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  • We’re not ready to meet the Pope

    December 5 2016
    Joe O'Leary

    "A deficiency in civics and the ethics of citizenship cannot be made up for by the church." Of course I was thinking of what has happened in the USA, whose politics I've been following for the last tw

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  • We’re not ready to meet the Pope

    December 5 2016
    Sean O'Conaill

    #20 Joe O'Leary - In response to my appeal for Irish clergy to promote Catholic Social teaching at: http://www.associationofcatholicpriests.ie/2016/01/the-ballot-be-yours/ You wrote (#5): "The pressi

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  • 25 December, 2016. The Nativity of Our Lord

    December 25 2016
    Paddy Ferry

    Well said, Soline.

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  • We’re not ready to meet the Pope

    December 5 2016
    Paddy Ferry

    "What I deeply regret is what I see as a pattern of clerical non-participation in discussions that are surely of huge importance, over a period of years – but for a very few exceptions." I don't thi

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  • 25 December, 2016. The Nativity of Our Lord

    December 25 2016
    Soline Humbert

    Good,well respected priest,who wants to experience at first hand "doors slamming everywhere",try another Christmas Experiment:Disguise yourself as a woman pregnant with a vocation to the ministerial p

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  • Gaudete! … Rejoice!

    December 16 2016
    Lloyd Allan MacPherson

    This is an uplifting read during a time of year I've come to loathe. On a side note, my prayers have been answered and Ireland has moved to support the legalisation of medicinal cannabis. Please sto

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  • We’re not ready to meet the Pope

    December 5 2016
    Sean O'Conaill

    #12 Thanks, Sean O'Brien, for defending the preference of so many visitors to this site, including clerical members of the ACP, for non-participation in discussion. I have absolutely no problem with

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  • We’re not ready to meet the Pope

    December 5 2016
    Joe O'Leary

    "The entire burden of your response was to justify that closed book." You must be reading me though a strange prism, since I have always been urging an open book on CST and liberation theology. I seem

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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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