You boys are in for an awful shock when the next Pope comes along - then it will be decision time. How best to avoid one of us being censured (for heresy) indeed! How best to avoid more priests becomi
Married men may become priests in the Eastern and Oriental Orthodox Churches (though bishops must be unmarried) and in the ordinariate and some rites of the Catholic Church BUT an unmarried/widowed pr
Well, that may well be true but a person is entitled to change his/her mind, Eddie(3). I welcome it as a small sign of hope. Cardinal Keith said he was "open to a Pope from anywhere". Would that he an
If you knock at the door long enough, somebody comes to open it, even if it is just a little crack for Cohen's the light to get in. Maybe our long years of effort in the Movement for Married Clergy he
"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
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Large number of clergy attend ACP meeting in Athlone
February 22 2013You boys are in for an awful shock when the next Pope comes along - then it will be decision time. How best to avoid one of us being censured (for heresy) indeed! How best to avoid more priests becomi
‘Priests should be allowed to marry’ – Cardinal Keith O’Brien
February 23 2013Married men may become priests in the Eastern and Oriental Orthodox Churches (though bishops must be unmarried) and in the ordinariate and some rites of the Catholic Church BUT an unmarried/widowed pr
‘Priests should be allowed to marry’ – Cardinal Keith O’Brien
February 23 2013Well, that may well be true but a person is entitled to change his/her mind, Eddie(3). I welcome it as a small sign of hope. Cardinal Keith said he was "open to a Pope from anywhere". Would that he an
‘Priests should be allowed to marry’ – Cardinal Keith O’Brien
February 23 2013If you knock at the door long enough, somebody comes to open it, even if it is just a little crack for Cohen's the light to get in. Maybe our long years of effort in the Movement for Married Clergy he
‘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
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