Category Archives: Priests
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Oils, Books, Treasure
Leave a commentMay 17, 2014 by lucieromarin
Well, despite my clarion call to women to resist the temptation to fret about beauty, I found myself this morning …
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Rhapsody Rhapsody
2April 24, 2014 by lucieromarin
Roadkill of the world! I’ve written elsewhere about the bizarre habit of telling single people that they ought not to …
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“We Have to Remain Faithful”
8March 15, 2014 by lucieromarin
You’ll hear this from the pulpit, sometimes: “When scandal occurs or others fall, we have to remain faithful,” or, “Even …
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In Praise of Bland Clergymen
1February 14, 2014 by lucieromarin
You know the sort: he rarely smiles; his sermons, though largely inoffensive, are uninspiring recitals of points of catechism we …
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On Clerical Roadkill
23January 2, 2014 by lucieromarin
I’ve just realised that I know (or know of) five priests who have left active ministry – of whom two …
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Saints – Available for Relationships Other than Marriage
1October 19, 2013 by lucieromarin
The wrong kind of interminable vocation-discussion can have an unintended side effect; it can reduce persons of the opposite sex to …
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Bishops, Other than the Bad Ones
Leave a commentAugust 11, 2013 by lucieromarin
So…bishops, huh. We’ve all heard a lot about awful bishops, and I’ll admit that in the past few decades we …
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Good Priests, Largely Forgotten
1August 3, 2013 by lucieromarin
The more you look to a priest for leadership, the greater is the suffering when that leadership is not given. …
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Fathers of the Poor
Leave a commentJuly 31, 2013 by lucieromarin
Inferior priests make roadkill. They break hearts and lose souls; we all know that, and we can all think of …
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Roadkill Rhapsody 