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  • “Proven Women”

    October 5 2014
    MM

    One of the arguments used for the maintaining of compulsory celibacy is the 'availability' for service that it supposedly allows its adherents, over those who are in married relationships. To me this

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  • Survey on permanent (male only) diaconate

    September 30 2014
    Soline Humbert

    @ 3 On the issue of women ordained sacramentally to the diaconate in the first millenium . http://americamagazine.org/issue/422/article/catholic-women-deacons http://www.womendeacons.org/index.shtml

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  • ACP AGM Wednesday 01 October 2014 – Married Priests – Liamy Mac Nally

    October 3 2014
    MM

    I want to pay tribute to the integrity of our married priests (without portfolio as Liamy has put it). Thank you for your witness. Of course COMPULSORY celibacy has nothing to do with sanctity and ev

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  • “Proven Women”

    October 5 2014
    Pól Ó Duibhir

    Would a priest's wife be barred from having a professional life of her own? Would this have to be in the religious sphere? I know there are some examples in the church of Ireland of a marriage of male

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  • ACP AGM Wednesday 01 October 2014 – Married Priests – Liamy Mac Nally

    October 3 2014
    Kathleen Faley

    Liamy, I would add another service to the list of those services that have all but disappeared from rural Ireland and that is the local creameries in parishes where farmers once queued in ass carts, h

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  • “Proven Women”

    October 5 2014
    Soline Humbert

    ...and the spouses of ordained women? " Their greatest role will be first and foremost to love their wife and children"?... Perhaps we can also learn from other Christian churches in that respect....

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  • “Proven Women”

    October 5 2014
    Eddie Finnegan

    Brian, the title of your article ['Proven Women /Mulieres Probatae'] led me to expect something else - but you gave that possibility a mere six words in the tail-end of your final paragraph: "opening

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  • 5th October. Twenty-Seventh Sunday

    October 5 2014
    Augustine Hourigan C P

    Thank you Father for you wonderful and helpful contribution on the days readings.

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  • 5th October. Twenty-Seventh Sunday

    October 5 2014
    Darlene Starrs

    What does Jesus say and do when he comes across a fig tree with green leaves and expects to find fruit, but, there is none? Much to the shock of the disciples, Jesus curses the tree; it withers and di

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  • 5th October. Twenty-Seventh Sunday

    October 5 2014
    Pádraig McCarthy

    We can read the parable in the social context of the time. Jesus does not necessarily approve of what people do in his stories. John J Pilch (The Cultural World of Jesus Cycle A) writes: "The parable

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