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  • Faith; the ability to live with uncertainty

    October 5 2015
    Paddy Ferry

    Thank you for another marvellous article, Brendan. Thanks also, to Michael C @2 for giving us details of the Pontifical Biblical Commission's research into the scriptural basis for denying ordination

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  • Faith; the ability to live with uncertainty

    October 5 2015
    Ann Walsh

    What a wonderful article this is. It just sums up exactly what many of my generation feel about church leaders. I am in my 40's with four teenage children who I try to encourage to come to Mass every

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  • The Equality of Women, and the question of Ordination.

    October 22 2015
    Gabrielle Cassidy

    I join with others in hoping that this initiative will gain momentum and be successful. As a female working at times in Business, Accounting, Banking, I am and have been aware of equality or inequalit

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  • Speak freely, boldly, and without fear.

    October 3 2015
    Peter Shore

    John Shea's assertion that the Church's stance on women's ordination is seen as "justifying domestic violence and other atrocities against women" is preposterous. Priestly ordination is not a matter o

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  • Faith; the ability to live with uncertainty

    October 5 2015
    Peter Shore

    The Pontifical Biblical Commission's vote of April 1976 doesn't address the convergence of Bible, Tradition, and Magisterium. It suggests merely that the "New Testament does not settle in a clear way

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  • Speak freely, boldly, and without fear.

    October 3 2015
    MM

    The case well made. Let the Catholic Reform groups worldwide now place this top of their agendas and no longer tolerate Ordinatio Sacerdotalis's attempt to silence the voice of the Spirit. Let us cle

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  • Faith; the ability to live with uncertainty

    October 5 2015
    John

    I wonder is it best to appeal to truth inasmuch as it can be discovered by reference to the Bible and to research and any other means of discovering the truth.

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  • Faith; the ability to live with uncertainty

    October 5 2015
    Michael C.

    "Conversely, and in the current context more controversially, anything that *is* a matter of Scripture, Tradition, and magisterial authority is Catholic by definition. The reservation of priestly ordi

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  • The Equality of Women, and the question of Ordination.

    October 22 2015
    Soline(Vatinel) Humbert

    I do pray that Tony's appeal falls on open ears and into many hearts and minds.It would be a real prophetic sign of hope,a ray of light helping to dispel further some of the dark fog of fear which sti

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  • Faith; the ability to live with uncertainty

    October 5 2015
    Peter Shore

    What a confusing article! Richard Dawkins represents the dogmatic materialist viewpoint. It's quite simple: there is no God, the universe wasn't created, and the scientific method is the only route to

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