Mutiny
rumblings among senior Australian clergy
New English Missal - latest
from "What if we just said wait" - new translation "up in
the air"
Church articles 2010 (from weekly diary of John Wotherspoon)
To follow these articles in chronological order, please start at bottom of list
-
priest risks his job by publicly calling for women priests
- interview
with Hans Kung
- scathing
report on new missal's mistakes sent to bishops
- Pope
Benedict gets the celibacy question backward (ok till last
paragraph ..)
- important
article on Islam - Christianity relationship
ABC
radio program: Donald Cozzens - abuse and other issues (click
"Download MP3")
- 3 people, two of them sure like big words, but Fr Cozzens easy to
understand and program worth listening to for his important sharing.
A lesson in how not to conduct an interview ....so many
interruptions......please let us hear more of Fr Cozzens' wisdom!
Mutiny
rumblings among senior Australian clergy
New English Missal - latest
from "What if we just said wait" - new translation "up in
the air"
Church leadership lacking - a most important article
Should
celibacy be optional, not compulsory, for priests?
(excellent program from BBC - includes interview with Bishop Geoff Robinson of
Australia)
Matteo Ricci during 400 years of changing papal policies
-
Catholic Church
needs total reform (Bishop Pat Power)
- while people like Bishop Pat are calling for the church to be more humble,
more simple, avoiding the trappings of power etc., last week in Washington D.C.
a U.S. cardinal said a Tridentine Mass with all the trappings, including a 20
yard (!) "superman" cape - see especially the second picture in
this report
- this
BBC report on Toyota has many similarities to present church situation:
problems, unwillingness to change etc
- open letter
from Hans Kung to Catholic bishops ....."must read"
(if print is too small, increase "100%" at bottom right of screen)
- Turn this dreadful moment into a graced moment (Fr Michael Ryan)
-
church
of the future will be smaller?
- Reflections
of Fr W. Steckling, OMI leader
- Is
middle ground possible? (John Allen)
- Bishops:
"sorry"; Vatican: "idle gossip"
- 50,000
protestants at Vatican October 31?
- a
Year of Shame? (by a former priest)
- Pope
should resign?
-
Keeping
the record straight on Benedict and the crisis - John Allen
- Italy
next - Guardian- Trying
to make sense of the whole business - John Allen (an unusually strong
article by his standards)
- Ratzinger's
Responsibility - Hans Kung
- Kung's
full statement re compulsory celibacy
- Celibacy
linked to abuse - Kung
Previous items re new missal: |
||
update on coming (2011) new missal | Official
site of new missal - with many samples of changes |
Petition
to try to stop new book (I have signed it ....hope others will too) |
Battle
lines in liturgy wars (this whole issue is about....p o w e r) |
What if priests refuse to use new book? ...a good idea.... | NCR Interview with Fr Ryan |
Background info 01 | Background info 02 | Humpty Dumpty at Vatican - Asian anxiety |
Cardinal
Zen's comments need grain of salt