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  • Voice of the People, Sensus Fidelium and The Synod

    June 6 2015
    Joe O'Leary

    The early Ratzinger picked up Newman's hints about all of this. He agreed that it is no longer possible to accept the condemnation of the proposition that ‘The dogmas presented by the Church as reve

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  • Voice of the People, Sensus Fidelium and The Synod

    June 6 2015
    Joe O'Leary

    "Newman fully accepted the definition of infallibility developed in Vatican I." Quite, but he brought out its extremely restrictive character, and this interpretation has prevailed. He did the same fo

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  • Voice of the People, Sensus Fidelium and The Synod

    June 6 2015
    Nuala O'Driscoll

    It is a funny thing, or is it, that Popes, Cardinals, Saints, University Lecturers, all men, all have this intricate knowledge of 'freedom of conscience'. For something as important to people's lives

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  • Voice of the People, Sensus Fidelium and The Synod

    June 6 2015
    Prodigal Son

    Newman fully accepted the definition of infallibility developed in Vatican I. Ask Newman about the word "direct." He chose his words carefully. He distinguished between two types of Papal Authority -

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  • Voice of the People, Sensus Fidelium and The Synod

    June 6 2015
    Chris McDonnell

    "While Newman’s warnings are very valuable, the revolutionary point of what he says is that Catholics enjoy freedom of conscience even over against papal authority (a point repeated more emphaticall

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  • In times of crisis be creative

    June 12 2015
    mjt

    If we were to judge by the fullness, activeness and consciousness of participation by the faithful at Mass, maybe we would conclude that we already are in a Eucharistic famine, brought about principal

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  • Voice of the People, Sensus Fidelium and The Synod

    June 6 2015
    Joe O'Leary

    "If in a particular case conscience is to be taken as a sacred and sovereign monitor, its dictate, in order to prevail against the voice of the Pope, must follow upon serious thought, prayer, and all

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  • In times of crisis be creative

    June 12 2015
    Darlene Starrs

    No doubt Brian, you are committed to the promotion of the "married priest", however, the challenge(s) facing the Universal R.C. Church, today, are far greater than a "priest shortage". As well, I beli

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  • Vox Clara Committee Press Release May 25-26, 2015

    May 31 2015
    Anthony O'Donnell

    As the Titanic enters the water, the passengers and crew are given a hymn-sheet prepared by a renamed Vix Clara with the words of a heretofore familiar hymn which now reads 'God my Thee we pray to nea

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  • Voice of the People, Sensus Fidelium and The Synod

    June 6 2015
    Prodigal Son

    A few extra comments from Newman's letter to the Duke of Norfolk: "The Divine Law is the supreme rule of actions; our thoughts, desires, words, acts, all that man is, is subject to the domain of the l

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