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A Friend?

Is it honestly fair to say that Jesus the Nazarene in his historical human personality was a friend of Rome and the Roman Empire or must we conclude that like most of the Zealots of his time, plus the pharisees and others, that he would have been numbered and presumed to be among the enemies of the emperors and an enduring critic of the ongoing Roman Empire, as most modern theologians since Rahner often tout in their books and articles, often depreciating Roman laws that the Romans promoted?

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Vat-2

Is it now respectable to say that Vatican II was a disaster for the wider Churches?

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Cop-26 or Pop-26?

Is it true that it was actually at the Glasgow Conference on Global Warming that it was first admitted by experts and prime ministers that the real problem producing Climate Change is in fact the problem of over-population? Is there a Christian Response to such explanations from the Climatologists?

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Spiritual Column

What is the Honest to God difference between British Christian Meditation and Hindu Indian Meditation? Are there any salient points that distinguish these formats from each other, or are the differences really just cosmetique?

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TGR Sins?

Am I the only journalist who senses the presence of what we call "Nudge Psychology" in the current rush to ban the eating of meat as a result of the Cop-26 Climate Change Conference?

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How of Indulgences?

When and how did Indulgences start in the history of the Catholic Church?

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Still Punishing?

Is there any especial reason why Roman Catholics seem to be fixed and fixated on punishment as a solution to life's problems, why punishment is so high on their agendas here in Britain?

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Schools & Masks

What is the point of going to school, if we have to wear masks now again?

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Grim Reapers

What is the point of living in this mortal coil, if all we have to live for is an eventual mete with the Grim Reaper?

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Earthshot 2021

What is the Overall Purpose of the Earthshot Prize of 2021? Is it relevant for our times? Why the term "Earthshot" in any case?

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D’Artagnon’s Daughter

I was wondering if you would have light to shed on the troubling business of being a former ballerina, and embarking on a friendship and then a relationship with a young man from Australia, who wooed and charmed me, but then at the end appeared quite dark as he managed to wean me off my faith, move me out of my church, and distanced me from my believing family

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OTT

Is it possible to question the Old Testament from a logical point of view when we know that parts of it are not literally or historically true? But tell me, tell me do, how do I know which parts of the Old Testament to take literally and which to interpret symbolically, since while reading through the genealogies in Matthew it occurred to me several times that logically the time sequences of the generations - 14 to Babylon and then 14 to Jesus did not square with the numbers of generations and the origins of mankind from a science point of view. So which is it?

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4 Minutes to Midnight

Is there anything religious and meaningful that can be salvaged from the brand new Netflix TV Series “Midnight Mass” in which a priest becomes a vampire and goes back in time to restore his once and future love, like a Hampton Court chaplain to a Queen of the Reds?

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Australia

What is it about Australia that is making her suffer so much at the present time?

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An Answer?

Is Sacramental Confession the real answer to the great confusion of the modern era which mystics in Canada call The Great Apostasy?

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Dreaming

When is something unreal and yet somehow real? Is there a considered response to the psychology of boys for whom a dream is more real than reality?

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Charity Status

What is the point of charity finance, if the Church does not believe in economics?

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Angels

Why do God create angels?

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Foxing Foxes

Why do clever people always have to fox the fox and fox each other, given that if they were simply nice to one another, the world would be a much better place to live in, surely, n-est-ce pas?

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