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  • 27 August. 21st Sunday in O. T.

    August 27 2017
    Rev. Raju Antony

    "tend the flock of God, not as domineering over those in your charge, but being examples to the flock” (1Peter 5: 1-3)

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  • A sense of entitlement

    August 21 2017
    Jane Ireland

    Potiphars Wife by Kieron Tapsell is a good forensic study of the Vatican's sense of entitlement. Kidron was a seminarian who later became a judge. The book is pricey but well worth the read.

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  • Lazy, hazy days with a good book

    August 14 2017
    Pádraig McCarthy

    #10: Kevin Walters: Yes, thanks. I was aware of the Georgetown matter. Yes, there are many shameful episodes in the history of the Catholic church, and these must be acknowledged. But we must also ack

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  • The Children of Priests – Coping International

    August 23 2017
    Joe O'Leary

    For once the church offers a human response to human problems. The mystifications and abuses generated by the failing system of celibacy have to be faced with forthright honesty and empathetic compass

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  • Lazy, hazy days with a good book

    August 14 2017
    Joe O'Leary

    M.T. Clanchy, Abelard (Blackwell, 1997) John O'Malley, The Council of Trent Jean Lacouture, The Jesuits Trent Pomplun: Jesuit on the Roof of the World: Ippolito Desideri's Mission to Tibet

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  • Lazy, hazy days with a good book

    August 14 2017
    Joe O'Leary

    Book recommendations on controverted church history: John Kent, The Unacceptable Face (1987) William J. Bouwsma, Venice and the Defense of Republican Liberty (a classic). Andrea Del Col, L’Inqu

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  • 27 August. 21st Sunday in O. T.

    August 27 2017
    alex dalpiaz

    Why do you not clearly say without any fear or trepidation that the Pope is the legitimate successor of Peter and that the Catholic Church is the only one which Jesus left us until eternity??? Our

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  • Lazy, hazy days with a good book

    August 14 2017
    Pádraig McCarthy

    On the Columbus story: Stephen Jay Gould (September 10, 1941 – May 20, 2002) was a well-known American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science. He was also one of the most

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  • Lazy, hazy days with a good book

    August 14 2017
    Joe O'Leary

    Hi, Pádraig, you said the online reviews you'd read suggested that the book was well received, but the first two scholarly reviews I found were damning. I have come across many books like this which

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  • The Children of Priests – Coping International

    August 23 2017
    Pádraig McCarthy

    It's good that action is being taken in this matter. Thanks, Vincent. I have a concern about the fourth principle enumerated in the document from the Conference of Bishops: "It is vital in discerning

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