Scotland’s cardinal tells the BBC that clerical celibacy could, in principle, be re-considered
Topic: Cardinal Keith O’Brien
Morning Catholic must-reads: 30/11/12
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Religious leaders must join forces to defend marriage
Cardinal O’Brien has set up a commission to support marriage; the Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks, meanwhile, says it lifts humanity ‘from biology to poetry’
Cardinal O’Brien often colourfully says what needs to be said; but his personal attack on David Cameron and his pronouncements on taxation were just embarrassing
Senior Churchmen should stay within their area of technical competence
The word curiously absent from the gay marriage debate: children
It is hard to argue the case against gay marriage using the language of metropolitan liberals
Morning Catholic must-reads: 06/03/12
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Cardinal O’Brien: same-sex marriage would be a ‘great wrong’ like slavery
Cardinal O’Brien says repercussions of introducing gay marriage would be immense
This is a time for passionate language; Cardinal O’Brien and Dr Sentamu are right to speak as they do about gay ‘marriage’
It would be a disaster almost impossible to reverse: this is the time to put a stop to it







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