More than 70 percent of Austrian priests have a fundamentally positive view of the priests’ initiative for disobedience. Older priests are much more open to reform than their younger colleagues.
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Liturgy: First on the Agenda
Sep 26
A new organization of priests in the US is planning a convocation for next June. The topic–liturgy.
This past weekend I had occasion to preside at a baptism and a wedding on the same day, which prompted me to think a bit about the demands that the reformed liturgical rites place on those who preside at them.
Hirten Barometer (”Shepherds’ Barometer”) is a German site that allows its users to rate church officials based on various criteria.
Remember Cardinal Policarpo, the one who said just a bit ago that there is no theological obstacle to women’s ordination?
The patriarch of Lisbon, Portugal says there will be women priests when God wills it.
The deacon is called to care in a special way for the modern day “widows and orphans.” This would include, but is not limited to, ministry to the poor, the hungry, the homeless, the imprisoned, the sick, the lonely and the abandoned. The deacon is called in a very special and particular way to be the image or “icon” of Jesus, who “came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.” (Mark 10:45)
The MSM love a story like this, so such reports are on the increase.
This looks like a very unfortunate misunderstanding.
No, argues the National Catholic Reporter.