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Another great interview - this time with the Bishop of Portsmouth, England
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Go here to read Bishop Egan's suggestions for an Extraordinary Synod on the Life and Ministry of the Clergy.
St. Lawrence of Brindisi, holy priest, pray for us! The first thing I would like the St. Theobald Society to focus on is prayer. I would eventually like to see a website of some sort where a community of believers commit to prayer. We can pray in general that the Church be cleansed of corruption and be born anew to holiness. We could also pray for specific prayer requests from priests, sisters, and others who know of a situation that needs it. I'd like us to be able to pray 24/7 by having different people in different parts of the world commit to praying an hour a week. I'd like it to be that people can request prayer anonymously but also by name if they so choose. To be able to pray 24/7 we need only 168 people to commit to dedicating one hour a week to pray for the Church. That's not much. Will you pray? Yesterday, I went to daily Mass and dedicated it to praying for all priests, seminarians and church workers who are despairing over the hypocrisy and moral fa
There's a good article by Jennifer Morse at the National Catholic Register. Here's the opening paragraph: I know you are upset. I’m upset. The revelations of perverted men using the priesthood for their own purposes has shaken everything we thought we could count on. Most proposals for reform require cooperation from the very same people who have already failed us. These ideas still leave us, the ordinary Catholic in the pew, at the mercies of men we no longer trust. This is the frustration. All the mechanisms to reform the Church are ultimately in the bishops' hands. We lay people have very little power. You can't tell me that isn't deliberate. These are power-loving company men. I appreciate this author's response. The only seminarian I know seems to be entirely in the Fr. James Martin camp. He is more upset about the 'witch hunt' for gay priests, which as far as I can tell, is not happening anywhere? If it is, I haven't seen any ne
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