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  • Spotlight

    February 8 2016
    D.B. Doucette

    In reference to the article statement: "I do not know how historically accurately the film presents what happened, nor to what extent artistic licence is used. It seems to me a film worth seeing" yes,

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    February 8 2016
    sara

    I found it incredibly healing. I came across the scandals about 10 years ago and went into moral shock. I couldn't tell anyone. If I did I was told it was Catholic bashing and petty gossip. To see

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  • Spotlight

    February 8 2016
    Lloyd Allan MacPherson

    The real story of the film but a detail that was left out as this was not entirely central of the plot is "Crimine solicitationies". This document needs its time in the spotlight. Those Bishops out

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  • The Ballot Be Yours

    January 31 2016
    Sean O'Conaill

    #13 Thanks, Padraig. However, you leave me still unsure as to what exactly you tried to convey in your homilies. It is one thing to recommend the Sermon on the Mount as a guide for all the faithful

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  • Spotlight

    February 8 2016
    Kevin walters

    This article by Fr. Peter Daly In the National Catholic Reporter| is well worth reading Quote from his article As a parish priest I found it painful to watch. I was ashamed. I went to see the movie al

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  • The Ballot Be Yours

    January 31 2016
    Joe O'Leary

    The strong role and function of the clerical church? I said the church, not the clergy. Ireland has relied too much on the church and that has meant on the clergy for moral and civic guidance, at the

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  • Thinking outside the Confessional Box

    February 7 2016
    Kevin Walters

    ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- How do we receive the treasure of Great price? With TRUST in His Divine Mercy, it is all abo

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  • The Ballot Be Yours

    January 31 2016
    Padraig McCarthy

    Seán Ó Conaill writes: "I am still baffled as to why our clergy never talk to us about the relevance of the principles of Catholic social teaching." "Never" is a strong word. I have certainly talked

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  • Thinking outside the Confessional Box

    February 7 2016
    Pól Ó Duibhir

    Seán Fagan's book, What happened to sin?, is great on the relationship between sin and personal responsibility. He should have been "canonised" for it and not sent to coventry. http://www.amazon.co.u

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  • The Ballot Be Yours

    January 31 2016
    Sean O'Conaill

    #11 Granted, Joe - but you are dodging the issue of specifying the 'strong role and function' of the clerical church (#9) in relation to a society in which the state has assumed so many caring, peace

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