Thanks, Sean for your excellent analysis @4.
I wonder have you read The Last Week by Marcus Borg and, the Nenagh man, John Dominic Crossan. It is a excellent book and helped me in my understanding o
Roy, I am at the moment reading "Women Remembered. Jesus' Female Disciples" by Helen Bond and Joan Taylor, both Professors of Christian Origins. Helen lectures at New College here at Edinburgh Univers
Disappointing that Dermot Farrell still has such a fixed patriarchal view of women in regard to priesthood and that 'certain pillars' can't be changed. He shows a lack of understanding of the movemen
Just days after this submitting this comment I received a copy of an Appendix to the Irish National Synodal Synthesis - a submission by a group of those who experienced abuse within a church context.
"There was this shrine, as I recall.
Oh, well known it was, locally...
We walked the three miles, there and back.
Out the country. ‘Summer’s day...
Me still in short trousers,
‘boots that n
It's good, Paddy, to resume this here at last.
Re. the difficulty over Luke 22: 20 : "This cup is the new covenant in my blood poured out for you" - and my earlier reference to 'a complete transfor
Joe,@2, thank you for such an excellent and well thought out -- as always -- response to my serious concerns about Hebrews and the origins of our tradition of priesthood. However, my serious concerns
Very well said, Sean. Since 2015 the pall of neurosis hanging over the church has been removed, and the CDF's mutterings hold little weight under Pope Francis. Cardinals now say the kinds of thing tha
Hi, Paddy, better late than never! Your take-down of Hebrews is pretty devastating, but it might be equally easy to find nonsensical modes of reasoning in any part of Scripture or in allegorical exege
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