Joe, @4, really interesting
I never knew that. Thank you.
In Raymond Brown’s book, Priest and Bishop he maintained that only St. Paul among the apostles was worth his salt and Paul wasn’t eve
An all male affair. As Cardinal Suenens himself asked during the Vatican II Council: Where is the other half of the church, and humanity - Women? Did any Cardinal ask that question during the recent c
I so appreciated Sarah Mullally speaking of Mary in her homily at her installation as Archbishop of Canterbury. Her Irish born raised Roman Catholic husband, Eamonn Mullally appears to be a great sup
"She was teased and taunted" (MG-B @7). "The scapegoating of trans folk at the moment is worse than odious." (Joe @8).
A timely reflection in this Holy Week.
https://www.newwaysministry.org/2026/03/2
Sorry, I was replying to a message of 2019 which unaccountably showed up here as if it were new. The Pell affair is forgotten now, but I think historians will revisit it and see it as an explosion of
Catholic Herald is up to mischief. There is no connection at all between the sex of ministers and the Apostolic Succession. The latter is the sort of de fide doctrine that Dermot Quigley wants to find
Thanks for that, Jo. I hadn’t read the main article/ report above.
I think I was afraid to.
Now, as regards homosexuality and our church’s continuing vilification of boys and girls and men and wo
Canon Law, (1983 and 1917) teaches that ONLY baptized males validly receive Holy Orders. That said, Leo XIV MAY have used the word ‘Men’, to denote both Men and Women. Ambiguity is the hallmark of
Paddy, you said you had not read the dissenting judgement in the second trial, which is a masterpiece of justice and common sense (and the basis of the finding that the first trial was an unsafe convi
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