Category: Ordained Ministry
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Cardinal Schönborn on Resurrection, Women’s Ordination, Development of Doctrine
On the subject of women’s ordination, the cardinal chose his words very carefully.
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Zagano: What’s the Problem with Women Deacons?
US Catholic has an interesting article by Phyllis Zagano, “What’s the Problem with Women Deacons?” This article ably and succinctly summarizes the state of the question. Zagano makes clear that diaconate is a distinct order from the priesthood in the Catholic Church, and hence the question of ordaining women deacons is not connected to the question…
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WSJ: Married Priests in the Amazon?
The Wall Street Journal put up an in-depth article yesterday, “Catholic Church Considers Married Priests to Ease Amazon Clergy Shortage.” The issue arises in part because of the severe shortage of ordained clergy – there are 7,000 Catholics for every priest in South America. “There are communities here that do not receive the Eucharist during an entire…
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French Seminarians Move Closer to the People
La Croix – do you have your subscription to that yet? – has an interesting article: “French Seminarians Move Closer to the People.” (It’s behind a paywall.) It reports on the interesting trend in France to move seminarians from enclosed, out of the way settings to locations in the middle of the city and closer…
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Monks Training Diocesan Clergy? A Seminarian Speaks Up
The seminarians of today’s Church are excited to serve the people of God.
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Pomp in Paris
Michel Aupetit was installed as the new Archbishop of Paris at Notre Dame Cathedral On January 6. As La Croix reports: Commenting on the Gospel for the feast of the Epiphany, the new archbishop emphasized his own “insignificance” as indicated by the contrast between the pomp of the ceremony and the poverty of the crib.…
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Msgr. Dermot Farrell Appointed Bishop of Ossory
Every person lives with mystery. None of us can predict how what happens today will influence and affect our future or the future of others. Part of being people of faith is trusting that, in God’s hands, our lives will bear fruit.
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The Prayer of the Faithful and the Deacon
Why the Roman Missal wants the deacon to read the intentions of the Universal Prayer.
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Female Deacons Reintroduced in Jerusalem Patriarchate
Patriarch Theophilos II and the synod of the Jerusalem Patriarchate of the Orthodox Church decided on December 6, 2017 to reintroduce the order of deaconesses, Orthodoxia-News reports. It is not known to Pray Tell what sort of ordination rite is foreseen, nor whether the deacons or deaconesses will have duties identical to, similar to, or distinct from male…