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  • The curious case of the Archbishop’s comments.

    July 12 2018
    Kay McGinty

    So very well said, Brendan.. it’s the way it was, is now and so shall be.. what a pity the bishops cannot open the windows and let light and love that surrounds us, shine through.. we’re all on th

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  • The curious case of the Archbishop’s comments.

    July 12 2018
    Phil Greene

    I can't help thinking of all the abused children/people who silently had to sit whilst the priest that abused them not only read a reading but conducted a full Mass whilst ruining lives in the most ev

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  • 15 July. 15th Sunday

    July 15 2018
    Sean O'Conaill

    But see Comment #5 under 'The Curious Case of the Archbishop's Comments'. https://www.associationofcatholicpriests.ie/2018/07/the-curious-case-of-the-archbishops-comments/#comment-94717

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  • Midsummer Night’s Dream

    June 22 2018
    Paddy Ferry

    Joe, I agree with everything you say @21. Something else that is troubling me at the moment about the Pope's visit is the silence about what is being planned to alert Francis to Tony Flannery's posit

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  • The curious case of the Archbishop’s comments.

    July 12 2018
    Joe O'Leary

    Again, the repeal vote was not about the church but about the welfare and dignity of Irish women, whose stories were at last heard by their fellow-citizens. Making it all about the church is pure cler

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  • 15 July. 15th Sunday

    July 15 2018
    Brian Fahy

    An invitation to love During my studies in Rome in the 1980s I did a course entitled ‘The Homily – Dialogue or Monologue?’ It was a course given by Giuseppe Orlandoni, who is now a bishop in I

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  • The curious case of the Archbishop’s comments.

    July 12 2018
    Sean O'Conaill

    #2 "The church robbed itself of oxygen by failing to cultivate lay theology and to open forums for honest discussion." Exactly. And that gave to younger generations the strong impression that our Ir

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  • The curious case of the Archbishop’s comments.

    July 12 2018
    mary cuffe

    are you seriously suggesting archb. martin is a pushover or an old trad at heart - you are way off the mark brendan the archbishop was responding to a scandal -a government minister who spearheaded th

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  • The curious case of the Archbishop’s comments.

    July 12 2018
    Joe O'Leary

    What should Francis say? Whatever he says is bound to offend, as is silence. I'd say his best bet is to focus on welcoming migrants (in contrast to Trump who made fear of migrants his major stress i

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  • The curious case of the Archbishop’s comments.

    July 12 2018
    Joe O'Leary

    Also, Brendan, there seems to be some clerical idea that the Irish laity are stupid and naive. But as our teacher Fr Peter Connolly said so long ago, "the Irish are not a sentimental people; when some

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