@14, yes indeed Sean, I think it's a site in process situation, with mad scrambling to find equally outdated, misogynistic writings. It probably will take a few hundred years...Ambrose's wisdom for wi
But Tertullian is still gloriously there on the English language page for the site, Soline! Tonight at least. You’ll find that if you select the English translation. Curiouser and curiouser?
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New revised, 'improved' Patristic wisdom for today's church: Tertullian has been removed from the Dicastery website, replaced by a much expanded Augustine, an acknowledged expert on sex, women and mar
Sean O'Conaill and not Sean Connell is right. The councils of Nicaea, Constantinople, Ephesus, and Chalcedon look on the surface like squabbles among pressure groups, yet the creed they gave us is a w
‘On Baptism’ - Ch. 17. “Emulation of the episcopal office is the mother of schisms.”
My memory of it was garbled, obviously - but the insight is nevertheless acute. The bishop’s social s
I hope they take the embarrassing site down straight away.
Sean, can you find the reference in Tertullian to rivalrous emulation? -- I am working on his De praescriptione haereticorum (The Disqualif
The villain of this nasty piece is none other than Cardinal Kevin Farrell, who showed his misogyny in his disinviting of Mary McAleese a few years ago: http://www.laityfamilylife.va/content/laityfamil
Yes Joe - I know well that Tertullian has interesting things to say about other matters. For example, somewhere he says that ‘emulation’ - i.e. rivalrous imitation - is ‘the mother of all heresi
Sean, pretty naked misogyny from Tertullian there. I don't think it's at all typical of Catholic discourse.
As with other flawed characters and texts in history, we have to take note of the siniste
One theme in the synod submissions has been lack of community within the church. Community has in fact been alienated from church in Ireland, located totally instead in local sports and social clubs,
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September 3 2022@14, yes indeed Sean, I think it's a site in process situation, with mad scrambling to find equally outdated, misogynistic writings. It probably will take a few hundred years...Ambrose's wisdom for wi
Gerry O’Hanlon SJ: Ireland’s synod report reveals a country that is largely ‘suspicious’ and ‘intolerant’ of its Catholic inheritance
September 3 2022But Tertullian is still gloriously there on the English language page for the site, Soline! Tonight at least. You’ll find that if you select the English translation. Curiouser and curiouser? Will
Gerry O’Hanlon SJ: Ireland’s synod report reveals a country that is largely ‘suspicious’ and ‘intolerant’ of its Catholic inheritance
September 3 2022New revised, 'improved' Patristic wisdom for today's church: Tertullian has been removed from the Dicastery website, replaced by a much expanded Augustine, an acknowledged expert on sex, women and mar
Gerry O’Hanlon SJ: Ireland’s synod report reveals a country that is largely ‘suspicious’ and ‘intolerant’ of its Catholic inheritance
September 3 2022Sean O'Conaill and not Sean Connell is right. The councils of Nicaea, Constantinople, Ephesus, and Chalcedon look on the surface like squabbles among pressure groups, yet the creed they gave us is a w
Gerry O’Hanlon SJ: Ireland’s synod report reveals a country that is largely ‘suspicious’ and ‘intolerant’ of its Catholic inheritance
September 3 2022‘On Baptism’ - Ch. 17. “Emulation of the episcopal office is the mother of schisms.” My memory of it was garbled, obviously - but the insight is nevertheless acute. The bishop’s social s
Gerry O’Hanlon SJ: Ireland’s synod report reveals a country that is largely ‘suspicious’ and ‘intolerant’ of its Catholic inheritance
September 3 2022I hope they take the embarrassing site down straight away. Sean, can you find the reference in Tertullian to rivalrous emulation? -- I am working on his De praescriptione haereticorum (The Disqualif
Gerry O’Hanlon SJ: Ireland’s synod report reveals a country that is largely ‘suspicious’ and ‘intolerant’ of its Catholic inheritance
September 3 2022The villain of this nasty piece is none other than Cardinal Kevin Farrell, who showed his misogyny in his disinviting of Mary McAleese a few years ago: http://www.laityfamilylife.va/content/laityfamil
Gerry O’Hanlon SJ: Ireland’s synod report reveals a country that is largely ‘suspicious’ and ‘intolerant’ of its Catholic inheritance
September 3 2022Yes Joe - I know well that Tertullian has interesting things to say about other matters. For example, somewhere he says that ‘emulation’ - i.e. rivalrous imitation - is ‘the mother of all heresi
Gerry O’Hanlon SJ: Ireland’s synod report reveals a country that is largely ‘suspicious’ and ‘intolerant’ of its Catholic inheritance
September 3 2022Sean, pretty naked misogyny from Tertullian there. I don't think it's at all typical of Catholic discourse. As with other flawed characters and texts in history, we have to take note of the siniste
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