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More Masses rather than fewer during pandemic Comments 0

Monday, March 16th, 2020

If extra Masses were scheduled during the COVID-19 pandemic, fewer people would be at each of them and the risk of being exposed to the virus would be reduced. Archbishop Stanislaw Gadecki, who is the head of the Polish bishop’s conference, said ensuring not too many churchgoers gather at once is in line with the Read more

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Bishop Drennan’s Chrism Mass homily Comments 0

Thursday, April 20th, 2017

The greatest pastoral challenge facing New Zealand today is to keep the distinction between what is essential and what is secondary. We risk substituting God with good things… Faith continually evolves. How we understand aspects of our faith today is different from a year ago or five or ten. We grow in insight (cf. Dei Read more

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  • Mon In my experience, women in leadership roles in the church are the most 'clericalist' of them all. Lay clericalism and elitism is toxic and to make matters worse no one is calling it out.

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  • Jonathan Godfrey How unsurprising that there are people gullible enough to believe such things...

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  • Mon Totally agree. History will not be kind to any of us. If we applied the same measure to any of our heroes there would be none left standing. They acted in good faith according to the standards of their times and best advice. They might have been naive and misguided but they were, in the large...

    Independent investigation into Dunedin Catholic Bishop John Kavanagh ·  November 23, 2020

  • Antony Peter de Joux I sincerely hope that the investigation into Bishop Kavanagh will view his actions using the norms that were in place during his episcopate and not using the norms of today. It's not at all intelligent to investigate the past using today's standards - which seems to be the rule today. Please...

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  • Mon Thanks Alex. I feared I was the only person in this forum expressing concern about a Biden/Harris Presidency Team. While abortion is one of many issues Catholics should be concerned about it is without doubt the most pressing human rights issue of our times.

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