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  • First Confession – a sort of Memoir

    September 5 2017
    mjt

    Seamus, I`m most flattered to be mentioned in your latest post, but you write some things in it which can`t be allowed to pass. For example, having declined initially to blame Rome for it, you had pla

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  • First Confession – a sort of Memoir

    September 5 2017
    Mattie Long

    Seamus, Are you sure you weren't in Rome consulting with Pope Francis during your recent holiday? Can I refer readers to; Read more 8 comments

  • First Confession – a sort of Memoir

    September 5 2017
    Seamus Ahearne

    mjt @1 - Clarification re New Missal: Of all the things I have written (in this article); I felt that those words on the Missal were the least likely to be misunderstood. Clearly I was wrong. I donâ€

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  • Pope Francis gives local bishops more responsibility for Mass translations

    September 9 2017
    Chris McDonnell

    Great news! Just six years too late Let's wait and see who will have the courage to opt for the agreed 1997 text. Or is it now the case that we muddle on with what we've got... where there are those l

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  • We are Church – Reformation 500 Project

    October 22 2017
    Mary Vallely

    I'll certainly be standing outside my own cathedral in Armagh before the 11 am mass on Sunday 29th October and anyone willing to join me can be assured of the warmest of welcomes! Many I have spoken t

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  • 10 Sept. 23rd Sunday in OT

    September 10 2017
    John P Forbes

    I would like to know what is the translation you have used for the scripture passages? Also thank you for your insights of this weeks' readings.

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  • First Confession – a sort of Memoir

    September 5 2017
    Pádraig McCarthy

    Séamus on teachers: I read somewhere recently: Pay soccer managers those salaries, on one condition : That teachers are paid on the same scale. The work they do is at least as important to our societ

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  • First Confession – a sort of Memoir

    September 5 2017
    Phil Rogers

    First Confession - what a beautiful and life-enhancing piece of poetic dreaming! Awesome that the mean age of Catholic priests in Ireland is 70+! There is no future for Catholicism here unless the

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  • Married priests no longer in public ministry

    August 26 2017
    Lloyd Allan MacPherson

    Well MJT, being I don't know you from Adam, I'll serve you with 2 apologies: I'm sorry if I took your post @ 26 as sarcasm - I truly believe that it is the lowest form of communication on this planet

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  • A Year of the People?

    September 2 2017
    Lloyd Allan MacPherson

    We are actually heading into our third year of the people - Pope Francis announced it as an era that will last during his tenure. According to an article in NCR: The church’s structure, the pope s

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