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  • The ethics of using contraceptives

    September 16 2016
    Joe O'Leary

    Padraig, what you write above seems to me to refer to possible material side-effects of artificial contraceptives rather than to their intrinsic objective immorality, which is the point of contention.

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  • The ethics of using contraceptives

    September 16 2016
    Bob Hayes

    Lloyd (no. 9), with your - seemingly positive (apologies if I misread you) - references to Six Sigma and ISO, you appear to reinforce my perception that this sort of management doublespeak is a new Ba

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  • Church faces ‘huge wake up call’

    September 21 2016
    Lloyd Allan MacPherson

    Is there any doubt why Tony would be banned from speaking? The poll that you gentlemen collected as a "sample" early on is your right. It is also the right of every Catholic to make his/her opinion

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  • Church faces ‘huge wake up call’

    September 21 2016
    Mary Vallely

    Couldn't edit the above comment @ 3 as cyberspace swallowed it up before giving me a chance to see what I'd written. Of course any Anglican priest, having converted to Roman Catholicism and who is th

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  • Affirmation of the Catholic Church’s Teaching on the Gift of Sexuality

    September 20 2016
    Joe O'Leary

    Sean has a good point about the breakdown of communication between laity and bishops because of HV. There was a pastoral congress of British Catholics in Liverpool in 1980 which made a declaration aga

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  • Affirmation of the Catholic Church’s Teaching on the Gift of Sexuality

    September 20 2016
    Anne

    90% of married Catholics globally have rejected HV because they know that NFP methods are notoriously unreliable. Compare that with the views of 500 academics many of them celibate . There is a vast

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  • Church faces ‘huge wake up call’

    September 21 2016
    Mary Vallely

    It's as if the people are finally realising that they are no longer children and can think for themselves but, my goodness, it has taken a long, long time. AB Charles Brown's response, 'It is traditi

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  • Affirmation of the Catholic Church’s Teaching on the Gift of Sexuality

    September 20 2016
    Anne

    The vast majority of Catholics have rejected this teaching because they have faced reality and rightly decide for themselves that they are going to use the method of family planning that works best f

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  • Affirmation of the Catholic Church’s Teaching on the Gift of Sexuality

    September 20 2016
    declan cooney

    Wow !! Well done ACP. Now that is real diaologue for a change. I have found your website to be biased to the liberal/left so it is heartening to see you post the other side of the debate on HV a trul

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  • Church faces ‘huge wake up call’

    September 21 2016
    Padraig McCarthy

    Perhaps there is a fear among some, when the question of married priests is raised, that it would mean the end of celibacy. I see it rather that it would be an enrichment for us to have both married a

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