What it’s really like to be a priest

Jul 13, 2023 by

by Rev Fergus Butler-Gallie, Telegraph: Baptising a baby or comforting the dying is an enormous privilege – but one that is becoming the preserve of an ever decreasing few. […]  I trained some years ago, when numbers were slightly...

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Can a priest be non-binary?

Jan 4, 2023 by

by Martin Davie: This week there have been articles in both the Daily Mail [1]and the Liverpool Echo[2] about the Revd Bingo Allison who is described as the Church of England’s first ‘openly non-binary priest.’ In this post I don’t wish...

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In the Beginning God Created a Priest

Feb 10, 2022 by

from Crossway: A Pattern of Priesthood from the Beginning, In the beginning God created a priest. And not just any priest, but a royal priest—a man made in God’s likeness, a son fashioned to reflect God’s beauty, an image bearer...

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German Catholic synod calls for gay blessings, women clergy, married priests

Feb 8, 2022 by

by George Conger, Anglican Ink: The Roman Catholic Synodal Assembly for Germany has urged Pope Francis to rethink his opposition to women deacons and married priests, and also change the church’s teaching on the morality of homosexual...

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Who needs a Trade Union for Faith?

Nov 5, 2021 by

by Pete Hobson, Psephizo: Who needs a Trade Union for faith? When I started out in ordained ministry in the Church of England in 1977 I would have barely understood the question – and having grasped it would have quickly concluded it was...

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Declining Homosexuality in the American Priesthood

Nov 1, 2021 by

by Mark Regnerus, Public Discourse: While the average engaged Catholic continues to show signs of making peace with progressive trends in sexuality and relationship behavior, the same is not true among the clergy. The type of man who...

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