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  • The Church: Always in Need of Reform – Book Review

    February 1 2016
    Darlene Starrs

    The RC Institution is an old wineskin. Can it retain any new wine?

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  • Bread and circuses during the Year of Mercy? No, grazie!

    February 2 2016
    Lee Cahill

    Robert I have read through your thoughts here. As I read, I found myself attending a medieval miracle play. Therein, the devil is usually portrayed as the clown....deliberately meant to be laughed A

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  • A Second Chance for some Endangered Species

    February 1 2016
    Lloyd Allan MacPherson

    I guess my only question is what exactly is going to stop us from becoming extinct ourselves? Our fertility rates, solely based on economic factors (lack of financial security is #1) is deplorable.

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  • Is ‘secularism’ just another ‘religion’?

    January 27 2016
    Con Devree

    #13 “Why atheists still need the Catholic Church?” Thanks Sean. Your comment enables an important distinction between atheists and secularists. As with all matters social, discrete distinctions d

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  • Is ‘secularism’ just another ‘religion’?

    January 27 2016
    Sean O'Conaill

    #14, #15 Thanks for finding these, Joe. They are fascinating. So, while the high Christian academy has difficulty agreeing over 'the state', the latter gets made by people who use far simpler langua

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  • The Church: Always in Need of Reform – Book Review

    February 1 2016
    Wilfrid Harrington, OP

    I am grateful for this perceptive review. Gabriel's book is, indeed, remarkable and timely. He is surely right in his discernment of two incompatible mindsets. For too lon

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  • Removing Planks

    February 1 2016
    Soline Humbert

    "-if a huge patriarchal plank is stuck in the church’s eye,..." No"if": should have gone to Specsavers!

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  • Is ‘secularism’ just another ‘religion’?

    January 27 2016
    Joe O'Leary

    A quote from Mary Doak's article: "Nevertheless, Cavanaugh and Bell’s unrelenting opposition to any form of authoritative centralized government is cause for concern, especially as this repudiation

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  • Is ‘secularism’ just another ‘religion’?

    January 27 2016
    Joe O'Leary

    Actually it is very hard to say exactly what Cavanaugh wants. He is an anarchist in his attitude to the modern state, which he identifies with its crimes, such as torture. What is to replace it? Here

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  • The Ballot Be Yours

    January 31 2016
    Roy Donovan

    I know a number of women who had an abortion. Everybody knows some women in their extended family who had an abortion. I would like to get the message across that everybody is welcome in our Churches

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