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  • The Quiet Revolution – A Talk by Gerry O’ Hanlon

    February 12 2019
    Pascal O'Dea

    ACI Association of Catholics in Ireland welcome people to our meeting to hear FrGerry O'Hanlon talk on his recent book.Bishop Denis Nulty Kildare and leiglin will attend and it offers an opportunity f

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  • 10 February. 5th Sunday (C)

    February 10 2019
    Joe O'Leary

    "He was delivered over to death for our sins and was raised to life for our justification"(Rom 4:25) Since Paul is using the "theological passive" it can also be translated "God delivered him over to

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  • 10 February. 5th Sunday (C)

    February 10 2019
    Sean O’Conaill

    Missing here, as usual, is Rene Girard’s anthropological proposal that the crucifixion of Jesus is above all a revelation of the aboriginal sin of scapegoating - the human practice of defusing a soc

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  • Which way for the church?

    February 9 2019
    Anne Patricia Matin

    I believe the real problem was a combination of institutional secrecy, cover up, denial and it failed to be picked up and grew because of a lack of transparency within administration processes. This l

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  • The Cult of Clericalism – we look after ourselves

    February 1 2019
    Eugene Sheehan

    Sean, I offer a quote from Bishop John Shelby Spong that articulates more accurately my point about the dangers of clericalism: “When any human group decides that they can define God, the outcome is

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  • 10 February. 5th Sunday (C)

    February 10 2019
    Joe O'Leary

    1 Cor 5:7 -- "Christ our Paschal Lamb has been sacrificed". I cannot understand how a Pauline exegete could say what Fitzmyer said. Can anyone explain?

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  • Which way for the church?

    February 9 2019
    Darlene Starrs

    Which way for the Church? Yes, it is the urgent question of the day. It's the question I beseech the Lord with most every day. It's hard to believe, we are still asking the question, given Vatican II.

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  • 10 February. 5th Sunday (C)

    February 10 2019
    Paddy Ferry

    Thanks, Pat.

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  • 10 February. 5th Sunday (C)

    February 10 2019
    Pat Rogers

    Hello Paddy, The late, great Joseph Fitzmyer may well have doubted that Paul stated in so many words that "Christ was sacrificed for our sake" -- but he would never have doubted that the author of 1 C

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  • 10 February. 5th Sunday (C)

    February 10 2019
    Paddy Ferry

    I have mentioned a few times on this site that I had become aware from reading and study that the late, great Fr. Joseph Fitzmyer SJ, scripture scholar supreme, had said that nowhere in the unconteste

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