Archive for August, 2008
“The body is a unit, though it is made up of many parts”
Monday, August 18th, 2008
Unity, not uniformity!
What does it mean to be “One Catholic and Apostolic Church”? In particular, what does it mean to be ‘One’?
As one universal community of faith, members of the Catholic Church share a belief in certain tenets of the faith. These include everything in the Nicean Creed along with any dogmatic pronouncements such as [...]
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The Lighter Side
Thursday, August 14th, 2008
Welcome to the Lighter Side, as we go through stories to try and take the seriousness out of the working week.
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The future isn’t what it used to be…which is a good thing
Wednesday, August 13th, 2008
This is just meant to be a quick line to say congratulations to all who received their results today in the Leaving Cert.
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It’s not funny or clever
Tuesday, August 12th, 2008
I really do not understand racism, ok I can see there’s moments wear all common sense flies out the window and an insult turns into a racial slur in the blink of an eye, but in all honesty it comes across as cheap, when someone thinks it is clever.
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A Confident & Vibrant Church of Life
Monday, August 11th, 2008
I’ve been reading again and ’Michael G’ has pointed out, in Fr. Bernard’s ‘Take a bow, Irish bishops!’ , that the Irish Church is no longer the Church Militant but is what he calls “the Church Slightly Embarrassed and Apologetic About Not Being Cool and We’re Not Really Different From Anyone Else Except in Emphasis”. I’ve just [...]
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Let’s hope sport wins
Monday, August 11th, 2008
I like watching great sporting occasions because what you should be seeing are athletes and performers at the top of their game, trying to show that they can be the best in the world.
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Chaos theories tested
Monday, August 11th, 2008
Chaos is easily organised, if organised is the right phrase. It can take something small and simple to turn a situation that has people perfectly calm into a scene where those people run around like headless chickens.
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“Science and religion need each other as guides in their search for truth”.
Friday, August 8th, 2008
I’ve been reading a discussion which followed Conor’s blog:‘Richard Dawkin’s and the Church’ and thought I might make available a paper I wrote on the issue not too long ago. It might be worth continuing this debate so hopefully this can add something to it.
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‘Is the Church relavent anymore?’
Friday, August 8th, 2008
I often hear the question ‘Is the Church really relavent anymore?’. This is an attempted response.
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Hello
Friday, August 8th, 2008
Hello again,
It’s been a while since I’ve added anything as I’ve been away but I’m back.
I’ve added a category ‘Your Questions’ to hand the topics over to you so I hope you’ll try it out. If there is a topic we haven’t touched in a while or not at all which you are interested in [...]
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