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A stocktaking of my life
By Melanie Reid in THE TIMES, Saturday 15 September 2018: Friends are gloriously random things, like road signs, stopping you at forks in the road and suggesting which way to go. Depending on your mates and where you met them, your life is shaped. Inspirational, goodie goodie, funny, naughty – or just a lesson in…
Homily, 24th Sunday (B)
Today we reach a turning point in our weekly Sunday reading of St Mark’s Gospel. We find Jesus and his disciples in a town 25 miles north of the Sea of Galilee. Every Sunday from here we will find him and his disciples travelling in stages to Jerusalem, the place of his arrest and execution.…
I was once linked with Boris Johnson. Today I stand beside Carrie Symonds
By Anna Fazackerley in THE GUARDIAN, 14 September 2018: On Wednesday evening my eight-year-old daughter shouted to me that there was a strange man staring at her through the living-room window. A Daily Mail reporter had tracked me down, and was prowling round the back of my home in the countryside. I am a journalist and…
We all are ‘priests’: Laypeople, not ordained, hold church’s power
By Bill Tammeus in The National Catholic Reporter (USA), 11 September 2018: A core principle of Protestantism from the beginning of the Reformation has been the idea that "all who believe in Christ are 'priests,' " as the Second Helvetic Confession of 1566 says. We call this idea found in the document written by the early reformer…
Wipe away the hidden dangers of the high life
From (the always entertaining) Carol Midgley in THE TIMES, 10 September 2018: Opening my handbag to put it on the tray for airport scanning machines I often get a laugh from the security guards over my antibacterial kitchen wipes, which I consider an absolute travel must-have. The moment I sit down on a plane I…
Homily, 23rd Sunday of the Year (B)
The basis of this homily is from a reflection by ‘a Dominican nun’ (no name given) published in the periodical ‘Scripture in Church’. One of the great social changes in our time is how people can communicate with each other without ever meeting one another. People now have ‘friends’ without them ever actually meeting each…
Why the Catholic church is still a force for good
By Dawn Foster in The Guardian, 6 September 2018: Have you written a will?” my doctor asked, matter-of-factly, while taking my blood pressure last Saturday, in the same tone you’d use to ask someone whether it was raining outside. To a 30-year-old, outwardly healthy woman, the question felt odd. But I was leaning against the…
The Silence of Pope Francis
By Dr Austen Ivereigh Pope Francis refused to answer reporters’ questions about a letter released on Sunday by Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, instead urging reporters to draw their own conclusions about the former papal nuncio’s accusations. Austen Ivereigh explains that the roots of Francis’ response might be found in an article that Jorge Mario Bergoglio…
Letter of His Holiness Pope Francis – To the People of God
“If one member suffers, all suffer together with it” (1 Cor 12:26). These words of Saint Paul forcefully echo in my heart as I acknowledge once more the suffering endured by many minors due to sexual abuse, the abuse of power and the abuse of conscience perpetrated by a significant number of clerics and consecrated…
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