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  • Time for dialogue on sexual ethics

    August 10 2017
    Tony

    Came across a wonderful article on the Slugger O'Toole web-site, "Soapbox – LGBT Interfaith Dialogue – finding welcome within faith?"In concerned the dialogue between Christian denominations and

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  • Time for dialogue on sexual ethics

    August 10 2017
    Frank

    Hi Phil @16 I think every diocese might have different approaches to having taking up their collections.I think it is interesting/sad to read of the race reports take place in the US. Within living

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  • Time for dialogue on sexual ethics

    August 10 2017
    Phil Greene

    Ah thank you Eddie for the clarification, it was wrong of me to let this go out without first checking the tax rate. Mea culpa. Please don't let it distract from the rest of my comments.

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  • Time for dialogue on sexual ethics

    August 10 2017
    Mary Vallely

    To be honest I hadn't thought this through, the suggestion of withholding finances. It arose out of a statement someone made about laity having no power. This is the only weapon we have in the armou

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  • Time for dialogue on sexual ethics

    August 10 2017
    Phil Greene

    Hi Frank,My understanding is that the first collection goes to pay all the priests wages, the second is for charity and I pay separately to the parish to help with the running of the parish ... the

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  • Time for dialogue on sexual ethics

    August 10 2017
    Eddie Finnegan

    Phil@12, I think your half-German teenage niece seems to be indulging in something more than 'leicht ubertrieben' or a bit of hyperbole in her desperate excuse for not going to Mass. I have always und

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  • Time for dialogue on sexual ethics

    August 10 2017
    Frank

    Hi Phil @12 I hear your suggestion. The only thing about with-holding money in the Sunday collection is that it would hurt the people that truly benefit from it, i.e., the poor, needy, even colder cha

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  • Time for dialogue on sexual ethics

    August 10 2017
    Sean O'Conaill

    As the poor have indeed always been with us, did it ever happen that the wealthier members of Christendom society were declared by a bishop to be 'living in sin' if they sated themselves while ignorin

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  • Time for dialogue on sexual ethics

    August 10 2017
    Phil Greene

    To Mary @1 and Frank @5My half-German teenage niece stayed with us for her holiday last month. I asked her if she goes to Mass, she emphatically said no, and said that they must pay 40% taxes in Ger

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  • Time for dialogue on sexual ethics

    August 10 2017
    Joe O'Leary

    Yes, Luke renames the "pais" a "doulos".

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