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Women are a problem for the Catholic Church, an institution with ingrained misogyny - Soline Humbert
A church filled with love has no room for exclusion.
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The Cry of The Earth, The Cry of The Poor - A Practical Response
Caoimhe de Barra presents a Practical Response to the Cry of Earth and the Cry of the Poor
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Women Deacons and Synodality
Phyllis Zagano is an internationally acclaimed Catholic scholar and lecturer on contemporary spirituality and women's issues in the church. She has written and spoken on the role of women in the Roman Catholic Church and is an advocate for the ordination of women as deacons. She was a member of the initial Papal Commission for the Study of the Diaconate of Women. She holds a research appointment at Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York.
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Ursula Halligan in Conversation with Sister Jeannine Gramick
Sr Jeannine Gramick visited Dublin on 24 March 2022 and gave a long interview to Ursula Halligan of We Are Church Ireland.
Sr Jeannine has supported LGBTQ+ people for over 50 years and recently received a letter from Pope Francis congratulating her on her work.
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"Synod and National Synodal Pathway" - Dr Nicola Brady
Presentation by Dr Nicola Brady, Chair of Ireland's Synodal Pathway Steering Committee
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Abuse and Cover-up in the Catholic Church" - Thomas P. Doyle
This video is a ZOOM talk given by Tom Doyle to We Are Church Ireland on 28. February 2022.
Tom Doyle is a priest, canon lawyer, addictions therapist and long-time supporter of justice and compassion for clergy sex abuse victims.
He sacrificed a rising career at the Vatican Embassy to become an outspoken advocate for church abuse victims. Since 1984, when he became involved with the issue of sexual abuse of children by Catholic clergy while serving at the Embassy, he has become an expert in the canonical and pastoral dimensions of this problem - working directly with victims, their families, accused priests, bishops, and other high-ranking Church officials.
He has interviewed 2,000 victims of clerical sexual abuse in the U.S. alone, and has been the only priest to testify in court in over 200 cases as to the legal liability of the Church. He has developed policies and procedures for dealing with cases of sexual abuse by the clergy for dioceses and religious orders in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.
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Restoration or Reformation - Kieran O'Mahoney
Signposts into the future of the faith community
Recording of ZOOM Meeting
Kieran O’Mahony OSA is an Augustinian friar and biblical scholar. He worked for twenty-two years in the Milltown Institute of Theology and Philosophy and for nine years a co-ordinator of biblical studies for the archdiocese of Dublin. He maintains a website: www.tarsus.ie, offering commentaries on the current liturgical readings and much else besides. At the moment, Kieran is preparing the final volume in a nine-volume series entitled Hearers of the Word. The purpose of the series is to make current biblical scholarship available in an accessible and prayerful way to the ordinary believer, as well as to those who preach the Word. The series focuses on the main liturgical seasons: Advent to Christmas (and a little beyond); Lent to Holy Week; Easter to Pentecost (and a little beyond). For fun and relax, there’s always the road bike, the music of JS Bach, the piano, hiking in Wicklow and Italian cooking.
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The National Synodal Process - Bishop Paul Demsey
Bishop Paul Dempsey is the Bishop of Achonry Diocese. He was ordained on Sunday August 30th, 2020 in the Cathedral of The Annunciation and St Nathy, Ballaghaderreen.
Ordained a priest in 1997, Bishop Paul is a native of Co. Carlow and, until his appointment as Bishop of Achonry, served in various parishes in the Diocese of Kildare & Leighlin.
He is a member of the bishops subcommittee working on the National Synodal Assembly and came to speak to the members of We Are Church Ireland
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Laudato Si and The Season of Creation - Jane Mellett
Jane Mellett lives in Dublin, Ireland and is the Laudato Si’ Officer with Tròcaire (the overseas development agency of the Catholic Church in Ireland). Prior to this, Jane was a parish pastoral worker with the Archdiocese of Dublin serving in parish ministry for many years. In 2018, Jane embarked on a Climate Pilgrimage, carrying the message of Laudato Si’ from Italy to Poland to the UN Climate Talks (COP24). This, she describes, as a real experience of ‘ecological conversion’ and since then she has dedicated her time to share the wisdom of Laudato Si’ with others, especially in the areas of ecological education and spirituality.
