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  • Married priests no longer in public ministry

    August 26 2017
    Tony

    I would suggest a change to made to the compilation of the data base. Could the database be for all ordained priests who are no longer public ministry. e.g. priests who left but didn't get married, wi

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  • 27 August. 21st Sunday in O. T.

    August 27 2017
    Joe O'Leary

    We might reflect on the wisdom of Jesus is choosing this man to lead his community. On the human level, we must credit Jesus with deep humane understanding of character and of the dynamics of leadersh

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  • 27 August. 21st Sunday in O. T.

    August 27 2017
    Joe O'Leary

    The early church should be grateful, as should the church today, for the character of Peter, as it comes across so clearlly in the Gospels, Acts, and the letters circulated under his name. Peter is mo

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  • 27 August. 21st Sunday in O. T.

    August 27 2017
    Rev. Raju Antony

    "tend the flock of God, not as domineering over those in your charge, but being examples to the flock” (1Peter 5: 1-3)

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  • A sense of entitlement

    August 21 2017
    Jane Ireland

    Potiphars Wife by Kieron Tapsell is a good forensic study of the Vatican's sense of entitlement. Kidron was a seminarian who later became a judge. The book is pricey but well worth the read.

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  • Lazy, hazy days with a good book

    August 14 2017
    Pádraig McCarthy

    #10: Kevin Walters: Yes, thanks. I was aware of the Georgetown matter. Yes, there are many shameful episodes in the history of the Catholic church, and these must be acknowledged. But we must also ack

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  • The Children of Priests – Coping International

    August 23 2017
    Joe O'Leary

    For once the church offers a human response to human problems. The mystifications and abuses generated by the failing system of celibacy have to be faced with forthright honesty and empathetic compass

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  • Lazy, hazy days with a good book

    August 14 2017
    Joe O'Leary

    M.T. Clanchy, Abelard (Blackwell, 1997)John O'Malley, The Council of TrentJean Lacouture, The JesuitsTrent Pomplun: Jesuit on the Roof of the World: Ippolito Desideri's Mission to Tibet

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  • Lazy, hazy days with a good book

    August 14 2017
    Joe O'Leary

    Book recommendations on controverted church history:John Kent, The Unacceptable Face (1987)William J. Bouwsma, Venice and the Defense of Republican Liberty (a classic).Andrea Del Col, L’Inqu

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  • 27 August. 21st Sunday in O. T.

    August 27 2017
    alex dalpiaz

    Why do you not clearly say without any fear or trepidation that the Pope is the legitimate successor of Peter and that the Catholic Church is the only one which Jesus left us until eternity???Our

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