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  • Vatican News: DDF responds to vademecum on blessings in Germany

    May 7 2026
    Joe O'Leary

    Dermot, how much would you bet that this prophecy will not come true? : "This will be formalized with the excommunication of the Clergy of The SSPX and the Transalpine Redemptorists in the very near f

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  • Vatican News: DDF responds to vademecum on blessings in Germany

    May 7 2026
    Dermot Quigley

    There has been a de facto Schism in the Church for at least sixty years. This will be formalized with the excommunication of the Clergy of The SSPX and the Transalpine Redemptorists in the very near

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  • Edinburgh Newman Association

    April 30 2026
    Joe O'Leary

    "Mustn’t we suppose that Newman gave Sophie something she had not received from her Lutheran influences, including Luther himself – despite his own conscientious stand against ecclesiastical censu

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  • Edinburgh Newman Association

    April 30 2026
    Joe O'Leary

    Rod Strange's comparison of Newman with Augustine and Aquinas is over the top. It's as if one compared some composer with Bach and Mozart -- and I suppose such a comparison would fall flat even if app

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  • Edinburgh Newman Association

    April 30 2026
    Sean O'Conaill

    Copilot summarises Cardinal Newman's influence on Sophie Scholl as follows: "Sophie Scholl’s engagement with Newman’s Parochial and Plain Sermons and his theology of conscience provided her wit

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  • Vatican News: DDF responds to vademecum on blessings in Germany

    May 7 2026
    Jo O'Sullivan

    I find it really difficult to understand why the Vatican is coming down so hard on the German bishops decision to produce a document suggesting a way of providing blessings for couples in "irregular"

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  • SÉAMUS AHEARNE: A CENTURY OF DAVID ATTENBOROUGH:

    May 6 2026
    M G-B

    "His work inspires everyone." David Attenborough through his luminous videos revealed to us the magnificent beauty of our world. In his video "Final Warning to Humanity" he cautions that this can all

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  • Edinburgh Newman Association

    April 30 2026
    Sean O'Conaill

    I read Newman’s ‘Apologia’ as a student and remember being entranced by its sheer literacy - the meticulous and inexorable and yet measured pursuit of Charles Kingsley’s every imputation of di

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  • Edinburgh Newman Association

    April 30 2026
    Joe O'Leary

    I would say that the reception of Newman has failed him by its theological superficiality. There is a lot of sectarianism in it, for which JHN himself bears some responsibility. Why did the ceremony m

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  • Edinburgh Newman Association

    April 30 2026
    Paddy Ferry

    I am not in a position to provide a script of Mgr. Rod Strange’s talk on Newman at our previous meeting last month but one point I can share is Rod’s view that Newman has been to the church of th

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