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  • Church Collusion in Calumny

    September 8 2016
    Lloyd Allan MacPherson

    I've never really given this much thought despite being part of Canada's largest class-action - I was always thinking about how priests operate under a Canon law that obviously didn't update its texts

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  • Church Collusion in Calumny

    September 8 2016
    Joe O'Leary

    As a long- time mitigator of the alleged antisemitism of T. S. Eliot and Martin Heidegger, I do believe that historical perspective often radically unercuts our initial indignation about how people sp

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  • Church Collusion in Calumny

    September 8 2016
    Paddy Ferry

    Eddie, Sean's certitude, as you call it, is shared by just about every lay Catholic I have ever spoken with on this particular matter. I am totally puzzled as to why people like yourself will persist

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  • Church Collusion in Calumny

    September 8 2016
    Eddie Finnegan

    Thanks Joe@10 & 12 for that necessary corrective from context to Sean's incorrigible certitude (passim) re Padraig's consistent argument. I too pray that Sean's certitude may eventually yield to C

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  • Church Collusion in Calumny

    September 8 2016
    Sean O'Conaill

    #12 What's moral leadership then, Joe? Something we can't expect from clergy and so must leave to infuriated parents - even though no Irish parent had as much knowledge of the scale of dangers posed t

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  • Church Collusion in Calumny

    September 8 2016
    Joe O'Leary

    Up to recently, as far as I can gather, the universal policy re pedophile offences would have been to hush them up. The offender would have been given a stern warning: think of the scenes where Pearse

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  • 13 September. Tuesday, Week 24

    September 13 2016
    Robin Daniel

    The reflections for today is informative, and inspiring. In few sentences, the core idea is given. Thanks and God bless

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  • Church Collusion in Calumny

    September 8 2016
    Sean O'Conaill

    #7 #10 The Murphy Report did NOT say that Dublin administrators knew EVERYTHING about clerical child abuse from the beginning. It said that from an early stage they knew enough to be capable of very d

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  • Church Collusion in Calumny

    September 8 2016
    Joe O'Leary

    Our understanding of the host of issues now lumped under the rubric of "child abuse" is indeed developing. What today would be abhorred as physical cruelty was accepted and popular in the 1960s and 17

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  • Church Collusion in Calumny

    September 8 2016
    Padraig McCarthy

    I can find no way to prevent continuing misinterpretations of my comments above. It seems best to leave aside any further discussion of my remarks which were intended to provide some background to Tim

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