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  • Beloved Amazon

    February 12 2020
    Colm Holmes

    Joe O'Leary #18 So the decision about married priests and women deacons is still on the table. So this can still be decided at diocesan level. Just try and you'll find yourself excommunicated! Gerry

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  • Beloved Amazon

    February 12 2020
    Sean O'Conaill

    How remarkably like medical consultants do conservative Catholic clergy behave - determined, it seems, to maintain their own scarcity at all costs. It is of course, mere coincidence that they are also

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  • Beloved Amazon

    February 12 2020
    Joe O'Leary

    Found this on Facebook: He did not definitively close off either the ordination of married men nor the women’s diaconate. They are very much both still on the table for discussion and development.

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  • Beloved Amazon

    February 12 2020
    Joe O'Leary

    " Wasn’t it Czerny who, when asked about the issue of married priests and women deacons being left out of the exhortation, said ‘these decisions can be made at diocesan level’? " Just try it, a

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  • Beloved Amazon

    February 12 2020
    Gerry O'Hanlon

    Mainline media (including RTE and the BBC)have reported that Pope Francis has 'dismissed', 'rejected', 'ruled out', 'done a U-turn on' the ordination of women, as well as the diaconate for women. Such

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  • Beloved Amazon

    February 12 2020
    John Farrelly

    Regarding Archbishop Martins Comments on Morning Ireland: I'm sorry but I don't believe that he is one bit understanding of peoples dissapointment - If he were he would go further than say 'he himsel

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  • Beloved Amazon

    February 12 2020
    Sean O'Conaill

    #12 This is timely, Pádraig. It is more than likely that an Irish shortage of priestly vocations must also have to do with an inability to make any vital connection between the Mass and the future of

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  • Beloved Amazon

    February 12 2020
    Joe O'Leary

    Surely it was a mistake to yoke the ecological and ministerial issues together? Now the Pope's apparent deafness to the needs of the Amazon participants on the ministerial front may lead to people t

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  • Beloved Amazon

    February 12 2020
    Eddie Finnegan

    Thanks Pádraig@12 for intervening in our more colonialist treatment of the Amazon region, seeing it as a mere crucible for our home-based problems. The Brits and Romans, too, used test out their more

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  • Beloved Amazon

    February 12 2020
    Pádraig McCarthy

    From my quick look at the document: Pope Francis, in Paragraph 2 of the document, titled The Significance of this Exhortation, he simply says: “In this Exhortation, I wish to offer my own response t

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