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  • “Praise be to you, my Lord”

    June 18 2015
    Nuala O'Driscoll

    No surprises there! In her book 'The Elephant in the Church', Mary T Malone tells that 'Pope John XXlll to whom the words 'blessed' and 'beloved' are customarily added, in describing the influences on

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  • “Praise be to you, my Lord”

    June 18 2015
    Colm Holmes

    It is a great shame that Pope Francis shoots himself in the foot by not including even one women in his list of 172 references. In my opinion he thus greatly undermines support for his important call

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  • Caring for our common home

    June 19 2015
    Lloyd Allan MacPherson

    Wow, this hasn't generated much discussion on this page at all. Is everyone on vacation or is it too much "the sky is falling" for the general populace. I read somewhere that this was the most impor

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  • Lecture on The Papal Encyclical, Laudato Si, and its implications for Church and Society.

    June 22 2015
    Lloyd Allan MacPherson

    That's a great list but I'm still looking for a sense of urgency. Tell your parishioners that the scientific community is predicting a huge global tide increase and with it more extreme weather. Thi

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  • Lecture on The Papal Encyclical, Laudato Si, and its implications for Church and Society.

    June 22 2015
    Mary Vallely

    Thought this might be of use. Fifty, mostly 'doable,' ideas for making Laudato Si part of parish life. Let's get cracking! http://easterinordinary.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/50-ideas-for-making-laudato-

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  • Re-admitting women to the ordained Diaconate

    June 18 2015
    Darlene Starrs

    The Pope is quoted as saying this week that..."he wouldn't be appointing women to heads of Vatican Offices because that would be functionalism." (paraphrased)....I suspect, as I said, in my above comm

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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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