As lay person who tried to assist in my parish, the experience has been depressing. The parish management and development of the parish rests completely on the priest. As as you may be aware, most pri
It appears that you (Brendan) have a wide readership. Even Justin Welby (Church of England Synod - debate on clergy wellbeing). seems to be echoing your words on the isolation and difficulties of a p
I for one, drifted to this site nearly 5 years ago in the hopes of finding a more welcoming church - the Association of Catholic Priests, based on your constitution, was a hint at the renewal that mos
This is the open, honest and fraternal dialogue that it so refreshing to see in the church. I feel it would be wonderful if a bishop or bishops would be willing to enter the dialogue process on how th
Well the non-awareness of God in the human community is a stretch at this time - I think people are more aware of how their small acts can have disastrous impacts on the worldwide community and that i
On Romans 8, second reading:
The Jerusalem Bible translation in our Lectionary is very clunky - I find the version in the New Jerusalem Bible far better.
It makes no sense to me why they omit verse 10
Number 5 above.
Lloyd, thank you for your reply. The disconnects you mention in your last paragraph do exist and more besides.
In number 4 above I took three factual matters together – the curren
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