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  • 05 Nov 2023 – 31st Sunday, (A)

    November 5 2023
    Sean O'Conaill

    #10 Girard does not ‘do it’ for Paddy Ferry. If I was clear on what ‘it’ is for you, Paddy, I would be less puzzled, given that whereas the major questions here are theological (‘priests’

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  • 05 Nov 2023 – 31st Sunday, (A)

    November 5 2023
    Paddy Ferry

    I had intended to say in my comment above re my 10 minutes face to face with Archbishop Martin— mention of Garry Wills brought it back to me — that what Tony had said about the origins of priestho

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  • 05 Nov 2023 – 31st Sunday, (A)

    November 5 2023
    Paddy Ferry

    Sean and Joe, thank you both for such learned contributions to this discussion. Joe@6, I was especially interested and impressed with what was an inter-faith critique of sacrifice and atonement. I rea

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  • 05 Nov 2023 – 31st Sunday, (A)

    November 5 2023
    Sean O'Conaill

    That on the credibility of the Resurrection is excellent, Joe. Cannot one add also that the transformation of those who bore witness to the Resurrection – and therefore the 'takeoff' of the earl

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  • 12 Nov 2023 – 32nd Sunday, (A)

    November 12 2023
    Thara Benedicta

    Key Message: Let us do all the "extra" work, and experience all the "extra" blessings!! Homily: A testimony: "When I was reading through the parable of the 10 virgi

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  • 05 Nov 2023 – 31st Sunday, (A)

    November 5 2023
    Paddy Ferry

    An excellent point. Sean. This never dawned on me until I read Garry Wills “ Why Priests”. That passage in Matthew’s gospel also advises against enlarging their tassels and lengthening their tef

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  • 05 Nov 2023 – 31st Sunday, (A)

    November 5 2023
    Joe O'Leary

    Bruce Robinette of Boston College writes: “Recalling again that while we are not afforded a direct, quasi-objective portrayal of Jesus _being raised_ from the dead in the New Testament, we can never

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  • 05 Nov 2023 – 31st Sunday, (A)

    November 5 2023
    Sean O'Conaill

    #5 "Perhaps the lesson of all these interreligious encounters is that Christian theologians need first to sort out what they mean by Atonement before a firm platform of dialogue can be constructed."

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  • 05 Nov 2023 – 31st Sunday, (A)

    November 5 2023
    Joe O'Leary

    I chatted once with René Girard, just when that book (Des choses cachées) came out in 1978 and suggested to him maladroitly what Raymond Schwager put to him more persuasively later. Let me broadcast

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  • 05 Nov 2023 – 31st Sunday, (A)

    November 5 2023
    Sean O'Conaill

    I have done that, Paddy, and respect Garry Wills - but his use of Rene Girard’s ‘Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World’ (to undermine the argument that the crucifixion was a sacrifice)

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