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  • Breaking New Ground

    July 26 2016
    Con Devree

    Dear Moderator, The problem is not going to be a shortage of priests. It will be one of a shortage of Catholics. Observe the Mass attendance rats of young marrieds. Mathematically there will be enou

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  • Reflections at a Funeral

    August 5 2016
    Colm Holmes

    Gabriel Daly speaks with great wisdom. I pray that his wise words will be heard and acted on. WAC wrote to each bishop in Ireland on 8 July 2016 asking them to support our silenced and sanctioned prie

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  • Commission for the Study of the Diaconate of Women

    August 2 2016
    Maureen Mulvaney

    I welcome this Commission on the “Women’s Diaconate”. I also understand the reservations some have about, “What woman would want to train for the diaconate where she is not free to speak her

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  • Reflections at a Funeral

    August 5 2016
    Brendan Cafferty

    I was following reports of the funeral and wondered if any Bishop attended. Now I know. Could not even one be found, or another one or two so as not isolate the one ? What about mould breaker A'Bishop

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

    August 4 2016
    Padraig McCarthy

    Not like A lone beautiful bird These poems now rise in great white flocks Against my mind’s vast hills Startled by God Breaking a branch When his foot Touches Earth Near Me 14th Century Persian Myst

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  • Maynooth Seminary Crisis: ACP Statement

    August 2 2016
    Joe O'Leary

    Tom Doyle on Morning Ireland was mostly talking through his hat. He actually ended up attacking the conservatives who are behind the present brouhaha (sounding just like the ACP), apparently under the

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  • Reflections at a Funeral

    August 5 2016
    Joe O'Leary

    No bishop at the funeral.... that is one of the most disheartening things I have read about the Irish Church

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

    August 4 2016
    Wilfrid Harrington, OP

    Thank you Seamus. It is not a time for shifting deckchairs. It is long past time, in the name of the people of God, for radical challenge to an unhealthy clericalist culture. It seems that Pope Franci

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  • Maynooth Seminary Crisis: ACP Statement

    August 2 2016
    Brendan Cafferty

    Not being close to or involved it is difficult to give a clear cut opinion on this matter. Archbishop Martin seems to have ploughed a lonely furrow since returning to Dublin from The Vatican,and that

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  • Maynooth Seminary Crisis: ACP Statement

    August 2 2016
    Alan Whelan

    Sad that this ACP statement takes the Liveline Joe Duffy line that anything Archbishop of Dublin says is to be opposed. Thanks to Fr Tom Doyle' OP for today's Morning Ireland support of the archbish

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