Perspectives
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09-Apr-2011
Tim Lougoon has one of the most challenging youth ministry jobs in Australia. In December last year, he was appointed by Bishop Joe Grech of Sandhurst to lead the diocesan pilgrimage to World Youth Day in Madrid, writes Beth Doherty on the WYD 2011 website.
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09-Apr-2011
John 11:1-45
Now a certain man was ill, Lazarus of Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. 2Mary was the one who anointed the Lord with perfume and wiped his feet with her hair; her brother Lazarus was ill.
This week's Gospel is brought you by Bulletin Notes, a service to parishes from Church Resources.
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09-Apr-2011
The scriptures that are presented for our prayerful reflection on Passion Sunday are a veritable treasure of our faith. They are so extensive and dense that one feels like a little kid (or indeed a big kid) in a chocolate factory, writes Bishop Eugene Hurley, Bishop of Darwin.
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09-Apr-2011
The distinctive sound of Libera has travelled the world in the last few years. The group's albums have topped both mainstream and classical charts in many countries, and their recordings hold their place in top-tens alongside major artists like Bocelli. Here they are singing Sanctus.
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09-Apr-2011
More than one million pilgrims will descend on Rome next month to celebrate the beatification of Pope John Paul II, just six years after his death. But they – and millions of other devotees around the world – know it will still take a miracle for the revered former pontiff to be declared a saint, reports the Independent.
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09-Apr-2011
A special anniversary leads this week's list. Bendigo's Sister Sarah Duggan (pictured) has celebrated 60 years as a Franciscan missionary. In Forbes, central NSW, a volunteer has received a special honour from the Pope for community work. Aged care and hospitals have also been in the news across the nation.
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09-Apr-2011
It was a week where good news balanced the usual diet of violence and conflict. A pro-life news service was launched, the Pope's book hit Number 5 on the New York Times bestseller list, the Church in Britain released a special prayer for the upcoming royal wedding, and a teenage German boy was recognised as blessed by the Pope.
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09-Apr-2011
Renowned theologian and advocate of the poor, Joseph Comblin, died last month. He was once a follower and an adviser to the Brazilian bishop, Dom Hélder Câmara, a defender of human rights and the church’s advocate for the poor.
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09-Apr-2011
Jew, Christian and Muslim alike feel compelled to rewrite its history to sustain their own myths. The enduring conflict provides a terrible story for writer Simon Sebag Montefiore, whose book is reviewed by the renowned historian Anthony Beevor.
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09-Apr-2011
In a blunt lecture this week in the United States, Archbishop Diarmuid Martin of Dublin made the stunning admission that with perhaps "two exceptions", he has "not encountered a real and unconditional admission of guilt and responsibility on the part of priest offenders" in his diocese, writes James Martin SJ.
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