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

    February 2 2018
    Mary Vallely

    Good to read this statement from the ACP and also the recent statements from WAC. Both actions, the removal of the same sex images from the WMoF booklet and the barring of Mary McAleese and two othe

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

    February 2 2018
    Frances Burke

    I welcome the above statement by the ACP and I also welcome Archbishop Diarmuid Martin’s statement earlier today in relation to the Vatican’s treatment of President McAleese. All these ‘own goal

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  • World Meeting of Families: Who’s welcome?

    February 1 2018
    Francis

    I respectfully have a different view that WACI @3. All family types are still welcome , it's just that they might not get the same coverage. The whole episode highlights for me that continued discussi

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  • World Meeting of Families: Who’s welcome?

    February 1 2018
    iggy o'donovan

    The story of Cardinal Farrell's "ban" on Mary McAleese from the Womens conference, if true is surely an own goal. But should one be surprised??

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  • The President, Michael D. Higgins, today met with the authors of ‘A Dialogue of Hope’

    January 24 2018
    Margaret Hickey

    Indeed, there is plenty'clericalim'around. It is by no means limited to Sixties style clerics. Nor is it in essence limited to clergy. You find plenty of lay'clericalism' among parish cliques. They mi

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  • World Meeting of Families: Who’s welcome?

    February 1 2018
    Frances Burke

    This family aren’t welcome obviously at the Vatican https://t.co/dOsZRCas5y?ssr=true "Vatican blocks McAleese from giving keynote speech 'over views on gay rights'"

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  • World Meeting of Families: Who’s welcome?

    February 1 2018
    Joe O'Leary

    Unfortunately, the positions set forth in Homosexualitatis Problema in 1986 still hold in Vatican circles, and whatever Francis's good intentions he seems powerless to alter that. Cyberbullying sites

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  • A House Divided

    January 30 2018
    William

    Brendan, as usual you have put your finger on one of the the problems in our Church. The appointment of Bishops, using the template drawn up by Pope John Paul 11. This template called for sound men,

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  • World Meeting of Families: Who’s welcome?

    February 1 2018
    We are Church Ireland

    Today February 1st ‘We are Church Ireland” are calling on the Irish Government to withhold state funding of the World Meeting of Families 2018 (WMoF 2018) until assurances are received from the or

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  • World Meeting of Families: Who’s welcome?

    February 1 2018
    Francis

    I hope the organizing committee of the World Meeting of Families make it loud and clear that all family types are welcome. We have come a long way of acceptance and welcome in this country. I hope th

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