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sheep listen to my voice Bangladesh
tragedy and Fair Trade and me
John W Papal
Embrace Catholics
try their hand Pope
Francis Continues to Build US
archbishop's proposal for Keeping
the faith
Canada attacks "evil" Sri Lanka regime re Commonweatlh meeting
YouTube: 10 tips for using computer/smartphone/camera Pope:
Vatican Bank change Vatican
II Reflection 72
John W - Blog - April 28
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Imitating
Pope Francis' R.I.P.
Bishop Jin of Shanghai
G8
to go with Pope to Assisi? From:
A
Vision Betrayed - The Jesuits in Japan and
China, 1542 -1742 p.115: Was then the Jesuit mission to Japan a failure? Was Christianity rejected by the Japanese people as is so often stated? No, the Jesuit mission was not a failure and the Japanese people did not reject Christianity. Indeed, one can go further and say that the Jesuit mission to Japan, aided to a degree by the Franciscan mission, was one of the most successful in the history of Christianity. p. 119: The Chinese officials noticed that Michele Ruggieri (on his visits to Canton) knew how to behave in a way that other Europeans did not (..he understood and observed Chinese protocol..) p.120: ( Ruggieri was like a John the Baptist in preparing the way for Matteo Ricci) p.131: (What gained acceptance for Ricci by the Chinese scholars was not the scientific gadgets he had (..clocks etc) but Ricci's understanding of Chinese language and culture) p. 145: The enormous importance of the printed word for spreading the Good News in China (something well understood by Bishop Jin who set up a huge printing venture in Shanghai) |
Francis
and the Holy Spirit Divide
a parish into zones
Leonardo
Boff praises Pope Francis Women's rights at Jerusalem Wall Victorian sex abuse inquiry slams Church spokesman's comments Aged care dirty work done dirt cheap Organs taken from about to be
executed prisoners in China:
Vatican II
Reflection 74 A Vision Betrayed - The Jesuits in Japan and China, 1542 -1742 by Andrew Ross p. 146: One of the books Ricci published was taken to Korea and led to the beginning of Christianity in Korea...long before the arrival of any missionaries (c.f. this
article re the history of p.147: Ricci came to understand that original Confucianism knew of one Creator God. The ancient Chinese sages had not been polytheists like the Greeks & Romans This was, in Ricci's view, of the utmost importance for it would seem to indicate that the ancient culture of China still retained traces of the primal revelation of God to his creation in a form unpolluted by poytheism and idolatry. This fact, as well as the compatibility of the basic ethics of Confucianism with Christianity, combined to allow him to present Christianity as something that completed what was ancient and true within China's own history and culture |
Community
or isolation? Pope's
G8 should be G9?
John W
Pope
"unblocks" Autistic
girl uses computer Unvested servers at Pope's Mass Climate change:
Vatican II Reflection 68
John W - Blog - April 24 In yesterday's homily, Pope Francis returned to an image that he often uses when he wants to suggest the unmistakable dynamics of the Christian life: that of the community of the Japanese baptized, which, in the seventeenth century, after the expulsion of foreign missionaries, was left without priests for more than two hundred years. "When, after this time, other missionaries returned again" said Francis "they found all the communities still in their place: all baptized, all catechized, all married in Church, and those who were dead, all buried in a Christian way. There is no priest ... Who did this? The baptized!" In the last few years, the whole pastoral in Buenos Aires was reconfigured to facilitate access to baptism and other sacraments for all, avoiding Pharisee-isms and demands for spiritual or moral pre-requisites not included in canon law. In
a handbook on baptism published by the Archdiocese when it was led by the
Cardinal, Bergoglio reiterated very clearly that "baptism cannot be
denied to children of single mothers, of couples united by only civil
union, to the children of divorced people now involved in a new union, or
of people now distant from the practice of Christian life". - from this
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Anzac Day story: John
W - Blog - April 25 Getting personal with Anzac Day Philip Harvey (Eureka Street) Today,
Anzac Day, a good day to re-read Bishop Pat Power's
2003 call for peace, when
George Bush was in Australia
Cardinal George Pell - interview
re Pope Pope's talk April 24 to 70,000 Signs
of the Papal Times
YouTube: Cardinal Bergoglio at 2011 stadium Mass - may such joyful celebrations become more common.
Church
withdraws subpoena Gunmen abduct 2 bishops in Syria Ex-bishop's widow believes Francis will make celibacy optional Kevin
Spinale, S.J., talks
with Peter Eisner, author of The
Pope’s Last Crusade: How an
American Jesuit Helped Pope Pius XI's Campaign to Stop Hitler.
Vatican II Reflection 69 |
Des O'Donnell OMI: The mud on Pope
Francis' boots I wonder how many Christians, how many religious, how many priests, how many bishops "have mud on their boots"? I wonder how many parishes, schools, religious communities, dioceses have a reputation for "mud on boots" as a result of a continued commitment to and continuous involvement with the poor? What is my/our reputation
for? As I finished a prison
visit yesterday, Like so many pastorally-minded school principals and parish clergy and heads of hospitals and parish clergy who regularly visit all parts of their schools/parishes/hospitals....rather than just spending their time behind a desk. Boots get no mud from being under a desk all day Pope Benedict attracted attention for his delicate red shoes. Pope Francis is attracting attention for mud on his boots May the papacy of Pope Francis inspire more and more Christians, especially Christian leaders, no matter what color shoes they wear, to get a reputation for "mud on their boots"
Vatican
II Reflection 70
Tomorrow: article
by TASMAD |
Women
priests? How about a discussion on women deacons? c.f. Ministry
of Women Deacons Pope
Francis and future of 1931
description of Curia Bangladesh
building tragedy
No
2013 papal visit to Argentina Boston marathon bombings: Vatican
II Reflection 71 Church
to run prisons? Such thinking reminds me of a hope I've had for some time: that the Church would run prisons! In the US and other places there are private prisons, and the Church does a pretty good job at running schools, hospitals and other services....so, why not prisons? I just checked Google and found this
excellent article Should
the Church run a prison? which disagrees with
the idea of a church-run prison, with words like these: The basic purpose of the prison system, punishment, is contrary to the goals of the church. It
is not appropriate for the church to
have power over people in the way required by the prison system, whether
it be confining people within prison walls, or administering security
procedures such as preventing escapes, dealing with confrontation,
limiting property, and searching people and cells. Rather than incarcerating people under an unjust system, it would be more appropriate for the church to support initiatives to reduce the prison population, to develop innovative alternatives to prison, and to advocate justice in the definition and prosecution of crime, and in sentencing practices. That is, the church has to choose between becoming part of the system and participating in injustice, or working for radical change. What
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