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16-Oct-2010
When Caravaggio arrived in Rome in 1592 he was just another young, aspiring painter. It took only a few years for his unconventional aesthetic vision and colorful, often violent lifestyle to transfix Roman society.
To read his 17th-century biographers, Caravaggio was more likely to have a sword in his hand than a paintbrush. But it was his naturalistic style, along with his tendency to set religious scenes in the contemporary world, that really captured the public imagination.
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16-Oct-2010
Sisters returning from Brisbane were welcomed in Armidale and Sydney. Meanwhile, both the diocese and Josephites of Adelaide were in financial straits.
In 1883 Bishop Reynolds, previously a supportive friend, declared Mary an unfit Superior and told her to leave for Sydney at once (saying that it was for health reasons) and stay away.
Prepared by Sr Marie White rsj
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16-Oct-2010
It is often in the confrontation with Church authority that the presence of the Spirit can be discerned. Mary MacKillop's witness in this area is particularly important and relevant for our time. She shows us how to bear the burden of conflict with Church authority in a way that enables one to continue to work for one’s vision - and to achieve it, writes Bishop David Walker.
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16-Oct-2010
The Basilica of the Holy Cross in Jerusalem is one of the seven pilgrim churches. According to tradition, the basilica was consecrated around 325 to house the Passion Relics brought to Rome from the Holy Land by St. Helena of Constantinople, mother of the Roman Emperor Constantine.
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16-Oct-2010
This afternoon Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd will officially open the Australian Holy See Chancery in Rome. The ceremony, at 4.30pm, will be attended by representative from the Curia and Australian politicians, Julie Bishop, Senators Ursula Stephens and Barnaby Joyce.
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16-Oct-2010
Holiness confounds us. It leaves us inarticulate. It takes us where we would otherwise not go, in which space we are undone, set free, and breathed new life into. The miraculous silences our calculative world views.
If we need to slot saints into our own small compartmentalised worlds, then holiness has no meaning, and we can aggressively shout ‘oi, oi, oi’ in proud defiance of that holiness which invites us to be so much more than the securities we cling to and define ourselves by.
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16-Oct-2010
Sister Monica Barlow being interviewed in St Peter’s Square by Sky News Australia’s national affairs correspondent Celina Edmonds.
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16-Oct-2010
Cardinal George Pell has backed calls to consider a second Australian nun for sainthood after tomorrow's canonisation of Mary MacKillop. The nation's most senior Catholic cleric said during an interview in St Peter's Square that he believed Sister Irene McCormack was a worthy candidate for sainthood.
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16-Oct-2010
Veronica Hopson, who celebrates her 73rd birthday next week, was the person the Vatican says was cured by Mary MacKillop's first miracle. She has guarded her secret for nearly half a century, according to an exclusive report in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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16-Oct-2010
Penola may lack the gravitas of Gallipoli, the splendour of the Sydney Opera House or even the spiritualism of Uluru, but this tiny town (home to farmer Phillip Mules, pictured) is about to join the nation's list of sacred sites. "It is likely to gain a place in Australia's mental space and become a site of pilgrimage," says historian Richard White.
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16-Oct-2010
It is hard to believe the young man in a rugby jersey who walked through the crowds of Rome's Fiumicino airport on Thursday awoke last year from a seven-month coma. But Irish backpacker David Keohane, who was bashed unconscious in Coogee in 2008 , is now happy, healthy - and eager to cheer for "his" saint.
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16-Oct-2010
SISTER NOELINE QUINANE
Yesterday's reflection by Sr Noeline Quinane carried an incorrect photo. Here is a correct image of Sr Quinane. CathNews apologises for the error.
VIGIL LITURGY BOOKLET
The Vigil booklet, developed by the Sisters of St Joseph, contains two liturgies for two events in Rome, one last night and the other the Thanksgiving Mass on Monday after the Canonisation. It was sponsored by CathNews, not developed by CathNews, as stated in yesterday afternoon’s special edition.
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