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Empowering Ourselves flourish and thrive'

'Why is the church so foolish that it leaves it's most deeply committed and involved group of people to be pushed aside in such a peremptory fashion?'

Tony Flannery CssR

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Empowering Ourselves flourish and thrive'

'Free ourselves from the coercive voice of the Fathers and rules'

Read Penelope Middelboe's blog on Root and Branch's weekend gathering at Hinsley Hall, Leeds.

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Empowering Ourselves flourish and thrive

Read about Mary McAleese's talk in the Irish Independent on

2 September 2024 by Sarah McDonald

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Empowering Ourselves flourish and thrive

Mary McAleese warns ‘winds of change’ have died in Synod on Synodality

Mary Ring explains why “The Synod has not proven to be the widely engaging and reformative experience that people hoped for.”

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Root & Branch Community for Reform

warmly welcomes you

to our lay-led gathering

Empowering Ourselves:

flourish & thrive.

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EMPOWERING OURSELVES flourish & thrive.

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SR. JOAN CHITTISTER

OUR OPENING GUESTS

Opening Prayer and Reflections:

Empowering Ourselves.

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Photo: Susie Triffitt

Also joining Joan

DR. MARY McALEESE

Dr Mary McAleese was two term President of Ireland from 1997 to 2011. The theme of her presidency was Building Bridges and working for peace and reconciliation. She is a leading critic of Catholic Church teaching on among other things, women, homosexuality, Church members’ human rights, children’s rights, corporal punishment, church governance and episcopal accountability.
Broadcaster and academic lawyer, she has a licentiate and doctorate in Canon Law.