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  • Spotlight

    February 8 2016
    Padraig McCarthy

    Kevin Walters refers to "the fundamental sin of a Culture of Cover Up within the Church." I have little doubt that this has occurred in the Church, as it does in many other organisations where their r

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  • Spotlight

    February 8 2016
    D. B. Doucette

    The Shanley case is not contested except by Shanley, who had participated in a group that says love between adult and juvenile males is desirable. Shanley himself admitted to abusing at least 9 childr

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  • Spotlight

    February 8 2016
    Kevin Walters

    Joe O'Leary @10 The fictional IMAGE of priests in 99% of films is that of good holy men serving God this Image re-enacted in proud hearts endorsed by a docile/proud (self-serving) laity has produced a

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  • Spotlight

    February 8 2016
    Padraig McCarthy

    It baffles me that Seán O'Conaill (@9) could have so totally missed the primary focus of what I wrote above. I wrote that the film is worth seeing. The movie can speak for itself. If we are to see th

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  • Spotlight

    February 8 2016
    Joe O'Leary

    I think that the terrible crimes committed against young people have brought in their wake some injustices against priests, so to that extent I am in sympathy with Pádraig's efforts. Disproportionate

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  • Rejoice in difference, Struggle against Division

    March 1 2016
    Sandra Mc Sheaffrey

    Thanks to Seamus for once more putting his head above the parapet. I am sure he will recognise the lessons in this extract from the VELVETEEN RABBIT by Margery Williams (this starts at the point when

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  • Spotlight

    February 8 2016
    Sean O'Conaill

    It baffles me that Padraig McCarthy could have so totally missed what was for me the primary focus of the movie. This was the Boston Catholic ethic that taught lay people in a whole range of occupati

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  • Spotlight

    February 8 2016
    Anne

    Paddy Ferry @ 5 I get it Paddy because I learned the hard way. One of my daughters who is now deceased was assaulted by a gang of youths when she was a teenager twenty years ago. The crime committed

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  • Rejoice in difference, Struggle against Division

    March 1 2016
    Eddie Finnegan

    We can be more grateful than ever, and doubly grateful, to Seamus Ahearne for writing these two letters to Charles Brown and for sharing them, speaking for the ACP, on this site. Seamus has written be

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  • Rejoice in difference, Struggle against Division

    March 1 2016
    Willie Herlihy

    Thank you, Seamus for sharing your letters; Charles Brown can never be part of the solution, to the problems in our Church,because he is part of the problem. During the controversy over Tony Flannery

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