A few years back the movement to have women ordained wasn't espoused by the pontiff of the time but his demeanour could have given the impression that he may have supported the ordination of women. As
It is the deliberate avoidance of systematic and reliable research into the attitudes of young Irish people towards the church - especially since 1994 - that allows Irish bishops to attribute to them
The Irish Catholic would love the opportunity to speak with your members on this and thank you for the opportunity. Please ask them to contact editor@irishcatholic.ie As for attendance at ACP meetin
Managerial downsizing and retrenchment. I keep hearing people say that the other churches, though blessed with women priests and married priests, are doing no better. So change and decay, doom and glo
The trouble with the word "synodality" is that it summons up images of "bureaucracy". But Bishop Coll does seem to play down Vatican II and still more the messy but living image of churchhood that we
Neil, my comment @#4 is actually an article by Stephen B. Bevans, SVD, who is a priest in the Roman Catholic missionary congregation of the Society of the Divine Word (SVD). (See complete byline at en
It is good to see that Pope Francis asked episcopal conferences to come to an agreement on celibacy and to submit their request to Rome for approval. The Belgian bishops seem to be doing this. The amo
One presumes that Soline Humbert (No 4 above) has studied the following and other relevant verses from the New Testament.
Book of revelation 21:1-2
Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for t
There are some people who don't accept Papal Infallibility and ex Cathedra Teaching as taught in Pastor Aeternus. This document was promulgated by Vatican I in 1870. I accept it unreservedly.
When Pi
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ACP statement on Bishop Alan McGuckian’s comments on female diaconate (plus additional information in response to a query from the Irish Catholic)
March 21 2026A few years back the movement to have women ordained wasn't espoused by the pontiff of the time but his demeanour could have given the impression that he may have supported the ordination of women. As
Brendan Hoban: Bishop’s youth thesis is not rooted in reality
March 22 2026It is the deliberate avoidance of systematic and reliable research into the attitudes of young Irish people towards the church - especially since 1994 - that allows Irish bishops to attribute to them
ACP statement on Bishop Alan McGuckian’s comments on female diaconate (plus additional information in response to a query from the Irish Catholic)
March 21 2026The Irish Catholic would love the opportunity to speak with your members on this and thank you for the opportunity. Please ask them to contact editor@irishcatholic.ie As for attendance at ACP meetin
𝗦𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗕𝗶𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗽𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗦𝗰𝗼𝘁𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱
March 22 2026Managerial downsizing and retrenchment. I keep hearing people say that the other churches, though blessed with women priests and married priests, are doing no better. So change and decay, doom and glo
Brendan Hoban: Bishop’s youth thesis is not rooted in reality
March 22 2026The trouble with the word "synodality" is that it summons up images of "bureaucracy". But Bishop Coll does seem to play down Vatican II and still more the messy but living image of churchhood that we
Irish Catholic: Bishop McGuckian – ‘The door to female diaconate is shut and Pope Francis should have said so.’
March 20 2026Neil, my comment @#4 is actually an article by Stephen B. Bevans, SVD, who is a priest in the Roman Catholic missionary congregation of the Society of the Divine Word (SVD). (See complete byline at en
ACP statement on Bishop Alan McGuckian’s comments on female diaconate (plus additional information in response to a query from the Irish Catholic)
March 21 2026I can assure you, Dermot, Leo XIV will never do that.
ACP statement on Bishop Alan McGuckian’s comments on female diaconate (plus additional information in response to a query from the Irish Catholic)
March 21 2026It is good to see that Pope Francis asked episcopal conferences to come to an agreement on celibacy and to submit their request to Rome for approval. The Belgian bishops seem to be doing this. The amo
Irish Catholic: Bishop McGuckian – ‘The door to female diaconate is shut and Pope Francis should have said so.’
March 20 2026One presumes that Soline Humbert (No 4 above) has studied the following and other relevant verses from the New Testament. Book of revelation 21:1-2 Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for t
ACP statement on Bishop Alan McGuckian’s comments on female diaconate (plus additional information in response to a query from the Irish Catholic)
March 21 2026There are some people who don't accept Papal Infallibility and ex Cathedra Teaching as taught in Pastor Aeternus. This document was promulgated by Vatican I in 1870. I accept it unreservedly. When Pi
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