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The Silence of the Shepherds
By The Editorial Group
We are not the USA where religious affiliations are part of a politician's arsenal. However Minister Kenney might well look south where the late Senator Kennedy's compassion for the poor in his decades-long struggle for health care were a shining example.
http://www.newcatholictimes.com/index.php?module=articles&func=display&ptid=1&aid=1633
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Foreign Priests – Stop-Gap or Solution?
By Phil Little
Perhaps it is time for the C.C.C.B. to consider a moratorium on the importation of foreign clergy until it has examined the situation more closely. Is the growing shortage and ageing of the clergy a crisis or an opportunity
http://www.newcatholictimes.com/index.php?module=articles&func=display&ptid=1&aid=1606
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Judaism Does not Equal Israel by Marc H. Ellis, London, The New Press, 2009,232 pp.
Reviewed by Ted Schmidt
"I thank Gof for Marc Ellis, a faithful Jew who is committed to renewing prophetic Judaism" writes Archbishop Desmond Tutu in his introduction to Ellis' latest book.
http://www.newcatholictimes.com/index.php?module=articles&func=display&ptid=1&aid=1635
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Romero: 30 years of Hope
A generation of bishops gave birth to a new Church in Latin America. That generation of bishops was a true miracle. Around Medellín in 1968, something similar occurred. A generation of bishops gave birth to a new Church in Latin America.
http://www.newcatholictimes.com/index.php?module=articles&func=display&ptid=1&aid=1630
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Oscar Romero, Father of the Salvadorean Church
By Jon Sobrino sj
Abridged version of an article by Jon Sobrino sj, published in ‘Carta a las Iglesias' in 2009
http://www.newcatholictimes.com/index.php?module=articles&func=display&ptid=1&aid=1624
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Pope Has Let Us All Down : His Response To Abuse An Utter Disgrace
By Brian Darcy
They bowed, they scraped, they talked about praying and Masses. "And all I heard at the end of it all was the Pope asking them not to fight in public."
http://www.newcatholictimes.com/index.php?module=articles&func=display&ptid=1&aid=1618
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Never again means never again---for all peoples
By Judith Deutsch
My remarks can be framed by words of the late "peoples' historian", Howard Zinn, in one of his articles on the Vietnam war: "The Problem is Civil Obedience"
http://www.newcatholictimes.com/index.php?module=articles&func=display&ptid=1&aid=1614
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Paul, dissent and the party line
By Dr. Ian Elmer
There is an apparent assumption here that the "teachings of the magisterium" are static and unchanging, and that no form of dissent from those teachings will be tolerated.
http://www.newcatholictimes.com/index.php?module=articles&func=display&ptid=1&aid=1612
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