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  • Beloved Amazon

    February 12 2020
    Joe O'Leary

    Married Roman Catholic priests have been a reality thanks to John Paul II and Benedict XVI. Francis seems to be a step back.Paul VI put the viri probati idea (the Pope would be allowed to ordain mar

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  • Beloved Amazon

    February 12 2020
    Joe O'Leary

    Here is a masterly analysis: https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/not-same-page?utm_content=buffer58bac&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer&fbclid=IwAR1QuExvqEX

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  • Beloved Amazon

    February 12 2020
    Frank Graham

    The 'Elephants in the room ' concerning the Ecclesial dimension of the Report may still be 'on the table.' It all may be 'part of a process, and a part of a journey'. It all may be ' a synodal process

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  • Beloved Amazon

    February 12 2020
    Chris McDonnell

    What a fascinating and immediate response to this posting!Francis has followed the advice of Seamus Heaney writing in Station Island "whatever you say, say nothing" .Poetry's power of words is hi

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    February 12 2020
    Neil Bray

    In the book recently published containing an interview with the Pope on Pope St John Paul II, Pope Francis says he is totally at one with John Paul's teaching on the ordained priesthood.On the quest

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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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