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Today is the anniversary of Elizabeth
Seton (1774-1821) the first native-born citizen
of the United States to be canonized as a saint. She established the first
Catholic school in the US and founded the first American congregation of
Religious Sisters, the Sisters of Charity. |
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Please
encourage more people to see 1-10
re Bishop Bill Morris:
1:
Judge's conclusions
2: Canon lawyer's report
3: Radio interview with judge
4: "The Age" file of letters
5:
Summary re Rome
6:
Frank Brennan's update
7: ABC radio Fr Frank Brennan
8. Update from Frank Brennan
9. Vatileaks & Bp Bill Morris
10: Tablet letter - Frank Brennan
After
reading 1-10, check the "Pravda" report of CNA
Google "Morris" at top of this page for many articles re
Bishop BM, the most recent being talk of March 26, 2013:
Reclaiming
the Spirit of Vatican II
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Bob
Welsh - My Christmas Eve A
moving YouTube video |
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Excellent
article:
Tribalism
lives on, for better and for worse
It has been a common jibe that the
Europeans “divided” Africa.
In fact they brought Africa together |
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Withhold
aid from regimes that persecute Christians, argues senior Conservative |
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Winning
friends and souls - the lesson of Pope Francis
The more Catholicism points away from itself and towards
Christ, the more convincing it is |
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Vatican
hosts top world leaders to push for end to Syrian war
"With a death toll of 126,000 and 300,000 orphans in 36 months of
war, can we remain indifferent?" |
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Filipinos'
lack of dedication at work (?) |
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This
website's statistics for Dec 2013.
DG In December 6,787 unique visitors made 14,559 visits
..that's an average of 218 visitors and 437 views
per day. DV this site will continue to be a voice for the poor
....and help people avoid drug trafficking. Thank you for checking this
site each day and using your Facebook etc to spread the message of this
site.
This site has helped prevent more than a hundred Africans from going to
prison in HK. This fact alone makes the site worthwhile. Before this
site's anti-drug campaign began in July 2013, at least 3 or 4 new African drug
trafficking inmates were entering HK's prisons each week. Since the
campaign began, only one new drug trafficker
from the whole of Africa has joined the HK prison population (a man from
South Africa). In the week before the campaign began, seven new Tanzanians
entered prison in HK. Since the campaign began, not one new
Tanzanian. DG! |
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Changing
church needs new models - a layman running a
parish |
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32. Since I am
called to put into practice what I ask of others, I
too must think about a conversion of the papacy. It is my duty,
as the Bishop of Rome, to be open to suggestions which can help make the
exercise of my ministry more faithful to the meaning which Jesus Christ
wished to give it and to the present needs of evangelization.
Pope John Paul II asked for help in finding “a way of
exercising the primacy which, while in no way renouncing what is essential
to its mission, is nonetheless open to a new situation”. We have made
little progress in this regard. The papacy and
the central structures of the universal Church also need to hear the call
to pastoral conversion.
The Second Vatican Council stated that, like the ancient
patriarchal Churches, episcopal conferences
are in a position “to contribute in many and fruitful ways to the
concrete realization of the collegial spirit”. Yet this desire has not
been fully realized, since a juridical status of episcopal conferences
which would see them as subjects of specific attributions, including
genuine doctrinal authority, has not yet been sufficiently elaborated.
Excessive centralization, rather than proving
helpful, complicates the Church’s life and her missionary outreach
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A Polish immigrant went to apply for
a driver's license. First he had to take an eye sight test. The optician
showed him a card with the letters 'C Z W I X N O S
T A C Z.' 'Can you read this?' the optician asked.
'Read it?' the Polish man replied, 'I know the guy.' |
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Big
drug raid in Southern China
Nigerian
man with 71 heroin capsules arrested Tanzania airport
This website's Tanzania
File
(stopping Africans from being tricked into bringing
drugs to HK)
- letters
from Tanzanian inmates in Hong Kong prisons
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 - 318
The better and the truer my friendship with Jesus,
the more apostolically minded I'll be |
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John W
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Brisbane due for a top
temperature of 41 today (after 36 yesterday). 2013 was
Australia's hottest year on record. High temperatures are generating
increased interest in the subject of climate change. But, sadly, a
big number (the majority?) of Australians don't believe climate change is
caused by humans
On the other side of the globe: US
having snowstorms
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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, Saturday,
please bless the people of Central
& North America
On this 4th
of the month, Jesus
please bless the
prisoners of Guangdong
Please join me in praying for
prisoners in one part of China each day of the month
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Tell
me..what do you think about my Grandson!”
