"As the ethical wisdom of humanity grows (and it does) all ancient texts, even divinely inspired ones, have to be corrected because of the now apparent blind spots of their cultural matrix."
Joe, I
Fr. Séamus, my heart responds totally to your plea for honesty and reality in connection with the WMoF in August. In the mid 1930's mine would have been the typical 'Holy Family' as outlined in your
Joe @43 the '15 Referendum changed the marriage/family paradigm. Every second (at least) same sex married couple I have heard interviewed talk about plans to have children just as a heterosexual would
Sorry -- mistake in my last post, it should be Numbers 31.Exodus 32:26-8 is an even more horrendous text. The Levites are told to slay worshippers of the Golden Calf: “Go back and forth through th
The approval of torture is not found in the parable itself but in the comment ascribed to Jesus.The great commandment combines two quotes from Torah.For benightedness read Exodus 31 and 1 Samuel
Mark 1:40-45
We have two law-breakers here: The man with leprosy, and Jesus.
The man was forbidden to approach “clean” people. (Presumably he could approach others with the same condition.) And Je
The healing of the leperMark 1:40-45Jesus told the leper, ‘Mind you say nothing to anyone.’We live in a world of public stories
We hear tales and get impressions of what goes on
We form opi
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World Meeting of Families: Who’s welcome?
February 1 2018"As the ethical wisdom of humanity grows (and it does) all ancient texts, even divinely inspired ones, have to be corrected because of the now apparent blind spots of their cultural matrix." Joe, I
World Meeting of Families: Who’s welcome?
February 1 2018Joe @31, if I thought the text of Matthew could be validly read that way I would not be a Christian.
World Meeting of Families – Let’s be real.
February 9 2018Fr. Séamus, my heart responds totally to your plea for honesty and reality in connection with the WMoF in August. In the mid 1930's mine would have been the typical 'Holy Family' as outlined in your
“We need to stop sending mixed messages on important issues.”
February 2 2018Joe @43 the '15 Referendum changed the marriage/family paradigm. Every second (at least) same sex married couple I have heard interviewed talk about plans to have children just as a heterosexual would
World Meeting of Families: Who’s welcome?
February 1 2018Joe @31/32 It is Jesus in the NT who gets the final word.
Pope orders new investigation into allegations against Bishop Barros
January 30 2018What needs to be done to protect childrenhttps://t.co/1e6y0Bo2DB?ssr=true
World Meeting of Families: Who’s welcome?
February 1 2018Sorry -- mistake in my last post, it should be Numbers 31.Exodus 32:26-8 is an even more horrendous text. The Levites are told to slay worshippers of the Golden Calf: “Go back and forth through th
World Meeting of Families: Who’s welcome?
February 1 2018The approval of torture is not found in the parable itself but in the comment ascribed to Jesus.The great commandment combines two quotes from Torah.For benightedness read Exodus 31 and 1 Samuel
11 February. Sixth Sunday (Ord. Time)
February 11 2018Mark 1:40-45 We have two law-breakers here: The man with leprosy, and Jesus. The man was forbidden to approach “clean” people. (Presumably he could approach others with the same condition.) And Je
11 February. Sixth Sunday (Ord. Time)
February 11 2018The healing of the leperMark 1:40-45Jesus told the leper, ‘Mind you say nothing to anyone.’We live in a world of public stories We hear tales and get impressions of what goes on We form opi
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