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  • 27 August. Monday, Week 21

    August 27 2018
    Brian Fahy

    I was at home on holiday from the junior seminary, aged 13. My father was in hospital, my mother out at work. We four children were home. A knock came to the front door and there stood the curate, a m

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

    July 26 2018
    Frances Burke

    Has the pope been told that homeless people may have to move out of their accommodation to facilitate his visit? This tweet comes up with the perfect solution to this problem (I’m sure homeless peo

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  • 12 August. 19th Sunday

    August 12 2018
    Pádraig McCarthy

    Be incarnate in our faith. "There at his head was a cake baked on hot stones." How did it taste? Elijah hadn't forgotten to take his lunch with him - he had to get out of town fast, to escape Jezebel,

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

    August 8 2018
    Frances Burke

    Thank you James for your honesty. I look forward to reading part 2. I always suspected that the Church was a refuge for gay men but I never suspected that three out of four are gay. On the plus side,

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

    August 8 2018
    Mary Burke

    If sounds safe to assume that the percentage of bishops who are gay is proportionately the same as the number of priests who are. Of the 26 Irish bishops, this would suggest that 18 are gay. A soberin

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  • 26 August. 21st Sunday

    August 26 2018
    Brian Fahy

    I have always loved visiting churches. I suppose it began with my own little parish church in Lancashire, a little gem of a building that I found cosy and warm and a place of love and presence. Often,

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

    August 8 2018
    Paddy Ferry

    Edward@ 4, the percentage your brother priest suggested is very much in line with the results of the research on the priesthood in Europe and America carried out by Fr. Donald Cozzens, the American pr

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

    August 8 2018
    Maureen Mulvaney

    Thank you James. Now, I know why the door is firmly shut to women.

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

    August 10 2018
    Kevin Walters

    “1978 The Year of the Three Popes” If we fast forward 36 years we could say that this was the Year of Four Popes As Pope Frances assisted by Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI officiated in the ceremony

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

    August 8 2018
    Edward Butler

    As one of a rapidly dwindling and proportionately few straight members of the clergy, I would like to sincerely thank James Alison for his personal honesty in assessing the prevalence and influence,

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