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  • Maynooth Seminary Crisis: ACP Statement

    August 2 2016
    Eddie Finnegan

    If only everyone had the honesty of Joe O'Leary@25, Maynooth might be worth saving, the Irish Catholic Church might be worth clinging onto, and this ACP forum might be worth persevering with. [from my

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  • Maynooth Seminary Crisis: ACP Statement

    August 2 2016
    Joe O'Leary

    The appendix I referred to is here. I think Patsy McGarry should have known better than to swallow story C, and Paddy Ferry should have known better than to repeat the line about "the appalling contr

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  • Women Deacons; ready, willing and able

    August 8 2016
    Joe O'Leary

    If a system of male married permanent deacons is already in place and functioning well, then there should be no practical problem at all about extending this to women. Most other Christian churches ha

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  • Women Deacons; ready, willing and able

    August 8 2016
    MM

    If as Phyllis Zagano claims in this article, there is no precedent for women priests in church history then let us make one now. Did God not make us free? "You have been told what is good, and what th

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  • Maynooth Seminary Crisis: ACP Statement

    August 2 2016
    Joe O'Leary

    Oops, I did make the remark about McGarry, on Facebook. Guess he's got a job to do, but I always dislike his tone.

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  • Women Deacons; ready, willing and able

    August 8 2016
    Soline Humbert

    ...and Women Priests; ready,willing and able!

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  • Women Deacons; ready, willing and able

    August 8 2016
    Colm Holmes

    The "Last Supper" by Bohdan Piasecki was commissioned by Irish group BASIC (now part of We Are Church Ireland) in 1998. Sr Joan Chittister called it "A Picture to redraw the world's canvas." http://w

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  • Maynooth Seminary Crisis: ACP Statement

    August 2 2016
    Joe O'Leary

    " I think you have been very unfair to Patsy McGarry by saying he should “have known better”. " Where did I say that? McGarry merely recounts as a journalist the main rumors, which are quite insub

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  • Maynooth Seminary Crisis: ACP Statement

    August 2 2016
    Joe O'Leary

    The psychological basis of these anonymous perceptions of "malevolent influences and advances" could be homophobia from self-hating gays. Cozzens is a good source and the Maynooth staff have no doubt

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  • Maynooth Seminary Crisis: ACP Statement

    August 2 2016
    Paddy Ferry

    Joe, much as I respect and admire you too, I do not accept this explanation that is being offered by you and others that it is the ultra-conservatives who are causing this scandal to undermine Maynoot

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