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  • Maynooth Seminary Crisis: ACP Statement

    August 2 2016
    Lloyd Allan MacPherson

    The commentary is unfair or unwarranted to the college as a whole. If there are issues, it is best to tackle them head on and Martin's decision to move students is a terrible one. As a "manager", he

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  • Maynooth Seminary Crisis: ACP Statement

    August 2 2016
    Sean O'Conaill

    Has Maynooth seminary ever served the Irish church as well as the training provided by the best of the religious orders? Has mandatory celibacy more to do with a theatrical mystique of clergy than wit

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  • Maynooth Seminary Crisis: ACP Statement

    August 2 2016
    Padraig McCarthy

    I find it difficult to assess. Unless there's more to it than appears in the media, it seems to be founded on anonymous and web-based allegations. I would be slow to give credence to these without ver

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  • Maynooth Seminary Crisis: ACP Statement

    August 2 2016
    Gerard Flynn

    Congratulations to the ACP. This is a fair and perceptive analysis.

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  • Commission for the Study of the Diaconate of Women

    August 2 2016
    Eddie Finnegan

    It seems that for a mere man to have something useful to contribute on the question of women in the Diaconate he'd better get himself ordained to the priesthood first, preferably as a Jesuit, an Augus

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  • Maynooth Seminary Crisis: ACP Statement

    August 2 2016
    A. P.O'Beacha'in

    Your response indicates you have your own ideological agenda. How about advocating priestly formation adequate for the current needs of the people of Ireland at the pastoral level,

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  • Maynooth Seminary Crisis: ACP Statement

    August 2 2016
    Teresa Mee

    In response to 'ACP Statement on Maynooth' I would take issue with,'the seminary..has become a focus of unfair and unwarranted attention'. How do we know the attention is unfair and unwarranted withou

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  • Maynooth Seminary Crisis: ACP Statement

    August 2 2016
    Martin Harran

    To be honest, that response by ACP worries me, I'm not sure how we can be confident that the attention is "unfair and unwarranted". The suggestion that the matter is being driven by people with person

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  • The importance of different coloured buttons.

    July 26 2016
    John McNulty

    Jesus in 23 Matthew admonished his disciples and ordered them to call no man on earth Father because "pou have a Father in heaven"

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  • Maynooth Seminary Crisis: ACP Statement

    August 2 2016
    Martin

    ''The damage this controversy will do to Maynooth is not in the best interest of the Irish Church.'' - The controversy now is only the rot being exposed. It has to happen. There are some very serious

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