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V2Catholic
- A forum to promote and defend the vision of Vatican II 
Edited by  Fr John Wotherspoon O.M.I. 
胡 頌 恆 神 父    Original articles have "comments welcome here" link

DV  New articles 7 days a week to encourage people trying to follow the example of Pope Francis 
in implementing the vision of Vatican II by service of the poor, by a simple life style, by simple liturgy,
by concern for Ecumenism, by concern for climate change, by concern for renewal of the Church
- all underpinned by a rededication to the Bible. 
Two particular concerns: 
The New Translation     "Reform of the reform" agenda


 
Imitating Pope Francis


  Tuesday May 28 

 

The Church & austerity
Martin Mallon
 
(Tues Ireland blogger)
 
Why is our Church so quick to condemn politicians who support policies that effect sexual matters, such as marriage, yet are practically silent about the imposition of austerity measures, which hit the poor in our society disproportionately?  

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

Catholic Priests Ireland

PrayTell
Donald Cozzens
Too Western/European 

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


1998 ICEL Sacramentary

Misguided Missal
 
The new translation
Ghastly process/result

 

Excellent articles on Mission
 
Hugh McMahon SSC

 

Abortion - a true story

 

Same-sex marriage
 and anal sex

 

On this day in 1961

Famous letter of Peter Benenson to The Observer - led to the foundation of Amnesty International

Vatican Insider Pope has extended hand of friendship to China and Chinese Catholics by word and deed in recent days
   
Good news story 01
  
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Couple's website          Many Facebook photos 

Good news story
02

YouTube:  youth orchestra...using instruments made from recycled rubbish     Facebook site

China

Pilgrims stopped from attending May parade
  c.f. Annual armwrestle  and  Background article 

Australia

Launch of Guardian Australia

OFM

American elected as new leader of world's Franciscans

Vic. sex abuse inquiry

Cardinal Pell at inquiry:  Man in big chair     Pell makes admissions    Cardinal Pell admits cover up

US sex abuse decision

Complicated case of priest jailed in US for sex offences 
From Hazel (UK)
Catholic Herald of May 17 has fascinating article about Fr Richard Ho Lung - the Mother Teresa of the Caribbean  (.."Fr Richard Ho Lung" in Google shows many articles..)  
Ecumenism
V2Catholic Article by Harry Winter OMI on Anglican and Lutheran Ordinariates
has been linked at this Canadian site for scholars (scroll down...)


Reading, Reflection, Prayer for today, May 28
  (comments welcome):
- not the sort of words to use in front of a cathedral!
- beautiful words for our last moments
- witnessing in old and new places
- making fun of other people

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Vatican II  Reflection 10
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Drums and dancing in church?

 John W - Blog - May 28
 Pope Francis to visit El Salvador and Argentina before/after WYD in Brazil?

 


  Monday May 27 

Pope Francis   Message to Mafia: "stop exploiting people!"

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Daniel Daring
Inigo Joachim

Brian Lewis
 
Judith Lynch 
 
Martin Mallon
Chris McDonnell  
Bill Mulcahy 
Des O'Donnell
 TASMAD
David Timbs
 
Peter Wilkinson
   Harry Winter  
 John Wotherspoon

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John W

A new symbol for the Trinity: the three-blade fan

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Michael Paul Gallagher Show atheists the Trinity  (Tablet)
David Simon 
(creator of The Wire)
The war on drugs "a holocaust in slow motion"  (with video)

Interactive Bible Quiz - The Book of Numbers
Based on the actual words of the Bible. 
How many times you can get 3/3 ?!

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Africa Quiz - from The Guardian - to celebrate Africa Day, May 25
US Faith-healing churches linked to two dozen child deaths  (such extremism gives praying for healing a bad name)
Reading, Reflection, Prayer for today, May 27  (comments welcome):
- human behaviour influences the health of the land
- the Voice of Peace
- Amnesty International and torture
- staying silent in the face of criticism and ridicule
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Vatican II  Reflection 101  
Church choirs - singing for the Supper

 John W - Blog - May 27
 The hard drug world - good for Church to be more concerned about this issue


May 26  - Trinity Sunday                                               


David Timbs

Melbourne
The Trinity 
The original source of Trinitarian knowledge originated in the experience of Jesus by his followers and by those who came after them. They came to understand that the only way God could be understood was through the humanity of Jesus. His whole life was a perfect human reflection of who God is and how God continues to act in human history. Jesus was and is the ultimate disclosure of God, God who is
Trinity.

