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Vatican II & Renewal
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16
Documents of Vatican II
Assn Catholic
Priests Ireland
Bp Pat Power
Bp Geoff Robinson
Bruce Duncan
Catalyst for Renewal
Catholica
Catholics for Ministry
Catholics for Renewal
STANDUP4VATICAN2
The Swag
VII - Voice of the Church
We Are Church
Excellent
articles on Mission
Hugh McMahon SSC
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Martin Mallon
Tuesday Ireland blogger
IS
THERE A GOOD SAMARITAN TODAY?
There is in
Iceland. There the government is the Good Samaritan and the
government wrote down all mortgages on houses in negative equity to the
value of the house plus 10% thus giving hope to people caught out in the
bankers’ easy-loan housing boom.
Is Iceland
the only country in the world that values its citizens
and society more than banks?
Is
Iceland
the only Christian country in the world, judged by
its actions?
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Open
season on black boys after a verdict like this
Calls for calm after George Zimmerman was acquitted of murdering Trayvon
Martin
are empty words for black families
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Saints
and sinners re the coming canonisation of John XXIII and John Paul II.
c.f. Popes
Making Popes Saints
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Day
8 update 29,000 California inmates on hunger strike re terrible
prison conditions - inmates kept in solitary confinement for years, even
decades.
Day 8 plan: "phone Governor Jerry Brown"
(see menu below, July 14, 13, 12 for more info re the strike).
And see this
BBC report (especially the lower section)
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RIP July 12, Melbourne:
Fr Andrew OFM Cap:
CAM tribute.
My parish priest before I went to the seminary.
A humble, holy man who loved prayer and the people.
At 90 years old on
a charismatic retreat!
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Email from
Australia: Channel
9 will be premiering The
Bible, a new 10-part television series, in a double episode (today),
July 16, at 9.00
pm. It tells the great story from Genesis to Revelation at a
time when many people have never opened a Bible. The series has been
a huge success in US, where 13 million viewers watched the premiere. This
is a wonderful opportunity to show broadcasters that programs featuring
Christian values rate well – do tune in, and encourage your friends to
do so!
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Australia
Church abuse
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Catholic
bishop admits culture of 'hiding abuse'
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Joseph Girzone
is currently posting a moving story about a handicapped baby boy.
...part one
and part
two
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Yesterday at detention centre....offering
books ....to some African inmates I said
"would you like this book on healing?"
to which one guy replied "Swahili?"
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Vatican
II Reflection 150
God's idea of marriage
John
W - Blog - July 16
Have you heard the story of "The Harsh Levite"? |
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A profile
by Barney Zwartz of
Father Kevin Dillon of Geelong,
Australia:
Father Protector
"He just gives and gives and gives. It's really costing him, dealing
with the victims. He's aged. We all think he should be a bishop. But he's
too outspoken, speaking up for the truth and for what could and should be
done - he won't get any medals for that."
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This website's kind
bloggers
(past and present)
with archives of articles:
Bakhita
Hazel
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Daniel
Daring
Inigo Joachim
Brian
Lewis
Judith
Lynch
Martin
Mallon
Chris
McDonnell
Bill
Mulcahy
Des
O'Donnell
Darlene
Starrs
TASMAD
David Timbs
Peter
Wilkinson
Harry
Winter
John
Wotherspoon
More
bloggers, more tank
people, wanted from all parts of the world,
to take a stand against
tanks
from
the left and from the right
Please
email:
jdwomi@gmail.com
Weekly
Archive
of main page menus
Previous
archives
2013 2012
2011
2010
2009
2008
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California hunger strike. This
story not being followed up by media outside US.
Latest update - Day 6
"More than 15 days in solitary is torture" - UN.
But US is keeping people in solitary for years, even decades.
Shame US! Shame President Obama!
(see menu of July 14, 13 - below - for more)
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Good
Samaritan - boat people - refugees - asylum seekers - Pope re Good
Samaritan
An excellent discussion by many readers
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Greatest
runner of all time to become president of Ethiopia?
