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  • Retired Pope did not co-author book with Cardinal Sarah

    January 14 2020
    Aidan Hart

    Paddy, the problem with thinking that the Amazonian region is the only area with a dire shortage of priests is that it ignores the fact that Ireland and many parts of the UK, Europe and American are

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  • Retired Pope did not co-author book with Cardinal Sarah

    January 14 2020
    Paddy Ferry

    Michael Sean Winters, writing in NCP, says Archbishop Ganswein --Georgeous George --has got to go !!https://www.ncronline.org/news/opinion/distinctly-catholic/whole-co-authoring-drama-looks-bad

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  • 19 January, 2020. 2nd Sunday (Year A)

    January 19 2020
    Seamus Ahearne

    A SICK CALL: There was a sick call. We stood around the bed. I asked the family to talk about their mum. They did it beautifully. I said – that this is the real Anointing. The story of her life.

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  • 19 January, 2020. 2nd Sunday (Year A)

    January 19 2020
    Pádraig McCarthy

    Addendum: The Baptist here speaks of the Spirit descending on Jesus and remaining on him. Again a link with John 19: As Jesus dies, he sends forth the Spirit. Then, in John 20, at his first encounter

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  • 19 January, 2020. 2nd Sunday (Year A)

    January 19 2020
    Pádraig McCarthy

    Look! There he is!!! None of the translations I've seen seem to communicate the energy, the surprise of in what the Baptist says. Would you just look at that! Imagine! Can you believe it? That's the l

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  • Retired Pope did not co-author book with Cardinal Sarah

    January 14 2020
    Paddy Ferry

    Having now read Austen Ivereigh in Commonweal, ( see below ) I now have to say it appears that Ratzinger was more innocent in this whole debacle than I had originally thought."One of the many iron

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  • Retired Pope did not co-author book with Cardinal Sarah

    January 14 2020
    Aidan Hart

    When saying Communion in the hand “involves a great dispersion of fragments of the Host, which, although small, are still the body of the Lord" Cardinal Sarah is obviously oblivious of the fact that

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  • 18 January, 2020. Saturday of Week 1 in Ordinary Time

    January 18 2020
    Eddie Finnegan

    "Miserando atque Eligendo" - Francis, Bede and Caravaggio's Call of Matthew What's in a Motto ? 1. Charles Mercier's Column in the CNA, 2016: https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/column/what-does-pope-f

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  • 17 January, 2020. Friday of Week 1 in Ordinary Time

    January 17 2020
    Eddie Finnegan

    A good reflection on the Gospel reading - one of the miracles recounted in all three synoptic gospels. Also for many of us a visual flashback to the simple artwork of our Primary school days, based ma

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  • Retired Pope did not co-author book with Cardinal Sarah

    January 14 2020
    Joe O'Leary

    In response to Sean, yes, we should take much more seriously the use of very bad scriptural argumentation in Vatican documents and in the Catechism.John D'Arcy May wrote about that under the title

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