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  • Is the New Evangelisation a crusade of fear?

    February 12 2014
    Patrick Martin

    http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/column.php?n=2383 The above link leads to an interesting critique by Father Robert Barron (no liberal) of Ralph Martin's views on the role of fear of hell in promotin

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  • ACP Leadership calls for transparency in the Irish Church

    February 14 2014
    Eddie Finnegan

    It would not be my usual style at all to come racing to the defence of obscurantism among the merry band of bishops still led by my 'home primate' Cardinal Seán or among the barrel of laughs over her

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  • Atonement: why do Irish clergy avoid this issue?

    February 6 2014
    Sean O'Conaill

    #16 Joe O'Leary . Again, Joe, you evade the crux of the matter, leaving the intentionality of the Father as ambiguous as the word 'sacrifice'. Why can you not say clearly that for you the word 'sacri

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  • ACP Leadership calls for transparency in the Irish Church

    February 14 2014
    Pádraig McCarthy

    I agree that it would be better that the Conference of Bishops would make public in some form the results of the survey. Clearly it could not be a total report containing all comments, but some indica

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  • Is the New Evangelisation a crusade of fear?

    February 12 2014
    Kevin

    I am not sure what the great heritage of St Patrick was - in the sense of Church that is. I don't have a problem with a 'message' which speaks of the salvation of humanity realised through love - the

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  • ACP Leadership calls for transparency in the Irish Church

    February 14 2014
    Mary Wood

    Since submitting my earlier comment I have found an article in the US Magazine AMERICA. . The comment by Paul Ferris (#2 in te comment list) with his questionnaire for the Bishops is a very challengi

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  • Atonement: why do Irish clergy avoid this issue?

    February 6 2014
    Joe O'Leary

    Sean, you are mostly attacking distortions of sacrifice, not the teaching of Paul, Hebrews, 1 John, 1 Peter, Anselm (who talks about justice and mercy not about any vengeful God), Luther, Calvin, or T

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  • Is the New Evangelisation a crusade of fear?

    February 12 2014
    Joe O'Leary

    Abp Diarmuid Martin was nagging about a theological deficit in the Irish Church some time back. I think an excessive interest in exotica, visions and relics (even of the beloved Thérèse de Lisieux)

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  • ACP Leadership calls for transparency in the Irish Church

    February 14 2014
    Mary Wood

    Bishops of England & Wales made the same daft decision. Do they intend to airbrush the results before they send them on? Anyway, this is what the TABLET editorial said - free access http://www.th

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  • ACP Leadership calls for transparency in the Irish Church

    February 14 2014
    Mary O Vallely

    I suppose we shouldn't be too surprised by this. It is entirely in keeping with the clericalist mindset but it is actually rather ridiculous that we should be asked for our views and then forbidden

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