Irish bishop: consider married priesthood, female deacons
June 11, 2015
An Irish bishop said that he will ask his brother bishops to institute a commission to study the possible ordination of married men to the priesthood and women to the diaconate.
“I think the other bishops would be open to the idea of a discussion and we are reaching a situation where we have to look at all the options possible,” Bishop Leo O’Reilly of Kilmore told The Irish Catholic.
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Posted by: Randal Mandock -
Jun. 11, 2015 1:42 PM ET USA
The FSSP has been turning out priests as fast as space limitations at the seminary will allow. What vocations crisis?
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Posted by: feedback -
Jun. 11, 2015 12:37 PM ET USA
This is the kind of a mantra that lead me in he past to believe that Protestants, with their married clergy, must have had an abundance of vocations. But they also suffer "shortage of vocations." Sincere prayer for vocations is the forgotten solution to any shortage: "therefore ask the Master of the harvest to send laborers."
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Posted by: ElizabethD -
Jun. 11, 2015 8:43 AM ET USA
This would be a serious deterrent to real vocations. The dioceses that do get a lot of vocations are the ones that love the Faith and its traditions. Also, women deacons are not any more possible than women priests; the reasonable interpretation of Catholic teaching on the matter and the one that has been upheld by for instance Cardinal Muller is that women cannot receive any degree of Holy Orders validly. The idea that this is open to debate is not credible at all.
