Ok. Thank you James for this insight. As a married catholic layman this is troubling.
It is not that many priests are gay or bishops or even cardinals. No, it is the (enforced?) dishonesty. The troub
Catrina@16, probably the best way to leave a club is just to LEAVE. No need for a recessional accompaniment of triumphal trumpets or mournfully muffled or even half-muffled bells. If anyone misses us
As a child I once stood outside my house and peered into the blue, blue sky, trying to pierce the blue and to see heaven above. I only got a sore neck. But as a child, too, I was amazed to find that G
Mary@6 & 13, James Allison's two part series, "Gay priests are caught in a trap of dishonesty", reproduced here from The Tablet, promises to be the most honest response yet to at least 4 of your 8
Thanks for your comment Lawrence. Sorry to disappoint you, but having spent my days teaching in the UK, you must be confusing me with another! Pleased you liked the words anyway. Go well Chris
Hello. I hesitated to contribute for 2 reasons. I am not a priest and in my view the pope is coming to an international conference which happens to take place in Dublin. He is actually spending an emb
As children at home on rainy days, confined to the house, we played our games and played with our toys until the moment came when we were bored and felt trapped and asked mum what could we do. As chil
Not meaning any disrespect to the ACP but how can I defect from the Roman Catholic Church? I just think too much bad water has gone under the bridge and it is a negative force in society. Can the Pope
At war's end my mother and father newly married, had no place of their own to live. They went with their newborn baby boy to relations of my father, his brother, Tommy and wife, Lily, and they were ma
In 1970, the year I was ordained a priest, a love song appeared entitled 'For all we know'. Its lyrics hold wisdom. 'Look at the two of us, strangers in many ways. Let's take a lifetime to say I knew
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Gay priests are “caught in a trap of dishonesty”
August 8 2018Ok. Thank you James for this insight. As a married catholic layman this is troubling. It is not that many priests are gay or bishops or even cardinals. No, it is the (enforced?) dishonesty. The troub
The ACP & the Pope: Survey to close on 9 August
August 5 2018Catrina@16, probably the best way to leave a club is just to LEAVE. No need for a recessional accompaniment of triumphal trumpets or mournfully muffled or even half-muffled bells. If anyone misses us
19 August. 20th Sunday
August 19 2018As a child I once stood outside my house and peered into the blue, blue sky, trying to pierce the blue and to see heaven above. I only got a sore neck. But as a child, too, I was amazed to find that G
The ACP & the Pope: Survey to close on 9 August
August 5 2018Mary@6 & 13, James Allison's two part series, "Gay priests are caught in a trap of dishonesty", reproduced here from The Tablet, promises to be the most honest response yet to at least 4 of your 8
06 August. The Transfiguration of the Lord (Feast)
August 6 2018Thanks for your comment Lawrence. Sorry to disappoint you, but having spent my days teaching in the UK, you must be confusing me with another! Pleased you liked the words anyway. Go well Chris
The ACP & the Pope: Survey to close on 9 August
August 5 2018Hello. I hesitated to contribute for 2 reasons. I am not a priest and in my view the pope is coming to an international conference which happens to take place in Dublin. He is actually spending an emb
20 August. Monday, Week 20
August 20 2018As children at home on rainy days, confined to the house, we played our games and played with our toys until the moment came when we were bored and felt trapped and asked mum what could we do. As chil
The ACP & the Pope: Survey to close on 9 August
August 5 2018Not meaning any disrespect to the ACP but how can I defect from the Roman Catholic Church? I just think too much bad water has gone under the bridge and it is a negative force in society. Can the Pope
18 August. Saturday, Week 19
August 18 2018At war's end my mother and father newly married, had no place of their own to live. They went with their newborn baby boy to relations of my father, his brother, Tommy and wife, Lily, and they were ma
17 August. Friday, Week 19
August 17 2018In 1970, the year I was ordained a priest, a love song appeared entitled 'For all we know'. Its lyrics hold wisdom. 'Look at the two of us, strangers in many ways. Let's take a lifetime to say I knew
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