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  • Seminaries perpetuate gender inequality in church

    August 18 2016
    Elizabeth O'Donnell

    With Pope Francis we have the opportunity to hear more clearly the message of Christ. Pope Francis is speaking to us in a language that we understand. We all have to be proactive and support the man

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  • Seminaries perpetuate gender inequality in church

    August 18 2016
    Mary Vallely

    I would agree with Joe O'Leary in this. "I think the church is unhealthily obsessed with eucharistic routines. Less frequent celebration would not, in my opinion, bring any spiritual loss." I am afr

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  • Seminaries perpetuate gender inequality in church

    August 18 2016
    Joe O'Leary

    I really stumble on illicit ordinations and eucharistic celebrations, and I don't think they have helped the cause of ordaining women one bit. There is such a thing as spiritual communion, and there i

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  • Prising open the door – women deacons

    August 16 2016
    Lloyd Allan MacPherson

    I honestly think someone had a sensitivity training with the Roman Catholic Church about advances in human rights that have taken place over the last 60 years. The more I read on these sites, the real

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  • Ecology, Economics, and Ethics

    August 16 2016
    Lloyd Allan MacPherson

    One of the best songs I've heard recently touches on this topic. It is written by a band called "twentyonepilots" and they're commonplace within the 12-20 age range. I want to hear from the economic

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  • Liturgy: Handing on a Living flame or worshipping Ashes

    August 12 2016
    Paddy Ferry

    Thanks, Joe, for that very informative piece. It was worth waiting for !

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  • Liturgy: Handing on a Living flame or worshipping Ashes

    August 12 2016
    Padraig McCarthy

    Joe @2: "It’s refreshing to have a Pope who alludes to Wagner and Mahler, but he seems to have signed off on the liturgical tragedy inflicted by his predecessor on the entire English-speaking world.

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  • Prising open the door – women deacons

    August 16 2016
    Soline Humbert

    Joe@9:"... the all-male ideal of priesthood, the product of another age. Cult of this dead ideal has been poisoning us for too long." I have written about this on-going poisoning in http://www.irishti

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  • Prising open the door – women deacons

    August 16 2016
    Mary Vallely

    "A few short years ago we weren’t even allowed to think about women’s ordination". You know it's ridiculous that adults, THINKING human beings in full possession of their faculties, are told the

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  • Liturgy: Handing on a Living flame or worshipping Ashes

    August 12 2016
    Joe O'Leary

    Liturgical despair is indeed rife, Paddy, but very understandably so. (I did try to send a comment from my cell phone but it evaporated en route.) All efforts to argue with the suicidal policies of th

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