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  • Seminaries perpetuate gender inequality in church

    August 18 2016
    Anne

    Maybe my Grandaughters aged 4,5,6 will live to see women taken their rightful place as ordained priests ,not because the are women but because they have a vocation. Far from opening a door ,I think Po

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  • 21 August. 21st Sunday in Ordinary Time

    August 21 2016
    Joe O'Leary

    Joyce makes fun of a Jesuit brooding on "the number of the elect" in Ulysses. It is a mark of theological decrepitude that some still waste their brains on this question. The warnings of Jesus can be

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  • Seminaries perpetuate gender inequality in church

    August 18 2016
    Eddie Finnegan

    But Joe, the commission is weighted 7 men to 6 women. It includes the Jesuit Secretary of the CDF (Archiepiscopal rank), two other Jesuit heavyweights, an Augustinian, a Salesian, a Monsignor and one

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  • 21 August. 21st Sunday in Ordinary Time

    August 21 2016
    Padraig McCarthy

    "Someone asked him, “Lord, will only a few be saved?” Jesus said to them, “Strive to enter through the narrow door; for many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able." Could it be t

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  • Seminaries perpetuate gender inequality in church

    August 18 2016
    Joe O'Leary

    Make-up of pope's commission on women deacons: 6 men and 6 women, including Phyllis Zagano.

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  • Seminaries perpetuate gender inequality in church

    August 18 2016
    Josie O Reilly

    Joe O Leary's assertion that“the Pope is opening the door to female ordination in the tried and trusted Catholic way of consultation and reflection and dialogue…Begs the question, with whom is Pop

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  • Seminaries perpetuate gender inequality in church

    August 18 2016
    Tony Conry

    When I read Joe O'Leary's assertion that "The Pope is opening the door to female ordination in the tried and trusted Catholic way of consultation and reflection and dialogue"I didn't give a hearty chu

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  • The election of bishops – ACP Statement

    August 19 2016
    Colm Holmes

    Your headline "The election of bishops" is incorrect. None of our bishops are elected. They are all SELECTED by Archbishop Brown and confirmed by our unelected leaders in the Vatican. Pope Francis has

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  • Silly Season Scrum: Archbishop Martin and the Media

    August 15 2016
    Christine Lynch

    Nobody answers the question: "if Vatican II was such a great success, why are the churches emptying and why are there so few priestly vocations these days". Is it not a situation of the "emperor havi

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  • Seminaries perpetuate gender inequality in church

    August 18 2016
    Pól Ó Duibhir

    I have always seen the "Real Presence" as a touchstone. When this is eventually redefined, along Protestant lines, at least one of the obstacles to women's ordination to the priesthood will be weakene

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