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Brendan Hoban: Catholic Church needs to embrace equality
March 8 2026
M G-B
The comedy of the present situation in my view, is the power of women! Some Anglican clergy are rushing into the Catholic Church to avoid the ordination of women. Many Catholic priests are, on the other hand, falling in love with a woman and joining the Anglican Church so they can marry. (What are we going to do about Maria) Sound of Music.
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Presider’s Page for 15 March 2026 (Fourth Sunday of Lent – Laetare Sunday, Mother’s Day)
March 9 2026
Cate. Haruna Leo Chongfilawas
May this Laetare Sunday brings us uncountable joy in mourning for Our Lord who will ransom us with His precious blood. And may almighty God grant us peace, and happiness that last forever as we journey towards perfection in this Lenten Observance, through christ our Lord. Amen
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Synod Report (and reactions): On women’s participation in the life and leadership of the Church
March 12 2026
Roy Donovan
In spite of some very good things in this Synodal Report - the underlying message remains the same with the acceptance of gender inequalities around women's ordination. Women remain inferior. We priests are extra special and as the numbers go down, we are even more special. The priesthood is our entitlement, exclusively a male entitlement. This is contrary to the Gospel. The underlying message of the institutional Church is that some men (especially priests) have more entitlements than women. The global world and especially men pick up from the institutional Church's actions round women – that women are inferior and have less entitlements. There are ever present increasing push backs against women. This is evident in Irish society with massive increases of women dying of violence from partners or other males, which has led to an increase in the need for services, supports and refuges for women. The World Health Organization has concluded that ‘Violence against women is rooted in and perpetuated by gender inequalities’. The Church is perpetuating these inequalities. Because the Irish institutional Church will not ordain women, it is not able in a credible way to speak out on this. Women are not allowed to take a seat at the top table and you have to ask the question, 'Does priesthood have an unconscious bias towards women?' Is it not time to face up to this? The Church needs to come out loudly and clearly to the modern world in words and actions that women and men are fully equal. One would expect that the institutional Church, inspired by the Gospel of Jesus Christ, would be leading the way. Instead, it is secular society and many women who are holding the mirror up to the institutional Church and challenging it to address the complete equality of women in all aspects of the Catholic Church.
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Roy Donovan ACP Leadership Team responds to Bishop Coll on Synodality…
March 4 2026
Joe O'Leary
Of interest surely to Sean and to everyone else here is Crossan's book "In Search of Paul: How Jesus's Apostle opposed Rome's Empire with God's Kingdom", 2004 (co-authored with Jonathan L. Reed). I picked it up for nothing but have not yet read it -- it's historically dense and richly illustrated and is lauded as "an inspiring synthesis of history and theology, politics and religion." I see that the bookshop quarter of Tokyo, Jimbocho, has been voted the coolest quarter in the whole world! Surely hyperbolic, though it has several universities as well. My area, Koenji, used to be called the "poor man's Jimbocho" but has lost its best secondhand bookstores. However, there is a sort of garage sale held in a huge shed every weekend. Today I picked up Kenneth Clark, Looking at Pictures (1960) for 150JPY = .82 Euro, and I am reading the gripping work of Jean Strouse, Alice James, A Biography (1982), which I bought for 200 JPY (1.10 Euro). The problems of space and time which these purchases entail are an insoluble surd.
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Brendan Hoban: Catholic Church needs to embrace equality

Presider’s Page for 15 March 2026 (Fourth Sunday of Lent – Laetare Sunday, Mother’s Day)

Synod Report (and reactions): On women’s participation in the life and leadership of the Church

Roy Donovan ACP Leadership Team responds to Bishop Coll on Synodality…