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  • Spotlight

    February 8 2016
    Padraig McCarthy

    Lloyd Allan MacPherson @37: "some of us proceed in the fog because that’s where it is most comforting." That may sometimes be the case. But what Milan Kundera is writing of is where people cannot be

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    February 8 2016
    Rory Connor

    There are many references here to the 1962 Vatican document Crimen Solicitationis which was supposedly intended to cover up cases of child sexual abuse by clergy. (Obviously Pope John XXIII was not qu

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    February 8 2016
    Joe O'Leary

    Crimen Sollicitationis seems to have been a dead letter, like not a few Vatican documents. The way it is handled in the media is quite unhistorical.

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    February 18 2016
    Pat Rogers

    Had you intended to write a comment or question? Anyway, it's good to hear from a colleague in Nigeria. Would you know if any of your fellow clergy are regular visitors to our website?

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    February 8 2016
    Lloyd Allan MacPherson

    Sean, it always comes down to faulty management. I can relate. I've been trying to stir Laudato 'si in the souls of a select few on my little heart shaped island in the east and I'm still not even s

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    February 8 2016
    Sean O'Conaill

    #30, 32 - The Murphy Report Part 1 has a section beginning at 4.17 - 'Procedural rules regarding child sexual abuse' - which refers to Crimen Solicitationis (1922) and an updated version of that, date

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  • Spotlight

    February 8 2016
    Padraig McCarthy

    Seán @ 31: When I wrote the original piece above, my intention was to draw attention to the Spotlight film, to draw attention also to the wider picture in which any such depiction must be seen, and t

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    February 8 2016
    Lloyd Allan MacPherson

    Thank you for the link Kevin but I see Tom Doyle as the typical status quo. He is quick to point out the faults of the church but as to a valid solution, he's not amongst those who think about it too

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  • 18 Feb. Thursday in the First Week of Lent

    February 18 2016
    Adelodun Oluwafemi

    Catholic faithful from Nigeria

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    February 8 2016
    Joe O'Leary

    Sean, I don't say stick to "facts" calmly. What is needed is a wide-ranging and honest discussion dealing with every aspect of this issue. But that is impossible in the current climate, for a whole ra

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