IRELAND
The Journal
THE CHURCH MUST begin ordaining women and allow priests to marry if it is to survive, the Association of Catholic Priests has warned.
The ACP has made a number of recommendations to deal with the low number of vocations within the Church that will be discussed at the Irish Catholics Bishop Conference in Maynooth this week.
Fr Sean McDonagh of the ACP said that ordaining women as deacons “nothing unusual as they were ordained in the past”.
“It’s fairly clear historically that women have served in the Church, despite every effort to silence their voices since the 4th century.”
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