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  • World Meeting of Families: Who’s welcome?

    February 1 2018
    Margaret Hickey

    Re me @40, in fairness you are probably saying that texts can obscure Jesus' thoughts and teaching and we need to filter 'obsolete' or obscure texts and make allowances etc. So we are both coming to t

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  • World Meeting of Families: Who’s welcome?

    February 1 2018
    Margaret Hickey

    Joe@37 ' obsolete text'? We are talking about a text from Matthew in the NT canon. As I undestand the parable genre, there is no difficulty with Jesus' words in this context. If I thought our Lord was

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  • World Meeting of Families – Let’s be real.

    February 9 2018
    Pádraig McCarthy

    Séamus - I confess! I sent a link to your article to the WMoF website with a suggestion they might consider the world of families you know. How about if everyone who reads your article would do some

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  • Is the World Meeting of Families discredited?

    February 11 2018
    Pádraig McCarthy

    Surely a mountain is being make out of a molehill? I did not see the original booklet; I've just seen the pictures shown on http://wearechurchireland.ie/world-meeting-of-families-booklet-reprinted-mai

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  • World Meeting of Families: Who’s welcome?

    February 1 2018
    Joe O'Leary

    Thanks, Paddy. I'm always happy to share a theological reflection (not on hot button topics), and I'll be in Ireland in first half of June (contact: josephsoleary@hotmail.com)

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  • Is the World Meeting of Families discredited?

    February 11 2018
    Michael

    Hi there, The thing that people occupy themselves with.In Ireland, the church in Ireland is 'heading off a cliff' and it is worried if the possibility of a same sex could appears in some literature

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  • World Meeting of Families: Who’s welcome?

    February 1 2018
    Joe O'Leary

    Correction -- "transsexuals" is going the way of "homosexuals" and expressions like "trans follk" are; more favored.The clobbering of lgbt folk is coming not so much from the mainline church teacher

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  • World Meeting of Families: Who’s welcome?

    February 1 2018
    Joe O'Leary

    Margaret, you would give up on Christianity just because of one obsolete text?Think of how gays and transsexuals feel, who are clobbered with such texts day in day out yet refuse to give up on their

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  • World Meeting of Families: Who’s welcome?

    February 1 2018
    Margaret Hickey

    Paddy @35 would you not take the Gospels rather than Leviticus as your final authority? Mining ancient texts to justify a theory while blinking away what the Gospels is clear on, is certainly an exerc

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  • Is the World Meeting of Families discredited?

    February 11 2018
    Mary Vallely

    I’d be more inclined to hope that instead of wishing a dose of ‘flu on our 80 year old Pontiff that Eddie Finnegan’s hopes may be realised and that Francis will treat us to a little of his own

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