This is how Catholics will be remembered

Ash Saturday 17 Sep 2016

It's also true what he says about the Irish hierarchy being utterly cowardly. They took such a hammering over the abuse scandals that they'll do anything to be liked now.

Welund Sunday 18 Sep 2016

lt's that or maybe homosexual priests just like homosexual marriage.

Ash Sunday 18 Sep 2016

I'm sure that's a factor too. But the Church's loss of moral authority due to the scandals is one of the most striking aspects of Ireland's transformation.

Welund Sunday 18 Sep 2016

That's interesting.

Trolle Lege Sunday 16 Oct 2016

SanchoPanzer said: ↑

Pope Francis to consider ordaining women as deacons

Pope Francis has opened the door to female deacons in what could be a major shift by the Catholic church, which maintains a prohibition on women serving as clergy.

The pontiff, who has previously ruled out the possibility of female priests, said he would appoint an official commission to study the issue, which required some “clarity”.

While the remarks appeared to have been made off the cuff in response to a question before an audience of hundreds of nuns, Francis also indicated that it was an issue he had grappled with in the past.

He said he had once inquired about the role female deacons had played in the early centuries of the church. “What were these female deacons?” the pope recalled asking a “good, wise professor” who had studied the issue. “Did they have ordination or no?”

He then floated the possibility of constituting an official commission to study the question. “It would do good for the church to clarify this point,” he told the nuns.

The appointment of women as deacons would greatly expand the role of women in the church. Deacons can perform many functions performed by priests, including saying mass, celebrating weddings, and baptising children. They are barred from giving communion or taking confessions.

The church reinstated the role of deacon in the 1960s but restricted the role to “mature married men” over the age of 35.

Although Francis has said that the “door is closed” to the possibility of women becoming priests – the Catholic church teaches that women cannot become priests because Jesus willingly chose only men as his apostles – he has also advocated expanding the role women within the church.

Should someone “ask you to do something that is more of servitude than service, you are courageous to say no!” he told the gathering. “Your vocation is for service, service to the church … but not of servitude.”

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I just can't with this Pope -_-

Deaconesses (Not female deacons, although people are too dumb/ideologically blinded to know the difference.) are actually #trad. https://modernmedievalism.blogspot.com/2016/05/deaconesses-a-reasoned-approach.html

Welund Sunday 6 Nov 2016

Great video game Catholic account:

Fitz Friday 17 Feb 2017

Rodger Young Friday 17 Feb 2017

Yeah i think that about sums it up Fitz

RedHand Saturday 18 Feb 2017

Things that happen do not exist.

Cornelio Saturday 18 Feb 2017

I just cannot wait for this guy to die.

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