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  • Church faces ‘huge wake up call’

    September 21 2016
    Phil Greene

    "Our church needs to move to a new structure and Pope Francis has clearly stated he wants an “Inverted Pyramid” structure with the pope at the bottom and the people of god at the top. A first step

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  • 25 September. Twenty-Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time

    September 25 2016
    Fr. Xavier P.

    It is much social- oriented. Nice to be so because Jesus condemned social evils. I felt very enriching.

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  • The ethics of using contraceptives

    September 16 2016
    Bob Hayes

    Joe (no. 17), I wonder how many of we contributors to this discussion would be around today if the Catholic Church had embraced Thomas Malthus' thesis and advocated birth control to alleviate the 'pop

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  • Church faces ‘huge wake up call’

    September 21 2016
    MM

    I usually limited my criticisms to systems rather than individuals, but I have to say on this occasion that I found Nuncio AB Charles Brown's comments on celibacy and the ordination of women pitiful a

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  • The ethics of using contraceptives

    September 16 2016
    Joe O'Leary

    HV gave one argument for banning all use of artificial contraceptives: that any contraceptive sexual act offends against the inseparability of the unitive and the procreative. Every single sexual act

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  • Church faces ‘huge wake up call’

    September 21 2016
    Colm Holmes

    This is the same Nuncio AB Charles Brown who has refused to even meet with the leadership of the ACP! He has obviously not heard of women deacons & priests who were ordained for some 1000 years no

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  • Church faces ‘huge wake up call’

    September 21 2016
    Chris McDonnell

    How sad that the Nuncio narrowly associates the priesthood with a 'tradition' that begins with the Second Council of the Lateran in 1139. When will we ever learn to sit down and listen to each other?

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  • The ethics of using contraceptives

    September 16 2016
    Lloyd Allan MacPherson

    Bob @13 - "seemingly positive" is a stretch but you are correct in stating that this is a branch of personnel management but it only becomes predatory when it is placed in the wrong hands. The canons

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  • Church faces ‘huge wake up call’

    September 21 2016
    Phil Greene

    These reports always saddened me as I can feel the tangible heartache and at times despair behind the words I read. I recall Olivia O'Leary talking to Ryan on the Late Late Show saying how she loved t

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  • The ethics of using contraceptives

    September 16 2016
    Padraig McCarthy

    Joe #14: Side-effects, yes, insofar as the intended aim of the chemical contraceptives is concerned; but also moral "deficiency" in their use if these are effects. Just as the aim of fracking is to pr

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