 2019
    Paddy Ferry

    Joe, you take my breath away !! Here is another piece from last week's Tablet for you to completely dismiss.Church in disarray after Pell verdict. Christopher Lamb.The Church is grappling to com

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  • Time running out to save the church

    March 8 2019
    Frances Burke

    'The tribunalization of the Church is tempting because it brings down the guilt solely on abusers and those who it covered up — few or many, but still delimited individuals.This clear distinction

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  • Time running out to save the church

    March 8 2019
    Kevin Walters

    “If the Church does not accomplish a turnaround shift within the next four or five years, then it’s over,”We are ‘all’ sinners, nevertheless His promise “the gates of hell shall not pre

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  • Don’t let life get you down

    March 9 2019
    Chris Byrne

    Very reasonable comments by Mary Vallely. If only your commonsense was shared by those in the Vatican.

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  • Fine words and dramatic gestures are not enough!

    February 19 2019
    Joe O'Leary

    Manly is the Maynooth of the Southern Hemisphere -- I visited the place and it doesn't hold a candle to its archetype.I'm sorry, but I don't share Thomas Keneally's appreciation of the complainant's

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  • Don’t let life get you down

    March 9 2019
    Paddy Ferry

    "Honesty is what is required. We all have the same needs and desires and we cannot continue pretending that putting on a chasuble or wearing a clerical collar can somehow protect a man from his humani

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  • Fine words and dramatic gestures are not enough!

    February 19 2019
    Paddy Ferry

    Another reflection on the Pell Affair, this time from Australia and from Thomas Keneally in last weekend's Tablet.Thomas KeneallyThe former Cardinal Archbishop of Sydney and head of the Vatican

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  • Don’t let life get you down

    March 9 2019
    Mary Vallely

    “I repeat any minister of the Gospel/any Church leader who doesn’t bring laughter and hope shouldn’t be allowed to continue in the ministry.”A wee bit harsh, I think, if you don’t mind my

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