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  • The church I long to see

    October 8 2015
    Peter Shore

    I entirely agree that discipleship is an experiential thing. "We love, because he first loved us" (1 John 4:19).But also: "This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as

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  • The church I long to see

    October 8 2015
    Michael C.

    Aidan, A wonderfully expressed comment. Always we see in the Gospel the reaching out in mercy to forgive before ever the sinner has a chance to express sorrow; the mercy of Jesus invites the sorrow an

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  • The church I long to see

    October 8 2015
    Aidan

    Christianity calls us all to be disciples of the Lord. Discipleship which lasts and is effective starts with an experience of being unconditionally, eternally and compassionately loved by God, in spit

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  • The church I long to see

    October 8 2015
    Peter Shore

    My understanding of doctrine would be that it is the moral teaching of the Church, which cannot be different from the content of Scripture or Traditional practice. This article elaborates: "http://www

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  • Faith; the ability to live with uncertainty

    October 5 2015
    Prodigal Son

    John # 11, I’m not so sure. Take Matthew 5:17-19: “Think not that I have come to abolish the law and the prophets; I have come not to abolish them but to fulfil them. For truly, I say to you, t

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  • The church I long to see

    October 8 2015
    paddy Ferry

    I am pleased Fr.Joe has replied to Peter Shore as I was of the opinion that doctrine has indeed changed over the centuries. Or, perhaps, I don't fully understand what actually constitutes church " doc

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  • The church I long to see

    October 8 2015
    Joe O'Leary

    The indissolubility of marriage is an ideal that has many exceptions: the "me epi porneia" clause used twice in Matthew, and the Pauline and Petrine principles: That a Gospel text countenances "usury"

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  • The church I long to see

    October 8 2015
    Peter Shore

    Again, the development of doctrine is different from making wholesale changes to it. Doctrine can't change because Christ is God's final revelation to humanity. Of the examples given -- 'churching' w

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  • The church I long to see

    October 8 2015
    Aidan

    A truly inspiring list and one with which I agree totally. Holy Scripture contains the development of doctrine so it is difficult to see why that evolutionary process is not continuing today, under th

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  • The Equality of Women, and the question of Ordination.

    October 22 2015
    Soline(Vatinel) Humbert

    Pope Francis recently denied that the exclusion of women from ordination to the priesthood had anything to do with them not having the capacity for it.http://ncronline.org/blogs/ncr-today/francis-aga

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