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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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  • Vatican process against Basque theologian continues

    September 17 2012
    Debbie

    #24 Raymond Hickey Bordine, Thank you for your reply, and I can see where you are coming from, but this does not answer my question regarding Purgatory. Why are we told that our sins are forgiven but

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  • What Archbishop Martin thinks of the ACP

    September 24 2012
    Anne Jordan

    As a lay person I am astonished that the Bishops and the priests in this organisation - the ACP - are not meeting regularly. How can we possible move forward if the leaders of our church and 1000 of i

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  • Vatican process against Basque theologian continues

    September 17 2012
    Robert Burnett

    Like so many people I find Pagola's book a tremendous and challenging way of getting to know Jesus better. Jon Sobrino says the following about the book: "At my age, I no longer read many books, but

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  • What Archbishop Martin thinks of the ACP

    September 24 2012
    Dr Rosemary Eileen McHugh

    I have tremendous respect for the courage of the members of the Association of Catholic Priests in Ireland. At this time in the history of our church, you are fostering dialogue, which is critically

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  • What Archbishop Martin thinks of the ACP

    September 24 2012
    Pádraig McCarthy

    I did not read the full context of this quotation, but I would imagine that the Archbishop knows clearly what we stand for. Rather than imply that he does not know, it seems better to me to take up th

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  • ‘Ireland’s Troublesome Priests’ feature on BBC Radio 4

    September 24 2012
    Eric Conway

    A little bit concerned that any Catholic would have a go at David Quinn. David has been fighting the good fight for many years now and, I believe, has done a fantastic job in defending the Church ; wh

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  • Vatican process against Basque theologian continues

    September 17 2012
    Raymond Hickey Bordine

    Debbie [#22], the wrath and anger of God the Father is an Old Testament symbolic interpretation of the Father. The father in the Prodigal Son allegory is from Jesus in the New Testament. The whole

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  • Shame over sexuality has blinded Church to sex abuse

    September 19 2012
    Sean O'Conaill

    To recap, the burr under my saddle is the failure of the magisterium to explain or investigate its own slow learning curve in relation to the compulsive nature of paedophilia, and the life-changing im

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