Boycotting Mass - Ms Sleeman is just the messenger

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

Boycotting Mass - Ms Sleeman is just the messenger

One who, in the gentlest and most reasonable terms, gives voice to the views of a huge number of people in an effort to achieve something that long ago became commonplace in virtually every sphere of life.

She is a David facing her Goliath and her deadly pebble is an idea that has been accepted as the civilised and equitable position of modern, inclusive, tolerant and progressive societies for a century or more. She, and those who support her, want the Catholic Church to do no more than ā€œstop treating women as second class citizensā€. She articulates what a great many discontented and troubled Catholics feel. She expresses the kind of disenchantment that means great numbers of people can no longer support the Catholic Church though she remains an active and loyal member.

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