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  • Child abuse scandal ‘almost fatally destroyed’ Catholic Church

    February 12 2017
    Paddy Ferry

    Mgr. Stephen Rossetti ,( you may disagree, Padraig --in fact, you probably will--but I think he is a believable voice in this debate), has said that 95% of accusations of clerical sex abuse of childre

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  • Child abuse scandal ‘almost fatally destroyed’ Catholic Church

    February 12 2017
    Padraig McCarthy

    'The Catholic Church in Ireland has been “almost fatally destroyed” by the clerical child sexual abuse scandal': I'm presuming that Joe Little quotes Gerry accurately. This reminds me of the trick

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  • ‘I think, therefore I am.’ (Godly and human)

    February 5 2017
    Kevin Walters

    Lloyd Allan MacPherson @17 Yes it is important to me Lloyd that Pope Francis and his Bishops should embrace Humility, the inviolate Word of God has been broken and used by worldly men to create a blas

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  • The Quiet Revolution

    January 31 2017
    Pat Rogers

    I totally agree with what you're saying here Gerry, about the need for us all to be involved in helping build up the sense of family and fraternity in our church. And since our bishops seem rather pas

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  • 12 Feb, 2017. 6th Sunday in Ordinary Time

    February 12 2017
    Michael Sullivan

    I have been thinking about these readings. Your reflection homily has inspired me to say this : You know the way Jesus used Parables so much and in one he Highlighted "LOVE" as almost encompassing al

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  • 12 Feb, 2017. 6th Sunday in Ordinary Time

    February 12 2017
    Louise Webster

    Is there a word missing from this sentence, after the word "from"? "It is not individual acts that can separate us from, but our hearts, fractured and divided as they are." Thank you.

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  • Grace? Sacrament? Love? God?

    February 10 2017
    Mary Vallely

    Thank you, Sean, for giving me pause for thought. As a small child I learned to recite the Hail Mary without having a notion of what grace was and because Mary, in my child's head, seemed always to be

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  • Fundamental Rights in the Church

    February 10 2017
    sara

    The Church does not seem to have updated its terms and conditions for several hundred years. We would not accept surgery or dentistry from the middle ages...so why do we accept this? The problem is

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  • Fundamental Rights in the Church

    February 10 2017
    Padraig McCarthy

    Among the "Fundamental Rights" in the church which we need are clear procedures for "due process" when a priest wishes to address a grievance. Perhaps there may be some helpful information on this fro

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  • Grace? Sacrament? Love? God?

    February 10 2017
    Kevin Walters

    “Now we desperately need a revised understanding of grace, to free ourselves from the deeply dangerous notion of a God who, having made us sexual, spurns us for the same reason”.------------------

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