Four years of lay dialogue demanding women priests, married clergy and optional celibacy have vanished from the official …
Decoding challenges facing the global Church through contemporary theology.
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The Christian East viewed through faith, history, and dialogue.
Decoding challenges facing the global Church through contemporary theology.
Interpreting contemporary realities through the lens of the Bible and the Church’s Magisterium.
The Christian East viewed through faith, history, and dialogue.

Four years of lay dialogue demanding women priests, married clergy and optional celibacy have vanished from the official …

Colm Holmes is Chair of We are Church International.
Despite a clear Irish consensus for reform, the hierarchy has erased demands for women priests and married clergy from the official synod agenda, leaving synodality a managed consultation rather than genuine transformation.
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