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FRIDAY:
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 Wrath:
what a charlatan! Wendy is a new commentator
for Catholica but what a debut she makes. She opens
her commentary with these sentences: "What a charlatan
anger is! What a cad, a bully, a tart, a scoundrel. Is there
a greater chameleon among the Seven Deadlies?" and
it just keeps powering on from there. [more]
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 Father
Farzenheim on the beauty and glory of Divine Wrath!
Far from seeing Wrath as a Deadly Sin, Father Farzenheim
has a very different take on Anger. He's a member of the Fathers
of Divine Wrath and reminds us of the beauty and glory
to be found in Divine Anger — Dies Irae in Latin.
[more]
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THURSDAY:
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 Sloth:
the easiest of the Seven Deadlies – it requires no effort,
no thought, no intent! And now from another voice from around
the other side of the world: Alan Simpson has done a lot
of theological study in his time but has now retired to grow grass
for cows, goats and sheep on a ranch in Texas. He argues in a delightfully
whimsical commentary that sloth is probably the easiest of the Seven
Deadlies. It requires no effort, no thought, no intent. Sloth happens.
Can we do anything about it? Probably not. Besides, nobody cares
if we sleep through the homily — as long as we don't snore!
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 Molly's
take on the seven deadlies... Molly has turned
out to be the most endearing character in Cliff's menagerie
if the feedback we receive is anything to go by. She's a bit
confused though by this present discussion on the Seven Deadlies
and would like to direct attention back to what she describes
as the Domestic Sins which
she has written about at length in her Manual for Priests'
Housekeepers. [more]
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WEDNESDAY:
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 Greed:
it's good (with reservations)! Ian Elmer argues
that there has been an enormous shift in the official thinking
of the Church as to how we approach moral law. He argues:
"This new take on sin and greed is the result of both
the insights of modern biblical scholarship and other significant
philosophical shifts within the Church and wider society.
Vatican II embraced anew the biblical themes of covenant,
heart and conversion, and not law, as the primary moral concepts.
Notions of responsibility and justice have displaced older
concepts like obligation and law as the primary characteristics
of the moral life." [more]
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 Greed
... what greed, Dr Theopullous? When Western society
is beginning some form of meltdown because of professions
and business leaders who believe they are entitled to a greater
share of a community's wealth than anybody else, Dr A.
Theopullous, Dental Scientist, Veterinarian and Theologian,
has a few thoughts about people paying their bills on time.
[more]
 CLIFF'S
TAKE: What about the virtues? In more serious vein,
Cliff Baxter argues we need a counterpoint to the
Seven Deadlies – through a concentration on Virtues.
He says, for example, we need to 'get deadly' on human rights,
and the activist Ciaron O'Reilly is a good role model. [more]
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TUESDAY:
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 Gluttony:
very much a relevant, contemporary issue Peregrinus
in his usual, incisive way will give you much to think about
in his exploration of the second of the Seven Deadlies. It's
a twisting, turning commentary starting off by observing that
the Seven Deadlies are not really sins but ends by concluding
that gluttony is very much a relevant issue today. [more]
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 Memo
to Catholic Editors Ignatius McDrool is editor-in-chief
of the recently renamed Catholic Prudence. He has turned
out to be one of the fiercest critics of the liberalism, back-sliding
and heresy of the Catholica Australia backsliders
and cafeteria Catholics. Poor old Ignatius really
has his knickers in a knot today over the promotion of the Seven
Deadly Sins being carried on CathNews. [more]
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MONDAY:
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 An
intro to our special series... The editor and publisher
of Catholica, Brian Coyne provides an overview
of the special series commencing today on The Seven
Deadlies. [more]
Mr
Hackenfurth on Lust... David Hackenfurth, that
sometime accomplice of Heresy Hunter, Fergal
O'Dobbin, has a confession to make. [more]
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 Lust:
Mindless Morality Play or Path to Consciousness? In
a thought-provoking start to our series, Washington attorney
and convert to Catholicism, Dawn Bowie, applies her
mind to the challenges presented by Lust. Quoting one of her
favourite spiritual writers she concludes: "relationships
are not here to make you happy or fulfilled, they are here
to make you conscious." [more]
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SUNDAY:
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What
value is prayer? A long time ago Kate earned
herself the nickname of the Dag. She earned it from her ability
to write in an alarmingly honest, if disarming and self-effacing
way about serious issues. Today you'll find Kate writing
at her very best. Do yourself a favour and read what she has
to say about prayer. [more]
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SATURDAY:
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 Who
did Jesus think he was? (Cont'd) Continuing his exploration
of the historical Jesus, today Ian Elmer is focusing in on
two questions: "What did Jesus teach?" and "What
did Jesus do?" [more]
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Cindy
goes to the ballet... This week Cindy attended
an end of year exhibition by the final year students of the
Australian Ballet School. It was a spiritual experience for
Cindy. She is musing why people's spirits seem lifted at the
theatre in ways that do not occur in our liturgies. [more]
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OUR
MOST VIEWED PAGE: a multi-media reflection "Too Hard
to Cry"
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When it's
too hard to cry... Our lead offering on 24 August
was an audio-visual reflection that has been jointly put together
by Amanda McKenna, Cliff Baxter and Brian
Coyne. This is not entertainment but a resource we are
placing on the web that we hope may assist people from time
to time who are suffering pain or deep trauma in their lives.
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