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  • Handle with reverence

    March 6 2018
    Sean O'Conaill

    #16 Thanks for these references, Joe. I note that the criticism cited of the second crusade did not condemn crusading as such, but only various actors in it. I note also that Bernard is described b

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  • Five Years of Pope Francis: Hope has been Raised, Dramatic Action Awaited 

    March 10 2018
    Frances Burke

    This article states the 'Pope’s good intentions are abused by those around him, who seem to have sought clemency for friends in the same way they secure approval for questionable acts of governance.

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  • Salvation

    March 7 2018
    Joe Walsh

    I've been a priest for 54 years. I have my horror stories and torn my hair out in despair of the institutional. Mary McAleese's talk was long overdue. It scratches the surface. I see two big issues: 1

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  • Mary McAleese to Pope Francis -‘develop a credible strategy for the inclusion of women as equals’

    March 9 2018
    Billy Fulton

    At the last ACP conference I attended , Dom Mark Patrick Hederman made the point that there was no way the public statements of the ACP hierarchy could involve consultation of members, because of the

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  • ‘Whistle- Blower’   (Life, Death, Hope and the Eight Amendment)

    March 10 2018
    Sandra mc Sheaffrey

    While I have lived in Ireland for many years, I am not a citizen so will have no voice in the Referendum. I came across a short piece by Leunig, entitled To One and all, which serves as a daily prayer

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  • Misogyny in the Vatican

    March 8 2018
    Paddy Ferry

    Mary is wonderful. An intelligent, articulate, exceptionally able and internationally respected woman who deeply cares about our church and who is able and willing to tell it as it is. Thank God for h

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  • 11 March. Fourth Sunday of Lent

    March 11 2018
    Paddy Ferry

    As I listened to 2 Chronicles this morning and heard and read the words “Thus speaks Cyrus king of Persia, ” The Lord of heaven has given me all the kingdoms of the earth; ……” “, I could n

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  • Misogyny in the Vatican

    March 8 2018
    Rory Connor

    Fr Joe If Mary McAleese was mis-quoted (by people who hate the Catholic Church) she needs to sort things out quickly. According to a report I part-heard on RTE 1 radio this afternoon, her comment that

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  • Handle with reverence

    March 6 2018
    Eddie Finnegan

    As Pope Francis does his weekly perusal of the ACP website his faith in his constant mantra must be rudely shaken. "Time is greater than space" may indeed make sense even for an octogenarian within Ca

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  • 11 March. Fourth Sunday of Lent

    March 11 2018
    Pat Rogers

    Great reflection, Padraig. Kep them coming, please.

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