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  • Fine words and dramatic gestures are not enough!

    February 19 2019
    Christine Lynch

    Thank you Phil. I read the Crux Now article. There is no question that the abuse of girls is abhorrent. In the words of Jesus "it is better they had never been born" in relation to any adult that

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  • Fine words and dramatic gestures are not enough!

    February 19 2019
    Paddy Ferry

    Interesting words from Fr. Federico Lombardi who will act as moderator of the summit. He said "I am absolutely convinced that our credibility in this area is at stake. We have to get to the root of th

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  • Fine words and dramatic gestures are not enough!

    February 19 2019
    Frances Burke

    'Focusing on homosexuality also “acts as a smokescreen; people now are discussing homosexuality, rather than the crimes themselves,” she said. Pretending clerical sexual abuse is a result of homos

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  • Fine words and dramatic gestures are not enough!

    February 19 2019
    Phil Greene

    To Christine LynchPlease read and rereadhttps://cruxnow.com/february-abuse-summit/2019/02/20/blaming-homosexuality-for-abuse-of-minors-is-distraction-victims-say/

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  • 10 February. 5th Sunday (C)

    February 10 2019
    Sean O'Conaill

    #26 Among the 'scholars' you do respect, Joe, which of these pointed to the recurrent pattern of all-against-one violence in the scriptures - from the story of Jonah thrown overboard to calm the storm

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  • Fine words and dramatic gestures are not enough!

    February 19 2019
    Christine Lynch

    The main problem in The Church as far as sexual abuse is concerned is not so much paedophilia (which in the Catholic Church is below the average - still NOT acceptable) but pederasty, i.e., sex betwee

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  • 10 February. 5th Sunday (C)

    February 10 2019
    Eddie Finnegan1

    Excellent, Sean. As often you were well ahead of the pack, but just as often no pack followed whether to support your argument or to tear you to pieces.

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  • 10 February. 5th Sunday (C)

    February 10 2019
    Joe O'Leary

    The clergy have often brought moral scrutiny to bear on Irish nationalist activities -- excommunicating the IRA in the Civil War, problematizing "the morality of hunger strikes" in the time of Terence

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  • Fine words and dramatic gestures are not enough!

    February 19 2019
    Joe O'Leary

    The usual inconsistency: on the one hand glorifying "vows of celibacy" and on the other calling for "rethinking an entire approach to sexuality in Catholicism that is peculiar, punitive and often plai

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  • 10 February. 5th Sunday (C)

    February 10 2019
    Sean O’Conaill

    #25. Yes indeed, Eddie. I tried reminding everyone of Francis Shaw in 2014, here:http://www.irishnews.com/lifestyle/2014/11/27/news/was-the-1916-rising-a-just-war---and-why-has-catholic-church-noth

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