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Sunday July 8 Paul
of Tarsus - a thorn in the flesh
David Timbs
(Sunday blogger from Australia)
"There may be important lessons for us today as we see the Gospel and
Christ’s people being dangerously compromised by leaders who should know
better" Bishop
lived teachings of "Lumen Gentium" for 37 years
William McDonough (NCR)
"Ratzinger's position
is a remaking of the council" July
9: Pope to visit SVDs
Alessandro Speciale (VI)
Return to place where, as Fr JR, he worked on
"Ad Gentes" in 1965
Helping
children understand
earth's peril
Sharon Abercrombie
(NCR)
Kids are aware of earth's plight A
Psalm of Peace: Psalm 33
John Dear (NCR)
According to the 2012-2013 budget, U.S. military spending will exceed the
military spending of all other countries in the world -- combined.
More than half of this year's budget (54 percent) goes to the Department
of Defense - $686 billion. China's budget spends $114 billion; France, $61 billion;
the United Kingdom, $57 billion; Russia, $53 billion;
and Canada, $20 bill
Mutineers
on Barque of Peter
Sandro Magister (Chiesa)
Reader: S. Magister continues with the Ratzinger/Benedict apologias
Extroverts
and Introverts
Francis McNutt
(Healing Line)
"Extroverts have their batteries charged
by being surrounded with people, while introverts feel their energy drain
away when they are with people too long" Hotel
replaces printed Bibles
with Kindles
Heather Kelly
(CNN)
In 2011 Gideons distributed
84 million Bibles
Church's
fight against paedophilia
goes global (VI)
Reader: That civil society is actually run by the rule of law seems to be getting through to this lot This
week's smile
How to catch fish !
Vatican II Reflection 194
Teachers - your jungle needs you!
Bible
Plan: July 8
Readings for 14th Sunday of Year John
W: Daily Blog - July 8
South American cocaine in HK
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Monday July
9
Unto
Thyself Be True
Brian Lewis
(Monday blogger from Australia)
Alphonsus Ligouri learned from
his experience working among shepherds and goatherds to trust in the
moral goodness of the ordinary, often uneducated, peasant. In the light of
this he taught in his Moral Theology that confessors not only may, but
indeed must, leave honestly mistaken people in peace without disturbing them,
unless of course the common good or the rights of innocent parties are at
stake. Not only are they not guilty of any moral fault in following their
invincibly ignorant erroneous conscience, but on the understanding that
they are acting out of love for God and neighbour and gifted with wisdom
of heart Ligouri judged that their actions are morally good and
meritorious
Bible
plan: July 9
From my
mother's womb
you have been my help
Vatican II Reflection 195
70 million children get no education
Shanghai's
new courageous bishop
(old one also very, very courageous)
Gerard O’Connell (VI)
May he have a double portion of the
spirit of his mentor - the
96-year old Jesuit Bishop Aloysius Jin
(whom I visited in
1989)
Beyond
Belief:
The Sexual Abuse Crisis
David Yallop (Catholica)
What a
sickening article
...if you have the stomach
to read some of it
Lord, Have
Mercy!
The
Politics of Sex and Religion
Robert Blair Kaiser (Catholica)
Comment by
Brian Coyne
John W:
Daily Blog - July9
Yvonne RIP
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Tuesday
July 10
Community
and Inclusion
Martin Mallon
(Tuesday blogger from Ireland)
Reflection on talk at Dublin Eucharist
Congress by Fr Peter McVerry SJ
We must be radical to follow Jesus and our
institutional church clearly is not. The institutional church is a church
of laws and not compassion and this is not the church Jesus started; as Fr
McVerry says
“Jesus revealed, in his own person,
a God for whom compassion
is more important than observance
of any laws. Jesus had no time for
legalisms: if the law stands in the way of compassion, then the law must
be broken" What
it means to be a leader
Sr Joan Chittister (ACP)
explores what leadership means
in an address at Stanford University. “Two-thirds of the hungry of
the world are women”, she writes. “Two-thirds of the illiterate of the
world are women. Two-thirds of the poor of the world are women. That
can’t be an accident; that has to be a policy. Where are the leaders who
will change these things?” Update
from Sudan
Dan Sullivan
(just returned from South Sudan)
"The situation is dire and is only growing worse. “Hell on earth,” was how one aid worker described the conditions at one of many temporary refugee
camps"
Bible plan: July 10
C.E.O. of the universe -
Jesus
Politics
in the pulpit
Aloysious
Mowe SJ (Eureka Street)
"Where are the voices in the Australian Church
that will boldly
and authoritatively speak the truth
about asylum seekers?"
