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  • Catholic Ethos and other Mysteries

    May 7 2017
    Kevin Walters

    Joe O'Leary @ 24 Thank you Joe for your comment, I had until now never read Paul VI’s teaching on freedom of conscience, my understanding was that Humanae Vitae was issued shortly after wards to giv

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  • Catholic Ethos and other Mysteries

    May 7 2017
    Kevin Walters

    Rory Connor @25 Thank you Roy for your comment, the article by Gabriel incorporates an attack on the moral authority of the church’s teachings, especially Humanae Vitae as it is sited six times ofte

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  • Catholic Ethos and other Mysteries

    May 7 2017
    Paddy Ferry

    Kevin@23 I had thought that Humanae Vitae was no longer even up for discussion. The faithful had rejected it. The last statistics I read--a few years ago --had 92% of practising Catholic couples in th

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  • Catholic Ethos and other Mysteries

    May 7 2017
    Rory Connor

    There seems to be two separate - although related discussions - going on here, one of which is the general issue of a "Catholic Ethos". I believe that the latter issue is peripheral; it's being used b

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  • Catholic Ethos and other Mysteries

    May 7 2017
    Joe O'Leary

    Kevin, "this was rejected" -- no, Paul VI's teaching on freedom of conscience was not rejected. His teaching on the objective immorality of artificial contraception in all circumstances was rejected,

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  • The Appointment of a new Papal Nuncio to Ireland

    May 13 2017
    Frank

    I agree with you @4 Eddie. It will be interesting to see how the Irish Church/people react and accept an African Papal Nuncio. Ireland can be very proud of the work that Irish missionaries, clerical,

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  • Catholic Ethos and other Mysteries

    May 7 2017
    Kevin Walters

    Joe O'Leary @22 “No one is quarrelling particularly with the text of the encyclical, only with its final determination that (artificial) contraception is always objectively immoral”. We will hav

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  • 15 May, 2017. Monday, Week 5 of Easter

    May 15 2017
    santhosh

    Wonderful

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  • With open hands

    May 14 2017
    Lloyd Allan MacPherson

    I completely understand the mention of the true spirit of an open hand but what Pope Francis accomplished in Cairo, after having read highlights from his speech, was certainly akin to an iron fist in

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  • The Appointment of a new Papal Nuncio to Ireland

    May 13 2017
    Lloyd Allan MacPherson

    And Frank @ 3, Where the ACP has the support of so many, did Charles J. Brown happen to provide a disclaimer to the people of Ireland that he would not formally communicate with any of the ACP's suppo

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