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When I read this interview with Fr.Joe Mullan I noted the synchronicity that it was published at the same Easter weekend as my piece. (Irish Times Rite and Reason – Soline Humbert: Denial of a vocation to women isn’t just ‘discomfort’, it is spiritual abuse – Association Of Catholic Priests https://share.google/7lOlnfeeHV88MVaem)
And as if to underline this, the same church, St Thérèse appears in both our photos. I am outside, of course!
Furthermore, in both pieces there is a reference to the Cross/Crucifixion.
A message from the Holy Spirit for those who can read the signs of the times? Time to roll away the very large stone of exclusion!