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  • 9 June 2024 – 10th Sunday

    June 9 2024
    Joe O'Leary

    The Catechism unrolls the doctrine and all its support at length: 496. From the first formulations of her faith, the Church has confessed that Jesus was conceived solely by the power of the Holy Spi

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  • Brendan Hoban: US Devotion to Trump is simply a mystery                

    June 11 2024
    Paul Mac

    While Trump has all those faults.... you are totally avoiding, if not ignoring the evil that goes along with the present Biden Administration. I use the word 'evil' with its full weight. Biden and his

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  • Brendan Hoban: US Devotion to Trump is simply a mystery                

    June 11 2024
    Joe O'Leary

    Jared’s not his son but his son-in-law. The trial was a mess — his crime was very poorly focused — the 34 counts were really only one — an iffy piece of paperwork — with the jury free to

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  • 9 June 2024 – 10th Sunday

    June 9 2024
    Joe O'Leary

    Most theologians seem to fall back on a default position: the story of the Virgin Birth is theological (pointing to the unique holiness of Christ) and not a literal biological report. https://www.fait

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  • 9 June 2024 – 10th Sunday

    June 9 2024
    Dermot Quigley

    The lateran Synod in 649, under Pope Martin I, taught "Holy Mary, ever-virgin and immaculate Conceived really and truly of the Holy Ghost. She gave birth to Christ without corruption to her Virginity.

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  • 9 June 2024 – 10th Sunday

    June 9 2024
    Paddy Ferry

    It was difficult not to be struck by a certain incongruity at Mass yesterday. On the one hand we pray in the Confiteor---as we always do to "...Blessed Mary, ever Virgin..." and then we heard in the G

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  • USA Priests Association asks for clarification of the pope’s “no”

    June 6 2024
    Alan McGill

    Perhaps a key issue in the dialogue about the ordination of women as deacons is the question of the development of doctrine. Phylliss Zagano has made the point that the question of historical preceden

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  • 9 June 2024 – 10th Sunday

    June 9 2024
    Thara Benedicta

    Key Message: Faith makes us see the unseen!! Homily: Testimony: One of my Catholic friends asked, "My non-Catholic Christian friend quoted the scripture, "Your mothe

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  • 2 June 2024 – Corpus Christi

    June 2 2024
    Sean O'Conaill

    #6 I understand, Paddy - and I too have reacted strongly against the unexamined clericalism that was so pervasive in Ireland when I started paying attention (early 1960s). I reacted also against the

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  • Pope Francis never intended to offend: ‘Room for everyone in the Church’

    May 28 2024
    Joe O'Leary

    "I wonder is it a legitimate question to ask why this 5-10% is not reflected in our priesthood and, perhaps, that is what Francis was getting at." Of course it's a legitimate question, but the answer

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