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Sunday July 29
Bertone
David
Timbs
(Sunday
blogger from Australia)
Since he took
up the reins as chief administrator of the Roman Curia,
the pontificate has ricocheted from one PR or policy gaffe to another
Bertone's
ideas for a
Vatican
national football team
(Wikipedia)
When will it go to Olympics?!
The
Church and the Olympics
(Tablet)
See here for Catholic activities in London
during Olympics
Olympic article:
Joy is the prize
Vladimir Felzmann (Tablet)
Good summary of benefits of sport
Catholic
Church in China
- many reasons for hope
Cardinal Keith O'Brien
Homily of 21 July (Tablet)
Wadsworth
wrong re Dublin Mass
Letters to Editor
(Tablet)
Words
of Consecration:
"For
the multitude" not "For all" ?
Andrea Tornielli (VI)
c.f. Some,
Many, Most, All?
David Timbs
Today's
Gospel: loves and fish
A true story:
The
miracle of the rubbish dump
Lots
of interesting items at
website
of Claretian Publications (Macau)
Pope's
new book: Jesus' Infancy
Andrea Tornielli (VI)
Child in crib has secret to life
(Obvious marketing
target:
A Christmas release!)
Pope
to Lebanon Sep 14 -16
John Allen
(NCR)
Update re Lebanon & Syria
A
legal and moral dilemma
Tablet Editorial
Discussion re liability for
child abuse
This
week's smile
A Communist song!?
Vatican II Reflection 215
When governments and churches
work together ....
Bible
Plan: July 29
Readings for 17th Sunday of Year
John
W: Daily Blog - July 29
Remembering Pope John Paul's call
for a ceasefire during Olympics
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Monday July
30
Care
of the divorced and remarried
Brian Lewis
(Monday blogger from Australia)
Note these words from JPII:
'Pastors
are obliged to exercise careful discernment of situations. There is a
difference between those who have sincerely tried to save their first
marriage and have been unjustly abandoned, and those who through their
own fault have destroyed a canonically valid marriage. There are
those who have entered into a second union for the sake of the children's
upbringing, and who are sometimes subjectively certain in conscience that
their previous and irreparably destroyed marriage had never been valid'.
Syria:
case for "Just War" ?
Gerard Powers
(HuffPost)
Three problems with JW analysis
Another
Redemptorist in firing line!
Brendan Butler (ACP)
Brendan a member of
We
Are Church Ireland
"Ratzinger
Prize" winners
Andrea Tornielli
(VI)
Reader: RP for agreeing with
him
Patience
with God
Fr Ron Rolheiser OMI
God is never in a hurry !
LCWR:
promoting new theology?
(CathNewsUSA)
Reader: Shameful
bit of bullying
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Prayer before meals - based on yesterday's Gospel
story about the five loaves and two fish.
Prayer is addressed to Jesus:
Unseen guest at every meal
You who multiplied loaves & fish
May our hearts your presence feel
As we pray you bless each dish !
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Bible
plan: July 30
When
cares increase in our hearts
(+ a milch cow!)
Vatican II Reflection 216
Close relatives:
religious freedom, personal responsibility,
the common good, public order !
John W:
Daily Blog - July 30
Olympic Games trivia !
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Tuesday
July 31
Church
Governance & Conscience
Martin Mallon
(Tuesday blogger from Ireland)
What
are the People of God to do when faced with a hierarchy that is ignoring some of
the main teachings
of an Ecumenical Council?
In
the fourth century for over 30 years during the Arian crisis,
the Church taught that Jesus
was not divine. This was in opposition to the teaching of the
Council of Nicea in 325 AD.
St
Athanasius and the laity ignored official Church teaching and listened to
the conscience God gave them, until the teaching of the divinity of Christ
was restored.
As Newman says “The Catholic people, in the
length and breadth of Christendom, were the obstinate champions of Catholic
truth,
and the bishops were not.”
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Dreaming
of Olympia
Tim Byron SJ
Relationship with Church of Olympic founder
Pierre de Coubertin Olympic
liturgy !
Pádraig McCarthy (ACP)
The opening ceremony was striking for
its liturgical rites and allusions Olympic
torch should shine on
athletes not nations
Michael Mullins
(Eureka Street)
A permanent city for Olympics?
16 year old
Chinese girl
swam faster than best men
(Guardian)
Bible plan: July 31
The Philippians Hymn in song form
Vatican II Reflection 217
Producing children
who think for themselves
John W: Daily Blog -
July 31
Need for volunteers to help parents who
need to be in hospital 24/7
with sick children
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Wednesday July 25
Feast of St
James, Apostle.
Big celebrations today in Santiago!
Are
we listening?
Chris McDonnell
(Wednesday blogger from UK)
The Net has offered an opportunity for
reflective comment in a manner that is new. We all need
to learn from the events and postings of recent months and appreciate the
considered opinion all can make
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Natnl Council of Priests
meeting:
This MSC site has a good report
Same file also has beautiful
article
(scroll down below photos) about Golden Jubilee of Brisbane dear
friend, Fr Albert Chan MSC.
Happy Anniversary, Albert!
