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| Dr Marcella M. Althaus-Reid |
On not Looking like Christ ... | Catholic Women's Ordination July/August
2000 |
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| 300 parish priests in Austria |
....openly refusing
to comply with the Church's lack of reform. They call for 'disobedience' in seven key areas. |
http://www.pfarrer-initiative.at/ | |
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| Gregory Baum | The Credibility of the Church Today | from The Credibility of the Church, Burns &
Oates Limited, 1968 |
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| Belgian Catholic theologians | What Are You Still
Doing in This Church? |
La Libre Belgique, April 21, 2009 (English translation) | |
| Pope Benedict XVI | Incredible
'Infallibility' Claim |
Pope Benedict's note to Cardinal Re, 2009 | |
| Angela Berlis |
Catholic of
Course |
Talk given at an GOP Congress in Utrecht, 2010 |
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| Archbishop Róbert Bezák of Trnava |
The Vatican
dismisses another Bishop without due process |
Sme, SITA | |
| Fr Harry Bohan | Irish Church
must “change or die” |
The Irish Catholic, February, 2010 | |
| Roger de Borger | Open Letter to Pope Benedict XVI | Honorary Secretary General of the Belgian federal
government |
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| Kari Elisabeth Børresen | Religion
Confronting Women’s Human Rights: The Case of Roman Catholicism |
Ch.24 in Facilitating Freedom of Religion or
Belief, ed. Tore Lindholm e.a., Derk Book, the Hague, 2001. |
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| Roy Bourgeois |
Second Canonical
Warning. |
Letter from his Superior General, 2011 |
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| Roy Bourgeois |
Letter in response to his
Second Canonical Warning |
Letter to his Superior General and his community,
2011 |
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| Roy Bourgeois |
My Journey from
Silence to Solidarity |
Personal statement, 2012 |
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| Henri Boulad, S.J. | S.O.S. for Today’s Church |
A Personal Letter to Pope Benedict XVI |
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| Veronica Brady | 'The God of Small
Things': God, Women and the Question of Power |
Basic newsletter, 2000 | |
| Hubert and Aldegonde Brenninkmeijer-Werhan |
Letter to Pope Benedict XVI | The Tablet June 2012 | |
| Peter Burns | Women’s Ordination
and Infallible Teaching, An Inquiry. Was the Teaching Infallible? |
BASIC Newsletter, 1997. | |
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| Brendan Callaghan |
Safe Church - Lessons from the Child Abuse Events and How They have been Handled |
Living Theology 2011,
Keynote speech |
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| James Carroll |
Mandatory
celibacy at the heart of what's wrong |
National Catholic Reporter (http://ncronline.org). 2010. |
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| Joe Cecil |
Public Petition to
the Bishops for Women Priests |
2003 | |
| Joan Chittister |
A Pope the Laity
Want |
The National Catholic Reporter (1999) |
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| John Chuchman |
I am
Catholic |
New Catholic Times, June 2010 |
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| Mary Coloe | Women were there at
the Last Supper, they were therefore at the first altar |
June 2011
http://www.cathnews.com/article.aspx? |
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| Paul Collins |
Papal
Power |
Harper Collins 1997 |
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| Mary Condren | Latest Vatican
document is final straw for women |
The Irish Times, July, 2010. | |
| Dr Luca Badini Confalonieri |
Democracy in the Christian Church |
Review by Professor John Sullivan, Liverpool Hope University, August 2012 |
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| Joseph M. Connors | Synod ’74:
Success or Failure? |
America, November 30, 1974 | |
| Council of Constance | “An
ecumenical council is superior to the pope in matters of faith and governance” |
1414-1418 | |
| Charles E. Curran | ‘We cannot put
our heads in the sand’ |
National Catholic Reporter, Sept. 2010 |
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| Dirkje Donders | The Tenacious Voice of
Women, Rie Vendrik and the Pontifical Commission On Women in Society and in the Church |
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| Cardinal Timothy M.Dolan |
The Church and Accountability |
Catholic New York, 8 September 2012 |
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| Dowling | Dowling Criticises
Leadership of Church |
James Roberts, The Tablet, July 2010 | |
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| Mgr John Egan | Use the Gifts God
Gives. 'I look at my Church and tremble'. |
National Catholic Reporter, June, 2001 | |
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| Seán Fagan |
What Happened to Sin? |
The Columba Press, 2008 |
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| Maureen Gaffney | All change - how Ireland turned its back on dogma |
The Irish Times, September, 2010 |
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| Jeannine Gramick | The Place of Silencing
in the Teaching of the Church |
Presentation delivered at Haverford College,
Philadelphia, PA, Sept. 16, 2000 |
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| Herbert Haag | Preface : An Unresolved Enquiry |
From Infallible by Hans Küng 1989 edition | |
| Bernard Haering | A Letter to the
Pope. 'The magisterium has become a battle-cry of intransigent people'. |
The Tablet, June 1990 | |
| Hermann Haering | The Torch of
Renewal : The snare has been broken , and we have escaped (Psalm 124.7) |
GOP Congress in Utrecht, October 2010 | |
| Bishop John Heaps | A Love that Dares to Question, | Published by Canterbury Press, 2001. pp. 35-38. |
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| Bernard Hoose (ed.) | Authority in the Roman Catholic Church. Theory & Practice. (book) |
Ashgate 2002 | |
| Cardinal Basil Hume | The Council
stressed papal primacy and collegiality |
The Catholic Herald, July 1999 | |
| Peter Hünermann | Assessment of
‘Ordinatio Sacerdotalis’ |
Frauen Ordination, pp. 145-146. | |
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| Pope Innocent III |
Rejection of
the Magna Carta |
Etsi Karissimus in Christo, 1215 |
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| Michael Keane | The Call of Conscience.
