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By Kevin Kelly
Vatican II isn't really previous heritage yet a treasure for us this present day. It has positioned humans again on the centre of the Church's educating and pastoral ministry. studying what this suggests in way of life has been a problem to Liverpool priest Kevin Kelly, for the full of his greater than fifty years in parish ministry and as an ethical theologian. This selection of his writings, outdated and new, tells the tale of his fight to be trustworthy to the spirit of Vatican II, studying from adventure and discerning the decision of God's Spirit in people's lives. 2012 is the fiftieth anniversary of the outlet of Vatican II. Many this day are involved that the Church is wasting contact with the Vatican II time table. This ebook reminds us that the duty of receiving Vatican II is way from whole. one of many issues coated are: classes from the 1980 nationwide Pastoral Congress; imaginative and prescient and Spirituality of a Vatican II parish; Being parish priest in a shared Catholic-Anglican church; Spirituality of Homosexual...
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In other words, her knowledge and understanding of HIV/AIDS was based on grassroots personal experience of how people were being infected and affected by this pandemic. Maura invited me to join her advisory committee and my eyes began to be opened to the enormity of HIV/AIDS, a process of personal enlightenment which has continued to this day. Along with Dr Mary McHugh, chair of the advisory committee, and two CAFOD staff, Maura enabled me to have a three-week exposure experience of the grass-roots reality of HIV/AIDS in Uganda, a visit I shall never forget.
The senior seminary staff at Upholland College in those days included two outstanding priest Biblical scholars, Alexander Jones and Tom Worden, both of whom played a major role in awakening the Catholic Church in the UK to the renewal in Biblical studies beginning to emerge in places like the École Biblique in Jerusalem. Moreover, their spirit of critical enquiry was infectious and was not restricted to biblical studies. It is worth mentioning one experience I have never forgotten and which, I suspect, had a long-term influence on my later theology.
The original title of the piece was ‘The Role of Personal Story in the Teaching of Moral Theology’. I have made some slight alterations to the text to accommodate it to its new context. (1) Early years I was blessed with a very happy childhood. I felt loved and secure at home. In my innocence little did I realise how my childhood was also ‘deprived’. I had no sisters, an impoverishment which deepened still further when, at the age of fourteen, I moved to the all-male establishment of the seminary at Upholland College.