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Press Release: ACP Response to Vatican Decision on Women Deacons
December 11 2025
Dermot Quigley
The Priestly Society of St. Pius X (founded by the man who confirmed me) has a waiting list for its Seminaries. Please Let that Sink in. I believe Paddy, that the Holy Ghost is trying to tell us something. With Regard to Synodality, I suggest you Google the writings of H.E. Cardinal Zen on this topic. He is very well respected and has truly suffered for the One, Holy, Catholic (non Synodal) and Apostolic Church. If you consult "Fundamentals of Catholic Dogma " by my favourite Theologian, Fr. Ludwig Ott, you will see that it is taught De Fide by Trent, that our Blessed Lord gave his Church a HIERARCHICAL Constitution. Fr. Ott quotes the following from Trent: "If anyone says that in the Catholic Church there is no Hierarchy instituted by Divine Ordinance...let him be Anathema". In the latest edition of this book (Baronius Press MMXX), you can read the full detail of the Tridentine teaching on pp 296-297. I'm with Trent and St. Pius V. Leo XIV and his predecessor are pastorally undermining some teachings of Trent: crucially they haven't abrogated any teaching from that noble and illustrious Council.
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Seán Ó Conaill – Jaja’s Question: A Blasphemous Theology?
December 9 2025
Sean O'Conaill
"I doubt if any priest would say that God murdered his Son or that he did so to avenge his honour. I have never heard that preached." And yet, Joe, there is no general shout of 'blasphemy' here to that suggestion, no priestly protest that God the Father could never have supported the crucifixion of his son to atone for our sins. Iggy admits frankly 'I am out of my depth here' - and you yourself don't as yet state a clear position either way. What does all of that tell you? If it took until 1965 for the church to insist that the truth cannot be conveyed by coercion it follows that from c. 313 until 1965 it was possible to agree with Constantine that God did in fact approve the use of force to spread the Gospel. That in turn made Jesus' forbearance on Calvary a mystery - inexplicable in terms of the Trinity's opposition to violence. Did not Anselm resolve that mystery c. 1098 with Cur Deus Homo - the satisfaction theory of atonement - exonerating the church from any hint of a huge theological blunder in endorsing Constantine's mistake - by implicitly attributing approval of the crucifixion to the Father also? Already, in the wake of René Girard, there are Catholic priests who proclaim that the Trinity have been bent from the beginning on ending the reign of violence in the world, and that Jesus' endurance of crucixion is the Father's self-denial of violence also - His revelation of the origins of violence in our human rejection of the Kingdom of God, the reign of forgiveness. Constantine was simply wrong. That is my theology also. In Bellaghy c. 2002 I was asked plaintively by a faithful grandmother in her eighties: "Did God the Father want Jesus to be crucified?" Why had she never heard a confident refutation of that inference in her own lifetime of church going? Wasn't it because St Anselm and the Catechism had put almost all Catholic clergy 'out of their depth' - making reticence on the issue the safest option? Where exactly do you stand?
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Séamus Ahearne: TRUMP IS DELUDED:
December 10 2025
Neil Bray
Whether one would have voted for Donald Trump (DT) or not, one should take note of the following. 1. The Western powers should have prevented Russia's invasion of Ukraine in the first place. Failure to do so has resulted in the current impossibility of forcing Russia back out. This defeat cannot be averted so DT is correct in forcing a ceasefire, to avoid as Pádraig Pearse did, further loss of human life. 2. After WW2 Europe outsourced its security to the US, leaving the US to foot the bill. DT is justified in bringing that situation to an end. 3. In DT's view, and in the view of many others, DT judges the immigration situation in Europe as leading to a future where some major European countries will have populations largely inimical to NATO and to the US. Just as the US influenced the German constitution after WW2, so is he seeking to influence political affairs in significant European Countries. 4. The Good Friday agreement took time to finally emerge and settle. There is justification in claiming (= at least hoping) that the same will happen in the seven-eight peace successes DT claims. Gaza was a torturous problem. It is the duty of Catholics to pray for the success of these efforts. Everyone is justified in criticising DT's policies. It is unwise to believe media representations of him.
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Statement of the Winter 2025 General Meeting of the Irish Bishops’ Conference
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iggy o'donovan
Colm are you really surprised?
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