Comments

All recent Comments

  • All that He made is good

    May 22 2016
    Mark

    Lloyd @ 5: The contraceptive pill has wrecked havoc on wild fish in rivers and streams. The hormone residue has caused male fish to have female attributes, and this is a big problem for fish populatio

    Read more 9 comments
  • Bishops meet with Association of Catholic Priests

    May 19 2016
    John

    Women deacons : And men deacons also I would think!

    Read more 14 comments
  • Bishops meet with Association of Catholic Priests

    May 19 2016
    Eddie Finnegan

    Eddie Finnegan@10. More soberly in the clear light of day, and in fairness to Bishop Leo's commitment and the workings of the ICBC, I should have quoted from Kilmore's Diocesan Pastoral Plan's 'Dioces

    Read more 14 comments
  • Bishops meet with Association of Catholic Priests

    May 19 2016
    Lloyd Allan MacPherson

    Oh, @ 10 and to take the pressure off the associations, this should be labelled as a lay initiative that the associations are paying forward. That way it doesn't create an impediment that doesn't nee

    Read more 14 comments
  • Bishops meet with Association of Catholic Priests

    May 19 2016
    Lloyd Allan MacPherson

    Actually Eddie, that is an excellent point and it appears to be a sound strategy. They only get away with what is allowed, I guess - just like everything else in the world. Is everyone where they sh

    Read more 14 comments
  • Bishops meet with Association of Catholic Priests

    May 19 2016
    Eddie Finnegan

    Sean@9, I think "mixed marital arts" might be more their thing. More seriously, one of their own number with at least 20 years experience in post, Bishop Leo O'Reilly of Kilmore, promised his diocese

    Read more 14 comments
  • All that He made is good

    May 22 2016
    Lloyd Allan MacPherson

    I think young people have since moved past this debate and it is a common leftover of the silent generation and the boomers - those who were taught this to be an evil and those who were conditioned to

    Read more 9 comments
  • Bishops meet with Association of Catholic Priests

    May 19 2016
    Sean O'Conaill

    #7 Re.the Conference of Irish Bishops: "No organisation can operate efficiently if its board only meets every six months." http://www.catholicbishops.ie/calendar/ Spring General Meeting: Mar 7-9; 20

    Read more 14 comments
  • All that He made is good

    May 22 2016
    Paddy Ferry

    Thank you Fr.P.@3. I wish I had known about that piece of research during the debate before the marriage equality referendum. Virtually everyone I discussed the issue with, who intended to vote "no",

    Read more 9 comments
  • All that He made is good

    May 22 2016
    Fr P, John Mannion

    AS the author of the above article, and taking a cue from Paddy Ferry's reference, I have just read the comments of Cardinal Sarah. In the course of a speech he made recently at a breakfast in the U.S

    Read more 9 comments

Categories