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  • Pope orders new investigation into allegations against Bishop Barros

    January 30 2018
    Frances Burke

    A statement from the Pope is essential at this stage to end all this speculation https://t.co/Gs50jWoSDG?ssr=true

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  • World Meeting of Families – Let’s be real.

    February 9 2018
    Joe O'Leary

    What most makes me pessimistic about this family event is the dismal and tedious performance of the bishops at the two Synod meetings on the family. The style of these exercises seems to be fixed.

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  • World Meeting of Families: Who’s welcome?

    February 1 2018
    Joe O'Leary

    As the ethical wisdom of humanity grows (and it does) all ancient texts, even divinely inspired ones, have to be corrected because of the now apparent blind spots of their cultural matrix. The NT is

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  • World Meeting of Families – Let’s be real.

    February 9 2018
    Frances Burke

    Great article in which a lot of common sense is used. As we know ‘Common sense is not that common’. I would recommend Dr Jordan B Peterson’s work to anyone interested in hearing a modern interpr

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  • 10 February. Saturday of Week 5

    February 10 2018
    Rodolfo

    I live almost 10,000 miles away from Ireland and am so grateful to ACP for the spiritual feeding which you provide. I know that you do have a world wide readership. I thank our Provident God for pla

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  • World Meeting of Families – Let’s be real.

    February 9 2018
    Mary Vallely

    “Well how I wish that this gathering in August would celebrate the mess and the reality of life as it is lived among us in this country at present. We don’t need pious waffle rattling away with th

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  • World Meeting of Families – Let’s be real.

    February 9 2018
    Paddy Ferry

    Excellent article, Seamus. "We don’t need pious waffle rattling away with the so called elite of Church life talking of a world and a family that barely exists."--that really nails it. Thanks,

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  • World Meeting of Families: Who’s welcome?

    February 1 2018
    Margaret Hickey

    Joe @22 the NT accords with natural law re 'torture, capital punishment, status of women, genocide (even) slavery'. It is our discernement that needs to catch up.

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  • World Meeting of Families – Let’s be real.

    February 9 2018
    Joe O'Leary

    This hits the nail on the head. The bishops come rushing to the scene with their band aid but do not dare examine the patient. A glimpse of the current "chaos" in today's Guardian: https://www.theguar

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  • “We need to stop sending mixed messages on important issues.”

    February 2 2018
    Joe O'Leary

    Margaret, I thought Weigel's article was very poor. "most gay couples who want to marry envisage becoming parents. Our Constitution has now enshrined that as a right." I suppose the constitution recog

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