A story of hope for a country beset by huge problems
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Photos
of Ramadan 2013
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Check photos 19 & 20 ....the
little boy! ....will make you smile
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V1Catholic.com
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Reply
to Tracey Rowland (c.f. David
Timbs: Sacra
Liturgia Conference)
And see this
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Video
report:
7,600 break world record for greatest number of musicians.
Eat your hearts out Canada, UK, US ...
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Interactive
Bible Quiz - 1 Kings
Based on the actual words of the Bible.
How many times you can get 3/3 ?!
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Discovery
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This website's comment
box at WordPress was blocking comments which contained more than one
internet link ....because such links are a sign of a scam.
I have (hopefully) unblocked this setting...like Romero's (unblocked)
cause?
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Vatican
II Reflection 149
In defence of marriage: statement of 150
Australian doctors re "same-sex marriage"
John
W - Blog - July 15
Happy meal at McDonald's |
Garry
Wills
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Popes
Making Popes Saints
“Good Pope John” is again being pressed into service. He was beatified
to take the sting out of Pius IX’s promotion. He is now being canonized
to make a joint heavenly pair with John Paul II
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Pope
Francis:
Thank
you Holy Spirit
Inspiring photos:
Engagements
of Pope Francis
Barefoot man in cold and rain
St Peter's Square 2013-03-12
praying for conclave
Homeless Jesus
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| USA prison
hunger strike
Powerful
video about
solitary confinement
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29,000
inmates on hunger strike. California holds nearly 12,000 people in
extreme isolation at a cost of over $60 million per year. The cells have
no windows, and no access to fresh air or sunlight. The United Nations
condemns the use of solitary confinement for more than 15 days as torture,
but many inmates in solitary for years, even decades (...hard
to believe....jw)
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New Translation: Comment from Stephen
(Australia)
"Like the
dewfall"
The Latin is more correctly and more sparsely translated as
“These gifts, therefore, we ask you make holy with the dew of your
Spirit”
Missal
petition to Cardinal O'Malley (jw
has signed)
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Just
....Bergoglio By Victor
Fernández, appointed by Pope as Abp
of Buenos Aires:
Thinking that Bergoglio was about to retire, intrigues abounded
how to
consolidate power that they were amassing in recent
years. I was myself in meetings where some Argentine bishops, and one
important representative of the Holy See (I exclude the current Nuncio, who is a
gentleman) amused themselves shamelessly criticizing Bergoglio
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Darlene Starrs - Canada
Sunday blogger
LGBT will decide the future of the Institutional Church
(c.f.r. Elephants
in the men's room jw)
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China
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Care
for parents goes from filial to legal obligation
The government's decision to turn filial piety, which should belong to the
moral and spiritual realm, into a law, is born of helplessness. While the
intention is good, with the government making sure employers grant
holidays to allow family visits, the result could be counterproductive
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Dolan’s
adviser defends cemetery fund money transfer
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Malala
Yousafzai, Pakistani schoolgirl shot by Taliban, addresses United Nations
"terrorists most afraid of education"
c.f. Nigeria
report "western education is sacrilege"
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| Church
sex abuse
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Australia
inquiry hears of 50-year cover-up
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| V1Catholic.com
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John Paul II, Benedict XVI and Francis - Liturgical
abuses at their Masses
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This
week's smile: A: Cuppa
Magna B: Paddy
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Vatican
II Reflection 148
Who am I? I
am the
goal of human history, the focal point of the longings of history and of
civilization, the center of the human race, the joy of every heart and the
answer to all its yearnings
John
W - Blog - July 14
Pope Francis to World Youth Day July 22-29 |
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The
Francis revolution: No flattery, no valets, no pomp, no ceremony
There are two elevators in St.
Martha’s House and one is usually kept free for the residence’s most
important guest.
