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Did anyone here ever consider becoming a Priest?

DEFTLEFTHAND · 2018-07-21 08:31:01

I've an uncle who is a Priest. lovely fella who was very instrumental in my upbrining. At 17 I thought I had a calling. My mother was appalled but my Dad and his bro the Padre encouraged it. I was brought up to Maynooth and given a tour of the Seminary and met all sorts of Church officials. In the end after a lot of…

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#122 22-07-2018 02:24AM

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_Dara_ wrote: »

All the atheists? Come on. And again, an angry viewpoint is not necessarily invalid.

I didn't say all of them. An angry viewpoint is welcome; abuse isn't.

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#123 22-07-2018 02:26AM

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alaimacerc wrote: »

It doesn't? Yay, a fully secular republic just happened, and I missed the memos!

I hope you can survive this particularly oppressive period of religious power.

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