Article mentions how Albert's brother
Fr Gabriel Chan SJ was
imprisoned in China for 34 yrs
....& how Fr Albert helped 2 HK congregations start up in
Brisbane
See 2003
photo 01 & photo
02
& photo
03 of Fr Albert & Bishop Joe Oudeman OFM Cap (another
dear friend) with my students from Zhaoqing in China during our
Ausralia study tour, together with former Zhaoqing Aust. teachers
Jan, Denis & Jade |
Why
no tighter gun laws in USA
Chris McGreal (Guardian)
Bullets sold in supermarkets
Pakistan:
Hollywood making things worse with The Last Resort
(Ucanews)
"Trailer sent chills up my spine"
The"
three conditions" of SSPX
Andrea Tornielli
(VI)
Note B16's words:
“Church’s magisterial authority
cannot be frozen in time in 1962".
Reader: Very interesting
B16 insists Vatican II contains whole tradition.
No mention of "development"
Child
abuse dobbing laws
Fr Frank Brennan SJ
(Eureka St)
Reader: Has
universal application
Vatileaks:
"3 not fired" (VI)
3 were not "poison pen" writers
Vatican
II Reflection 211
Please check the beautiful quote
here from Dr Mary Neal !
Bible
plan: July 25
Readings
for Feast of St James
John
W: Daily Blog - July 25
Bible gives us physical energy!
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Thursday
July 26
Alcohol
advts barred in Russia
(BBC)
John
W: Daily Blog - July 26
China has 83 million
disabled
As October
Synod approaches
does anyone know if B16 ever got round to publishing final report of
2008 Synod on Bible?! List
of 2008 proposals submitted
to B16 John Allen (NCR)
Note no. 17:
Allow women to be lectors |
Climate
change: real & dangerous
Tony Magliano (NCR)
Mentions how group from Pontifical Academy issued
sobering report
on reality of
climate change Goes with
above story: yesterday
I bought a couple of items from Green
Towel which has a stall at HK's Central
Ferry Pier Argentina:
hierarchy
was in bed with dictator
Tom Hennigan
(Irish Times)
A powerful article...In
contrast to the hierarchy in Brazil, which denounced that
country’s dictatorship and provided sanctuary to victims, Argentina
bishops co-operated with and defended regime Beijing's
3rd airport will be busier than Heathrow (Daily
Mail)
Maybe it will have nine runways
and be twice as big as Heathrow.
But...doesn't anyone remember:
Beijing
might have to be moved
in 20 years time! (serious!) Egypt:
Coptics voting for Pope!
Giorgio Bernardelli (VI)
Reader: Way to go for the
RCC?
Vat
was tempted to exit the Euro
Andrea Tornielli (VI)
Reader:
God: 0 - Mammon: 10
US
priest jailed for abuse cover-up
(BBC)
Uniting
global Palestine movement
Dr Paul Larudee (Pal Chronicle)
May it always use peaceful means
For Chinese readers:
HK Government
internet plan
"I learn at home" Bible
Plan for July 26
Dynamite in these words:
"Of course I want to heal you"
Vatican II Reflection 212
A new (?) definition of
conscience:
an inbuilt truth & lie detector
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Friday
July 27
What
Do You Say (Do)
About Poverty?
Bill Mulcahy
(Friday blogger from Australia)
"Instead of just saying, let's
do" Church
is too Western/European
John W A
new file -
of articles calling for the Church
to be less Western/European
New
turn for the worse:
Mainland activists jailed in China
for taking part in HK march!
(Global Media Post)
Australia
Diary II
Fr Francis Clooney SJ (America)
Experiences in Sydney & Melbourne Two
priestly actions during Mass
Elizabeth Harrington (Leader)
History of "fermentum" something I
never knew or had forgotten
Interview with CDF new head
Andrea Tornielli (VI)
Reader: So far, understandably,
the 'party line'.
Psalm
of Peace: Psalm 85
John Dear (NCR)
Reflection on Batman movie killings
Wife
fears for missing husband
who was abuse victim
Joanne McCarthy (Newc. Herald)
Bible
plan: July 27
God's power on display when....
Vatican II Reflection 213
Relgious freedom within Church?!
John
W: Daily Blog - July 27
Not excited by Olympic Games
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Saturday July 28
John W: Daily Blog -July 28
Yesterday
a vision of Vatican II day!
Gold
"fever" impoverishing Peru
Luca Rolandi (VI)
Reader: New Conquistadores
with American accents
Now available as an e-book
The
Documents of Vatican II
(America)
Vatican
II Reflection 214
The most important subject
in any school
Bible
plan: July 28
Why do you mix with outcasts?
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A young businessman was sharing a
compartment on a train with an elderly gentleman. He noticed that
the old fellow was quietly praying his rosary. The young man chided him
for his ‘superstition’ since science had rendered religion irrelevant.
“How did you come to discover that?” the old gentleman asked.
His companion didn’t really know how to answer the question fully right
then and there, so he offered to send him a few texts and public lecture
notes on the subject for his enlightenment. “What’s your
address?’ he asked, “I’ll send you the material via the Post
Office.” The old man rummaged in his coat pocket and produced a
tattered business card that read:
Louis Pasteur,
Paris Institute of Scientific Research
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