Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/04/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Good Lord, Barney - the man's a "bigot" or "intolerant" because he doesn't believe that according to scripture women should wash feet? How do you figure that? On 4/14/06 2:13 PM, "Barney Quinn" <bquinn@sgi.com> wrote: > > > Nice shot. And good for the priest. His arthritis clearly isn't as > advanced as mine is! :-) > > I had sending you an e-mail on my list of things I wanted to get done > today. Last night on our local PBS station, WETA, they had a two hour > program about the Abrhamic Faiths. Have you seen it? It's mostly a dozen > or so interviews with world class theologians, clergy, authors, and > professors and believers taking about relations between Christians, > Muslims, and Jews. It's basically a "talking head" program, but they cut > from speaker to speaker so that it seemed to be a round table > discussion. It was, in my opinion, well edited, and it moved along. I > found the program to be very interested and I was naughty. I stayed up > past my bed time to see it through to its conclusion. > > As I was watching the program i was reminded of you and your "Faiths of > Abraham" ( I hope that I have that right ) project. Is this TV show > related to it? I found myself rather encouraged by the end of the > program. I went to bed thinking that perhaps there was some hope, after > all. That's a good thing. Hope is as good a single word description of > Easter as any other. Then I read your post this morning and all but > wept. I say this as a Cradle Irish Catholic. Perhaps progress is one > step back and two forward. One of the things they did on the program > last night was to ask Jews, Muslims, and Christians what they didn't > like people to say about them. The Christians said they didn't like it > when people called them intolerant or bigots. I spent a moment or two > wondering about where that came from. the Bishop of Charlottesville has > answered my question. How sad. All of us on the LUG who pray might want > to pray for him. > > Barney > > > > > Tina Manley wrote: > >> PESO: >> >> A Catholic priest in Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish washes the feet of >> 12 selected men during Holy Thursday observances. Bishop Peter Jugis >> of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Charlotte reminded priests that only >> men's feet could be washed during the Holy Thursday services, causing >> controversy among many this Lenten season. >> >> http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/58629339/medium >> >> Thanks for comments, etc. >> >> Tina >> >> Tina Manley, ASMP >> http://www.tinamanley.com >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > -- > Barney Quinn, Jr. > (301) 688-1982 (O) > (240) 535-3036 (C) > (877) 220-0981 (P) > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information