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  • A no-brainer

    March 27 2017
    Thomas O'Keefe

    I have read with great interest all the comments on this subject and as someone who has spent some time in the UK, I have to confess I am not entirely convinced that a married priesthood is the way to

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  • A no-brainer

    March 27 2017
    Eddie Finnegan

    Mary@20, as a born O'Neill I'm sure you're an expert on the make-up and development of footballs, even of ironically figurative footballs. My 'old leather football'@19, traditionally greasy and sodd

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  • A no-brainer

    March 27 2017
    Maria Patalano

    Dear association of catholic priests...i have just read your great article...''no brainer'',,,i wanted to comment..but,,it didn't allow me to comment so i'm writing to you. You couldn't have written

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  • A no-brainer

    March 27 2017
    Mary Vallely

    Isn't it about time we had a new ball anyway, Eddie @ 19? Sure the present one is so battered and worn that it's no longer fit for purpose. As for Sean being in charge of the whistle, well since no o

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  • A no-brainer

    March 27 2017
    Eddie Finnegan

    Sean O'Conaill@12, did you really have to walk off with our old leather football when we were just settling in to our usual international kickabout before the sun goes down on us? Dammit, man, we've e

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  • A no-brainer

    March 27 2017
    Kevin Walters

    Sean O'Conaill @12 "Does Ireland, or anywhere else, still need Catholicism, and a corps of Catholic priests of some kind – in the longer term? Only if we can answer an emphatic ‘yes’ to this –

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  • A no-brainer

    March 27 2017
    Teresa Mee

    'The logic is irrefutable: no priest, no Mass. What about 'no Eucharist', Brendan, also 'irrefutable'? Not all of us would agree with you there. Teresa.

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  • A no-brainer

    March 27 2017
    Chris McDonnell

    In a recent article in Commonweal magazine(https://www.commonwealmagazine.org Home > Letter from Rome Pope), Robert Mickens writes: The pope earlier this month acknowledged in an interview with t

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  • Our need for heroes and the curse of certainty

    March 20 2017
    Richard O'Donnell

    As I read Seamus' piece, I was in agreement with him until I read Phil @ 2 above.

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  • A no-brainer

    March 27 2017
    Lloyd Allan MacPherson

    This is a real debate? I believe "ego" could be a contributing factor. If we look at society as a whole and the influence of 1.2bn Catholics on its state, where does "being a Catholic" put us? Men s

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