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Les Miserables: Some powerful lesson about our human response in the face of trial and suffering
Rachel over at 'Movie Thoughts' offers an insightful review of Hollywood's latest production of 'Les Miserable' in which she explores our human response to suffering. If you're not interested in her opinion regarding the quality of the singing in this movie, skip down to her second point and read from there.
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Merry Christmas Everyone!!!
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Will God Still Be Able to Find Me? A Meditation based on an endearing Canadian Tire Christmas Commercial | Archdiocese of Washington
Children often have problems with generalization and conceptualization. For example, when I was very young I was told that Jesus lived in the tabernacle. Fine I thought, then that must mean there is furniture and stuff in there. So when the priest opened the tabernacle up on the high altar, I earnestly looked for the furniture and perhaps the little stair case going to a second floor, much like my sister’s dollhouse was set up.
But then the Nuns threw me for a loop in Sunday School when they asked “Where is God?” And then they supplied the answer, “Everywhere.” But wait a minute, I thought they said he lived in the tabernacle. And thus I could not generalize and specify very well with my 6 year old brainClick on link below to read the entire article:
Will God Still Be Able to Find Me? A Meditation based on an endearing Christmas Commercial | Archdiocese of Washington
GEORGE WEIGEL COLUMN - A pastoral opportunity lost?
Dec. 26, 2012 - At their annual November meeting, the U.S. bishops failed to approve a pastoral message on the economy. “The Hope of the Gospel in Difficult Economic Times” was approved by a clear majority of the bishops voting, but objections raised in large part by retired bishops were sufficient to deny the document the supermajority it needed.
All of which strikes me as a lost opportunity.
No doubt the draft document could have been improved; any ecclesial document can be improved (if you doubt that, try reading Vatican II’s Decree on the Means of Social Communication without taking a long winter’s nap). What was so striking about “The Hope of the Gospel in Difficult Economic Times,” however, was that it was different: it was the work of pastors, not policy wonks; it anchored its reflections in the Gospel, not in the dismal science; and in a public environment becoming ever more secular, it used terms like “sin” and “virtue” to describe our present circumstances, what led us into them, and what might lead us into a better future.
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Pope Says Faith Includes Trust in Dark Moments | Daily News | NCRegister.com
In the latest installment of his weekly reflections on faith, the Holy Father emphasizes the need to rely on God in difficult circumstances.
Pope Says Faith Includes Trust in Dark Moments | Daily News | NCRegister.com
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Life With a German Shepherd: More and More Luminous
Life With a German Shepherd: More and More Luminous: Catherine de Hueck Doherty It is December 14. In Madonna House, that date holds one signification and one only: it is the annivers...
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12 women died from abortion complications in 2008, double previous year: CDC | LifeSiteNews.com
QUICK! Time to mount up and rally to demand that abortions be outlawed! Time to protest, yell, and profane governments which permit such an outrage to occur!!! 12 women have died!!!
No?
Then why is this the proper response when one woman dies in Ireland because (in the opinion of her non-medically trained husband) her request to terminate a pregnancy was refused... especially when medical opinion states that performing an abortion would not necessarily have saved her life? Surely it's not because this tragedy is being used by some to promote a particular agenda is it?
12 women died from abortion complications in 2008, double previous year: CDC | LifeSiteNews.com
No?
Then why is this the proper response when one woman dies in Ireland because (in the opinion of her non-medically trained husband) her request to terminate a pregnancy was refused... especially when medical opinion states that performing an abortion would not necessarily have saved her life? Surely it's not because this tragedy is being used by some to promote a particular agenda is it?
12 women died from abortion complications in 2008, double previous year: CDC | LifeSiteNews.com
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Leafs fan buys used dressing room toilet from the team for $5,300 - sportsnet.ca
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| A Leaf fan's dream possession? |
Given the state of the NHL today with half a season already flushed away in this stupid lockout, it might be the best symbol for the entire league.
Leafs fan buys dressing room toilet for $5,300 - sportsnet.ca
Church of England votes against women bishops | Holy Post | National Post
It is understandable that a church founded on an apostolic leadership model would be wary of making this change.
Women as priests is much less of an issue since a priest is theologically viewed as being subordinate to a bishop. An argument can be made, as it has already within the Anglican communion that priests could analogously be compared to the 'disciples', of which there were both men and women in biblical times. (It doesn't work for Catholics because of the 'in persona Christi' issue, but that's not at issue here.)
