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Sunday September 2
Father's Day in Australia and New Zealand. God bless all Dads!

Taking the local Church seriously
David Timbs
(Sunday blogger from Australia)
It is a given that the Catholic Church, particularly in the West, is facing an unprecedented crisis in Sacramental and pastoral ministry. It is a problem largely self-generated as a result of a theological system which is locked into fundamentalist premises

Cardinal Carlo Martini RIP
Reader: One of the very few at the top who was capable of thinking about a Christ-like Church and not as a privileged institution, exempt from scrutiny and the test of truth

Tribute to late Cardinal Paul Shan
by HK's Cardinal JosephZen
(Tablet)
'What bad record?'. 'You have met the Dalai Lama,' he replied.

Ireland in Crisis. A possible way out
Colm Hughes (ACP)
This is the sort of thing that the Church could do in every country
- humble service as a way of making up for scandal and pain

This week's smile
Cut the rope !

Vatican II Reflection 250
Catholic missionary spirit?

Bible Plan: September 2
Readings for 22nd Sunday of Year
Human traditions or God's law?

John W: Daily Blog - Sep 2
Prison service for inmate's mother

Monday September 3
Start of academic year
in Northern Hemisphere.
Come Holy Spirit !

Standing up to bullies,
in society and in the Church
John W
HK people & "Tank Man"
show how to stand up to bullies

Cardinal Martini (died Aug 31):

Church is 200 years out of date
"church bureaucracy rises up, our religious rites and the vestments we wear are pompous."
(Big Q: will Pope attend funeral of someone who criticised Vat?)

Church wrong on birth control
"Humanae Vitae" a big mistake

And see article on same link:
Then came the Billings Method (of birth control)

NY priest regrets sex abuse comments

4-Course Bible meal for Sep 3

Prayer for wisdom - most appropriate for start of school!

Let's go to God's house

His heavenly house!

Man bashed by robbers

Vatican II Reflection 251
A mission committee
in every Catholic school/parish?

John W: Daily Blog - September 3
The bad guys are not winning !

Tuesday September 4

Christianity and Banks
Martin Mallon
(Tuesday blogger from Ireland)
What kind of a reception would
the prodigal son have gotten
in the Merkel household?

Another call for banking change:
Called to account - Ethics of British banking (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

Full text of Cardinal Martini's last interview (Commonweal)
The Church has to recognize its own errors and has to travel a radical journey of change, beginning with the Pope and the bishops.

Grow your own fresh air indoor
As the world becomes more urban,
indoor fresh air more important
This website's August statistics

4-Course Bible meal for Sep 4

Leader blessed with great wisdom

We are filled with contempt

Breastplate and helmet

How to pray.

Vatican II Reflection 252
Bishops have missionary spirit?
John W:   Daily Blog - Sep 4
An inmate from Damascus

Wednesday August 29
Martyrdom of John the Baptist

Lovely article on four of the world's most famous icons

Chris McDonnell
Wednesday blogger from UK

Prayers requested for Cardinal Francis George OMI of Chicago:
his cancer has returned

Bye bye Arctic ice:
The heat of the moment
George Monbiot

Same-sex marriage & anal sex
Topic no one wants to discuss

Godless Canberra in Year of Grace
Donella Johnston (CathBlog)
Never doubt that a small group of people can change the world

Janus-like China
David Gosset (HuffPost)
China, like Janus, has two faces

San Fran archbishop DUI charge
(Mercury News)
Michigan bishop to face court
(Michigan)

Let's all pray, OK?
Hendrik Hertzberg (New Yorker)

Vatican II Reflection 246
Daily prayer for a priest

Bible meal for Aug 29
JB died for sacredness of marriage

John W: Daily Blog - August 29
Moving experience at QE Hosp

Thursday August 30
Every Thursday, Daniel Daring's reflection on the Sunday readings,
to help us prepare for Sunday:
The word or the world: James 1:20
What happened at Vatican II? Lecture by John W. O'Malley SJ.
YouTube (long but excellent!)
The Theology of Fear
Father Emmett Coyne
"Vatican rules the Church through indoctrination, control, and fear"
Vatican II: 50 years is nothing
Cardinal Walter Brandmüller (VI)
Reader: What Der Kardinal
is really saying if that Benedict's reinterpretation of Vat II still needs time to become main-stream. Clearly the people are still 'confused.'
CardDolan@Democrat.Con
...with Bus Tour Nun
Death is facing unconditional love
Bede Griffiths (You Tube)

