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  • Statement on the Synod, Association of Catholic Priests

    September 13 2014
    Ned Quinn

    Green Shoots in Killaloe. Bishop Kieran O'Reilly having "listened very carefully to the observations and concerns raised - has decided to not now proceed with the introduction of the permanent diacona

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  • Statement on the Synod, Association of Catholic Priests

    September 13 2014
    Joe O'Leary

    "What do you imagine would be the outcome of ‘a worldwide parishioner vote’ on the Church’s teaching about homosexual genital acts? I suspect the wording of the Catechism on the subject would be

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  • Statement on the Synod, Association of Catholic Priests

    September 13 2014
    Lloyd Allan MacPherson

    Bob @ 5 - "white metropolitan anxieties" and "enormous practical logistics" might show your age a little there. I live on the eastern-most corner of the continent of North America in one of the only

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  • Married priests: A financial burden? Divided hearts?

    September 10 2014
    Darlene Starrs

    Allow me to clarify....Thank you in advance...I mentioned worker priests, as a tradition before celibacy was introduced, and I'm pointing to the practice of having someone who is employed and who also

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  • On the Edge

    September 9 2014
    Kathleen Faley

    Here are a few more observations that may have contributed to the lack of Vocations to Priesthood and Religious Life in recent decades: The Clergy have become more laicised than the laity themselves a

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  • The challenge of mission

    September 15 2014
    pat McMahon

    Your theology of church seems flawed to me. Where there is Church, there must be Eucharist.

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  • Married priests: A financial burden? Divided hearts?

    September 10 2014
    Association of Catholic Priests

    Thanks for the responses. Darlene Starrs and Fr Kieran mentioned worker priests, "priests who have a job" and Fr Kieran said "that the worker priest experiment seems to have been forgotten". As you kn

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  • Statement on the Synod, Association of Catholic Priests

    September 13 2014
    Joe O'Leary

    But didn't Paul give us the Pauline Privilege. The Church is actually quite divorce-friendly, if you consider the Petrine Privilege as well.

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  • Statement on the Synod, Association of Catholic Priests

    September 13 2014
    Bob Hayes

    Lloyd (no. 1), aside from the enormous practical logistics of organising 'a worldwide parishioner vote', what many seeking change in the Church seem to overlook is that two-thirds of Catholics live in

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  • Statement on the Synod, Association of Catholic Priests

    September 13 2014
    Adrian Grenham

    DOM - I am sure you are aware that there is an amount of debate on Matthew's 'get-out' clause, and that such a clause (or intent) is not repeated elsewhere in the Bible (Mark, Paul etc) when marriage

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