The dilemma of the Christian in a totalitarian church |
BASIC Newsletter, Spring 2003 | |
| James Kottoor | Just Follow Jesus! Forget Priesthood, no Biblical Base! |
India |
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| Hans Küng |
Women's Ordination and
Infallibility, |
The Tablet, 1995 |
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| Hans Küng |
Kung urges peaceful
revolution against Roman absolutism at ACC conference |
National Catholic Reporter Online, Jun. 2011 |
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Tom Kyle |
Accountability - Why is it Important? |
Adapted from Catholicism at the Crossroads, Paul Lakeland, Continuum, NY, 2007 |
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| Nicholas Lash | Confusion over
infallibility . (For background information see Benedict XVI above) |
Letter in The Tablet June 2012 | |
| Nicholas Lash |
On Not Inventing Doctrine.
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Letter in The Tablet, December 1995 |
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| Bishop Raymond A. Lucker |
Talks with Bishop
Raymond A. Lucker |
The American Catholic January/February 2001
issue |
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| Marie-Thérèse van Lunen Chénu
and Louise Wentholt |
The Status of Women
in the Code of Canon Law and in the United Nations Convention |
Praxis juridique et religion 1 (1984) pp. 7-18. | |
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| Fr. Camilo Macisse |
Violence in the
Church, |
The Tablet, November, 2003 |
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| John Mahoney S.J. |
The Impact of Humanae
Vitae from The Making of Moral Theology, A Study of the Roman Catholic Tradition |
The Martin D’Arcy Memorial Lectures 1981-2 published by the Clarendon Press. Oxford (1989) |
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| Stephen Mason |
Authority vs control? -
a comment |
in a personal email to Housetop, 2012 |
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| Joseph Mattam SJ |
Being Church in Asia: New Evangelization and Challenges |
Asian Conference on New Evangelization,Sept. 2012, Pune |
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| Joseph Mattam SJ |
Clergy-Laity divide in the Church |
New Leader, (Chennai, India,) July 2012 |
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| Richard McBrien |
Bishops and the
Pope |
National Catholic Reporter, June 2011 |
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Muzzling the
Theologians |
The Tablet, March 1999 |
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| Richard McCormick | Theologians and the Magisterium | From Corrective Vision, Explorations in Moral Theology,
Sheed & Ward, 1994, Chapter 7. |
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| Charles McMahon | The Case for Electing Catholic Bishops |
October 11, 2006 |
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| Charles McMahon | On the Role of Women in the Roman Catholic Church |
November, 2006 |
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| John Merrigan | Infallibility?!
On what grounds?! (For background information see Benedict XVI above) |
Letter in the Tablet, June 2012 | |
| Dr. Aaron Milavec | Reflections on
the Sexual Abuse of Minors by Priests |
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| Bishop William Morris |
Pope Benedict
removes a Bishop for speaking about women's ordination |
2011 | |
| Bishop William Morris |
Pastoral Letter
of Bishop William M Morris, Bishop of Toowoomba, Australia |
2011 | |
| Nelson H Minnich | The voice of
theologians in general councils from Pisa to Trent |
Theological Studies vol. 59, 1998 | |
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| Klaus Nientiedt | ‘How Binding?
