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  • How to tackle the clerical abuse scandal.

    January 2 2019
    Frances Burke

    This priest is 'taking the road less traveled'."Keenly aware of the general absence of support from his fellow priests, Father Vignon does not spare his colleagues. “The truth is that many have go

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  • Looking back on 2018 and Repeal the Eight

    January 2 2019
    Paddy Ferry

    Thank you, Tony, for your honesty, as always. I had just been reading Gene Kerrigan in last week's Sunday Independent, " If Robert Emmett could see us now", I share the link below, and his reminding

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  • The Quiet Revolution of Pope Francis: A Synodal Catholic Church in Ireland? A Talk by Gerry O Hanlon

    January 7 2019
    Mary Vallely

    Thank you for posting notice of this event for us. It is a rare opportunity for those of us in this part of Ireland who are passionate about reform to come together to listen, to reflect and to share

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  • Cardinal urges change of celibacy rule

    January 4 2019
    Kevin Walters

    Darlene Starrs @ 4Yes Darlene, it will only be a patch (sticking plaster) over an ever growing open wound (Divide) between the sexes, propagated from within the leadership of the Church. So having o

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  • Cardinal urges change of celibacy rule

    January 4 2019
    Darlene Starrs

    Was the impetus of Vatican II to simply patch the old wineskin? Changing the celibacy rule is not necessarily ineffectual for a Church in crisis, but I believe it is only a patch. I believe the Lord

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  • Looking back on 2018 and Repeal the Eight

    January 2 2019
    Brendan Cafferty

    Patrick @1 above. A lot of people who voted to remove the 8th are against abortion. The 1983 Amendment was ill thought out,as it is impossible to insert into a Constitution all the exceptions,and nuan

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  • Looking back on 2018 and Repeal the Eight

    January 2 2019
    mary cuffe

    reply from mary cuffe Tony Flannery wrote the above article which to my mind supports a regime that finances the annihilation of innocent unborn babies and he did it within a few days of the feast of

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  • Looking back on 2018 and Repeal the Eight

    January 2 2019
    Patrick Cummins

    Limits to Freedom and limits to Democracy I am shocked by the above article penned by Fr Tony Flannery in which he admits voting for and welcoming the Abortion Bill. This Bill is an unrestricted char

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  • Cardinal urges change of celibacy rule

    January 4 2019
    Brian Eyre

    Recently Cardinal Marx of Munich has said that the hour has come to open the way of the Church to renewal and reform and to consider a change in the discipline of celibacy. So the day may come when pr

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  • How to tackle the clerical abuse scandal.

    January 2 2019
    Sean O’Conaill

    The pope’s call for metanoia - change of mindset - is equally apposite for the Irish conference of bishops. It is a huge mistake to confine the question of accountability to child safeguarding. Co

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