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  • Ordaining Women to the Diaconate: a small step forward?

    May 12 2016
    Adam Peter Conroy

    Equality does not necessarily imply sameness. Women and men have different roles in the Church. I don't see what's so wrong with that. Saying that women or laypeople in general ought to be priests in

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  • Ordaining Women to the Diaconate: a small step forward?

    May 12 2016
    Anne Aubrey

    This is an issue that myself and a group of sixth form friends tried to promote in the diocese of Westminster in 1968. We visited as many parishes as we could with a petition advocated female altar se

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  • Priestless Church Buildings

    May 15 2016
    Lloyd Allan MacPherson

    Well here in Cape Breton, we are an isolated island with a population of around 100K. Just recently we had a 13.5m class action lawsuit that has set the place ablaze with real estate sales, not to me

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  • 16 May. Monday, Week 7 of Ordinary Time

    May 16 2016
    biju thomas

    Good thoughts, great reflections... thank you... biju

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  • Priestless Church Buildings

    May 15 2016
    Darlene Starrs

    In comparison, here in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada....most religious sister's convents are sold and virtually all the religious priests are gone as well. Parishes are lead by Diocesan priests and deaco

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  • ACP meeting with bishops next week

    May 10 2016
    Lee Cahill

    I am happy that such an encounter is scheduled to happen: I am sad it took so long. I am as comfortable with the respective representatives as I am sceptical about an openness on the part of the Nat

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  • Ordaining Women to the Diaconate: a small step forward?

    May 12 2016
    Joseph

    Lloyd if you are looking for a woman to take this case on then look no further than Sr Brid liston FCJ. She is a woman of principle and has been silently and prudently advocating this cause for many

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  • Ordaining Women to the Diaconate: a small step forward?

    May 12 2016
    Lloyd Allan MacPherson

    It would be interesting to see what kind of support this would rally. Could it be fought with the constitution of Ireland as its legal underpinning? Article 40 states : "The State guarantees in its l

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  • ‘My experience at the hands of the CDF’

    May 8 2016
    sean eile

    From to-days (May 13) Acts reading ..... I told them that it was not the custom of the Romans to hand over anyone before the accused had met the accusers face to face and had been given an opportunity

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  • Ordaining Women to the Diaconate: a small step forward?

    May 12 2016
    Kevin

    This will never happen. All his holiness is doing is setting up a commission to close the possibility once and for all. This is my opinion anyway. Here is a link that explains this well. http://www.ca

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