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BBC Radio 4 Sunday Programme interview

Written by: Alex Walker

Created: 18 April 2019

Alex Walker interviewed on the back of the BBC Sitcom Fleabag - 14th April 2019   https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m00046pc

 

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Amazon Synod will decide on married priesthood in the West

Written by: Alex Walker

Created: 02 April 2019

SAO PAULO, March 27, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) — Cardinal Claudio Hummes of Brazil said in an interview that the coming Synod of Bishops for the Pan-Amazon Region may decide whether to ordain married men to the priesthood in order to serve the vast tropical region.

Cardinal Hummes told Terra that for the “lack of priests,” 70 percent of the people in the nine countries covering the Amazonian region do not receive the sacraments of the Church. The bishops from Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela will meet at the Vatican in October “to identify new paths for the evangelization of God’s people in that region," especially indigenous peoples who are “often forgotten and without the prospect of a serene future.” Preservation of the natural environment, deforestation, poverty, and the formation of clergy are also topics for discussion by the bishops, who represent more than 34 million people of majority-Catholic countries covering some 18.5 million acres.

Cardinal Hummes (75) was professed a priest of the Franciscan order in 1958 and was elevated to the cardinalate by Pope John Paul II in 2001. An outspoken proponent of social justice, he has often appeared alongside socialists such as Luiz Lula da Silva, who later became president of Brazil.

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BBC Radio Scotland Interview

Written by: Alex Walker

Created: 31 March 2019

BBC Radio Scotland 15 min interview with Stephen Jardine on celibacy and the BBC TV show Fleabag. You can only play this audio file on a PC or tablet.

 

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