IRELAND
The Nenagh Guardian
(14/04/2012)
By Peter Gleeson
A Nenagh born priest has this week asserted that he is at odds with the Vatican on the issue of marriage for priests and the ordination of women.
Fr Sean McDonagh said advocating to allow priests to marry was not contrary to the teachings of the church.
And he said teenagers he had spoken to in secondary schools could not understand why the Vatican would not allow women to be ordained as priests and forbid clerics from marrying.
Fr McDonagh, said his own late mother, a long serving primary school teacher in Saint Mary’s Boys National School who died ten years ago, and who was “a very pious woman”, could not understand why the Catholic Church did not allow priests to marry and women to be ordained.
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