“Hope is not blind optimism. It's not ignoring the enormity of the task ahead or the roadblocks that stand in our path. It's not sitting on the sidelines or shirking from a fight. Hope is that thing
So much is revealed by the continuing failure to recognise the principle of the primacy of conscience - even though this failure was revealed as of huge danger in the deference to clergy that was indi
Colm -
Thanks for the translation.
Can you give the direct link to the original document in German? I don't see it on the home page of Pfarrer-initiative to which you give a link.
Gesundheit.
Pádraig
I agree with Roy Donovan except for his use of the word maybe in speaking of The Vatican and The Curia. There is no maybe in my opinion, both need to be dismantled completely
To coin a phrase from former British Labour MP, Denis Healy, when referring to the Thatcher government, this Church "is not rotten TO the core - it is rotten FROM the core!"
Homily for August – 16 - 2020
Key message:
Pursue in love for Jesus.
Takeaway from first reading:
God is not God only for a small group of people. He is God for all. He does not show discriminat
Thank God there is now an increasing awareness of the shameful history of how we have treated people whose skin colour was other than white and of how women were dismissed and denied opportunities to
It is obvious that those who put this Instruction together are seriously out of touch and living in a bubble. It feels like a last 'hurrah' to hold on to a celibate male priesthood at all costs. They
"Each situation requires a specific kind of translation and so we should have a range of versions offered with advice on which to use in each setting."
The logic of this seems to be that we would have
Thanks, Tom, for this very helpful and very challenging piece. At all costs we must avoid a new translation which uses sexist language; we would then be stuck with it for years. But what to do in the
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Statement of the Pastors’ Initiative Austria on the “Instruction on the Pastoral Conversion of Parishes at the Service of missionary mission of the Church”
August 13 2020“Hope is not blind optimism. It's not ignoring the enormity of the task ahead or the roadblocks that stand in our path. It's not sitting on the sidelines or shirking from a fight. Hope is that thing
Statement of the Pastors’ Initiative Austria on the “Instruction on the Pastoral Conversion of Parishes at the Service of missionary mission of the Church”
August 13 2020So much is revealed by the continuing failure to recognise the principle of the primacy of conscience - even though this failure was revealed as of huge danger in the deference to clergy that was indi
Statement of the Pastors’ Initiative Austria on the “Instruction on the Pastoral Conversion of Parishes at the Service of missionary mission of the Church”
August 13 2020Colm - Thanks for the translation. Can you give the direct link to the original document in German? I don't see it on the home page of Pfarrer-initiative to which you give a link. Gesundheit. Pádraig
Statement of the Pastors’ Initiative Austria on the “Instruction on the Pastoral Conversion of Parishes at the Service of missionary mission of the Church”
August 13 2020I agree with Roy Donovan except for his use of the word maybe in speaking of The Vatican and The Curia. There is no maybe in my opinion, both need to be dismantled completely
Statement of the Pastors’ Initiative Austria on the “Instruction on the Pastoral Conversion of Parishes at the Service of missionary mission of the Church”
August 13 2020To coin a phrase from former British Labour MP, Denis Healy, when referring to the Thatcher government, this Church "is not rotten TO the core - it is rotten FROM the core!"
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Statement of the Pastors’ Initiative Austria on the “Instruction on the Pastoral Conversion of Parishes at the Service of missionary mission of the Church”
August 13 2020Thank God there is now an increasing awareness of the shameful history of how we have treated people whose skin colour was other than white and of how women were dismissed and denied opportunities to
Statement of the Pastors’ Initiative Austria on the “Instruction on the Pastoral Conversion of Parishes at the Service of missionary mission of the Church”
August 13 2020It is obvious that those who put this Instruction together are seriously out of touch and living in a bubble. It feels like a last 'hurrah' to hold on to a celibate male priesthood at all costs. They
Before we make more mistakes: let’s think again about the ‘new’ lectionary!
August 9 2020"Each situation requires a specific kind of translation and so we should have a range of versions offered with advice on which to use in each setting." The logic of this seems to be that we would have
Before we make more mistakes: let’s think again about the ‘new’ lectionary!
August 9 2020Thanks, Tom, for this very helpful and very challenging piece. At all costs we must avoid a new translation which uses sexist language; we would then be stuck with it for years. But what to do in the
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