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
Looking back to see what was said about possible changes to the discipline of celibacy at the 1971 Synod, I found this New York Times article: https://www.nytimes.com/1971/10/20/archives/celibacy-seen
Heartily agree with Joe O'Leary (#25) that the analysis of "Querida Amazonia" by Massimo Faggioli in COMMONWEAL magazine is masterly. For any who may have difficulty in downloading Faggioli's entire t
Pope Francis states he is in “total harmony with the thought of St. John Paul II with respect to the priesthood.” Does this reality feed into a discernment on the part of Pope Francis that he sh
Just because Francis seems to be our only present hope for change it doesn't mean we have to defend him when he relinquishes his authority to Sarah ET alii.
Francis probably had a chapter ready in
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Just to say how perceptive and practical were the observations and hints by Thara Benedicta in the Response 1. There might be one or two typos eg. to loose = lose? heaven in the text, but a really gre
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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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February 12 2020Looking back to see what was said about possible changes to the discipline of celibacy at the 1971 Synod, I found this New York Times article: https://www.nytimes.com/1971/10/20/archives/celibacy-seen
Beloved Amazon
February 12 2020Heartily agree with Joe O'Leary (#25) that the analysis of "Querida Amazonia" by Massimo Faggioli in COMMONWEAL magazine is masterly. For any who may have difficulty in downloading Faggioli's entire t
Beloved Amazon
February 12 2020Pope Francis states he is in “total harmony with the thought of St. John Paul II with respect to the priesthood.” Does this reality feed into a discernment on the part of Pope Francis that he sh
Beloved Amazon
February 12 2020Just because Francis seems to be our only present hope for change it doesn't mean we have to defend him when he relinquishes his authority to Sarah ET alii. Francis probably had a chapter ready in p
16 February, 2020. 6th Sunday in Ordinary Time
February 16 2020Just to say how perceptive and practical were the observations and hints by Thara Benedicta in the Response 1. There might be one or two typos eg. to loose = lose? heaven in the text, but a really gre
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