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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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  • Ban on Sunday Funerals in Kerry – symptom of much larger problem

    September 4 2017
    Pascal O'Dea

    Mattie, well written piece, the idea of a lay representative group or groups having access to Pope Francis if he attends the forthcoming congress on the family is a positive suggestion.Intercession b

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  • The call for diaconate pause

    September 5 2017
    Kevin Walters

    The diaconate perpetuates a clerical mind-set. As the present clerical system excludes so many, including religious brothers and sisters as many of them could be ordained at this moment in time but ar

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  • First Confession – a sort of Memoir

    September 5 2017
    mjt

    Why don`t you blame Rome for this translation? Whose fault, apart from Rome`s, could it be? As for blaming those "who accept this rubbish", do you mean you blame us in the pews? Well, what choice have

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  • Married priests no longer in public ministry

    August 26 2017
    Lloyd Allan MacPherson

    It's you I have to thank, Soline - I can relate to women who feel slighted by Canon #1024 and it is this injustice that pushes me forward despite everyone in my circle telling me it is done in vain.

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  • Married priests no longer in public ministry

    August 26 2017
    mjt

    Lloyd Allan MacPherson@29, I was trying to summarise for Soline what you had written, as she appeared not to comprehend it. If I got it wrong, I`m sure it`s my fault.

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  • The call for diaconate pause

    September 5 2017
    Michael

    Hi there, for what it is worth, the church puts so many rules in place to exclude really good people.We are really trying to follow the teaching of Jesus but if you put rules in place that you know th

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