Catholic schools are removing male-centric terms from their prayers

[HAZARD]

Catholic schoolgirls are being taught that God is GENDER-NEUTRAL and are banned from using the words 'Lord', 'Father' and 'Son' in prayers

• Brisbane Catholic schools are removing male-centric terms from their prayers
• The Catholic Office for the Participation of Women director said she is 'thrilled'
• Queensland Catholic Education Commission doesn't give a guide on language

Catholic schoolgirls are being taught that God is gender-neutral and banned from using the words 'Lord', 'Father' and 'Son' in prayers.
A number of elite Catholic schools in Brisbane are making moves to teach their students to use inclusive language when referring to God.
Top schools including All Hallows, Stuartholme, Loreto College and Stuartholme School are leading a push towards a feminist interpretation of the Christian Bible.
Students at Stuartholme School in Brisbane's inner-city, which charges upwards of $40,000 a year, are taught to use the word 'Godself' instead of 'himself'.

'As we believe God is neither male or female, Stuartholme tries to use gender-neutral terms in prayers … so that our community deepens their understanding of who God is for them, how God reveals Godself through creation, our relationships with others and the person of Jesus,' a spokeswoman told The Sunday Mail.
Loreto College in Coorparoo has taken the word 'Lord' from their prayers as it is a 'male term'.
The school's principal Kim Wickham said prayers written for use within the college didn't assign God a gender.

The Catholic Office for the Participation of Women director Andrea Dean told the publication that she was 'thrilled' and it was 'terrific' schools were moving towards inclusive language.
The Queensland Catholic Education Commission does not provide guidelines for what language is appropriate but the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference did suggest schools use gender-neutral terms where appropriate.
Brisbane's top Catholic boys' school St Joseph's College has replaced the term 'brothers' with 'sisters and brothers' and 'brotherhood' with 'international community'.
'This has been an area of growth for us in recent times,' a spokesman told Sunday Times.
'We have made changes to a number of prayers to be more gender-inclusive.'

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Edited June 2, 2019 by HAZARD

[HAZARD]

19 hours ago, Cletus said:

its astounding how depraved one can get when they do not have God.  I mean i was depraved, but this world today is just getting silly. 

trying to redefine who He Is.  lol.  

I wonder when they will try and redefine Mary who they believe is Queen of Heaven?

[ayin jade]

1 hour ago, HAZARD said:

I wonder when they will try and redefine Mary who they believe is Queen of Heaven?

Thats been going on for 10 yrs at least. A push to get mary called a co redemptrix. There are even statues in some catholic churches that show mary on the cross.

[Takoda]

All three of the Abrahamic faiths emerged out of an extremely patriarchal culture. Cultural understandings usually shape the entire world view of those living in that culture. With few exceptions people are simply unable to think outside that world view.  We are a culture that is slowly transitioning away from patriarchy but such transitions proceed slowly and can take centuries and there is always great opposition. But once cultural assumptions are questioned, they are already dying. Personally, I regard patriarchy as perhaps the most pernicious evil that people have ever inflicted on themselves.