Poor old Rabbi Gamaliel - they have him run off his feet again! Little did he think when, with one eye on the interfering Romans, he played safe among the hotheads of the Great Sanhedrin, that he'd be
I have followed the comments on this website over the last week, and I am fascinated by the concern that many people have for the training of our future priests. Firstly, I wish to congratulate Patri
Paddy, today the Gospel has the same power it had in the beginning. What is needed is a supernatural outlook which can be nothing but hopeful, joyful, and zealous. Times of crisis in the Church are ti
Shouldn't there be a cautionary note to not overcook the cookies, lest they be greatly burned through your fault, through your fault, through your most grievous fault?
My comments (11, above) referred, not so much to buildings, as to the symbolic separation and the patriarchy that it would inevitably engender. This would foster the 'bizarre clerical sub-culture,' me
I've just read that Eugene Cullen Kennedy article in NCR and I'm a poorer man for it. What a dreadful article with horrible aspersions cast at the end concerning today's seminarians in Maynooth. Shame
Fr. Corkery, how can anybody who cares deeply about the importance of proclaiming the Gospel feel any sense of "zeal, joy and enthusiasm" in today's Catholic Church, in Ireland or anywhere else?
If the 'open' system created the modernist, anti-Pope, anti-Church priests we have in so many numbers today, then let's get back to something else and fast.
This is a lighter, 'Down Memory Lane' kind of contribution. In response to Seminarian's question (24) above, I stayed in Maynooth for some summer courses run by the Irish Church Music Association. I a
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Back to the cloister – Brendan Hoban
January 21 2012Poor old Rabbi Gamaliel - they have him run off his feet again! Little did he think when, with one eye on the interfering Romans, he played safe among the hotheads of the Great Sanhedrin, that he'd be
Back to the cloister – Brendan Hoban
January 21 2012I have followed the comments on this website over the last week, and I am fascinated by the concern that many people have for the training of our future priests. Firstly, I wish to congratulate Patri
Back to the cloister – Brendan Hoban
January 21 2012Manly courage is more exclusion of women.
Back to the cloister – Brendan Hoban
January 21 2012Paddy, today the Gospel has the same power it had in the beginning. What is needed is a supernatural outlook which can be nothing but hopeful, joyful, and zealous. Times of crisis in the Church are ti
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December 20 2011Shouldn't there be a cautionary note to not overcook the cookies, lest they be greatly burned through your fault, through your fault, through your most grievous fault?
Back to the cloister – Brendan Hoban
January 21 2012My comments (11, above) referred, not so much to buildings, as to the symbolic separation and the patriarchy that it would inevitably engender. This would foster the 'bizarre clerical sub-culture,' me
Back to the cloister – Brendan Hoban
January 21 2012I've just read that Eugene Cullen Kennedy article in NCR and I'm a poorer man for it. What a dreadful article with horrible aspersions cast at the end concerning today's seminarians in Maynooth. Shame
Back to the cloister – Brendan Hoban
January 21 2012Fr. Corkery, how can anybody who cares deeply about the importance of proclaiming the Gospel feel any sense of "zeal, joy and enthusiasm" in today's Catholic Church, in Ireland or anywhere else?
Back to the cloister – Brendan Hoban
January 21 2012If the 'open' system created the modernist, anti-Pope, anti-Church priests we have in so many numbers today, then let's get back to something else and fast.
Back to the cloister – Brendan Hoban
January 21 2012This is a lighter, 'Down Memory Lane' kind of contribution. In response to Seminarian's question (24) above, I stayed in Maynooth for some summer courses run by the Irish Church Music Association. I a
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