What is a 'liberal' Catholic? Surely there are just 'Catholics' who are so by their assent to the teachings of the Church in faithfulness to the Magisterium. What disturbs me about 'liberal' priests i
It's a truly historical pity that Rory's Fr Joseph Wilson's former vice-rector and moral theology professor didn't postpone his moral theology doctorate at SMU for another decade or so. He'd have bene
Rory, I just read a piece in a German newspaper about a very active gay seminarian, who is also HIV positive, and sailing full steam ahead to ordination, convinced of a divine call (he entered in his
The church hierarchy and specifically the Vatican hierarchy have to choose. Do they want to control people or do they want to help them? It would seem to me their preference for the need to control,
The fact that the Vatican is a "cold house" for "liberal" Catholics may have something to do with its experience of a certain type of Catholic liberalism that took off after the Vatican Council especi
I recall reading in The Voice that the report was summarised at the behest of Cardinal Brady and Archbishop Martin. This week's Irish Catholic also claims that over half the bishops
Paddy you said; I cannot understand why virtually all our young priests and seminarians are now ultra- conservative. Kevin Hegarty’s description is that of a mind-set being “rigidly pious and theo
Paddy, I think you have to look at what the Holy Spirit is saying to the Church. After your generation comes a crop of new priests which you call ultra-conservative. I call them faithful. Not all of t
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