The Church
“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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‘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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A Europe based on Lisbon: a house built on sand
Saturday, June 7th, 2008
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Where is the Wellspring?
Saturday, August 18th, 2007
I’ve just returned from Taizé (ecumenical community near Lyon (France)) after spending some time in Rome and I can’t help but wonder what direction this Church of ours is heading in….as an institution. Do we have our priorities right?…or is it just jet-lag?
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“An honest declaration” - What’s the problem?
Wednesday, August 8th, 2007
There’s been a lot of talk in the media recently about the document released on the Vatican’s website (www.vatican.va) which re-affirmed the Church of Rome as Christ’s one true Church on Earth. The document, ‘Responses to some questions regarding certain aspects of the doctrine on the Church’ was drawn up by the Congregation for the [...]
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Our wellspring of morality
Friday, August 3rd, 2007
Catholics have often been accused of blindly following a supreme authority (Roman Pontiff) and in so doing sacrificing there own views…there own soul. An argument as to a Catholic’s first allegiance, when making a decision, has raged in the Church for years. Some theologians claim the infallible word of the sitting pope must dictate the [...]
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Dedicato a te
Monday, July 30th, 2007
I don’t really remember very much about the Latin Mass. I became an altar-boy a short time before the transition to the celebration of Mass in the vernacular and so the development of my faith life has been almost entirely through a language that I fully understand. But I do recall my training as an [...]
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Thy Kingdom Come
Monday, July 30th, 2007
In an article from Zenit News Pope Benedict is reported as encouraging the faithful to take up their role as builders of a ‘temporal world order’…someone of faith may call it a ‘Kingdom of God’. What our Pontiff was pointing out was a common reluctance of those in political office to allow their faith into [...]
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A reaction to a reaction by the ‘Reverend’
Thursday, July 26th, 2007
[In writing the following I hope I don't offend any readers but what I say is what I believe.]
‘During the 12th of July celebrations in ‘Orange’ sections of the country a cry of outrage could be heard from Co. Antrim. Yet when the shocked observers saw the source there was little surprise’.
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