In a well functioning church people long to come together to celebrate once more. Decades of routinized liturgy, worsened by the horrible new translation, seem to have made parish worship so stale tha
Soline, having finally got the chance to see "Philomena" during the lockdown --the family had already seen it a few times -- the name Hildegard now conjures up for me only the most negative of connota
Today is also the feast day of another doctor of the church,a woman,
Saint Hildegard of Bingen.
https://www.ncronline.org/blogs/ncr-today/hildegard-bingen-no-ordinary-saint
Hildegard often concluded h
For me the parable about the workers in the vineyard is about our own personal presumption before God’s Divine Mercy (Compassion/’Generosity’), hence “the first shall be last and the last sha
Too true, Phil. It's the nature of so-called social media, I'm afraid. But your own brief observation @3 changed the traffic signal and derailed two trains of thought. A more substantial comment from
Not withstanding that the article is about women not having suffrage in the church it is obviously much easier to continue the comments on Mathew Hood in Detroit. Is there enough sand to bury all the
Right Joe, Paddy and all. Maybe all we've got to do now is to persuade Francis that he doesn't need to approve or sign off on every scrap of paper the CDF Prefect puts under his nose?
Joe@5, an expertly stated summing up as usual. I agree with everything you say. Also, when I read:
"Mutual recognition of the validity of baptism is a well established ecumenical practice"
it brough
And even if the Church is reluctant to embrace her, good to see that the Met Offices of Ireland, UK and Netherlands not only honoured Francis with a grand storm last week but are getting ready to welc
Thank you Soline for bringing Phoebe into our consciousness today. A reminder of the inclusive ministry of the early Christian movement and our urgent need for women deacons today
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