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  • Misogyny in the Vatican

    March 8 2018
    Chris McDonnell

    John#3 I appreciate that might be a long time to wait Maybe we should skip a couple of my suggested stages and make sure that all of us, whatever our gender, speak up loudly on behalf of anyone denied

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  • Misogyny in the Vatican

    March 8 2018
    Eddie Finnegan

    From the excellent live streaming of the Voices of Faith in Rome (Part 2 just about to begin 3.15pmGMT): wonderful and courageous speakers, including the three banned by Kevin Farrell. Kevin himself d

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  • Misogyny in the Vatican

    March 8 2018
    Frances Burke

    I'd say there are some men not very happy (apoplectic I'd say) with Mary McAleese and her speech at the Why Women Matter conference today celebrating International Women’s Day. Describing the Catho

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  • Misogyny in the Vatican

    March 8 2018
    John Dwyer Kirwin

    Chris - that’s a lot of hanging! What to do in the meantime?

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  • Handle with reverence

    March 6 2018
    Sean O'Conaill

    #3 Thanks so much for that link to Brene Brown on 'Vulnerability', Kevin. So much is true there, and it is so fitting that you should speak of this coming up to Easter. Soon we recapitulate Jesus's a

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  • Misogyny in the Vatican

    March 8 2018
    Chris McDonnell

    The Bishops attended Vatican II they will take their wives to Vatican III and their husbands to Vatican IV just hang in there

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  • ‘Whistle- Blower’   (Life, Death, Hope and the Eight Amendment)

    March 10 2018
    Eddie Finnegan

    Seamus, thank you for alerting us to Pádraig's book. You've also delineated accurately the Pádraig we've come to know on this site. We need more 'awkward men and women with serious respect for argum

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  • Misogyny in the Vatican

    March 8 2018
    Anne

    Mary McAleese is a formidable woman and I for one applaud her courage for speaking out about the ingrained Misogny in the Catholic Church. One exception was the late Spanish Cardinal Carlo Martini wh

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  • We Are Church – “open all ministries to women”

    March 7 2018
    Lloyd Allan MacPherson

    Women are certainly not excluded in the environmental work/reform the Church is going through. Women are well represented and to say that they out participate men 10 to 1 in necessary volunteerism is

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  • 04 March. Third Sunday of Lent

    March 4 2018
    Sean O'Conaill

    #8 'Surprised' is incorrect. I chose that particular incident to illustrate the casualness with which ecclesiastics in the middle ages disregarded the obvious self-interest of secular princes when it

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