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  • Women Deacons; ready, willing and able

    August 8 2016
    Soline Humbert

    ...and Women Priests; ready,willing and able!

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  • Women Deacons; ready, willing and able

    August 8 2016
    Colm Holmes

    The "Last Supper" by Bohdan Piasecki was commissioned by Irish group BASIC (now part of We Are Church Ireland) in 1998. Sr Joan Chittister called it "A Picture to redraw the world's canvas." http://w

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  • Maynooth Seminary Crisis: ACP Statement

    August 2 2016
    Joe O'Leary

    " I think you have been very unfair to Patsy McGarry by saying he should “have known better”. " Where did I say that? McGarry merely recounts as a journalist the main rumors, which are quite insub

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  • Maynooth Seminary Crisis: ACP Statement

    August 2 2016
    Joe O'Leary

    The psychological basis of these anonymous perceptions of "malevolent influences and advances" could be homophobia from self-hating gays. Cozzens is a good source and the Maynooth staff have no doubt

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  • Maynooth Seminary Crisis: ACP Statement

    August 2 2016
    Paddy Ferry

    Joe, much as I respect and admire you too, I do not accept this explanation that is being offered by you and others that it is the ultra-conservatives who are causing this scandal to undermine Maynoot

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  • Maynooth Seminary Crisis: ACP Statement

    August 2 2016
    Martin

    Joe @ 21: You forget that these young men are vulnerable and they need to be protected from malevolent influences and advances. Or is it ok because they are over 18? Surely the Church should be an exa

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  • The problems with seminaries

    August 3 2016
    Ned Quinn

    Tony Flannery on national radio: "most of the bishops in Ireland were appointed because of their lack of leadership qualities." How will they respond? Who will step up to the plate and prove him wro

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  • Maynooth Seminary Crisis: ACP Statement

    August 2 2016
    Joe O'Leary

    "Is it really plausible to believe that, if this is a move by the ultra-conservatives to undermine Maynooth, Diarmuid Martin would their dirty work for them?" He has lent them undue credence, as far a

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  • The problems with seminaries

    August 3 2016
    Joe O'Leary

    Maynoooth and the bishops responded with dignity to this fake scandal. The sort of hysteria, both homophobic and "orthodoxy"-obsessed, that lies behind it is well represented here: http://www.churchmi

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  • Maynooth Seminary Crisis: ACP Statement

    August 2 2016
    Paddy Ferry

    Like Martin Harran, Teresa, Nessan and Mary, I too, as a supporter of the ACP, was disappointed with the tone of the ACP statement. I spent the last week in Donegal reading all the Irish papers and it

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