Bill Tammeus - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Fri, 01 Jun 2012 03:37:33 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Bill Tammeus - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 LCWR move is puzzling even to those outside Catholicism https://cathnews.co.nz/2012/06/05/lcwr-move-is-puzzling-even-to-those-outside-catholicism/ Mon, 04 Jun 2012 19:33:28 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=26741

The Vatican's treatment of LCWR (the Leadership Conference of Women Religious) has raised eyebrows outside the Church as well as within it. In his column in NCR, Bill Tammeus, a Presbyterian elder, writes: "Those of us outside of Catholicism find it unfathomable that the church ... would exploit or disdain the women who have committed Read more

LCWR move is puzzling even to those outside Catholicism... Read more]]> The Vatican's treatment of LCWR (the Leadership Conference of Women Religious) has raised eyebrows outside the Church as well as within it.

In his column in NCR, Bill Tammeus, a Presbyterian elder, writes:

"Those of us outside of Catholicism find it unfathomable that the church ... would exploit or disdain the women who have committed their lives to doing ministry in Christ's sacred name. But that's what the current controversy over the Vatican's action says to many of us".

 

 

Bill Tammeus writes the daily "Faith Matters" blog for The Kansas City Star‘s website and a monthly column for The Presbyterian Outlook.

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An experience of archeology gives rise to a reflection on the resurrection of the body. The writer, Bill Tammeus, finds "there is something reassuring about finding the atoms that make up 2,000-year-old pottery shards, something that says that in God's economy, matter matters," and "we comfort ourselves with the understanding that what God created and called Read more

Hope in the resurrection of the body... Read more]]> An experience of archeology gives rise to a reflection on the resurrection of the body.

The writer, Bill Tammeus, finds "there is something reassuring about finding the atoms that make up 2,000-year-old pottery shards, something that says that in God's economy, matter matters," and "we comfort ourselves with the understanding that what God created and called good, God does not intend to waste."

Bill Tammeus, a Presbyterian elder, writes the daily "Faith Matters" blog for The Kansas City Star's website and a monthly column for The Presbyterian Outlook.

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