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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


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'.  


Hong Kong protest march against
"educational brainwashing"

See link at this RTHK website
 for further reports on march

See also: Not for time being
say religious schools

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

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 !

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 !


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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Moving article about care for the divorced and remarried
Barry Sinclair (Catholica)
Posted as a response to article on yesterday's menu by Brian Lewis

See also: Call for divorced and remarried to have Communion
Deacon Greg Kandra
(D.Bench)

See also beautiful comment
 by Kevin Walters
 at bottom of Brian's article

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

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

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

New website: Catholic Voices
Putting the Church's case
 in the public square.
Same site has file: In defence of conjugality: the common-good case against same-sex marriage 

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!


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


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)

 

Creative fidelity in religious life
(CRIB)
Consecrated life will continue to flourish. However, this will happen only with a huge divesting of the accretions of time and culture

Being compassionate is right way
(CRIB)
Transforming institutional Church

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


Ordination of women

 "Shall not be mentioned" topic
Brendan Butler
(ACS)

Quoted priest to bishop re LCWR: I stand by what I said
Michael Crosby OFM Cap
NCR


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

Saturday July 28

John W:  Daily Blog -July 28
Yesterday a vision of Vatican II day!

We are victims of 
out-of-control gun culture
NCR Editorial

Australia a safer place after Howards' gun buy-back (Age)
Professor Simon Chapman
In decade after John Howard's new laws, no mass shootings
(a different report from one originally on July 24 menu which  had a broken link)

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)

Bishop supports royal commission into abuse cases
Joanne McCarthy (The Herald)
Reader: A very positive and responsible gesture of fearless leadership by Bishop Bill Wright

US church sentence 
a wake-up call
MaryClaire Dale (Philly.com)
Reader: The wind is up
  as well as the anxiety levels

A most dangerous virtue
Fr William Grimm (Ucanews)
Blind obedience no excuse

Vatican II Reflection 214
 The most important subject
in any school


Bible plan: July 28
Why do you mix with outcasts?
------------------------

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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Sep 14 - 16: Pope to Lebanon 

Oct 7 -28 Synod of Bishops

 

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Let's encourage more people 
to see 1-10  re Bishop Bill Morris
1: Judge's conclusions
2: Canon lawyer's report
 
3: Radio interview with judge

4:  "The Age" file of letters
5: Summary re Rome
 6: Frank Brennan's update
7: ABC radio Fr Frank Brennan

8. Update from Frank Brennan

9. Vatileaks & Bp Bill Morris

10: Tablet letter - Frank Brennan

After reading 1-10, check the "Pravda" report of CNA.
How can a Catholic agency 
publish such blatant lies?
Censorship and lies....all the more need for websites like v2catholic

Google "Morris" at top of this page
for many articles re Bishop BM

 Bp Bill Morris   
Bp Pat Power
Bp Geoff Robinson
Bruce Duncan
Catalyst for Renewal
Catholics for Ministry  
Frank Brennan
Peter Johnstone     
The Swag
 

        Bloggers' previous articles

Other Archives
2012

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2009
2008

16 Documents of V2 
We Are Church
STANDUP4VATICAN2
VII - Voice of the Church

Catholic Priests Ireland

PrayTell
Donald Cozzens
Misguided Missal
   

Hazel of Old Windsor    Inigo Joachim      Brian Lewis  

    Judith Lynch      Martin Mallon     Chris McDonnell

 Bill Mulcahy        Des O'Donnell

   
David Timbs      Peter Wilkinson    John Wotherspoon

Hans Kung's letter to bishops
(the best description of what's happening)

Fr J. Ratzinger's writings on Vat II

US priests: reassess new translation

Open letter to US bishops re new translation

Making do with a faulty translation

Irish priests use 1998 ICE  - not new translation

Priests say 9 Masses a day - need to ordain married men

The evil of compulsory celibacy


Why are women not being ordained to priesthood?

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