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28 Dec 2025 – Sunday after Christmas – The Holy Family
December 28 2025
Soline Humbert
📍"Wives, be subject to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord." 2nd Reading: Colossians 3:12-21 Scripture Readings That Subordinate Women. Make Sure They Don’t Happen in Your Parish. In August 2000 the Irish Catholic Church proposed dropping seven texts from a proposed new Lectionary because they “give an undesirably negative impression regarding women.” The Irish bishops’ new Domestic Violence document recommended the following texts for deletion: * Ephesians 5:22-24 ...wives should submit to their husbands etc. * 1 Timothy 2:11-15 A woman should learn in quietness and full submission. I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man; she must be silent etc. * 1 Corinthians 14:33-35 ...women should remain silent in the churches (and following). * 1 Corinthians 11:3-16 Now I want you to realize that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man (and following). 📍* Colossians 3:18 Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. * 1 Peter 3:1-6 Wives in the same way be submissive to your husbands (and following). * Titus 2: 4-5 Ten they can train the younger women to love their husbands and children, to be self controlled and pure, to be busy at home, to be kind, and to be subject to their husbands so that no one will malign the word. https://futurechurch.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Scripture-Readings-that-Subordinate-Women.pdf
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Brendan Hoban: Another kick in the teeth for Catholic women
December 21 2025
iggy o'donovan
Brilliant Brendan. Whatever synodality means today I do not know. What I do know on reading Pope Francis noble sentiments is that I experienced synodality in Drogheda years ago. In my case it came to a shuddering halt and I have nothing more to contribute.
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Brendan Hoban: Another kick in the teeth for Catholic women
December 21 2025
Paddy Ferry
An excellent article, Brendan. I am left wondering about the position of the Scottish bishops on synodality. I live here and I don’t know.
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The Irish Catholic: Archbishop Martin hopes papal visit could form part of ‘lost’ Ireland’s spiritual renewal
December 18 2025
Phil Dunne
What nonsense! No surprise at the “sharp decline in the church’s credibility and influence”, the recent statement on women deacons marks the low point of this decline. Archbishop Martin had nothing to say about this. As others have noted the synodal process is effectively dead. No major jubilees or papal visits will change the decline.
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28 Dec 2025 – Sunday after Christmas – The Holy Family

Brendan Hoban: Another kick in the teeth for Catholic women

Brendan Hoban: Another kick in the teeth for Catholic women

The Irish Catholic: Archbishop Martin hopes papal visit could form part of ‘lost’ Ireland’s spiritual renewal