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Secular support, comfort and hope for people trapped within or leaving behind religious beliefs. A non-judgemental space for people born into a religion who are questioning their religious faith or who feel under pressure to ’keep the faith’ or remain within a religion or vocation they are losing their belief in. Encouraging people to think for themselves, trust themselves and respect their doubts. Life is short. Be you. Be free. Joe the Human Substack: https://joearmstrong.substack.com/ Joe Armstrong website: https://joearmstrong.ie Twitter @LosingMyRelig1 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbfcXAPkTT401BZuQgYSGCA Signature tune © www.louisebyrnemusic.com Photo of Joe Armstrong © Fran Veale
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Tuesday Apr 13, 2021
Tuesday Apr 13, 2021
A million people gathered in Dublin in 1979 for the first ever papal visit to Ireland. Humanist celebrant and former student for the Catholic priesthood Joe Armstrong reads two episodes from his acclaimed memoir In My Gut, I Don’t Believe.
In Episode 9, he offers his perspective on Ireland’s then best-known clerics, Bishop Eamon Casey and Father Michael Cleary, both of whom had clandestine relationships and fathered children, causing scandal to what was then innocent Catholic Ireland. He also reads Episode 29 on celibacy, loneliness and desire in the seminary. ‘I was experiencing my loneliness. My desire for intimacy was heightened. I craved an emotionally interdependent, physically expressive relationship.’
Interviewed by Eamon Murphy at the book launch, hosted by the Humanist Association of Ireland, the author also reads one of the several humorous moments in the book.
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