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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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  • The Cult of Clericalism – we look after ourselves

    February 1 2019
    Pat Collinson

    The biggest problem with Clericalism, in my humble opinion, is that many lay people have now 'caught up' with the clergy in terms of theological training. They are as highly educated and in some case

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  • 10 February. 5th Sunday (C)

    February 10 2019
    conrad s pecevich

    Your reflection is powerful and helpful to me in preparing my homily this Sunday. Glad I discovered your site by accident. Father Conrad

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  • The Cult of Clericalism – we look after ourselves

    February 1 2019
    Sean O'Conaill

    #6 Right on the nail, Eugene, apart from the second word in the following:"The personification of God in popular understanding is perpetuated continually in doctrinal and clerical teaching and preac

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  • The Cult of Clericalism – we look after ourselves

    February 1 2019
    Eugene Sheehan

    Paddy, in no.3, feels he digresses by asking "what do we understand the reality of the unseen God to be?" I would argue that this is the question that shines a light on the negative effects of clerica

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  • Daniel O’Leary R.I.P.

    January 22 2019
    bernard Howell

    Fr Daniel, who I met and listened to during his Advent retreats at Hawkestone Pastoral Centre, had a prfound impact on my grow in faith with comments like,"when you get it (the theology of nature and

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  • The Cult of Clericalism – we look after ourselves

    February 1 2019
    Darlene Starrs

    Well done Chris, Seamus and Paddy. It's fascinating to me that I wrote a letter to the Pope in October of 2014, saying in a nutshell, that while he could accomplish many things during his Papacy, unl

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