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  • Maynooth Seminary Crisis: ACP Statement

    August 2 2016
    Padraig McCarthy

    Still no further concrete evidence apart from the anonymous letters etc? There is plenty of poisonous material on the internet. We would be most unwise to let such material set our agenda. Such materi

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  • Women Deacons; ready, willing and able

    August 8 2016
    Darlene Starrs

    I should hope that Pope Francis is moving in a progressive manner with the creation of the commission, however, we do know that Pope Paul VI, also commissioned a commission...and look at what the cond

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  • Sharing a vision

    August 9 2016
    Soline Humbert

    I share Jeannine Gramick's disappointment at the AUSCP's skirting of the issue of women's ordination to the priesthood(and the ACP's similar stance, unlike the Austrian priests of the Pfarrer-Initiati

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  • Sharing a vision

    August 9 2016
    Padraig McCarthy

    The ACP for me provides a function not unlike that of the AUSCP: It provides a forum where we can discuss freely the ongoing renewal of the mission of the church. Without that, there would be the temp

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  • 09 August. Tuesday, Week 19

    August 9 2016
    Padraig McCarthy

    St Teresa Benedicta is no longer an optional memorial, but a Feast, and a patron of Europe. The main patron saint is Benedict of Nursia.Cyril and Methodius, Bridget of Sweden, Catherine of Siena and

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  • The problems with seminaries

    August 3 2016
    Joe Meagher

    Tony Flannery on national radio: “most of the bishops in Ireland were appointed because of their lack of leadership qualities.” How will they respond? Who will step up to the plate and prove him w

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  • Reflections at a Funeral

    August 5 2016
    Paddy Ferry

    A marvellous piece by Gabriel Daly, the sentiments of which all sensible people will concur with. Many thanks.

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  • Women Deacons; ready, willing and able

    August 8 2016
    Mary Vallely

    Francis: ' There is a president in Argentina who advised presidents of other countries: “When you want something not to be resolved, make a commission.” Hmm. Pope Francis is a Jesuit - remember?!

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  • Maynooth Seminary Crisis: ACP Statement

    August 2 2016
    Paddy Ferry

    Joe, your final paragraph @25 : "Concretely what do I recommend" contain aspirations that I would wholeheartedly support. And, like Eddie, I salute your honesty.

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  • Maynooth Seminary Crisis: ACP Statement

    August 2 2016
    Patrick O'Brien

    While I was concerned initially that Archbishop Diarmaid Martin seemed to make a decision to remove his three students from Maynooth, based on anonymous allegations, I now accept that perhaps his deci

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