Cleveland Commonweal Local Community Network

Meeting Place and Directions The Resurrection Room of Saint Noel Parish, 35200 Chardon Rd, Willoughby Hills, OH 44094. An overview of the Parish, and driving directions is provided by the following post: SAINT NOEL PARISH LOCATION Meeting Time and Format This meeting has been rescheduled to February because of the weather in January The meeting room will be open at 6pm. We hope to begin the meeting promptly at 6:30pm. Please let us know if you are coming so that we can begin promptly when all have arrived. We hope to have ninety minutes of discussion and adjourn the formal meeting around 8pm, Meeting Topic and Articles The recent Commonweal issue on Why I Came, Why I left, Why I stay is very timely.  The sexual abuse scandal has caused many Catholics to question their religion.  Even if one has not thought of leavening it is important to be able to be articulate about one's reasons for staying in order to dialog with tho...

In the sociology of religion, relationships are far more important than beliefs.   People who go to church regularly and have religious networks of family, friends or small groups are far more likely to be healthy, happy,   and do good for others.   Those who go to church without religious networks have none of these benefits.    Beliefs have no relationships to any of these benefits. Sociologists have studied the process of acquiring a new religion. Whether in cults or interfaith marriages, relationships develop before changes of beliefs.   My summaries focus upon relationships, including imaginary relationships, rather than beliefs  Why I Came (B.D. McClay) A relationship with a married man started this woman’s relationship to Catholicism.   In a little Catholic chapel she asks Mary to help her with this uncomfortable relationship. She perceives that Mary did help her, since the man asked her to let him go. When asked by her therapis...

Meeting Place and Directions The Resurrection Room of Saint Noel Parish, 35200 Chardon Rd, Willoughby Hills, OH 44094. An overview of the Parish, and driving directions is provided by the following post: SAINT NOEL PARISH LOCATION Meeting Time and Format The meeting room will be open at 6pm. We hope to begin the meeting promptly at 6:30pm. Please let us know if you are coming so that we can begin promptly when all have arrived. We hope to have ninety minutes of discussion and adjourn the formal meeting around 8pm, Meeting Topic and Articles The recent Commonweal issue on Why I Came, Why I left, Why I stay is very timely.  The sexual abuse scandal has caused many Catholics to question their religion.  Even if one has not thought of leavening it is important to be able to be articulate about one's reasons for staying in order to dialog with those who are critical of Catholicism or who are considering leaving it. We will focus on three art...

Meeting Place, and Time The next meeting of the Commonweal Local Communities will be held at St Dominic Church in Shaker Heights, Wednesday, January 9. 7:00pm - 8:30pm. Note the new time and date. Meeting Topic Join us to discuss the highly contentious issue of whether a divorced and legally (but not sacramentally) remarried Catholic, should, in some circumstances, be permitted to receive communion. Our resources will be the review of Catherine Kaveny's book, Ethics at the Edges of Law (October 19 issue of Commonweal), and additional notes on the chapter in the book that deals with remarriage and communion ("Second Chances and Statutes of Limitations"). Links for the review, entitled EMBODIED ARGUMENTS , is in the October 19th issue of Commonweal and to additional  material for discussion  SECOND CHANCES AND STATUTES OF LIMITATIONS (KAVENY) Eric Beversluis and Brian Toohey will lead the discussion. Meeting Place Directions St....

Here is some additional material from Kaveny’s chapter “Second Chances and Statutes of Limitations: Engaging Walter Kasper” for us to think about and discuss.    Amoris laetitia “appears to have opened the door to the reception of communion by people in that situation [divorced and remarried].” (221) -Cardinal Schöborn: “there is an organic development of doctrine” in the document. (221) -Cardinal Baldisseri: need to interpret the document in light of the pope’s emphasis on mercy. (221) Kasper argues that mercy is God’s essential nature , that mercy means the opportunity for second chances, and that these principles must govern the church’s teaching on remarriage and access to communion. -Kasper requires that divorced and remarried person must be “properly disposed”:      -sincerely sorry that they failed in the first marriage      -return to first marriage is definitely not possible      ...

  Meeting Place, and Time The next meeting of the Commonweal Local Communities will be held at St Dominic Church in Shaker Heights, Wednesday, December 12. 7:00pm - 8:30pm. Note different time and date. Meeting Topic Join us in the small meeting room to discuss how the traditions of legal reasoning can inform thinking about issues raised by the Church's moral theology. Our resources will be the review of Catherine Kaveny's book, Ethics at the Edges of Law, and additional notes on Kaveny's chapter dealing with remarriage and communion.  Links for the review, entitled EMBODIED ARGUMENTS , is in the October 19th issue of Commonweal and to additional  material for discussion  SECOND CHANCES AND STATUTES OF LIMITATIONS (KAVENY) Eric Beversluis, sometime philosophy professor, and Brian Toohey, attorney, will lead the discussion. Meeting Place Directions December 12th. 7pm - 8:30pm St. Dominic Church Small Meeting Room in the school (enter ...

A book with this title which includes “Is the World a Problem” was published by Doubleday in 1971 after Merton's death. The Image paperback edition published in 1973 has three sections including a section of five chapters on The Case for Eremitism which was sandwiched between the two sections of the currently available book of the same title published in 1998 by Notre Dame Press. In the 1973 paperback edition there is an editorial note by Naomi Burton who said that she had received the manuscript on September 10, 1968 a few months before Merton died. At the suggestion of Brother Patrick Hart the five chapters on the solitary life were included, however they are no longer in the Notre Dame edition.   PART ONE: Renewal of Life in the Monastic Milieu Merton wrote in the broad context of renewal at the time of not only monastic life, but also Catholicism, and even civic life here in American. Notre Dame reissued the book under a series title: Gethsemani Studies in Psychological ...