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  • Faith Formation: Take it out of schools altogether

    March 21 2016
    Joe O'Leary

    "One friend is very deeply concerned with the danger that his own adult children will not ‘pass on’ the tradition that he inherited to his own grandchildren" -- but surely we all know parents, eve

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  • Gabriel Daly, The Church: Always in Need of Reform

    March 19 2016
    Padraig McCarthy

    The RTE interview with Gabriel Daly on The Leap of Faith is on the programme of 18 March (not 11 March): http://www.rte.ie/radio/utils/radioplayer/rteradioweb.html#!rii=b9%5F10548042%5F20733%5F18%2D03

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  • Faith Formation: Take it out of schools altogether

    March 21 2016
    Sean O'Conaill

    #4 "More focus on the depressive and faith-challenging factors that afflict Catholic faithful today ..." Has it struck you, Joe, that lay people like myself, who live here, might have a small advantag

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  • “Why are you killing me?”

    March 23 2016
    Fr Sean Coyle

    Thank you for posting this story.

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  • Faith Formation: Take it out of schools altogether

    March 21 2016
    Joe O'Leary

    I have the uneasy feeling that this site spends too much time nagging at the Vatican and at bishops. I'm not sure that the Irish clergy regard mismanagement at that level as the primary concern--and i

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  • Bishop: Irish hierarchy should reach out to priests like Fr. Tony Flannery

    March 23 2016
    Michael O'CONNELL

    Tony Flannery came to mind when I read Richard Rohr's meditation yesterday. " Power coalesces and corrupts no matter who has it.................. Catholics would have crucified Jesus too if he had cri

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  • The question of infallibility

    March 12 2016
    Richard O'Donnell

    Reading this letter from Hans Kung reminds me again why he is my favourite theologian, after Teilhard de Chardin. However, the problem with papal infallibility will probably not be addressed by Pope F

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  • The question of infallibility

    March 12 2016
    Darlene Starrs

    I suspect what would get Pope Francis's attention is a situation in the Church, that he would find personally embarrassing. As I also suspect, the situation with the sisters of the U.S. represented s

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  • The question of infallibility

    March 12 2016
    Willie Herlihy

    Darlene Starrs@7 I think Darlene, has put her finger on the problems with Pope Francis. I include the following passage from her letter. I think it illustrates the lack of change effected by Pope Fran

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  • Faith Formation: Take it out of schools altogether

    March 21 2016
    AJR

    Perhaps MM they see the whole edifice of the Church in Ireland falling down around them and feel totally disillusioned and exhausted by the seeming indifference to major problems by those in charge at

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