Leading Irish journalist leaves Catholic Church over stance on women priests - VIDEO

Good for her. There is no god up there on a fluffy cloud telling men in dresses what to tell the sheeple. People who hear voices get locked away, don't they? Anyone who remains in the ROMAN Catholic cult after all the children they have raped and tortured is complicit in the collective act. It is that simple.Priestesses existed long before priests too- remember Bidgit herself of Eire. The insult to the priestesses was to rob all their "pagan" ceremonies and claim them as their own and even wear the priestess dresses. Wake up people of Danu.

Ex-Bishop, Ex-Episcopalian, now-Father Steenson, the head of the Chair of Peter Ordinariate for Episcopalians who join the Catholic Church, said on his appointment, "The frustration with being a Protestant is that every morning you get up and have to reinvent the church all over again.” Indeed, Catholics invented a slogan for that frustration: Ecclesia semper reformandum-- the church is forever reforming! I guess he got tired of the work of trying to smooth the path for the women Episcopal priests whom his ex-church has ordained since 1973. What will he do, then, to conserve the Anglican tradition and 'patrimony' that the Pope says he values in the Ordinariate? Fr. Steenson is the only member of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops who is married and a father (and grandfather), yet that married Anglican priesthood will soon be a thing of the past for the Ordinariate because the priests who crossed the Tiber are not bound to celibacy but their successors are! There's nothing like consistency, is there? Conserve your tradition by jettisoning it for all the generations that follow you while you continue to enjoy it yourself. Do you really think that handful of Episcopalians who went over to Catholicism will manage to keep their Anglican-use traditions past the current generation? Assimilation is the name of Benedict's game.

Goodbye. There's plenty of Episcopalians coming over. Oh, and it's because they disagree with,among other issues,the ordination of women. Interesting times.

Oh, now I remember, Catholics don't read the bible, do they, and only males are allowed to interpret what it all means (papal authority and all that).

From Paul's epistle to the Romans: "I commend to you our sister Phoebe, a deacon of the church in Cenchreae. I ask you to receive her in the Lord in a way worthy of his people and to give her any help she may need from you, for she has been the benefactor of many people, including me. Greet Priscilla and Aquila, my co-workers in Christ Jesus. They risked their lives for me. Not only I but all the churches of the Gentiles are grateful to them. Greet also the church that meets at their house." See Romans 16:1-16 for Paul's list, which includes these and other names of women who ministered to early Christian congregations: "Greet Mary, who worked very hard for you. Greet Andronicus and Junia, my fellow Jews who have been in prison with me. They are outstanding among the apostles, and they were in Christ before I was.... Greet Tryphena and Tryphosa, those women who work hard in the Lord. Greet my dear friend Persis, another woman who has worked very hard in the Lord. Greet Rufus, chosen in the Lord, and his mother, who has been a mother to me, too. Greet Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermes, Patrobas, Hermas and the other brothers and sisters with them. Greet Philologus, Julia, Nereus and his sister, and Olympas and all the Lord’s people who are with them." You who claim that the Church has always ordained only males but also that the Church has existed since the time of the apostles: what do you think these women named by Paul were doing if they were not Eucharistic ministers, preachers, deacons, priests? It was a passing fashion, this "male-only" clergy thing that you cling to, and Christians who know about the early church have already moved past it.

I've just watched this woman O'Leary's speech, listed above. Smelly garbage. She strikes me as a creep, and an unattractive one. You're welcome to her, Protestants!

@mrkennedy - no harm to you but Ireland (my country)is full of sites to which instances of healing and cures have been attributed. These range from official church recognised centres like Knock in County Mayo, the site of a Marian apparition in the 19th century, to countless water wells and sites where there are trees etc with healing properties. And of course we in Ireland also have our share of "Nutters" who claim that God speaks through them, who encourage the weak and the desperate that they have the answer to their problems, and all they ask for in return is support both of a spiritual and a Financial kind. My understanding of the events surrounding Bayside and Bayridge?? is that these have not been confirmed by the Catholic Church, whereas, Knock in Ireland, Lourdes in France and other centres and shrines have. I am most certainly not decrying the presence of our Lord anywhere in the world and the fact that healing and miracles do occur. I do however prefer to take Christ at his word as recalled in Matthew 7:15 "Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves." Prophets and visionaries come and go, but the message of Christ on earth remains constant!!

Barneyjo, Visit Bayside and see how many crutches and other medical items of people cured from the water that appeared there. Also the written testimonies of doctors who could not explain how these mircales happened!! This same thing happened in Quebec at St. Joseph's Church in the last century. I viisted there and saw cruches, wheel chairs hanging from the ceiling of the church as well as on the floors in the entrance. Before you make the statement verify yourself at Bayside and decide if this is the location of a FALSE PROPHET!!!!

Well tempered speech, without undue obesience. But clerical shild sexual abuse being a "proximal" issue to gender equality? I hardly think so. Only goes to show how sex, gender, nationalitly, religion and/or class refracts ones objectivity. What happens if the Queen becomes a Catholic?

the three right wing ultra conservative churches in the USA are the Catholic (in some ways), the Mormons (3 wives needed to go to Heaven per their holy book), and the right wing christians........................All of whom are dead set against both ordaining women, and dead set against gays being treated equally in our society...........Does everyone see the machoism here? its all about control of women (keep them barefoot and pregnant and in the kitchen) This to shall pass. The harm the church will do to itself is already evident.........It also extends to the priests who ultimately broke because they couldnt find / pay for women, and used the haniest children instead. that btw is just another facet of the molestation problem.......Somebody please Mail / Post IL Papa a callender!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@mrkennedy - "Beware of FALSE Prophets!!"

Dear Liv- don't let the door hit you in the arse on the way out.

How would Ms.O'Leary answer to the following. Jesus and Mary appeared to Veronica Lueken, a seer from Bayside, Long Island for close to 25 years where many miracles have taken place. In Jesus's apparition of October 2, 1987, he stated "I ASK THIS OF YOU AS YOUR GOD: IN THE HOLY SACRIFICE THAT I LEFT YOU, I DID NOT ASK FOR WOMEN TO BE UPON THE ALTAR, NOR TRY TO BE A HIGH PRIESTESS. THEY CARRY THIS ON IN THE CHURCHES OF SATAN; THEREFORE, IT SHALL NOT BE CARRIED ON IN MY CHURCH. "WHEN I HAD THE LAST SUPPER WITH THE APOSTLES, MY MOTHER WAS NOT PRESENT. IF I HAD IT IN MY POWER FROM THE ETERNAL FATHER TO MAKE A PRIESTESS, I WOULD SURELY HAVE CHOSEN MY MOTHER; BUT, NO, THERE WERE NO WOMEN PRESENT AT THE FIRST DEDICATION."

jacersagain - thanks for the D***** story. Made me smile...

This Talked about God up there just above the clouds as we were taught I am sure will turn out to be kind,non chauvanistic,not homophobic,or wanting to Judge his own creation and never heard of hell or heavin. He will say Benidict who?.