Tag: Dr Philippa Martyr
Dr Philippa Martyr: Well done on the Instrumentum
Some highlights of the plenary council working document
The Instrumentum Laboris has been released to guide the next stage of the Plenary Council Process. I’ve...
Philippa Martyr: Faith’s duty – and responsibility
Some of my readers have picked up on my use of the term ‘practising Catholic’, and they don’t like it.
Some tell me that we’re...
Philippa Martyr: A road map for the future
What I would like to see the Instrumentum Laboris for the Plenary do is:
Focus on the practicing Catholics first. We are realistically a Church...
Philippa Martyr: Looking the wrong way
The Plenary Council discussions haven’t yet engaged with our demographic problems – even though the Final Report from Phase 1 said (p.1) that the...
Philippa Martyr: Plenary should scrutinise the data
I was absolutely delighted to see that Dr Trudy Dantis, the Director of the National Centre for Pastoral Research (NCPR), is helping to write...
Philippa Martyr: Sex refers to Christ and His Church
This is a remarkable little book, and I have to admit that this is the first full length book by Christopher West I’ve ever...
Philippa Martyr: Better men make better priests
This week it’s clerical celibacy, thanks to my Gentlemen Correspondents. A recurring theme in their arguments is that celibacy is only a discipline, and...
Philippa Martyr: Cleaning the Church starts with you
Clerical sin doesn’t get the rest of us off the hook.
Philippa Martyr: When children walk away from the Faith
When you choose to keep your Catholic faith and pray for your children, everyone wins.
Philippa Martyr: Barking up the wrong pulpit
Francis Sullivan’s passion is undoubted. His grasp of the real issues facing the Church isn’t.
Francis Sullivan recently expressed concerns in the US National Catholic...
Dr Philippa Martyr: Will someone please explain what’s going down in...
Just when you think this year couldn’t get any stranger, the German Church takes us to a whole new level of you-can’t-make-this-up.
Just this week,...
Precisely which Church? A response to the Plenary Discernment papers
Going down this path would mean the Plenary Council risking creating an additional enormous layer of Church bureaucracy
