Sunday, August 7, 2011

Drinking tea does not confer infallibility

Fr Brandan Hoban's comments on Fr Vincent Twomey as reported in yesterday's Irish Times give hope to our church.

He said that the new priests' association does not share in the Irish media's presumption that having tea with the pope once a year confers by osmosis some kind of creeping infallibility on Fr Twomey or anyone else.

He went on to say that the new missal "has more to do with living in the past than ministering in the presence or preparing for the future".

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