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  • A Sanctuary no longer Inviolable

    July 27 2016
    Kathleen Faley

    I agree with you Brendan @1 when you say that "Something so sad and evil this elderly priest being put to death on his own altar in front a handful of worshippers." What has to be noted here by Cathol

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  • A Sanctuary no longer Inviolable

    July 27 2016
    Brendan Cafferty

    Something so sad and evil about this elderly priest being put to death on his own altar in front of a handful of worshippers. This is a great evil which is sweeping France and its not easy to prepare

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  • Facing up to Spiritual Abuse: Sean Fagan S.M.

    July 29 2016
    Soline Humbert

    @4 Thank you Sean. The two articles mentioned by Sean Fagan in this letter can be read online: Darkness Made Visible by Fergus O'Donoghue SJ http://archive.thetablet.co.uk/article/6th-june-2009/12/fer

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  • Facing up to Spiritual Abuse: Sean Fagan S.M.

    July 29 2016
    sean walsh

    Relevant? I should think so... Letter to the Tablet, June 13, 2009. Catholics in the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand are in shock at the revelations of the cesspool of physical and se

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  • Facing up to Spiritual Abuse: Sean Fagan S.M.

    July 29 2016
    Anne

    Will future generations be saying why was it that great men like Sean Fagan were not listened to. It boggles my mind how badly women have been and continue to treated by the church. Without women and

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  • Facing up to Spiritual Abuse: Sean Fagan S.M.

    July 29 2016
    Soline Humbert

    ...",but Christian women for centuries were psychologically and spiritually CRUCIFIED by the way they were spoken about and treated."We still are.

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  • Facing up to Spiritual Abuse: Sean Fagan S.M.

    July 29 2016
    Brendan Cafferty

    Fine outstanding honest article by late Sean Fagan. What a shame this good man was treated to badly by the powers that be- I dont say Rome as I doubt many Irish Bishops stood by him,if any. I often wo

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  • The importance of different coloured buttons.

    July 26 2016
    Padraig McCarthy

    @8: Charlie O'Gorman. Good question. The honorific titles that seem most frequent are "Sir" and "Madam". See letters to the Editor in newspapers. I like to use the Irish "A chara" or "A cháirde" or "

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  • The importance of different coloured buttons.

    July 26 2016
    John

    In Canon Sheehan's novels the protestant characters (upper class) refer to the priest as "Mr" and address him as "Sir". Nothing much wrong with that. People who know the priest well could address hi

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  • The importance of different coloured buttons.

    July 26 2016
    charlie o' Gorman

    Are we priests the only group in Irish society still using an honourific title? Other groups simply use the job description as a form of respectful address eg. Guard, Nurse, Doctor, Bishop. The title

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