Just a few points,
1. Celibacy is not necessary for a healthy functioning catholic church.
2.The Vatican, in enforcing the rule of celibacy, has no consideration
or respect for the challenges of le
The Diceman:
There is an exhibition in The Little Museum of Dublin. It is of Thom McGinty and his works. Twenty five years after his death. He was called the Diceman, The High King of Grafton Street
I am stunned at Pádraig's complaint! Will someone be asking why its raining in Ireland next?
Back in 2014 this site published Archbishop Michael Neary's address on the ending of Christendom in Irela
Undermined? Yes, creating something spiritual into something worldly
My own first Communion day was marred by guilt, unable to read I could not say the communion prays, while the theme of Fr Omaraâ
It sounds as if the equivalent for myself, growing up in a non-believing family but nevertheless in a Church of Scotland environment (as all schools in the 60s had this input), was to have 'pennies' w
What a crass culture we have created!
Maybe the Irish Church should postpone first communion to a later age, to ensure a modicum of reflection and reverence.
What's much worse, Pat@30, is that Bill Conway did not have the good grace over six years earlier to respond to my letter of resignation as I left Maynooth on 31st March 1965 after two terms of Theolo
#26 "At that Synod, Cardinal Conway declared that we Irish — non nobis, Domine, non nobis — have never had a problem with celibacy. (see Schillebeeckx, Ministry)"
Meaning? Supposing, for example,
It must have seemed an impossible challenge to the disciples. The scribes and the Pharisees were the public face of the faithful practice of the people of Israel, to which the ordinary uneducated peop
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February 12 2020Just a few points, 1. Celibacy is not necessary for a healthy functioning catholic church. 2.The Vatican, in enforcing the rule of celibacy, has no consideration or respect for the challenges of le
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February 23 2020The Diceman: There is an exhibition in The Little Museum of Dublin. It is of Thom McGinty and his works. Twenty five years after his death. He was called the Diceman, The High King of Grafton Street
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February 18 2020I am stunned at Pádraig's complaint! Will someone be asking why its raining in Ireland next? Back in 2014 this site published Archbishop Michael Neary's address on the ending of Christendom in Irela
First Communion Preparation – Undermined?
February 18 2020Undermined? Yes, creating something spiritual into something worldly My own first Communion day was marred by guilt, unable to read I could not say the communion prays, while the theme of Fr Omaraâ
First Communion Preparation – Undermined?
February 18 2020It sounds as if the equivalent for myself, growing up in a non-believing family but nevertheless in a Church of Scotland environment (as all schools in the 60s had this input), was to have 'pennies' w
First Communion Preparation – Undermined?
February 18 2020What a crass culture we have created! Maybe the Irish Church should postpone first communion to a later age, to ensure a modicum of reflection and reverence.
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February 12 2020What's much worse, Pat@30, is that Bill Conway did not have the good grace over six years earlier to respond to my letter of resignation as I left Maynooth on 31st March 1965 after two terms of Theolo
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February 12 2020#26 "At that Synod, Cardinal Conway declared that we Irish — non nobis, Domine, non nobis — have never had a problem with celibacy. (see Schillebeeckx, Ministry)" Meaning? Supposing, for example,
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February 16 2020It must have seemed an impossible challenge to the disciples. The scribes and the Pharisees were the public face of the faithful practice of the people of Israel, to which the ordinary uneducated peop
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