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01 Mar 2008

Dealing with past hurts... In his concluding commentary to his series on Anger, Fr John McKinnon shares some valuable thoughts on ways in which we might deal with past anger so that we can return to equilibrium in our lives. [more]

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23 Feb 2008

The Five Ways we respond to Anger... In today's commentary Fr John McKinnon explores in some detail the five broad ways we human beings respond to anger. [more]

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16 Feb 2008

Dealing with Anger... This is a subject that has previously generated much reader interest on Catholica. Last year we were surprised to learn that Wendy's reflection on Anger in the Seven Deadlies series we published in 2006 continued to make it into the top 20 most read commentaries for 2007. Fr John McKinnon was inspired by that to let us know of this lengthy article he had originally written for priests and religious and which was published some years ago in the journal of the Centre for Human Development which subsequentlly became the Bishops' Commission for the Continuing Education of Clergy. It is our pleasure to now bring it to a wider audience. We will present the article in three parts over coming Saturdays. [more]

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05 Aug 2007

Lay communities need to take greater ownership of the liturgy… Fr John McKinnon offers some thoughts on what it means to be a "Eucharistic Community" in the context of the thinking, or spirituality, that was encouraged by the Second Vatican Council and in the context of dwindling priest numbers. He argues lay communities need to take greater ownership of their liturgies. [more]