|
Sunday July 22
Weasals
David
Timbs
(Sunday
blogger from Australia)
The Roman
Curia = a sheltered
workshop for challenged clerics
on "work experience"
Peru
university no longer "Catholic"
Andrés Alvarez (VI)
Some current spin and weasel from Rome, protecting 'identity'
& 'brand.'
Damascus
"Apocalypse"
Kevin
Clarke
(America)
A moving
report - let's keep Syria
in our daily prayers
This
post by Brian Coyne (Catholica) is a good follow-up to article on
yesterday's menu "I call you friends",
but not on Facebook
by Eugene
Kennedy (NCR)
When
exactly does Ramadan begin !
Rabia Chaudry (Patheos)
Most HK Muslims are "calculators"!
A
little office that reaches a continent
Michael Sean Winters
(NCR)
To educate about Africa and to advocate for
just relations between the U.S. and the peoples of Africa.
Vatican
financial transparency
John Allen (NCR)
Reader: The sooner the church gets out of big
business, the better
Will
the Catholic Church be still standing in a few generations?
Bill Tammeus
(NCR)
"Church must return to its Center"
This
week's smile
A story for Ramadan !
Vatican II Reflection 208
Article about the Jewish people
Bible
Plan: July 22
Readings for 16th Sunday of Year John
W: Daily Blog - July 22
When John Paul II lost his temper
|
Monday July
23
Difficulties
with Utilitariansim
Brian Lewis
(Monday blogger from Australia)
In this way of thinking the individual is
merged into the calculation of the common good and some people are made of
greater worth than others. Most of us would feel uncomfortable with this.
We want as a general rule to be fair to everybody and particularly to the
underdog – the poor, the handicapped, the underprivileged. Indeed, for
the Christian, the Gospel insists that preference be given to these
Study
finds faith matters
among Asian Americans
(Naharnet)
Asian Americans make up 5.6 percent of the
total U.S. population
For this time of Ramadan:
Seeing Muslims as God sees them
Catherine M. Odell (NCR)
Fascinating article, with much
background info re the movie
"Of Gods and Men"
"I knew all of them personally, but the
one dearest to me was the medical doctor, Brother Luc"
Reader:
after seeing Weasals
article on yesterday's menu,
I suggest you could run a little even handed Weasel Word competition for both gruntled and disgruntled
alike.
OK...let's try it....
Click here for
Weasel Word Competition !
where your weasal will be immediately
uploaded.
Offensive weasals will cause file
to be wubject to woderation
|
East
Africa food crisis one year on
Oxfam Crisis
far from over
Bible
plan: July 23
Treatment
for fever
Vatican II Reflection 209
A big "No" to discrimination
John W:
Daily Blog - July 23
Man "graduates" after 30 years
of "study" (photo report)
|
Tuesday
July 24
Priests
and change in the Church
Martin Mallon
(Tuesday blogger from Ireland)
Article quotes Bishop Fritz Lobinger:
“The early church indeed did ordain local leaders who were married,
had received brief local training, were chosen by the local
community
and had proven their worthiness
over some time. I
am not alone. There are hundreds of bishops who feel that renewing this
ancient tradition is the only solution to the shortage of priests.”
Program gets
7,457,274 viewers in China! Stephen McDonell (ABC)
Foreign Correspondent goes viral A
new conversation about Church sex abuse (Eureka Street)
Fr Peter Day
See comment from Gary Eastman:
This
is the best article I have read on the sexual abuse crisis
Africa's
wealth being devoured by
tyrants and vultures
Nick Dearden (Guardian)
US
Justice Department on warpath with former HSBC chief
George Eaton
(New Statesman)
Serving God? Serving Mamon? Italians
go four goals down
(Chiesa)
Latest Curia appointments
A
jolting message
Fr Richard Rohr OFM
My group versus your group thinking
Bible plan: July 24
6
points from Eph Ch
6:
c.f. HK lottery, The Mark
Six!
Vatican II Reflection 210
Freedom of Religion
John W: Daily Blog -
July 24
HK Book Fair & Typhoon Vicente!
|
Wednesday July 18
It's
all a matter of words
Chris McDonnell
(Wednesday blogger from UK)
"We must find a way to talk"
Communion
from the Chalice
should be given at every Mass
Fr Bernard Cotter
(ACP)
for the sake of coeliacs
(as well as liturgical reasons)
Australian
sisters inspired
by US scientist
Dr Larry Edwards (Good
Oil)
“I came away realising how stupid and
illogical racism of any kind is. We are all related; we are all connected;
we’re all family”
Is
a new wave of violence
eroding civilised society?
Sr Clare Condon SGS
(Good Oil)
TV news full of violence
Vatican
II: a view from outside
Rev. Garth Read (Good
Oil)
As one comment says,
the first story makes you cringe
Reading
and the spiritual journey
Sr Joan Sexton SGS
(Good Oil)
Our new self, born of reflection from
reading, may seek greater intimacy with God and others
Too
much of a good thing
Olivia Mottershead
(Good Oil)
Speech by Year 8 student !
