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  • Who is listened to?

    June 2 2015
    Willie Herlihy

    There is a very important point being missed in this discussion i.e. The calibre of Bishop we have. The majority of the Bishops have been selected,using a template drawn up by Pope John Paul and conti

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  • Who is listened to?

    June 2 2015
    Joe O'Leary

    "gay people have not been justly treated" -- the Dutchman makes it more real: " a life of joylessness, loneliness and unfullfillment" due to absence of encouraged and recognized relationships -- such

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  • Who is listened to?

    June 2 2015
    Pádraig McCarthy

    Joe @7&8: Sometimes I feel as if I'm drowning in your words! Yes: as I've said a number of times on this website, gay people have not been justly treated. There are better remedies than same sex m

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

    May 31 2015
    Joe O'Leary

    I googled "Preface for Trinity Sunday" and as usual only Anglican or older forms of preface turned up. The difficulty of accessing our present liturgical texts on the internet suggests that we are ash

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

    May 31 2015
    JimK

    The preface for last Sunday, Trinity Sunday, was one of the worst examples of the problems with this translation, and was almost impossible to read out loud in any intelligible way. What a contrast to

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

    May 31 2015
    Seamus Ahearne

    Oliver Cromwell is remembered for many things but I want to recall a saying that could be appropriate at present. He wrote a letter to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. 3rd August 1650.

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  • Who is listened to?

    June 2 2015
    Joe O'Leary

    The point of my Dutch friend's quote is that homophobic society has denied millions the kind of special happiness to be found in love and marriage. The Irish vote says, we will no longer put obstacles

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  • Who is listened to?

    June 2 2015
    Joe O'Leary

    "Declaring the heterosexual relationship and the homosexual relationship equal as marriage can only receive notional assent, since defining marriage only in terms of the one- to-one relationship and e

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  • Who is listened to?

    June 2 2015
    Pádraig McCarthy

    Joe @ 5: Where did I say or imply that gay marriage means the abolition of the male-female distinction and the possible extinction of a people? I point rather to the vital interest of human societies

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  • Who is listened to?

    June 2 2015
    Joe O'Leary

    Pádraiig, the referendum debate illustrated a curious mismatch, not between reason and emotion as the No side may think, but between notional and real, in Newman's phrasing. The proposition that reco

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