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The Church Has Lost Control of Marriage (Opinion) CLERICAL WHISPERS - May 25, 2013 ... priest can tell you that. Even devout Catholics often ignore the church's teaching and views on marriage. They live together before they are married. They have babies outside of wedlock. They get married outside the church, often in entirely secular settings. They don't stay married very long. They divorce with the same frequency as the general population. They remarry without benefit of annulments from the church. They often don't consult with us on whether they can go to ...http://clericalwhispers.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-church-has-lost-control-of-marriage.html
A Story the Interwebs Cannot Tell DEVIL, DOES YOUR DOG BITE? - May 24, 2013 ... the Lord. (Jeremiah 30:21) since that verse adorned the little holy card published unto the world on the occasion of my ordination as a priest, lo these ten years past. Or you might have thought that my favorite verse is You knew I was a demanding man. (Luke 19:22) or The wedding day of the Lamb has come. (Revelation 19:7) since I myself told you so last year . But I fibbed. My real favorite verse is Sirach 7:15: μá½' μισήσῃς ...http://frmarkdwhite.wordpress.com/2013/05/24/a-story-the-interwebs-cannot-tell/
Father Francis Maple - 50th Anniversary TIME FOR REFLECTIONS - May 17, 2013 ... Maple Father Francis Maple is an occasional guest writer on this Blog. He lives in England and has recently celebrated his 50th Anniversary as a priest. He re-visited the Church where he was ordained and this is his homily which will hopefully inspire someone somewhere to consider joining the priesthood. Welcome everyone! I would like to welcome particularly Bishop George of Kerala in India who just happens to be passing through Bedford and has asked to concelebrate Mass with ...http://timeforreflections.blogspot.com/2013/05/father-francis-maple-50th-anniversary.html
Father Francis Maple - 50th Anniversary COMMUNITY OF CATHOLIC BLOGGERS - May 17, 2013 ... Maple Father Francis Maple is an occasional guest writer on this Blog. He lives in England and has recently celebrated his 50th Anniversary as a priest. He re-visited the Church where he was ordained and this is his homily which will hopefully inspire someone somewhere to consider joining the priesthood. Welcome everyone! I would like to welcome particularly Bishop George of Kerala in India who just happens to be passing through Bedford and has asked to concelebrate Mass with ...http://communityofcatholicbloggers.blogspot.com/2013/05/father-francis-maple-50th-anniversary.html
Reclaiming May in Catholicism THE HOLY IRRITANT - May 15, 2013 As a young boy I was fully inducted into my privileged state in the Catholic Church. I was a altar server which meant I had access to the sacred in ways that my revered grandmother would never know.I was taught the ritual language of Latin and dressed in robes that marked me off from others in the Church. The elite male caste of clericalism is one that can easily trap a young boy with religious interest,imagination and dreams of adventure. Although I had my share of comic ...http://holyirritant.blogspot.com/2012/05/reclaiming-may-in-catholicism.html
"Mondays With Mary" – Our Lady of the Most Blessed Sacrament TOM PERNA - May 13, 2013 ... Transubstantiation proclaims that the nature of the bread and wine is transformed into Christ's body, blood, soul, and divinity. While the bread and wine remain in appearance, the natures of the two substances have been transformed into Jesus Christ himself. The sacrifice on the Cross-and the Passover meal Christ presided over at the Last Supper are united to form the New Eucharistic Covenant that He gave to his Apostles and the entire Catholic Church. In his Encyclical ...http://tomperna.org/2013/05/13/mondays-with-mary-our-lady-of-the-most-blessed-sacrament/
