https://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/2013/12/09/nz-bishops-call-for-simpler-christmas/ The New Zealand National Catholic Newspaper Wed, 27 Jan 2016 01:24:12 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.4 https://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/2013/12/09/nz-bishops-call-for-simpler-christmas/comment-page-1/#comment-3723 Tue, 10 Dec 2013 10:02:01 +0000 http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/?p=5845#comment-3723 Another insight to the above might come from Bill Warner, Director of the Centre for the Study of Political Islam, who wrote recently:
“The most persecuted group in the world today is Christians…The reason for the vast majority of all of this violence is that they are Christians among Muslims…but the greatest abuse is at the hands of those who should demand that the violence stop…Christians are enjoined to care for all persecuted people, but in particular, they are to care for their own brothers and sisters. They manage to ignore the persecution by doing good works, such as care for the poor…”

]]> https://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/2013/12/09/nz-bishops-call-for-simpler-christmas/comment-page-1/#comment-3716 Mon, 09 Dec 2013 11:32:26 +0000 http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/?p=5845#comment-3716 I urge Archbishop Dew to enhance his credibility by revealing to his audience information about the time when he spent Christmas day alone at the home of a man who otherwise would have been alone, about the time when he brought into his Christmas day household a man who otherwise would have spent Christmas day alone, about the time when he took money out of his Christmas pay packet and put it into the pay packet of a colleague who needed it more.
Archbishop Dew should realise that there are many in his audience who hear him but don’t listen because, they say, talk is cheap.
He could help remedy that by being more conspicuous with his sacrifices for the needy in body and spirit.

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