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  • Still in the back pew

    June 26 2014
    Darlene Starrs

    127. Vatican II was a new Pentecost,[144] equipping the Church for the new evangelisation that popes since the council have called for. The council gave a renewed emphasis to the traditional idea that

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  • International Network of Reform Movements

    June 25 2014
    Aideen Green

    Fr Tony, I so wish that more people, both priests and lay people in the church, thought like you. I have worked in my Parish in different capacities, since it's foundation , . I have become more and m

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

    June 24 2014
    Joe O'Leary

    I've just taught a course on Genesis for the fourth time, and what is so amazing about this book of books is its deep awareness of the frailty of human nature and the endless forbearance and protectiv

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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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