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  • The ethics of using contraceptives

    September 16 2016
    Joe O'Leary

    HV gave one argument for banning all use of artificial contraceptives: that any contraceptive sexual act offends against the inseparability of the unitive and the procreative. Every single sexual act

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  • Church faces ‘huge wake up call’

    September 21 2016
    Colm Holmes

    This is the same Nuncio AB Charles Brown who has refused to even meet with the leadership of the ACP! He has obviously not heard of women deacons & priests who were ordained for some 1000 years no

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  • Church faces ‘huge wake up call’

    September 21 2016
    Chris McDonnell

    How sad that the Nuncio narrowly associates the priesthood with a 'tradition' that begins with the Second Council of the Lateran in 1139. When will we ever learn to sit down and listen to each other?

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  • The ethics of using contraceptives

    September 16 2016
    Lloyd Allan MacPherson

    Bob @13 - "seemingly positive" is a stretch but you are correct in stating that this is a branch of personnel management but it only becomes predatory when it is placed in the wrong hands. The canons

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  • Church faces ‘huge wake up call’

    September 21 2016
    Phil Greene

    These reports always saddened me as I can feel the tangible heartache and at times despair behind the words I read. I recall Olivia O'Leary talking to Ryan on the Late Late Show saying how she loved t

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  • The ethics of using contraceptives

    September 16 2016
    Padraig McCarthy

    Joe #14: Side-effects, yes, insofar as the intended aim of the chemical contraceptives is concerned; but also moral "deficiency" in their use if these are effects. Just as the aim of fracking is to pr

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  • The ethics of using contraceptives

    September 16 2016
    Joe O'Leary

    Padraig, what you write above seems to me to refer to possible material side-effects of artificial contraceptives rather than to their intrinsic objective immorality, which is the point of contention.

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  • The ethics of using contraceptives

    September 16 2016
    Bob Hayes

    Lloyd (no. 9), with your - seemingly positive (apologies if I misread you) - references to Six Sigma and ISO, you appear to reinforce my perception that this sort of management doublespeak is a new Ba

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  • Church faces ‘huge wake up call’

    September 21 2016
    Lloyd Allan MacPherson

    Is there any doubt why Tony would be banned from speaking? The poll that you gentlemen collected as a "sample" early on is your right. It is also the right of every Catholic to make his/her opinion

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  • Church faces ‘huge wake up call’

    September 21 2016
    Mary Vallely

    Couldn't edit the above comment @ 3 as cyberspace swallowed it up before giving me a chance to see what I'd written. Of course any Anglican priest, having converted to Roman Catholicism and who is th

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