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Wednesday, September 15, 2010

A Sign for Pope Benedict To Behold on Buses in UK: "Pope Benedict-Ordain Women Now" /BBC News

Set up as a counterpoint to Catholic Voices, Catholic Voices for Reform describes itself as the Church's "loyal opposition".

A London bus displays an advert calling for Pope Benedict to ordain women, 31 August 2010
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11294941
"Reformist Catholics have called on the Pope to revise Vatican positions

It wants an open debate on issues such as women's ordination, homosexuality and clerical celibacy."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/11297461

Pope Benedict XVI is the head of the biggest Christian denomination in the world, some one billion Roman Catholics, or one in six people. In Britain there are about five million Catholics, or about one in 12 people

"Numbers from the Catholic Directory suggest that currently about one million Catholics in England and Wales regularly attend mass. But according to the Catholic National Library, figures for mass attendance were not kept before 1989 and therefore no comparison is possible with the 1982 papal visit...

Bridget Mary's Reflection:

The good news is that there is a Roman Catholic Womenpriest in the UK. Morag Liebert lives in Edinburgh, Scotland. She presides at house church liturgies. Contact Morag Liebert at moragl@connectfree.co.uk

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11317441


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