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A 🌏 network of Catholic reform and other Christian groups for a safe, just, inclusive church. 49 🌂 Companions to date. Mostly posted by co-founder PMiddelboe

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@SpiritUnbounded
Spirit Unbounded
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The most amazing speech 'talking truth to power' today at Bishop Stephen Wright's installation in Hexham and Newcastle. Maggie Matthews delivered a prophetic speech on behalf of surivors. @RootBranchSynod
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Dr Mary McAleese former President of Ireland  - the secrecy of the bishops synod is unhelpful and unhealthy @MiriamTDuignan @RootBranchSynod
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@SpiritUnbounded
Spirit Unbounded
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Watch this 4min trailer and then say you don’t need to buy a ticket to ‘Human Rights in the emerging Catholic Church’ - Your Lay-led Synodal Assembly 8-14 Oct, online and options for Bristol and Rome final knock-out weekend
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@SpiritUnbounded
Spirit Unbounded
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Ohio priest who sex-trafficked boys he met in preschool given life sentence but Vatican hasn’t decided to defrock 6 months after diocese requested he be de-frocked.
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@SpiritUnbounded
Spirit Unbounded
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Jamie Manson thank you for letting us be your co-conspirators in taking down the radical patriarchy 🔥 So brave to discuss abortion and choice! #takedowntheradicalpatriarchy #catholicsforchoice #spiritunbounded #emergingchurch #rootandbranchsynod
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Vatican authority over Catholics "belongs to an old disintegrating empire of generals and conscripts" and was "legally and morally questionable," former president Dr Mary McAleese has said - article by @PatsyMcGarryIT
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@SpiritUnbounded
Spirit Unbounded
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‘Vatican says transsexuals, surrogate children of gay couples can be baptized.’ Am I alone in thinking the Vatican has no right to deny baptism to anyone who seeks it? Every person is either made in God’s image or none of us is.
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Spirit Unbounded
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Former president of Ireland Dr Mary McAleese has lashed out at the Catholic Church over its teaching excluding women from the priesthood, describing it as “unscholarly, sexist humbug masquerading as threadbare theology”. Read the full article here:
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Spirit Unbounded
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A beautiful summary of our two day event. Thank you for all the volunteers for making this happen💕 let the spirit carry you forward.
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@SpiritUnbounded
Spirit Unbounded
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These women of faith keep us going - thanks Sr Joan Chittister and Dr Mary McAleese for being our spirit ambassadors in our press conference 🔥 You are defining synodality! #womenoffaithkeepgoing #hereissynodality #spiritunbounded #emergingchurch #rootandbranchsynod
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@omid9 Come on Muslim leaders - speak out against this tyranny. It’s not religion.
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Spirit Unbounded
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Simply listen to each other. Spirit Unbounded is here to enable just that
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Lakota Man
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According to Lakota social etiquette, simply listening (and not interrupting) is the greatest form of respect — that we can ever hope to bestow.
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Spirit Unbounded
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This is so good
@RevMikeyF
RevMikey 🏳️‍🌈
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This!
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Spirit Unbounded
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Living the discipleships of equals: Sr Joan Chittister OSB What a fantastic example of discipleship. Thank you for telling us your ways... 👏 #discipleshipofequals #spiritunbounded #emergingchurch #rootandbranchsynod
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Spirit Unbounded
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Welcome to our family of the future Catholic church... Equality for women, laity, LGBTQ+, married, all ❤️ #ourcatholicfamily #spiritunbounded #emergingchurch #rootandbranchsynod
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Spirit Unbounded
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online programme 8-12 Oct features daily survivor-victim testimonies under a theme ‘Shaking the Tree 🌳- speakers include @BDevlin1 #maggieMathews @HilleHaker - nuns in Africa and India, seminarians, a deacon, #bryanmassingdale #descahill
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Brian Devlin
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‘An estimated 330,000 children were victims of sex abuse within France’s Catholic Church over the past 70 years, according to a report released Tuesday that represents the country’s first major accounting of the worldwide phenomenon.’
