Gerry O Hanlon SJ speaking on Fratelli Tutti on Midwest Radio’s Faith Alive programme on Sun Oct 11th 2020 with Monica Morley and Brendan Hoban.
“It’s a nice insight into it and he critiques it well….!”
Jim McCormack CM asks whether in a rapidly changing world the sacraments as we celebrate them require a complete overhaul . Evolution and change over decades and centuries has always been part of the church, its ministry and its celebration of sacraments; “Gradually a system will develop which will satisfactorily cover all the appropriate bases.”
The challenge facing the “POWERS THAT BE” is in deciding to let go and let what is past ‘rest in peace’.
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Brendan Hoban, writing in the Western People, again comments on the decreasing numbers of priests to serve in Ireland and the consequences that arise as a result for the remaining, mainly elderly, priests.
But he adds “my interest here is not in the priesthood issue.
Rather it’s on how the failure to address this issue by the leadership of our Church is impinging on the immediate victims (the present priests) caught in the slipstream of an on-going decision by the Irish bishops to continue to avoid ‘the elephant in the living room’.
“Are there not a few bishops who might do a Bishop Kräutler on it and have a chat with Pope Francis about the implications of his Christmas message – ‘the world has changed and so must the Church’?
What is it about that sentence that the Irish bishops don’t understand or refuse to accept, even though almost every Catholic in Ireland seems happy to acknowledge?”
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Thank you for sharing this interview with Fr. Gerry O’Hanlon chatting with Monica Morley about Pope Francis’ new encyclical, Fratelli tutti. It was good to hear Gerry’s voice again.
We had a very successful Newman Association gathering here in Edinburgh a year last February when Gerry came over to speak about The Quiet Revolution of Pope Francis following the publication of his book.
Gerry mentions the fact that Francis refers to abortion only once in Fratelli tutti. The link that I am now sharing below is to an address given by Bishop Robert McElroy of San Diego who laments the fact that some Catholics reduce Catholic social teaching to a single issue –abortion, and hence the reason some Catholics are planning to vote for Trump and not for the candidate who is a practising Catholic in the forthcoming presidential election, Joe Biden. I have friends in America who are voting for Trump because he is “pro life”. Obviously, the 456 children who were initially encaged and still not reunited with their parents at the Mexican border do not count as “life”. I think Sr. Joan Chittester put her finger on it when she famously explained that so many who are so called pro life are really just pro birth. Cardinal Bernadin and his seamless thread of life is worth revisiting.
I think Eddie has said somewhere else that it is important we don’t let Fratelli tutti quickly disappear from sight. Francis’ major themes of challenging populism, challenging nationalism and advocating that we welcome the immigrant with love must always be kept in full view.
We should be grateful to this ACP site for providing us with so much coverage of Fratelli tutti. Our SSVP parish conference here in Edinburgh has had a spiritual reading based on the theme of Fratelli tutti, shared digitally, for the last three weeks–the most recent being a spiritual listening to Gerry’s interview on Faith Alive.
https://www.ncronline.org/news/justice/bishop-laments-questioning-bidens-faith-due-abortion-policies?s=09&fbclid=IwAR3vzFfqokNJgUKKgf9TEDj7rf6NEPaqhfaq2Vg94TrEmPdkXs5KqoovaTs
On the same theme of Bishop McElroy, this is Fr. Louis Cameli who is a priest of the Archdiocese of Chicago and Cardinal Cupich’s delegate for formation and mission.
Sorry, I didn’t share the link last time@2
https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2020/10/27/abortion-bishops-catholic-politics-election
Paddy @2&3:
On eminence and pre-eminence, will Timothy Dolan of New York insist that, if Wilton Gregory of Washington DC is to be an Eminence, he himself is obviously still Pre-Eminent?