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Stolen Lives: in solidarity with survivors. Telling the Stories that Need to be Told
Colm Holmes • 29 April 2022
This is an excellent resource for 'ordinary' Catholics putting survivors at the centre
Root and branch have published a Learning Resource STOLEN LIVES. The focus is very directly on sexual abuse, together with spiritual, physical, and emotional abuse. They take a very broad approach to all the different ways that clericalism leads to abuse of power e.g., the way that children of celibate priests are treated, and the church's role in forcibly separating indigenous children from their families. Here is a link to this freely available resource.
Women are a problem for the Catholic Church, an institution with ingrained misogyny - Soline Humbert
Papal plámás is no substitute for an end to discrimination against women
Vatican says NO to EQUALITY?
Dr Luca Badini Confalonieri with Fr Helmut Schüller
WAC International response to Instrumentum Laboris
It is a dull document but perhaps all the cans that have been kicked down the Synodal road will yet create a din that cannot be ignored.
Christchurch Cathedral June 30th 2024
The Tablet used WAC Ireland's "Last Supper" painted by Irish artist Nora Kelly on its cover
One of the leading thinkers in the Irish Church welcomes the Pope’s ‘change of culture’ but warns that it will peter out unless there are reforms to structures and institutions
Press Release 15 April 2024: Response to the Vatican letter "Dignitas Infinita"
Overall control of the Study Groups should be given to the Synodal Office
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