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  • The prophets of doom have got their answer!

    December 4 2013
    Sean O'Conaill

    #3 Con Devree . Thanks for that critique of the pope's take on the economic causes of poverty. This, however provokes some questions in my head: . "Market-orientated Nobel-laureate economists such as

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  • Survey for the Synod on the Family is available here

    December 7 2013
    Teresa Mee

    No.11 Catherine, for me, you have put the Survey on Family in context, which is, in its widest and deepest sense, an integral part of the plan of God from the beginning, before the emergence of priest

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  • The prophets of doom have got their answer!

    December 4 2013
    Con Devrew

    This is a good assessment of Evangelii Gaudium (EG), which in Pope Francis’s style, is appropriately intentionally vague (nuanced?) in parts. Catholicism by its nature is joyful. However an expla

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  • Read Paul Vallely’s book about Pope Francis — it will change your life

    December 4 2013
    Shaun the Sheep

    It is hilarious to note that Vatican II explicitly called for the retention of Latin in the Sacred Liturgy. - As an aside, I just came across this bit of an address issued by Pope John XXIII on the o

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  • The prophets of doom have got their answer!

    December 4 2013
    Eddie Finnegan

    And there was Frank the Shepherd telling priests to get up close and personal to take on the smell of the sheep while all the time Shaun the Sheep is keeping his hygienic distance in case he gets cont

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  • Survey for the Synod on the Family is available here

    December 7 2013
    Eddie Finnegan

    Mary, I salute the Armagh Loyalist in you! You'll be out papal fleg waving, I suppose? Just make sure it's not the Argie fleg in some areas. I guess the dichotomy between the forthright position taken

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  • The prophets of doom have got their answer!

    December 4 2013
    Shaun the Sheep

    It's funny, but as an orthodox Catholic attached to Sacred Tradition, I have no enthusiasm for this Pope. I've tried to give him the benefit of the doubt so many times, right from the start, but I am

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  • 4th December, 2013. Wednesday in the 1st Week of Advent

    December 4 2013
    Dede

    'I have compassion for the crowd, because they have been with me now for three days and have nothing to eat' God please help us to devote more of our time with you in your presence. Amen

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  • Survey for the Synod on the Family is available here

    December 7 2013
    Roisin Alexander Pye

    Am I right in understanding then that the Irish bishops are not interested in surveying / gathering the results of this survey? Is the only way to participate in the Irish context via this survey here

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  • Survey for the Synod on the Family is available here

    December 7 2013
    Nuala O'Driscoll

    The kind of issues raised in Clare's comment @5 and Teresa's comment @6 prompts another question. Have women been involved in formulating the questions in the survey? Given that each member of a famil

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