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Our
encounter with Jesus fills our hearts with joy
Pope Francis' own beautiful reflection one week
after World Youth Day:
We must never forget that the World Youth days are
not “fireworks”, moments of enthusiasm that end with themselves; they
are stages of a long journey.
The encounter with the living Jesus fills the heart with joy. We have seen
this in the faces of the youths in Rio. But this experience must face the
daily vanity, the poison of emptiness that insinuates itself into our
society based on profit and having things, that deludes young people with
consumerism
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Thousands of US prisoners on hunger
strike
- supported
by California bishops
Video:
On
any given day 80,000 people are being tortured in the United States
Day
27 Update File
of articles re the strike
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Dr Chris Geraghty
(Catholica)
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Our Church
further down the track - re the contrast between the
Roman, curial Church, gomflated with pomp and superiority, forever
concerned with its dignity and status, super-dogmatic, assertive,
isolated, reactionary and authoritarian ...and "the other
Church" ... the real one .... the
People of God, inclusive, engaged in the world, the protector and
champion of the poor, based on the values and
principles of Jesus as set out in the Gospels,
with a humble pope at the head, surrounded and assisted by a college of
bishops
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How
a big US bank laundered billions from Mexico's murderous drug gangs
As the violence spread, billions of dollars of cartel cash began to seep
into the global financial system. But a special investigation by the
Observer reveals how the increasingly frantic warnings of one London
whistleblower were ignored
Langa:
Breaking the silence on drugs in Tanzania
Langa’s work and example could not be more needed and
important. The silence that hangs over drug-use in Tanzania needs to be
broken. If we are to have any chance of preventing and responding to this
ever growing problem, we need to listen to, not shun the heroic stories of
those who have battled this aggressive addiction and who have recovered
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Interactive
Bible Quiz- Two Samuel
Based on the actual words of the Bible.
How many times you can get 3/3 ?! |
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Vatican
II Reflection 171
Responsible economics - investing and divesting
John
W - Blog - August 5
Every
Christian should be "a voice for the poor"
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The
Legacy that Pope Francis Left at World Youth Day
By Leonardo
Boff
The greatest
legacy was the Pope himself: a humble servant of the faith, clear from all
ostentation, touching people and letting people touch him, talking the
language of the youth and speaking about truths with sincerity. He
represented the noblest of leaders, the servant leader who does not refer
to himself but to others, with warmth and care, evoking hope and trust in
the future
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Pope
Francis:
Thank
you Holy Spirit
Inspiring photos:
Engagements
of Pope Francis
Many
thanks for checking
this website each day
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Darlene Starrs -
Sunday blogger (from Canada, now in Ireland)
New wine needs new wineskins
Bishops must be free and the laity on fire with the Good News of Jesus
Christ
in order to be that New Wine for the Church, and for the many souls the world over, that hunger and thirst for the living
God
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People's
Pope brings winds of change
On the plane back to Rome, he held an impromptu press conference, standing
at the front holding a microphone like a genial stand-up comedian. Looking
at the newspaper photographs, one half-expected him to start crooning Moon
River.
But it was unprecedented - not many world leaders will spend 80
minutes being grilled by journalists, unmediated and unscripted, with no
topic out of bounds
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In
case you haven't heard ....
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An article on this website - Drug
Mules - has been featured on African newspaper websites and on African
blogs, and has led to the arrest of a leading politician in Tanzania. More
details on menu of Saturday August 3, below
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Pope Francis SJ
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"Us
Jesuits" – On Ignatius' Day, The Pope Comes "Home"
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| Taking
global warming seriously
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Dangerous nuclear and
fossil-fueled power plants need to be phased out with all due speed. In
the interim, these plants and other polluting industries need broad, tough
antipollution regulations and restrictions.
Abundantly safe and clean solar, wind and geothermal sources of energy
need to be put on the fast track and receive enormous financial
investments to slow down and eventually reverse climate change and global
warming.
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M
E R C Y
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The
one word to describe Pope Francis' papacy to date
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File
of articles re the strike
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Thousands of US prisoners on hunger
strike
- supported
by California bishops.
Update Day 27: Yesterday the Supreme Court refused to delay a court order for
California to release nearly 10,000 inmates by year’s end to improve
conditions in state prisons. Governor Brown is being urged to follow
the lead from states such as Illinois, Colorado and Mississippi, to
end harsh and long term isolation practices
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Tanzania: Pregnant
women used to smuggle drugs
(to avoid detection by airport scanners)
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This website's statistics
for July
- Tanzania readers have sent numbers through the roof!
