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Last six items posted prior to March 16, 2010
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March 15, 2010 4:30 PM Vatican II on the Church: Mary By Dr. Jeff Mirus
The final chapter of the Dogmatic Constitution on the Church is devoted to “The Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God in the Mystery of Christ and the Church”. This is the only chapter
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March 12, 2010 3:07 PM Hugh O’Flaherty: The Vatican Pimpernel By Dr. Jeff Mirus
Daniel Heisey's article on Msgr. Hugh O’Flaherty (1898 – 1963) in the current issue of Homiletic & Pastoral Review reminds me to recommend a fine movie called the The Scarlet
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March 12, 2010 10:31 AM Vatican II on the Church: Eschatological Identity By Dr. Jeff Mirus
I can see now that it was a mistake not to include Chapter 6 of Lumen Gentium, on “Religious”, in the previous entry (as I had done in my preparatory notes), because the chapter really
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March 10, 2010 3:15 PM Vatican II on the Church: Lay Holiness By Dr. Jeff Mirus
If the first two chapters of Lumen Gentium contain the most controversial passages and the third contains the Council’s most important doctrinal exposition, the fourth and fifth are vital to
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March 09, 2010 4:23 PM Teaching with Blood By Dr. Jeff Mirus
Yesterday’s news story about the decision of a Denver Catholic school not to accept a child being raised by two lesbians makes me nervous (Denver Catholic school: Lesbian couple’s child
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March 08, 2010 8:37 PM Vatican II on the Church: The Bishops By Dr. Jeff Mirus
In his Angelus message of October 22, 1995, Pope John Paul II called Lumen Gentium “the keystone of the Council’s whole Magisterium”. In many ways its most important chapter was