“It’s a plot within the Vatican that they are desperate to keep quiet until they are ready to go public.” The Vatican is learning something about its bedfellows. This is a fairly transparent attempt by Anglo Catholics to influence the synod to vote against letting women be bishops. How serious can their threats be if they’re willing to break the pledge of secrecy with the Vatican?
Facebook bugs continue to plague the Cafe feed there, but there’s still things to see and do on Facebook. And here’s what’s going on in the Cafe’s Twitter space.
A new day for worship brings varying musical interpretations of an old text. Watch and listen.
Like Peter, I forget to seek God when things are going well. When I’m on a mountaintop, I rarely open my eyes to take in the glorious view. Through an intellectual exercise, I know that I am blessed, but this blessing fails to filter into my soul. Only when the jaggedness of grief or deprivation assaults me do I begin my tardy search for God anew.
He plainly indicates the novelty involved in his command here—and the extent to which the love he enjoins here surpasses the old idea of mutual love—by adding the words “Even as I have loved you, you also should love one another.” . . .
