Allt fler katoliker vaknar upp till verkligheten.... Och detta gäller inte bara i England/Wales.
Om det kommer in underskrifter från hela välden (sorry, enbart katoliker verkar få skriva under denna gång) ger det en tydlig signal... Den somriga snöbollen är i rullning.
Kom, helige Ande!
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Thousands of leading Roman Catholics including Lord Patten and Baroness Williams are calling on the Church to allow women and married men into the priesthood.
Senior clergy are also among the 2,000 who have so far signed a petition demanding that action be taken to tackle the "major crisis" of dwindling numbers of Catholic priests.
They claim that there is no real barrier to married men being ordained, despite it being part of the Church's teaching throughout its history, given that married former Anglicans who convert to Catholicism are allowed to become priests.
And in a further controversial move, they also want Catholic leaders in England and Wales to discuss the possibility of women becoming priests, an issue which has already been hugely divisive in the worldwide Anglican Church.
They say training programmes should be set up in colleges and online to "prepare suitable men and women for ministry".
A spokesman for the organisers of the petition said: "The possible ordination of married men has been raised as an urgent matter by bishops worldwide for over 30 years, and is becoming pressing now in this country as the shortage of priests worsens, parishes are merged and the average age of the clergy rises.
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