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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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  • Lazy, hazy days with a good book

    August 14 2017
    Kevin Walters

    Pádraig McCarthy @ 15“We must seek the full story”Yes but more importantly we must come to a conclusion based upon Christian morality, unless we do so History 'will' repeat itself. A brief

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  • Married priests no longer in public ministry

    August 26 2017
    Anne

    And a priest can return when his wife dies?. I know of two men in this position , one man with five children and the other who was going to join the priesthood but opted to marry instead. When his wif

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  • 27 August. 21st Sunday in O. T.

    August 27 2017
    Kevin Walters

    Joe O'Leary @ 3“Peter is modest, down-to-earth, wise, responsible, but open to correction” (whether from the Spirit, as in the Cornelius scene, or from Paul in Galatians 2)…………Do we no

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  • Married priests no longer in public ministry

    August 26 2017
    Soline Humbert

    Tony@1,how can this definition be anything but extremely narrow,and sexist,if it continues to exclude women?

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  • Remember and forgive

    August 21 2017
    Rodolfo

    Thank you Brian. For years I had searched for an article that came close that described my own condition. For so long I have been feeling that I needed to forgive and forget. To remember and then f

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  • Married priests no longer in public ministry

    August 26 2017
    Frank

    Good point Tony, @1 I've came across a number of cases where priests who left to get married retuned to ministry when their wife died. I'm not too sure how some of the other cases that you highlighted

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  • 27 August. 21st Sunday in O. T.

    August 27 2017
    Pádraig McCarthy

    Sorry it's a bit late, but perhaps the following comments will provide context.Isaiah 22: "I will place on his shoulder the key of the house of David." Why on this shoulder? John L McKenzie SJ in hi

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