Wake Up, Lazarus! |
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DISCUSSION August 2017: Bible, Church Authority, and the Conscience
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The Problem: church authority often covers itself with the mantle of the Bible. Conscience has often taken an anti-establishment posture since the 1960s. Churches tend to repress dissent. The scientific interpretation of the Bible is too technical to be of help for spirituality in church and society. How can you balance the claims of authority, conscience, and biblical interpretations? |
ARTICLE OF THE WEEK: to be added here later
NEWSSelected by Joseph Martos
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PRESSING ISSUES IN CHURCH LIFE
- participation of the laity in the church- women in the church- ecumenism and inter-religious dialogue- sacraments and sacramentality- social justice, race and work- theological ethics- Latin America and the Latinos in the US Church- the refugees, globally and nationally- parish restructuring and closinG - the transmission of faith in home, parishes, and schools- pastoral/ministry studies- consecrated religious life
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SPIRITUALITY
REFLECTIONS about spiritual life and society : to be added later
Personal experiences.
Social and political issues
Parish life
sermon reactions
outresearch
Evangelization, etc.
ADVENT - LENT 2017 MEDITATIONS
- March 5: Philip E. Thompson
- March 12: Marie A. Conn
- March 19:
Dolores Christie
- March 26: David VonSchlichten
- April 2: Frank Berna
- April 9: SimonMary Aihiokhai
- April 16:
Jill Raitt
FAITH JOURNEYS
My dream was to be a mathematician. To clarify, that was my dream for many years, a dream that stayed with me throughout my high school years and into the first two years of college.