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  • Catholic Ethos and other Mysteries

    May 7 2017
    Padraig McCarthy

    Paddy @13: Thanks for the "admire and respect"! But there are no wagons here, circled or otherwise. I pointed out that the National Maternity Hospital Board and the St Vincent's Hospital Group have gi

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  • It’s still Easter

    April 25 2017
    abvadmin

    A test Comment

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  • Catholic Ethos and other Mysteries

    May 7 2017
    Anne

    How the Catholic Church of which I am a member are so blind that they continue to exclude the voice of women is beyond belief. In the real world Humanae Vitae is is just a distant memory and anyone wh

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  • Catholic Ethos and other Mysteries

    May 7 2017
    Paddy Ferry

    Eddie@12, you know much as I admire and respect Padraig, he has this unfortunate tendency when issues like this come up to start trying to circle the wagons, when really it is far too late for that an

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  • Catholic Ethos and other Mysteries

    May 7 2017
    Eddie Finnegan

    I agree with Paddy Ferry@3 that "we are still fortunate to have scholar-priests of the calibre of Fr Gabriel" and indeed I would add "of Wilfrid Harrington OP"@2. Augustinians and Dominicans can rejoi

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  • Catholic Ethos and other Mysteries

    May 7 2017
    Francis

    An excellent, well balanced and comprehensive article. I agree with a lot of the comments that have been offered also. I share Mary's pain @9 of not being able to discuss women's ordained. I noticed w

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  • Catholic Ethos and other Mysteries

    May 7 2017
    Kevin Walters

    “Today they have become ‘traditionalists’ and ‘reformers’. Compromise between the two is logically impossible” This is not true the church should be seen as a wide spectrum from the arrog

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  • Catholic Ethos and other Mysteries

    May 7 2017
    Mary Vallely

    Hear, hear, Joe O'Leary @ 7. To answer Sean O'Conaill's questioning of the term traditionalists( v progressives or liberals) I think of it more as non - questioners v questioners. I suppose that it

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  • Catholic Ethos and other Mysteries

    May 7 2017
    Padraig McCarthy

    Good balanced statement from ACP about National Maternity Hospital (under its own title on the home page). But one reservation: "The Association of Catholic Priests fully accepts the principle that a

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  • Catholic Ethos and other Mysteries

    May 7 2017
    Joe O'Leary

    I read that 5% of marriages celebrated in our country last year were same-sex -- which surely suggests that many peoples lives were ruined by conservative Catholic control over the centuries. Given th

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