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  • Fr. Patrick Burke R.I.P.

    July 2 2018
    Brendan Cafferty

    It is so sad to hear of this priest's death, I had read his article on the Islands just a few weeks ago and was impressed by it.I did not know him. So young and with so much to offer at a time when pr

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  • Midsummer Night’s Dream

    June 22 2018
    Joe O'Leary

    Fr Gerard Maloney CSSR is very misleading in today's Irish Times: “The big Yes vote in the recent Eighth Amendment referendum can only be interpreted as a monumental loss for the Catholic Church.

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  • Midsummer Night’s Dream

    June 22 2018
    Joe O'Leary

    Sean, I have to say that I did not find Cardinal Farrell's remarks at all enlightening. "We are promoting women, but to ordain them would be to isolate them" is just what we've been hearing for decade

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  • Fr. Patrick Burke R.I.P.

    July 2 2018
    Brian Fahy

    I was shocked to hear of the death of Fr. Patrick Burke, at 38. I read his piece on island ministry. I write this reflection on the narrow gate and hard road, and I offer it in tribute to that young p

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  • Midsummer Night’s Dream

    June 22 2018
    Sean O'Conaill

    #10 "Or if he [Francis] does have some prophetic message, surely the allodoxy factor will kick in again, ensuring it is not heard?" Clergy can't prevent people listening via all secular media (and in

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  • 29 June, 2018. Ss Peter and Paul, Apostles. (Solemnity)

    June 29 2018
    Kevin Walters

    “The keys suggest authority and that authority is put in terms of binding and loosing, probably a teaching role. Peter is entrusted with authoritatively interpreting the mind of Jesus for other mem

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  • Island Ministry

    June 6 2018
    Eddie Finnegan

    Suaimhneas síoraí d' anam. Young Fr Burke deserves an island burial, just as he described above so recently.

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  • Island Ministry

    June 6 2018
    Owen Jennings

    A beautifully written article, inspiring one to consider all that is wonderful about perspective in our lives. Well done Patrick, forever proud to know you!

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  • Midsummer Night’s Dream

    June 22 2018
    Joe O'Leary

    Padraig, thanks for compiling this stunning sheaf of information. I shall share it with anyone who goes on about septic tanks. Sean, the clergy's allodoxy-phobia is applied first of all to Irish voic

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  • 25 June, 2018. Monday day of Week 12

    June 25 2018
    Brian Fahy

    The plank in my eye One day, in the west of Ireland, I was sitting talking with my dear mother, now an old lady in her 80s, and I was recalling the pleasant nature of my father, now long gone from us.

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