Submitted by a member, this is a hard-hitting article – Ed
Link to full article:
https://www.ucanews.com/news/spiritual-malpractice-the-vaticans-dodgy-saint-making-business/109402
NCR article: 26 Jan 2024 Divided Christians will draw closer to one another only by loving God and loving their neighbors, serving one another and not pointing fingers in blame…
Press Release 22 Dec 2023 The Association of Catholic Priests (ACP) warmly welcomes the recent Vatican declaration, Fiducia Supplicans, from the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, allowing priests…
The address of Vincent Long Van Nguyen, Bishop of Parramatta, to the Concerned Catholics of Canberra and Goulburn Forum on the topic of “The Role of the Faithful in a post-Royal Commission Church in Australia” has relevance not just to the church in Australia but to the universal church.
“If the priesthood has a better future, it has to be humanized; it has to find expression in better mutual support, collaboration and partnership. It has to free itself from the variant strains of clericalism such as sexism, paternalism, narcissism and superiority complex.”
“So long as we continue to make women invisible and inferior in the Church’s language, liturgy, theology and law, we impoverish ourselves as if we heard with only one ear, we saw with only one eye and we thought with only one half of the brain…”
Next Week! ACP AGM Wed 6 Nov 2024 Join us, all welcome, at the AGM in the Radisson Hotel, Athlone, Wed 6 Nov 2.00-5.00pm Is the Synodal process running into sand?…
Note: A seminar entitled Personal and Ancestral Healing will be held in Lady’s Island Community Centre on Saturday8th March from 10am to 4pm. Cost €40 with refreshments included. Facilitators –…
Today’s liturgy gives a preview of the events we will celebrate between Holy Thursday and Easter Sunday: the passion, death and resurrection of Jesus. These events are also the focus of this and every Sunday celebration. We ask for God’s help in understanding their significance.
Blessed Carlo Acutis pray for us!
This letter from Robert Mickens in Rome is important and deserves serious attention. A theologian at the Angelicum University commented on the frequent reports of of visions of Christ in the consecrated host. Some of which were of a bizarre nature whilst others were of an emotional kind. A important question in the Gospels was ‘What is truth?’
The multiple visions of “Jesus”‘s face on the eucharistic host in southern India are nauseatingly stupid and even more so is the Vatican’s prompt approval.