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“Hope has two beautiful daughters. Their names are anger and courage; anger at the way things are, and courage to see that they do not remain the way they are.” St Augustine
Thursday, August 21st, 2008
Today’s ‘Irish Times’ helped unveil the government’s planned strategy to eliminate long term homelessness while recognising the continuing funding freeze for homeless services. Last year €33 million was spent on homeless services….there’s no dent in the problem yet!
The cost of bread is up 20% on last year, flour is up 42%, milk is up 31%…..while [...]
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“Qui cantat, bis orat”- He who sings, prays twice!
Monday, August 18th, 2008
In ‘A Confident & Vibrant Church’ I wrote about what my experience at WYD 35 in Sydney says to me of the state of the catholic Church. As the title suggests the news was good.
Last weekend I explored the Irish Church’s version of a youth event, Youth 2000’s festival at Clonmacnois. What does this experience have [...]
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“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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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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“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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Alternative ways to pass on faith
Saturday, January 26th, 2008
In my article ‘Motu Proprio’ an interesting comment on the need for a move of religious instruction from schools (where problems are now clear) towards alternative means: Sunday schools, discussion groups etc. This is worth bringing back up for discussion.
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In dying we’re born
Wednesday, September 12th, 2007
The eyes of politicized Catholics everywhere are now squarely pointed at the Australian Church after the retired auxiliary bishop of Sydney (Geoffrey Robinson) released his new book: ‘Confronting Power & Sex in the Catholic Church: reclaiming the spirit of Jesus’.
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Quo Vadis?
Sunday, August 19th, 2007
Speaking in Milwaukee on August 17th the Primate of All Ireland, Sean Brady, spoke of the “smaller but more authentic Church” he sees for the Ireland of tomorrow. While expressing his worries about the “shift to superficiality in Irish culture” the Archbishop seemed enthuased after recent trends show a revival in spiritual awareness amongst the Irish. So….we can [...]
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