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What is the answer to Ireland's priest drought? Despite being 95% Catholic, Ireland predicts it will be difficult to find clergymen in the coming years.
YOUR SAYWhat is the answer to Ireland's priest drought? Despite being 95% Catholic, Ireland predicts it will be difficult to find clergymen in the coming years.
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I think Negus got what he deserved from the Cardinal except he did not want to listen.He should read fellow athiest Andrew Bolt's article last week on why young Catholics are reluctant to enter priesthood:due to media repoters like him.
I so agree with so many of the coments here with regards to the interview with Cadinal Wilfrid Napier. George, I too admire you for asking the hard questions, but like Geoff from Brisbane 7 Bernie Moran from NSW commented, let the man finish his answer. You assume too much George. These are not trivial questions and you should have allowed the Cardinal more time to explain the Church's position instead to hurrying through the interview. There was NOTHING theological about his response, just facts. I have never heard of Cardinal Napier before but I must say, I am a fan now. Very disappointed George.
Regarding your interview with Cardinal Napier. You displayed typical Gen Y garbage. While the new generation cheers the Vicar of Christ. What did your generation cheer with the same enthusism, the Beatles?
George Negus was very unprofessional and dropped to very low standards. He appeared to be cornered several times during the interview with Cardinal Napier whom I was very impressed with or was it the depths that George reached which made his emminence look very good.
George, The Cardinal had one very important point and that was to question whether there was really a shortage of FOOD in the world. When it is well know that many wealthy food producing countries ‘Dump’ their food surplus in order to keep the prices up. It is well known that farmers in many developed countries are paid not to grow food or to milk their cows while the third world is starving! Religious differences aside, it was nice of the Cardinal to remind us that what we need is ‘global solidarity’ and I may add-- to eradicate hunger.
My comments are regarding George Negus's interview of Cardinal Napier. I thought that Negus was very 'sectarian'and showed disrespect for the cardinal with his bombardistic way. I felt that Negus interview was a 'tongue in cheek' and was ready to spring out of his cair to put his views across, not being in the same faith as the cardinal he came across as knowing better than the cardinal. I think Negus lost my respect .
Congratulations George for asking the right questions to that from the Catholic Church. I commend your persistence in trying to get answers about what the village idiot of Sydney, George Pell said about population. Population has to be put on the top of the environmental agenda , it is great that Belgium’s Population is going down but he rest of world, including Australia has to do the same. It is a typical response when faith gets in the way of facts, and isn’t that all the time in the church. And also I agree with you when you tried to point out it is Catholic World Youth Day as us people who are not deluded by god want nothing to do with this infection of the next generation by the church and all the suffering it causes.
Interesting to see the same old tired and predictable agenda of George Negus come up agains\\\'t the integrity and wit of South African Cardinal Wilfred Napier. I have heard it said that SBS has gone downmarket to attract a more mass market, and this poorly prepared and agenda ridden form of populist interviewing confirms that.
CARDINAL WILFRED NAPIER WAS JUST BRILLIANT. GEORGE YOU HAD NO ANSWERS - HIS EMINENCE IS AN ABSOLUTE AUTHORITY ON VIEWS OF THE CATHOLIC DOCTRINE AND HE IS RIGHT. BEING A CATHOLIC I AM SO PROUD OF HIM. HE IS A GOOD LEADER FOR THE MODERN WORLD.
Simply those people who desire to carry on with the Catholic faith have to have the courage and faith to trust that if they feel they can serve the community better in the Catholic traditions by marrying someone who has the same goal then marriage is the answer. It would be disasterous if your husband or wife didn't have the same faith and goals. Obviously many faiths have proven that sometimes a married couple serving the community is more able to do so because they both have a unique quality representing the masculine and feminine nature of the creator consequently can take that aspect of love and caring to people plus the strength to go beyond oneself in the face of adversity as women have a "God" give strength that men will never fully understand and vice versa. eg giving birth is an incredible but painful experience with incrdible joy at the end.But it required both a man and woman to be able to create the child. Therefore in order to serve and understand ones community it is obvious that it requires both too.