Posted on 18. Apr, 2013 in Celibacy/Sexuality, Church Teachings, Feminism/Women in the Church
In the final part of our series, Pope Francis and me, we look at some of the controversial issues within the church. John Guiney SJ spoke with Miriam Gormally about his hopes for how Pope Francis will deal with women’s ordination, celibacy and homosexuality. He began first by saying how pleased he was that a […]
Posted on 18. Apr, 2013 in Church Teachings, Feminism/Women in the Church
Women, Hope and Ministry is a one day conference that will be taking place on April 26th. Miriam Gormally spoke with the keynote speaker, Dr. Phyllis Zangano, an internationally acclaimed Catholic scholar and lecturer on contemporary spirituality and women’s issues in the church. She will be looking at the issue of ordaining women as deacons. Here, […]
Posted on 21. Feb, 2013 in Church Teachings, Faith and Justice, Feminism/Women in the Church, Uncategorized
Marianne O’Connor OS, Director General of CORI retired at the end of 2012. During her time with CORI she faced many challenges to Church and Faith. Despite this, she remains optimistic that the seeds of the Gospel are still relevant in society and that the Church can and should learn from the past to move […]
Posted on 07. Feb, 2013 in Feminism/Women in the Church, Poverty
Michael Kelly SJ is a lifelong researcher on the topic of AIDS. He has looked at the history of the development of the disease and the responses to it. In his new book HIV and AIDS, A Social Justice Perspective, he says that the central issue around AIDS is not technological or biological. “It is […]
Posted on 10. Jan, 2013 in Feminism/Women in the Church, Uncategorized
In this final part of our series with Marianne O’Connor who left as head of CORI last year, we look at the issue of communication of Church teachings and women in the Church. Marianne talks with Miriam about her feeling of being a woman in a leadership position in an organisation that doesn’t traditionally give […]
Posted on 03. Jan, 2013 in Church Teachings, Feminism/Women in the Church, Uncategorized
This is the second part of Evelyn Mc Loughlin’s (Sr Loreto) story. Based on her autobiography ‘Down the Arches of the Years’, this episode looks at being in the novitiate and whether there were any challenges or temptations that might have made her rethink her religious life. Pat Coyle talks to her about life in […]
Posted on 27. Dec, 2012 in Feminism/Women in the Church, Uncategorized
Evelyn Mc Loughlin ( Sr Loreto) is in her 80th year and will launch her autobiography ‘Down the Arches of the Years’ in Ballinasloe, Gullanes Hotel on the 9th Dec at 2.30pm and in St Raphael’s School Loughrea at 7.30 pm on Wed 12 Dec. She was principal there as well as principal in Woodford […]
Posted on 22. Nov, 2012 in Feminism/Women in the Church
Soul Sisters is the theme of Darren McCallig’s Sunday morning series running until December 9th in Trinity College Dublin. He invited distinguished and inspirational women to come and give talks about the women that inspired them. The guest speakers included Alice Leahy, Miriam O’Callaghan and Emily O’Reilly, who will be the final speaker. Miriam Gormally put […]
Posted on 02. Aug, 2012 in Church Teachings, Feminism/Women in the Church, Gospel Values
In the last part of our series Miriam Gormally speaks with Maeve McMahon, a Dominican sister who was inspired by Vatican II to live and work with those on the margins of society. She lived in New Orleans, working as a school Principal and administrator. Hurricane Katrina forced her to return to Ireland. Here she […]
Posted on 03. May, 2012 in Celibacy/Sexuality, Feminism/Women in the Church, Humane Vitae
“We are Church” organised a silent vigil outside the papal nunciature in Dublin to protest against the censuring of priests by the Vatican. To date the Vatican has censured five Irish Catholic priests of whom Fr. D’Arcy was the fifth. The others are Redemptorist priests Fr. Tony Flannery and Fr. Gerard Moloney, Marist priest Fr. […]