Category: Catholicism

Improving the church

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I recently came across this article from Daniel Dozier, a Deacon in the Byzantine Catholic Church, about his top ten ideas for Catholic Reform. I have to say, I’m kind of inclined to agree with him…

Step 1: Repent Publicly and Immediately and Announce a Plan of Reform.

Step 2: Investigate and Clean House.

Step 3: Create an Episcopal Accountability Board.

Step 4: Create Many More Bishops and Many More Dioceses.

Step 5: Build Fraternity Among the Remaining Clergy.

Step 6: Build an Organic Pipeline of Vocations for the Priesthood Through the Restored Use of Minor Orders, an Apprenticeship Model of Formation, an Extended Period in the Diaconate and with Required Professional Work Experience.

Step 7: Viri Probati.

Step 8: Begin a Preaching Campaign on Living an Evangelical Catholic Life.

Step 9: End the Liturgical Nonsense. End it. END IT.

Step 10: Restore the Election of Diocesan/Eparchial Bishops, Create a National Catholic Synod of Bishops with a Patriarch who Votes in the Election of the Pope of Rome.

The Confession Short Film

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Following on from yesterday’s Confessional scene from Seinfeld, I thought we’d shift tonal gears, but stay on the same topic, namely Confession. A few weeks ago, a Protestant friend sent me this Short Film about Confession and was actually quite critical of it because she didn’t think it showed the true beauty of Confession! What do you think?

Sixty days on the streets

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Homelessness ministry was the first ministry I really through myself into back in England. The issue has often perplexed and troubled me. I was therefore very interested when I found out about a TV programme where an explorer went to purposefully live on the streets for sixty days in some of Britain’s largest cities:

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