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Spirit Unbounded
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Getting ready to address the lay led Synodal assembly. From the Black Isle, Scotland. @BDevlin1
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Very important. As speaker Tom Doyle said ‘don’t believe the Catholic Church when it says it knows how to handle clerical abuse it does not’
@Richard_Scorer
Richard Scorer
1 year
Letter in The Times today from myself and legal colleagues - IICSA’s final report was published a year ago today, but a year on, disgracefully, not a single one of the main recommendations has been implemented.
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"We are here to encourage the Synod to capture the zeitgeist and reorient the Church towards its Christian mission of a discipleship of equals which may yet write a history that ends in love," Mrs McAleese said.
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Spirit Unbounded
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Rejoice warning: WOMEN PRIESTS ARE HERE... Amazing to have Bishop Bridget Mary Meehan here speaking to us about her inspiring journey as a women Catholic priest ⭐ #womenpriestsarehere #romancatholicwomenpriests #spiritunbounded #emergingchurch #rootandbranchsynod
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Spirit Unbounded
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This is so important. This priest Fr Connell needs our support @voiceofsurvivor @IndieTheology @BDevlin1
@NatesMission
Nate’s Mission
2 years
We held a press conference today to show support for Father Connell, who was retaliated against by Archbishop Listecki for advocating for abuse victims. After having his faculties to hear confession removed, he’s standing firm in support for survivors and an abuse-free church.
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Spirit Unbounded
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Wanìshi Steven Newcomb and Shawna Bluestar Newcomb 🙌 Wanìshi for sharing with us how domination has impacted your community - what an inspiring Father/Daughter pairing! #choosingharmony #spiritunbounded #emergingchurch #rootandbranchsynod
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Spirit Unbounded
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You had to leave the RC priesthood to become a priest - a servant
@BDevlin1
Brian Devlin
10 months
And, now I realise, I had to leave the priesthood and be with them in order to become a priest.
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Spirit Unbounded
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The Magnificat is revolutionary with its proclamation of God’s values to upturn the mighty and free the persecuted - no wonder it was taken up by Oscar Romero, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the mothers of the desaparecidos during Argentina’s Dirty War etc
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Sr Miriam McNulty
10 months
In Advent we are invited to call upon God’s name. We are invited to seek that quiet holiness that Mary lived. Pray the Magnificat each day. Ask God to show you the holiness of your own life. Give thanks to God. (Luke 1:46–55, Dec 22nd)
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Spirit Unbounded
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Just picked up the prog for the last 2days. 🤩Someone just said ‘it is a thing of beauty!’ You can also see it &the entire online prog for 40+hrs 8-12 Oct here Tickets from £24 give access to all this in perpetuity and option of other language subtitles
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Spirit Unbounded
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Ordain women ⁦ @dearmisskate ⁩ ⁦ @CWOcampaign ⁩ ⁦ @CWP112716 ⁩ ⁦ @RootBranchSynod
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We have lift off. 🚀🕊️This in this morning from speaker in India: A big hug of blessing and solidarity I watched day 1 videos and the movie....each one as powerful as the other ...it enriched me, affirmed me...challenged me and even pained me.
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@SpiritUnbounded
Spirit Unbounded
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The deputy director of a branch of Catholic charity Caritas in Poland has quit the church, saying that the institution is a “mafia” that has been “sheltering criminals”, including those guilty of child sex abuse. Sebastian Wiśniewski joined Caritas in 2007 @ReisingerWagner
@SpiritUnbounded
Spirit Unbounded
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Catholic charity chief in Poland quits church, calling it “mafia sheltering criminals” | Notes From Poland
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What an fabulous end to a fabulous day! Thank you Dr Mary McAleese for talking about being denied the discipleship of equals! 🌊 #equalityandthecatholicchurch #spiritunbounded #emergingchurch #rootandbranchsynod
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Spirit Unbounded
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Beatitudinal Church 2. ‘Blessed are those who weep’ Not those who whimper but those who cry out (against injustice) - Pierre Jacob (English translation by Joe Mulhooney)
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An article by Blair in the 14 October issue of The Tablet p34 - Blair urges Church to lead on women @CherieBlairKC @The_Tablet
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Spirit Unbounded
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Good question
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Joshua McElwee
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Cardinal Hollerich asks a big question to the #Synod of Bishops. "Men and women receive the same baptism... I have never read anywhere that the baptism of women would be inferior to the baptism of men. How can we ensure that women feel they are an integral part of this Church?"
