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  • 04 March. Third Sunday of Lent

    March 4 2018
    Eddie Finnegan

    "Why build Cathedrals?" I have a clear memory of Cardinal Cushing's long drawn out address in hoarse Bostonese after he and Bishop Michael Browne launched 'Europe's last great stone-built cathedral' o

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  • 04 March. Third Sunday of Lent

    March 4 2018
    Pádraig McCarthy

    Exodus: A person alone on a desert island does not need a code of conduct for living with other people. The Decalogue is a code for how we live in community as God's family. It is not just a moral cod

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  • When Compassion is seen as Sin – The Stalking of Fr. James Martin sj

    February 23 2018
    Joe O'Leary

    What Fr Weinandy perceives as "the confusion and turmoil within the Church today, a chaos and an uncertainty that I felt Pope Frrancis had himself caused" is not a matter of papal manners but of the e

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  • Bishop of Dromore, John McAreavey, resigns

    March 1 2018
    Rory Connor

    Two quotes from the ACP article: "Bishop Dr John McAreavey, at the centre of a controversy for officiating at a paedophile priest’s funeral, has resigned as the Co Down Bishop of Dromore" AND

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  • Bishop of Dromore, John McAreavey, resigns

    March 1 2018
    Eddie Finnegan

    #6 Sean, you may have misread my slightly cryptic reference to that 'earlier concelebration'. My allusion to my namesake as 'Judas' was not that he betrayed his bishop by turning up for Clonduff's se

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  • When Compassion is seen as Sin – The Stalking of Fr. James Martin sj

    February 23 2018
    Con Devree

    #13 Fr Joe Whatever about the reference to Stalin, # 13 offers no evidence of dissent against Church teaching by Fr Weinandy. Every pope's day to day performance is open to civil criticism from anybo

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  • 04 March. Third Sunday of Lent

    March 4 2018
    Sean O'Conaill

    The trouble with indicting 'materialism' is that in placing the emphasis upon 'matter' we miss the fact that what is truly at work in the accumulation of more money than we need is something entirely

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  • Bishop of Dromore, John McAreavey, resigns

    March 1 2018
    Brendan Cafferty

    I find aspects of Bishop McAreavey's resignation disturbing. As others have pointed out does the Church have the option of deciding who will get a Christian burial,which is an occasion of praying for

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  • The Gift of Snow

    March 1 2018
    Paddy Ferry

    PS. Seamus, I don't think I am capable of the same tolerance to Cardinal Sarah as you are.

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  • The Gift of Snow

    March 1 2018
    Paddy Ferry

    Seamus, I am sitting here this Saturday morning  in snow covered Edinburgh, mentally preparing myself to go out and dig out the car, and I have just enjoyed reading The Gift of Snow. I managed to get

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