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

    October 22 2015
    Dairne Mc Henry

    Tony, I admire your courage. I hope and pray that enough others will be willing to join you.

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

    October 22 2015
    Eddie Finnegan

    Fr John J Shea OSA is right in both his open letters to USCCB and the Synod members(see 'Speak freely, boldly and without fear'), but Tony Flannery is even more right. I thought the ACP was founded to

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  • Speak freely, boldly, and without fear.

    October 3 2015
    Anne

    Women have waited too long to be treated as equals. Barring women from ordination to the priesthood,while at the same time protecting abusers has destroyed the church . It has always been incomprehens

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