Ex-Priest Is Angered by Church Demands Ten Years After Split CLERICAL WHISPERS - May 12, 2013 A former cleric has hit out at the Catholic church for 'interfering' in his life more than 10 years after he left the priesthood. Sean Page married his partner, Clarice Young, at St John's CE Church in Heywood last year – more than a decade after quitting his life as a priest in Ireland. The wedding took place in front of Clarice's five children in a ceremony led by Rev Matthew Carlisle and the couple are now happily married and living ...http://clericalwhispers.blogspot.com/2013/05/ex-priest-is-angered-by-church-demands.html
'Women Give the Catholic Church a Future' CLERICAL WHISPERS - May 4, 2013 Catholic women are determined to achieve equality in the lay section of the church - and say the move made by Germany's top bishop this week when he said the idea of women deacons was no longer taboo, was not enough. Ute Hücker, spokeswoman for the German Catholic Women's Association (KDFB) told The Local it was important that the church reflected modern life in the rest of the world - and recognized the work conducted by women for the church and ...http://clericalwhispers.blogspot.com/2013/05/women-give-catholic-church-future.html
English Carthusian Martyrs CATHOLIC FIRE - May 4, 2013 ... nonpolitical figures, would be exempted from taking an oath to this political decree, but the king wanted them to take it because they were so highly respected. Led by the Carthusian prior of London, John Houghton, the hermits agreed to take the oath only with the added proviso, "as far as the law of God permits." But that was not the end of the issue, as Prior Houghton well knew. On February 1, 1534, Henry issued another proclamation, the "Act of Supremacy." This declared it high treason to ...http://catholicfire.blogspot.com/2013/05/english-carthusian-martyrs.html
This Week's Headlines FAITH AND REASON - May 3, 2013 ... is dedicated to the Mary, whom we celebrate as Queen of Heaven on the last day of this month." The Feast of St Joseph the Worker and a Catholic View of Human Work - "The Church rightly proclaims that the path to true freedom and flourishing is the Way of Jesus Christ.She also affirms that there is a dignity to all human work precisely because of the dignity of every human worker engaged in it. " Pope Francis on Abortion and Homosexual "Marriage" - "Because of his personal ...http://faithandreasonblog.blogspot.com/2013/05/this-weeks-headlines.html
Love in Joy and Sorrow: A Day in the Life of a Priest and a Young Couple BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES - May 3, 2013 What follows is the story of a privileged "day in the life of a priest." I say, "privileged," because it's a story that normally goes untold, because it's very private, very delicate. This post would not have happened, had not the family given me permission to do so. They hoped that others might be helped by their story. As it is, some details will be omitted or altered, for privacy. Several times in my priesthood, I've had one of the most heartbreaking ...http://frmartinfox.blogspot.com/2013/05/love-in-joy-and-sorrow-day-in-life-of.html
Priest Who Saved Souls on Titanic SANCTE PATER - May 2, 2013 ... village. Former pupils of Leamington College included a priest, Father Thomas Rousell Davids Byles (1870-1912). Father Thomas read maths, modern history and theology at Oxford University and then trained as a Catholic priest. When his younger brother who was living in America asked him to officiate at his wedding ceremony he jumped at the chance and made arrangements to travel to New York. He was scheduled to travel on another ...http://www.sanctepater.com/2013/05/priest-who-saved-souls-on-titanic.html
Noon Roundup - St. Athanasius, Bp., Conf. & Doct. Or Jesus Christ the High Priest - May 2nd, 2013 TRADITIONAL LATIN MASS IN MARYLAND - May 2, 2013 Archdiocese of Washington (Msgr. Charles Pope) > ;> ; What Did Jesus Look Like? And Why Do We care? Catholic Answers > ;> ; "Should I Attend the Wedding or Not?" Catholic World Report - Blog > ;> ; Trappist nuns will not abandon their monastery in Syria (Catherine Harmon) Catholic World Report - Blog > ;> ; Faux bravery, empty diversity, and the secular sainthood of "gay" athletes (Carl E. Olson) Charlotte ...http://tlm-md.blogspot.com/2013/05/noon-roundup-st-athanasius-bp-conf-doct.html
