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  • Rejoice in difference, Struggle against Division

    March 1 2016
    DOM

    Thank you Father Ahearne for letting us see your two "Dear Charles" letters. They highlight some important questions. In the past,there was often reference to 'The Church Militant', I would like to de

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  • Mercy in Action

    February 13 2016
    Joe O'Leary

    http://www.thetablet.co.uk/news/2302/0/-short-shrift-for-obama-s-gay-rights-call-from-kenya-s-bishops-after-visit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Kenya

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  • Spotlight

    February 8 2016
    Anne

    Would it be accurate to conclude that the societal norm at he time was to adopt the proverb of the three monkeys,Hear no Evil,See no Evil, Speak no Evil,in other words turning a blind eye. I find it u

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  • Spotlight

    February 8 2016
    Kevin Walters

    Padraig McCarthy@19 So far many have expressed disagreement or frustration, but nobody as far as I can see has shown anything I wrote to be false”. --------------------------------------------------

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  • Spotlight

    February 8 2016
    Padraig McCarthy

    Paddy @15 says to me, “I wish you would just stop this now.” Fair enough to say how you feel, but it gets us not a bit further unless the specific points I proposed are answered. Neither Ben@6 nor

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  • Spotlight

    February 8 2016
    Sean O'Conaill

    #11, #14 - I wrote: “And so we get again the straw-clutching implication that the diocesan policy of reassignment of erring priests might have arisen from unknown advice given by psychiatrists and

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  • Hope yet for the year of Mercy?

    February 12 2016
    Mary Wood

    I live with an 86 year old cradle Catholic who angrily asks,"Has the Church ever apologised for teaching small children that almost everything was a mortal sin?" Aged 6, she ate a sugar mouse on Chri

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  • Spotlight

    February 8 2016
    Lloyd Allan MacPherson

    Padraig @ 14, this is the topic I've elaborated on. Is the Crimine Solicitationies document criminally punishable? Could the Vatican be liable? Is there one other institution or organization out th

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  • Spotlight

    February 8 2016
    Joe O'Leary

    Looking up van der Kolk's book on Amazon, his account of "Julian" seems a classic instance of induced FALSE memory to me. See p. 172 of the book at http://www.amazon.com/The-Body-Keeps-Score-Healing/d

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  • Spotlight

    February 8 2016
    Paddy Ferry

    Joe@10, you are forever going on about Fr.Shawm Ratigan and the very severe sentence he got for taking photos of the little girls and, given that murderers get only 20 years, you probably have a point

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