IRELAND
Irish Independent
By Majella O’Sullivan
Monday November 12 2012
THE Pope’s envoy to Ireland has ruled out any possibility of the ordination of women.
Papal Nuncio Archbishop Charles Brown said the church’s teaching on the subject was clear.
He said the Pope had spoken definitively on the subject in 1994 and the church was “simply unable to do that”.
His comments are at odds with the majority of Irish Catholics who believe women should be ordained.
A study commissioned by the Association of Catholic Priests in February revealed that 77pc of Catholics believed women should be ordained.
Former president Mary McAleese has also spoken out in favour of women priests and revealed recently, following the publication of her book, ‘Quo Vadis? Collegiality in the Code of Cannon Law’, how she was “lambasted” by the former Archbishop of Boston, Cardinal Bernard Francis Law, for her views.
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