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  • TOMORROW!!! ACP AGM 2023 – Tues 7 Nov 2.00-5.00pm Radisson Athlone

    November 6 2023
    Sean O'Conaill

    As Jesus’ priesthood was centrally about challenging an unjust religious and social system - i.e. about an actual sacrifice - and only secondly about the institution of a sacramental ritual - the Eu

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  • 29 Oct 2023 – 30th Sunday, (A)

    October 29 2023
    Thara Benedicta

    Key Message: Let our life be an example life for others. Homily: In a Christian family, the daughter fell into the wrong friendships when she switched schools for hi

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  • Link to Tony Flannery documentary on TG4

    October 20 2023
    Eddie Finnegan

    Paddy@3, Joe@4, Thanks Joe for the careful fact-checking. If that 1982 address at Murrayfield had been given by Francis in Portugal in 2023 we could all be loud in its praise. Karol Wojtyla has enough

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  • TOMORROW!!! ACP AGM 2023 – Tues 7 Nov 2.00-5.00pm Radisson Athlone

    November 6 2023
    Joe O'Leary

    I discovered a copy of that magnificent novel, Luke Delmege (1901) in the library here and was thinking of the Irish clergy in the late 19th century when I opened this site and read the chilling headi

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  • Link to Tony Flannery documentary on TG4

    October 20 2023
    Joe O'Leary

    I think he only referred to fornication, etc., in a quote from St Paul. https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/speeches/1982/may/documents/hf_jp-ii_spe_19820531_giovani-murrayfield.html As to

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  • THIS EVENING!!! TG4 Documentary on Tony Flannery, Wed 18 Oct @ 9.30pm

    October 18 2023
    Vincent Gormley

    Galileo Galilei was treated miserably by the Roman Theologians who have always had a direct route to God. It only took four hundred years for the Church to apologise for that disgusting put down of a

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  • Link to Tony Flannery documentary on TG4

    October 20 2023
    Paddy Ferry

    Joe, it was the same at Murrayfield here in Edinburgh. I was a youth leader in those bygone days. He was led in by a pipe band and he proceeded to lambast the evils of fornication, contraception, adul

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  • Link to Tony Flannery documentary on TG4

    October 20 2023
    Joe O'Leary

    44 years since John Paul II’s sermons in Ireland. At the time they seemed archaic, a step into the past, a body-blow to any stirrings of life in the Irish church, which was already undergoing a palp

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  • Link to Tony Flannery documentary on TG4

    October 20 2023
    Paddy Ferry

    Sincere thanks for the link to Misneach. I found the program very moving and I now admire, all the more, Tony’s honesty, integrity and courage in the way he has handled all of this. Of course, “Th

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  • Day of Prayer for Peace – 27 October 2023

    October 26 2023
    Chris McDonnell

    Chris McDonnell: Give us a light It so happens that it was in this October week back in 1962 that what became known as the Cuban Missile crisis headlined the news. Kennedy faced off Khruschev over th

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