Perspectives
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26-Feb-2011
CathNews has been keeping people in touch with Catholic news from Australia and around the wrold for more than 11 years. Today it launches CathNews Perspectives, which expands the service to six editions a week.
CathNews Perspectives is a weekly publication promising more depth to CathNews subscribers. It will carry added features, a news digest, a regular video feature, and also Reflections by Archbishops, bishops and other prominent members of the clergy.
CathNews Perspectives will be published on Friday afternoons, to give subscribers plenty of time to digest it over the weekend. We hope you enjoy it.
Christine Hogan, Publisher
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25-Feb-2011
Gospel Matthew 6:24-34
Jesus said to his disciples: ‘No one can serve two masters; for a slave will either hate the one and love the other, or be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth.
The Gospel for Sunday is brought to you by Bulletin Notes, a service to parishes from Church Resources.
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25-Feb-2011
They hadn't understood about the loaves! The Gospels use those words to describe the crowd that Jesus had miraculously fed with five barley loaves and two fish. They ate, but they didn't understand. What didn't they understand? writes Ron Rolheiser.
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25-Feb-2011
Jadwiga (pictured), mother of Linda's House of Hope foundress Linda Watson, in Perth, tells how faith in Christ helped her survive her darkest hour, writes Debbie Warrior in The Record.
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25-Feb-2011
The new translation of the Missal is wholly successful, and if we had been using it from day one, thousands of people repelled by the banality of the existing translation would still be regular worshippers rather than lapsed Catholics. I really believe it’s as important as that, writes William Oddie in the Catholic Herald.
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25-Feb-2011
The memory of Bishop Joe Grech, who died on 28 December, was celebrated at his home diocese of Bendigo this week. Other prominent local news includes an Australian priest's account of backpackers getting into serious trouble in Thailand, and a church pianist who played on during the earthquake in Christchurch.
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25-Feb-2011
The spirit of John Paul II hangs heavily in the air this week, with Polish priests in a downhill ski-ing event celebrating the former Pontiff's love of alpine sports, and an announcement from the Vatican that his beatification in May will be free for anyone who comes to witness it. The idea of pilgrimage is also captured in a story about American actor Martin Sheen praying for his errant son, Charlie.
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26-Feb-2011
Jan Kostanski gained the gratitude of Jewish people, including the State of Israel, for his heroic acts as a gentile in saving Jews from the Warsaw ghetto during World War II. He has died of cancer aged 85, at Melbourne's Cabrini Hospital, and is remembered in The Age.
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26-Feb-2011
John Zmirak shows in The Bad Catholic's Guide to the Seven Deadly Sins that it is possible to live a thoroughly Catholic life, avoiding the seven deadly sins, and still have a good time, writes Jennifer Nowell in Kairos.
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26-Feb-2011
Fr Ian Ker, the world renowned Newman scholar, is Senior Research Fellow at St Benet's Hall, Oxford and has taught both English literature and theology at universities in Great Britain and the United States.
Join Fr Thomas Rosica as he interviews a great thinker and author, a true disciple of Blessed John Henry Newman.
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26-Feb-2011
Much has been written about priestly celibacy. By contrast, there is very little on those who, for many reasons, find themselves alone despite efforts to connect intimately with others. Recently a psychological concept called Involuntary Celibacy or INCEL, has appeared in the psychological literature, writes William Van Ornum in America Magazine's In All Things group blog.
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