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The agenda of the "Reform of the Reform"
: no more Communion under both kinds, Latin Mass with priest not facing people, no lay people (except altar boys) on sanctuary, no altar girls, no special ministers, Communion on tongue while kneeling down, no more deacons, more censorship, more control by Rome, Vatican II teaching undermined

Sunday November 11
Remembrance Day   Veterans Day
A moving reflection
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Fear and Power
in an Age of Anxiety

David Timbs
(Sunday blogger from Australia)
It may well take decades before the Bishops ever regain anything resembling trust, confidence and credibility. What is happening in one local Church might well pale into relative insignificance compared with the collapse of credible leadership in the wider Church as Catholics continue to make the critical distinction between blindly submitting to coercive authoritarianism
 and abiding faith in Jesus Christ.

Obama's evolving Christianity (CNN)

Update re women deacons (NCR)

World's three deadliest words:
It's a girl  (3 min movie trailer)


Vatican owes Asian bishops apology
for bumping conference
  
(NCR)
- see comment by John W

US military and climate change 

Chinas' choreographed Congress
"Party must maintain grip on power"
Last paragraph = "bottom line"!

This week's smile
 (widows..)

Vatican II  Reflection 320
Brothers allowed to be priests

Bible Plan: Sun 32 readings
All about widows

John W:  Daily Blog - Nov 11
Remembrance Day reflection

I'm due to be in Australia Dec 27 - Jan 30. Love to meet up with  readers 
in Melb, Syd, Bris, GC -
John W

Monday November 12
Birthday of Sun Yat-sen

Good news story:
A "homeless bishop" experience
John W

The lure of robes (Catholica)
..must read...

Cardinal Turkson in Japan:
nuclear question & immigrants rights
"It is urgent to protect the rights of immigrants, because there is evidence that also because of the failure to do so “international labour is by-passing Japan for other rich countries”.

Vat computer man sentenced
((would Jesus wear
red shoes??))

Recommended by a reader:
1 Republicans coming to Australia

2 Republicans were in a bubble

Jesus and the poor (4)
Joseph Girzone
The poor are the hidden treasures of our society. They are honorable, appreciative, and very creative business people if given a chance. They really respond positively when they are treated honorably and with respect.  This should be part of our evangelization process, showing how God has placed the future progress of our civilization in the poor, who are the hidden treasure of every community where they abound.

4-Course Bible meal for Nov 12
Judith's initiative and courage
No matter what happens....
No class distinctions
A teacher from God

Vatican II  Reflection 321
Apostolic Christian Communities!

John W:  Daily Blog - Nov 12
Mainland pressuring Hong Kong

Tuesday November 13

Richard McBrien on Pope John XXII's opening address at Vat II
 Martin Mallon 
(Tuesday blogger from Ireland)
The Church has always faced persecution and exterior threats, but the most serious threats have always come from within.... We did not and do not listen to each other. Dissent is crushed not “by demonstrating the validity of her teaching, but by condemnations and sanctions. 

US survey of Mass translation
Comments from priests:
 "Acting like I appreciate the new texts when I find them to be terrible"
....
"
Mastering the art of speaking 
like Yoda" 

Building China's Enlightenment
(Two important articles! - jw)
America misreading China

Message from Joseph Girzone:
- comments re New Evangelization
- reason for starting his website
- visitors from Australia

Are Catholic children now protected by Obama's papal victory? III in this article recommended by a reader

Australian Prime Minister 
announces National abuse inquiry

4-Course Bible meal for Nov 13
With difficult people: use tact!
Be still and know that I am God
Faith without works is useless
God so loved the world...

Vatican II  Reflection 322
Chastity: theory & practice

John W:   Daily Blog - Nov 13
Hobnobbing yesterday
 with two cardinals ...and a bishop!


Wednesday
Nov 7 

Of Presidents and Popes
Chris McDonnell
(Wed blogger from UK)
Are we sincerely intending to seek a deepening of faith in the Mission of the Church or are we anxious to accept an ever-tightening control from Rome over the intellectual integrity of our fellow Christians?
 Is it Mission or Maintenance?


