Thanks, Paddy, for that referral to ‘The Last Week’. Those two scholars (Crossan and Borg) strengthen the case for regarding Jesus’s teaching on the Kingdom of God as both anti-imperialist and n
Sean O'Conaill is right to sound a note of caution regarding any program of catechesis or evangelism that is rooted in a model of atonement whereby God is portrayed as orchestrating the crucifixion s
Key Message:
God disciplines us to enable us to pass through the narrow gate.
Homily:
In today's Gospel reading, our Lord Jesus urges us to enter Heaven through the
The stonewalling of the hierarchy is becoming a joke. Seeing women priests in action (and seeing same-sex couples thrive) one is convinced beyond argument that the church attitude to women (as to LGBT
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
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