Irish woman calling for Mass boycott receives international support

Good for her!! GO figure, the church using the Eucharist as a scape goat to ignore the issue. Those days of obligation is a bunch of nonsense, guilt ridden, man made, rule crap. A way of getting people to church... more money in the pot. I will never go back to church. They aren't handling the child abuse scandal very well. That is my reason for the boycott. I say bravo to this wonderful lady.

Excellent post on 8/17 at 3:04 EDT WoundedKnee - Hope your knee is healing.

And lets not forget, within the Jewish society of the day, Jesus chose the most unlikely of people to be his disciples. The moral here being "Dont shoot the Messenger!!"

Woundedknee is entitled to his view and perspective; as am I. I merely posed a simple question that the Holy Spirit may well have guided this good lady to speak out. After all, history shows that in many cases, the worst sinners can sometimes be the most unlikely of "Saints"!! Thanks for the critique Woundedknee, and bless you to!!

Posted by GeorgeDillon on Aug 16, 2010, 02:32 PM EDT "I'm beginning to wonder is there a Holy Spirit"---Some ignorant "Catholic" this woman is--she doesn't know the religion she claims to espouse. If she was a proper Catholic she'd say "I know there is a Holy Spirit...". How can she know, when she has been brainwashed for years? All supposed Catholics praying to god for peace, whenn the only ones who can bring peace is the people themselves. So why blame "god" for all the misery and pverty we have created? Why blame that Satan fella for all the horrors we humans committed. No one on Earth has ever seen god or satan commit any crimes

GeorgeDillon.Portia--why don't you take your craziness somewhere else? George, the mirror never lies. Nice of you to show your real self to the world.

Ah now WoundedKnee - that's unfair to post of barneyjo. Barney is with us Christians, different but honest comments with a few *wink* joke comments in between. For all the comments, below Portia's must be the most unsound. Hopefully, s/he won't be applying for renewal of a driving licence or similiar soon. Unsound mind comes to mind!

I read something before I form a judgment as to whether it's trash. However, I won't need to read anything headed "BarneyJo".

Sometimes the Holy Spirit can choose the most "unlikely" Messengers!!

WoundedKnee, if this site is so foolish, why do you bother reading its content?

The only roles that women cannot partake of in the Catholic church is that of deacon or priest.To say that women are literally cast off is pure rubbish.

I know that the articles on this site are predominantly written by interns and teenagers (though O Dowd's offerings are no better). But for God's sake, have even a little bit of professionalism. The big banner headline reads "Irish woman calling for Mass boycott receives international support". Yet when we read into the article the only one who claims international support is the old woman herself. (By the way, being contacted by journalists does not constitute "support", you dopes). The author, Ms Hayes, makes no effort to verify the claim--really fifth-rate "journalism". How about me? I've had international support for my views on this foolishness. Why don't I get a big headline too?

The RC Church's continued subordination of women will proof its death knell.

Women are the backbone of the Catholic Church; yet they are excluded from every facet of the heirarcy. Why is that? Politics. It hasn't nothing to do with the Catholic faith. I don't think men have a monopoly on the holy spirit. The most devoted and spiritual Catholics I know are women (my mom, grandmother and mother in law) but yet they are allocate to the back of the bus.

Perhps the Holy Spirit prompted this lady to take the stand that she has?