The long finger has been church policy ever since Paul VI suggested to the 1971 Synod that married men be ordained in cases of pastoral need. The bishops turned down his suggestion.
The long finger h
Reading about Synodality and the Irish Church takes me back to my time as a young Irish student in London in 1972 when I was first elected as parish rep to Westminster Diocesan Pastoral Council.
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"It is certainly the most absorbing reflection by a father on his relationship with his daughters that I have ever read.
I was deeply impressed by the qualities of truth and love which shine through
"Once started I could not stop… It is an amazing piece of work that defies classification. It is so many things in so many wonderful ways, in so many creative forms, with so many challenging time-
I grew up in Limerick and spent my summers with my grandparents near Esker in Co Galway. From a young age our parents brought us to the weekly and yearly novenas in the Redemptorists. This is where I
‘"Just finished Jenny One Two Three and am, to use your own word, gobsmacked. It’s a tour de force, deeply personal… there is poetry in the writing and the interweaving of different stories, let
Thank you Fr.Brendan for presenting the true picture of this most distressing situation in the Church in Ireland.
There are a few starting positions which could offer hope for the future:-
1. Allow
God provides generously, abundantly. The loaves and fishes story is told 6 times in the Gospels (a doublet in Mark, repeated by Matthew, reduced to one by Luke, and providing the basis for one of the
The ‘impediments’ of age seeming to dominate American election events shouldn’t blind us to the Virgin’s child immaculately conceived.
Pope Francis encouraged Catholics to go back ‘to Galile
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