Perspectives
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12-Mar-2011
The chance to sidestep the distractions of a frenetic world is rare. It's reassuring, therefore, to discover there are places where the outside world need not intrude. Quarr Abbey, a Benedictine monastery on the Isle of Wight, is one such place, writes Simon Horsford in the UK Telegraph, in an article published in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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12-Mar-2011
Matthew 4:1-11
Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. 2He fasted forty days and forty nights, and afterwards he was famished. 3The tempter came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become loaves of bread.” 4
This week's Gospel is brought you by Bulletin Notes, a service to parishes from Church Resources.
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12-Mar-2011
A lot of the literature written about the season of Lent gives the impression that we’re about to begin a really grim and gloomy time. This is not so. Ash Wednesday is the beginning of a six-week period that is meant to be full of joy, writes Archbishop Phillip Wilson, President of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference.
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12-Mar-2011
Xt3.com, the Australian online Catholic social network, has unveiled a new online calendar for Lent. This new calendar offers daily reflections, passages from Scripture, videos that explain Catholic teaching, and stories from the lives of the saints.
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12-Mar-2011
Pope Benedict XVI’s new book Jesus of Nazareth: Holy Week addresses misunderstandings about Jesus and helps renew the study of the Bible, according to a panel of scholars, the Catholic News Agency reports.
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12-Mar-2011
A resolution about the funding of the ACT Calvary hospital negotiation takes this complex issue one step forward. Other noteworthy items included the appointment of a lay principal at Salesian College in Sunbury, a raft of clergy appointments in the Canberra-Goulburn diocese and sadly, the vandalising of a church in suburban Melbourne.
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12-Mar-2011
The argument for Mother Teresa to be considered a mystic received prominent coverage this week. Other items of note include Pakistan examining the martyrdom credentials of its murdered minister, the Vatican's new financial director and the choice of an atheist to present a BBC series on the Bible.
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12-Mar-2011
One of those rare individuals who might have been called a true monster of the 20th century passed away a week or so ago, with the fairly good chance that by the time of his death he was what Catholics would call a saint. Pro-life activist Bernard Nathanson is remembered in The Record.
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12-Mar-2011
Catholic Social Teaching faces challenges in various cultures. In the United States there is tension between the Catholic communitarian emphasis and the dominant US culture built on individualism and consumerism, writes Redemptorist Father Bruce Duncan in Social Policy Connections.
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12-Mar-2011
Sydney hosts its world-famous Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras every year, a festival of vulgar depravity which leaves the inner city knee-deep in litter and filth. In the words of a weary garbo last Saturday evening, “Mate, the rubbish… it's like a tsunami.” In more ways than one, writes Michael Cook in the MercatorNet blog Conniptions.
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