Gerry O’Connor CSsR, ACP Leadership Team: ‘Artificial Intimacy’ 23rd Sunday Year B 2024
Link to Gerry’s homily for this Sunday, 23rd Sunday of the Year (B):
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Fr Peter Daly wrote recently in the National Catholic Reporter about problems he sees that arise as a result of the church’s position on mandatory celibacy for priests of the Latin Rite.
“Celibacy is not essential to Catholic priesthood. It is only mandated in two of the 24 “autonomous churches” in communion with Rome; the Latin Rite and the Ethiopian Rite….. At least seven popes were married…..There was even a father and son pope combination, Pope Hormisdas (514-523) who was father to Pope Silverius, (536-537)…..Today we have many married priests in the Roman (Latin) Rite who have come to us from the Anglican or Lutheran traditions. ….. If they can be married, why not others?
The practice and teaching of the church on priestly celibacy has been inconsistent and incoherent. But, most important of all, Jesus did not mandate celibacy.”
Séamus Ahearne: “ Not Stuffy, like going to Mass stuffiness.” (Brendan O’Connor Show)
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Chris McDonnell, writing in the Catholic Times, remembers: “All too easily we play with words to justify events, tell stories where truth is the casualty leading only to a greater misfortune. Maybe we should pause awhile as the month-end days arrive to ask a question and seek forgiveness.”
German bishops vote in favor of blessing same-sex unions in the Catholic Church
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New Translation of Liturgical Texts
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