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  • Lazy, hazy days with a good book

    August 14 2017
    Joe O'Leary

    The article I recommended above says not witches or heretics were burned in the Philippines. However, there is this: "The Spanish conquistadors introduced a predominantly patriarchal culture to the p

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  • Lazy, hazy days with a good book

    August 14 2017
    Joe O'Leary

    Thomas O'Connor's speech is charming, but almost makes the Spanish Inquisition sound like fun. Of course it's fun for historians, who are delighted by the rich archival material. But a theologian coul

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  • Married priests no longer in public ministry

    August 26 2017
    Lloyd Allan MacPherson

    It's by no error that you are here Soline - the balance you bring to the discussion is needed and the website is less welcoming without your voice. Francis sees a greater role for women in the Church.

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  • Married priests no longer in public ministry

    August 26 2017
    Antony

    With the rise in the number of married deacons I was wondering if it's possible for former priests to exercise a diaconal role within the Church? Those who are ordained have given many years of servic

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  • Lazy, hazy days with a good book

    August 14 2017
    Joe O'Leary

    Thomas F. Mayer is an instructive historian of the Roman Inquisition, who can be read online. He shows how the Roman Inquisition established its authority over the other Italian inquisitions in the co

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  • Lazy, hazy days with a good book

    August 14 2017
    Pádraig McCarthy

    Brendan - My apologies that the discussion of Stark's book seems to have swamped the response to your piece! All I intended was to suggest a book worth reading, not the sparking of a debate on its mer

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  • Lazy, hazy days with a good book

    August 14 2017
    Joe O'Leary

    I made a mistake above: the inquisition in Palermo was set up by Spain, which ruled Sicily at the time. Since there were so few Protestants or Jewish conversos it became a very petty institution with

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  • Married priests no longer in public ministry

    August 26 2017
    Con Devree

    #7 New priests are emerging in the first world. The dioceses and religious orders being gifted with new vocations have a tendency to be characterised by efforts at close adherence to Church teaching.

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  • Married priests no longer in public ministry

    August 26 2017
    Mary Vallely

    Thanks, Lee@15. You can see the need for a support group for priests which is very much at the heart of the ACP but also the great need for a similar lay association which is what the ACI does so wel

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  • Married priests no longer in public ministry

    August 26 2017
    Soline Humbert

    Thank you Lee@15. In the early 90s I cofounded,with a priest, a movement to open all ministries to women(BASIC,Brothers And Sisters in Christ),which merged with We Are Church Ireland in 2012.BASIC is

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