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  • Seán O’Conaill: How the BBC’s ‘Colosseum’ Explains the Creed

    October 19 2023
    Frank Gregg

    I live in a vacuum of Christian teaching and even of discussion. Were one to be initiated I would be a listener for quite a while, knowing fully all the circumstances surrounding the abdication o

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  • 19 Nov 2023 – 33rd Sunday, (A)

    November 19 2023
    Thara Benedicta

    Key Message: What are we doing with our gifts? Homily: There is a family where the wife takes care of the earning part and the husband takes care of the household

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  • Bishop Strickland relieved of pastoral governance of US diocese

    November 11 2023
    Pat Savage

    There has been so much written and commentary over the last couple of days and yet we truly don't know the facts. And will we? Probably not. Should we? Do we care? Probably not for the majority but a

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  • 05 Nov 2023 – 31st Sunday, (A)

    November 5 2023
    Paddy Ferry

    Seán@12, thank you for your considered response, as always. I will look forward to continuing this conversation sometime next week. Despite having recently retired life continues to be quite busy. B

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  • 05 Nov 2023 – 31st Sunday, (A)

    November 5 2023
    Sean O'Conaill

    #10 Girard does not ‘do it’ for Paddy Ferry. If I was clear on what ‘it’ is for you, Paddy, I would be less puzzled, given that whereas the major questions here are theological (‘priests’

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  • 05 Nov 2023 – 31st Sunday, (A)

    November 5 2023
    Paddy Ferry

    I had intended to say in my comment above re my 10 minutes face to face with Archbishop Martin— mention of Garry Wills brought it back to me — that what Tony had said about the origins of priestho

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  • 05 Nov 2023 – 31st Sunday, (A)

    November 5 2023
    Paddy Ferry

    Sean and Joe, thank you both for such learned contributions to this discussion. Joe@6, I was especially interested and impressed with what was an inter-faith critique of sacrifice and atonement. I rea

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  • 05 Nov 2023 – 31st Sunday, (A)

    November 5 2023
    Sean O'Conaill

    That on the credibility of the Resurrection is excellent, Joe. Cannot one add also that the transformation of those who bore witness to the Resurrection – and therefore the 'takeoff' of the earl

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  • 12 Nov 2023 – 32nd Sunday, (A)

    November 12 2023
    Thara Benedicta

    Key Message: Let us do all the "extra" work, and experience all the "extra" blessings!! Homily: A testimony: "When I was reading through the parable of the 10 virgi

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  • 05 Nov 2023 – 31st Sunday, (A)

    November 5 2023
    Paddy Ferry

    An excellent point. Sean. This never dawned on me until I read Garry Wills “ Why Priests”. That passage in Matthew’s gospel also advises against enlarging their tassels and lengthening their tef

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