Representatives push for women to be admitted to priesthood after island-wide consultations

 

February 12, 2023

Irish delegates call for radical change at European assembly of Catholic churches

PRAGUE (CZECHIA)
Irish Times [Dublin, Ireland]

February 12, 2023

By Patsy McGarry

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Representatives push for women to be admitted to priesthood after island-wide consultations

An assembly of the Catholic Church in Europe has been told that members in Ireland want women to be admitted to the diaconate and priesthood. In island-wide consultations “many women communicated their pain at being denied their agency in the life of the church and spoke of feelings of exclusion and discrimination. Women play a critical role in the life of the church but so many men and women have spoken of the church ‘excluding’ the fullness of the gifts of women,” representatives of the Irish church said.

In Ireland there was “a deep longing for a more inclusive and welcoming church. People wish for this enlarged tent to be experienced in liturgy, language, structures, practices and decision-making. The co-responsibility of all the baptised must therefore be recognised and practised, to overcome clericalism and to ensure full and…