Tag Archives: Priests
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Agnostic Questions and My Answers
Leave a commentMay 20, 2018 by lucieromarin
An agnostic friend prompted me with some of the questions below. Thinking them over, I asked myself more questions from …
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How the Mugger Sees It
Leave a commentApril 20, 2018 by lucieromarin
During a meeting with one of my former director’s new managers, I asked, “Do I need to supply you with …
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Psychosis – Not an Issue in Pastoral Care
Leave a commentApril 5, 2018 by lucieromarin
At the zenith of my director’s exorcistic activity, I started hearing voices presenting outside my head. I heard those voices …
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Why I Like Monks
Leave a commentMarch 22, 2018 by lucieromarin
Yesterday, on the Feast of St Benedict, the slackest Benedictine in the world received the latest copy of In Coenaculo …
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The Really Odd Thing is…
Leave a commentMarch 20, 2018 by lucieromarin
…that everyone knows that a prisoner is imprisoned. He can’t just go wandering about from parish to parish to find …
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The Good Bishop and the Determined Little Girl
Leave a commentJune 6, 2014 by lucieromarin
I just read this in the biography of St John Neumann, and had to share it: A charming story is …
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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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