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

    August 8 2018
    Frances Burke

    Brian @ 18. Thank you for sharing your story. The Irish people are in agreement with your call for priests to be allowed marry. At present 67% of Irish people think it should be permitted. https://www

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  • 31 August. Friday, Week 21

    August 31 2018
    Brian Fahy

    My seminary days did not fill me with joy, quite the opposite, but one writer did. I came across the American Jesuit priest and scripture scholar, John L McKenzie, and his book about the New Testament

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  • 30 August. Thursday, Week 21

    August 30 2018
    Brian Fahy

    Coal miner's disease, smoking, the desert sands of war had all taken their toll and my father's life was foreshortened by them. In his last years he was a frail man, but my mother told me that one mor

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  • Do you remember the ‘Year of the Three Popes’?

    August 10 2018
    Chris McDonnell

    With respect Kevin, I feel that your two contributions to this thread have little or nothing to do with content of my original posting. I was trying to open a different story. Go well.

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  • Do you remember the ‘Year of the Three Popes’?

    August 10 2018
    Kevin Walters

    Paul O'Malley @ 2 Thank you Paul for your comment, please justify your statement as in “you seem to carry around with you a briefcase of journalistic curiosities” What over curiosities have I re

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

    August 8 2018
    Mary Vallely

    Yes, Brian @18, your missionary spirit is very much in evidence and no, I do not understand either why priests of integrity like yourself who were true to their Christian values are treated so badly.

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  • Do you remember the ‘Year of the Three Popes’?

    August 10 2018
    Paul O'Malley

    Kevin@1, you seem to carry around with you a briefcase of journalistic curiosities which you hope will some day prove useful. Presumably we must blame this sad event on the shoddiness of North Italian

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

    August 8 2018
    Brian Eyre

    35 years ago I publickly announced to my parishoners that I loved a woman and wanted to carry on my life with her. I was honest about my relationship and I did the right thing, I asked for a dispensa

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  • What would You like to say to Pope Francis about the Church – submit your views

    July 26 2018
    Frances Burke

    This radio interview was given by American priest Fr. Tom Doyle on RTE yesterday. Back in 1985 he "warned of a national scandal if the hierarchy did not adopt a sound policy" in relation to those who

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  • 29 August. The Passion of St John the Baptist

    August 29 2018
    Brian Fahy

    Margaret and I were on holiday in Malta just a year before Margaret died. We were in the co-cathedral in Valletta which is dedicated to John the Baptist and there we saw in a side chapel the magnifice

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