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Post by Séamus on Feb 18, 2019 23:49:09 GMT
My wife gave birth to my son Hugh Peter Damian on the 3rd. God is great St Blaise day, who's still often invoked in public by Irish balladeers
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Post by Tomas on Feb 19, 2019 8:07:52 GMT
My wife gave birth to my son Hugh Peter Damian on the 3rd. God is great Good news indeed
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Post by cato on Feb 20, 2019 20:51:02 GMT
Hugh Peter Damian. Interesting choice of name. Congratulations to you all.
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Post by cato on Feb 20, 2019 21:00:46 GMT
Ignatius Press turns 40 this year. The US Catholic publisher has printed a large array of orthodox catholic theological , philosophical and spiritual works , usually of a very high standard. Joseph Fessio the founder was a Jesuit which goes to show not all Jesuits are fruitcakes.
They published the famous Ratzinger Report in the 1980s when Cardinal Ratzinger gave a controversial book length interview on the state of the Church. It is a book still well worth reading and gives a good introduction to the thought of the future Pope Benedict.
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Post by Maolsheachlann on Feb 21, 2019 8:53:01 GMT
Ignatius Press turns 40 this year. The US Catholic publisher has printed a large array of orthodox catholic theological , philosophical and spiritual works , usually of a very high standard. Joseph Fessio the founder was a Jesuit which goes to show not all Jesuits are fruitcakes. They published the famous Ratzinger Report in the 1980s when Cardinal Ratzinger gave a controversial book length interview on the state of the Church. It is a book still well worth reading and gives a good introduction to the thought of the future Pope Benedict. They also publish Chesterton's Collected Works, which was still ongoing last I heard. My dream would be to have a complete run of this!
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Post by Maolsheachlann on Feb 21, 2019 8:54:15 GMT
Joseph Fessio the founder was a Jesuit which goes to show not all Jesuits are fruitcakes. The priest who has impressed me most with a sense of holiness is a Jesuit, and is entirely orthodox. But yes, a lot of them are fruitcakes.
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Post by Maolsheachlann on Feb 26, 2019 9:27:34 GMT
Some wonderful but anonymous person sent me a copy of "Give Us Back the Bad Roads" by John Waters, which I am very much looking forward to reading.
If it was somebody here...thank you!
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Post by Séamus on Feb 27, 2019 8:50:10 GMT
Joseph Fessio the founder was a Jesuit which goes to show not all Jesuits are fruitcakes. The priest who has impressed me most with a sense of holiness is a Jesuit, and is entirely orthodox. But yes, a lot of them are fruitcakes. Few conservatives in the West would include the presence of Islam as part of a good news story, but it was interesting to read something by Ann Widdecombe in a recent column mentioning a friend-headmaster, whose Catholic school has now more Muslim students, but who insists that the Roman Catholic faith gets taught without watering-down and that all students attend mass. The gay and gender propaganda being taught in other schools is apparently the main reason why so many non-Christians are drawn to his unabashedly Catholic administration.
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Post by Séamus on Feb 28, 2019 8:57:47 GMT
The priest who has impressed me most with a sense of holiness is a Jesuit, and is entirely orthodox. But yes, a lot of them are fruitcakes. Few conservatives in the West would include the presence of Islam as part of a good news story, but it was interesting to read something by Ann Widdecombe in a recent column mentioning a friend-headmaster, whose Catholic school has now more Muslim students, but who insists that the Roman Catholic faith gets taught without watering-down and that all students attend mass. The gay and gender propaganda being taught in other schools is apparently the main reason why so many non-Christians are drawn to his unabashedly Catholic administration. I forgot to mention that we're taking about Britain, but the name of Mrs Widdecombe would imply that. I don't know what systems they have there, but presumedly there are both government- and privately-owned schools; mention was also made of a 300-strong parents' protest outside one school, against certain (homo)sexual educations, organised mostly by Muslim parents with a significant Christian presence. Strange times. Speaking of which, I came across the mention of (Ven)Carlo Acutis(+2006) for the second time today,a 15-year-old who had used the internet to promote Saints'devotion to the Blessed Sacrament, whose body will soon be displayed in Assisi. Recently I came across a more complex character who knew Paul VI, also proposed for sainthood,Dr.Luisa GuidottiMistrali, who belonged to an unusual consecrated laywomans society (may have the rank of a secular institute?)and was gunned down in Zimbabwe in 1979, after working as a doctor there for years. At one stage she had met Catholic-convert John Bradburn, an extremely hippy-looking character in his later years, who was murdered in Zimbabwe the same year, having lived among the lepers for some time, and to whom devotion has also sprung around. Aside from the fact that the last two did once meet, there's little to bind the three together, except an (almost) unorthodoxy as far as the general pantheon of Saints goes, perhaps we can see them as the sign of adapting and blossoming in tumultuous times, Carlo in the era where the John Paul 'do not be afraid' was superseded by the Benedict 'the church will grow smaller', the two martyrs working largely in the often enigmatic pontificate of Paul.
