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I think one needs to make a distinction between Church and churchmen. I have been - to put it politely - savagely disappointed by some churchmen, and I would never, ever extend my confidence in the Church to any individual cleric in it. Christ warned about this in his parables. The kingdom of...

The point is that there is no conflict between the Bible and scientifically established fact. Since even the early Christian writers were not unanimous in maintaining a literal seven days one can't affirm that that was a Christian teaching overturned by science. A real Adam and Eve, ancestor of...

Well, as a Catholic I personally have no problem with the nature of the Church as the final arbiter on fundamental questions of Faith. The Bible, as Cardinal Newman put it, is no match for the wild living intellect of man. You can make it say pretty much whatever you want it to. It needs someone...

Wandering into the thread rather late, let me just point to a couple of sites that seem relevant to the subject matter. First, here is an interesting tract from Catholic answers that quotes early Church Fathers on the literal or non-literal sense of Genesis. Most didn't take the 7 days...

I remembered the 6 and 10 percent. Just had to google the other two figures.

About 10% of the population in Zim are Catholic. The figure is about 6% for South Africa. 80% of South Africans are Christian, 87% in Zim.

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I knew Peter Godwin's sister Georgina. She married Jeremy Summerfield who was one year below me at St Georges. They formed a group of Bright Young Things with Manuel Bagorro (friend of mine in Saints) and Maria his sister. Manuel became a classic pianist and now organises the Zimbabwe version of...

Hey, that's pretty good English right away - "I" rather than "me." ;)

I find him very good. Solid and in-depth.

Lower 6 common room. We were playing football with some scrunched up paper when the deputy head walked in the door. I had my back to him and was saying "C'mon, let's play." The silence made me turn around. He looked me up and down, said "200 lines!" and walked off. Caught like a rat in a trap.

Polite is pleasant. My own golden rule in posting is never to use the words 'you' or 'your' except as impersonal pronouns.

I must meet Thomas.

Love your animated gif icon. :)

I was in nappies when he was at school, and Salisbury was a pretty big place.

1981-3. Fr O'Halloran was Rector then. Did you leave Rhodesia after A levels?

Hi RJM. Also a Rhodie.:) Which school? I did my O's at Churchill and A's at St George's.

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I am also from Zimbabwe, formerly Rhodesia, like RJM Corbet. I'm a practising Catholic currently living in South Africa. Looking forward to some interesting discussions on this forum.