He was struck by an "article" I had written about the deaconess of Alexandria Angelic Molen (May 13) who was elevated to archdeaconess on Great Saturday. He was concerned that this ordination may be a preliminary step to ordaining women as priests. I responded with what he already knows: "That the major Churches explicitly believe ...
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The Marriage of Priests
A few days ago, I read a statement by the Metropolitan of Malta, Charles Scicluna, in which he called on the Church of Rome to seriously consider the marriage of its priests. The importance of Scicluna, in addition to his episcopal position and his prominence in knowledge, is that he is one of the advisors ...
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Those who pray are rare nowadays. Priests know, they know from the communion of life within the parish and its extensions, from the sincerity of the brethren, as well as from other things that make this world seem like it is night. I am not talking about those who sum up the ecstasy of the ...
Read moreAwareness of the Elders
Only the elders in the land are aware that the testimony to God cannot be preserved by fawning over the shrines of the world, whatever their thrones may be.
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