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  • Atonement: why do Irish clergy avoid this issue?

    February 6 2014
    Sean O'Conaill

    #13 #14 Joe O'Leary . In what sense are you using the word 'sacrifice', Joe? A blood-spilling act of violence against an innocent victim to propitiate a powerful and sometimes violent God? Or an act

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  • It’s time for the bishops and the ACP to talk

    February 8 2014
    cathy swift

    "The days of fear, of secrecy, of oppression are happily in the past. Beginning with a dialogue between bishops and priests, it can be broadened to include all the faithful, and with no topic of conce

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  • Is there room for two clergy organisations in Ireland?

    February 11 2014
    John

    Is a parish priest who sets out to break down barriers between priest and people by removing the altar rails in the church (and does so in the face of opposition and bad feeling among his parishioner

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  • Atonement: why do Irish clergy avoid this issue?

    February 6 2014
    Joe O'Leary

    Oxenham was also a convert from Anglicanism and probably influenced by the Oxford Movement's distaste for the Reformers. They too had a highly sacrificial understanding of redemption, a joyous exchang

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  • Atonement: why do Irish clergy avoid this issue?

    February 6 2014
    Joe O'Leary

    St Paul begins his account of the Redemption by talking of the wrath of God, and Isaiah has God lay on the suffering servant the iniquities of us all. No one found that offensive or dreamed of caricat

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  • Is the New Evangelisation a crusade of fear?

    February 12 2014
    Joe O'Leary

    Kevin Walters, the world you evoke sounds like the spooky world of a cult. The Catholic Church has always tried to be a broad and great community, open to the world, not hiding its gospel under a bush

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  • Is the New Evangelisation a crusade of fear?

    February 12 2014
    Andrew Young

    The older I get, the more certain I become in my refusal to give any sanction to the subject of hell. As for the cult of the so-called 'Divine Mercy'; I have never ever entertained the view that the s

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  • Is there room for two clergy organisations in Ireland?

    February 11 2014
    Eddie Finnegan

    Phil Dunne@3 Hi Phil, glad to see you (back) on this site. Delighted also to see you enjoyed my little comment, just as much as I enjoyed your earnestly BASIC presentation at the Regency back in May 2

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  • Is the New Evangelisation a crusade of fear?

    February 12 2014
    Kevin Walters

    I have campaigned for over fifteen years concerning this revelation given to Sister Faustina and on this site for the last two, which many regular contributors to this site will be aware of. Can theol

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  • Atonement: why do Irish clergy avoid this issue?

    February 6 2014
    Sean O'Conaill

    I found the following fascinating passage quoted on a Wikipedia page: . From: H. N. Oxenham, The Catholic doctrine of the atonement (London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green, 1865), p. 112-

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