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Post by MourningIreland on Jun 24, 2017 16:44:28 GMT
There is an interesting obituary in the Irish Times today for Dr Ann Louise Gilligan which charts her career from the convent to community activism ,radical feminism,and liberal theology. Her role as a lecturer in a catholic teacher training college was a clear example on the rot that was occuring in Irish catholicism and specifically its educational establishment in recent decades. Somewhat ironically the late Des Hanifan a doughty defender of traditional moral values also has an obituary on the same page. May he rest in peace. When individuals who promote heretical and apostate ideas remain employed at Catholic institutions where they are paid to promote these ideas under the guise of the "Catholicism", the laity - most of whom tolerate this because they are are, apparently, largely uncatechised - become confused about what the Church actually teaches. This has been going on for a long time not only in Ireland but all over the West, and it's getting progressively more ridiculous:
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Post by Maolsheachlann on Jun 24, 2017 17:04:16 GMT
The laity sometimes even object to being catechised. In my local parish, there is a running battle between a Nigerian priest and a group of parishioners who object to him giving a homily on Saturday mornings. At one point he stopped giving Saturday morning homilies and, when I asked him why, he told me it was because people complained it made the Mass too long. I encouraged him to continue. For many weeks now these parishioners have resorted to the petty stratagem of remaining standing for a few moments, when he asks them to sit after the gospel reading, presumably as a mark of protest at not going straight to the prayers of the faithful. Today he had to ask them to sit a second time.
His homilies are fine-- not great, but fine-- and not particularly long. I gave him a Christmas card last Christmas, thanking them for his homilies.
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Post by Maolsheachlann on Jun 28, 2017 10:39:11 GMT
A female colleague objected to me asking her to "run along" when I was taking over from her at a service desk, saying this was "chauvinistic". I'd be just as likely to say this to a man. I told her I had no time for political correctness, which didn't seem to please her much.
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Post by MourningIreland on Jun 28, 2017 11:01:42 GMT
A female colleague objected to me asking her to "run along" when I was taking over from her at a service desk, saying this was "chauvinistic". I'd be just as likely to say this to a man. I told her I had no time for political correctness, which didn't seem to please her much. The workplace has become very anti-male. Old-fashioned courtesy and charm has now magically morphed into acts of hostility. Women have been conditioned to believe that any acknowledgement of sex differences is a hostile act that must be eradicated through legislation and, if necessary, workplace discipline and even possibly a lawsuit. Trump's compliment to Caitriona Perry yesterday - which from the video evidence she actually appeared to graciously enjoy while she was receiving it - is a case in point. Genuine cases of sexual harassment do exist and should never be tolerated, but they are rare. Ordinary innocent compliments and pleasantries are now verboten. This social engineering project to eliminate all gender differences in every aspect of life including the workplace diminishes the quality of life for everyone, both male and female.
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Post by Maolsheachlann on Jun 28, 2017 11:32:13 GMT
I agree. We lose all spontaneity and any kind of professional context becomes grim and joyless!
Oh goodness. I just listened to that clip. Madness that anyone could call it anything but pleasant banter!
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Post by MourningIreland on Jun 29, 2017 11:21:47 GMT
I agree. We lose all spontaneity and any kind of professional context becomes grim and joyless! Oh goodness. I just listened to that clip. Madness that anyone could call it anything but pleasant banter! Only in a toxic and broken culture where we have been programmed by the media, political, and educational establishment to see perpetual antagonism between men and women where there is none would this interaction be seen as anything other than charming banter by an undeniably warm and charming man.
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