Wednesday, June 30, 2004
Tuesday, June 29, 2004
New Bishops
Gerald Walsh and Dennis Sullivan are new auxiliaries in New York. Theologian Bruno Forte is named an Archbishop in Italy...
Monday, June 28, 2004
The Blind Leading the Blind
Interesting combination, the National Federation for the Blind is meeting in the same hotel where the Christian booksellers are staying...with us here in Atlanta, GA.
Friday, June 25, 2004
Priest Beats Up Would-Be Robbers
Time to "enforce" the Gospel...
From FOXNews.com - Foxlife - Out There - Priest Beats Up Would-Be Robbers:
"Father Matt Foley ran in and grabbed the man's tools, but the crook fought back, and the tussle wandered into the street, then a nearby alley.
'He had threatened me that he had a knife,' Foley told the TV station. 'I had to physically keep his hand away from the knife so I wouldn't be harmed. So I put him basically in a half-nelson and held him to the ground.'
Two men who had gotten free meals at the church were arrested.
Growing up with four brothers and two sisters taught him how to fight, Foley explained, adding that he was ready to risk his life again for the sake of the church's money."
From FOXNews.com - Foxlife - Out There - Priest Beats Up Would-Be Robbers:
"Father Matt Foley ran in and grabbed the man's tools, but the crook fought back, and the tussle wandered into the street, then a nearby alley.
'He had threatened me that he had a knife,' Foley told the TV station. 'I had to physically keep his hand away from the knife so I wouldn't be harmed. So I put him basically in a half-nelson and held him to the ground.'
Two men who had gotten free meals at the church were arrested.
Growing up with four brothers and two sisters taught him how to fight, Foley explained, adding that he was ready to risk his life again for the sake of the church's money."
Thursday, June 24, 2004
An Antenna Disquised as a Crucifix?
From Mobile Phone Masts Go Undercover | Science & Technology | Deutsche Welle | 14.06.2004:
"European companies are finding ingenious ways to disguise ugly, but necessary, mobile phone antenna masts. Customers can pick everything from trees to crucifixes.
Those willing to set up mobile phone antenna masts on their property can get good money for their cooperation -- along with grief from their neighbors.
The masts are typically unwanted in neighborhoods, either because of fears that they can damage your health or due to their ugly appearance. There's an answer to that last objection, simply dress the masts up as trees, chimneys, or even crucifixes."
"European companies are finding ingenious ways to disguise ugly, but necessary, mobile phone antenna masts. Customers can pick everything from trees to crucifixes.
Those willing to set up mobile phone antenna masts on their property can get good money for their cooperation -- along with grief from their neighbors.
The masts are typically unwanted in neighborhoods, either because of fears that they can damage your health or due to their ugly appearance. There's an answer to that last objection, simply dress the masts up as trees, chimneys, or even crucifixes."
Wednesday, June 23, 2004
Part II of Jennifer Ferrara Interview
ZENIT News Agency--The World Seen from Rome:
Q: What role is left for women in the Church if they cannot be priests?
Ferrara: It is not a matter of a role "being left for women" but of women embracing their proper role. There has always been plenty for women to do in the Catholic Church.
Remember, the ordination of women in Protestant communities is a recent development. Before then, women had almost no role to play in those denominations. Protestant churches are starkly masculine.
As a Lutheran, I had no female models of holiness to turn to for comfort and guidance. Though many Protestant denominations ordain women, they do not recognize the importance of the feminine -- mother Church embodied in Mary -- in God's plan for salvation.
I do not see why many Catholics discount the importance of the women religious in the life of the Church as if they were second-class citizens. They are our spiritual mothers.
Protestants have never recognized such a role for women. Moreover, there are also all sorts of lay apostolates, orders and associations women can join.
Q: What role is left for women in the Church if they cannot be priests?
Ferrara: It is not a matter of a role "being left for women" but of women embracing their proper role. There has always been plenty for women to do in the Catholic Church.
Remember, the ordination of women in Protestant communities is a recent development. Before then, women had almost no role to play in those denominations. Protestant churches are starkly masculine.
As a Lutheran, I had no female models of holiness to turn to for comfort and guidance. Though many Protestant denominations ordain women, they do not recognize the importance of the feminine -- mother Church embodied in Mary -- in God's plan for salvation.
I do not see why many Catholics discount the importance of the women religious in the life of the Church as if they were second-class citizens. They are our spiritual mothers.
Protestants have never recognized such a role for women. Moreover, there are also all sorts of lay apostolates, orders and associations women can join.
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