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Jul 22, 2019

Rather than respond individually to all on Catholic Twitter who have accused me of heresy or blasphemy let me try to put this another way: What if, instead of marginalizing Mary Magdalene as a penitent prostitute (per Pope Gregory, 6th cen), the church had fully acknowledged the

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@RobertEllsberg

Jul 22, 2019

Feast of St Mary Magdalene. What if the church had been founded on the rock of faith of a woman who did not abandon Jesus when he was being killed, who went to his tomb to anoint his tortured body, who was the first to see the risen Lord, and the first to proclaim this good news?

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implications of her title (per Thomas Aquinas) as Apostle to the Apostles. A beginning in 2016 was the Vatican decree bit.ly/2M2jMdM that elevated Mary's feast to the same status as that of the other Apostles. Or perhaps per

@kayaoakes

: Patron st of the mainsplained.

5:37 PM · Jul 22, 2019

Yesterday certainly hit a nerve. We’ve got a long way to go.🥴

Yes. Emojis fail me.

because Roman Church was founded for men by men and they used Yeshua for their interests: power on the poor and women. Yeshua was never a Christian... just saying...

What Kaya says...

"By their fruits ye shall know them." Nearly every single person who tweeted in support of your original post is some kind of congregationalist universalist who believes in women priests, gay marriage, & various other heretical nonsenses. It's a bad tweet & you should delete it.

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@Mimymomary2

Jul 23, 2019

I was called a heretic on Twitter yesterday for suggesting that perhaps the reason most of Christ’s female apostles were unnamed is becuz the Gospel writers were men. Perhaps a better explanation is that there were too many of them to list 🙄