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  • 16 June 2019. 11th Sunday (C)

    June 16 2019
    Joe O'Leary

    Pat asked for thoughts, but I'm in St Petersburg and have no leisure to gather them. Instead, here is the start of an essay on "Demystifying the Trinity" that was published in Archivio di Filosofia a

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  • The Vatican’s New Document on Gender: Is There Hope?

    June 13 2019
    Joe O'Leary

    The new document contradicts Amoris Laetitia: 'But it is also true that masculinity and femininity are not rigid categories. It is possible, for example, that a husband’s way of being masculine can

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  • The Vatican’s New Document on Gender: Is There Hope?

    June 13 2019
    Mary Vallely

    https://www.newwaysministry.org/2019/06/13/the-vaticans-new-document-on-gender-is-there-hope/ I have just posted this on the ACI FB page and agree with you, Paddy. We need to debate and discuss, not

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  • The Vatican’s New Document on Gender: Is There Hope?

    June 13 2019
    Paddy Ferry

    What an excellent article in response to a truly appalling document from Rome. I am waiting patiently to hear Francis' response or, hopefully, rebuttal. I wonder are we experiencing another Humanae Vi

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  • A Grumpy Eye on the World

    May 30 2019
    Paddy Ferry

    Lloyd, perhaps endocrine diversity would be a more appropriate terminology in this day and age given how our knowledge has so advanced in recent times. Obviously whoever in the Vatican was responsibl

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  • A Grumpy Eye on the World

    May 30 2019
    Lloyd Allan MacPherson

    Don't ever look for order out of systemic chaos. Example: Francis was right about cleaning up the planet and that was his niche market. Fr. James Martin SJ is leading Jesuit thought on how the LGBTQ

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  • A Wrong Screaming to be Righted

    June 8 2019
    Donal Dorr

    I'm deeply moved by what you have written,Tony, and by the four responses I've seen here on this site so far. Maybe this is a situation where the ACP and other concerned people might propose the names

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  • ACP Statement on Women Deacons

    May 11 2019
    Paddy Ferry

    Jane, I suppose the most obvious form of evidence that Jesus instituted the seven sacraments would be evidence found in the New Testament. I stand to be corrected but I am not aware that such evidenc

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  • ACP Statement on Women Deacons

    May 11 2019
    jane coll

    To Paddy (32) I wonder what you would regard as evidence? My understanding is that each sacrament can be traced back to the words and actions of Jesus and the apostles. The effect of receiving the gra

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  • A Wrong Screaming to be Righted

    June 8 2019
    Seamus Ahearne

    Tony’s words are sad. It is a reminder too of Sean Fagan. Jean Vanier’s description of Pope Francis as introducing ‘a revolution of tenderness’ doesn’t always occur. It hasn’t happened fo

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