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  • Survey on permanent (male only) diaconate

    September 30 2014
    Peter Clifton

    Question 2 completely sidesteps the historical issue as to the nature of women's ministry in the early Church: namely, were women ordained to the diaconate just as men were or was their service of a d

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

    October 3 2014
    Eugene Sheehan

    Fair play, Liamy, you continue to describe eloquently the reality of a Church that refuses to acknowledge that there is no real crisis of priestly vocations, but a crisis of leadership. I can never ac

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  • An Open Letter to Cardinal Pell

    September 30 2014
    Darlene Starrs

    Sorry about that Cornelius! I called you Simon...

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

    October 3 2014
    Darlene Starrs

    Yes, if the RC Church will accept married Anglican priests for the Catholic priesthood, I would think, it is logical to accept Catholic priests who have married. I should imagine, this will happen.

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  • 16th October. Thursday of Week 28

    October 2 2014
    Darlene Starrs

    On these Feast Days of St. Francis of Assisi...(He actually, died and rose with Christ on Oct.3rd)...I am remembering the Lord's words to St. Francis..."Repair My Church". Although, today, those word

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  • An Open Letter to Cardinal Pell

    September 30 2014
    Darlene Starrs

    Well, Simon, your contribution evokes a few challenging questions, and some of the questions, have been debated in the Catholic Church long ago. I am speaking of the question...Is the Eucharist always

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  • An Open Letter to Cardinal Pell

    September 30 2014
    Eddie Finnegan

    Cornelius Martin@13, can you offer a shred of evidence that the woman in Simon the Pharisee's house was Mary of Magdala? There's certainly no evidence either that she was Mary of Bethany. You seem to

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  • An Open Letter to Cardinal Pell

    September 30 2014
    Soline Humbert

    @13 Whoever the woman was, (she is not named in the Gospels) she was NOT Mary of Magdala.

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  • A civil war in the Church?

    September 28 2014
    Soline Humbert

    It does not look like the Vatican has clarified Sr Margaret Muldoon's status.http://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/religion-and-beliefs/no-fault-divorced-catholics-in-difficult-situation-on-co

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  • 16th October. Thursday of Week 28

    October 2 2014
    Soline Humbert

    The current model of church is obsolete...Old wineskins bursting, patched up old coat tearing... The late cardinal Martini commented the church(in its institutional form) was several hundred years beh

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