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  • ‘Irish Catholic Catechism for Adults’ and ‘the Fall’

    June 24 2014
    Sean O'Conaill

    Con Devree #8 I see neither the need nor the possibility of going that route, Con. Extreme physical vulnerability seems to me to be something essential to the human earthly condition, and even pain i

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  • ‘Irish Catholic Catechism for Adults’ and ‘the Fall’

    June 24 2014
    Joe O'Leary

    talking of the fall as a particular temporal event is still fundamentalistic; Teilhard got us out of that long ago; we know very well that the first state of humanity was not one of paradisal innocent

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  • Denial is not an option for bishops

    June 23 2014
    Shaun

    Lloyd Allan MacPherson @6, that's all well and good, but as Pope Francis said, the Church must not act simply like an NGO. The Church must preach Jesus Christ and introduce all people to Him as the so

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  • ‘Irish Catholic Catechism for Adults’ and ‘the Fall’

    June 24 2014
    Con Devree

    Re #5 Sean, is it useful to consider CCC 1008 along with its side references, CCC 376 and CCC 397 to 409, together with the scriptural references? Is it possible to entertain the following idea? Cou

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  • Clogher ACP

    June 25 2014
    Con Devree

    The Bishop’s Chrism Mass Homily was designed to suit a particular occasion and as such is very apt. However it raises the question as to what is the “ministry of the priests” and the “identit

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  • ‘Irish Catholic Catechism for Adults’ and ‘the Fall’

    June 24 2014
    Joe O'Leary

    Lots of theologians pointed out that the Catechism had slipped into biblical fundamentalism here, and that means something mendacious and poisonous.

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  • The priest: from oracle to ignoramus

    June 16 2014
    Nuala O'Driscoll

    @33 Eddie I know very well without being told that I was an ignoramus, that's what makes me so angry.

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  • ‘Irish Catholic Catechism for Adults’ and ‘the Fall’

    June 24 2014
    MM

    It seems to me Sean is right. Death was about long before we humans were around the mess things up for the universe with our original sin and general goings on. I mean just ask a dinosaur if you can

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  • Denial is not an option for bishops

    June 23 2014
    Lloyd Allan MacPherson

    Clare @ 2, I think you share the same hallucination in perception as the Church does. The youth of the world have not abandoned their faith, the church has abandoned them. There are a multitude of s

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  • The priest: from oracle to ignoramus

    June 16 2014
    Con Devree

    Re #33 “Like my old wireless, HV has some attractive features and flowing lines which I still admire, but damn all reception. I can’t bear to dump it in the skip, but I’ll just leave it at the b

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