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  • 28 July. 17th Sunday (C)

    July 28 2019
    Mary OConnor

    Seamus, you’re brilliant!

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  • 23 July. St Bridget of Sweden, Patron of Europe

    July 23 2019
    Mary Vallely

    Well said, Paddy Ferry. I agree with you and your gentle honest criticism is a lesson in how to argue with another mindset in a firm but courteous way. Ruth, you state that ‘tribes exclude others.

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  • 28 July. 17th Sunday (C)

    July 28 2019
    Seamus Ahearne

    Loose Talk (in preparation) I drove the women to the Markets at Quarteira. (The Algarve). They took off. I sat outside. They emerged an hour later. They were hobbling on their crutches and walkin

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  • 23 July. St Bridget of Sweden, Patron of Europe

    July 23 2019
    Paddy Ferry

    Fr. Paul, your comment which included the words "laity is just that, laity, they are not clergy" was so appallingly unenlightened and backward that I felt I could not --should not --continue this conv

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  • 23 July. St Bridget of Sweden, Patron of Europe

    July 23 2019
    Ruth Dryden

    Being brave. Noticing more and more as the years go by that when I find a reason for not doing something, there is probably a hidden fear lying beneath it. The circumstances of my life - since early y

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  • 23 July. St Bridget of Sweden, Patron of Europe

    July 23 2019
    Eileen Clear

    Far be it from me, a mere woman, to engage in theological argument. I will, however, comment on the subtitle of the document, Ordinatio Sacerdotalis. It is generally accepted that we are reluctant to

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  • 23 July. St Bridget of Sweden, Patron of Europe

    July 23 2019
    Fr. Paul Doucet

    Paddy Ferry, While I have not yet read the book you propose, I note the title of the chapter you highlight - "The Role of laity, including Women, in Authority”, laity is just that, laity, they are n

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  • 23 July. St Bridget of Sweden, Patron of Europe

    July 23 2019
    Paddy Ferry

    Fr. Paul, could I humbly recommend to you, "The Quiet Revolution of Pope Francis" the most recent work of one of our most eminent Irish theologians and scholar priests, Fr. Gerry O'Hanlon SJ, a forme

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  • 23 July. St Bridget of Sweden, Patron of Europe

    July 23 2019
    Rev. Fr. Paul Doucet

    You would do well to leave your personal opinions out - "Our Catholic tradition recognizes the dignity proper to women, without, as yet at least, admitting them to the ordained priesthood." Saint Pope

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  • Why not believe in miracles?

    July 21 2019
    Chris McDonnell

    Seamus starts with a comment on the four women elected to Congress and concludes with words under the fine sub-heading of The poetry of faith. Just after the White House resident's latest outburst, I

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