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  • The priest: from oracle to ignoramus

    June 16 2014
    Nuala O'Driscoll

    Padraig McCarthy @ 22. Thanks. Maybe the Magisterium could issue an encyclical on freedom of conscience.

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  • The priest: from oracle to ignoramus

    June 16 2014
    Con Devree

    In Catholicism Papal Infallibility and Conscience are linked together so that “our joy may be complete.” Dei Verbum 10 states that “It is clear, therefore, that sacred tradition, Sacred Script

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  • The priest: from oracle to ignoramus

    June 16 2014
    Pádraig McCarthy

    Nuala @21: My apologies, Nuala, for the exclusive language. I normally correct it, but it slipped by me as I copied and pasted the text - I didn't specifically choose it. I'm sorry I offended you with

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  • The priest: from oracle to ignoramus

    June 16 2014
    Nuala O'Driscoll

    @19 and @ 20. Do the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith know that the teaching of Papal Infallibility is a Cheshire Cat doctrine? Joe and Padraig you are both privileged to be well educated in

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  • Tuam babies

    June 13 2014
    Pádraig McCarthy

    An interesting snippet from the Enda Kenny interview with Gay Byrne (22 June), "The Meaning of Life". The Taoiseach's mother gave birth to triplets who died: two died before she returned home, and one

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  • The priest: from oracle to ignoramus

    June 16 2014
    Joe O'Leary

    "The absurd teaching of papal infallibility" is actually a Cheshire Cat doctrine since it is so defined that it becomes impossible to say when and if it is enacted. The effort of Ratzinger to have Joh

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  • The cumulative effect of scandals has a devastating impact on the Church

    June 17 2014
    Colin Markham

    Well Darlene, I don't know that I can add much to what I've already said. I certainly can't look to England for the impetus for change. I know there is a lot of disillusion with the Catholic Church in

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  • The cumulative effect of scandals has a devastating impact on the Church

    June 17 2014
    Darlene Starrs

    Wow....I truly, truly, appreciated your words and response Colin !How wonderfully astute and accurate you are about the Church's present state. I would welcome the opportunity to continue our discussi

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  • The priest: from oracle to ignoramus

    June 16 2014
    Pádraig McCarthy

    Nuala O'Driscoll @ 18: Thanks, Nuala. "But only one system maintains that it is infallible." Infallibility as claimed by the church is very restricted, and must not become a "creeping infallibility"!

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  • The cumulative effect of scandals has a devastating impact on the Church

    June 17 2014
    Colin Markham

    Darlene, your thoughts and sentiments match mine exactly. God never abandoned his chosen people, the Israelites, despite their frequent unfaithfulness. That truth applies to each of us with our frail,

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