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From: sdyer@bbncca.ARPA (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: net.religion.christian
Subject: discussions on Roman Catholicism
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Date: Fri, 8-Feb-85 01:35:24 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb  8 01:35:24 1985
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Is there any interest in having an on-going discussion of some of the
current issues being raised in the Catholic Church?  There are very few
postings I see in net.religion.* which treat such topics; whether this is
because we've all been done-in by Sr. Mary Ignatius, embarassment or lack
of interest, I don't know.  Certainly there must be a large number of
Catholics (ex- or otherwise) on the net.  Why the silence (Marchionni
and Terribile excepted)?

These are some of the topics which might be interesting to discuss:
	o the role of women in the Church
	o ecumenism
	o Vatican II, and what it means today
	o Magisterial teachings and individual conscience
	o the Charismatic movement
	o and much much more

As you can see, there is potential for some very interesting (and probably
non-flaming) discussions.  Now, as to where this discussion should take
place, I'm proposing it happen here.  The prospect of
net.religion.christian.catholic.roman
doesn't thrill me too much.  What's more, it would be unfortunate if
the discussion took place aside from the mainstream, since I would
expect that other Christians would have important contributions to make
as well.  On the other hand, if the volume got too great (this is
known as the sin of "presumption") it might make sense to move it
into a separate group.  But I feel we can deal with this when we need to.

What do people think?  Anyone want to start?  If responses are positive,
I'll whip something up myself.
-- 
/Steve Dyer
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