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  • Pope Francis may end the fear and oppression in the Church

    March 28 2013
    Fintan Sheerin

    Did anyone read Pope Francis' address on 3rd April? One part caught my attention: 'Another element. In the professions of faith of the New Testament, only men are remembered as witnesses of the Re

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  • Sometimes seeing is not believing: loving is

    April 3 2013
    mjt

    According to Nuala, the whole of History and especially the growth and development of Christianity has been nothing but a huge male conspiracy, aided and abetted by a God who sat aloofly powerless and

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  • Sometimes seeing is not believing: loving is

    April 3 2013
    Nuala O'Driscoll

    For two thousand years men have overstated their moral/spiritual/human superiority within the Christian Tradition, and especially in Catholicism. Women have have not only been got at but have been tot

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  • Sometimes seeing is not believing: loving is

    April 3 2013
    mjt

    Darlene, I don`t think it does any good to overstate this point about her moral/spiritual/human superiority to the men disciples. For one thing, it sounds a way to get at men. And then, Mary was a hum

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  • Meeting with church leaders of the Holy Land cancelled

    April 2 2013
    Iggy O Donovan

    We should be very grateful that the leaders of the church in the Holy Land took the time to inform us of the fact that the meeting was cancelled. Given their very exacting schedule they had no other o

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  • Petition to end compulsory celibacy launched

    November 2 2012
    Eddie Finnegan

    "It was actually Pope Benedict who did create all the problems, he was fully aware of them," "I don’t know where you have been hiding." . Philomena, perhaps the underlying question is not where I've

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  • Sometimes seeing is not believing: loving is

    April 3 2013
    Darlene Starrs

    Thank you for providing this piece about Mary Magdalene! I bet that if she had been in the Garden of Gethsemanee, she would have stayed awake! Or at least kept the men awake! When Pope Francis comm

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  • Petition to end compulsory celibacy launched

    November 2 2012
    Philomena Carolan

    It was actually Pope Benedict who did create all the problems, he was fully aware of them, this pope has been chosen, even after what he went through before being ordained: that is why we have him. Po

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  • Pope Francis may end the fear and oppression in the Church

    March 28 2013
    Soline Humbert

    @15 Thank you Mary for that link to the article on the On Being website While I was on the On Being site,I was attracted to read another article: Tattoos&Torah:One woman'journey to the rabbinate.

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  • Meeting with church leaders of the Holy Land cancelled

    April 2 2013
    Margaret Lee

    Well now! I suppose the delegation was lucky to get a direct meeting with the Archbishops of Dublin and Armagh--it is fortunate that the members were not told to go through the "Priests' Councils"

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