Vatican II Reflection 196
Most important teachers: parents
Abp
used immunity in civil suit
James Robertson
(SMH)
Reader: Chad looks appealing
for ++Lazzarotto
Columban
Fr Sean McDonagh
an ecological voice (BBI)
“Today, the church that could give a voice,
that could give leadership,
is just not into it,”
Evil
of compulsory celibacy
This file now permanently
at bottom of this page
John W: Daily Blog -
July 10
Not going to Yvonne's funeral
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Wednesday July 4
Happy USA
Independence Day!
But....
This
July 4, don't ignore
America's dark underbelly
Tony Magliano (NCR)
Bible plan:
July 4
Lack of good leaders....idolatry
Vatican II Reflection 191
Help people whose lives
are a mess
Vat
II compromised by modernity
This item, from Tablet,
was on
yesterday's menu. Above link is from CathNews
and has many comments.
See espy comments by David Timbs
Speaking
to Power
Graham Downie (Canberra T)
Interview with Bishop Pat Power
Good news story:
12
Catholic women under 40
making a difference
Zoe Ryan (NCR)
Portrait
of new head of CDF
Andrea Tornielli (VI)
Reader: Maybe some light. Maybe
c.f. John
Allen's portrait (NCR)
Into
the Future
Nancy Sylvester
(America)
The
journey of women religious
since Vatican II
False Summit
- No Oil Shortage
George Monbiot
Problem we face is not that there is too little oil,
but too much
Firmness
& transparency
needed to clean up Church
Giacomo Galeazzi (VI)
Journalist interviewing a journalist
India:
reports of miracles
John Newton (ICN)
"Do them again in our day, Lord!"
What's
happening at Medjugorje?
Howard Kainz
(Crisis)
No wonder JPII would not go there
This website's statistics:
June 2012 report
John W: Daily
Blog - July 4
"God bless America" !
Since it's July 4, let's check
the statistics of this website
for the USA:
At bottom of page revolver map,
click bottom right silver tab,
then on "Live Statistics" line,
click "Bars" (next to "3D").
On line 4, USA, click the silver bar
in the column "Percent & No..".
17 States are now showing, with Illinois at top! On Illinois line, click
silver bar in the column "Percent and Number..". 14 cities now
showing,
with Normal at top!
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Thursday
July 5 Bible
Plan for July 5
Look at world from up on Cross
Vatican II Reflection 192
Declaration of Dialogue ! Prophetic
Mission of Religious
Joseph Mattam SJ (CRIB)
"The Church as it is now, is not
following what Jesus had wanted"
East
Germany's Angel of Peace
Donna Mulhearn
(Eureka Street)
DV this beautiful story
will someday be made into a movie "Wojtyla
power" slowing
Ben XVI reform in Curia
Giacomo Galeazzi (VI)
This will make your head spin.
