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  • What ever happened to the Easter People?

    December 9 2016
    Pascal O'Dea

    Sounds so familiar,the one way dialogue from Hierarchy to laity, the one person pastoral councils in a number of parishes,"time tells you nothing but I told you so ",there is even less listening and t

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  • We’re not ready to meet the Pope

    December 5 2016
    Sean O'Conaill

    #18 Never in my over five decades of attending to the content of homilies have I heard a celebrant even advert to the existence of Catholic Social Teaching, Padraig. That pattern has continued in the

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  • Gaudete! … Rejoice!

    December 16 2016
    Colm Holmes

    Thank you Angela for this wonderful review of the 18th Annual LGBT Christmas Carol Service in the Unitarian church! Definitely the spiritual event of the year!! Ursula Halligan's talk at the Christmas

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  • We’re not ready to meet the Pope

    December 5 2016
    Padraig McCarthy

    Seán O Conaill @ 15: "I had asked why Catholic Social Teaching has always been a closed book for Maynooth-trained Irish clergy. That is, why they never advert to it homiletically, e.g. in the context

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  • Councils of Priests – are they relevant?

    December 11 2016
    Cyril North

    Depressing to see nothing has changed since I worked in the Dublin archdiocese in the 1960's. It is clear that the hierarchical structure of the church is such that it will never be able to change f

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  • We’re not ready to meet the Pope

    December 5 2016
    Lloyd Allan MacPherson

    Padraig, I spent the better part of last year fund-raising for the acquisition of a Gothic-inspired Stone Church here in Cape Breton - a century old building the Roman Catholic Church was going to dem

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  • Gaudete! … Rejoice!

    December 16 2016
    Paddy Ferry

    What a wonderful piece, Angela, and so much of it will resonate with many of us. Thank you.

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  • We’re not ready to meet the Pope

    December 5 2016
    Padraig McCarthy

    Lloyd Allan MacPherson @ 13: You write: "Between now and his arrival, I would recommend starting a parish initiative that entails installing solar panels around any vacant church property, reselling

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  • We’re not ready to meet the Pope

    December 5 2016
    Sean O'Conaill

    #14. Re-read your entire commentary, Joe. I had asked why Catholic Social Teaching has always been a closed book for Maynooth-trained Irish clergy. (That is, why they never advert to it homileticall

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  • We’re not ready to meet the Pope

    December 5 2016
    Joe O'Leary

    Sean O'Conaill, what on earth are you talking about? Of course I did not, and would not ever says, that tehre is not context in Ireland for Catholic Social Teaching. Quoting two words wildly out of co

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