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Tony Flannery writes: This is a true account of one priest’s experience with his superiors, and I think it is worth putting up here as an example of the type of attitude still being adopted by some Church superiors in dealing with their priests.
(Some changes simply to preserve the identity of the priest in question.) One anonymous person made a series of complaints against this priest, who worked in a parish and was…
Gay priests are “caught in a trap of dishonesty”
This is an article by James Alison from 8 Aug 2018. There was a request to make it available on the Homepage again. Scroll down for Comments… August 8 2018…
Reflections on Pope Francis’ address to theologians – NCR article by Daniel P Horan
In an address to a gathering of theologians and academic administrators at the Vatican on Monday, Pope Francis spoke about the importance of theology, while also sharing his own desire for its future and…
Joe Mulvaney (We Are Church) on the CDF, Galileo and Tony Flannery…
The Roman Inquisition Has Not Gone Away The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) continues the grisly work. If proof is needed, just listen to the Redemptorist priest…
Commission on Women Deacons: Joyful Variety or Plain Fudge?
Various news outlets are carrying reports about Pope Francis’ comments on women’s diaconate in his airborne press conference while returning from a trip to Bulgaria and North Macedonia. We carry snippets from America Magazine and Vatican News.
“The pope did not tell reporters what steps, if any, would come next on the subject of a women’s diaconate.”
Bishop supports apology on papal bulls that justified Indigenous oppression
The National Catholic Reporter: SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Bishop Douglas Lucia, whose downtown Syracuse office sits on the ancestral lands of the Onondaga Nation, hopes to meet with Pope Francis “to re-examine” 15th-century…