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And we let the spirit be unbound... what an awesome moment when those in Rome and Bristol danced together with Eneyi Pemu & St Nick's African Drums! 🙌 #catholicsdance #letsboogie #spiritunbounded #emergingchurch #rootandbranchsynod
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Spirit Unbounded
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From across the world thinkers, theologians, ordinary people of every gender, female religious, priests (male, female, former) are giving us their voices. They speak from the heart, about the challenges and terrible injustices caused by RC teaching
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@JoannaMoorhead
Joanna Moorhead
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It’s crunch time for the Catholic Church on women: the Rome synod must be more than a cynical exercise in kicking the can down the road Thanks ⁦ @PMaryMcAleese ⁩ ⁦ @SpiritUnbounded ⁩ ⁦ @CampaignWOW ⁩ ⁦⁦⁦⁦
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We have lift off. 🚀🕊️This in this morning from speaker in India: A big hug of blessing and solidarity I watched day 1 videos and the movie....each one as powerful as the other ...it enriched me, affirmed me...challenged me and even pained me.
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Spirit Unbounded
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A fantastic, educational and... spicy speech from Dr Luca Badini Confalonieri, Director of the Wijngaards Institute for Catholic Research! 😍 #thewijngaardsinstitute #letstalkaboutsexinthecatholicchurch #jesuswelcomeseveryone #spiritunbounded #emergingchurch #rootandbranchsynod
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Spirit Unbounded
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Well said. Hold the applause Pope Francis. Women will take their rights/rites first @RootBranchSynod
@OrdainWomen
Women's Ordination Conference
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On International Women's Day, Pope Francis called for an applause for women, saying "they deserve it." Please, hold your applause! We'll take our rights/rites first. #OrdainWomen #IWD
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@RichRaho
Rich Raho
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Pope Francis to +Fernandez: “The Dicastery you will preside over in other times came to use immoral methods. They were times where, rather than promoting theological knowledge, possible doctrinal errors were pursued. What I expect of you is undoubtedly something very different.”
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Spotted this inaugural plaque at #stmichaelscentre in Bristol which will be our technical hub for the hybrid, online event ‘Human Rights in the Catholic Church’ 8-14 Oct. Very synodal. ⁦ @RootBranchSynod ⁩ ⁦ @WijngaardsR ⁩ ⁦ @CampaignWOW ⁩ ⁦ @CWOcampaign
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Tech rehearsal Tuesday and Wednesday for Oct 13-14 final weekend of ‘Human Rights in the Catholic Church’ Stage not dressed. Chittester: ‘this is the best organised event’. Early Bird tickets on sale soon. ⁦ @RootBranchSynod ⁩ ⁦ @TAC_journal ⁩ ⁦⁦ @thesynodaltimes
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Spirit Unbounded
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Big shout out to @BDevlin1 part of Spirit Unbounded Implementation Team
@RootBranchSynod
Root & Branch Inclusive Synod
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What a lovely boy!!read Brian’s book ‘Cardinal Sin’ which starts with his childhood and his deafness. It’s a mesmerising read. PM
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You said it. ‘This is misogynistic apartheid. If the RC Church we’re a country would you buy its produce, vacation there, take your children?!’ - @BDevlin1 @jamielmanson @MiriamTDuignan @luca_badini @OrdainWomen @CWOcampaign @CampaignWOW @RootBranchSynod @we_irl @dremflynn
@Bothand2022
Both/and
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@BDevlin1 @SpiritUnbounded @CWOcampaign @CampaignWOW @OrdainWomen And it is exactly why all these celebrated appointments of women to positions in the Vatican are appointments to JUNIOR positions. The male hierarchy uses them as tokens and as workhorses who will be squashed like bugs (or carried to the garden) if they look up from their scripts
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The clerical church is dying. Total number of seminarians in Ireland 64. Makes Spain with 1000 look healthy and yet the Spanish bishops are panicking. In Pamplona one seminary had space for 10000. They are blaming low birth rates.
