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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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  • In times of crisis be creative

    June 12 2015
    ts

    Might make for interesting reading for some, it's a link to the "Church Statistics 2010/11" for the Church of England. https://www.churchofengland.org/media/1477827/2010_11churchstatistics.pdf "Full t

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  • “Praise be to you, my Lord”

    June 18 2015
    Roy Donovan

    I have read 23 paragraphs and look forward to reading it all. It is mega inspiring and challenging. Has a great sense of inter-connectedness. Great to see Francis using much feminine imagery at the

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  • Listening rather than hearing

    June 16 2015
    Chris McDonnell

    Jim You are welcome! Best of luck with Finnegan's Wake Remember the quote from that somewhat esoteric book “Catholic means ‘Here comes everybody.’” We could do well to remember that when we se

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

    June 16 2015
    Mary Wood

    FRom an a/c of a very recent CTSA meeting The need for reception of teachings by the People of God is a counterbalance to this modern need for certitude, Burkhard said. “In some situations the real

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