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Confession must be subject to mandatory reporting
March 26, 2014 Bryan Keon-Cohen, Joseph Poznanski The absolute confidentiality of the Catholic Church’s confessional puts vulnerable children at risk. Illustration: Andrew Dyson. While the Catholic Church appears willing to accept the Victorian parliamentary committee’s recommendations in its report Betrayal of Trust, the church hierarchy rejects the application of a mandatory reporting regime to the sacrament […]
Desmond Tutu: ‘I am sorry’ – the three hardest words to say
Brilliant article: read it right through! Exclusive: The social activist and retired Anglican archbishop on seeing his father abuse his mother when he was a child and what he’s learned since then about forgiveness Archbishop Desmond Tutu ¢â‚¬ ¦ ‘My father has long since died, but if I could speak to him today, I would want to tell […]
Looking for Positives
During my mid-twenties I caught up with a long-lost high school friend. He ¢â‚¬â„¢d always carried a few extra kilos, but now he was carrying several more. My hair had already begun showing its pathological fear of heights ¢â‚¬”which has some positives: like being a load off my mind; or saving on hair shampoo ¢â‚¬”but I decided to […]
Serenity Prayer
Reinhold Niebuhr: God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other. Living one day at a time, Enjoying one moment at a time, Accepting hardship as a pathway to peace, Taking, […]
You love gay people? That’s great. Prove it.
When conservative Christians find out I ¢â‚¬â„¢m gay, they almost all say the same thing: ¢â‚¬Å“I know gay people think Christians hate them, but I don ¢â‚¬â„¢t. I love gay people. I may not agree with them, but I love them. ¢â‚¬ You ¢â‚¬â„¢d be surprised how often I hear this. Christians are constantly telling me how much they love me. If they […]
Exploring Eternity
As kids we could see our faces and the backs of our heads simultaneously, for our family bathroom had two mirror doors that opened towards each other. Carefully positioning these mirrors enabled us to look beyond these two images; into a continuous line of reflections. Yet on reflection ¢â‚¬”please pardon the pun ¢â‚¬”I recall ; the images […]
Faith and ‘Great Things’
You see things and say ‘why?’ But I dream things that never were And I say ‘why not?’ (Robert Kennedy’s slogan for his ill-fated campaign for the American presidency. Stole it from G B Shaw, who probably stole it from the Greek poet Aeschylus). The impossible is what nobody can do until somebody does it. […]
Goodness: Barnabas – a case study…
This is a word not found in secular Greek. Graeco-Roman philosophers sometimes commended selfless generosity, but it was not a highly significant virtue for them. Christian goodness is embodied in Jesus Christ. The best of the saints, says Sangster, have a peculiar kind of goodness. ¢â‚¬ËœIt unconsciously proclaims itself. One feels it as an […]
VIGIL: MORNING PRAYERS
(shorter version) Lord Jesus Christ, Son of the Living God, have mercy on me, a sinner Lord Jesus Christ, Son of the Living God, have mercy on me, a sinner Lord Jesus Christ, Son of the Living God, have mercy on me, a sinner ~~ Our Father in heaven, hallowed be Your name. Your […]
America the noisy
by Nils von Kalm http://soulthoughts.com I am spending some time in the US this Australian summer. It ¢â‚¬â„¢s my fourth time here. My first impressions this time are that, for most people, life is a daily battle to get everything done. It ¢â‚¬â„¢s about making the bucks, working so hard that we no longer know what we ¢â‚¬â„¢re […]
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