Ross Ahlfeld

Above Us the Sky with subtitles This is a portrait of peace activist Brian Quail, a retired teacher in Glasgow who has been campaigning against nuclear weapons for decades and engages in non-violent…

Watch this and you’ll know him, it’s profound vimeo.com/153921229

Yes, it’s like the worst punishment we can think of is to make him like us. I see they considered banishing him up here to Scotland. Again, it betrays what they think of us

Tbf, more than a few banal sermons I’ve heard over the years, might as well have been AI generated…”And you know, in a way, Jesus is a bit like Lionel Messi…and as I’ve just learned from the primary school children…Taylor Swift…Luke Skywalker etc

Don’t disagree but can you expand on that please. To call for his removal is to exonerate the whole thing and help to keep it going, right? But why keep calling him Prince?

Passed down to me, my family once had a pew in Old Gourock parish. I keep the token handy just in case I eventually get kicked out the RC church. Always useful to have a plan B 😊

That’s fascinating, I wish traditional liturgy wasn’t bound up with conservative rightwing politics.

Yes absolutely, Mass in English can be holy/solemn etc. perhaps impoverished is a wee bit strong, the problem is the cheesy 1970s folk hymns, the office carpet, drab breeze block walls, the crap polyester vestments. Most churches remind me of a visit to Goldbergs or C&A for new shoes when I was wee

Every week its pure nihilism and cynicism, the priest even sometimes does a kind of mock Scottish accent. The society bares no relation whatsoever to the pre-Vatican II parishes of our parents, none whatsoever. IMO its mostly a contemporary American thing, even if post VII liturgy is impoverished

I used to get all sorts of letters and messages from some of Scottish Lefebvrists when I wrote for the Scottish Catholic Observer and I'm not especially liberal or into low church liturgy. I cannot understand how anyone can watch their Edinburgh chapel Sunday sermons on YouTube and wish to join SSPX

Thinking of you all, it was a privilege to know him

In Memory of Brian Quail – Pax Christi Scotland Blessed are the peacemakers, they shall be called the children of God Peace activist Brian Quail died on February 17. He helped to establish Pax Christi Scotlan

In memory of Brian Quail

www.paxchristiscotland.org/brian-quail/

Trump is the MOST CORRUPT president in American history, by FAR.

The Pope’s words during the Angelus were very good, calling for a sincere, serious, and effective dialogue. I believe that is what we need right now – for everyone to sit down and talk, for spaces of listening to open within the country and also between the authorities of both countries, so that a path toward a solution can be found for the suffering of a people who cannot [endure] much more. Do you think this dialogue is possible? I believe it is possible. I believe it is possible and we cannot give up. Look, violence and confrontation always generate suffering. Dialogue always engenders hope, and that must be promoted. And the Church is willing to do it, and to take whatever risks it must take to do so. We cannot abandon that. I would tell you: we must look at Cuba. The world must look at Cuba and see its suffering, the suffering of its people, and get close enough to see it firsthand. When priests send me reports from their parishes, photographs of the charitable works of the parish Caritas, photos of the elderly, of the state of their homes, it is very painful. The world does not fully know this. On the other hand, it’s true that many years have been spent talking about the suffering of Cuba and the Cuban people, and perhaps the world is tired of hearing the same thing. But this is the moment to tell the world: do not close your eyes, and much less your heart, to the suffering of the Cuban people. This is not the time. It is not the time to condemn. It is not the time. It is the time for dialogue, and a dialogue that seeks effective solutions. As the Pope said.

Bishop González Amador, president of the Cuban conference of Catholic bishops, calls for dialogue between the US and Cuba: "do not close your eyes, and much less your heart, to the suffering of the Cuban people. This is not the time. It is not the time to condemn."

Make Straight the Path: Brian Quail — A Voice in the Wilderness He came to mind the way the desert prophets do — a little wind-burned, a little out of step with the world, and wholly unwilling to soften t...

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Make Straight the Path: Brian Quail — A Voice in the Wilderness He came to mind the way the desert prophets do — a little wind-burned, a little out of step with the world, and wholly unwilling to soften t...

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Tom Hagen: I'm German-Irish. Jack Woltz: Well, let me tell you something, my kraut-mick friend, I'm gonna make so much trouble for you, you won t know what hit you!
RIP Robert Duvall

But Old St Paul’s is certainly one of the most beautiful and interesting places of worship in Scotland, always worth a visit if you’re in Edinburgh. Great wee video from Bruce Fumie as always, really enjoy his content…

YouTube video by Scotland History Tours Is THIS the Most Jacobite Church in Scotland?

Not sure if Old St Paul’s is the most Jacobite church in Scotland? For me, that honour would go to the stunning Saint Mary & Saint Finnan’s in Glenfinnan, since it was essentially built as a memorial chapel to the MacDonalds of Glenaladale, who supported the 1745 rising youtu.be/8iC1lpOlu68?...

It’s not ‘work’ though is it, sex work is human trafficking, specifically it is sexual slavery. It is physical abuse, oppression and exploitation. I’m so sick of these self-righteous, middle class libertarian arseholes. Sorry for being so angry but I’ve recently seen just how damaging this ‘work’ is

I’m assuming you’re one of those folks whose response to drugs deaths, suicides and the misery of women forced into prostitution is legalisation and euthanasia? These are the ‘customers’ you are protecting, women aren’t meant to be bought and sold like a commodity x.com/andrewlearmo...

Yes, I actually like spoons as old folks can get warm and have free refills of tea all day.

Reform members don’t actually frequent pubs either. That’s another huge myth, they wouldn’t be seen dead in a Spoons. I’m not even convinced Farage drinks beer

Is Maggie Chapman calling for state-run prostitution here?
Am I hearing this right?
The Greens all voted against the bill to protect women working in prostitution.
These people really have wreaked havoc on our country

This country is ridiculous-
Alleged possible connection to the abuse of minors - no criminal investigation but Mandelson is now no longer a Lord and reduced to the status of a normal citizen like you or I, as a punishment?

Alleged interference with the markets - Straight to criminal investigation!!

#Remember

I can’t think why would a woman as AofC be an issue for us Catholics or any business of us Catholics

Thanks Fr, good to know. We all seem to be Pharisees- SSPX sneers at the Pope in the way some RCs sneer at the AofC. While Sedevs look down on the SSPX superior general. Its also what the Orthodox say about all of us and each others Patriarchates too. We should all get on with praying and respecting

RCs shouldn’t be joining in or buddying-up with all these based British Empire/Prayer Book Anglicans on social media, who are trashing the new AofC as woke. The CofEs liberal wing treats RCs with far more respect & love than these 39 articles & Cramner loving Tories who still maintain old prejudices

Catholic bishops around the world have earned reputations for speaking prophetically, with a courage to name exactly who and what is causing injustice and to put themselves in the streets with the people. The church knows how to respond to fascism and police states.