Perspectives
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19-Mar-2011
Australian-born Frank Clarke (pictured) is the first person to hold the role of director of ethos in any school in Ireland or Britain. He talks about his role at Clongowes College in Ireland with Sarah Meade, of the Irish Catholic.
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19-Mar-2011
Matthew 17:1-9
Six days later, Jesus took with him Peter and James and his brother John and led them up a high mountain, by themselves. 2And he was transfigured before them, and his face shone like the sun, and his clothes became dazzling white. 3
This week's Gospel is brought you by Bulletin Notes, a service to parishes from Church Resources.
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19-Mar-2011
In 1994, a Pulitzer Prize-winning photo showed a frail Sudanese girl struggling to walk to a feeding centre while a vulture waited behind her. The photographer was castigated for putting his work before his humanity. The story can be a parable for the Transfiguration, writes Rev Peter Ingham, the Bishop of Wollongong.
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19-Mar-2011
Pilgrims have been walking the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage for over 1000 years. This episode of Catholic Focus on Salt + Light speaks to an authority on the religious history of the Camino.
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19-Mar-2011
In the first edition of CathNews Perspectives, we published an article by William Oddie on the new Missal that provoked heated discussion from readers. Here Barney Swartz, in the Age, looks at the state of debate over the translation in Australia.
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19-Mar-2011
Education has figured prominently in the news, with one school opening, a second renovated and a third closing. On a lighter note, Bishop Anthony Fisher (pictured) gave his tips on Parramatta's best restaurants in Sydney's west, and his favourite cuisine.
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19-Mar-2011
It's been a week of colour and movement, with stories about Papal socks sold online by a Paris designer, WYD in Madrid to be eco-friendly, and the world's largest bronze stations of the cross in Rome. On a more serious note, the plight of Christians in Pakistan reared its unpleasant head again.
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19-Mar-2011
Catholic newspaper columnist and prison chaplain Fr Kevin Ryan died last weekend. His ministry took mid-20th century theologian Karl Barth's idea of living the Christian faith with the Bible in one hand and the newspaper in the other and made it his own, according to The Catholic Leader.
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19-Mar-2011
While the Trinity is fundamental to Christian belief, it is a doctrine that is confusing to many people. In this brief book, Dr Neil Ormerod of the Australian Catholic University sets out to explain the 'Triune God', writes Kevin Mark in Kairos.
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19-Mar-2011
I went to a friend's place for lunch on Monday. When he fasts, he really fasts. That means no meat, no fish, no milk, no butter, no eggs, no oil and no alcohol for the duration of Lent. What was he going to serve me? Even bread was out, because "store-bought bread contains oil", writes A Country Deacon.
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