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Shieldmaiden

Is there some Christian root to Christianity in Britain that lies around Glastonbury, anything we can know?

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Kyrie

Do be so kind as to excuse this Quaestio on an issue of liturgical minutiae, but is there a reason for the Kyrie at the beginning of Holy Mass?

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Red, red wine

Is there anything firmed up in the sources that lays down what sort of wine is to be used during the Eucharist?

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Privacy Homeland

Where lies the homeland and heartland of privacy world? Is it with canon 220 of the western codex or canon 23 of the eastern codex?

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Missiles

What are the lessons that Christian theologians can learn from Black Thursday on the 24th February 2022 and its Invasion of Ukraine?

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Behind Enemy Lines

If my memory doesn’t fail me, I recollect a movie about Kosovo once called “Behind Enemy Lines” in which a USA fighter pilot ejects over Serbian territory and hides out in a forest after being shot down by Serbians who then go on a drunken rampage to hunt for him. Is this being played out nowadays recently?

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Privacy Rights

What do the Eastern Peoples teach us about privacy in canon 23 of the Eastern Oriental Codex - is there anything different to note from the Western Codex of canon 220?

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Nella Fantasia

In what sense is the pope in Rome going to consecrate Russia to the BVM this weekend - what is the point of such an obscure ritual nowadays?

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Decennio

What was the eventual purpose of yet another Codex, in the Eastern Code of 1990, when it was first promulgated?

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For Thine

Why do Catholic Christians hive off the end of the Lord’s Prayer, the concluding doxology “for thine is the kingdom” and so on, is this not a liberty?

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HSPD

How is the traditional Feast of St Patrick celebrated in your house? Anything of note?

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Humanity

Is there any more sad a sight than the photo in today’s London Times of 3rd March 22, sipping tea here, of a captured Russian soldier-boy, being given a mobile phone by his captrix Ukrainian girl soldier and being invited to call his long-suffering mother at home in Russia, sad? Sadder still? Yet all somehow heart-warming, n’est-ce pas, as Rafe Hubris says it out

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Pax Aeronautica

Is there any rationale behind the Polish Air Force sacrificing their fabulous Mig-29s for USAF F-18 Hornets?

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Pax Mechanica

Is there anything you can prescribe from your healing medical cabinet of medicines which might be an antidote to all of those Death Wish 3000 teenagers, girlies now included more and more, screaming about in fast cars late at night in these cities and towns - they have turned my local conurbation into a Daytona 500 race track?

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Pax et Bonum

Recently it seems that the only luminous voice that stands out for peace in a world going mad, mad, mad is the Dalai Llama of Peru if not the Dalai Lama of Tibet, how to explain this as a christian parish?

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Ash

In the poetry of the Anglo-Irish Poets of Ireland and Celtica generally there is sometimes recourse made to the religious side of the history of the twin islands, and even mention is made in one poem by Paddy Kavannagh of Ash Wednesday, is there something here about Lent that we can learn from, possibly?

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Ceasefires Welcome

Now that a Ceasefire has been declared in the Former Ukraine, to allow humanitarian convoys to pass, what will the Peace Talks bring to the War-Torn Region, this beautiful country?

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Princess Di

Was it ever revealed who was the identity behind the Taylor album “Lover” since normally she dedicates an album to a past boyfriend?

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Operation “Broken Arrow”

Is there some substance in the old rumour that for some years there was a Soviet mole working inside the Vatican, lining up the pope for a pot shot from the KGB on the rooves of the Urbanianum on the Gianicolo Hill overlooking the apartments of St Peter’s Square? Any truth to all of this speculation?

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Pax Russica

Is it time to get on our knees at bedtime next to our beds and really pray for peace in our world in order to overcome all the false propaganda and negative vibes of Russiagate as instigated by those warmongering mutts in the Demob happy Democrats in America?

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