This notice appeared unannounced on the church notice board last week.
Could it have something to do with the Community’s efforts to have a Mass said by non-Neocat priests?
Or is it something for the PP to consider when he threatens to terminate Sunday Masses?
from MArcos Antonio Patino
date Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 5:24 PM
subject Church Mouse: World Youth Day
Dear Church Mouse,
I am a Young Catholic from the NeoCatechumenal Way. I am coming to Sydney in July 2008 for World Youth Day and with 40 young people from the NeoCatechumenal Way from my PArish here in the United States of America.
I admired your passion and work for the Aboriginal People in Australia, but I think you are using your Church for Political reasons. The Church is not a Politcal platform nor a Political … Continue reading
Sorry Day, 13 February 2008, was a day of great happiness and hope for our Aboriginal brothers and sisters. On that day our new government said sorry for many of the atrocities inflicted upon Aborigines by previous administrations.
Readers might be interested in Fr Frank Brennan’s piece Stolen Generations apology ‘about right’ or the item Speech gets standing ovation in Redfern in the Sydney Morning Herald.
It is hard to imagine what the Redfern Neocat clergy made of all this.
How many parishes have to live with the constant threat of having their Masses terminated?
The following notice is displayed prominently in the vestibule of St Vincent’s church:
It first appeared in the church bulletin for two weeks after Sunday December 16 2007, when the Neocats, their travesty of a “Liturgycal Committe” in tatters, attempted to stifle the Community’s input to the liturgy with the bully-boy tactics to … Continue reading
The Way and the light
These have nothing to do with Neocats, but are doing the rounds at the moment – just Google for “unsympathetic Genitals” and you might find more. At least some of them have been extracted from Must Try Harder! The Very Worst Howlers By Schoolchildren, by Norman McGreevy, published by Constable.
It is alleged that the following statements were written by children; they have not been retouched or corrected and spelling has been left uncorrected.
A copy of the Perth Archdiocesan Missionary Seminary Redemptoris Mater October newsletter found its way to the Church Mouse’s desk a few days ago. It contains a par on the whereabouts of Denis Sudla, former assistant pp at St Vincent’s. The people of Nepal will be in the Mouse’s prayers this Christmas.
Far more disturbing is the following item:
Can you believe that the Neocats are actually selling tickets to … Continue reading
A couple of weeks ago, on Sunday December 2, the Saving Word (Parish Bulletin) issued an "invitation". Beneath the heading "NEW LITURGYCAL COMMITTE"[sic] it suggested that “Anyone interested in being part of the new liturgical committee please contact Fr Clesio". In all, some thirteen applicants responded from the long-term community and of these, the committee was initially made up of the two priests, two neocatechumenal lay persons and three members of the long term community.
The community was acutely aware that no person of Aboriginal descent had been accepted onto the committee. The two that applied have been integral … Continue reading
Bishop Geoffrey Robinson, author of “Confronting Power and Sex in the Catholic Church : Reclaiming the Spirit of Jesus”, was the featured speaker at a public “conversation” at Mosman Community Centre last Sunday. It was was so well attended that many had to be turned away from the crowded hall.
When asked to expand on his views on clericalism in the Church, he used a phrase perhaps first coined by Hans Kung, when he suggested that there was a trickle-down effect associated with Papal infallibility that often flowed all the way down to the humble parish priest.
The clericalism cap … Continue reading
This is not exactly a Neocat joke, but the Mouse felt that it had to be shared nevertheless.
A burglar broke into a house one night. He shone his torch around, looking for valuables, and when he picked up a CD player to place in his sack, a strange, disembodied voice echoed from the dark saying, ‘Jesus is watching you.’
He nearly jumped out of his skin, clicked his torch off, and froze. When he heard nothing more after a bit, he shook his head, promised himself a holiday after the next big score, then clicked the light on and … Continue reading