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Spirit Unbounded
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Marianne Duddy-Burke on The Synod’s meaning for LGBTQIA+ and Ally Catholics 🏳️‍🌈 from @GNRcatholics @Catholic4Choice moderated by @jamielmanson posted by @Claus1860
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Starts at 17:49 with presentation of LoudFence prayer ribbons by @ASobocki and @MaryVarley15 Maggie M has wonderful long, red hair. Stephen Wright didn't ask to check Maggie's speech beforehand. @RootBranchSynod @RCsurvivors @ReshapersCIC
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Spirit Unbounded
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The most amazing speech 'talking truth to power' today at Bishop Stephen Wright's installation in Hexham and Newcastle. Maggie Matthews delivered a prophetic speech on behalf of surivors. @RootBranchSynod
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Spirit Unbounded
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Devlin, @BDevlin1 , the author of Cardinal Sin on RC Church in Scotland “…the problem is just as bad now as it was under Keith O’Brien. The problem being abuse of power, not in a sexual manifestation, but in bullying, intolerance, in arrogance.”
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Significant tiny step? Austrian Cardinal Schönborn of Vienna, who upholds Church teaching on LGBTQ+ issues, says the pope has the power to change the catechism’s language describing homosexual activity as “disordered.” @RootBranchSynod @luca_badini @DignityUSA @MiriamTDuignan
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Spirit Unbounded
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The women here are awe-inspiring. Here is Pat Brown, longtime campaigner for Catholic Women's Ordination, UK 💪 #catholicwomensordination #ordainwomen #spiritunbounded #emergingchurch #rootandbranchsynod
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Spirit Unbounded
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And there you have it! @CWOcampaign @CampaignWOW @OrdainWomen We can’t have ministry-lite. Women are either made in God’s image or not.
@ColleenDulle
Colleen Dulle
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Asked about women’s ordination, synod member Cistertian Fr. Mauro-Giuseppe Lepori says “No one had spoken about female ordination [to the priesthood], we speak about the diaconate.”
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Thank you to Rev. Dr Shanon Sterringer, pastor from the community of St Hildegard, for starting our morning with her blessing all the way from Ohio 🥰 #holdingthespirittogether #spiritunbounded #emergingchurch #rootandbranchsynod
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Spirit Unbounded
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The only change I can see coming out of this Oct session: ‘we’re free to disagree’ - Anyone else underwhelmed? Thank you everyone who contributed bravely &spoke freely to Spirit Unbounded. How do we get the bishops to listen to our 60+hrs on all the themes the synod discussed?
@SpiritUnbounded
Spirit Unbounded
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Synod General Assembly letter: ‘It is “trust” that gives us the audacity and inner freedom that we experienced, not hesitating to freely and humbly express our convergences, differences, desires and questions.’ Francis quoting St Therese of the Child Jesus
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We know several young Africans denied visas Come and hear a few of them at our synodal assembly, running alongside the Pope's synod, thinking about nurturing an emerging church where human rights for all are protected @RootBranchSynod @TAC_journal
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Spirit Unbounded
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Fab talk just in from @elissa_roper for ‘Human Rights in the Catholic Church’ 8-14 Oct- from a theologian specialising in synodality. No wish-washy pretty words like ‘listening’ ‘walking together’. Proper analysis of how Spirit can help us change from clericalism to synodality
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Spirit Unbounded
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Welcome back! We're awake and ready for another glorious day 🌞 Hope you are too... #weareready #spiritunbounded #emergingchurch #rootandbranchsynod
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Spirit Unbounded
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…the strongest argument against Christianity is also Christians — when they are somber and joyless, when they are self-righteous and smug in complacent consecration, when they are narrow and repressive, then Christianity dies a thousand deaths. @RootBranchSynod
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In our back office in Bristol during Spirit Unbounded
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Spirit Unbounded
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Do not succumb to Synod fatigue.
