tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8192975108709881867.post7603253608236712604..comments2023-08-15T21:29:20.383+01:00Comments on Breathing With Both Lungs: ON PROTESTS AND FALSE TEACHERSTomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09140244586477682905noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8192975108709881867.post-48961720879277277052010-11-02T14:14:29.554+00:002010-11-02T14:14:29.554+00:00As someone who has been through 3rd level theology...As someone who has been through 3rd level theology in Dublin, I second what anonymous says above. It is absolutely necessary to clean out the Augean stables.<br /><br />As you say brother, I believe there is an incipient crack under the surface. Perhaps it is already a reality in the internal forum. I hope it will be healed before it breaks out. I don't think this problem is unique to Ireland.RJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13871618901190898384noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8192975108709881867.post-64486878097853087732010-10-08T00:02:30.320+01:002010-10-08T00:02:30.320+01:00The more I see and hear the more I believe that th...The more I see and hear the more I believe that there's a deep unseen crack in the Irish Church that could split open any day.<br /><br />Dear father do you not think that the hierarchy may have to share some of the blame. there is a big disconect between them and the little folk. they are strangers for the most part and rich ones at that.<br />I truly believe they live in a different world from the rest of us. The church is failing because the leaders are to busy with the ways of the world. I invite you over to my little blog and hope you would leave a comment or two. <br /><a href="http://thequestforthepearl.blogspot.com" rel="nofollow">The Quest for the Pearl</a><br /><br /><br />catholic gone A.W.O.Lgurnygobhttp://thequestforthepearl.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8192975108709881867.post-70405745160836779072010-10-03T22:29:52.786+01:002010-10-03T22:29:52.786+01:00The Apostolic visitation will,apparently, look at ...The Apostolic visitation will,apparently, look at seminaries but whether that will cover colleges like All Hallows etc., I don't know. I'm not holding my breath for any major changes.<br /><br />Laughing Peasant (love the name!)- I spoke at Mass today on a similar line. The Church has always suffered from the effects of 'philosophical fashions' e.g. ideas about equality and analyses of relationships through the lnes of 'power'. Well, equality is a legal fiction - useful but limited. As for the idea of power - this just reduces responsibility to a form of oppression and runs in the face of Christ's own teaching that we are servants of a King. It's HIS Church, HIS Kingdom, not ours. But somepeople just don't get that. As for how much power clergy actually have - from my own limited experience not much.Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09140244586477682905noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8192975108709881867.post-7979629087315187242010-10-02T13:39:37.014+01:002010-10-02T13:39:37.014+01:00Well said Fr.Well said Fr.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8192975108709881867.post-62894832779416374602010-10-01T21:32:29.292+01:002010-10-01T21:32:29.292+01:00I am also worried by the number of times the argum...I am also worried by the number of times the argument for the ordination of women is based on politics, as in, it has a certain level of support among certain people. An appeal to numbers is always political. Catholics should only ever appeal to truth. And in truth there is no reason why the Church, as a means for salvation of the soul, cannot function with priests of one gender. Christ gave us sacraments, and a priesthood to administer them. Any elaboration upon this is a work of politics, the things that are Caesar's, if you will. I dont say I am against the idea of a two gendered priesthood, per se, but to suggest the church lacks anything as our means of salvation because the priesthood is celibate and male is to suggest it is deficient as the bride of Christ and unequal to His salvation plan. Further, it is to suggest it has always been so. Why would someone with such views want to be Catholic, never mind a priest? The answer can only be for the power they perceive, perhaps wrongly, that priests wield in this world. Politics.Legion Sisterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16699891975294259739noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8192975108709881867.post-22603935195297644142010-09-29T20:13:57.097+01:002010-09-29T20:13:57.097+01:00Brother Tom,
3rd level education really ought to ...Brother Tom,<br /><br />3rd level education really ought to be on the agenda for the apostolic visitation.<br /><br />Any hope?<br /><br />CAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com