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The
Church is a field hospital in China too
Even Communist leaders recognise “the Huiling
miracle” in their own way. The founder of the Catholic NGO for the
mentally ill explains what it is that makes it grow
Wikipedia
re Huiling Guangzhou
Huiling official website
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Vatican II & Renewal
(1)
16
Documents of Vatican II
A
Call to Action
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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School
reforms come not a moment too soon
The results of concentrating the mad, bad and the sad in
the same under-funded schools are becoming increasingly clear
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From
John W: due to extra work for asylum seekers
and hospital patients - in addition to full time prison ministry - I need
to cut back on the time I give to this website. In future the site will be
much simpler. I have asked the site's kind weekly bloggers - Chris,
Darlene and Martin - to change to "occasional" instead of
"weekly" mode. All their previous articles can be accessed at
links on right side of this page. I have also encouraged C, D & M to
try posting on other sites which might give them a wider readership than
this site. When Chris published an article on PrayTell not long ago,
it attracted more than 70 comments. In future v2catholic will also
focus more on the poor, and will encourage readers to increase concern
about issues like
these
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Really important
interview with Turkey's
President about the proxy war between US and Russia
Syria risks becoming 'Afghanistan on the shores of the Mediterranean'
And see "talking
turkey" comments.... Turkey not just an innocent
bystander |
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When bishops had courage to oppose Curia:
Yves Congar, My Journal of the Council, Part VIII
This is the sort of thing that
needs to happen now |
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For Hong Kong readers
- job vacancies:
Waiters/waitresses needed at newly opened restaurant in Tsim Sha Tsui:
Cozy Corner - ph 23692489
(at corner of Minden Road and Minden Avenue) |
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This website's Tanzania
File (which is stopping Africans
bringing drugs to HK)
- with links to all letters
from Tanzanian 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 259
How
many parish/school/community meetings always start with a Bible reading?
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John W
mini-Blog |
My
weekly article for today's HK Ming Pao newspaper
(On
MP website)
Today's
topic: Diwali and the
Melbourne Cup! |
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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, Tuesday,
please bless the people of South
Asia
On this 5th
of the month, Jesus
please bless the
prisoners of Guizhou
Please join me in praying for
prisoners in one part of China each day of the month
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David Timbs
(Melbourne) |
Two
Marginals up a tree: Zacchaeus and God watching out for Jesus
God never ceases being most comfortably at
home with the widow, the orphan, the poor, the stranger. God values the
ones so despised and rejected that they have to climb a tree for refuge,
for a sense of personal dignity, worth and ultimately, salvation. They
were and are God’s People |
Pope
Francis:
Thank
you Holy Spirit
Inspiring photos:
Engagements
of Pope Francis
Many
thanks for checking
this website each day
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From John W:
due to extra work for asylum seekers and hospital patients - in addition
to full time prison ministry - I need to cut back on the time I give to
this website. In future the site will be much simpler. I have asked the
site's kind weekly bloggers - Chris, Darlene and Martin - to change to
"occasional" instead of "weekly" mode. All their
previous articles can be accessed at links on right side of this page. I
have also encouraged C, D & M to try posting on other sites which
might give them a wider readership than this site. When Chris
published an article on PrayTell not long ago, it attracted more than 70
comments. In future v2catholic will also focus more on the poor, and
will encourage readers to increase concern about issues like these |
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Darlene
Starrs
(Canada)
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Unbind
the people, says Jesus
In so
many ways and in so many places, the RC clergy undermine the vocation of the
laity by lording it over them. This is the sin of clericalism
and so we find ourselves, the RC Church facing yet again, a situation that calls
for reform |
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One of several graphic photos
at
this site |
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Age
of intolerance: the war on religion
"Not only is religious persecution unstoppable in Islamic and Third
World countries, but it is on the way in the West, in a different
form"
(Let's pray each day for moderate,
peaceful Muslims to grow in influence, and extremists to decline. I guess
it's the same in all groups: extremists are the problem)
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Facing
Up to Torture Uncovering a shameful,
secret history.
After reading the stories in this report, one can
only say Shame USA. Shame. Shame. Shame. And Shame President Obama for
allowing such things to happen
Too
Big to Prosecute?
There is little to indicate that any major
figure from the world of U.S. high finance will ever be held accountable
for all the turmoil and suffering endured over the last half decade
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Looting
soldiers, then grass-cutting
rapists, and
now:
Kenyan media in uproar over 'draconian' media bill
Kenya going down the tube? |
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The
achievements and challenges of Vatican II on Scripture
"If you do not read and pray the scriptures, you
are not an adult Christian"
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Playin'
church with Francis; the 'Bergoglio of Saskatchewan'; and Iraq
(John Allen)
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Yesterday in the custodial ward of a HK hospital I met
an 18 year old woman with S.L.E.
(Lupus). Linked article says that Ferdinand Marcos and Michael
Jackson also suffered from S.L.E. Jesus,
please heal that 18 year old!
For Chinese readers:
HK Lay Prison Evangelical
Association
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Smile - to go
with today's Gospel
C.H. Spurgeon once asked a student who
was training for ministry to preach a sermon with no preparation. The
result merits an entry in the Guinness Book of World Records for the
shortest sermon ever. Appropriately, it was on the subject of Zacchaeus,
and this is how it went:
"First, Zacchaeus was a man of
very small stature; so am I.
