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  • Real reform or window dressing?

    May 31 2016
    Willie Herlihy

    Women, were being treated like chattels of men at the time of Christ,similar to the way women are being treated, in some autocratic Muslim states to day i.e Saudi Arabia. From my reading of scripture

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  • Real reform or window dressing?

    May 31 2016
    Roy Donovan

    Those of us in charge of the Church are so conditioned,institutionalized and blind that I fear all arguments are pointless. Our exclusion of women at all levels is absolutely wrong and unjust. Full st

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  • Real reform or window dressing?

    May 31 2016
    sean eile

    Seeing that Jesus`choice of men was quite deliberate, I presume it`s not unreasonable to assume his choice of the number - 12 - was also quite deliberate. Somebody along the line decided that could be

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  • Who would want to be a bishop?

    May 30 2016
    John

    This piece is not without wit. However, the real issue should not be who wants to be a bishop. The real issue should be what kind of person should be a bishop and how should he be selected.

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  • Real reform or window dressing?

    May 31 2016
    Peter Shore

    @Bernard Whelan #4, the question of Christ choosing only Jews is an easy one to resolve: as Paul tells us in Romans 1:16, he came to the Jew *first* ... and also to the Greek. This is compounded by mu

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  • Real reform or window dressing?

    May 31 2016
    Bernard Whelan

    Was Pope Saint John Paul II being dishonest, asks Peter Shore, when he definitively set out the reasons that women cannot be ordained? A challenging question. On balance, I think the answer must be ye

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  • Real reform or window dressing?

    May 31 2016
    Sean

    As a Catholic I believe in something called the Magisterium of the Church, that is, the Church teaches me about doctrine. St John Paul II declared that it is the Church's Magisterium that women cannot

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  • Real reform or window dressing?

    May 31 2016
    Peter Shore

    I always wonder why would-be reformers emphasise "honest" dialogue. Is it to imply that disagreement with the proposed reform is "dishonest". Was Pope Saint John Paul II being dishonest when he defini

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  • Real reform or window dressing?

    May 31 2016
    Mark

    Surely then men are biologically unworthy to give birth? Where are my rights to motherhood, as a man? Or a religious sister? I think I'd make a lovely sister. - But seriously, men and women are differ

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  • 31 May. The Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary

    May 31 2016
    Soline Humbert

    A woman's homily (yes!) on this private meeting between two women on the edge of society and of the religious establishment when God's plan and purpose for the world was first revealed. Then and now.

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