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  • Catholic Ethos and other Mysteries

    May 7 2017
    Phil Greene

    Kevin @ 37 Phil to my knowledge and without detracting from what you say none of the mothers within my family structure died from physical a

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  • Catholic Ethos and other Mysteries

    May 7 2017
    Paddy Ferry

    Kevin, you said @37 above that "the Church cannot change its teaching " I thought you might be interested in this piece (below) from this weeks Tablet Official teaching has changed throughout the whol

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  • Catholic Ethos and other Mysteries

    May 7 2017
    Kevin Walters

    Joe O'Leary @38 “Onan’s motive is clear in Gen 38” Yes I took his motive for granted in our dialogue, nevertheless Onan could have refused (Been seen not to be capable of fulfilling his duty) H

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  • ‘The Catholic Church has at most 10 years to adapt’

    May 18 2017
    Lloyd Allan MacPherson

    Anne @ 2, I live alongside a 10,000+ year old North American Aboriginal culture (The Mi'kmaq) who have used the term "two-spirit" to describe their gender, sexual, and spiritual identity since time im

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  • The Appointment of a new Papal Nuncio to Ireland

    May 13 2017
    Tom Cox

    We don't know of course.. but anecdotally we are hearing that candidates are declining a call to be a Bishop in Ireland. I'm a friend and classmate of one of the "safe, compliant, ultra-orthodox" rece

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  • ‘The Catholic Church has at most 10 years to adapt’

    May 18 2017
    JohnM

    The news today that the Christian Brothers are selling off a school playing field, leaving "their" students with no playing field suggests again that the vision has been lost. The Sisters of Charity

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  • Catholic Ethos and other Mysteries

    May 7 2017
    Seamus Ahearne

    Joe @ 30 A sentence from Joe O Leary is most impressive and rather essential in any of our present discussions on Church matters. "The Bible is a much greater world than the petty prescriptions to whi

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  • Catholic Ethos and other Mysteries

    May 7 2017
    Eddie Finnegan

    The Leadership's very balanced statement on 'The National Maternity Hospital' on 10 May unfortunately diverted any comments to this discussion thread, thereby losing the importance of the points it ma

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  • Catholic Ethos and other Mysteries

    May 7 2017
    Joe O'Leary

    I did not know that contraception was known as "onanism"; the word usually refers to masturbation (in contradiction to biblical usage, just as "sodomy" refers to sexual acts -- in contradiction to bib

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  • Catholic Ethos and other Mysteries

    May 7 2017
    Kevin Walters

    Phil Greene@31 also Anne @ 35 Thank you Phil and Ann for your comments I feel that the two of you have misunderstood or not read all my Posts and links as you seem to have ignored my proposal, that i

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