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  • Speaking ill of the dead (and the living)

    April 6 2017
    Lloyd Allan MacPherson

    "For example, while the Catholic Church is happy to acknowledge that we’re all sinners some of its more pious adherents cling to the fiction that those who preach the gospel, especially those who at

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  • The Language of Doctrine

    March 30 2017
    Joe O'Leary

    Yes, one of the nice things about heaven is that one gets to play a musical instrument! But let's reach out and embrace heaven here and now. "Be still, and know that I am God." "It's easy if you try

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  • Assessing the performance of bishops

    April 6 2017
    Sean O Brien

    Not a good idea; in fact does it not breach your own guidelines. "slurs and personalised insults may be edited." I thought all those "rate your this that and the other" sites were long since discredit

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  • Assessing the performance of bishops

    April 6 2017
    Francis

    Maybe as a sign of mercy, we could let these retired bishops enjoy their sunset years rather than call them to judgment?

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  • Assessing the performance of bishops

    April 6 2017
    Eddie Finnegan

    "While not at all suggesting that here in Ireland we should be offering quite such a trenchant, no-holds-barred critique of our own bishops' effective leadership . . . . . ." Well of course not, Pat R

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  • The Language of Doctrine

    March 30 2017
    Sean O'Conaill

    #29 Wow!

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  • The Language of Doctrine

    March 30 2017
    Con Devree

    Thank you Joe and Sean. It's good to know that together with all the other bad thieves, I can now anticipate the joys of playing my harp, no questions asked. Salvation guaranteed.

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  • The Language of Doctrine

    March 30 2017
    Sean O'Conaill

    # 28. Not for me anyway, Con. 'Perfect love casts out all fear', so in the Resurrection God's love is proven and death itself is cast out. 'Tribulation' is promised also, of course, but as 'the worl

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  • The ongoing missal problem – light at the end of the tunnel?

    March 28 2017
    Mary Burke

    This is the chance for the Irish Catholic bishops to reclaim some of the integrity they lost when they allowed a Vatican department to trump the role of bishops' conferences in the translation process

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  • The moral challenge posed to religious orders about the cost of redress.

    April 5 2017
    Eddie Finnegan

    Thanks to this unnamed Oblate of Mary Immaculate - presumably he speaks for the OMI since this fine riposte is published on their site - but also sincere thanks to Pádraig McCarthy, our indefatigable

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