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  • Bishop Barros controversy in Chile

    January 20 2018
    Joe O'Leary

    Consider that IF Bishop Barros is completely guiltless, as he loudly claims, then the entire media and countless Catholic voices are indeed involved in a massive slander campaign, now directed against

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  • Bishop Barros controversy in Chile

    January 20 2018
    Joe O'Leary

    "Under normal circumstances (Before credibility had been lost) this would have been more acceptable, but as Sean O’Conaill @4 says “If this man is not supported by his people, how can he function

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  • Bishop Barros controversy in Chile

    January 20 2018
    Pádraig McCarthy

    Kevin #10: Three distinct matters. 1. Can Bishop Barros effectively carry out his ministry if he does not have the trust of his people? It seems clear that the answer is that he cannot. 2. You write

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  • Bishop Barros controversy in Chile

    January 20 2018
    Paddy Ferry

    Kevin@10, very well said.

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  • Return of the Servant Myth

    January 19 2018
    Lloyd Allan MacPherson

    @1 PC - much better, thank you.

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  • Bishop Barros controversy in Chile

    January 20 2018
    Kevin Walters

    Pádraig McCarthy @ 4 “Come Holy Spirit” Is the guilt or innocence of Bishop Barros the crucial question? None of us can truly know the guilt or innocence of this bishop but what we do k

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  • Bishop Barros controversy in Chile

    January 20 2018
    Paddy Ferry

    Great man though Francis is, it seems even he, like other good men who contribute to this site, once this issue arises, simply cannot prise the clericalist log from the retina. I am so disappointed. I

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  • Bishop Barros controversy in Chile

    January 20 2018
    Frances Burke

    As a survivor I am bitterly disappointed with the Popes comments in Chile. "The day they bring me proof against the bishop, then I will speak. There is not a single proof against him. This calumny!

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  • Bishop Barros controversy in Chile

    January 20 2018
    Joe O'Leary

    I was shocked to see America magazine chime in with the dishonest conflation of the abuser priest with the allegedly negligent bishop, making Francis out to be a colluder with the former. We seem to

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  • Bishop Barros controversy in Chile

    January 20 2018
    iggy o'donovan

    The statement of Cardinal O'Malley while quite supportive of Francis also seems to show that the Cardinal is somewhat uneasy with the Barros case.

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