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09 April 2025 – Wednesday of Week 5 of Lent
April 9 2025
Kenneth
It is so enriching and thank you.
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Julieann Moran’s Synodal Pathway Update: Letter from Cardinal Grech
April 2 2025
Sean O'Conaill
"... the implementation phase of the Synod should be understood not as merely the 'application' of d... irectives from above, but rather as a process of 'reception' of the orientations expressed in the Final Document, adapted appropriately to local cultures and the needs of communities." And, yes, although that Final Document did fudge and shelve too many things there are indeed 'orientations' to be welcomed - especially the insistence that Baptism is 'the foundation of Christian life' (21) and that 'there is nothing higher than this baptismal dignity'. That tells me I have all the dignity I need to be a brass-neck (i.e. totally unqualified) theologian here. Does the addition of document after document to the Synodality pile help or hinder in persuading the merely baptised that they too can be heralds of the Good News? In the end 'cutting to the chase' will be the task of facilitators already under training for the next phase of Ireland's Synodal Pathway - and I have a sense that this will happen if they can simply speak of their own experience of the church as a 'field hospital'. 'Formation' for me personally has had more to do with unexpected catastrophes than with Catechisms and formal training days - and this has led me to my own brass-neck theology of the cross. While there are ways of defending St Anselm those defences fall far short of the description 'exciting' - and we need to rediscover excitement. For me the Creed is also a Catastrophe Narrative - a story of apparent 'game over' when the game was only beginning - and the game is to overthrow the verdicts of the world, as Jesus did. Those verdicts rest always on the mistake that Jesus pinpoints in today's Gospel - of 'looking to one another for Glory' - of supposing that the currently most fashionable ideas and people are the ones to kow-tow to - as though we poor humans are indeed capable of judging anyone, or any question, justly. And just as the Jesus catastrophe story persuaded St Paul that instead the ideas and great men of the moment were 'passing away' - to be replaced by a New Creation - so do we today need to be convinced today that the verdicts of the world on the church are time-bound and passing away, to an always new creation. Catastrophe, far from being the end of everything, is instead an essential part of the formation process. Every 'crash' liberates us from the prison built by our ego - that part of us that looks to one another for glory - making us realise how much we need one another - and that we can rely upon one another also. An experience of cancer was one of those catastrophes for me - but there have been worse - and in all of them prayer was availing. I could now do with fewer of them, but knowing what to do now - just to pray - means everything. As the world's greatest 'Catastrophe Narrative' the Creed can be, for everyone, a Passport through Catastrophe. I can tell anyone still in the throes of catastrophe that this belief has been 'proof tested'. How's that for brass-neck theology?Show more ›
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Gerry O’Hanlon letter in The Irish Times
March 29 2025
Brendan Hoban
Dermot, for goodness sake, why has everything to be either black or white? As you know, life is more... complex than that. And Pius X11? Come on?Show more ›
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Gerry O’Hanlon letter in The Irish Times
March 29 2025
Dermot Quigley
No need to apologize Paddy. These Scholars are irrelevant when compared with the Ordinary and Univer... sal magisterium of our much loved and sorely missed Pius XII. I profess unwavering acceptance of the Ordinary and Universal magisterium of Pius XII (under which Divino Afflante Spiritu was issued) and his ex Cathedra Teaching under which “Munificentissimus Deus” was issued. I intend no disrespect towards your Scholars: I don’t believe what they teach is of the Holy Ghost. If Synodality is a fifth Mark of the Church, can you explain why the Holy Father doesn’t change the Credo and CCC accordingly? (Please see my very first comment) Pius XII’s Encyclical “Divino Afflante Spiritu” stands. Roma Locuta…. I am wondering Paddy, Do you accept “Munificentissimus Deus” promulgated by Pius XII in St. Peter’s Square on the ifrst Class feast of all Saints, in 1950? (I have a degree in Engineering so I am comfortable in the Presence of Learned Scholars, e.g., the late Professor Ludwig Ott.)Show more ›
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