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A Climate of Social Responsibility
As a climate scientist for more than thirty years, I cannot agree with Pat Barrett’s “Climate of Fear” in the April 2012 Marist Messenger. As a catholic for more than twice as long, I have to say that climate change means there is now a growing need to love our neighbours.
Pat is right that “science is never done”. We …
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A Joyful Faith
Some us us tend to look askance at the Pentecostal Christians with all their arm waving, clapping and hallelujahs. It all seems a little too demonstrative. Perhaps religion should be a more solemn business.
But think again. In the Old Testament worship was a joyous thing. In so many of the psalms they are singing and dancing to God, playing on their harps and cymbals. …
Climate of Fear
Are you concerned about climate change? Do you fear for the future of the planet? If you subscribe only to the mainstream media then this is no doubt your daily fare, and that of much of the rest of humanity. That’s right, ‘the-science-is-done’ on this issue.
Sorry, I think they missed something – science is never done on any issue, that is not in the …
The Lesson of Vatican II
Maybe Pope John XXIII should have taken the name of Paul. The changes St. Paul sought to bring about in the Jewish religion are strikingly similar to the new values evoked by Pope John.
Paul had been a Pharisee, devoting all his energies to the meticulous observance of the detailed Mosiac law and the hundreds of further refinements devised by his sect. Explicit rules like …