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Vatican micro-managers of the Mass need to be shown the door.
“the Congregation for Divine Worship try to micro-manage the Church around the world and often fail to understand or misinterpret local custom and tradition.”
Brendan Hoban in the Western People continues to wonder how curial officals fail to see it is their own institutions that are in need of reform instead of tinkering with what is actually still working in the church.
Bishop Paul Dempsey:…The deeper problem arises in the sphere of language, at best it is experienced as cold and distant, at worst hurtful and offensive…
Reflection by Bishop Paul Dempsey to mark Pope Francis’ ‘Amoris Laetitia Family Year’ 26. MAR, 2021 On 19 March 2021, the Feast of Saint Joseph, the Church celebrated five years…
USA: Bishops urged against ‘weaponization’ of Communion…
RNS – Religious News Service reports: A group of 60 Catholic Democrats in the House of Representatives, including Reps. Rosa DeLauro and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, released a “statement of principles” Friday…
The Vatican’s New Document on Gender: Is There Hope?
Colm Holmes, spokesperson for We Are Church Ireland, draws our attention to an article on www.newwaysministry.org by Deacon Ray Dever from Florida. Deacon Dever attended the World Meeting of Families in Dublin last year. He assisted at the Papal mass. He is the father of a Transgender daughter and a Bisexual daughter.
In this New Ways Ministry article he asks “Is there Hope?” about the Vatican’s new document on Gender.
Pope says Vatican II shaped his theology, including in social teaching
NCR online article by Cindy Wooden VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis said the Second Vatican Council so shaped his theological and pastoral vision that perhaps he has not been as explicit as…
Helpless but not Hopeless
Seamus Ahearne gives his thoughts on the reality we are now face with. “A new Religion may be taking shape just now. It is forced on us. Communion is expressed by keeping distance.”