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  • A Suffering Church

    September 8 2018
    Frances Burke

    Eddie @17 and Joe @18 At the February gathering of Bishops it is intended to address the abuse of power in ALL of its formations. This is very welcome as we know that power in the wrong hands can be v

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  • A Suffering Church

    September 8 2018
    Eddie Finnegan

    Paddy, Joe, Phil @21,22,23 - As I said just above @24, "We need more incisive minds than mine to get across all this!" Thanks to Joe and Massimo Faggioli for providing those levels of incisiveness an

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  • A Suffering Church

    September 8 2018
    Paddy Ferry

    I stand corrected Eddie. Thank you.

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  • A Suffering Church

    September 8 2018
    Eddie Finnegan

    No, Paddy, I don't think JPII dumped Basil Hume or Carlo Martini from the CCEE Presidency and Camillo Ruini never got near the CCEE. Hume was President for 7 years ('79-86) followed by Martini ('86-93

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  • Erring Shepherds

    September 10 2018
    Kevin Walters

    Sean @ 2 “We are poised in disarray between a model of church that has effectively collapsed, and a very different model that struggles to emerge”. We will always have to have pastors but the pro

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  • Ireland’s Care for Our Common Home

    September 12 2018
    Frances Burke

    It is good to see this type of initiative been led by Catholics and Buddists religious. Hopefully it will see the light of day. https://t.co/DBMMivHi9d?ssr=true Our forests are the lungs of the eart

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  • A Suffering Church

    September 8 2018
    Phil Greene

    Paddy @21 "Anyway, its good to have your contributions again on this site, Eddie, as they are always excellent, interesting and informative." Totally agree .. thank you Eddie. "I’m not over-worri

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  • Ireland’s Care for Our Common Home

    September 12 2018
    Lloyd Allan MacPherson

    This is past the need for preaching. I'm watching another hurricane bear down on a coastal nuclear plant on the east coast of North America. I live on an island surrounded by water - it is our lifeb

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  • A Suffering Church

    September 8 2018
    Joe O'Leary

    The whittling away of the theological status of episcopal conferences right through John Paul II's pontificate has a kind of blueprint in Joseph Ratzinger's 1982 book, Theologische Prinzipienlehre [P

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  • A Suffering Church

    September 8 2018
    Paddy Ferry

    Eddie@ 17, I was surprised to read that JPII was a supporter of the idea of national and regional bishops' conferences being a valid component of the magisterium. Paul VI certainly but JPII ! He certa

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