<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Catherine Walther via <a href="http://groups.io">groups.io</a></strong> <span dir="auto"><catherine.walther=<a href="mailto:gmail.com@groups.io">gmail.com@groups.io</a>></span><br>Date: Fri, Oct 25, 2024 at 5:32 PM<br>Subject: [Ruah] Catholic Network for Women's Equality Fwd: Vaticanelle - a parady of an all-women hierarchy exploring whether men should be allowed to the priesthood<br>To: Taproot Group <<a href="mailto:taprootcan@googlegroups.com">taprootcan@googlegroups.com</a>>, Ruah Group <<a href="mailto:Ruah@groups.io">Ruah@groups.io</a>><br></div><br><br><div dir="auto">This play is about 45 minutes long but so well done showing the ridiculous arguments that are used against women’s ordination by the bishops and cardinals. It makes my heart sing. </div><div dir="auto">Enjoy and pass it on to whomever you believe it may have an impact. </div><div dir="auto">Blessings, Catherine<br clear="all"><br clear="all"><div dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Georgia, serif" style="font-family:Georgia,serif;color:rgb(20,20,20)"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Georgia,serif">When life wins there will be no losers. A'Ida Shibli</span></font></p></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Rosemary Ganley</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:rganley209@gmail.com" target="_blank">rganley209@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Fri, Oct 25, 2024 at 3:32 PM<br></div></div></div><div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Subject: Catholic Network for Women's Equality Fwd: Vaticanelle - a parady of an all-women hierarchy exploring whether men should be allowed to the priesthood<br>To: <<a href="mailto:cnwe@googlegroups.com" target="_blank">cnwe@googlegroups.com</a>><br></div></div></div><div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"></div></div></div><div><div class="gmail_quote"><br><br><div dir="auto"></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Catholic Church Reform Int'l</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:info-catholicchurchreform.com@shared1.ccsend.com" target="_blank">info-catholicchurchreform.com@shared1.ccsend.com</a>></span><br>Date: Fri, Oct 25, 2024, 2:57 p.m.<br>Subject: Vaticanelle - a parady of an all-women hierarchy exploring whether men should be allowed to the priesthood<br>To: <<a href="mailto:rganley209@gmail.com" target="_blank">rganley209@gmail.com</a>><br></div><br><br><u></u>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif">The highlight of the presentations during the We Are Church Int'l meetings was Vaticanelle - a parody play of an all female hierarchy weighing the requests from men to be accepted into the priesthood. Lines used in this performance are the exact lines being used by the bishops for why women cannot be accepted into the priesthood. <a href="https://do9gssnab.cc.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001ThWmnAmBCB8ON99FNwcUyCLLtdcAnzQQeXfNECJDUZGcbkGkxn9WQABTScZj5gt-NB7N6HjKod1Ub-ea7-Imu3yaADz_gzH8GJAI9hZeW1ekTCXHM7H2wr7_Ji3Iozu3etdtIMFkTD_iVS6BlwFw693Z9JHkBZzRd_0DF5fJd_u1Jb0M9uLwFzGQKEHaaV5z&c=9Gm2hVl975q4YI6wp1DOlqYrmSqxEkUtnAvOEm-wD9v_oTuZwB2Y4A==&ch=LfzU-hQSRIwKLY0VI93uxGMOPqiF6NFGn5svejJk3qbbqKl7wHmafw==" rel="noopener noreferrer noreferrer" style="font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;font-style:normal;font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,255)" target="_blank">Click here</a> to see the play. </p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px;font-weight:bold;font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif">PRESS RELEASE</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:18px;font-weight:bold;font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif">We Are Church International scripted and performed VATICANELLE in Rome on 12 October 2024</span><span style="font-size:14px;font-weight:bold;font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif">.</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif">VATICANELLE is a parody with seven Women bishops and Pope Sister Martha in a Synod of Bishops discussing if men could be ordained. After a long discussion a clear decision is made: </span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif">Ad Experimentum suitable men will be ordained as priests and deacons in those communities that wish to take this opportunity. The motion is approved by a vote 6 - 2. </span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif">Here are some quotes from the discussion:</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-style:italic">In both the Old Testament and New Testament, the theme of the ‘exodus’ - the exodus from enslaving constraints - is a leitmotif: God hears the cries of the oppressed, while she topples the ‘mighty’ from their thrones and exalts the lowly (Luke 1:52)</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-style:italic">And for the climax of YAHWH's work for her people, it says: ‘when the time was fulfilled, God sent her Son, born of a woman ...’ (Gal 4:4). It was the divine plan to choose a woman to begin the divine act of redemption without the intervention of a man. </span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-style:italic">St Joseph is recommended as a role model for all men – it is called the “Josephine principle”!!</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-style:italic">Can men be priests when they are more used to thinking in terms of laws and are not used to asking for mercy?</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-style:italic">Can men be priests if they so often make women invisible, even in subtle ways, in texts, in writings, in translations, even trivializing their concerns and not taking their wishes seriously?</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-style:italic">Can men be priests if they want to lead instead of serve?</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-style:italic">Can men be priests if their history is a chain of atrocities against women: rape, oppression?</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-style:italic">One would have to fear that they would take advantage of their position and sexually exploit women and children, especially nuns and altar servers?</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-style:italic">... but unfavorable external circumstances, damp southerly winds and the like, result in boys by chance, not planned, not intended. So a boy has no intrinsic value, but is rather a ‘failed woman’. For this reason, the man is ascribed a multiple inferiority.</span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-family:Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p>
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