Jim McCrea
Taking your points in reverse order:
Friday fast: merely a Church discipline, which like obligatory clerical celibacy can be rescinded; not about core issues of doctine or morality.
Freedom
WOndering! Didn't Jesus choose his inner disciples to reform/renew the chosen people? Hence the number 12 - the number of tribes and 'men' because the ancestors were all men. For Jesus both eleme
I'm afraid I wasn't so positive...politicizing sport with health care & especially not only choosing the song 'Relax' by Frankie goes to Hollywood from the 80s, but having 'Frankie says Relax' on
I'm 54. My childhood was destroyed by "Christian brothers". I left Ireland at 16 and never went back. Now I hear there will be no priests in Ireland by 2032, and assuming the brothers have all died of
Gene - have you never read the sparky dialogue between the Samaritan Woman at the well and Jesus in John 4. Or that between Jesus and Nicodemus in John 3. I do love your typo which gives us the new
“The Vatican’s argument has always been that Jesus chose only men to be his apostles.”
The Vatican has argued many things over time and has had to back down when reason and reflection overcame r
Thanks, Fintan, for all the information. Usual practice in most churches these days is that the Special Ministers cleanse the ciboria/pattern fragments by tipping them into one of the chalices, then
I was raised in Ireland as a Catholic. I emigrated to the U.S. nearly 30 years ago and practiced my faith in this country. However, after all these years, I've come to the end of my patience with the
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July 24 2012Jim McCrea Taking your points in reverse order: Friday fast: merely a Church discipline, which like obligatory clerical celibacy can be rescinded; not about core issues of doctine or morality. Freedom
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