Perspectives
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02-Apr-2011
In his recently-released book, Australian Jesuit priest Richard Leonard looks at how we understand the presence of God in our lives when we are faced with suffering, reports Thinking Faith. Using his own experience of a family tragedy, Fr Richard speaks about his personal response when he is tempted to ask: ‘Where the hell is God?’ - the title of his book.
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02-Apr-2011
John 9:1-41
As Jesus walked along, he saw a man blind from birth. 2His disciples asked him, ‘Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?’ 3
This week's Gospel is brought you by Bulletin Notes, a service to parishes from Church Resources.
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02-Apr-2011
“Who sinned? Who’s to blame for this man’s disability?” people ask today (Jn 9:1-41). It’s about as silly as asking whose sin caused the Queensland floods or the earthquakes in Christchurch and Japan, writes Anthony Fisher, Bishop of Parramatta, in his Lenten Reflection.
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02-Apr-2011
A Hand of Peace: Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust explores the debate over the wartime Pope and his alleged silence during the Nazi Holocaust.
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02-Apr-2011
The scathing assessment of Philadelphia's handling of sex abuse allegations against priests has wider implications for the American church. It exposes inherent weaknesses in the process that deals with allegations against Catholic clerics, reports the NCR Online.
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02-Apr-2011
Australia's treatment of asylum seekers, school funding and social justice received prominent coverage this week. Cardinal Pell launched a new Catholic intellectual journal and the NFP sector was told it needs a stronger voice.
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02-Apr-2011
Violence in Sudan and Pakistan, and the ongoing aftermath of Japan's disaster drew attention over the week. On a brighter note, the legacy of John Paul II has been prominent in the lead-up to his beatification, and the Vatican wants to copyright Pope Benedict's voice.
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02-Apr-2011
One of Canberra's best-loved surgeons, John Buckingham, has died of cancer, aged 63. Renowned throughout Australia for his pioneering work in breast cancer surgery and diagnosis, he was best known in Canberra for his meticulous follow-up care of patients – an aspect of his practice that he said was intimately connected to his Catholic faith.
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02-Apr-2011
This volume is a sequel to Jesus of Nazareth: From the Baptism in the Jordan to the Transfiguration, in which Pope Benedict made clear his principles of biblical interpretation. He was criticised by some for his antiquated biblical scholarship, and somewhat narrow and conventional theological outlook.
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02-Apr-2011
With Christopher Hitchens, it is not a question of Christianity having been tried and found wanting: it has simply never been tried – or understood.
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