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  • The Judas Iscariot Lunch

    July 15 2016
    Pól Ó Duibhir

    This was a fantastic programme. I was sorry when it came to an end. A very serious matter treated with empathy and some great humour. Looking at who the team were it is easy to see why it turned out s

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  • Father Sean Fagan RIP — a brief appreciation

    July 15 2016
    Miriam Monks

    Rest in peace Fr Sean - now you know. What a welcome you will have received last Friday. Fly free from that persecution. The world has lost a moral leader.

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  • No Need to Face East: Cardinal Sarah corrected by Pope Francis

    July 11 2016
    Paddy Ferry

    From reading the Tablet I was convinced that Piero Marini was a cert to be appointed prefect of the CWD by Pope Francis. This I think explains why it never happened. https://www.ncronline.org/blogs/ro

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  • Father Sean Fagan RIP — a brief appreciation

    July 15 2016
    Soline Humbert

    I am glad Sean's long years of suffering have ended.I am grateful to him for his personal support over the years and his very courageous speaking out for the ordination of women at a time few dared to

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  • Some cardinals should see red!

    July 18 2016
    Mary Vallely

    And two out of these three were/are papabile. Now, there's a grim thought. 🙁 Supposing Cardinal Sarah were to be the next Pope. How could we parrot that line promising to be "loyal to the See of Pe

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  • Father Sean Fagan RIP — a brief appreciation

    July 15 2016
    Paddy Ferry

    It appears Mary McAleese played a part in trying to end Sean's suffering late in his life. http://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/religion-and-beliefs/fr-se%C3%A1n-fagan-a-brilliant-thinker-who

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  • No Need to Face East: Cardinal Sarah corrected by Pope Francis

    July 11 2016
    Martin Harran

    @SEan O Brien The point I was trying to make - somewhat clumsily, perhaps - was that the direction we face in at Mass this part of the symbolism involved in Mass. Symbolism is clearly of secondary imp

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  • Father Sean Fagan RIP — a brief appreciation

    July 15 2016
    Pat Courtney

    I never met Fr. Sean. It is so easy to suppress one when his dignity and integrity are stripped. CDF seem to ignore Gethsemane. Sean's final years echoed the deep pain of the one he loved and trusted

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  • No Need to Face East: Cardinal Sarah corrected by Pope Francis

    July 11 2016
    Sean O Brien

    My apologies Martin but to me what you say was fairly obvious wasn't at all obvious. And in the context of this debate and what is said about 'facing east' by, among others, Cardinal Sarah it seems to

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  • No Need to Face East: Cardinal Sarah corrected by Pope Francis

    July 11 2016
    Martin Harran

    @Sean O Brien "Facing towards God ??" I meant facing in the same direction as the congregation. I would have thought that was fairly obvious as God is omnipresent so no matter what direction we are fa

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