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  • Presider’s Page for 15 August (Assumption of the BVM)

    August 15 2019
    Soline Humbert

    It would be nice to mention her husband,Joseph,together with Mary in the Eucharistic Prayer:She was a married woman! And I like to think they continue loving each other in Heaven... (with Mary, the vi

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

    August 4 2016
    Soline Humbert

    @4 Sean: what about "I reckon I AM a better priest today than years ago....."?

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

    August 4 2016
    sean walsh

    I reckon I would be a better priest today than years ago when I was in active ministry...

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

    July 29 2016
    Paddy Ferry

    Laurie@6, "How can such a person like Augustine be relegated to areas where he has a real contribution to make" Well, from my limited know

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  • 11 August. Thursday, Week 19

    August 11 2016
    Soline Humbert

    Too radical a woman? "Saint Clare's decision to write a rule was a radical departure from the religious norms of her time. Only after much persistence did Pope Innocent IV approve it two days before h

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  • Maynooth Seminary Crisis: ACP Statement

    August 2 2016
    Des Gilroy

    It would appear from press reports and radio interviews over the past few days that the alleged “two seminarians” having sex in the bed in Maynooth did not happen and that the purveyor of that sto

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  • Edward Daly R.I.P.

    August 8 2016
    Chris McDonnell

    I first heard of Fr Edward Daly on the late evening news of that fateful Sunday, January 30th, my eldest daughter’s 5th birthday. His death this month came on August 8th, the date of my youngest dau

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  • Maynooth Seminary Crisis: ACP Statement

    August 2 2016
    Joe O'Leary

    Could a promise never to marry be found in breach of human rights and thus illegal? Perhaps. An Italian canon lawyer wrote a book on how the promise of celibacy, like marriage vows, could be annulled

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

    July 29 2016
    Laurie Sheehan

    Thanks for the article. It prompts the question about the influence of Augustine and his perverse thinking in sexuality and other aspects of morality that the Roman Catholic church and its 'Vatican Me

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  • The problems with seminaries

    August 3 2016
    Joe O'Leary

    The trouble with conducting a seminary life under constant surveillance by anonymous vigilantes and threats of lawsuits for any perceived missteps is that it is going to lead to an intense bureaucrati

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