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  • Lazy, hazy days with a good book

    August 14 2017
    Kevin Walters

    Pádraig McCarthy @ 17 Thank you for your response Padraig “Nothing you write in this comment contradicts anything I wrote” It may not contradict anything you wrote but it attempts to point to t

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  • Married priests no longer in public ministry

    August 26 2017
    Soline Humbert

    Thank you Brian @8 for raising those questions which I believe are essential.Otherwise it's just more man power to fill in gaps in a clericalist model of church....patching up the old coat which is be

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  • Married priests no longer in public ministry

    August 26 2017
    Martin Murray

    Great idea. Something the bishops should be doing and then applying to Rome for the go ahead to get them back into ministy. I suspect that's the kind of outside the box thinking Pope Francis is waitin

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  • 27 August. 21st Sunday in O. T.

    August 27 2017
    Joe O'Leary

    I remember my classmate Paul O'Higgins referring to the Spirit as the "distilled essence of Jesus" and Msgr Francis Cremin saying he'd heard many recondite theological theses but never that the Spirit

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  • Married priests no longer in public ministry

    August 26 2017
    Soline Humbert

    Thank you Tony @5. I believe that,unless the ACP deals with the Elephant in the Church,women,the quick fix of patriarchal solutions to a patriarchal crisis will resolve nothing.The proposed list struc

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  • Lazy, hazy days with a good book

    August 14 2017
    Pádraig McCarthy

    #16: Kevin Walters: Kevin, you write as if you think we are at variance in these matters: "would you not agree in that it is fair to conclude and to say ..." "Yes but more importantly we must come to

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  • Married priests no longer in public ministry

    August 26 2017
    Brian Eyre

    What do we mean by public ministry? Do we mean religious acts that take place in a church such as saying Mass, baptising babies, presiding over weddings? But what about married priests who are doing

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  • Married priests no longer in public ministry

    August 26 2017
    Paddy Ferry

    Frank, I expect the answer is similar to the greater level of vocations we see in other underdeveloped and poorer parts of the world -- a vocation is a certain route out of poverty. Fr.Donald Cozzens

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  • Married priests no longer in public ministry

    August 26 2017
    Frank

    I read a great piece in the Irish Times today about priests coming in from Romania to help Irish dioceses. The bishop from Romania quoted in the article said there were lots of vocations in Romania. I

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  • Married priests no longer in public ministry

    August 26 2017
    Tony

    Soline @3 I imagine the purpose of this list is to gather people who have already received the sacrament of ordination and have left formal public ministry. There is nothing to stop another list being

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