"O’Brien has signalled his readiness to take this step if elected pope, perhaps with the idea that this makes him more papabile."
-Joe O'Leary (4 above)
Suddenly even the remote prospect of an Ulste
Nothing at all radical about this. The question of celibacy has never been a doctrinal issue. Paul VI even proposed to the 1971 Synod that the Pope have the right to ordain married men.
Recall this in
It seems to me that prophets are always "outsiders" looking into the institution and seeing more clearly the faults that it has. It takes great courage to be a prophet especially when cast out like t
Cardinal O Brien, you are talking the language of many within the ACP and their followers. Tony Hoey, you must be smiling from ear to ear, as you have been trying so hard to dispense with the rule of
Good! Even @martinmcguinness has tweeted his approval of the Ballycastle man. But didn't +Keith say something similar earlier this century/millennium before he got the red hat, then retracted it publi
Garry Wills is here: http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/423715/february-11-2013/garry-wills?xrs=share_copy
These people, including Spong, who throw the baby out with the bathwater
This story reminds me of a line from a Leonard Cohen song:
"There is a crack, a crack in everything.
That's how the light gets in."
Perhaps Cardinal O'Brien has begun to let in a small chink of light
It will be interesting to see the fall out from Cardinal Keith O'Briens public statement of support for marriage as an option for those entering the priesthood which was aired on the BBC today. A sma
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‘Priests should be allowed to marry’ – Cardinal Keith O’Brien
February 23 2013"O’Brien has signalled his readiness to take this step if elected pope, perhaps with the idea that this makes him more papabile." -Joe O'Leary (4 above) Suddenly even the remote prospect of an Ulste
‘Priests should be allowed to marry’ – Cardinal Keith O’Brien
February 23 2013Nothing at all radical about this. The question of celibacy has never been a doctrinal issue. Paul VI even proposed to the 1971 Synod that the Pope have the right to ordain married men. Recall this in
A letter from Alan Hilliard to Tony Flannery
February 21 2013It seems to me that prophets are always "outsiders" looking into the institution and seeing more clearly the faults that it has. It takes great courage to be a prophet especially when cast out like t
‘Priests should be allowed to marry’ – Cardinal Keith O’Brien
February 23 2013Cardinal O Brien, you are talking the language of many within the ACP and their followers. Tony Hoey, you must be smiling from ear to ear, as you have been trying so hard to dispense with the rule of
A letter from Alan Hilliard to Tony Flannery
February 21 2013Thanks for such a lovely and inspiring piece.
‘Priests should be allowed to marry’ – Cardinal Keith O’Brien
February 23 2013Good! Even @martinmcguinness has tweeted his approval of the Ballycastle man. But didn't +Keith say something similar earlier this century/millennium before he got the red hat, then retracted it publi
A letter from Alan Hilliard to Tony Flannery
February 21 2013Garry Wills is here: http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/423715/february-11-2013/garry-wills?xrs=share_copy These people, including Spong, who throw the baby out with the bathwater
What the new pope should do
February 18 2013"I find the Church perfectly ‘credible’ as it is. " How so, when so many of the faithful are deprived of the eucharist?
‘Priests should be allowed to marry’ – Cardinal Keith O’Brien
February 23 2013This story reminds me of a line from a Leonard Cohen song: "There is a crack, a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in." Perhaps Cardinal O'Brien has begun to let in a small chink of light
Irish dioceses should imitate the courage of Pope Benedict
February 22 2013It will be interesting to see the fall out from Cardinal Keith O'Briens public statement of support for marriage as an option for those entering the priesthood which was aired on the BBC today. A sma
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