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'Seeking Scripture - towards a new church' Dr. Sharon Tighe-Mooney
Two years ago Sharon Tighe-Mooney published What About Me? Women and the Catholic Church. This was an exploration of the arguments given by the Catholic Church to exclude women from holding official roles in the Church, and to examine what those arguments might reveal in terms of the story of women, alongside the development of the ministerial priesthood. Researching the book exposed the dependence for authoritative Catholic Church teachings on church council documents, papal edicts, the Magisterium, the writings of Church Fathers, and the concept of Sacred Tradition rather than on Scripture. This prompted Sharon to read and study the entire Bible – an ongoing process – which led her down an entirely unexpected path towards an understanding of the primacy of scripture and the need to seek out a bible-based church.
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Australian Plenary Council
Peter Wilkinson and David Timbs are members of a small, Melbourne based, Australian Catholic reform advocacy group Catholics for Renewal. Since its announcement of an Australian Plenary Council in 2016 Catholics for Renewal has devoted their collective energies into setting out what they are convinced are the essential systemic reform and renewal measures that will assist in getting the Catholic Church in Australia back on mission. This has now been published in book form.
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Rivermount Parish Team
Rivermount Parish, Dublin
Rivermount Parish was constituted in 1974 and consist of St.Olivers Plunkett's and St Finians Oratory.
Mass attendance even before Covid was 3.5% but the parish is integral to the community. The Parish Team of 8 (5 women and 3 men) runs everything. Eucharist is shared: it is conversational; everyone can comment on the readings.
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John O Brien - Women's Ordination
A talk given by John O'Brien on Womens Irdination in The Catholic Church on Tuesday the 2nd of February
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Tony Flannery: From The Outside: Rethinking Church Doctrine
Fr Tony Flannery was 'silenced' by the Vatican in 2012 and his appeal in 2020 was not successful. MIT DEUTSCHER ÜBERSETZUNG.
About this Event
• Tony Flannery (born 1947) joined the Redemptorist Order in 1964
• He was ordained a priest in 1974
• In 2010 he was one of the founder members of the Association of Catholic Priests (ACP) who support Vatican 2 reforms
• In 2012 he was ‘silenced’ by the CDF and removed from public ministry for writing about the role of women, contraception and homosexuality
• In 2020 his Order appealed to the CDF that he be allowed return to public ministry
• The CDF replied that Fr Flannery must first sign 4 oaths: {1) No ordination for women (2) Homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered (3) No same sex marriage (4) No Gender theory
• Fr Flannery refused to sign these oaths and remains removed from public ministry
• His new book ‘From the Outside; Rethinking Church Doctrine’ is to launch on 21 October
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My Story - 'Just Love' - Jayne OzanneList item 1
Jayne Ozanne is a prominent British gay evangelical who works to ensure full inclusion of all LGBTI Christians at every level of the Church.
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Diarmuid O'Murchu - Expanding our View of Christian Faith TodayList item 2
Recorded on the 20th of April, Fr Diarmuid O’Murchu is a member of the Sacred Heart Missionary Order, and is a social psychologist.
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'No Woman No Church'List item 3
For the first time ever, Catholic women are linking up globally to take action. A new umbrella group has been formed: the Catholic Women’s Council.
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Diarmuid O Murchú on adult maturity
Fr. Diarmuid O Murchu in the first of three lectures reviews how models of faith have evolved from childlike dependency towards adult maturity.
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Diarmuid O Murchú on finding a deeper meaning behind Scripture and Theology
Fr. Diarmuid O Murchu in the second of three talks reflects on the need to discern a deeper meaning of scripture.
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Diarmuid O Murchú on belonging to a flourishing faith community
Fr. Diarmuid O Murchu in the third of three talks explores what it means to belong to a flourishing faith community.
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Sr. Mary Barron OLA on Synodality: Hope for the Church, and for the World....and for Women.
Sr.Mary Barron OLA talks about her experience, participating in the 2024 Rome Synod meetings as a woman with voting rights and her hopes for the future.
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Tina Beattie talk 1 on Sacrament, Sex and Society: Historical Perspectives.
Tina discusses how the Catholic understanding of sexuality and marriage has developed. She asks how can we evaluate the significance of this tradition in its sacramental, ethical and social forms of expression?
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Tina Beattie talk 2: Reflections on Catholic understanding of marriage and sexuality: past and now
The early 21st century is seeing unprecedented challenges to long-held beliefs about sexuality,
gender and marriage. Tina draws on insights from feminism, gender theory and modern theology to explore the challenges contemporary culture poses to Christian sexual ethics and ideas about marriage, and she asks how we might explore pathways towards a healthy and
life-giving sexual ethos, with a realistic acknowledgement of the violent and abusive aspects
of human sexual desire and behaviour, as well as its potential to express joy, love and delight
in the bodily other.