Leadership is a two way process for in listening to each other faith grows and is vitalised. The days of diktat are gone as we struggle to find expression for faith in this present tense.
That is the
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Agreed. But I would emphasise an important distinction between the first and the other two.
#9
I think the “fourth” kind of opprobrium, (Luke 17:1-3 ) is the same as the “first” (#5). I
I think that Fr Twomey (todays Irish Times) is not correct in attributing a excessive moral rigourism and "distrust of the body" to the Counter-Reformation. Such new rigourism were more characteristi
Thanks to Vincent Twomey for insisting on historical perspective. Another good article is: http://americamagazine.org/content/all-things/galway-horror-part-ii
Link to Irish Times article by Vincent Twomey SVD
http://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/catholic-church-should-set-up-its-own-commission-of-investigation-following-mother-and-child-home-contro
It's all about the relationship between the clergy and the laity. When my son was little he worshipped me he thought I knew everything. When he got to 14 he could see right through me. He despised
As always, thanks to Pádraig McCarthy for attempting to place all this in the context of "not just an Irish problem" (his penultimate paragraph above). Thanks, too, to Des Gilroy@12 for his rational
@8.
It seems we agree on something Con. We each believe we know something about God. You believe the idea of God is immutable and I believe that the idea of God evolves. Our agreement probably ends th
Did you miss the byline?
Jesuit priest, Thomas Reese, writing in the National Catholic Reporter, comments on the meeting of U.S. bishops. The meeting could be a turning point but he asks, will they sa
Thanks to Padraig McCarthy for his balanced piece on the story emerging from the Tuam mother and baby home over the past fortnight. Regretably, too many commentors have gone overboard on this partic
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