What Is a Convalidation? THE SPIRIT MAGNUS - April 30, 2013 DISCLAIMER: Please note that this is not a definitive guide to convalidations. Please get in touch with your parish priest or your local Marriage Tribunal directly if you have any further queries. Convalidation (meaning "with validation") refers to a simple process by which a marriage that is considered invalid is made valid by an act of new consent between both husband and wife (Can. 1157). A convalidation is simply thought of as a "blessing" given by the Church to make ...http://thespiritmagnus.blogspot.com/2013/04/what-is-convalidation.html
Priest Collapses, Dies at Altar During Service CLERICAL WHISPERS - April 29, 2013 Hundreds of parishioners watched in shock as a Catholic priest died at the altar during mass, moments after baptising a baby. Napier's longest-serving priest, Monsignor Timothy Francis Hannigan, 81, collapsed at the altar during communion at St Patrick's Catholic Church on Sunday. A doctor and nurses in the packed church rushed to help the popular priest when he slumped to the ground about 9.30am, but he ...http://clericalwhispers.blogspot.com/2013/04/priest-collapses-dies-at-altar-during.html
Meet Those Bucking a Trend and Going BACK to Mass CLERICAL WHISPERS - April 28, 2013 ... I'd voluntarily and happily line up behind the regular faithful and walk through doors I'd sworn never to darken again. And nor, would it seem, am I the only one. Although recent polls have shown a continued decline in the numbers of people in Ireland attending weekly religious services — according to one global survey, we're one of the most 'lapsed' nations in the world — on the ground, there is something of a different, embryonic picture. Beside me, as I blessed myself with holy ...http://clericalwhispers.blogspot.com/2013/04/meet-those-bucking-trend-and-going-back.html
Vatican Treats Me As Second Class, Says Ex-Priest CLERICAL WHISPERS - April 25, 2013 AN Irish priest whose love affair rocked the Catholic Church has revealed that he feels new restrictions sent to him by the Vatican make him a "second-class citizen". Sean Page (54), originally from Castlerea, Co Roscommon, last year wed his partner, Clarice Young, a mother of five. The wedding took place in a simple Church of England ceremony near his home in Rochdale, greater Manchester. But despite leaving the ...http://clericalwhispers.blogspot.com/2013/04/vatican-treats-me-as-second-class-says.html
Producer Priest Navigates Hollywood in a Collar CLERICAL WHISPERS - April 25, 2013 ... scene that is being shot?'" But the Roman collar was no prop. Andrews' credentials as an ordained Roman Catholic priest and Hollywood producer make him a rarity in both religious and entertainment circles. The 48-year-old describes himself as too liberal for most priests and too conservative for most agents. But three years after taking the helm of Paulist Productions , a nonprofit Catholic production company behind television programs such as ...http://clericalwhispers.blogspot.com/2013/04/producer-priest-navigates-hollywood-in.html
Jesus: "The Original Hipster" THE SYROPHOENICIAN WOMAN - April 25, 2013 The priest in this interview with the Huffington Post really knocks it out of the park. The diocese of Brooklyn has developed a new ad campaign that has people talking. In as series of ads, they try to reach young adults who aren't coming to church. They are releasing ads specifically aimed at parents, joggers, and people of different ethnicities. And hipsters? The ad campaign is called " All faces. Everyday understanding " and it is doing it's job at getting ...http://syrophoenicianwoman.blogspot.com/2013/04/jesus-original-hipster.html
Book Indicates Pope Is a Moderate Realist (Contribution) CLERICAL WHISPERS - April 23, 2013 ... emphasis on the poor and those at the margins of society. "Religious truth does not change, but it does develop and grow," Francis writes. "It is like with the human being. We are the same as a baby and in old age, but in the middle there is a whole journey." (By the way, the example Francis gives of development in doctrine is the death penalty, which he says Christianity once accepted "but today the moral conscience has become much more refined and the catechism ...http://clericalwhispers.blogspot.com/2013/04/book-indicates-pope-is-moderate-realist.html
