Spot on Brendan. Look forward to seeing the priests from the bulging american seminaries heading our way ! Even looking more forward to seeing how they will go down with a 21st century congregation.
Ger and others, I will be coming down from Armagh and staying overnight so I am sure we will get a chance to meet on the Friday afternoon and/or the Saturday morning. Great to see that Paddy Ferry is
How will all this Little Flower-arranging, relics-hugging, tonsure-fetishising female clericalism be any better for the life of the People of God than all the title-chasing, follow-my-leader-deferenti
Anthony @ 6
In the French church, the diocese of Frejus-Toulon has similarly bucked the trend, with regard both to the diocesan priesthood and the many (and varied) institutes within the diocese.
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Nuala @ 18: Not being a theologian, I have not the foggiest notion whether God is male or not. I have simply followed the words of Christ himself who refers to God a 'Father', and when asked taught u
It seems appropriate to be speaking of Therese particularly because her "Dias Natalis" (birth into heaven) is September 30th and her Feast Day is October 1st. We should never underestimate the degree
A present time perspective and an urgent plea for discernment:
This is what William A. Barry SJ, a well known spiritual director wrote about women and ordination in one of the chapters of his book Pa
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That "old" statement "St Therese would have been a priest if she had lived long enough" is of your own making not mine.. Please don't attribute it to me and then refute it. It is not what I have wr
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Linda, is this the same God as 'Father' who inflicted horrendous plagues on his enemies? Who watched all the horrors of history, many of them carried out in 'his' name? God as Creator, King, God
The real question is, what can we learn from elsewhere? In the United States many dioceses now have an abundance of vocations and they have changed the situation in ten years. For example in the Dioce
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The Irish Church refuses to face statistics on priesthood
September 27 2013Spot on Brendan. Look forward to seeing the priests from the bulging american seminaries heading our way ! Even looking more forward to seeing how they will go down with a 21st century congregation.
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October 5 2013Ger and others, I will be coming down from Armagh and staying overnight so I am sure we will get a chance to meet on the Friday afternoon and/or the Saturday morning. Great to see that Paddy Ferry is
The Irish Church refuses to face statistics on priesthood
September 27 2013How will all this Little Flower-arranging, relics-hugging, tonsure-fetishising female clericalism be any better for the life of the People of God than all the title-chasing, follow-my-leader-deferenti
The Irish Church refuses to face statistics on priesthood
September 27 2013Anthony @ 6 In the French church, the diocese of Frejus-Toulon has similarly bucked the trend, with regard both to the diocesan priesthood and the many (and varied) institutes within the diocese. Are
This interview could be the Pope’s first real encyclical
September 23 2013Nuala @ 18: Not being a theologian, I have not the foggiest notion whether God is male or not. I have simply followed the words of Christ himself who refers to God a 'Father', and when asked taught u
The Irish Church refuses to face statistics on priesthood
September 27 2013It seems appropriate to be speaking of Therese particularly because her "Dias Natalis" (birth into heaven) is September 30th and her Feast Day is October 1st. We should never underestimate the degree
The Irish Church refuses to face statistics on priesthood
September 27 2013A present time perspective and an urgent plea for discernment: This is what William A. Barry SJ, a well known spiritual director wrote about women and ordination in one of the chapters of his book Pa
The Irish Church refuses to face statistics on priesthood
September 27 2013@5 That "old" statement "St Therese would have been a priest if she had lived long enough" is of your own making not mine.. Please don't attribute it to me and then refute it. It is not what I have wr
This interview could be the Pope’s first real encyclical
September 23 2013@20. Linda, is this the same God as 'Father' who inflicted horrendous plagues on his enemies? Who watched all the horrors of history, many of them carried out in 'his' name? God as Creator, King, God
The Irish Church refuses to face statistics on priesthood
September 27 2013The real question is, what can we learn from elsewhere? In the United States many dioceses now have an abundance of vocations and they have changed the situation in ten years. For example in the Dioce
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