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View the VIDEO of Fr Roy Donovan’s talk “What does it mean to be Catholic today?” to We Are Church:
View the VIDEO of Fr Roy Donovan’s talk “What does it mean to be Catholic today?” to We Are Church:
‘I happened to be standing.’ (Mary Oliver) For the birds: Nine ducks were sleeping at the side of the pond at the Tolka this morning. Another appeared as if on…
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Link to Vatican News: https://www.vaticannews.va/en.html Links for speeches taken from https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/it/bollettino/pubblico/2021/09/12.html [B0557] Apostolic Journey of His Holiness Francis to Budapest on the occasion of the concluding Mass of the…
REMINDER DIARMUID O’MURCHU Thursday 4th December 8pm London time Root & Branch are honoured to welcome Diarmuid O’Murchu to lead us through Reworking the Tradition:Implications for our Time Tradition is about…
Fr Peter Daly wrote recently in the National Catholic Reporter about problems he sees that arise as a result of the church’s position on mandatory celibacy for priests of the Latin Rite.
“Celibacy is not essential to Catholic priesthood. It is only mandated in two of the 24 “autonomous churches” in communion with Rome; the Latin Rite and the Ethiopian Rite….. At least seven popes were married…..There was even a father and son pope combination, Pope Hormisdas (514-523) who was father to Pope Silverius, (536-537)…..Today we have many married priests in the Roman (Latin) Rite who have come to us from the Anglican or Lutheran traditions. ….. If they can be married, why not others?
The practice and teaching of the church on priestly celibacy has been inconsistent and incoherent. But, most important of all, Jesus did not mandate celibacy.”
Gerry O Hanlon SJ speaking on Fratelli Tutti on Midwest Radio’s Faith Alive programme on Sun Oct 11th 2020 with Monica Morley and Brendan Hoban. “It’s a nice insight into it and…