But Francis often takes the other one too. One day, two bishops saw him
entering it quickly before the doors shut and pressed themselves up
against the back of the elevator feeling a little embarrassed. The Pope
smiled at them and said in Spanish: “No muerdo”, I
don’t bite |
Homeless Jesus
Barefoot man in cold and rain
St Peter's Square 2013-03-12
praying for conclave
Pope
Francis:
Thank
you Holy Spirit
12
inspiring photos
This
site's full statistics
for May 2013
If you find a broken link in this website, please let me know: jdwomi@gmail.com
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Andrew
Hamilton SJ
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Pope's
lessons in boldness for politicians
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Editor of Catholica, Brian
Coyne, has very kindly given a
good plug to David Timbs' excellent
article on our July 7 menu: Sacra Liturgia
Conference in Rome. Catholica posting has attracted a number of
interesting comments
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Path
to sainthood of Vietnam's Cardinal Francis Xavier Nguyen Van Thuan needs
careful handling
Pope Francis did not use the word "Vietnam"
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Myron J Pereira SJ The
Church and population control
Most societies – certainly in India – are ‘patriarchal’ - the
decisions of menfolk overrule the wishes of women. It’s the man who
decides the nature and frequency of intercourse, whether or not
contraception will be used, whether female fetuses will be aborted until
the desired boy is conceived, and so on. Such decisions are taken
unilaterally
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Ecumenism
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Ireland
interfaith gathering denied permission for shared Communion service
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Vatican
II Reflection 146
Christianity is not just a one hour a
week affair
John
W - Blog - July 12
Evangelicals - plenty of vocations; Catholics - few vocations |
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Jackie
Evancho
- To Believe
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
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
Ron
Schmit: 1962
Mass a condemnation of Vatican 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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Chris
McDonnel Wednesday UK
blogger
A
Date to Remember
"He
did not operate by great exposition of ideas but by gestures and a certain
personal style".
Yves Congar's
words about Pope John XXIII apply to Pope Francis
....and apply to every Christian
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William
O'Brien: Revolutionary
Mercy How Gospel forgiveness challenges our social order:
Many Americans who most fervently identify
as Christians and promote Christian values in society are also among the
most ardent “law and order” advocates, extremely tough on crime and
opposed to any emphasis on rehabilitation. Perhaps at some level, we all
intuit an unsettling truth: Radical forgiveness, as articulated and
practiced by Jesus, might in fact be deeply threatening to the social
order.
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Katie Rose
Quandt We
Are One Body Catholics
voices against use of solitary confinement:
Prisoners in solitary confinement spend 22 to 24 hours a day in an 8-foot
by 10-foot cell in conditions of extreme isolation and sensory
deprivation. Some languish in these tomb-like cells for years or even
decades. And in the US, the practice is far from rare. Although solitary
confinement is often thought of as a last resort for the most dangerous
criminals, in fact 80,000 prisoners are held in isolation in state and
federal prisons across the country on any given day
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Rocco
Palmo
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Pope's
visit to Lampedusa (with text of Pope's homily) - see photos on
yesterday's menu
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Nigerian
schools ordered to shut after extremists kill 30
Authorities have blamed the spate of recent attacks on the terrorist group
Boko Haram, whose name means "western education is sacrilege".
The group and its offshoots have killed more than 1,600 civilians in
suicide bombings and other attacks since 2010
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Video:
Meet
global corruption's hidden players Global Witness co-founder Charmian
Gooch exposes how a global architecture of corruption is woven into
the extraction and exploitation of natural resources (...note
reference to HSBC...)
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Major
US names missing as retailers sign deal to improve Bangladesh safety
International teams of fire and building safety inspectors, working with
inspectors in Bangladesh, will inspect all the signatories supply
factories within nine months to identify "grave hazards" and the
need for "urgent repairs"
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Pope
vs George
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Pope
Wants a Church of the Poor, But George Weigel Rejects Saint Francis of
Assisi
Who will our Bishops tell us to
follow, Pope Francis or George Weigel?
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From St.
Beuno's Outreach, Wales:
Reflection
on the readings of this coming Sunday, the 15th Sunday of the Year.
The Samaritan shows goodness in crossing the boundaries of race, breaking the cycle of enmity between his people and the
Jews
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Vatican
II Reflection 144
Four pearls of wisdom
John
W - Blog - July 10
Death row in an eternal prison ...if I don't give a dam about
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