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  • 31 March: 4th Sunday of Lent

    March 31 2019
    Sean O'Conaill

    #3 Yet, Joe, isn't it significant that, re 'rivalry between Jesus and John the Baptist', Jesus himself never indulges in targeted criticism of any individual, least of all John. He is 'rivaled with' b

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  • The Christchurch Massacre – social media another tool of bigotry and terror

    March 25 2019
    Frances Burke

    Excellent article as always Brendan. Not alone have the horses disappeared over the horizon, they will never be gathered up again. It is not in the vested interests of the major social media organiz

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  • 31 March: 4th Sunday of Lent

    March 31 2019
    Pádraig McCarthy

    Kenneth Bailey (died 2016) has long experience and knowledge of the culture of the Middle East, teaching Scripture. He has a set of four half-hour talks on video on the parable. The first is at https:

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  • 31 March: 4th Sunday of Lent

    March 31 2019
    Joe O'Leary

    Yes indeed. When the word "brothers" turns up in the Bible, "rivalry" is close at hand -- even in the Christian brotherhood (as in 1 Cor 1). What's most powerful is the way the tensions are resolved i

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  • 31 March: 4th Sunday of Lent

    March 31 2019
    Sean O'Conaill

    Rivalry is central here - beginning with the rivalry of the 'pharisees and scribes' with Jesus himself. That begins, obviously, with the greater attention Jesus is receiving from the 'tax collectors a

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  • 31 March: 4th Sunday of Lent

    March 31 2019
    Joe O'Leary

    Readers can identify totally with the soliloquy of the prodigal son, especially if one is cynical enough to read it not as an undiluted expression of heartfelt conversion, but rather as a calculation

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  • The Christchurch Massacre – social media another tool of bigotry and terror

    March 25 2019
    Joe O'Leary

    Thanks, Brendan, for this heartfelt and perceptive comment. The social media have not been the Garden of Paradise but rather a new theatre for Original Sin. When they are effectively weaponized by mur

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  • Deanery Meeting – An Unhappy Experience

    March 17 2019
    Pat Rogers

    I believe there is much to be said in favour of the Swiss Catholic model of parish councils, where the lay treasurer of the council is responsible for administering the parish's income and expenditure

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  • Airbrushed out of Church…. – Elephant in the Church

    March 12 2019
    Frances Burke

    The all female editorial team at Women’s Church World magazine have resigned. Following their release of the story of priests abusing nuns, the magazine which is published alongside the Vatican’s

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  • Airbrushed out of Church…. – Elephant in the Church

    March 12 2019
    Frances Burke

    This sister says sisters should be ‘doing it for themselves, standing on their own two feet, ringin on their own bells’ (Annie Lennox) https://t.co/l86MCTFjyj?ssr=true

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