However, using the same analogy bishops are seen as the successors to the 12 apostles whom Christ placed at the head of the Church to fulfill the three roles of leadership, sacramental ministry, and teaching/evangelization. While it is clear that women were among his closest followers, some of whom even used their own wealth to support Jesus and his ministry, it is just as certain that among the 12 Christ only chose men.
Theologically it is very difficult to reconcile the fact that Christ clearly and without question chose only men as apostles, endowed with charisms and responsibilities to lead his church, with today's ethos of blinding ourselves to gender differences among individuals. I can appreciate that this is a difficult circle for the Anglicans to try and square.
Church of England votes against women bishops | Holy Post | National Post
Women as priests is much less of an issue since a priest is theologically viewed as being subordinate to a bishop. An argument can be made, as it has already within the Anglican communion that priests could analogously be compared to the 'disciples', of which there were both men and women in biblical times. (It doesn't work for Catholics because of the 'in persona Christi' issue, but that's not at issue here.)
However, using the same analogy bishops are seen as the successors to the 12 apostles whom Christ placed at the head of the Church to fulfill the three roles of leadership, sacramental ministry, and teaching/evangelization. While it is clear that women were among his closest followers, some of whom even used their own wealth to support Jesus and his ministry, it is just as certain that among the 12 Christ only chose men.
Theologically it is very difficult to reconcile the fact that Christ clearly and without question chose only men as apostles, endowed with charisms and responsibilities to lead his church, with today's ethos of blinding ourselves to gender differences among individuals. I can appreciate that this is a difficult circle for the Anglicans to try and square.
Church of England votes against women bishops | Holy Post | National Post
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The Crisis of a Second Obama Administration | First Things
George Weigel examines the consequences of the 2nd Obama election for the RC Church.
The Crisis of a Second Obama Administration | First Things
Desiccated Christianity
Mother Teresa was once asked how she could go on, day after day, year after year, caring for the sick and dying and poor and offering them so much comfort.
Desiccated Christianity
13 November, 2012
Elmo puppeteer accuser recants sex story - World - CBC News
Elmo puppeteer accuser recants sex story - World - CBC News
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Boo! 9 surprising facts about Halloween in Canada - Business - CBC News
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Brian D'Arcy: I felt like giving up when the Catholic Church tried to gag me - Northern Ireland, Local & National - Belfasttelegraph.co.uk
'Giving up'? I wonder how he can square his religious obligation to obey his superiors (who ordered him to cease this public campaign of challenging Church teaching) with his participation in a documentary about the issue. It would seem that Fr. D'Arcy is having trouble understanding not only the Church's moral teachings but he's go a way to go to understand what it means to be obedient and silent!!
Brian D'Arcy: I felt like giving up when the Catholic Church tried to gag me - Northern Ireland, Local & National - Belfasttelegraph.co.uk
Brian D'Arcy: I felt like giving up when the Catholic Church tried to gag me - Northern Ireland, Local & National - Belfasttelegraph.co.uk
NDP threatens Family Coalition Party with legal action for 'hate literature' mail drop | LifeSiteNews.com
I never cease to be amazed that political parties like the NDP and the Liberals, which claim to be 'inclusive' organization, are the ones who are spearheading the drive to make illegal opinions that they don't agree with without recognizing the contradiction.
Here's another solid example to prove my point. Click on the link to read the entire article.
NDP threatens Family Coalition Party with legal action for 'hate literature' mail drop | LifeSiteNews.com
Here's another solid example to prove my point. Click on the link to read the entire article.
NDP threatens Family Coalition Party with legal action for 'hate literature' mail drop | LifeSiteNews.com
26 October, 2012
Is Freedom of Religion a 'natural right'? Here's an interesting article that tries to answer this question.
In that notable letter, so characteristically terse, and yet with it all, magnificent, George Washington remarked to the Hebrew Congregation in Newport that "it is now no more that toleration is spoken of as if it were the indulgence of one class of people that another enjoyed the exercise of their inherent natural rights." The "natural rights" here were the rights of "the children of the stock of Abraham who dwell in this land" to live their Jewish lives with their rituals of worship. And in a biblical image, "every one shall sit in safety under his own vine and fig tree and there shall be none to make him afraid." Several years earlier James Madison invoked a comparable notion of the freedom of religion as nothing less than a natural right. In his "Memorial and Remonstrance Against Religious Assessments" (1785), Madison insisted that "this right [of religious freedom] is in its nature an unalienable right."Click on the link below to read the entire article.
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