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A Thought: Fr Brendan Hoban
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Priest numbers: planning for a certain future
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
IT’S said that the Leaving Cert is the most stressful examination of all.
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Recipe for our ailing Church
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
SOME years ago at a conference of clergy, there was a discussion about the imminent threat of altar girls.
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Rome’s got it right this time
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
THE story so far. In the aftermath of the publication of the Murphy Report in November 2009, into the abuse of children in Dublin diocese, pressure was brought to bear on Dublin bishops mentioned in the report to resign.
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Selling hardship to the poor
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
SOME years ago, the American billionaires Bill Gates and Warren Buffett started a campaign to encourage the super-rich in America to give away half of their fortunes to charitable causes. Last week, the project received a huge financial boost when more than 30 American billionaires pledged their support.
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An important voice for priests
Wednesday, August 04, 2010
MANY years ago, I was a member of the National Conference of Priests of Ireland (NCPI).
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Young men living on the edge
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
SOME months ago, I did a number of Living Word reflections on RTÉ Radio One.
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Lessons from Louth
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
IN A different life I was chairman of a GAA club.
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Maybe we need to get out more
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
BY THE time you read this the World Cup will be over. Thank God for small mercies. In all, wasn’t it as predictably boring as ever?
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Partnership bill is a civil issue
Wednesday, July 07, 2010
AFTER all the excitement of the Stag hunting vote in the Dáil, when the government for a time seemed in danger of collapse and when, after threats and counter-threats, deputies from two parties lost ‘the whip’, the passage of the Civil Partnership Bill a few days later seemed a most civilized affair indeed.
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A visit from the Queen
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
IN THE recent push against Enda Kenny as leader of Fine Gael, an unnamed backbencher was quoted as describing the struggle as a conflict between the cappuccino brigade and those who eat their dinner in the middle of the day.
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It’s the Mass that matters
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
FEWER Catholics attend Mass regularly now.
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Age of Discontent is upon us
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
YOU’D imagine that it would be the other way round. But it’s a strange fact of life that the more we have, the more we complain. The better the services, the more criticism there seems to be.
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The road from Rome
Wednesday, June 09, 2010
THE Pope has announced that an ‘apostolic visitation’ will take place in the autumn.
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Raising the siege a year later
Wednesday, June 02, 2010
IT was, Queen Elizabeth II, I think, who popularised the Latin tag annus horribilis after a difficult year during which one of her children divorced and a favoured castle was burned to the ground.
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Should Croke Park become the Harvey Norman stadium?
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
IN THE glory days of the Celtic Tiger, everything seemed possible.
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