Chris McDonnell
(Wed UK blogger) |
The
division of walls (re Pope Francis at walls in
Jerusalem)
One of the
many murals painted on the Wall that still stretches across parts of
Belfast
, the consequence of
Ireland
’s troubled past, includes the words “peace
by piece”. Maybe that is how it has to come about, a bit at a
time, till everything is in place. Such walls will only be dismantled when
there is consent and trust between those divided by their presence.
Chris has also posted So
the Story Continues at PrayTell, re Mickens' article, below
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Vatican II - Renewal (2)
Hans
Küng:
Letter
to bishops
Revolution
to stop authoritarianism
Fr Joseph Ratzinger:
Writings
on Vat II
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? (updated)
This
website's
Reflections on the 16 documents
of Vatican II
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| BBC
Panorama Documentary: The
Pope's Revolution ...Francis
facing opposition
Pope,
at charismatics rally in stadium, invites them to Vatican in 2017
....and kneels on bare stage while crowd prays for him
Cardinal Kasper is the 'pope's theologian'
- helping Pope push for reform of
the rules re Communion for divorced people etc |
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Europe faces 'colossal humanitarian catastrophe' of refugees dying at sea
In a statement condemning the EU's inaction, Amnesty
International said: "With virtually no
safe and legal routes into Europe, people are increasingly pushed into the
hands of smugglers and traffickers, and are forced to risk their lives on
unseaworthy vessels."
c.f. same message a few days
ago from Pope:
Make
economic migration easier, Pope urges governments in bid to end
people-trafficking
(Must admit that when I read the Pope's words, I
thought he was maybe wanting to open the legal door too wide. I didn't
realise the legal door wasn't open at all!) |
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Archbishop warns of 'balkanization' in US church
In response to one question, Tobin even said some
U.S. bishops are finding Pope Francis' leadership style difficult to
understand.
"What
I've seen is how disruptive Pope Francis has been within the hierarchy of
the United States," said Tobin. "I was talking to a couple of
brother bishops a while back and they were saying that bishops and priests
were very discouraged by Pope Francis because he was challenging
them."
"I
think there was a particular image, perhaps, of what it means to be a
pastoral leader in this country, and Francis is disturbing it," he
continued. "I think there is some resistance to a different way of
doing the Gospel mission of the church."
The
archbishop paused before continuing with a smile: "So, pray for
Francis' health." |
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Recommended
by Pope Francis |
Compendium
of the Social Doctrine of the Church
(To my shame, I did not know, or maybe did not remember that this
document exists! In the future, I will try to put key texts from this
document on v2catholic) |
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| Robert
Mickens |
The Benedict protégé in Francis' Vatican
(Cardinal Muller) |
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Soaring
rent
and home prices |
Homesick
(G. Monbiot). "The
point of current housing policy is to sustain a system built on
injustice". London situation is similar to many
parts of the world, including Hong Kong |
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This
website's May statistics. God
bless all kind readers! May this little website help us keep up with
what is happening in society and in the Church ....and encourage us,
following the example of Pope
Francis, to do our bit in helping more people know and live by the joy of
the Good News |
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184. This is not the
time or the place to examine in detail the many
grave social questions affecting today’s world, some of which I
have dealt with in the second chapter.
This Exhortation is not a social document, and for
reflection on those different themes we have a most suitable tool in the Compendium
of the Social Doctrine of the Church,
whose use and study I heartily recommend.
Furthermore, neither the Pope nor
the Church have a monopoly on the
interpretation of social realities or the proposal of solutions to
contemporary problems.
Here I can repeat the insightful observation of Pope
Paul VI: “In the face of such widely varying
situations, it is difficult for us to utter a unified message and to put
forward a solution which has universal validity. This is not our
ambition, nor is it our mission. It is up to the
Christian communities to analyze with objectivity the situation which is
proper to their own country”.
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Cardinal Gerhard Müller enjoys recounting a humorous
episode that occurred some months ago when Pope Francis stopped into the
office Müller heads, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
The pope immediately noted a small statue in the entrance hall, which
depicts a bishop in full regalia sitting on a horse and holding aloft the
Blessed Sacrament in a gold monstrance.
"I sat in a saddle like that for six hours," Müller told the
pope, alluding to the 600-year-old annual Pentecost Ride he sometimes led
when he was bishop in Bavaria.
With a chuckle, Francis replied: "The
poor horse!"
(from article, above: The Benedict protégé) |
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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
This
website's Hong
Kong file
(encouraging
local drug addicts to come off drugs) |
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John W
mini-Blog |
On the ferry to Hei Ling Chau
detention centre and drug centre last Monday, I noticed a lady aged about
30 nursing and playing with her dog. My thoughts were on the dog
rather than the lady as I reflected how such dogs are 100% loyal .....
maybe that's one reason people sometimes prefer pets to partners. I also
thought how the dog is maybe taking the place of a baby.
When I got home I saw this article on the internet: 'Culture of comfort' makes couples
choose pets over children (Pope Francis) |
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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 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 |