“Ordinatio sacerdotalis” unleashes debate on the
Magisterium’ |
Herder Korrespondenz, 1996 (English translation) |
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| Joseph F. O'Callaghan |
Why Not Elect
Our Bishops? |
Published by the American Catholic Council |
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| Jospeh S. O'Leary |
Integrity |
The Furrow, August 1985. |
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| Ladislas Örsy |
‘Infallibility
Explored’ - Professor Örsy replies |
Céide (Ireland), 1999 |
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| Ladislas Örsy |
The Church: Learning
& Teaching |
Michael Glazier, 1987 |
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| Fr Owen O'Sullivan |
Where are the
Priest-Prophets? |
The Furrow, 2003 |
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| Cardinal Jose da Cruz Policarpo | Lisbon Cardinal
Speaks out on Women Priests |
Taken from Newcanews.com 28th June 2011 |
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| Q | Emeritus Archbishop John R. Quinn | Governance in the Legacy of Vatican Council 11 |
National Catholic Reporter 11th March 2013 |
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| Joseph Ratzinger |
Infallibility
Explored |
Céide (Ireland), 1999 |
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| Bishop Geoffrey Robinson |
Bishop: Total
re-examination of Catholic faith, culture needed |
National Catholic Reporter. March 2012 | |
| Bishop Geoffrey Robinson |
Two Reports of
Australian Bishop Geoffrey Robinson’s U.S. Tour |
CN Catholic News, June 2008 | |
| Aruna Rodrigues | A Wounded Body
of Christ - Is There ‘Life’ Without Women? |
2001? | |
| Pastor Joseph Rodrigues | Understanding Biblical Authority |
Explore Your Faith Teaching Series - Explo-15 (?2006) | |
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| A.W. Richard Sipe |
Scandal vs. crisis;
PR vs. raw data |
National Catholic Reporter, July 2010 |
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| Der Spiegel | The Final Battles
of Pope Benedict XVI |
Der Spiegel 15th June 2012 | |
| David Stagaman SJ |
Piet Fransen’s Research on Fides et
Mores |
Theological Studies, 64, 2003, pp.
69-77 |
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| Bishop Reinholdt Stecher |
Deficiencies of the
Church’s present Leadership |
The Tablet, 1998 English translation |
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| Edward Stourton (BBC) |
The history of Humanae Vitae | www.catholica.com.au | |
| Francis Sullivan | Guideposts from
Catholic tradition. Infallibility doctrine invoked in statement against ordination by Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith |
The Tablet, 1995 | |
| Francis Sullivan |
Recent theological
observations on magisterial documents and public dissent |
Theological Studies, 1997 | |
| Professor Dr Leonard Swidler | Professor Dr
Leonard Swidler outlines the areas in which the Catholic Church should adopt democratic principles |
See video online |
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Trent Launches World
Revolution in Theology |
National Catholic Reporter (http://ncronline.org )Sept. 2010 |
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| Marie Louise Uhr |
Obedience a Questionable
Virtue |
St. Mark's Review, 1998 |
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| Marie Louise Uhr |
Admission
of Women to the Priesthood Barriers and Boundaries |
Uhr archive in National Library of Australia |
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| Marie Louise Uhr |
For the
20th Anniversary of the installation of John Paul II |
Uhr archive in National Library of Australia |
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| Marie Louise Uhr |
Opening
of first national gathering |
Uhr archive in National Library of Australia |
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| Marie Louise Uhr |
Papal
Obituary |
Uhr archive in National Library of Australia |
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| Marie Louise Uhr |
The
Church and the Media |
Uhr archive in National Library of Australia |
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| Marie Louise Uhr |
Shifting
Domestic Images of Church |
Uhr archive in National Library of Australia |
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| Marie Louise Uhr |
Speaking
Out - the role of OCW |
Uhr archive in National Library of Australia |
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| Marie Louise Uhr |
Staying
faithful through dissent |
Uhr archive in National Library of Australia |
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| Marie Louise Uhr |
The
Church and the Media - Lecture given at Uni House |
Uhr archive in National Library of Australia |
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Janet Uhr |
The
participation of Women in the Catholic Church in Australia |
Uhr archive in National Library of Australia |
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| Marie Louise Uhr |
The
Portrayal of Women in the Lectionary |
Uhr archive in National Library of Australia |
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| Marie Louise Uhr |
Women and
the Church - a case of discrimination |
Uhr archive in National Library of Australia |
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| Marie Louise Uhr |
Women
speak out - Catholic Voice Oct 1988 |
Uhr archive in National Library of Australia |
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| Marie Louise Uhr |
Working
for Women's Ordination |
Uhr archive in National Library of Australia |
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| John Wijngaards |
Christ's Idea of
Authority |
Available to
purchase online |
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| John Wijngaards |
Spiritual
Leadership and Self Reliance |
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| John Wijngaards |
We need a Pope able to think, willing to learn |
National Catholic Reporter, March 2013 |
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| John Wijngaards |
Women Bishops? Views
in the Roman Catholic Church, Official and Otherwise, |
2008 |
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| Peter Wilkinson | The Wilkinson
Report, on the shortage of priests the Catholic Church is facing in Australia. |
First published at www.catholica .com.au, March
2011 |
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| Susan Wood | The Sacramentality of
Episcopal Consecration |
Theological Studies, 51, no.3, 1990 | |
| Alain Woodrow |
Free speech in the
Church |
The Tablet, June 1998 |
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