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  • Statistics: catholics world wide and in Ireland

    April 7 2017
    Francis

    @7 Padraig, I found myself being enlightened when you wrote that the number of Catholics in the world has remained relative to the world's population. What are we to make from this? That our mission

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  • The Language of Doctrine

    March 30 2017
    Joe O'Leary

    satisfaction is an oldfashioned word in the Catechism, never heard in church. substitution is a dull word for the joyous exchange in which Christ becomes sin for our sake, undergoing the curse of the

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  • The Language of Doctrine

    March 30 2017
    Joe O'Leary

    Sean, the catechism quotes are standard Christian teaching. They are what massgoers have been hearing since the Council. my old ed. of Denzinger, ed. K. Rahner in 1957 lists dogmas on the redemptive

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  • Statistics: catholics world wide and in Ireland

    April 7 2017
    Padraig McCarthy

    @8: The data for Dublin didn't come out right. See is this any easier to follow?! Ages..... .....2014..... ..... ..........2030 ...............Dioc.....Rel..........Dioc.....Rel 35-40.......3....-...

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  • The Language of Doctrine

    March 30 2017
    Sean O'Conaill

    #41 Joe will correct me, but my own inquiry on this, and Richard Rohr's work also, strongly suggest that there is no single Catholic 'doctrine of atonement'- merely remarkably different theological ap

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  • The Language of Doctrine

    March 30 2017
    Joe O'Leary

    on Romans 3:25 - "It is not that God's anger has been appeased by Christ's death. It is rather that all... have sinned... but by the favor of God, men''s sins are "expiated" (wiped out, remitted) bec

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  • The Language of Doctrine

    March 30 2017
    Joe O'Leary

    In "To Advance the Gospel", 164, Fitzmyer says that the Pauline figures of redemption. were later "erected into propositions, with all sorts of baneful results."

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  • Statistics: catholics world wide and in Ireland

    April 7 2017
    Joe O'Leary

    Buddhism is based on two inseparable pillars, Wisdom and Compassion. Heinrich Dumoulin repeated this often, rueing that when consulted for Nostra Aetate he had stressed the first, forgetting the seco

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  • The Language of Doctrine

    March 30 2017
    Joe O'Leary

    Fitzmyer in his 2008 Anchor Bible commentary on 1 Corinthians: "According to Jewish custom, one had to clean the dwelling of anything leavened in order to celebrate Passover; but Paul inverts the proc

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  • Statistics: catholics world wide and in Ireland

    April 7 2017
    Padraig McCarthy

    Francis @1 & Pat @2: I do not have the number of religious priests or of major seminarians. Ireland: The maximum number of diocesan priests was in 1967/68: 3985 Census 1966: Population 2,884,

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