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| Topic Started: Thursday, 14. February 2008, 16:05 (1,742 Views) | |
| KatyA | Wednesday, 17. November 2010, 18:54 Post #136 |
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It seems that Fr Blake has been obliged to rename his blog in order to make it clear that opinions expressed are his own
James Preece Fr Ray Blake's blog |
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| Rose of York | Thursday, 18. November 2010, 14:28 Post #137 |
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Bishop Conroy did the right thing. As Chairman of Trustees of the Portsmouth Diocesan Trust he has legal responsibilities for all that happens with in his diocese, a registered charity of which the parish is a part. A blog described on its front page as the "online magazine" of the parish of St Mary Magdalene, Brighton, showing a photograph and a notice indicating it is written by the parish priest, appears to an official organ of a "branch" of the registered charity, written by the "manager". Unlike many clergy Bishop Conroy is aware that he has responsibilities under English Law. The Vatican is not the only outfit to weild authority over Catholic dioceses.
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| KatyA | Friday, 8. April 2011, 22:17 Post #138 |
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Zenit Should be interesting |
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| Derekap | Saturday, 9. April 2011, 16:02 Post #139 |
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Only 150 participants will be successful! |
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| Rose of York | Saturday, 9. April 2011, 18:47 Post #140 |
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I bet most of them will be clergy. |
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| Rose of York | Tuesday, 12. April 2011, 18:50 Post #141 |
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How amateurish, having the conference in Rome. The costs will be high. They could have invited applications to join a world wide Catholic bloggers' internet forum, membership and viewing of the forum limited to successful applicants, to ensure a balance of what they are after i.e. " the diversity of language and geography, typology of blogs (institutional or private, multivoice or personal), subjects of blogs, and the timeliness of requests." Considering our forum layout and graphics were designed by our own admins, and we successfully protect the forum from spammers, the forum could be set up by amateurs. They should be able to get volunteers to translate, perhaps retired language teachers? The only problem I can see is, an internet conference would deprive the wearers of black cassocks and red or purple sashes of sitting on the rostrum looking important. |
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| Derekap | Tuesday, 12. April 2011, 20:21 Post #142 |
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And if the Pope joins in with an anonymous User Name we might get a response with his title excommunicating us. |
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| PJD | Wednesday, 13. April 2011, 13:33 Post #143 |
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"to better understand what bloggers need" Exactly what do bloggers need? PJD |
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| Rose of York | Wednesday, 13. April 2011, 13:57 Post #144 |
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Possible "Support", a euphemism for control. We could end up with the Bishops Conference website showing a list, with links, to Catholic blogs, i.e. those that meet the approval of the Bishops Conference. No traditionalist, no extreme liberals, no justifiable anger regarding safeguarding, no name calling, e.g. Damian Thompson's favourite jibe about bishops, calling them the Magic Circle. Hey, their Lordships could use encouragement of blogging as an excuse for Pastoral Re-Organisation of the standards of spiritual pastoral care for sick lambs of their flocks. Appoint an Episcopal Vicar for Blog Control. Daily checks on the websites of Father Z, Father Mildrew and a few others every day should keep him busy. Initially it was my opinion Catholic Discussion forms should have been included in the conference. On reflection I feel that the less advice we get from on high the better. We have managed on here for six years without their interference. |
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| PJD | Wednesday, 13. April 2011, 18:16 Post #145 |
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"Initially it was my opinion Catholic Discussion forums should have been included in the conference." I don't think forums would want to be included. And even were they, they would probably upset the apple-cart by insisting upon retaining the general freedom of expression most value so highly. PJD. |
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| Rose of York | Wednesday, 13. April 2011, 18:33 Post #146 |
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PJD that is precisely why I changed my opinion.
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| KatyA | Saturday, 16. April 2011, 16:49 Post #147 |
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A list of the 150 bloggers is now available pccs.va I didn't recognise many names |
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| Rose of York | Saturday, 16. April 2011, 17:24 Post #148 |
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Anna Arco of the Catholic Herald is listed, http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/news/2011/03/11/ordinariate-news-how-many-priests-and-people-will-come/ but a quick scan of the list did not show any of the most well known UK bloggers. I see the famous or infamous Damien Thompson either steered clear or was told "sorry all places taken". |
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| christyemily | Saturday, 16. April 2011, 19:24 Post #149 |
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Bloggers should know the Laws for liable, slander, defamation of character, and a host of other laws which protect innocent people. |
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| Derekap | Saturday, 16. April 2011, 20:07 Post #150 |
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Neither did I recognise any names but for curiosity visited three websites and I wasn't impressed. One had a rather an interesting item of news - that of Joan Lewis (No.59 on the list). She says You Cat is not a Vatican publication. It is not written by anyone or any office in the Vatican nor was it published there. She says she wrote about the book on her April 13 blog - but I couldn't trace it. She didn't mention on the page I saw who published it. If this is correct we have been blaming the wrong people. Mea maxima culpae |
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