The article Drug
Mules was accessed 5,053 times July 28-31. May this little website
continue to do a bit of good re the aims noted at top of this page |
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This
week's smile: The pastor who loved peach brandy ...and...a
recall notice
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Vatican
II Reflection 170
A desperately poor person may steal from the rich!
John
W - Blog - August 4
Hong Kong's Police
Drug Reporting Hotline not very hot!
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St
Alphonsus' advice for a new pope!
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This
site's full statistics
for June 2013
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Pope:
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Daniel
Daring Thursday blogger
Reflection on August 4 Sunday readings: Rich
towards God
I am amazed at the amount of books being
published under the section of ‘self-help’ and ‘personal
finances.’ We are told to be tougher, better organized, more
independent, self-sufficient, and profit oriented. I wonder how well this
message goes with Christian values of sharing, community, and trusting God
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Zimbabwean
church leaders urge world to pray for peaceful elections
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Today
is the anniversary (1834)
of the first Protestant missionary
to China, Robert
Morrison,
"the Protestant Matteo Ricci" |
A marvellous book: Robert
Morrison and the Birth of Chinese Protestantism.
Morrison arrived in China in 1807, produced the first Protestant Chinese
Bible and laid the foundation for the Chinese Protestant Church. I had the
privilege of visiting his grave in Macau in 2008 - fourth row of photos at
this link
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Pope
Francis SJ
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Video
report of Mass with Jesuits, July 31
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July
21, 1773 anniversary
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Why
were the Jesuits suppressed?
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Ireland
- Brendan Hoban
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Sustained
media attack on Religious Orders is scurrilous
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Thousands of US prisoners on hunger
strike
- supported
by California bishops
Story
of one inmate who spent 8 years in solitary confinement
Day
24 Update
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Vatican
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Papal reform appointment in tweeting trouble
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USA
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Next
generation science standards draw hostility from religious groups
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Happy
Birthday today
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St
Eugene de Mazenod (1782) and the
PLA of China (1927)
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Vatican
II Reflection 167
How migrant workers should be
treated
John
W - Blog - August 1
Spiritually
under-nourished Catholics
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Chris
McDonnell
Wednesday UK blogger
So
we got married.
With the many pressures on our lives,
marriage has not escaped the questioning of a changing world. We need not be
judgemental whilst we personally adhere to a Christian view of a sacrament that
is not a one-off morning in a dressed-up church but is a continual life
experience, ever changing and adapting, both joyous and sorrowful
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Vatican II - Renewal (2)
Hans
Küng:
Letter
to bishops
Revolution
to stop authoritarianism
Fr Joseph Ratzinger:
Writings
on Vat II
(link
gone...anyone able to find it?)
Robert
Mickens:
Vatican Implosion
Nicholas Lash:
Vatican II:
Of Happy Memory - and Hope?
Robert
McNally:
Crisis & Criticism in the Church
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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Wellbeing
of the poor has deteriorated over past 15 years, says Cafod
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The
“Reform of the Reform” is Over
The take-away from Pope Francis’ trip to Brazil is that the efforts of
John Paul II and Benedict XVI to reverse the course of the Second Vatican
Council have come to an end. Francis’s papacy, it is now clear, will be
about the Restoration of the Reform
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Hong
Kong enters into World Youth Day spirit
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A
reading list for climate change deniers
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In Ireland
there's the
Association of Catholic Priests.
In Austria: We
are Church.
And now in the UK, a new group: A
Call to Action
- a group of Catholics, inspired by Vatican II,
encouraged by Pope Francis' "Third Way", concerned yet hopeful
about the future of the Church
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Hong
Kong customs detects three drug trafficking cases in one day (July 25)
- two of them men from Tanzania
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Middle East
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Catholics
begin to build new church in the Emirates
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Church abuse
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Two
Australian monks accused of sex abuse at Scottish Catholic boarding school
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From St. Beuno's
Outreach, Wales, this week's Prego:
Reflections
on the readings of this coming Sunday, the 18th Sunday of the Year:
This week we are encouraged to look at our values and priorities
...to consider where our treasure lies
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Thousands of US prisoners on hunger
strike
- supported
by California bishops
Hunger
Strikes Are Ravaging Californian Prisons
(a powerful article ...please
read...then pray)
File of previous articles
on this hunger strike Day
23 Update
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File
of HK good news stories about healing has been updated - see July 28,
29 stories.
See also update to June 8 story re mother of Dicky Cheung Wai Kin (with photos)
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Vatican
II Reflection 166
Economics, politics, Church ....
- may the largest number of people
take part in decision making!
John
W - Blog - July 31
Did you hear the one about the Jew, some Muslims and the old Catholic
priest?
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