A DIVINE CALLING
Soline Humbert & Dr Mary McAleese
Thursday 12th Feb, 8 - 9.30pm London time
Soline Humbert never expected to experience a call to the Roman Catholic priesthood, when she was a young student at Trinity College, Dublin. Now she's written the book of her decades-long vocation, A Divine Calling. We are thrilled that she is giving us an evening (or morning or afternoon, worldwide) to tell us more.
"It is not God who calls one to the priesthood, it is the Church who does. And the Church is not calling women," Soline was told by Bishop Donal Murray, in 1991. He may have been the first to attempt to put Soline in her place, but was certainly not the last.
As Dr Mary McAleese, who has written the Foreward points out, Soline has endured decades of "being rebuffed, ignored, labelled, stereotyped, as if God only talks to clerics and like them has no time for women as equals."
To our delight, Mary, twice President of Ireland, canon lawyer and Chancellor of Trinity College, Dublin, will be in conversation with Soline at our evening together on Thursday 12th February. Mary is noted as a trenchant critic of Church 'codology'. We're honoured to have her return to us as one of our most popular guests, who never fails to tell it like it is. We are guaranteed a thought-provoking and warmly affirming time with her and Soline.
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