Perspectives
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26-Mar-2011
Depicting the history of salvation throughout the rebuilt St Patrick’s Cathedral in Bunbury is the highlight of internationally-renowned West Australian artist Robert Juniper’s career, reports The Record.
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26-Mar-2011
John 4:5-42
So Jesus came to a Samaritan city called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, tired out by his journey, was sitting by the well. It was about noon.'
This week's Gospel is brought you by Bulletin Notes, a service to parishes from Church Resources.
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26-Mar-2011
As we move into Lent, it becomes obvious how carefully the Readings of the Liturgy have been selected to draw us deeper into the truth of our faith. They are not drum rolls to Easter but lessons about what it all means for us, what it means to be a baptized person, writes Greg O'Kelly SJ, Bishop of the Diocese of Port Pirie, South Australia.
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26-Mar-2011
This discussion from Canada's Salt + Light TV examines Africa's gift to the Church. Host Pedro is joined by Sister Hazel Campayne from Our Lady of Lourdes Black Catholic Community Ministry and Father Stan Chu Ilo pastor at St. Therese Catholic Church as they discuss the gifts of Africa to the Church and to the world.
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26-Mar-2011
The Vatican’s visitation of the Church in Ireland comes in the wake of the country’s clerical abuse scandal, but moral theologians at seminaries and houses of formation have been dismayed to find that it is their loyalty to the Magisterium that has been under scrutiny, reports The Tablet.
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26-Mar-2011
Frank Quinlan (pictured) has resigned from his position as Executive Director of Catholic Social Services Australia to take up a new appointment as the new CEO of the Mental Health Council of Australia. Also in the social services sector, Monsignor David Cappo, a key government policiy adisor, has called for a total overhaul of the way mental illness is treated.
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26-Mar-2011
History was made this week when President Barack Obama visited the tomb of Archbishop Oscar Romero in El Salvador. Meanwhile the international Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) has launched a new report which reveals that Christians are the most persecuted religion in the world – with 75% of religious persecution being carried out against Christians.
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26-Mar-2011
Bishop Samuel Ruiz Garcia is known as the champion of the poor and indigenous in southern Mexico. His negotiation skills were recognised nationwide, and US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton said his is "an example we must follow".
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26-Mar-2011
Karen Armstrong's book explores what makes empathy possible and effective, within each one of us and in the wider world beyond. Even if the self-help style packaging of the book’s message may be a bit off-putting, nobody will turn from this work either expecting a quick fix, writes Thomas Massaro.
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26-Mar-2011
To rely on the flawed arguments of the climate change deniers and to brush off the overwhelming view of the scientific community is like promoting an idiosyncratic interpretation of the Bible. This is the view of John Gummer, Tory member of the House of Lords and board member and columnist for the Catholic Herald, who visited Australia last week.
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