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Sunday October 21
Spiritual
Desert - some thoughts
on a Synod theme
David
Timbs
(Sunday
blogger from Australia)
What must be alarming for
leaders more interested in facts rather than spin is that people have made a
distinction between God and God’s representatives, between Jesus Christ and
the hierarchical structure of the Church. Many millions have decided that they
can live, not without God and Jesus, but without the organisation in its present
form.
The
Pope with the European and North American bishops are convinced that the most
serious malaise in the Church is a drought
of doctrine. They are turning the Synod into a self-absorbed European affair
and I think they are letting the rest of the Church down very
badly
Listen
to the laity Tablet Editorial
Does Church show face of Christ,
or of authoritarian disapproval?
Church
badly divided after 50 years
Sandro Contenta
(thestar.com)
The church has to listen to its people. The stakes
are huge
The church is being torn by a classic power
struggle. Reformers say Vatican II calls for a more decentralized and
democratic church; the Vatican has instead centralized control while
cracking down on doctrinal opposition for 30 years
Victorian abuse inquiry:
(The Age)
Catholic
clergy the worse abusers
Not
true: teach a man to fish...
A moving story from Kenya (Oxfam)
This
week's smile Chinese-English
Vatican II Reflection 299
Avoid destructive rivalries
Bible
Plan: Sun 29 readings
Serve rather than be served
John W: Daily Blog - Oct 21
70th Anniversary of El Alamein,
where my Dad was wounded
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Monday October
22
List
of good political leaders
John W (Anyone
like to add a name?)
"It
is not power that corrupts,
but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it"
Electoral
Responsibility
America Magazine Editorial
Both presidential candidates have
taken positions that are incompatible with the moral law. “A
nation,” wrote Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., “that continues year after
year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social
uplift is approaching spiritual death.”
What
does God do in Heaven?
Joseph Girzone
All that to-do about the whole population of heaven spending their
eternity falling down in worship of the Almighty is purely an unhealthy
creation of our human imagination
We
need to talk about marriage
Cardinal George Pell
New
insights into the birth
of the modern Chinese Church
Fr Hugh McMahon SSC
Using Liam Brockey's Journey
to the East: The Jesuit Mission to China 1579-1724,
Hugh draws lessons from the efforts of Jesuits who laid the foundations of
the Church in China, Korea and Japan
100
theologians' call to protect the endangered Common Good
- especially 5 basic principles
Vatican II Reflection 300
Keep the laity "under control"
?
John W: Daily Blog - Oct 22
Mother Teresa in Heaven or Hell?!
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Tuesday
October 23
Chung
Yeung Festival
(Public holiday in China & HK)
Vatican
II Success Story?
Martin Mallon
(Tuesday blogger from Ireland)
Effective
ecumenism is one of the greatest unused tools of evangelisation. Imagine if the
Christian Churches could be, and seen to be, united on many issues, how
Christ’s request in John 17:21, that “May they all be one”, would
demonstrate that Christians do practice Christianity and are united in Christ.
What a wonderful witness of Christ for the rest of humanity. Ukraine
an example of evangelization
John
Allen (NCR) The
new look Confucius
Fr Hugh McMahon SSC
For Christians the goals and methods of Confucian self-cultivation have a
familiar ring. They spell out practical steps of love of
neighbor. Those who participate in life in
East Asia
soon experience a warmth, respect and consideration for others.
Those
interested in locating the source of this sensitivity find it
in the Confucian habit of showing consideration. This is what
impressed Ricci and why he praised Confucian morality
Victorian abuse inquiry: (The Age)
One
in 20 priests an abuser
Professor calls for married priests,
to reduce child sex abuse
Vatican II Reflection 301
Clericalism obstructing laity
John
W: Daily Blog - Oct 23
Chung Yeung reflection
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Wednesday October 17
How
do we make our church
the church of our children?
Chris McDonnell
(Wednesday blogger from UK)
Exclusive!
Chris' own report of
"A Call to Action" meeting at which he was one of the four
speakers!
This article has links to reports of
meeting by other websites
Synod:
John
Allen's update
"A rather striking omission at
the Synod: So far, nobody’s said anything about deacons".
(Reason?
