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Catholic Women Priests: Can There Be a Discussion?

Dwight Longenecker2017-12-02T12:30:42-04:00December 2nd, 2017|Categories: Culture and Politics|Tags: women's ordination, worship|

Eleven years ago Christine Mayr Lumetzberger was excommunicated because she attempted to be ordained as a Catholic priest. A mischievous and misleading article by British journalist Peter Stanford entitled Meet the Female Priest Defying Catholicism for her Faith recounts her story. Ms Lumetzberger says she knew from childhood she was called to be a priest. She [...]

Pope Wants Priests to Marry?

To show how the media constantly gets things wrong check this out: Pope Francis asks the Brazilian bishops to bring forward a proposal to ease the terrible shortage of priests in remote areas. The suggestion is that older married men--catechists or deacons--who are already ministering to outlying Catholic populations, might be ordained as priests. These are [...]

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Catholic Women Priests: Can There Be a Discussion?

Pope Wants Priests to Marry?

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