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  • Retired Pope did not co-author book with Cardinal Sarah

    January 14 2020
    Joe O'Leary

    Sarah should have been fired long ago for his abuse of his position to issue liturgical edicts at odds with church practice. https://catholicherald.co.uk/news/2018/02/23/cardinal-sarah-communion-in-t

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  • Retired Pope did not co-author book with Cardinal Sarah

    January 14 2020
    Paddy Ferry

    An interesting analysis of the "new" institution of Pope Emeritus. https://www.ncronline.org/news/opinion/myth-self-regulating-institution-pope-emeritus

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  • Retired Pope did not co-author book with Cardinal Sarah

    January 14 2020
    Paddy Ferry

    I completely agree with Mattie and Iggy too. As the song says "When will they ever learn"

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  • Retired Pope did not co-author book with Cardinal Sarah

    January 14 2020
    Iggy O Donovan

    Apparently Benedict may have "written" but did not "co-author" the book "From the Depths of our Hearts". Now that distinction smacks of "mental reservation" if I ever heard it.

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  • A Papal Joust –The Two Popes

    January 7 2020
    Damian Smyth

    The opening scenes quickly confirmed my worst suspicions: I had seen this movie before. Way back then it was called “Amadeus”. The hero was a fictional version of Mozart, with Mozart’s real li

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  • Personal reflection at the beginning of the New Year

    January 12 2020
    Ned Quinn

    Shortly after Tony was "silenced", a number of people staged a protest demonstration outside the home of the Papal Nuncio. There was no meeting with or response from the then incumbent Mgr. Charles B

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  • 12 January, 2020. The Baptism of the Lord

    January 12 2020
    Joe O'Leary

    I see that John 1:31-4 does not say that John baptized Jesus, though the reader is likely to fill in that detail from the Synoptic accounts. The author of Matthew is already embarrassed, which is wh

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  • 12 January, 2020. The Baptism of the Lord

    January 12 2020
    Paddy Ferry

    I have always been a bit puzzled by Jesus' baptism by John. Baptism is about forgiveness --surely our belief is that Jesus was sinless. Someone, much more learned in scripture and theology than I, onc

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  • 12 January, 2020. The Baptism of the Lord

    January 12 2020
    Joe O'Leary

    Quiet early morning Eucharist at the Anglican church (St Alban's, Tokyo) -- since the last time the priest has changed sex, and is now an American woman whose father, like mine, was born in Bantry, an

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  • 12 January, 2020. The Baptism of the Lord

    January 12 2020
    Pádraig McCarthy

    It’s deliberately counter to our expectations that Jesus is baptised by John. But this recurs in Matthew: love for the Father, and for the Father’s will, trumps all. “Thy will be done.” The ge

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