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Nuns should fight male domination with professionalism, says Sister Cathleen Coyle of Ireland, Speaking to an annual assembly of women religious in India, Coyle said a change is needed with regard to authority of men in the Roman Catholic Church.
Women Religious should develop their potential and become professionals in their work to counter male domination, a woman theologian advised Catholic nuns in India.
"In the absence of this professionalism, we will be still subjugated by patriarchal control," maintained Columban Sister Cathleen Coyle.
The theologian-nun said the "Church baptizes us, absolves us, marries us, blesses us, confirms us and gives us communion just as it does men," so women have the same authority as men in the mission of God. "Therefore, a change is urgently needed and the change must begin with us," she said.
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