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How do we receive the treasure of Great price? With TRUST in His Divine Mercy, it is all abo
Seán Ó Conaill writes: "I am still baffled as to why our clergy never talk to us about the relevance of the principles of Catholic social teaching."
"Never" is a strong word. I have certainly talked
Seán Fagan's book, What happened to sin?, is great on the relationship between sin and personal responsibility. He should have been "canonised" for it and not sent to coventry.
http://www.amazon.co.u
#11 Granted, Joe - but you are dodging the issue of specifying the 'strong role and function' of the clerical church (#9) in relation to a society in which the state has assumed so many caring, peace
"Isn’t ‘virtue’ supposedly in the gift of God, mediated by the clerical church – and shouldn’t our clergy have the confidence to say so?"
Surely it's the reverse -- we clergy learn virtue by
We individually confess the forgiveness sins in the Creed even if some may at times have the apprehension of the returning Prodigal Son and his life-enhancing fear of the Lord. So the knowing about
We are called to live a forgiven life each day. “He chose us in Christ before the world was made to be holy and blameless before him in love.” (Ephesians 1:4) This forgiveness is much wider that t
#9 We are agreed then, Joe.
So that leaves us as church - ordained and unordained - needing to discuss what our different roles should be in a democratic state. Some of us will necessarily be functi
The Church's social teaching in its modern form has grown up within a context of modern democracies. It is different from the social teaching of the ancient or medieval churches because it is no longe
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February 7 2016----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- How do we receive the treasure of Great price? With TRUST in His Divine Mercy, it is all abo
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January 31 2016Seán Ó Conaill writes: "I am still baffled as to why our clergy never talk to us about the relevance of the principles of Catholic social teaching." "Never" is a strong word. I have certainly talked
Thinking outside the Confessional Box
February 7 2016Seán Fagan's book, What happened to sin?, is great on the relationship between sin and personal responsibility. He should have been "canonised" for it and not sent to coventry. http://www.amazon.co.u
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January 31 2016#11 Granted, Joe - but you are dodging the issue of specifying the 'strong role and function' of the clerical church (#9) in relation to a society in which the state has assumed so many caring, peace
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February 7 2016Padraig, thanks for those very helpful remarks.
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January 31 2016"Isn’t ‘virtue’ supposedly in the gift of God, mediated by the clerical church – and shouldn’t our clergy have the confidence to say so?" Surely it's the reverse -- we clergy learn virtue by
Thinking outside the Confessional Box
February 7 2016We individually confess the forgiveness sins in the Creed even if some may at times have the apprehension of the returning Prodigal Son and his life-enhancing fear of the Lord. So the knowing about
Thinking outside the Confessional Box
February 7 2016We are called to live a forgiven life each day. “He chose us in Christ before the world was made to be holy and blameless before him in love.” (Ephesians 1:4) This forgiveness is much wider that t
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January 31 2016#9 We are agreed then, Joe. So that leaves us as church - ordained and unordained - needing to discuss what our different roles should be in a democratic state. Some of us will necessarily be functi
The Ballot Be Yours
January 31 2016The Church's social teaching in its modern form has grown up within a context of modern democracies. It is different from the social teaching of the ancient or medieval churches because it is no longe
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