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  • Gay priests are “caught in a trap of dishonesty”

    August 8 2018
    Paddy Ferry

    Margaret, I suppose his character judging limitations were at least part of the reason he chose men unsuited and who ultimately did such damage. I think that makes sense, surely.

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  • Gay priests are “caught in a trap of dishonesty”

    August 8 2018
    Margaret Hickey

    JP2's background made him very circumspect where abuse allegations against clergy were concerned.Francis also showed the same circumspection regarding abuse claims in Chile and got it wrong at least

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  • 22 August. The Queenship of Mary

    August 22 2018
    Brian Fahy

    We are a people who walk in darkness at the present time. Our political world is very troubled and our Church world is deeply disturbed. Recent reports all over the world are very upsetting for everyo

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  • Pope is bringing his revolution to Ireland: Brendan Hoban

    August 15 2018
    Frances Burke

    This is the best article I have read on the current crisis. The Church is ‘not fit for purpose’. Sums it up perfectly. https://t.co/H3xu1kxpck?ssr=true

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  • 22 August. The Queenship of Mary

    August 22 2018
    Brian Fahy

    When I left priesthood I went home to explain everything to my mother. She was 83 at the time and retired back in her homeland of Ireland. I told her my whole story so that she could understand what I

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  • Gay priests are “caught in a trap of dishonesty”

    August 8 2018
    Paddy Ferry

    Margaret@26, everyone is allowed one mistake. JP II spent his whole pontificate appointing the most right wing yes men, many of them Opus Dei types, to lead dioceses with disastrous results. One examp

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  • Gay priests are “caught in a trap of dishonesty”

    August 8 2018
    Margaret Hickey

    Paddy @2 Jesus chose Judas as one of the founding 12. Does that mean he was a poorer 'judge of character'than JP2?

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  • Pope is bringing his revolution to Ireland: Brendan Hoban

    August 15 2018
    Frances Burke

    It’s hard to believe that we have to ask for this in the year 2018 ‘We call on the Pope to immediately put in place a system of mandatory reporting to civil authorities across the globe and the i

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  • Pope is bringing his revolution to Ireland: Brendan Hoban

    August 15 2018
    Kevin Walters

    Press release Letter of the Holy Father Francis to the People of God, 20.08.2018 http://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/bollettino/pubblico/2018/08/20/180820a.html kevin your brother In Christ

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  • 21 August. Tuesday, Week 20

    August 21 2018
    Brian Fahy

    I often think of my father's two uncles, John and Owen, who fought and died in the First World War, one in Flanders and one on the approaches to Jerusalem. Young men in their twenties, they had lost t

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