World Youth Day pilgrims start walk : THE first of thousands of colourfully dressed young people have set off on a three-hour pilgrimage through Sydney to Randwick Racecourse, where Pope Benedict XVI will conduct the final mass of the Catholic World Youth Day celebrations tomorrow. Throughout the day, pilgrims will walk the 9km from North Sydney, through central Sydney and the eastern suburbs to Royal Randwick.
Police praise clean-living Catholic youth : No drugs and alcohol means Catholic World Youth Day pilgrims in Sydney are one of the most well-behaved groups of young people police have seen, says NSW's police chief. "I've never seen a crowd like this, it's even better than an Olympic crowd," NSW Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione told reporters at Randwick, the site of Sunday's WYD papal mass. "Hundreds of thousands of young people moving through the city not affected by drugs and alcohol has been such a wonderful experience.
Pope resurrects old rituals for mass : "The Holy Father has requested that those whom he gives communion to will kneel, and his preference is that they receive communion on the tongue," said Father Mark Podesta, an official World Youth Day spokesman.
Ex-Anglican communities to become Catholic, Rome confirms : The Catholic Church will expand its provision of "Anglican Use" parishes in the United States in ordeto alr low whole communities of traditionalist Anglicans into the Roman fold, a senior Catholic archbishop has announced.
Police praise clean-living Catholic youth : No drugs and alcohol means Catholic World Youth Day pilgrims in Sydney are one of the most well-behaved groups of young people police have seen, says NSW's police chief. "I've never seen a crowd like this, it's even better than an Olympic crowd," NSW Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione told reporters at Randwick, the site of Sunday's WYD papal mass. "Hundreds of thousands of young people moving through the city not affected by drugs and alcohol has been such a wonderful experience.
Pope resurrects old rituals for mass : "The Holy Father has requested that those whom he gives communion to will kneel, and his preference is that they receive communion on the tongue," said Father Mark Podesta, an official World Youth Day spokesman.
Ex-Anglican communities to become Catholic, Rome confirms : The Catholic Church will expand its provision of "Anglican Use" parishes in the United States in ordeto alr low whole communities of traditionalist Anglicans into the Roman fold, a senior Catholic archbishop has announced.
Meanwhile, on another planet, sensible people laugh at the superstition of the mass.
ReplyDeleteMohammed steals a communion wafer and transubstatiates it into Celine Dion. Jesus is amazed, and pleased.
Those who want the whole story:
http://www.jesusandmo.net/2008/07/09/wafer/
or, if you're in a hurry, skip straight to the miracle.
http://www.jesusandmo.net/2008/07/17/stout/
Reading your comments, Fugley makes me so pleased I'm not young enough to know everything.
ReplyDeleteNor ignorant enough to be so arrogant....
KG, did you look at the cartoons? could you see no humour in them?
ReplyDeleteYou really do need to get a life, and fast, beacuse, as we all know, this IS as good as it gets.
Enjoy it now, you'll be a long time dead.
Fugley, for "some" people, this life is as good as it gets. And if you continue to live in this way you will be the author of your own doom.
ReplyDeleteThere have probably been multiple times in your life, Fugley, when God has reached out his hand to you and said, "Take my hand, Fugley, come with Me" and you've just walked away.
The human mind cannot comprehend the majesty, power, might and love of God - that is why we need to ask Him for help. Ask and you shall receive, Fugley.
Be not afraid!
No, Fugley I did not look at the cartoons.
ReplyDeleteAnd thanks for confirming what I said about your arrogance--you have no way of "knowing" that this is as good as it gets.
Neither do you know whether I "have a life" or not.
In fact, I have a life which is- and has been -rich and full and happy, I've been blessed with great friends, a wonderful wife and experienced great danger and great joy over half the world.
Don't make assumptions about whether or not others need to get a life, some of us have had one hell of a great life and have learned in the process that very few things indeed are amenable to the certainties of pimply adolescence.
fugley is fetid slime, don't worry about it.
ReplyDeleteThe NSW police chief said the youths behaved better than an Olympic crowd.Just imagine hundreds of thousands of young people moving through the city not affected by drugs or alcohol. What a wonderful experience and show of solidarity for Christ.
"No drugs and alcohol means Catholic World Youth Day pilgrims in Sydney are one of the most well-behaved groups of young people police have seen, says NSW's police chief"
ReplyDeleteI know another bunch of people, following their god, who don't take drugs or alcohol.
They just fly planes in to buildings.
Imagine - a world with no religion, a world where the world trade centre still exists.
well zen, that may be so, but how many atheists are flying aeroplanes in to buildings, invading countries on a lie, torturing people for believing in the wrong god, blowing themselves up in marketplaces, dropping bombs from great heights because they're afraid of engaging face to face?
ReplyDeleteThey used to say "tehre are no atheists in fox holes", but these days atheists are hounded out of the US mmilitary because they're not fighting for freedom, they're waging a new crusade.
I've deleted the last few comments that are 90% about Fugley and Dad's ongoing flame wars. They will not be hosted on this blog.
ReplyDeleteHow very very odd, zen posted a comment, and by the time I replied, it was gone.
ReplyDeleteWho would delete zen;s post?
Just point to the court case results when its all over guys.
ReplyDeleteFugley, all religions are not equal, and people don't need religion to do great evil. Religion has also been a force for much good.
ReplyDeleteSorry zen, but that won't wash.
ReplyDeleteReligion always has been, and always will be, a force for evil.
Yes, there are sometimes religious people of good will, but they usually need to fight against religion to do good, not work with it.
Even your very own jesus the christ fought AGAINST the religion of hsi day. And he did not set up a new religion to replace judaism, that was done by paul.
Faith without reason leads only to evil.
"With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil — but for good people to do evil — that takes religion.”
Fugley, this debate topic has been done to death before.
ReplyDeleteYou can't make those claims and then excuse the actions of Lenin, Stalin, and Mao. And the arguments on both sides go wearingly on without looking at the principles behind the argument.
You do make one interesting statement though:
Faith without reason leads only to evil.
I'd agree there, and since you go for the black and white "only" (which isn't really so), I'll use it in the converse:
Reason without faith leads only to evil.
The Catholic religion is one where faith and reason meet. The message is love. The Catholic Religion is taking the message of Jesus, the Good News that is the new testament.
The Catholic youth present in Sydney this week are indeed testament to this story, as much as you wrongly try to equate that to terrorism.