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By Randall Smith I read recently that Cardinal Reinhard Marx says he will allow the blessing of same-sex unions, contrary to Vatican directives. Fr. Davide Pagliarani, the Superior General of the Society of St. Pius X, says he intends to ordain new bishops without a papal mandate. And Luxembourg's Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich says women's ordination is essential to the Church's future; "I cannot imagine in the long run how a Church can survive, if half of the people of God suffers because they have no access to ordained ministry," Well, as a married layman who has "no access to ordained…

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