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  • Clerics still tilting at windmills

    June 7 2016
    Eddie Finnegan

    Can someone in Cobh please publish this set-in-stone Readers' Rota for the YEAR OF MERCY (of which the Diocese of Cloyne website makes a great song and dance)? Can one Fianna Fáil or Fine Gael or Chr

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  • Real reform or window dressing?

    May 31 2016
    Joe O'Leary

    http://www.praytellblog.com/index.php/2016/06/06/latvia-lutheran-church-abolishes-womens-ordination "We may speculate about when the exact form of the priestly ministry solidified from its earliest be

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  • Real reform or window dressing?

    May 31 2016
    Joe O'Leary

    "anyone who has been censored or excommunicated for merely speaking about the issue" -- only those who participate in illegal or invalid ordinations incur the penalty of excommunication. "most of thes

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  • Real reform or window dressing?

    May 31 2016
    Peter Shore

    We may speculate about when the exact form of the priestly ministry solidified from its earliest beginnings, but we cannot sidestep Christ's specific institution of the ministerial priesthood. Any suc

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  • Real reform or window dressing?

    May 31 2016
    Darlene Starrs

    Further, we will see, whether there is real reform or window dressing, after the results of the women's demonstration. Surely, though, since the Vatican is permitting the demonstration, anyone who ha

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  • Real reform or window dressing?

    May 31 2016
    Darlene Starrs

    In response to the article above, that says that the women's ordination group is allowed to protest at the Vatican, I would say..well...then...any priest or bishop that was censored or worse for suppo

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  • Real reform or window dressing?

    May 31 2016
    Joe O'Leary

    To be sure the texts from Chrys. that seem to put down women seem mostly to echo equally objectionable texts in the Pastoral Letters. On other occasions he builds on more enlightenung Pauline utteranc

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  • Guilty until proven Innocent 

    June 3 2016
    Chris McDonnell

    Below is an extract from my column in the Catholic Times this week which is pertinent to this thread. " But don’t let it be thought that declaring oneself a Christian is a soft touch. It takes both

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  • Real reform or window dressing?

    May 31 2016
    Mary Vallely

    Thank you Joe @21. Francis is a Jesuit and very clever and, as the article states, he is comfortable with ambiguity. "His pastoral sense tells him that, for right now, church leaders needs to avoid di

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  • Real reform or window dressing?

    May 31 2016
    Joe O'Leary

    Interesting news item: http://www.praytellblog.com/index.php/2016/06/02/why-is-the-vatican-now-letting-advocates-of-womens-ordination-hold-a-demonstration-in-their-back-garden/

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