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Clerical abuse in Ireland: your first reactions
We have all been holding our collective breath for the report of the Commission to inquire into child abuse in the Dublin Archdiocese. It has now been published and has proved to be not so much another...
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The Murphy report is a cry for deep spiritual renewal
This is the leading article from The Catholic Herald, issue 4 November 2009 O O O The Ryan report on Irish child abuse, published in May, left us holding our collective breath, waiting for the...
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The real facts of life
We are rightly concerned about secular attempts to lay down how we should teach our beliefs about the proper use of sexuality. The threatened Bill on children, schools and families would, on first...
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One small step…
Just a week ago I listened to a BBC Four programme on sacred music, and then I switched on my computer. My mind was still thrilling with the faith of the composers and those moments of musical beauty...
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The Lucifer Effect, Zimbardo
Could you torture innocent people? Could you take part in deliberate humiliation of others to a stage where you are doing deep psychological harm? Could you subscribe to deceitful and fraudulent...
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Breeding money
A year or so ago I made some money. It was quite simple really. I noticed that the stock market was going through a period of mild depression. So I bought an investment whose value was defined by the...
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The death of debate
I reproduce here, with permission, the main leader from the last edition of the Catholic Herald. It raises some important points for discussion. David Cameron has recently described British values as:...
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Catholic Herald Christmas Quiz. ANSWERS (questions above)
(Do not read until you have tried the questions above!) 1 True. 2 False. In Elizabethan slang ‘‘nunnery’’ meant ‘‘brothel’’. 3 False. It took place on Breed’s Hill, and the Revolutionaries lost. 4...
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TRUE or FALSE. Eyes down for the Catholic Herald Christmas Quiz.
Answers below. Questions 1 Humans share about 50 per cent of their DNA with bananas. 2 “Get thee to a nunnery.” Hamlet thought that only life in a convent could save Ophelia. 3 The Battle of Bunker...
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What does the Church do?
Earlier this week a blog of mine on the Zika crisis in Brazil was published on the Catholic Herald website. Over a couple of days it had attracted 337 comments by the time comments were closed. I am...
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