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Readers respond.

Publication: National Catholic Reporter
Publication Date: 20-MAY-05 		Format: Online - approximately 1218 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Readers respond.(LETTERS)(Letter to the Editor)

Article Excerpt
* I am compelled to reply to Michael Healy Jr.'s stunning letter in the issue of April 8, in which he argues that an author using inclusive language seems to be trying to give male readers an inferiority complex. How about an "equality complex" instead?

If Mr. Healy feels excluded by inclusive language, can he imagine how many Catholic women feel in church? Our liturgy asks us to proclaim, "For us men and for our salvation," and to sing with the psalmist, "Blessed is everyone who fears the Lord," "Your wife shall be like a fruitful vine," "Behold, thus is the man blessed" and so on.

Maybe he was only joking.

MARY MURPHY

Northampton, Mass.

* Dan Bartley makes an excellent point in stressing the importance of holiness in the selection of a pope or bishop (NCR, Letters, April 22). I disagree, however, that ideology is unimportant and a hindrance to holiness, which is his argument as to why holiness ought to be the sole criterion.

Authentic holiness is grounded on a sound ideology or theology, which must involve prayerful study...

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