4-Course Bible meal for Aug 30

David rebuilding his life

Building on rejected foundation

Badly treated

36 teams of healers

Vatican II Reflection 247
CEP rejecting Vatican II

John W: Daily Blog - August 30
Same-sex marriage and anal sex

Friday August 31
Generation E    John W
How can we stand against the dumbing down of society?

Story of Fr Bill Rowe in USA

What happened    Why he did it
A message and comments

Locked-in syndrome survivor
did not want to die
Amelia Hill (Guardian)

Sunday liturgy of Sep 2:

Prayers and reflections
for Sunday 22 Year B
Dramatization of the Gospel
(what a story!)

Vatican II Reflection 248
"Hand over parishes" = ?

4-Course Bible meal for Aug 30

A prophet shows initiative

How the young can avoid evil

Love the whole human race

Names written in Heaven

John W:   Daily Blog - August 31
Northern Hem. new school year
At bottom of this page:
- Archive of bloggers' articles
- Weekly archive of this page

Saturday September 1
The Word became flesh
and so did we!
John W

Paul Ryan's speech: a round-up
of his most audacious untruths
(Guardian)

Chinese Bible translator to be beatified (CathNews)
See comment by John W

The lesson that Jesuits could give
aid organisations in Africa
(Catholic Herald)

As I cut my finger nails yesterday
I wondered Why do we have fingernails and toenails?
Creator thought of everything !

4-Course Bible meal for Sep 1

David's heart was in right place

Not afraid of day or night

Christians are Progressives

How do I care about myself?

Vatican II Reflection 249
Neo-Cats not the Way to go

John W: Daily Blog -Sep 1
"Octember 18" !

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Calendar      (any other items?):
Aug 26 - Sep 24 Los Angeles:
Columban Fathers Gen Assembly
Sep 14 - 16: Pope to Lebanon
Sep 19-22: Melbourne
3-day conference on Vatican II
organised by theological institutes

Oct 7 -28 Synod of Bishops
Oct 10 - Heythrop, London:
Call to Action meeting

For all above: Come Holy Spirit !

More bloggers wanted!
From all parts of the world!
jdwomi@gmail.com

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

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' archives

Other Archives
2012
    2011
2010
2009
2008

16 Documents of V2
We Are Church
STANDUP4VATICAN2
VII - Voice of the Church
Catholic Priests Ireland
PrayTell
Donald Cozzens
Misguided Missal
Church is too Western/European

Current bloggers

Daniel Daring
Martin Mallon
  Chris McDonnell
Bill Mulcahy
    David Timbs
Harry Winter
  John Wotherspoon

Previous bloggers

Brian Lewis
Hazel of Old Windsor
   Inigo Joachim
Judith Lynch
Des O'Donnell
Peter Wilkinson

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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Bp Bill Morris Bp Pat Power Bp Geoff Robinson Bruce Duncan Catalyst for Renewal Catholics for Ministry Frank Brennan Peter Johnstone The Swag	Bloggers' archives		Other Archives 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008	16 Documents of V2 We Are Church STANDUP4VATICAN2 VII - Voice of the Church Catholic Priests Ireland PrayTell Donald Cozzens Misguided Missal Church is too Western/European
	Current bloggers Daniel Daring Martin Mallon Chris McDonnell Bill Mulcahy David Timbs Harry Winter John Wotherspoon	Previous bloggers Brian Lewis Hazel of Old Windsor Inigo Joachim Judith Lynch Des O'Donnell Peter Wilkinson
	Hans Kung's letter to bishops (the best description of what's happening)		Fr J. Ratzinger's writings on Vat II