I WISH to commend Jennifer Sleeman and all women who took a stance in saying to the leaders of the Catholic Church that their treatment of women and girls is no longer acceptable.

THE West Cork pensioner who is calling for a one-day boycott of Mass tomorrow has said anyone who agrees with her sentiments but doesn’t feel comfortable staying away from Mass could wear a green armband to church to show support.

JENNIFER SLEEMAN is that most dangerous kind of revolutionary – one with a very good argument.

JENNIFER Sleeman and I have much in common, I believe. We are both 80-years-old and have grandchildren – although I haven’t yet achieved great-grandfather status.

IF it is Jennifer Sleeman’s intention to advance the cause of women through her call for a boycott of mass tomorrow, she should do so, informed by the teaching of the Catholic Church on the dignity of women.

Dan Buckley meets Jennifer Sleeman, who is galvanising Irish Catholic women to make their voices heard by a church that does not appreciate their anger.

Fr James Good admires Jennifer Sleeman’s stand on women, but sees no purpose in a Mass boycott, he tells Dan Buckley.

Jennifer Sleeman’s call for women to boycott Catholic Masses tomorrow week has certainly caught the imagination of many people. She has advocated the boycott as a means of protesting against the male dominance of the Church and the treatment of women as distinctly second-class members.

THE pensioner who has called for a one-day boycott of Sunday Mass in protest at the Church’s attitude to women has said she has been receiving support for her stance over the past 24 hours.

A defiant pensioner is rallying Irish women to boycott Sunday Mass for one day because she feels the Catholic hierarchy is treating them like second-class citizens.