# Lumen Gentium 37: The right of all Catholics to speak and to be heard\!

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## Posts
- [The Creed is for Whistle\-Blowers, not Dogmatists](https://www.seanoconaill.com/2021/01/23/the-creed-is-for-whistle-blowers-not-dogmatists/): \<i\>Acireland Site Oct 23rd 2021\</i\>\<br\>The Creeds were originally narratives \- summaries of the life , death and resurrection of Jesus \- to remind believers of Jesus's defeat of the intention behind Crucifixion:  to shame the victim and delete him completely from memory\. They were therefore also centrally an assurance to believers of their own immortality\.\<br\>\<br\>
- [Was Jesus a whistleblower too?](https://www.seanoconaill.com/2017/02/23/was-jesus-a-whistleblower-too/): \<em\>ACI Website\</em\> Feb 2017\<br\>Where does integrity come from? The moral strength to stand alone against injustice is so often absent today that we need to wonder if it can happen at all without the inspiration given by 'whistleblowers' of the past\.  Standing alone against the injustice of an oppressive religious system in his own time, Jesus should be seen in that light\. \<p\>\</p\>
- [Mimetic Desire:  The Importance of René Girard I](https://www.seanoconaill.com/2013/05/20/mimetic-desire-the-importance-of-rene-girard-i/): \<em\>ACP Website\</em\> May 2013\<br\>As we are so obviously imitative in our desires, why is that issue never addressed by Catholic homilists \- and why do we lack, in common use, a term for this 'imitative desire'? The American French academic René Girard calls it 'mimetic desire'\.  Arguing that biblical 'covetousness' is the same thing, he believes that this human tendency lies at the root of all violence\.\<br\>\<br\>
- [Church Is Mission?](https://www.seanoconaill.com/2023/11/24/church-is-mission/): \<i\>ACP Website Nov 2023\</i\>\<br\>The synodal calling of all to mission is hampered by an outdated medieval theology of atonement that obscures the liberating message of the  Gospel\. \<br\>\<br\>
- [YouCat, Violence and the Cross](https://www.seanoconaill.com/2026/06/24/youcat-violence-and-the-cross/): Why does the Catholic Church's official Catechism for young people attribute the Crucifixion of Jesus solely to the will of God the Father \- and fail totally to attribute the violence of the Crucifixion to the pride of his enemies?  Why does it also fail even to index the sin of pride \- when St Augustine of Hippo clearly saw this sin as the root of all violence? To say that \<i\>YouCat\</i\> needs revision is to understate the problem\.\<br\>\<i\>The Furrow\</i\> April 2026\<br\>\<br\>

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