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  • Clerics still tilting at windmills

    June 7 2016
    Sean O'Conaill

    #4 Padraig's question 'do we draw the line anywhere?' naturally leads to another: 'where / when are opportunities provided for such lines to be discussed and drawn - BY the church community?' The ans

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  • Clerics still tilting at windmills

    June 7 2016
    Padraig McCarthy

    It's an important question that Brendan discusses. The Eighth Amendment is our current constitutional provision to protect the lives of both mother and unborn child, but it is not the Church position

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  • Clerics still tilting at windmills

    June 7 2016
    Joe O'Leary

    Well spoken, Brendan. But the organization and "passionate intensity" of ultra-conservatives is a fearful force (the same sort of force that makes a Trump victory look likely in the USA). Bishops shou

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  • Clerics still tilting at windmills

    June 7 2016
    Anne

    Let he or she who is without sin cast the first stone comes to mind. As Brendan says that would clear the decks fast ?

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  • Clerics still tilting at windmills

    June 7 2016
    Paddy Ferry

    Another large slice of sanity -- an excellent piece, Brendan. Thank you. If only they would listen !!

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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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