Paddy, thanks for your question -- which made me discover that I've already written next Sunday's sermon: https://josephsoleary.typepad.com/my_weblog/resurrection I follow 1 Cor 15 on the resurrectio
I was as 'swithery' on the bodily Resurrection of Jesus as anyone until my own life depended literally upon prayer and some kind of rescue / resurrection.
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All so true, Séan and Joe.
Digressing now, I wonder where you both stand on the theology of the Resurrection, physical, spiritual or what?
I was twice in Emmaus in the 1980s.
Our pilgrimages were le
Michel Foucault in "Les anormaux" (College de France lectures for 1974-75) has a prophetic pen-portrait of Trump as an "Ubuesque tyrant" (referring to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubu_Roi ). Th
"‘Fear of the negative reactions of other people’ is surely the chronic insecurity we all feel when faced with any public test – that tendency to doubt our own value that the philosopher Alain d
Peadar O’Callaghan - Easter, much more than Christmas, generates in me a melancholy longing for home. That is why I set out last night to participate in the Easter Vigil in the parish church of my h
I am a retired priest, who still celebrates the Eucharist in a parish for the faithful, and hear confessions whenever necessary. I do not do weddings (planning the far ahead is not as possible now) an
I can imagine group funeral Masses in our future. Several caskets at once. The church filled with multiple groups of families and friends. Twice a month? For those who want a Mass with a priest rather
A poem generated by AI -- plausible but unsettling. Someone played me a poem supposedly in the style of the late Yeats generated by AI and it was horrible. Will AI write our sermons for us? It would b
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