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  • Church Collusion in Calumny

    September 8 2016
    Paddy Ferry

    So, Padraig, here we go again. I never cease to be completely baffled by your "learning curve" excuse. How can you possibly contend that mature, even reasonably intelligent adults could not discern

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  • Church Collusion in Calumny

    September 8 2016
    Padraig McCarthy

    #5 Sean O'~Conaill: 1: The learning curve does not exonerate. It places the actions of the time in the context of the time. To deny that there was, and is, a learning curve is to deny historical fact.

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  • Church Collusion in Calumny

    September 8 2016
    Joe O'Leary

    In countenancing anonymous accusations the bishops have brought on themselves a deluge of such allegations from poisonous bloggers. Happily the abuse of minors has not been a theme. Rather the frenzy

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  • Church Collusion in Calumny

    September 8 2016
    Sean O'Conaill

    #4 I was referring, quite obviously, to your 3rd and 4th paragraphs in #1 - the reprised 'learning curve' exoneration of those Dublin diocesan administrators criticised in the Murphy Report. Why exact

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  • 12 September. Monday, Week 24

    September 12 2016
    FR FRANCIS CHILUFYA,OFMCap

    very touching reflection

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  • Church Collusion in Calumny

    September 8 2016
    Padraig McCarthy

    #3 Sean O'Conaill: I confess I do not understand these arguments. None of what is presented here is either stated or implied by what I wrote. These arguments seem to lack logic. In the letter, Tim wri

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  • Church Collusion in Calumny

    September 8 2016
    Sean O'Conaill

    #1 The career-specific claimed role of Catholic clergy has always been moral and spiritual leadership, associated especially with expertise in sexual morality. To argue therefore that Catholic clergy

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  • Church Collusion in Calumny

    September 8 2016
    Pat Rogers

    Many thanks to Tim Hazelwood for sharing his painful experience with us; also to Padraig McCarthy for his calm and measured comments on how our bishops responded to the Murphy report. I should like to

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  • Church Collusion in Calumny

    September 8 2016
    Padraig McCarthy

    It's difficult to understand how church authorities show such a lack of pastoral care. While the desire to provide maximum protection for vulnerable people is admirable, there seems little recognition

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  • 09 September. Friday, Week 23

    September 9 2016
    Fr Francis Ceasar Mugabi

    I thank the writer for bringing out concrete examples in our day to day life.

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