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  • 10 July. Tuesday, Week 14

    July 10 2018
    Bk Nwoha

    About the homily titled a compassionate heart, I see how you put in between brackets those personal thoughts. God doesn't discriminate sinners by not letting them into heaven. In a similar way, the ch

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  • “Always say …… Always say”

    July 8 2018
    Brendan Peters

    Your article reduced me to tears Brian as I recognised in myself and in others I have known over the years that inability and reluctance to 'always say', cowed as we are by the grip in which we are he

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  • ACP Public Meetings – “What do we need to say to Pope Francis about the Irish Church?”

    July 17 2018
    Sean O'Conaill

    #11 You are not unwise to question whether Francis will ever get to hear of these meeting, Con. However, I shall try to make the Cavan one on the 25th just to meet with whoever turns up - to pray, ho

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  • 05 July. Thursday, Week 13

    July 5 2018
    Joe O'Leary

    See Girard's first book, "Mensonge romantique et vérité romanesque" (1961; translated as "Deceit, Desire and the Novel," 1966).

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  • ACP Public Meetings – “What do we need to say to Pope Francis about the Irish Church?”

    July 17 2018
    Con Devree

    To what extent are these meetings “much ado?” Their purported significance rests on the reception by The Vatican of the reports on the meetings. If the Pope himself is to be believed such report

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  • ACP Public Meetings – “What do we need to say to Pope Francis about the Irish Church?”

    July 17 2018
    ElizabethMcGuire Cleary

    If there are people who cannot attend the meeting to make their point, what facility is available to them to make a comment? Could a version of this current COMMENTS SECTION (with a word limit of say

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  • 05 July. Thursday, Week 13

    July 5 2018
    Joe O'Leary

    Actually the moralistes were enhanced and channeled to Girard by Marcel Proust. Girard adored Proust. Proust's characters are consumed with the passions of mimetic rivalry! I met Girard once in 1979 a

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  • 08 July. 14th Sunday

    July 8 2018
    Brian Fahy

    Jesus went to his home town Every Thursday evening my father would sit in his armchair beside the fire and pick up the local weekly paper, The Journal, and spend a quiet hour reading it from cover to

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  • 05 July. Thursday, Week 13

    July 5 2018
    Sean O'Conaill

    #3. Fascinating, Joe. Where might I find more on 'French moralistes' and 'mimetic rivalry'? The first full biography of Girard has recently appeared. (Evolution of Desire, Cynthia Haven) (See below.

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  • 05 July. Thursday, Week 13

    July 5 2018
    Joe O'Leary

    But to some extent René Girard is an heir to the French moralistes, who are very aware of "mimetic rivalry," and who themselves are heirs of St Augustine. His entire opus, The City of God, is an atta

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