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  • The Language of Doctrine

    March 30 2017
    Paddy Ferry

    Joe, of course I don’t know what Joseph Fitzmyer had to say on the particular verses that you refer to. However, given the calibre of the man — held to be one of the genuine giants of biblical sch

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  • Statistics: catholics world wide and in Ireland

    April 7 2017
    Padraig McCarthy

    Pat Rogers @5: Yes, there are times when I feel Philip Jenkins is tempted to the ultracrepidarian - to make statements beyond his field of competence. ("Ne sutor ultra crepidam" - let the shoemaker no

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  • Statistics: catholics world wide and in Ireland

    April 7 2017
    Sean O'Conaill

    #5 So we should prefer not to get along 'swimmingly' with our Buddhist neighbours - and drop the Christian obligation to love our neighbour as ourselves? And oppose 'enlightenment' to 'love', despi

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  • Statistics: catholics world wide and in Ireland

    April 7 2017
    Pat Rogers

    Apropos the intelligent writings of Philip Jenkins,(@3), I was rather impressed by the examples of Jenkins' smooth agnosticism, in a critique by Alan Jacobs (March 2009): https://www.firstthings.com

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  • A Bidding Prayer or two this Sunday

    April 9 2017
    Lloyd Allan MacPherson

    I too wonder what it would be like for the people responsible for the working model to exist in the world this describes as living Laudato si' or my digital version of it "Loud Odyssey". Get to know

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  • Statistics: catholics world wide and in Ireland

    April 7 2017
    Lloyd Allan MacPherson

    The leaders of Catholicism paint a picture for us. They see the planet as an oasis where care for our common home and all of mankind is in the forefront of thought. When will the artists become arch

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  • Statistics: catholics world wide and in Ireland

    April 7 2017
    Padraig McCarthy

    Thanks, Francis @1 & Pat @2. I'll try to dig up some of that information, if it's available. There's an interesting article by Philip Jenkins well worth reading in the Catholic Herald in 2016: ht

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  • April 13, 2017. Holy Thursday (evening Mass)

    April 13 2017
    Vince Ohlinger

    I think you have the wrong first reading.

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  • The Language of Doctrine

    March 30 2017
    Joe O'Leary

    I should add 1 Cor 5:7, "Christ our passover is sacrificed."

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  • The Language of Doctrine

    March 30 2017
    Joe O'Leary

    What does Fitzmyer make of Rom 3:25 and 8:3, of Jesus's probably historical words about being a ransom and his words over the cup, and of the image of the lamb who takes away sin? Curiously, atoneme

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