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  • Thinking outside the Confessional Box

    February 7 2016
    Kevin Walters

    ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- How do we receive the treasure of Great price? With TRUST in His Divine Mercy, it is all abo

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  • The Ballot Be Yours

    January 31 2016
    Padraig McCarthy

    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

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  • Thinking outside the Confessional Box

    February 7 2016
    Pól Ó Duibhir

    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

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  • The Ballot Be Yours

    January 31 2016
    Sean O'Conaill

    #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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  • Thinking outside the Confessional Box

    February 7 2016
    Joe O'Leary

    Padraig, thanks for those very helpful remarks.

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  • The Ballot Be Yours

    January 31 2016
    Joe O'Leary

    "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

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  • Thinking outside the Confessional Box

    February 7 2016
    Con Devree

    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

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  • Thinking outside the Confessional Box

    February 7 2016
    Padraig McCarthy

    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

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  • The Ballot Be Yours

    January 31 2016
    Sean O'Conaill

    #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

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  • The Ballot Be Yours

    January 31 2016
    Joe O'Leary

    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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