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  • Trust between priest and bishop has been replaced by suspicion

    February 28 2012
    Kevin Walters

    Are the Bishops to blame or is it that we are all riddled with human frailty and sinfulness. Should we the Laity expect a holy Priesthood? The answer to this has to be yes we should. We expect them t

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  • The NCR applauds Sean McDonagh

    February 23 2012
    Joe O'Leary

    Excellent suggestion from Soline -- it is too late to bring it in? -- it is very much in the spirit of Vatican II style Eucharistic theology -- Teilhard's Mass of the Earth etc.

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  • Trust between priest and bishop has been replaced by suspicion

    February 28 2012
    Eddie Finnegan

    Nice one, Peadar, de Veritate. But Aquinas also agrees with Ambrose on the high value to be placed on Fortitudo cum Justitia. And, if he'd been still around at the time, he'd probably have agreed with

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  • The NCR applauds Sean McDonagh

    February 23 2012
    Soline Humbert

    Isn'it a pity the theme of the Eucharistic Congress is not " Communion with Christ, with one another AND WITH ALL OF CREATION "? We still operate with a very restricted vision of the Body of Christ,n

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  • Trust between priest and bishop has been replaced by suspicion

    February 28 2012
    Peadar

    Eddie: St Thomas Aquinas advises us not to mind who said what, but rather to focus on the truth or otherwise of what is said. When Kruschev gave a speech criticising the previous regime, and someone s

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  • The NCR applauds Sean McDonagh

    February 23 2012
    Eileen

    As one who worked for many years in the shanty towns of an African city, I echo Mary O'V's sentiments (9, above). I want to applaud Seán McDonagh's work in promoting respect for God's creation. In to

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  • Trust between priest and bishop has been replaced by suspicion

    February 28 2012
    Eddie Finnegan

    Fr Gregory O'Brien's openness on this whole question of suspicion in place of trust is surely the best approach to forcing the issue of rebuilding the sort of trust that the image of priests and laity

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  • The NCR applauds Sean McDonagh

    February 23 2012
    Martin

    Oftentimes, the fixation on creation distracts us from that pollution we find within ourselves. The Church is primarily concerned with the salvation of men, and whilst this involves a complete life fo

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  • First Sunday of Lent — Prayers of the Faithful etc

    February 26 2012
    Bernard

    Matthew, I'd be grateful to know where this is clearly stated? In the General Instruction of the Roman Missal, given with the text for Ireland, the instruction is: 'The people, for their part, stand

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  • First Sunday of Lent — Prayers of the Faithful etc

    February 26 2012
    Matthew O'Hora

    I would just like to note that the New Translation of the Mass clearly states that the response to the Prayer of the faithful should be Priest: Let us Pray to the Lord. People: Lord, hear our Prayer.

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