@thesynodaltimes
The Synodal Times
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Read Miriam Duignan's provoking piece on how we must not succumb to Synod fatigue and instead continue our quest towards accountability in the latest issue of The Synodal Times. #synod #CatholicChurch
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'Biggie', underground LGBT+ support group, who risks life to return to Uganda to help others is speaker 8-14 Oct: 'I want Pope Francis to ask the President of Uganda to repeal the anti-homosexuality bill because it is inhuman.' Come and support all the marginalised @Far_Uganda
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Just picked up the prog for the last 2days. 🤩Someone just said ‘it is a thing of beauty!’ You can also see it &the entire online prog for 40+hrs 8-12 Oct here Tickets from £24 give access to all this in perpetuity and option of other language subtitles
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@RootBranchSynod
Root & Branch Inclusive Synod
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This screenshot shows a line-up of misogynistic comments about @The_Tablet article on women deacons. You have to 🤣 at these threatened men. IF, on the other hand, you're interested in a Church that embraces the beatitudes get in touch with @RootBranchSynod and @SpiritUnbounded
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Read Pepinster in @The_Tablet on the distress caused to Hexham and Newcastle diocese @RootBranchSynod Stolen Lives team assisted: @MaryVarley15 is quoted by Pepinster and Maggie Matthews gets letter in top billing. Synod must ensure bishops cannot behave as gods @hans_zollner
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Fingers crossed for the results of the Polish election: . “This election is not only about the future of democracy, but also women’s rights, the future of Poland in the EU and Nato,” she says Aniya who queued for hours yesterday in London to vote as a Pole living abroad
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So many joyful smiles here today! This is Gemma Lamarra of the Scottish Laity Network (SLN) 😊 #smilingforjesus #scottishlaitynetwork #spiritunbounded #emergingchurch #rootandbranchsynod
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‘Vatican says ashes of the dead can be kept privately’ - but only a small amount and with bishop’s permission. Personally not impressed by yet more attempts to control our lives. But perhaps others see differently?
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ChristmasParty @The_Tablet Atheneum Club last night, where trads and reformers mingled. Talked with Opus Dei Jack and young novice nun Liz Dodds arrested for campaigning against arms sales in London. “If The Tablet is anything it is a ‘room’ to share ideas”- editor Brendan Walsh
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Spirit Unbounded
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If you can spare a few £€$ to keep the Spirit Unbounded website, newsletter going then we will truly be stronger together. Spirit Unbounded seeks only to unite people who actively work to support those marginalised and abused by the church PLEASE RT 🙏
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Spirit Unbounded
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Recommend the blog from @NYpoet - here’s a short extract - ‘Imagine supporting your church for your whole life and then getting stuck with obtaining end of life spiritual guidance from a guy who has been sexually assaulting minors for forty years?’ @MaryVarley15 @BDevlin1
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Fabulous. They’re going to serve as a Time Capsule of where we are in October 2023. To be revisited with friends, family, parishes. Just need to tie the bishops down and make the watch. @RootBranchSynod
@MaryKennan1
Mary Kennan #FBPE
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@SpiritUnbounded thank you so much for the wonderful talks from such a variety of people. I’m still on Sunday’s videos and I will want to go over and reflect as time goes on. I’m so glad they will be available to watch again. You must all worked so hard and I’m very grateful.
