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  • Fine words and dramatic gestures are not enough!

    February 19 2019
    Paddy Ferry

    What an incredibly honest contribution from Cardinal Marx today at the summit in Rome. https://www.ncronline.org/news/accountability/cardinal-admits-vatican-summit-catholic-church-destroyed-abuse-fi

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  • The Cult of Clericalism – we look after ourselves

    February 1 2019
    Sean O'Conaill

    #9 "But do we need an ordained priesthood, other than the priesthood of the baptised? If not, then we are wasting our time and energy debating vocations, celibacy and women priests!" That question st

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  • 24 February. 7th Sunday (C)

    February 24 2019
    Joe O'Leary

    "Guilt is not from God" -- ? There is a lot of paralyzing guilt, but surely this statement is highly misleading? Again, the old dialectic of Law and Gospel should come into play. God's opus alienum

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  • Fine words and dramatic gestures are not enough!

    February 19 2019
    Paddy Ferry

    An interesting take on the matters being discussed in Rome at the moment. https://www.ncronline.org/news/accountability/editorial-systemic-malady-has-deep-roots-clerical-culture?clickSource=email

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  • 10 February. 5th Sunday (C)

    February 10 2019
    Paddy Ferry

    Joe, could I also recommend that you give a listen to Kenneth McKellar's rendition of "Waft her, Angels", a much underestimated tenor, in my view, but famously referred to by Sir Adrian Boult as the

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  • 10 February. 5th Sunday (C)

    February 10 2019
    Paddy Ferry

    Thanks, Pat, thats absolutely excellent. After all this René Girard will be one of my specialist subjects!!

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  • 10 February. 5th Sunday (C)

    February 10 2019
    Pat Rogers

    Warmest thanks to Joe O'Leary, Sean O'Conaill, Paddy Ferry et alii, for the lively discussion on the meaning of sacrifice. For those not so familiar with the work of René Girard, I suggest the well-w

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  • 10 February. 5th Sunday (C)

    February 10 2019
    Joe O'Leary

    Listening now to "Waft her Angels through the Skies" sung by Mark Padmore. Beauty and violence are so often interwoven, and their disentangling is no easy task. Sean, I admire the genius of the Frenc

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  • 10 February. 5th Sunday (C)

    February 10 2019
    Paddy Ferry

    Having continued to read and enjoy this ongoing and fascinating conversation which Joe and Sean have now been engaged in for well over a week now, the latest information from Sean on the wide ranging

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  • 10 February. 5th Sunday (C)

    February 10 2019
    Sean O'Conaill

    #32 To refer to Girard as a 'top-class literary critic' is like dismissing Leonardo Da Vinci as a 'great cartoonist'. Starting out with a doctorate in medieval history Girard launched his literary c

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