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  • The Church is a People: not an aristocracy or an audience

    October 4 2016
    Paddy Ferry

    I'd like to second Mary's good wishes to Liam McDaid who always seemed to me too to be a good and decent man. I was always impressed when he would attend ACP meetings in his diocese. I would also lik

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  • The Church is a People: not an aristocracy or an audience

    October 4 2016
    Mary Vallely

    Interesting! Hadn't noticed the preponderance of aristocratic signatures but most of us pay little heed to such titles or these delusions of grandeur nowadays. It is ridiculous though that we still

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  • The Church is a People: not an aristocracy or an audience

    October 4 2016
    Joe O'Leary

    Catholic conservatives constantly paint Vatican II Catholics as well-heeled elitists. And both in the Anglican and the Roman churches, the voice of Africa is hailed as one that a European elite has sc

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  • The (s)elect .0004% of church members

    September 30 2016
    Con Devree

    Dear Moderator, I smile when I imagine the nature of the article you would publish if the Nuncio in the Park referred to some members of the 1000+ strong ACP as “lying charmers.” Maybe you should

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  • The (s)elect .0004% of church members

    September 30 2016
    Phil Greene

    WOW, what courage this man has... thankfully the world is so much smaller now that we can all hear his words and draw real hope that change can happen! The sooner he can put more like-minded bishops (

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  • Association of Catholic Priests and the Papal Nuncio

    September 28 2016
    declan cooney

    Be respectful. Do not attack the writer. Take on the idea, not the messenger. Use appropriate language. Vulgarities, slurs and personalised insults may be edited. Keep to the point. Why do you label p

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  • The dangers of bishops being disconnected from society

    September 28 2016
    Lloyd Allan MacPherson

    I'll follow up with your link from the contributor Dennis Coday with a link to his own account, after admitting that he might have been a little quick at simply reporting what the St. Louis archdioces

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  • The dangers of bishops being disconnected from society

    September 28 2016
    Editor

    In the interests of fairness, as he is mentioned above, it should be pointed out that Archbishop Robert Carlson's St. Louis archdiocese issued a strong statement about the accusation that he said he d

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  • Association of Catholic Priests and the Papal Nuncio

    September 28 2016
    Brendan Cafferty

    One again Kevin demonstrates what a great wordsmith he is- the smelling the sheep bit was hilarious.It is extraordinary that the Nuncio has refused to meet the ACP,they are a very sizeable number and

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  • The dangers of bishops being disconnected from society

    September 28 2016
    Lloyd Allan MacPherson

    I'm really not surprised by these responses. The stance of a "sheltered life" is a forgivable sin in his mind. We always assume that the complexities of civil society are known to one and all but th

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