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Early Church Fathers

Articles on The Church Of Christ

Authority And Conscience Edward Holloway
Authority and Conscience are perhaps the most controversial themes in the many controversies which beset the Church at the present. If possible these twin themes should always be treated together

People Of God Edward Holloway
The people of God have an identity: in the flesh they are one stock with the Word made flesh; in their spirits they are kindred to the Divine Spirit of the Eternal Word.

Communion In God: The Identity of the Church  Edward Holloway
"England", said a graffiti scratched on a window of my room at St. Mary's Hall Stonyhurst when a student, "is the paradise of little minds and the purgatory of the great"

Ecumenism: Lost Cause or Lost Chord? Editorial FAITH Magazine Nov-Dec 2000
The aggrieved reaction to Dominus Jesus, (the recent document from the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith which re-emphasized the uniqueness of Christ and his Church), of many involved in ecumenical relationships has an air of tragic inevitability to it...
Collegiality and the papacy: both/and, not either/or Magazine Editorial July - August 2001
In April of this year a German Cardinal, Karl Lehmann, was reported to have called for a new Church Council which would provide the basis for "greater collegiality" among the bishops of the world

Welcoming The Catechism Editorial FAITH Magazine May-Jun 1994 by Tim Finigan
Readers of FAITH will undoubtedly rejoice that the Vatican has prevented the deranged language of the politically correct from spoiling the English text of the Catechism

Why Should We Listen to The Church? Editorial FAITH Magazine Jan-Feb 1995 by Tim Finigan
This was the question that some students of London University invited me recently to answer at a meeting of their Catholic Society.

Immaculate Mary: The Strong Woman   Editorial FAITH Magazine Mar-Apl 1998 by Tim Finigan
In the last issue of Faith, we drew attention to the problem of a hegelian mindset in analysing the relationships between the clergy and the laity.