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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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  • Is the New Evangelisation a crusade of fear?

    February 12 2014
    Joe O'Leary

    Too much about hell, the number of the elect. and Predestination -- Matthew Levering has been worrying that old theological bone, despite Karl Barth's very satisfactory 600pp. burial of it in the earl

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  • Is there room for two clergy organisations in Ireland?

    February 11 2014
    Mattie Long

    "There are many rooms in my Father's house". 'nuff said?

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  • Is the New Evangelisation a crusade of fear?

    February 12 2014
    Ciarán

    Frank, you raise profound questions in a very direct, effective and open way. Thank you. I'd just make two points: Hell is 'created' in free will, first the devil's, then humans'. It is essentially th

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  • Atonement: why do Irish clergy avoid this issue?

    February 6 2014
    Sean O'Conaill

    #8 Joe O'Leary . The Alpha evangelical course, originating in Anglicanism and now quite widely used by the RCC, was not designed by 'extreme feminists'. It employs a variation on the Anselmian satisf

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