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Tony Flannery: Responding to the Vatican statement on the ordination of women as deacons.
December 5 2025
Sean O'Conaill
"One wonders where we are going if anywhere." Why not all go to taking seriously - absolutely seriously - the teaching - and truth - that we are all exactly equal in dignity anyway, by virtue of our baptism - and that ordination does not change that? Is it not because of our inherited mistake of thinking of the church as a status pyramid - and of ordination as THE status-bestowing sacrament - that people make up nonsense such as masculinity being 'integral' to a sacrament - to cling to the superior status they think they have and want to keep? Why not instead award greatest respect to those who serve others with integrity - as Jesus did - knowing well that many women do that far better than the status-conscious ordained males? The older I get the more convinced I become that status anxiety is the original human frailty dramatised in Genesis and still at the root of all evil today. [Trump is as status-anxious as Putin, and together they are plotting to carve up Ukraine - just as Caiphas, Herod and Pilate did in solving their Passover crisis with Jesus.] No wonder that Pope Francis was hated by the status-obsessed for saying he was a sinner - for if even popes are to be considered sinners what's the point of ecclesiastical ambition? Might that even be a sin too, if the last are truly first? How come so many enthusiasts for synodality are women anyway? Could it be because they know that the Trinity are not delaying the bestowal of grace until the misogynists have finally capitulated? The strangest things can happen when people pray seriously in a spirit of exactly equal dignity.
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Tony Flannery: Responding to the Vatican statement on the ordination of women as deacons.
December 5 2025
Dermot Quigley
I have earned what some people might call the dubious distinction of being blocked by @synodalpathway on X. (Aka Twitter). To coin a phrase from the man who confirmed me ( Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre), This blocking "is a badge of Honour". This is proof, if ever it was needed, that Todos, Todos is Sanctimonious Hypocrisy. To borrow a phrase from Iggy's contribution above "Synodality How are You!"
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Tony Flannery: Responding to the Vatican statement on the ordination of women as deacons.
December 5 2025
iggy o'donovan
Tony I have nothing to add. Synodality how are you? One wonders where we are going if anywhere.
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Séamus Ahearne: “A man must not deny his manifest abilities, For that is to evade his obligations.”
December 2 2025
M G-B
I have noticed that people who have risked a deep dive surrender to God seem to find their talents, abilities and the courage to make them manifest. Our new Pope Leo is a great case in point. He said: "I was thinking of retiring but instead surrendered to God and became Pope."
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Tony Flannery: Responding to the Vatican statement on the ordination of women as deacons.

Tony Flannery: Responding to the Vatican statement on the ordination of women as deacons.

Tony Flannery: Responding to the Vatican statement on the ordination of women as deacons.

Séamus Ahearne: “A man must not deny his manifest abilities, For that is to evade his obligations.”