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  • An Outsider Inside

    March 28 2019
    Colm Holmes

    Dear Jo, I admire your total honesty and share your analysis. Can I offer you two quotes from Pope Francis' exhortation: Make a ruckus! (para 143) And when you arrive where we have not yet reache

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  • Pointing the Way

    April 3 2019
    Colm Holmes

    Excellent review by Fr Brendan Hoban of Archbishop Diarmuid Martin's Limerick talk! Will the ACP Leadership Team soon be meeting with Archbishop Diarmuid to discuss the next steps?

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  • An Outsider Inside

    March 28 2019
    Mary Vallely

    Jo, as ever, I admire your searing honesty, your courage, passion and tenacity. Many a person would have walked away long ago but the commitment you show to your family mass in Kimmage is admirable. T

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  • 31 March: 4th Sunday of Lent

    March 31 2019
    Joe O'Leary

    Concern for justice is indeed the distinctive thrust of the Bible. But there is too much divinely commanded genocide in the Hebrew Scriptures and a certain unnecessary harshness even in the New Testam

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  • 31 March: 4th Sunday of Lent

    March 31 2019
    Pat Rogers

    That was a fine piece of discussion. But let's look forward to next Sunday and the Sunday after and focus your minds on those readings too please. Many thanks for joining in like this and livening up

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  • 31 March: 4th Sunday of Lent

    March 31 2019
    Sean O’Conaill

    #17, 18. In the plight of the homeless, the trafficked, those displaced by climate change, those queuing at food banks today - and children in places like Syria disfigured by munitions made in western

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  • 31 March: 4th Sunday of Lent

    March 31 2019
    Joe O'Leary

    The Psalms are quite obsessed with "enemies" and "evildoers" and resort to bloodthirsty cursing in the parts left out of the Breviary. Here is Har Dayal (The Bodhisattva Doctrine in Buddhist Sanskrit

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  • 31 March: 4th Sunday of Lent

    March 31 2019
    Joe O'Leary

    I think the language of Luke "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do" is preferable to that of John, "You are of your father the devil" and to that of Matthew, "His blood be upon us and

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  • 31 March: 4th Sunday of Lent

    March 31 2019
    Joe O'Leary

    Nonetheless, scriptural and mainstream Buddhism remains a very efficacious medicine-chest for a sanatio in radice of the mental and physical violence that has been so prevalent in our tradition since

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  • 31 March: 4th Sunday of Lent

    March 31 2019
    Sean O’Conaill

    # 13: ‘The portrayal of the Jews as a “lynch mob” in a text written 70 years after the dimly remembered events is a harshness that is also likely to be unjust.’ This formulation is gratuitou

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