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Donal Dorr: SYNODALITY AND THE ORDINATION OF WOMEN
October 4 2022
Soline Humbert
"I know that the silence or caution of so many priests and theologians, including myself, is a form of internalised oppression..." Yes indeed, and in my experience over the past 30 years, it is widespread and it runs very deep, often at an unconscious level. Men and women, filled with fear. Thank you to Donal Dorr for his courageous honesty in naming the damaging reality of what the violence of silencing has done to consciences and is still doing today in the church. Time to hear the Good News and let the internally oppressed go free! Where there is love, there is freedom.
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Brendan Hoban: Sometimes you can have too many rituals
October 3 2022
Joe O'Leary
Queen Elizabeth, in her latter very maternal and sunny years, was happy to play along, arranging a parachute stunt with Bond at a Jubilee event and a video of receiving him at the palace. At least she did not do Lord of the Rings or Harry Potter stunts. How long a way she had come from the time when royal patronage injected forbidding starchiness into cultural products such as Britten's Gloriana. Rowan Williams relates his surprise to find the Queen so approachable and lovable (in the post-Diana and post-Queen Mother time). Hearing he was going to Iraq, she advised he wear a disguise as a safety precaution, 'but it can't be a beard, as you already have one.' Coincidentally I just heard the voice of Boris Johnson, his hearers simply rocking with delight, -- such a relief from the ill-concealed gloom of the new PM and her Chancellor of the Exchequer.
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Brendan Hoban: Sometimes you can have too many rituals
October 3 2022
Sean O’Conaill
#1 “ English literature has boiled down to increasingly tawdry BBC adaptations and the tourist appeal of Sherlock Holmes and Miss Marple…” How could you have forgotten Ian Fleming’s James Bond, Joe - a thriving movie franchise that celebrates the continuing global need for British imperial heroes? It seemed he even died heroically in the most recent iteration, but that must surely have been a ploy to give him a well-earned holiday somewhere, and a cinematic makeover. And who can be sure that Eton will not yet produce a great novelist who will reveal exactly how the great Boris Johnston became the towering European we have so badly needed, the one who always knew that Brexit would end badly and deliberately accelerated the process - at the cost of his own premiership and prestige - to put an end to the experiment as soon as possible?
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Brendan Hoban: Sometimes you can have too many rituals
October 3 2022
Joe O'Leary
Very well observed, Brendan. Brexit England has to keep believing that the worship of its traditions makes its splendid isolation worthwhile. But what is left of the magic? The Last Night of the Proms tries to squeeze every drop out of it, but it has become a desperate threnody for a fading dream. The idea of King Charles III is a jokey anachronism. Unlike Germany, where the ordinary public are free to roam the countryside, 90% of British land is in private hands and trespassers will be prosecuted. Jacob Rees-Mogg represents the ultimate epitome of aristocratic Englishness, another sublime joke. English literature has boiled down to increasingly tawdry BBC adaptations and the tourist appeal of Sherlock Holmes and Miss Marple (no one bothered to commemorate Milton in 2008 or the Keats and Shelley bicentenaries this year and last). English (and British) identity and confidence would thrive better within Europe, without any need to be embalmed in an unchanging past. (PS It was Yeats, not Pearse: we studied that poem together in First Arts.)
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