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    February 8 2016
    Anne

    Except Sexual Abuse is not about sex, it's about serious crime .

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    February 8 2016
    Eddie Finnegan

    Thanks Brendan@41, but watch out for those disturbingly disquieting PC fanatics who may well drag this raft of comments out to another 41 at least. Thanks, too, to Pádraig for attempting an eminently

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    February 8 2016
    Brendan Hoban

    An important article on the future of the oceans attracted one response. An article on a film about sexual abuse has so far attracted 40. Who was it said it was Freud who was obsessed with sex?

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  • Mercy in Action

    February 13 2016
    Mary Vallely

    I cannot imagine the horror of living as a gay person in Kenya or in any of those countries where attitudes appear to be far, far from a genuine desire to 'love one's neighbour as oneself.' However,

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    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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  • 18 Feb. Thursday in the First Week of Lent

    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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