Pray-as-you-go.org
Daily prayer with 
beautiful music

 

 

 

 

Bishop Geoff Robinson
 and Bishop Bill Morris:

Petition
to Pope Francis
to stop sexual abuse 
and to reform Church
- & calling for a new 
Ecumenical Council !
(John W has signed petition)

Brian Coyne (Catholica):
Support this petition

May 26: Petition now has 8315 signatures...aiming for 10,000 before June 3

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Engagements of Pope Francis

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Darlene Starrs
Canada Sunday blogger

Whoever has the Son has Life, the Second Person of the Trinity!
I understand  the 'Trinity' in  this way, as described by Jesus, when he says, "I am in the Father, and the Father is in Me". Jesus also says, "that He will be with us always, and so he's sending the Spirit". I see a natural flow and mingling of the Father/Mother, the Son, and the Holy Spirit
Sean Coyle SSC

Trinity Sunday reflection - with recording of Newman's "Firmly I Believe"

Matt Malone SJ

 

The mission of America magazine/website in a 21st century church.
The church in the United States must overcome the problem of factionalism. This begins by re-examining our language. America will no longer use the terms “liberal,” “conservative” or “moderate” when referring to our fellow Catholics in an ecclesiastical context

 

John Allen (NCR)

 

Beneath the hype, Rio a major test for Pope Francis
Four challenges:
Church/State relations; the Evangelical and Pentecostal Challenge;
the media and the message; youth appeal


 Tom Fox (NCR) When Jesuits and Franciscans come together
   
   
This week's smile

 

A special smile for Trinity Sunday!

 


Reading, Reflection, Prayer for today, May 26
 
(comments welcome):
Thanks to Jesus' teaching, and the grace of the Holy Spirit, 
we become aware that our Creator is Three Persons.
Like a baby which gradually becomes aware of a human father, as well as a human mother,
so we gradually become more aware that our Creator is more than one Person

 

  

Vatican II  Reflection 100  
Liturgical calendars - should be responsibility of local bishops' conferences

 John W - Blog - May 26
 Most people in the world today don't know about the Father, Son and Holy Spirit

 


  Saturday May 25 

Joseph Girzone

Holy Spirit is making a statement when people stop going to Mass

Sacred Space 
 Daily prayer online.
Available in 19 languages

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Please 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, the most recent being talk of March 26, 2013: Reclaiming the Spirit of Vatican II

 

Gerard O'Collins SJ

Unlock the door - the case for women in the diaconate (Tablet)

Peter C Phan
Missionaries should regard themselves as grateful guests
(c.f. articles on this theme by  Fr  Hugh McMahon SSC)

Philippines Cemetery is home for thousands of poor families

Pope to attend Eucharistic Congress in January 2016?

Australia

Majority (63%) of adults are overweight (35%) or obese (28%)

Romero

 

El Salvador's leader gives pope bloodstained relic of Oscar Romero

 

Ecumenism

Francis could revive the ecumenical progress slowed by Ratzinger  (Tablet - Letters Free)

UK 
Mother of two talked down terrorists
Reader: At least these men did not tell women to know their place!  God loves and blesses every mother and all nuns who don't care if they are being ignored/despised despite their contribution for the good of mankind, and work humbly and silently, and seek peaceful means to resolve violence.

Statement of solidarity by Windsor and Maidenhead community leaders (sent by Hazel)


Reading, Reflection, Prayer for today, May 25  (comments welcome):
- Poor Jeremiah, he had to proclaim "priests have no knowledge of God"
- there's something special about a church
- God is only for our group, not for outsiders
- Have we ever been ashamed to stand up for God's values?

   Vatican II  Reflection 99 
The Lord's Day - with a Q&A summary of John Paul II's 1998 teaching re the Lord's Day

John W - Blog - May 25
Being Pope or US president doesn't necessarily mean you can easily change things 


 

Friday May 24    Feast of Mary Help of Christians  -  a title  used by John Chrysostom in the year 345 

John W Where do you stand on the issue of same-sex marriage?"
As more countries legalise SSM, mention is rarely heard of an elephant in the (men's) room: 
the real and present danger of anal sex. See this doctor's report (not pleasant reading)

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Homeless Jesus

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 Humble photo

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Barefoot man in cold and rain
St Peter's Square  2013-03-12
praying for  conclave

 

Pope Francis:
Thank you Holy Spirit




Pope Francis Atheists who do good will go to Heaven  (= the message of Matthew 25: 31-46)
Dr Joseph F Dietrich Forced celibacy and its consequences
Melbourne reader Spot the seven differences in these two photos of Benedict and Francis
USA Maine Catholic church closing its doors  (may there be a last minute reprieve like this one!)
Subcontinent Minority faiths being throttled in India, Pakistan, Bhutan, Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka
China  Beijing tightens grip on appointment of bishops

Reading, Reflection, Prayer  - with readers' comments: 
-
Menu for today May 24:
  the first and new Eve and Adam; my soul glorifies the Lord; become more like Jesus; put God's word into practice
Vatican II  Reflection 98  
To use the Breviary you need a degree in ....page-finding
John W - Blog - May 24
Sixty years ago today - First Holy Communion - DG!