Vatican
not in favor of deacons ?)
Re-embracing
vision of Vat II
Sr Clare Condon SGS
(Good Oil)
The institution of the Church
has become old and tired and too internally focused
Vatican
II's prophetic
Declaration on Religious Freedom
Bernard Teo CSsR (Good
Oil)
Latest
Christian Healing Ministries has article about Christmas
by Francis MacNutt
with words
"For everyone who has a desolate
Christmas memory, God has reserved the greatest consolation"
Empty
Promise
George Monbiot
The consensus is
that climate change will hurt farmers in the tropics and help farmers in
temperate countries
Victorian abuse inquiry:
Salesian sex probe report queried
Vatican
II Reflection 295
Join a group like St VdP Society!
John
W: Daily Blog - Oct 17
My Australia holiday schedule
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Thursday
October 18
Feast
of St Luke the Evangelist
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Every Thursday, Daniel
Daring's reflection on the Sunday readings,
to help us prepare for Sunday:
29B:
Do not disappoint us, please
Martin Luther King wrote about his great disappointment with the church and its leadership.
"So often the contemporary church is a weak, ineffectual voice with an
uncertain sound. So often it is an arch-defender of the status quo." Have our churches adapted a lord-leader
model of leadership? Where are those leaders who prefer to serve than to be
served? |
Synod:
Plea
re translation & subsidiarity
US
moral theologian on Vat II
US
bishop kicked sideways?
Reader: Glad he stood his ground with the bullies in the Curia.
Vat
II: Birth of the World Church
Brother Seán D Sammon FMS
Church too European....
The Lost War of the Vatican
Part One
Part Two (Compass)
Reader: Part
Two has a lot more gravitas than Part One.
(Not accessible outside Australia)
Bible Plan for Oct 18:
Readings for
feast of St Luke
Vatican II Reflection 296
Common sense re lay groups
John W: Daily Blog - Oct 18
Shame, Oriental Daily, Shame!
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Friday
October 19
What's
gone wrong with my church?
My church has fallen prey to what is sometimes known
as the ‘choke law’. This ‘law’ was first identified by Roman
Catholic missiologists, but it applies to evangelical churches
Comment
re International Day
of the Girl Child
Every three seconds a girl is forced into
early marriage – about 200 by the time you get to end of
this article Women
deacons?
George Ripon (Catholica) Synod:
Bishops
and Religious need dialogue Ways
out of economic depression
Fr Bruce Duncan CSsR (Eureka St)
Austerity not the answer! Pope:
Ignorance of Creed breeds Cafeteria Catholics (NCR)
Reader: Lexicon getting
a work out
Vatican II Reflection 297
Vatican = control freaks club?
John
W: Daily Blog - Oct 19
Politics in US and Australia
| 4-Course
Bible meal for Oct 19
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| Tobit: loyal to
God, caring for poor |
| Only source of
true happiness |
| Self-supporting
elders |
| The worst night
in Peter's life |
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Saturday October 20
Synod update from John Allen:
HK's Card Tong speaks about
China and about Church reform
Tong is a quiet, beaming, humble figure,
utterly free of the clerical pretense that some stereotypically associate
with Catholic prelates
The
beginning of all reform
must be in ourselves John W
Internal B4 outward
Digging
out the problem
Teresa Mee (ACP) ("must
read")
It's time to go where the absentee
younger generation are and engage with them. We may find the cause of the
problem is neither with them nor with any of the ‘isms’ being quoted
by the hierarchy. Culturally, the
Church is out of sync. with our generation in more respects than in the
regalia of its leaders
Obedience
Brian Fahy (ACP)
Talk
on Vat II Donald Dorr
(ACP)
Outdated, ridiculous, and unChristian titles like Your Lordship/Grace
should be replaced by forms of address in line with the words of Jesus in
relation to leadership
Vatican
II Reflection 298
More parish jobs for lay people?
| 4-Course
Bible meal for Oct 20
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Ridiculed for
his misfortune,
he entrusted his life to the Lord |
| When
trouble breaks out on every side |
| Message for
house church leader |
| He was hit and
insulted |
John W: Daily Blog - Oct 20
Married today. Last night he ....!
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