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  • An Open Letter to Cardinal Pell

    September 30 2014
    Clare Hannigan

    The message at the heart of the story of the woman caught in adultery is that only God has the authority to judge because only God is all loving and is without sin. The woman had sinned but she was n

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  • “Proven Women”

    October 5 2014
    Darlene Starrs

    Thank you Eddie for your observation above...I, too, thought that perhaps "proven women" was going to be about the choice of women for the priesthood...Alas, not, so....as the saying goes..."behind ev

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  • A civil war in the Church?

    September 28 2014
    Soline Humbert

    In the middle of a piece on the Synod by Dawn Cherie Araujo, Global Sisters Report, 3 October 2014, Sr MARGARET MULDOON herself explains her position. She is the sole woman religious invited to the sy

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  • Pope Francis in poetical mood before the Synod

    October 6 2014
    Tony mc

    That is so beautiful. He has his hands full untying the knots of over 30+ years of knot tightening of John Paul II and Benedict

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  • Pope Francis in poetical mood before the Synod

    October 6 2014
    Pádraig McCarthy

    An additional note: At the opening meeting of the Synod (Monday 6 October) Pope Francis made it very clear that everyone should speak freely. He used the term "parresia", a Greek word which means spea

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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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