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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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  • Married priests no longer in public ministry

    August 26 2017
    Phil Greene

    Hi Soline, I have read in the newspapers of letters being sent to popes (and bravely signed ) which were acknowledged and after that who knows what happened to them.. I have read many sad stories on-l

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  • Lazy, hazy days with a good book

    August 14 2017
    Paddy Ferry

    Joe@19,20 and 21, thank you for all that.

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  • Married priests no longer in public ministry

    August 26 2017
    Lee Cahill

    Soline (3,9,11). Soline, have you considered moving towards establishing such as, e.g., "Association of Catholic Women of Ireland"? I would support you. However, I do appreciate that ACP would prob

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  • Lazy, hazy days with a good book

    August 14 2017
    Joe O'Leary

    MacCulloch's perception of a scholar in steep decline is shared by others in reference to a previous book of his:http://scienceblogs.com/evolvingthoughts/2008/09/06/rodney-starks-idiotic-historyht

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  • Lazy, hazy days with a good book

    August 14 2017
    Joe O'Leary

    The Spanish Inquisition (1478-1834) is (conservatively) estimated to have handled some 150,000 cases and executed some 3000 alleged heretics (Henry Kamen). The Spanish rulers forced the Pope to set it

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  • Lazy, hazy days with a good book

    August 14 2017
    Joe O'Leary

    I looked at the complete MacCulloch review in the TLS today and found it dripping with sarcasm, as was objected by the Catholic novelist Piers Paul Read in a letter in a subsequent issue. MacCulloch c

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