Joe, thanks for all of that.
And, also your excellent piece on the 1925 advent of the Christ the King Feast Day.
I had tea with your fellow Corkonian, Kieran O’Mahony OSA on Saturday who told me
After describing a" Parallel Church" Jim writes under the heading Best of Both Worlds: "There are considerable numbers of Catholics who have discovered that there is an in-between space where they can
Yes, we believe in the Real Presence in the Eucharist. What if we believed in the Divine indwelling in each human person. We would bow as we passed on the street. Thomas Merton got a glimpse of our h
Thank you Brendan for this very sensitive and moving piece incorporating some of Catherine Dunne's reflections about the death of her son Eoin. There are few of us who haven't had to live with the dea
Key Message:
Our Jesus wakes us up gently!!
Homily:
Teacher: Why did God lock the door of Noah's ark?
Child: Because Noah put the lock outside the door rather than i
Annoyingly I deleted what I was writing.
Fr Doyle probably referred to Dominican theologians Cajetan, Vitoria, De Soto, Melchior Cano, credited with building on Lombard and Aquinas in stressing the o
Keira Knightley hits the nail on the head. Reading Salman Rushdie's memoir of his survival, Knife, I see that fame is an open invitation to lunatics to take potshots. Perhaps every famous person needs
I don't know who Thomas Doyle referred to, but I'll look it up. (Gabriel Biel?)
St Augustine is often quoted in an anti-clericalist sense, to the effect that 'I am a bishop for you, but I am one of t
The Church, it is said, thinks in centuries. Part of this is the commemoration of centenaries and decades, which becomes a method of stitching church history together, lending it an imposing coherence
Joe@5, in his wonderful book, Eating Together, Becoming One, Tom O’Loughlin maintains that if Aquinas was around today he would not have used the philosophy of Aristotle to try and explain the Real
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