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  • Why can women not be deacons?

    September 26 2012
    Fergus P Egan

    Thanks for your views, Mary; and thanks for the vocation prayer. To determine if God has called one - the “vocation” - we must be satisfied as to the sincerity and suitability of the candidate. S

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  • Vatican process against Basque theologian continues

    September 17 2012
    Sean (Derry)

    Raymond Hickey Bordine @ 27 and 31. The teaching of the Church affirms the existence of hell and its eternity. The Church also affirms the existence of purgatory and its necessity for purification and

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  • Why can women not be deacons?

    September 26 2012
    Debbie

    I couldn't agree more, but I think that they should also be made ministers of The Word, because, was it not Christ Himself who sent Mary to the apostles with Word of His resurrection?

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  • What Archbishop Martin thinks of the ACP

    September 24 2012
    Margaret Lee

    The Archbishop is quoted as saying "not everything in the Church is up for grabs". Well, I can think of two items of church teaching that are no longer up for grabs as it would appear that the faithf

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  • Vatican process against Basque theologian continues

    September 17 2012
    Raymond Hickey Bordine

    Debbie#28, as I understand things from Jesus' activities and teachings in the New Testament, if an individual is trying to be in harmony with the Divine [Higher power, Spirit of the Universe, etc.] a

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  • Vatican process against Basque theologian continues

    September 17 2012
    Pól Ó Duibhir

    Raymond #27 There could be no indulgences without Purgatory. Another element in the power structure. Mind you, the precise quantification of indulgences has had to be abandoned, partly, no doubt, beca

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  • Vatican process against Basque theologian continues

    September 17 2012
    Joe O'Leary

    "with God the Father who demands our repayment of sin in Purgatory." Newman, in The Dream of Gerontius, presents it very differently. Referring to the stigmata of St Francis, a mark of love, the Angel

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  • Come to Galway — Brendan Hoban

    September 25 2012
    Joe O'Leary

    Brendan, your call goes forth eloquently. I'm in Dublin just now, and might come to Galway. How well I remember that article on "Lost Opportunities" -- how clearly its note sounded amid the razzmatazz

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  • Vatican process against Basque theologian continues

    September 17 2012
    Debbie

    Raymond Hickey Bordine #27 Do you think that there could be a Purgatory but no Hell? Maybe for people who die unrepentant and that there through the Mercy of God get a chance to do penance?

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  • Vatican process against Basque theologian continues

    September 17 2012
    Raymond Hickey Bordine

    Debbie #26, to specifically give my best thoughts about 'purgatory', I would say that it doesn't make sense with the Jesus concept of the 'father' in the allegory of 'the prodigal son". For it to mak

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