Next pope has much xxx to clean up
USA Fortnight for Freedom
based on outdated theology
Edward J. Ruetz (NCR)
Bishops not following Vatican II
The spiritual meaning of America
Drew Christiansen SJ
(America)
A reflection on Jacob Needleman's
The American Soul (NCR)
Looking
back on Dublin
International Eucharistic Congress
2016 Congress to be in Philippines NSW
Church abuse issue:
Calls
for Royal Commission
Tom Allard (SMH) John
W: Daily Blog - July 5
Prisoners' prayers pierce the clouds
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The words of
this article are beautiful, yet also sad,
since the "D"
word within the Catholic Church has been largely deleted
c.f.
the appeals for dialogue from the Association of Catholic Priests in
Ireland ...to which the Irish bishops won't respond.
c.f.
the unwillingness of bishops around the world to hold a synod in
their dioceses -even though Vatican II called for the holding of
such synods.
c.f.
the censorship that goes on when a rare synod is held
...many hot topics are put on the
"you may not talk about this" list
- Vat II Reflection 192,
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Friday
July 6
Bible
plan: July 6
A Barack in the Bible !
Vatican II Reflection 193
Can I do more to help others?
A lesson here
for Church:
danger of middle-management
that won't speak up:
Japan
nuclear plant meltdown
was a man-made disaster
Justin McCurry
(Guardian)
"(This disaster's) fundamental causes are to be found in
the ingrained conventions of Japanese culture: our reflexive
obedience; our reluctance to question authority; our devotion to
'sticking with the programme'; our groupism; and our insularity"
c.f. 2010 BBC program
The
Toyota Story
Same idea:
failure of middle-management to speak up.
Failure to speak up about problems is
not loyalty
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India:
land of plenty and hunger
Ivan Fernandes (ucanews)
Too much food, but children hungry
Pope
to Bertone: keep going
Andrea Tornielli (VI)
"Criticism of you was unjust"
To
bless or not to bless
Elizabeth Harrington (Leader)
Preparing children for Communion
Bearing
fruit and making friends
Deacon Gary Stone
(Leader) Crisis
of trust in the Vatican
Andrew Hamilton
(Eureka Street)
See comment by Aurelius:
"let
some talented lay people
truly lead the church this century"
Russian
arms trade to increase
Miriam Elder (Guardian)
Russia 24%; USA 30%
(note the pun: Putin "sticks to
his guns"
John
W: Daily Blog - July 6
Prayer for one special person
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Saturday July 7
Bible
plan: July 7
Conductor: Jesus
Composer: Holy Spirit
The
obfuscation of Vatican II
John W
As the Vatican intensifies its effort to
uncelebrate (sic) the 50th anniversary of Vat II, what can we do?
Called
to account - Ethics of British banking Paul
Moore (Tablet)
"only a mass movement of social renewal
can address the root causes of the (banking) crisis". This
has to be one of the most important articles written this year. Should be
read by everyone who has a bank account
"Misunderstandings
and irregularities"
in post-Vatican II liturgy
Mgr Andrew Wadsworth (Tablet)
Groan...what a depressing article!
Mgr wants us to join SSPX?
See comment by John W
Why
Marxism is on rise again
Stuart Jeffries (Guardian)
"The proletariat (Chinese
workers),
far from burying capitalism (USA),
are keeping it on life support"
New
man to deal with SSPX
Robert McClory
(NCR)
What's import in this art is statement by Bp
Di Noia on how to read docs of VII. See
Tablet art
Vatican
in the red
Giacomo Galeazzi (VI)
c.f. John XXIII's answer when asked "How
many people work at Vat?"
- "About half of them"
John W: Daily Blog -July 7
A 75th anniversary in Chinese history
From Paul Moore article above:
In the endless search for more growth for ourselves, we have no
choice but to take from everyone else and destroy our planet ...
After 400 years of capitalism, 40 per cent of the world’s wealth is
owned by 1 per cent of its people, leaving only 1 per cent of the wealth
for the poorest 50 per cent. We spend more money on ice cream in Western
Europe than it would cost to feed the entire world, and I believe that the
same is true of pet food. The three richest people in the world own more
assets than the 600 million poorest.
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Pentecost Season!
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