Chris McDonnell
(Wed UK blogger) |
Football
in the Favela
Don’t
let us forget, amid the excitement and drama of these international games,
with their world-wide television coverage, that survival for many millions
of people is not winning the next game but having enough to eat the next
day and a sheltering home for their family in the night time hours that
follow |
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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Berlin
Plans 'House Of One,' A Place Where Jews, Muslims, And Christians Will
Pray Under The Same Roof |
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Kenyans demand accountability following al-Shabaab murder spree
Al-Shabaab militants went door-to-door, executing husbands, fathers and
brothers in front of their female relatives, saying they came to leave
only widows and orphans behind |
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Where
angels fear to tread
One of the significant and pressing pastoral theological issues currently
dividing opinion among the hierarchy and among the laity of the Church, is
the issue of divorced and remarried Catholics, and their access to Eucharist,
writes Garry Everett |
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Will
you help restore hope?
Upholding the basic human rights of asylum seekers and refugees calls for
concerted action from all Australians who believe in a just and
compassionate society says, Good Samaritan Sister, Clare
Condon
Nothing
to fear from refugees and asylum seekers
Thirty years from now, an Australian prime minister will rise in
the parliament and offer an apology to refugees and asylum seekers and
their families for the damage that is being done to them today, says Phil
Glendenning |
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The
priest: from oracle to ignoramus (Brendan
Hoban) |
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Francis |
Corruption is easiest 'sin at fingertips' of anyone with power |
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Australian jail populations have risen
sharply
Trust
is biggest casualty of Abbott budget (Bruce
Duncan)
Law
disorder in Campbell Newman's Queensland (Frank
Brennan)
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198. For the Church,
the option for the poor is primarily a theological
category rather than a cultural, sociological, political or
philosophical one.
God shows the poor “his first mercy”. This
divine preference has consequences for the faith life of all Christians,
since we are called to have “this mind… which was in Jesus Christ” (Phil
2:5).
Inspired by this, the Church
has made an option for the poor which is
understood as a “special form of primacy in the exercise of Christian
charity, to which the whole tradition of the Church bears witness”.
This option – as
Benedict XVI has taught – “is implicit in our Christian faith in a God
who became poor for us, so as to enrich us with his poverty”.
This is
why I want a Church which is poor and for the poor.
They have much to teach us. Not only do they share
in the sensus fidei, but in their difficulties they know the
suffering Christ. We need to let ourselves be
evangelized by them.
The new evangelization is an
invitation to acknowledge the saving power at work in their lives and
to put them at the centre of the Church’s pilgrim
way. We are called to find Christ in them,
to lend our voice to their causes, but
also to be their friends, to listen to them, to speak for them and to
embrace the mysterious wisdom which God wishes to share with us through
them.
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Cup - football
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The Devil constantly challenged St Peter to a game of football, but St
Peter refused, until one day while walking around heaven he discovered
that quite a number of top international footballers had entered the
‘pearly gates’.
“I think I’ll arrange to play that football game,” said St Peter to
the Devil. “We have a great number of International Stars in heaven at
the moment from which to select a winning team.”
“You’ll lose, you’ll lose!” taunted the Devil.
“What makes you so sure?” asked St Peter.
“Because,” laughed the Devil, “we have all the referees down
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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
Yesterday
on the metro on way to a prison, I saw a Mainland women using Mandarin
start asking directions from other passengers. A young local Chinese boy
(looked about 15 but actually is a first year university student) using
perfect Mandarin, promptly helped the lady. "Boy" was right next
to me so I quietly said to him "your Mandarin is excellent" (not
so common among HK students). He then replied in perfect English and we
had a chat. "How come your English is so good?" I asked. "I
was a student at Wah
Yan" (a famous Jesuit college in HK). I gave him a copy of my
little book "Doctor Jesus" which told him I was a priest. He
went on to discuss the wonderful benefits of Ignatian education, the
current HK political situation....and how during his time at Wah Yan, he
had been an exchange student at Jesuit colleges in Sydney and
Ireland. As I got off the metro I couldn't help thinking: Well done
Wah Yan and well done young man! And when I got home from prison, this
email was waiting for me: (my email address is on back of "Doctor
Jesus")
Dear
Father,
It
was my great pleasure to meet you on the MTR and I did enjoy
the small chat with you today. Although I am neither a Christian nor a Catholic,
being blessed by Ignatian Education and ignited by the motto 'we
are men and with others', I truly believe that we all have the role of bringing some
positive impact to society in different ways. Really inspired and grateful
for what you are doing here in Hong Kong especially for the
prisoners. Thank you.
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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 18th
of the month, Jesus
please bless the
prisoners of Shandong
Please join me in praying for
prisoners in one part of China each day of the month |