Speaking the truth to bullies
John W
Scriptural support for Brian D'Arcy

Work in Progress
James Hanvey (Tablet)
Once seen as a challenge to the secular world,  Gaudium et Spes
 also challenges the Church itself

Why Obama and Romney would not mention climate change
George Monbiot
 Anyone who tries to address this subject encounters fury

c.f. John W: Daily Blog - Nov 7
Dumbing down big time

John Allen's final Synod report (NCR)

Jesus and the poor (3)
Joseph Girzone
The real resentment for the new Affordable Care Law is that it provides health insurance for 40,000,000 poor people, which is contemptibly labeled Socialism...  And those same self-righteous Christians dare to call themselves the patriotic models of a Christian nation.  I think that would make Jesus throw up.

Vatican II  Reflection 316
Love for Scriptures on low flame? 

4-Course Bible meal for Nov 7
Ridiculed for speaking the truth
Save me from slander
With Jesus outside the city
Witness to the Word


Thursday
November 8

John W:  Daily Blog - Nov 8
How to win (US) elections!

Book Review - John W
Eric Liddell  - Something Greater Than Gold
by Janet & Geoff Benge
Inspiring story of 1924 Paris Olympic Games medalist who had the world at his feet but went to war-ravaged China as a missionary

David Timbs' Synod article has two comments, with a response by David

Every Thursday, Daniel Daring's reflection on the Sunday readings,
 to help us prepare for Sunday:
 
 
32B: Offering all your living
In our world money is a powerful tool to get what you want. It buys power, position, and status. It buys votes and shapes politics. That is nothing new. What is disturbing, however, is that it has entered the spiritual domain, claiming to buy even God’s blessing. The widow is not being contrasted with the scribes who devour widows' houses  or with the rich who donate much out of their abundance, but with the disciples of Jesus who were - and still are - unable to grasp the power and wisdom of the cross.
 

Vatican  II  Reflection 317
Contemplative communities
 invited to help with ministry 

4-Course Bible meal for Nov 8
A feeling of hopelessness
Our time on earth is short
Patiently keep going
Introducing people to Jesus


Friday
November 9

 VIP article - lesson for Church -
 a model for Evangelization!
Obama's grass-roots campaign
The 2012 Obama For America (OFA) re-election campaign was the culmination of the president's belief in the power of local neighbourhood action that he acquired as a community organiser in poor areas of Chicago back in the 1980s. (Whole chapter on this in Dreams From My Father ....very moving).
The emphasis was on the "direct". The Obama camp believes with the fervour of the missionary that friendship, contact and the personal touch is the key to winning elections

Beyond the Obama euphoria
Jim McDermott (Eureka Street)
Americans'  frustration  with the same tone-deaf partisan politics with which Australia currently struggles

It's the demography, stupid 
Annabel Crabb (ABC)
"Minorities" are no longer minorities in the US. In this year's census, white births are recorded as slumping to 49.6% of all births, with "minority" ethnic births now 50.4%  

A New America
"Must read" Editorial (NCR)

4-Course Bible meal for Nov 9 
Encouragement in hopeless situation
Saved me from distress
Be slow to speak, quick to listen
Do whatever he tells you

Vatican II  Reflection 318
Religious: apostolically minded?

John W:   Daily Blog - Nov 9
Election lesson: Leaders must listen


Saturday
November 10

Time for bishops to start listening
Conalo (ACP)
It's hard to understand why  the bishops as a body nor any individual bishops are willing to meet an association with 1,000 priests

China getting new leaders
  - John W

Excellent ABC articles on new leadership for China

Elite from another planet
"We will not change"

Opening God's Word 
from a female perspective

Judith Lynch
(CathBlog)
It is a privilege singed with sadness to be asked to open up the Word of the Lord from a female perspective and experience. As I prepare my words I pray that in a generation or two the women who come after me will be welcome to open up the Word of the Lord at the Sunday Eucharist.

Tablet Letters Extra
2 letters re rescinding of invitation to British theologian Tina Beatie
(c.f. NCR update on this issue)

 Vatican II Reflection 319
Monastic hospitality

4-Course Bible meal for Nov 10
Prayer in time of big trouble
Cure for sickness
Genuine religion
When Jesus had had enough!
(must have wanted to do this for decades!)

John W:  Daily Blog - Nov 10
Funeral of 14 year old girl 

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Dec 1: Hong Kong Oxfam Supporters' gathering 


John W's Australia schedule

For the above:
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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

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

 

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

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

Catholic Priests Ireland

PrayTell
Donald Cozzens
Misguided Missal
 
Too Western/European
 

Fr Hans Küng:      Letter to bishops    Revolution to stop authoritarianism 
Fr Joseph Ratzinger:      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?

Same-sex marriage and anal sex

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