Keeping the Faith… Telling the Truth
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A new website has been launched in the name of the Bishops of Scotland.
Click here to view BeingCatholic.org
What do you think of it? Is it likely to help visitors either to be better Catholics or, if they are not Catholics, to want to be a Catholic? What’s good about it? What (if anything) is lacking?
Click on ‘comments’ with your thoughts…
“I sometimes find myself thinking about the homilies I wish I’d heard but haven’t. Here are a few of those I would most like to hear; I’m sure you will have some of your own” Jack Scarisbrick
http://www.catholicherald.
co.uk/features/opinion
/o0000313.shtml
Tell us at least two things (more if you wish) that you’d like to hear in a sermon, oops, homily.
And why not tell us which you prefer: a ‘sermon’, generally defined as “an address delivered during a religious service” or a ‘homily’, which is the word used to describe a commentary, usually following a reading from Scripture, delivered in an informal, even chatty manner.
Tags: doctrine, jack scarisbrick, morals
Every day brings to light a new scandal in the House of Commons. It seems that those who purport to serve us as Members of Parliament are not exactly squeaky clean and fingers are increasingly being caught in the piggy bank. http://www.melanie
phillips.com/
articles-new/?p=654
Why? Is this yet one more manifestation of the loss of God in our society? Shouldn’t we point this out more often when secularists tell us we don’t need religion? Every time the Pope and the Church is savaged, shouldn’t we point to those who live as if God does not exist? As if this world is all there is (in which case, why not stick your fingers in the piggy bank?)
Are those who govern this group of nations any worse than the leaders of other countries? Is there a Catholic nation left who is setting an example of integrity in matters temporal and spiritual? Or are we witnessing the death of the ‘top level’ conscience? Click on ‘comments’ to share your views.
This thread is a continuation of the Any Questions thread to allow visitors to this blog to ask questions that, perhaps, they cannot ask elsewhere. Be assured that we have a team of very knowledgeable bloggers who will go to all kinds of lengths to find out the answers if we don’t know them off the tops of our collective heads.
So if you have a question about Catholicism, you are welcome to click on ‘comments’ to ask for answers here.
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Is anyone ever going to write an article that recognises the truth about Catholic schools in Scotland and the wider UK? The truth is that they are Catholic in name only. Recent reports from Inspectors extol the exam results, the wonderful academic achievements etc and when they’ve observed the odd statue or two around the place, having ticked the relevant box, they also admire the wonderful Christian “ethos”. The thick as mince Catholic “educationalists” then use these reports as evidence of the “success” of the Catholic school system. Give us a break.
The success of the Catholic school system can only be measured on how many pupils leave school practising the Faith and confident in explaining what they believe and why, in total conformity with the teaching of the Church on ALL matters of faith and morals. The establishment of sound, dare I say, large Catholic families is one key indicator that Catholic schools have beaten the promiscuous “safe-sex” message peddled in contemporary schools, including Catholic schools, by teachers who are themselves contraceptors. Now, any school who can tick the box that says “all of the above” is successful. That is a very different kettle of “success” from what is currently on offer.
Read about the latest “attack” on “Faith schools” by clicking on the link below and then share your thoughts: are Catholic schools in Scotland (and the wider UK) “successful”? http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/melanie-mcdonagh-faith-schools-work-until-you-take-the-faith-away-913887.html