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 The Duty of Care of the Institution to its Employees... Today's editorial comment has been drafted by a group of priests in the Sydney area who have been dismayed at the response of the Archdiocese of Sydney to the situation that developed recently when the Parish Priest of Liverpool, Fr Robert Fuller, was arrested and charged. This editorial is not concerned with the serious allegations which have been made concerning Fr Fuller. Under our system of law he is innocent until he is proven guilty by a properly constituted Court of Law. The issue that is of concern to the priests is the manner in which the employer of priests seems, through the issuance of a media release, to have wiped its hands of a duty of care to priests who, for whatever reason, find themselves in difficulties, legal or otherwise. ...Brian Coyne (Editor) <more>
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Dr Ian Elmer… |
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 Why does God always appear on Mountains? Look up the phrase "God on the Mountain" in Google images and you get around 12.5 million results. There is a BIG association between God and mountains in the eyes of many. Dr Ian Elmer in his "Puzzling Passages" commentary today explores the Scriptural connection between God and high places. What's the mythological and theological meaning in this sign? <more>
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Tom McMahon… |
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 The Psychology of Priesthood #8 At the end of today's reflection Tom McMahon apologises for venting. It's a nostalgic form of venting though brought on by the death of another friend from seminary days. So many of the faithful seem to just roll their eyes into the backs of their heads and forget to turn up next Sunday. Catholica seeks to reach out to those who pause awhile and ask "why has it all become so irrelevant in the lives of so many (or me)?" Essentially that's the question Tom McMahon is also trying to address... <more>
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SPECIAL SERIES: The Invention of Christianity – The First 500 Years by Tom Lee |
 20.1: The Barbarian Invasions A fresh chapter from Tom Lee's study of the Origins of Christianity begins today. And it promises to be a bit of fun. He entitled the Chapter: "Two Emperors, Two Creeds — the Comedy Continues". The opening today isn't much fun though — the bishops began to play politics with one another and the Huns and Visigoths started invading from the North. <more>
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Dr Andrew Kania… |
 Moral Hemophilia: Concept and Reality (cf. Luke 10: 29-37) It seems a common human trait that as time unwinds in our lives most people find a desire to travel back and understand their origins as a way to understanding their present and forging a new future. Today's commentary from Dr Andrew Kania could be described as being written out of that genre. Andrew claims a joint Ukrainian and Polish heritage. His faith and spiritual outlook was significantly forged by the momentous conflicts that went on, often between co-religionists, in the furnaces of ideology, politics and religion in Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century. Today's commentary is part personal journey looking back at the tensions between two profoundly Catholic nationalities, the Poles and the Ukrainians in the immediate aftermath of World War II. It is a commentary that many on Catholica will appreciate given the video on YouTube which we have been featuring on the Catholica Video Channel [LINK] for the past week — which, entirely by conincidence surfaced on Crikey and was brought to our attention on Catholica by TonySee — which graphically illustrated the emotional pain suffered by the Ukrainian people in 1945 shortly before the historical events explored by Dr Kania today. <more>
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Francis Brown… |
 A lifetime spiritual journey#9… Where Francis leads us today in his reflection is in many ways a lesson in not being too hard on ourselves. Judging other is a problem but we can also be too judgmental toward our own selves. Jesus offers a compassionate, non-punitive, win-win type of justice! <more>
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Best wishes for a great day wherever you happen to be ... in life or in our world.
Brian Coyne
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