Second, Zacchaeus was very much up a tree; so am I.
Third, Zacchaeus made haste and came down; so will I."
With that, the student sat down to shouts of more more from his fellows.
Spurgeon stated he could not improve on that if he tried!
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Another
letter (in Swahili) from a Tanzanian inmate in a HK prison: This
letter encourages people to name and shame "the big fish". If
you have information, give it to the authorities. If you are a business
person coming from Tanzania to HK and you have information about "big
fish", please give it to the police in HK
This website's Tanzania
File
- with links to all letters
from Tanzanian 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 258
How much of the present
priesthood is of God and how much is of man?
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John W
mini-Blog |
Walking home last night I
met a man sleeping on the ground in a tunnel walkway. I've met him
before....many times....he was in detention for a while. He's always
cheerful...seems to pick up some part-time work...but is attached to his
tunnel. In a matter of fact way he said at one stage during out chat
"I usually get home
around 7.30 each night" |
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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 3rd
of the month, Jesus
please bless the
prisoners of Gansu
Please join me in praying for
prisoners in one part of China each day of the month
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Pakistani
family of drone strike victim gives harrowing testimony to Congress
Translator
brought to tears by family's plea as Congress hears from civilian
victims of alleged US drone strike for the first time
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This
site's full statistics
for September 2013
To publish an
article on this site please contact Fr John Wotherspoon omi:
jdwomi@gmail.com
If you find a broken link in this website,
please contact: jdwomi@gmail.com
Why
I collect rubbish for Pope
Taking
a stand
Navigation
Aids
Standing
up to bullies
Too
Western/European
Abortion
- a true story
"Same-sex
marriage": two elephants
in the men's room
Near
Death Experiences
Globalisation
of Indifference
Tale
of Two Brains
John's other sites:
www.doctorjesus.org
www.riccicenter.com
www.simplebible.info
www.china8.org
www.jesustower.com
www.oneminuteenglish.com
China
Library
- essential reading for anyone interested in China's Christian
history
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| Commonweal |
A
Chat with Pope Francis (a make-believe
interview) |
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Hong
Kong ethnic
minorities lose out in education |
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Ugandan
ministers failing to tackle corruption |
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This story in
Chinese:
Fewer
seminarians in China |
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Yesterday as I was thinking
about the Bible readings of yesterday's Bible Blog, when I thought about
Moses and 70 others eating and drinking in God's presence, I began to
wonder what did they eat and drink? Up to then in the desert they'd
had only bread and birds (quails). Surely God didn't give them the
same? And after that they had nothing but B&B for 40
years. They would have often remembered God's meal! |
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Two
Australians arrested in Vietnam for trafficking
(in this report: Thai & Nigerian drug mules
sentenced to death in Vietnam)
This website's Tanzania
File
- with links to all letters
from Tanzanian 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 255
Helping English teachers go to China: AITECE
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John W
mini-Blog |
Because of increasing work for
prisoners, asylum seekers and hospital patients, I need to cut back on
time given to this website. In future the site will be simpler, but
hopefully will continue to do a bit of good for the poor, the Church and
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, Thursday,
please bless the people of South
East Asia
On this 31st
of the month, Jesus
please bless the
prisoners of Tianjin
Please join me in praying for
prisoners in one part of China each day of the month
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Chris McDonnell
Wednesday UK blogger
Hey
Jude!
There are many instances when we face situations that trouble us,
occasions personal to our families, and our own life story, when faith is
tested and the consequences of the experience asks questions that take us
out of our comfort zone. Then those oft repeated words “Do not be
afraid” take on a whole new meaning.
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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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Martin
Mallon
(Ireland blogger) |
Opus
Dei cardinal says head of CDF wrong
Francis will have to confront Opus Dei at some stage if his desire for a
poor church for the poor is to be realised, especially in
South America
And see:
Cardinal
Pell defends Pope ....and comments on C8
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Kenya's
lawnmowing rape sentence sends 1 million flocking to online protest |
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Pope
meets Aung San Suu Kyi of Burma |
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Seven
Somalia media workers killed this year |
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The world's 6th poorest country - Central African
Republic
Ten
photos of refugees who have fled from fighting
(while I'm living in comfort in HK, these
people are living in hopelessness)
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There are many asylum seekers in detention in
Hong Kong, mainly for working illegally (since they are not allowed to
work in HK) ...trying to get money for their families (..government
support is below-basic). One day I saw an inmate I felt sure was an asylum
seeker so I said to him "Are you a refugee?" He answered
"No. I'm a Muslim" ! |
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Mexican
vigilantes take on drug cartels
"Extortions, kidnappings and disappearances are
right down."
This website's Tanzania
File
- with links to all letters
from Tanzanian inmates in Hong Kong prisons
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| Francis
wishes to release Vatican II's bold vision from captivity |
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Vatican
II Reflection 254
Memo to religious congregations: can you
do more?
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John W
mini-Blog |
Jesus, please bless and heal
J.S., seriously ill in a local Hong Kong hospital |
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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, Wednesday,
please bless the people of East Asia
On this 30th
of the month, Jesus
please bless the
prisoners of Shanghai
Please join me in praying for
prisoners in one part of China each day of the month |
