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THE FORMER BISHOP of Derry Dr Edward Daly has called for an end to mandatory clerical celibacy for priests in the Catholic Church, saying that removing the requirement would “ease the church’s problems”.
Daly, one of the most well-known figures in the Church, describes the issue of celibacy as “the other conflict” in his memoir, A Troubled See: Memoirs of a Derry Bishop.
Daly said he believed that not allowing priests to marry was causing potential candidates to turn away from their vocations, writing: “I believe there… should be a place in the modern Catholic Church for a married priesthood and for men who do not wish to commit themselves to celibacy”.
He noted that, in recent years, allowances had been made for former Anglican bishops who were already married but wished to convert to Catholicism. The Pope has created a special place in the Catholic Church for some Anglican church bishops who reacted angrily to the ordination of women priests within their original faith.
“Admission of married men to the priesthood could well create new problems and issues,” Daly admitted. “However, under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, major decisions must be made”.
Daly is one of the most well-known members of the Catholic Church; he gained widespread recognition following Bloody Sunday in 1972. A photograph showing Daly waving a white handkerchief as he tried to bring a dying victim to safety remains one of the most iconic of the Troubles.
The former bishop also commented on the issue of child sexual abuse in the Church, saying that he was “heartbroken and appalled that colleagues in the priesthood could engage in such horrible criminal acts against the most vulnerable”.
Makes me realise how lucky we really are despite everything.
Oh ye! Being rules by morons is far easier than any of that! At least the morons who govern us just take our money!
Ur an awful bollox…
Why? Being ruled by idiots is heaven compared to any of that. Is it not?
Jesus, some of these pictures are harrowing and the stories behind them, even worse! It really makes you think about our own, ‘first world’ problems…
Puts things into context compared to the whining gimp patrol on here moaning that they cant afford skinny lattes and holidays because of the mortgage on their massive house
Thatcher was a great friend of Augusto Pinochet during and after his brutal reign. At the same time she was denouncing Nelson Mandela as a terrorist
I teach history and when it comes to the holocaust or the famine the kids always ask, how did people let that happen? Whats crazy is that we are still letting it happen!
You only have to look at the treatment of travellers to realise ‘hate’ is alive and well in Ireland.
Yeah it’s so shocking and depressing to see what people do to each other. Governments dont give a toss unless it’s worth something to them. Thousands being killed in Syria and all they’re doing is political posturing.
Those pictures of the North Korean kids goes to show the world what a “Socialist Paradise” really looks like.
And now the madness of NK has declared war on S Korea. Utter madness. What is going on within their heads?
As for the morons that say we are having it bad. Move to North Korea please.
I think your the only person describes it as a socialist paradise
Daniel I was being sarcastic using the usual leftie description of a socialist country.
My family affected in 2004 tsunami…still hav nightmares.
Nobody should be afraid to give to charity or to fill their Trocaire box….
There is always someone always worse off than us…
Not a cent would I give to Trocaire… I dont really care about the third world
Thousands of people were killed or ‘disappeared’ during the regime led by General Augusto Pinochet until 1988….
Two point nine thousand to be precise in 8 years. An hours work for Chairman Mao or Comrade Tito, both still very much beloved………
Seriously, it’s an insult to include Pinochet and not include the Balkans war. Pinochet’s only sin was to align his economic policy with the liberal Chicago school and produce a relative success of a country (in contrast to an array of Latin American lefties who screwed up their countries). On the other hand, the massacre in Srebrenica for example (for which the armed ‘forces’ of an EU country take the blame) resulted in three times more dead in only half a day. Your criteria, dear Journal, is rid of logic.
Chile was the world’s biggest producer of tin but it was being exported to America, especially to the Coca-Cola Co., for extremely low prices. When Allende came to power he wanted to nationalise the industry. This would have cost Coca-Cola millions as the tin for their cans and bottle tops all came from Chile. They put pressure on Henry Kissinger to do something about this. He in turn tasked the CIA to overthrow the government and replace it with one favourable to America’s needs. That’s where Pinochet came in. Thousands were murdered just so he could line his pockets, and America, a country that prides itself for its democracy, destroyed this fledgling democracy for purely monetary reasons. Pinochet didn’t create the Chilean economy. In fact, he set it back years.
Ah yes, the nationalization of various industries would have been another Latin American socialist success just like that of Argentina where Peron’s (national)socialists policies brought the country to a permanent state of disrepair. Argentina is a unique case in the economic history insofar that it was the only country in the World that managed to drop off the top-20 richest countries list (it was replaced by Japan) in the past 100 years. Even the BBC had this to say about Chile:
“The economy of Chile is ranked as an upper-middle income economy by the World Bank,[9] and is one of South America’s most stable and prosperous nations”
If it was down to Allende’s chest-thumping, this would have ended in IMF bail-outs and plundering of pension funds just like it did in Argentina (presumably also the fault of those goddamn Americans).
Bleeding-heart students don’t mind wearing badges with romantic images of that serial murderer CheGuevara for the same reason. So much about principles. Leftists generally like guys in uniforms who murder opposition and rule by decree but only if they align with socialist policies. Pinochet could have had his restaurants in Dublin like Mao only if he had read Marx a bit more and did not use leftist methods to deal with leftist thugs.
The story of Allende and Chile is what cemented me as a socialist. The likely election of a left govt in Greece, Syriza next time around could see a IMF/EU technocratic coup to ensure the austerity agenda is not interrupted in Europe. It’s very scary considering the openly fascist right wing that already has support in Greece.
You could have looked closer to home at Russia and Eastern Europe for how this whole socialism thing works out.
Look even closer to home, maybe the q for food parcels at the cappuchin friary to see how capitalism has worked out….
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