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  • Maynooth Seminary Crisis: ACP Statement

    August 2 2016
    Joe O'Leary

    Tom Doyle on Morning Ireland was mostly talking through his hat. He actually ended up attacking the conservatives who are behind the present brouhaha (sounding just like the ACP), apparently under the

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  • Reflections at a Funeral

    August 5 2016
    Joe O'Leary

    No bishop at the funeral.... that is one of the most disheartening things I have read about the Irish Church

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  • Ministry with the freedom of poetry and the colour of marriage

    August 4 2016
    Wilfrid Harrington, OP

    Thank you Seamus. It is not a time for shifting deckchairs. It is long past time, in the name of the people of God, for radical challenge to an unhealthy clericalist culture. It seems that Pope Franci

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  • Maynooth Seminary Crisis: ACP Statement

    August 2 2016
    Brendan Cafferty

    Not being close to or involved it is difficult to give a clear cut opinion on this matter. Archbishop Martin seems to have ploughed a lonely furrow since returning to Dublin from The Vatican,and that

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  • Maynooth Seminary Crisis: ACP Statement

    August 2 2016
    Alan Whelan

    Sad that this ACP statement takes the Liveline Joe Duffy line that anything Archbishop of Dublin says is to be opposed. Thanks to Fr Tom Doyle' OP for today's Morning Ireland support of the archbish

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  • Ministry with the freedom of poetry and the colour of marriage

    August 4 2016
    Chris McDonnell

    I share the concern over Deacons expressed in this posting by Seamus Ahearne. In the New Testament, the word usually translated "serve" is the Greek word ‘diakoneo'. This office should be seen as th

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  • Commission for the Study of the Diaconate of Women

    August 2 2016
    John Chuchman

    A diversion designed to shut women up re Ordination to the Priesthood and full equality. Look for a non-sacramental female deaconate, a women's auxiliary to do the dirty work.

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  • Maynooth Seminary Crisis: ACP Statement

    August 2 2016
    Nessan Vaughan

    I am very disappointed with the statement issued by the ACP. It seems to put the interests of Maynooth above concerns for the appropriate formation of the seminarians. It seeks to draw conclusions and

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  • The problems with seminaries

    August 3 2016
    Joe O'Leary

    Very sensible and reasoned. The priesthood attracts gays predominantly, and once out of the pious cocoon of the seminary their gay identity is likely to become more profiled. The Vatican thought the s

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  • Maynooth Seminary Crisis: ACP Statement

    August 2 2016
    Sheelagh Hanly

    The issue here is the allegation that seminarians, studying to become priests have been using a gay dating app and other behaviour unbecoming of seminarians. If these allegations are true, then it is

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