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  • Return from Exile

    May 2 2020
    Neil Bray

    No 16 In his act of redemption, was Jesus not fulfilling the Father's will, the Father's desire? Was the re-enactment of this act of self-offering in the Sacrifice of the Mass not also the Father's w

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  • Forbidden Fruit: Life and Catholicism in Contemporary Ireland

    April 22 2020
    Jo O'Sullivan

    After reading Seamus Ahearne’s review of Forbidden Fruit by Declan Henry, I set to ordering it online immediately. His review led me to believe that what Declan had to say would resonate with me. I

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  • Return from Exile

    May 2 2020
    Paddy Ferry

    I don't think it can get any more mad or more outrageous than this, can it? And of course, Sarah's name appears once again, though, of course, he has nothing to do with it. How could he, he being a to

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  • Return from Exile

    May 2 2020
    Eugene Sheehan

    Neil @15, I believe that the closing of the Churches during the pandemic may cause us to consider our liturgies and seek a fresh understanding. The idea that God needs pleasing bothers me. "Jesus did

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  • Return from Exile

    May 2 2020
    Neil Bray

    No 11 above Are there some human acts of human charity that equate with Christ's act of Redemption, reenacted in the Sacrifice of the Mass, in terms of pleasing The Father?

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  • Return from Exile

    May 2 2020
    Colm Holmes

    Meeting in person as a community is a very important part of life. But with the virus we must all support the social distancing and all the other protocols to protect our community.I would remind e

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  • Australian highest Court overturns Cardinal Pell’s sex abuse convictions

    April 29 2020
    Paddy Ferry

    Joe, I was simply sharing the piece in the Guardian yesterday following the release of the Report of the Royal Commission in Australia into institutional responses to child sexual abuse. Are you chall

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  • Real Leadership – Women speaking truth to power

    May 7 2020
    Pól Ó Duibhir

    It was said recently, I think at a WACI talk, that the female religious orders are less constrained in their public actions/statement than their male counterparts.Assuming this is true, and it certa

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  • Australian highest Court overturns Cardinal Pell’s sex abuse convictions

    April 29 2020
    Joe O'Leary

    Paddy, I don't see a single new point in what Marr reports. He agrees that Pell is just an ordinary human being, and it's not clear that anyone else would have avoided making the same mistakes.Nothi

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  • Australian highest Court overturns Cardinal Pell’s sex abuse convictions

    April 29 2020
    Paddy Ferry

    The report of the Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse has now been published.https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/may/07/the-hidden-findings-on-

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