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  • Presider’s Page for 25 September (Ordinary Time 26)

    September 25 2016
    Kevin Boyle

    I noticed a mistake in your liturgy. At the Eucharistic Prayer the word Many has been replaced by All. I am sure this is an over sight but I thought I would draw your attention to it.

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  • The ethics of using contraceptives

    September 16 2016
    Joe O'Leary

    Certainly, the Philippines is looking more and more like a basket case, socially and politically, but the Church's obstructionism about birth control is one of the elements in this. The Philippines is

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  • 26 September. Monday, Week 26

    September 26 2016
    Maria Rosenthal

    Dear priests, I just want to let you know that I read your comments every day after reading the texts in the Bible. I thank you dearly, as your commentaries mean a lot to me. May God bless you, Thank

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  • The ethics of using contraceptives

    September 16 2016
    Lloyd Allan MacPherson

    Joe @ 20, do you personally feel that there is more need for population control in areas where income inequality is at its highest? In Canada, we can't get enough people to serve the need. Our unive

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  • 25 September. Twenty-Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time

    September 25 2016
    Paddy Ferry

    Thank you, Joe and Padraig. Though I have obviously heard that Gospel passage before, I was taken aback this morning by it's tone and the starkness of the message. Your comments were very welcome.

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  • Four Part Harmony of Gospel moments: There is hope.

    September 24 2016
    Padraig McCarthy

    Thanks Séamus. When I arrived home from Mass this morning there was a prayer meeting going on in front of the house. Startling. A murmuration of starlings in the mountain ashes along the road, singin

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  • The ethics of using contraceptives

    September 16 2016
    Joe O'Leary

    "I wonder how many of we contributors to this discussion would be around today if the Catholic Church had embraced Thomas Malthus’ thesis and advocated birth control to alleviate the ‘population e

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  • 25 September. Twenty-Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time

    September 25 2016
    Joe O'Leary

    I had to read this Gospel this morning. Luke's literary genius is palpable as ever, but the whole discourse of Hell is always embarrassing. (I told an anecdote about Fr Liam Swords answering a questio

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  • 25 September. Twenty-Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time

    September 25 2016
    Padraig McCarthy

    The story is not about the geography of heaven and hell. Nor is it an attempt to frighten or stun us into accepting reality, by someone coming from the grave. Abraham (a rich man who was generous and

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  • The ethics of using contraceptives

    September 16 2016
    Lloyd Allan MacPherson

    Bob @ 18, I guess what I'm trying to say is that this little slice of wisdom in the Canons is there for a reason. If "the Church" wanted me to have 15 children and I only wanted three for financial r

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