SSPX
update: no parallel Church
Andrea Tornielli (VI)
Reader: Fellay
is now between
a wedge and a hard place
Vatican
II Reflection 204
Only Christians want to be teachers?
Bible
plan: July 18
Protect
us from Devil
and all evil
|
John W: Daily
Blog - July 18
Hospital pastoral team should be allowed to
give Sacrament of Sick
"I think that in certain cases a Lay Pastoral Associate
should be granted the permission to do it. Deacons should be
too. With the shortage of priests new solutions need to be
found so that people do not die without that last rites"
- comment by Stephen Taylor in
We
called priest, he never came"
|
|
|
Thursday
July 19
HK
Catholics rally for Bishop Ma
(Ucanews) Surprise large turnout
|
Australia: Council of
Priests meeting
Companionship,
not sex, at heart of celibacy debate
Clare Quirk
(The Standard)
On Facebook link of The Standard by Lisa
Owen
I have appreciated your coverage on the priests'
conference. The problem with the Church is that it is top heavy.
Rome dictates and the minions (fewer now) must obey. Recently the
Vatican changed the wording of the Mass. The changes made little
difference to the people except to
disempower
us and to remind us all that we are indeed powerless and have no
representation within our church. The church's hierarchy gives us
lip service and then rules according their own desires.
The Church has become extremely authoritative,
right wing, defensive and protective. This was the problem with
the abuse scandals...
The Church has done many many good things but this particular
mistake or sin has almost brought it undone. The Church needs to
open up it doors and windows and again let in the fresh air of the
Vatican 11 conference. Let these good priests go to the Vatican
with the 'body of Christ' laity and help the Church heal its
terrible brokenness with acceptance, openness and unconditional
love. Christ came to change the burdensome rules of the Pharisees
and brought a new rule, to love one another. The Church's
hierarchy are our modern day Pharisees
|
Bp
Pat Power's retirement speech
(Catholica)
A good bishop! Ramadan
this year is July 21 to August 19. It's good to wish Muslim friends "Happy Ramadan"
Whose
radical is right?
Garry Everett
(CathBlog)
Oh for a leadership that could cut across the
trajectories we see emerging in this dispute! Bible
Plan for July 19
"Wherever you go, I will go"
Vatican II Reflection 205
Jesus is the Way & the
Answer
John
W: Daily Blog - July 19
Politicians who throw
eggs/bananas
|
Friday
July 20
Ramadan tomorrow
Bishop Bill Morris:
Truth and
Reconciliation in Toowoomba
Andrew Hamilton
(Eureka Street)
See comment by John W HK
Church schools say no to use of "National Education"
(RTHK)
With good reason: see
here & here From
Melbourne (America)
Fr Francis X. Clooney SJ
Haven't seen kangaroo or koala yet
Mgr
Gerald Ryan -
New York's oldest working priest
Sharon Otterman (NY
Times)
Video
of how Cardinal Burke
wants Mass to be like
Robert McClory
(NCR)
This article has been added to
Agenda of Reform of Reform file
- bye bye all the changes since Vat II
Definitions
of liturgical terms
Elizabeth Harrington
(Leader)
A woman may not be an acolyte Fair
Trade website:
Just Earth (Australia) MP
blasts Church re abuse probe
Barney Zwartz
(The Age)
Danger
of lifelong story line
Richard Rohr
Many people living a pretend life Alarm
over unsafe Ramadan food
(Ucanews)
Bible
plan: July 20
Attempt No. 2 to kill Jesus
Vatican II Reflection 206
Jesus in Hinduism and Buddhism
John
W: Daily Blog - July 20
My first HK swim for 10 years
|
Saturday July 21
Vatican
II Reflection 207
On 1st day of Ramadan: Muslims!
Yesterday's
Answers
Letter to Tablet by v2catholic
UK blogger Chris
McDonnell
New
article re HK schools
opposed to nationalist course
(Ucanews)
John W's comment:
Beijing's brainwashing of students' minds to
equate love of China with love for the Party, and to have that love
"even if Party is wrong" is like glorification of the papacy,
right or wrong
Ecumenism
-Vat II's rejected child
Dr Draskko Dizdar (CathBlog)
- see comment by John W
(not yet published; "john" not john w)
LCWR
new reply to Vatican
Maria Pederiva (VI)
Reader: VI's image bank is limited & selective.
LCWR would be amused.
Syria update from Christian view Gianni
Valente (VI)
Reader: A difficult time for the Christian minorities. They fear the installation of a fundamentalist government. The assassinated Defence Minister, Gen Dawood Rajhad, was Greek
Orthodox
Celibacy
for priests has to die
Fr Michael Kelly SJ
(Hoopla)
Challenge
to Beijing
Francis Wong (Tablet)
New low in Sino-Vat relations
Jesus
said "I call you friends",
but not on Facebook
Eugene Kennedy
(NCR)
Psalm
34, a psalm of peace
John Dear
(NCR)
Bible
plan: July 21
Jesus' wife !
John W: Daily Blog -July 21
HK's Bethesda !
|
|
Many thanks
for checking
this website each day
|
More bloggers wanted!
From all parts of the world!
Please contact John
jdwomi@gmail.com
|