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Post by Maolsheachlann on Mar 21, 2019 13:05:44 GMT
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Post by cato on Mar 21, 2019 14:00:08 GMT
I worry that many of them seem to be rigid neo-pelagians. Archbishop Martin of Dublin has emphasised the necessity of promoting ecumenism , openness to women's experience and resistance to clericalism as priorities for all 5 Maynooth new seminarians this year. That's 5 for the whole country and not just Dublin dioceses.
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Post by Maolsheachlann on Mar 21, 2019 14:12:49 GMT
I worry that many of them seem to be rigid neo-pelagians. Archbishop Martin of Dublin has emphasised the necessity of promoting ecumenism , openness to women's experience and resistance to clericalism as priorities for all 5 Maynooth new seminarians this year. That's 5 for the whole country and not just Dublin dioceses. The sad thing is that it seems increasingly likely that only rigid neo-pelagians will bother turning up to Mass week in, week out, and only especially rigid N.P.s will seek ordination when there are so many other more rewarding careers. Who would have thought that, just as the Church had attained the perfect accommodation with the world, its most open-minded and tolerant and anti-legalistic members would have decided that going to Mass or a priestly vocation was not for them?
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Post by Séamus on Mar 23, 2019 3:53:44 GMT
I've heard both positive and negative things concerning involvement in the Neo Catecumenal Way, I've mostly liked their priests but without getting involved with the movement as a whole. But there's no doubting the amount of vocations they get- now that the leadership of the Legionaries of Christ is person-non-gratia they have to be the main success story postVaticanII. The movement does have a presence in Ireland, a mature-aged Corkman was ordained for Redemptoris Mater Perth, and they had a second fellow from Cork training at one stage,while another Irish NCWay priest who is a regular writer for the English language St Anthony's Messenger was ordained in America (it's usually, but not exclusively,the habit of the movement to send young men to a Redemptoris Mater in a country other than their own) It should probably be kept in mind by their critics that many members were baptised-only Catholics before becoming involved in The Way, it's not so much a matter of leaving the mainstream church to adhere exclusively to NC practises.
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Post by Stephen on Apr 1, 2019 16:21:18 GMT
Hugh Peter Damian. Interesting choice of name. Congratulations to you all. Hugh= first Irish Ancestor of my family. He fought in the third crusade, built Castle knock and gave lands to a religious orders in phoenix park. His Patron is Still Hugh of Lincoln, who my ancestor would have known. Peter Damian was the saints day Hugh was baptised. But we wished to name him after a Priest (Damian) that baptised Hugh and married my wife and I. By a stroke of Luck my father in-law is Peter aswell.
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Post by Séamus on Apr 12, 2019 5:42:50 GMT
North Dakota and Ohio have reportedly restricted abortion laws. Without knowing anything about the federal/state rights-balance it's hard to imagine this happening pre-Trump.
Vale: Herlind Kasner, mother of Angela Merkel,@ 90. The discrimination her teaching career endured from the East German government because of her Lutheran pastor husband should be noted. I was amazed to hear that she taught English (as well as Latin)- did she ever teach her daughter? But I actually do admire Merkel for speaking in her German tongue to international audiences, however global her viewpoint in other ways
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