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Dio benedica, God bless and goodbye from Rome 👋 Thank you God for letting us join as family and let the spirit be unbounded among us 🔥 #diobenedica #godbless #spiritunbounded #emergingchurch #rootandbranchsynod
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We cover over the gold as we seek the approval of others, looking to them to measure our worth—to determine whether we are good enough, smart enough, successful enough.' @RootBranchSynod @RCsurvivors @ASobocki @ReshapersCIC @BDevlin1 @hans_zollner
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Breaking news; Some women to vote in synod on synodality Oct 2023. 🧐 Incremental change is worth having providing it brings about incremental change. If, however, the bishops outvote the laity ¬hing changes then we will know this was only meant to be good PR. @RootBranchSynod
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We were listening hard and learning from the 'Justice for the other - the cry of the earth and the poor' panel in Bristol from Rome 🌍 #catholicsforourplanet #catholicsforallourpeople #spiritunbounded #emergingchurch #rootandbranchsynod
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Spirit unbounded gives you the wonderful Rene Reid 🥰 Director of Catholic Church Reform International - thank you for coming all the way here! #catholicchurchreforminternational #blessedwomen #spiritunbounded #emergingchurch #rootandbranchsynod
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Amazing to have Margaret Mary Moore with us! Thank you for your life's work on American reform for Catholics 👏 #letsfightforward #womeninthechurch #spiritunbounded #emergingchurch #rootandbranchsynod
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Awesome start here in Rome listening to Dr Paola Lazzarini Orrù speaking about 'Women in the Italian Church'! ❤️ #womeninthechurch #catholicwomen #spiritunbounded #emergingchurch
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Thank @HilleHaker for sending this to @MaryVarley15 also in this morning: ‘just watched Sunday. It’s so good and so important.' Start watching folks! It’s a cornucopia of wisdom and testimony and a few laughs and some beautiful scenery and music
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Spirit Unbounded
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Brian has hit the nail on the head.Those behind Spirit Unbounded 2023 are exhausted. However if a new team want to do something under the banner of Spirit Unbounded please do. It’s an online ecumenical platform to bring all reform-minded people together - it belongs to everyone.
@BDevlin1
Brian Devlin
11 months
@Bothand2022 @SpiritUnbounded @RootBranchSynod @BirgitteUna @HilleHaker @jamielmanson I don’t think there are any plans to repeat the meeting next year. The effort, time and resource it took was extraordinarily intense. But we do hope that the spirit of @SpiritUnbounded will flourish in communities across the world.
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Spirit Unbounded
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Wishing one of the inspirers behind Spirit Unbounded 🕊️a very happy birthday (and Shakespeare too). Dear Brian, 🙏may your pain be lifted so you can enjoy your day and get back to writing @BDevlin1 @RootBranchSynod
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Spirit Unbounded
10 months
This features our Open Letter to pope Francis on p22, great editorial from Garry, and article by @MiriamTDuignan which is well worth reading. Plus lots of other synodal news.
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The Synodal Times
10 months
Our thrilling December issue is out today! Featuring exclusive news, views and recap of the biggest stories impacting the global Church! #CatholicTwitter #CatholicChurch #synod
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Spirit Unbounded
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Richard Rohr: If we are ready to reclaim the true meaning of “catholic,” which is “universal,” we must concentrate on including—as Jesus clearly did—instead of excluding—which he never did. The only thing Jesus excluded was exclusion itself. @rootbranchsynod
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Spirit Unbounded
1 year
@PaxChristiUSA 😊 Hello, your work looks inspiring. Have you already heard about Spirit Unbounded? 😊
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Spirit Unbounded
1 year
So we begin our in person conference! Benvenuto from our sisters and brothers in Roma 🔥 #emergingchurch #catholicchurch #spiritunbounded
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Spirit Unbounded
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@raynahbraganza1 Thank you. The Shaking the Tree programmes daily with stories from survivor-victims are so well presented/thought through. Plus support resources for anyone triggered. @MaryVarley15 @RCsurvivors @SurvivorsHall @Smartcairns11 @ReshapersCIC @BDevlin1 @HilleHaker @ReisingerWagner
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Spirit Unbounded
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Spirit Unbounded
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Ordain women ⁦ @dearmisskate ⁩ ⁦ @CWOcampaign ⁩ ⁦ @CWP112716 ⁩ ⁦ @RootBranchSynod
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Spirit Unbounded
10 months
Check out @NYpoet blog on 1st anniv Sinead O’Connor death: ‘the sheeple drunk n clericalism’ who hate her. As @BDevlin1 mentioned in his concluding speech at the end of ‘Human Rights in the emerging RC Church’8-14 Oct Sinead identified RC clerical ABUSE long ago. @RCsurvivors
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Spirit Unbounded
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Thank you Jamie Mason, Miro Matávka, Marianne Duddy-Burke, Mark Guevarra, Miki Herrlein and Mara Klein for telling us what this synod means for LBGTQIA+ and ally Catholics 🌈🔥 @LGBTQcatholics @spiritunbounded @rootandbranchsynod @DignityUSA @ConcernedLayCatholics @OutInChurch
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