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  • Real reform or window dressing?

    May 31 2016
    Anne

    Mark@15 The fact that women can give birth is not relevant as it has nothing to do with ones ability to be good priest. And it's true you cannot give birth , that is because you are male ,but you ca

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  • Guilty until proven Innocent 

    June 3 2016
    Anne

    Considering all your horrendous suffering Father I am surprised that you haven't left the priesthood. At least now you know who your true friends are.

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  • Guilty until proven Innocent 

    June 3 2016
    Willie Herlihy

    Fr Tim, having read your report I was so shocked you could have knocked me with a feather. Tonight, I feel ashamed of my Church. The Church that proclaims to be Christian.

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  • Guilty until proven Innocent 

    June 3 2016
    Mary Vallely

    I would be livid and deeply hurt if this had happened to me, if my bishop and fellow clergy had not rallied round and shown me understanding, support and compassion for the suffering endured by the l

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  • Guilty until proven Innocent 

    June 3 2016
    Peter Shore

    This does sound shocking. Has the Church swung from paranoia about safeguarding its reputation to paranoia about being seen to cooperate with authorities? Either way, it sounds like shabby treatment.

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  • Real reform or window dressing?

    May 31 2016
    Soline Humbert

    from The Tablet,14th May 2016: "...On the subject of women's ordination,cardinal Karl Lehmann of Mainz suggested that the block imposed by St John Paul II on even discussing the issue could be lifted.

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  • The Practice of Mercy v The CDF

    May 26 2016
    Andrew Young

    I find myself in total sympathy with the sentiments expressed by MM. I am sad to have to say that when I find myself in the situation where I recognise that there is a need to be reconciled to Chris

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  • Real reform or window dressing?

    May 31 2016
    Mark

    But Anne, then surely God is discriminating against me by not allowing me to give birth? Would you accuse God of discrimination and blinkered thinking in not letting me be a mother? And if not, why no

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  • Real reform or window dressing?

    May 31 2016
    Vincent Bagul

    I as an Indian Catholic support the movement for ordaining women to the priesthood. There should not be discrimination on the basis of sex

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  • Real reform or window dressing?

    May 31 2016
    Peter Shore

    @Joe O'Leary #11, "And isn’t this still a fundamentalistic type of argument [in Ordinatio Sacerdotalis]?" Fundamentalism is a much abused word. The original Christian Fundamentals (a series of early

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