Do we recognise the "Jesus" begging for love right in front of us?
Homily:
Mother Teresa shared her experience in one of the conferences: "I can never forget the day when a small bo
I stumbled on Mary McAleese’s address at the Spirit Unbound event and in a moment of distraction I thought — how wonderful to see the church speaking and discussing in such a warmly human way. Bra
#3 “Sin is to spit in the face of God, it is to offer him infinite insult. Logically there must be an infinite expiation."
And yet the Father of the prodigal son does not exact from that son furthe
O dear! - this ‘Open Letter’ and its academic assessment of the first session of the Rome Synod is depressing reading and I ask myself is not Ecclesiastes right: “What has been is what will be,
The Church has always taught the following:
1. Any Sexual relations Outside of a Christian Marriage between one Man and one woman, are Mortally sinful.
2. It is a requirement that when we go
This is quite the best summation of the ‘state we are in’ that I have read. It is balanced and thorough, and shows that Tony is far from on the ‘outside’ of the people of God - even if the chu
Thanks, Tony, for the most positive account of the Synod that I have read! The media blackout seems to have prevented this understanding of the Synod’s proceedings from reaching the whole Church (as
Thanks, Tony, for this clear and very insightful, sensitive and practical reflection on what has happened and what needs to happen. I pray that all that we, following Francis, hope for will take place
St. Anselm of Canterbury has a refreshingly clear and simple way of looking at Our Lord's Vicarious Atonement. God is infinitely good in himself and infinitely good to us. Sin is to spit in the face o
#2 “Irish Catholics need to … stop obsessing about their declining clergy.”
We’re on a synodal pathway here Joe. As a good Christian Frank is simply reaching out to the marginalised in hope t
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Tony Flannery: SYNODALITY: WHERE ARE WE AT, AND WHAT OF THE FUTURE.
November 22 2023Thanks, Tony, for this clear and very insightful, sensitive and practical reflection on what has happened and what needs to happen. I pray that all that we, following Francis, hope for will take place
‘Rather than saying that the Church has a mission, we affirm that Church ‘is’ mission.’
November 21 2023St. Anselm of Canterbury has a refreshingly clear and simple way of looking at Our Lord's Vicarious Atonement. God is infinitely good in himself and infinitely good to us. Sin is to spit in the face o
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