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  • “Praise be to you, my Lord”

    June 18 2015
    Pádraig McCarthy

    In addition to referring in paragraph 15 to "this Encyclical Letter, which is now added to the body of the Church’s social teaching", Francis does something unusual in paragraph 3: "In this Encyclic

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  • Caring for our common home

    June 19 2015
    Joe O'Leary

    Convulsive reactions of schism-fomenting dissent in some Catholic circles shows how far Catholic are from taking aboard the awareness articulated by Francis. Examples: http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/

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  • Caring for our common home

    June 19 2015
    Pádraig McCarthy

    This is the first papal encyclical I remember which I can read without straining my attention! I like the fact that the "Incipit", the starting words, are in St Francis's Umbrian dialect of Italian: a

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  • Re-admitting women to the ordained Diaconate

    June 18 2015
    Teresa Mee

    The way will hopefully be open to ordaining women to the priesthood once the ban on marriage for priests and bishops is removed, and with it, the their fear of marriage and of women. Of course not all

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  • Re-admitting women to the ordained Diaconate

    June 18 2015
    Darlene Starrs

    Does re-admitting women to the permanent diaconate mean real leadership for said women? I wonder....or would women continue to do what they have already done for hundreds of years?

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  • Caring for our common home

    June 19 2015
    Lloyd Allan MacPherson

    A most interesting document it is. If the Pope were to somehow engage in the writings of Rene Girard, his knowledge on how to combat this problem would lead him to the age range where mimetic desire

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  • Re-admitting women to the ordained Diaconate

    June 18 2015
    Anne

    Interesting idea...

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  • Does marriage mean exactly what we want it to mean?

    June 16 2015
    KevinWalters

    We have only ONE Master and we are led by His example. The full richness of “church teaching” emanates from the living Word of God and we walk on safe ground when we revert to the simplicity of H

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  • “Praise be to you, my Lord”

    June 18 2015
    Joe O'Leary

    Roy, nearly all the references are to papal documents or utterances of episcopal conferences. The exceptions are fellow-Jesuit Teilhard de Chardin and his old favourite Romano Guardini. I think one re

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  • Does marriage mean exactly what we want it to mean?

    June 16 2015
    Cornelius Martin

    # 2 and 3 I have no expertise on St Paul. I go by the Vatican II document Dei Verbum which in paragraph 11 states “since everything asserted by the inspired authors or sacred writers must be held t

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