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Healing
Moral Wounds
The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have so far resulted in
more than 5,000 American deaths and 50,000 wounded, as well as hundreds
of thousands of Afghan and Iraqi casualties. ...at a cost to the
American people of $6 trillion, or
$75,000 per household. ...with still another cost: moral injury
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Pope
Francis:
Thank
you Holy Spirit
Inspiring photos:
Newness,
harmony, mission
Engagements
of Pope Francis
Zenit.org
- reports from Rome
Many
thanks for checking
this website each day
St Paul on Metro/Tube/MTR!
Little
girl telling the story of Jonah
- brilliant!
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Reflection for
this 1st ever International Day of Sport:
Indian
cricket: far beyond the boundaries of fairness
Players live in ludicrous luxury while most of India goes hungry |
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YouTube
live streaming of Bishop Putney’s funeral
7pm tonight Australian Eastern Standard Time |
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US
bishop: wash only male feet on Holy Thursday
(???)
c.f. Diocesan
ban on washing women's feet stays in place
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Many reports re
top China official in legal tug-of-war between Australia and HK:
Bloomberg
Sydney
Morning Herald The
Australian
South
China Morning Post The
Straits Times
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From the Edge
More people now die in the United States by suicide
than in automobile accidents (...about 500 each week...)
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Vatican to investigate abuse claims
Pope sends Holy See's sex crimes prosecutor Charles Scicluna to look
into allegations of sexual misconduct against Cardinal Keith O'Brien
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For Hong Kong
readers: yesterday on the street I met a former prison
inmate who asked me for help: near his home in Ho Man Tin is a park-type
area which has some 50 (!) abandoned/stray cats that he feeds each day.
He says "RSPCA not able to help ....50 too many". Man is asking
if anyone would like a cat or five! |
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Pope
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125. To understand
this reality we need to approach it with the gaze of the Good Shepherd,
who seeks not to judge but to love. Only from
the affective connaturality born of love can we appreciate the
theological life present in the piety of Christian peoples, especially
among their poor.
I think of the
steadfast faith of those mothers tending their sick children who, though
perhaps barely familiar with the articles of the creed, cling to a
rosary; or of all the hope poured
into a candle lit in a humble home with a prayer for help from Mary, or
in the gaze of tender love directed to Christ crucified.
No one who loves God’s holy people will view these
actions as the expression of a purely human search for the divine. They
are the manifestation of a theological life nourished by the working of
the Holy Spirit who has been poured into our hearts.
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A joke for International Sports Day:
Harry
walked over to the Priest after services, “You know Father, I am
really stuck in a quandary. I would like to attend church next
week but I just can’t miss the big game next Sunday, it’s just out
of the question.” “Oh Harry Harry” said the Priest, “don’t you
know? that’s what recorders are for.” Harry’s face lit up “you
mean I could record your sermon?”
walked over to the Priest after services, “You know Father, I
am really stuck in a quandary I would like to attend church next week
but I just can’t miss the big game next Sunday, it’s just out of
the question.” “Oh Harry Harry” said the Priest putting his arm
around Harry, “don’t you know? that’s what recorders are for.”
Harry’s face lit up “you mean I could record your sermon?” Harry walked over to the Priest after services,
“You know Father, I am really stuck in a quandary I would like to
attend church next week but I just can’t miss the big game next
Sunday, it’s just out of the question.” “Oh Harry Harry” said
the Priest putting his arm around Harry, “don’t you know? that’s
what recorders are for.” Harry’s face lit up “you mean I could
record your sermon?”
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| Great Clean Jokes
Harry walked over to the Priest after services, “You know Father, I
am really stuck in a quandary I would like to attend church next week
but I just can’t miss the big game next Sunday, it’s just out of
the question.” “Oh Harry Harry” said the Priest putting his arm
around Harry, “don’t you know? that’s what recorders are for.”
Harry’s face lit up “you mean I could record your sermon?”
Read more at: undefined
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This website's Tanzania
File
(stopping Africans from being tricked into bringing drugs
to HK)
- letters
from Tanzanian inmates in Hong Kong prisons
This
website's South
America file
(stopping
South Americans from being tricked into bringing drugs to HK)
- letters
from South American inmates in Hong Kong prisons |
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wishes to release Vatican II's bold vision from captivity |
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Vatican
II Reflection - 409
Many
countries have allowed the media to practise "self-regulation".
But if you put "media self-regulation" into Google, you'll see many
articles about the failure of self-regulation. Which means media needs
government regulation. Which is what article 12 is all
about
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John W
mini-Blog
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Yesterday I
saw a sad sight in the Yau Ma Tei area: some 20 people, nearly all men,
living in terrible conditions under a freeway overpass. Some of the group are
local Chinese, some are from Nepal, India and Pakistan. Nearly all
are drug addicts. A big need in Hong Kong: emergency shelter for
men and women. May HK soon have St Vincent de Paul and Salvation
Army type hostels for the homeless, as in other parts of the world |
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Sun: Africa
Mon:
Europe & Russia
Tues:
South Asia Wed:
East Asia
Thurs:
S.E. Asia & Pacific Frid:
South America
Sat:
Central & North America
Please join me
in praying for one part of the world each day of the week:
Jesus, today, Sunday,
please bless the people of Africa
On this 6th
of the month, Jesus
please bless the
prisoners of Hainan
Please join me in praying for
prisoners in one part of China each day of the month |
