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  • The Ballot Be Yours

    January 31 2016
    Willie Herlihy

    As usual, Brendan is a rock of common sense. As an armature student of history, it is plain to me that the Catholic Church is a quasi political organisation, that morphed in and out of Christianity w

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  • Is ‘secularism’ just another ‘religion’?

    January 27 2016
    Sean O'Conaill

    #10 "Those engaged in dialogue with the secularist project are confronted with the incapability of both liberal and left wing secularism to embrace the notion of pluralism." As I don't know this to b

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  • Is ‘secularism’ just another ‘religion’?

    January 27 2016
    Sean O'Conaill

    #11 "Cavanaugh seems to want something stronger than Civil Religion ..." Citation needed here again, Joe. I still don't know whether you are simply attributing a position to Cavanaugh on the basis o

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  • Is ‘secularism’ just another ‘religion’?

    January 27 2016
    Joe O'Leary

    The US "Civil Religion" is quite democratic, and refers to the deity in the most indeterminate terms. I think the French revolutionists did so as well. The Protestant hijacking of the US revolution (w

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  • Is ‘secularism’ just another ‘religion’?

    January 27 2016
    Con Devree

    Despite the ambiguities in # 8, does it not bear out the content in # 6 - secularism as a state-backed and state-funded belief system/religion? That is not to deny secularism’s positive elements. A

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  • The Ballot Be Yours

    January 31 2016
    Padraig McCarthy

    Brendan writes: "Authority and influence are no longer judged in terms of position or numbers but have to be earned in the market-place by responding respectfully and maturely to complex moral and soc

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  • Is ‘secularism’ just another ‘religion’?

    January 27 2016
    Sean O'Conaill

    #6, #8 The nation state has tended to identify 'patriotism' as loyalty to itself. See, for example the still-continuing debate over the pledge of allegiance to the flag in the US, with the US suprem

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  • Dublin Diocese 2030 – Quo vadis?

    January 20 2016
    Kevin Walters

    MÍcheál @9 Perhaps the future is to be one without ordained priests ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Well possible those like Fr John A Gallagher (48) who is n

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  • 29/01. Friday, Week 3

    January 29 2016
    Nicholas

    The reflections are part of my daily devotion and assist greatly in my spiritual formation. Your efforts touch Africa too!I echo the sentiments of Matthew, Dominic and Patricia.

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  • Law catching up with practice, again.

    January 21 2016
    Sean O'Donnell

    I can't imagine Cardinal Raymond Bourke washing any woman's foot.

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