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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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  • Fine words and dramatic gestures are not enough!

    February 19 2019
    Frances Burke

    Christine @ 6. http://psychology.ucdavis.edu/rainbow/html/facts_molestation.html

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  • 10 February. 5th Sunday (C)

    February 10 2019
    Joe O'Leary

    Let me clarify: Girard was a brilliant man, a top class literary critic, well suited to the role of Professor of French Language, Literature and Civilization at Stanford University. As a biblical sch

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  • 10 February. 5th Sunday (C)

    February 10 2019
    Sean O’Conaill

    # 28 ‘by the massive approbation of the Irish people shortly after the event’ First, you are fatally omitting from your understanding of ‘the Irish people’ the bulk of the Protestant and diss

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  • Fine words and dramatic gestures are not enough!

    February 19 2019
    Christine Lynch

    Thank you Phil. I read the Crux Now article. There is no question that the abuse of girls is abhorrent. In the words of Jesus "it is better they had never been born" in relation to any adult that

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  • Fine words and dramatic gestures are not enough!

    February 19 2019
    Paddy Ferry

    Interesting words from Fr. Federico Lombardi who will act as moderator of the summit. He said "I am absolutely convinced that our credibility in this area is at stake. We have to get to the root of th

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  • Fine words and dramatic gestures are not enough!

    February 19 2019
    Frances Burke

    'Focusing on homosexuality also “acts as a smokescreen; people now are discussing homosexuality, rather than the crimes themselves,” she said. Pretending clerical sexual abuse is a result of homos

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  • Fine words and dramatic gestures are not enough!

    February 19 2019
    Phil Greene

    To Christine Lynch Please read and reread https://cruxnow.com/february-abuse-summit/2019/02/20/blaming-homosexuality-for-abuse-of-minors-is-distraction-victims-say/

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