 

Thursday May 23

Pope Francis

Tomorrow, May 24, please pray for Catholics in China
(Many commentators have pointed out that up to now, Francis has rarely used the words "pope" and "papacy".  Whoever advised him to use "pope" in this message to China should be banished to a monastery....since that reference is antagonistic to China's leaders - jw)


Daniel Daring

 

Thursday reflection on the Sunday readings,  to help us prepare for Sunday:
Trinity Sunday - a reflection on the Trinity
A few years before his death, Thomas Aquinas stopped writing theological treaties. When asked for the reason, he is supposed to have had answered: ‘Some months ago I experienced something of the Absolute, so all I have ever written about God seems to me now to be like straw.’ It is my wish that we experience something of that Absolute, who reveals Himself as “only one God, the Father, from who all things come, and only one Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom all things are, and only one Spirit, the Gift, in all things” (St. Hilary)


Anscar Chupungco 

New translation has made a mess of Trinity Sunday opening prayer
(c.f. the late Anscar Chupungco OSB in Hong Kong, November 2011)


The New Translation

2013 survey of US priests - majority don't like NT


The Charismatic Renewal - the second half of this article has lots of historical info that few people have heard of ....re how Pope Leo XIII tried in vain to get the Church more interested in the Holy Spirit


Joseph Girzone

We have to wake up! Let the people have a say during Mass.
(c.f. some parishes in HK where lay people give a sharing at Mass once a month)

Judith Lynch 

Pope Francis, the poor, and me  (CathBlog)


Reading, Reflection, Prayer  - with readers' comments: 
-
Menu for today May 23
:  some people are called to give special witness; the problem of corruption in many countries; beaten for witnessing to the truth - Paul; beaten for witnessing to the truth - Jesus


Vatican II  Reflection 97  
Red and white vestments have special meanings in certain cultures.
Don't impose European culture on rest of world


John W - Blog - May 16
Hong Kong not enough Catholic prison chaplains. 
Need for sisters/nuns to be ordained deacons in order to be prison chaplains!

 

Wednesday May 22

Open Hands         Chris McDonnell       (UK Wed blogger)    
But apart from the month of May, we should take time in the stillness of prayer to reflect on the significance of Mary and allow our own favourite image to instill in us the tranquil peace and, at the same time, challenge, that Epstein achieved in his Mother and Child


Matteo Ricci beatification linked to Church-China relations - may Pope Francis cut the red tape!


Real power is service  - Pope Francis, May 21 homily


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Nepotism in the Philippines 
 -
for which Time magazine  gave Phils 
"the most stupid country" award


The Harmonica Man  
- why so many kids are into music - lovely story from US


Latest The Good Oil has many interesting articles, 
including
Francis and the Signs of the Times by Garry Everett


What is a "Public Juridic Person"?
- more responsibility for lay people, a sign of the Spirit


Victorian sex abuse inquiry:  Archbishop Hart admits "awful blight"


How religions change their mind


In this week after Pentecost, let's think about the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit

Pentecost: the Gift - a down to earth explanation of the seven gifts


Reading Reflection Prayer - - with readers' comments - Menu for today May 22
Daily Bible reading a source of wisdom and strength; resolutely taking the road for Jerusalem; when friends desert us in time of trial


Vatican II  Reflection 96     Rediscovered: The Sacrament of the Sick


John W - Blog - May 22  A story between two beds!


(This section under renovation)

 
       

Fr Hans Küng:      Letter to bishops    Revolution to stop authoritarianism 
Fr Joseph Ratzinger:  Writings on Vat II          Robert Mickens: Vatican Implosion
Nicholas Lash:     Vatican II: Of Happy Memory - and Hope?
Robert McNally: Crisis & Criticism in the Church 
Ron Schmit:  1962 Mass a condemnation of Vat II

 

Priests 9 Masses a day - need to ordain married men

The evil of compulsory celibacy

Link between compulsory celibacy and sexual abuse

Why are women not being ordained to priesthood?

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