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A Thought: Fr Brendan Hoban
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Paying the piper, calling the tune
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
AN OCCUPATIONAL hazard of being a priest is that you have to put up with a lot of jaded jokes.
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Victimhood is a complex country
Wednesday, March 03, 2010
HATS off to Trevor Sargent, the junior minister, who resigned promptly when his indiscretion became clear.
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They’re home from Rome
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
THEY do things differently in Rome. ‘Time immemorial’ is a favoured phrase.
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Lessons Lee needed to learn
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
WE NEED to believe that somewhere there is someone who can turn things around. In the midst of crisis we search out a messiah figure.
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Flaky religiosity no help to true religion
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
IS RELIGION good for us? Or bad for us? It’s not a great time to launch that huge question because religion is getting such a bad press.
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Bad hair day for the Times
Wednesday, February 03, 2010
I’VE been reading the Irish Times for over forty years. It is, as the cliché has it, part of my day.
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An adventure of one and a half million words
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
THIRTY years ago – on January 23, 1980 to be exact – my first column was published in the Western People.
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Haiti gives perspective to national whinge
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
THE philosopher, Alasdair MacIntyre, in a new book, listed the main difficulties with belief in God.
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10 wishes for the Catholic Church in 2010
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
We love lists. Or, at least, I think we do. (Why else are the papers so full of them?) And we love turning over a new leaf of life, opening a fresh chapter and dreaming dreams of what the future will hold.
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We won’t know what we’re missing
Wednesday, January 06, 2010
TEN years ago, at the turn of the millennium, the writer Aidan Mathews, wrote a stark piece in the Irish Times, lamenting how the world was changing:
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Christmas is a clearance
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
RITUAL is at the heart of Christmas, public and private rubrics that are part of the essence of Christmas time, and without them, Christmas, as we say, isn’t Christmas.
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It is the worst of times
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
WE’RE living in strange times. Bishop Donal Murray is in Rome discussing his possible resignation.
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Lessons to be learned from Dublin Report
Wednesday, December 09, 2009
YESTERDAY (Monday) Bishop Donal Murray of Limerick was in Rome and tomorrow (Wednesday) Cardinal Seán Brady and Archbishop Diarmuid Martin meet the Pope.
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Dublin Report: bishops need to resign
Wednesday, December 02, 2009
EVEN though the detail of the Dublin Report from the Commission of Investigation into the Catholic Archdiocese of Dublin had been well flagged in advance in all its awfulness, its publication last week has brought the Catholic Church in Ireland once again to its knees.
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That night in Paris
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
WE need something to be angry about, all of the time - that motorist who still doesn’t get it that one lane has priority over another and should be put off the road; those musicians on the Late Late Show who play for about 10 seconds a night, what are they for, what do they cost and who needs them anyway?; that idiot who insists on... shouldn’t someone tell him, for God’s sake!
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