Perspectives
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13-May-2011
She’s extremely media shy, had never been overseas before visiting Rome last year and knew little of Mary MacKillop before “that” miracle. Cancer survivor Kathleen Evans talks about life post-canonisation, with Rebecca DiGirolamo, in Southern Cross.
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13-May-2011
John 10:1-10
‘Very truly, I tell you, anyone who does not enter the sheepfold by the gate but climbs in by another way is a thief and a bandit. 2The one who enters by the gate is the shepherd of the sheep. 3
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13-May-2011
For many years, I've had a bias against Mothers' Day. I'm not against the concept, it's a private grudge. My own mother died 40 years ago and my ignoring of the celebration has been payback for that perceived injustice. But time heals and occasionally makes us wiser, writes Ron Rolheiser.
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13-May-2011
Jesuit Father Patxi Álvarez de los Mozos (pictured), secretary of social justice and ecology for the Society of Jesus, explains the intertwined nature of working for social justice with a connection to ecological issues.
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13-May-2011
It is vital that we remind ourselves of the extent to which the Catholic faith is a force for good in the world. From astronomy to philosophy, Catholics have made an extraordinary contribution to western civilisation, writes Fr Andrew Pinsent in the Catholic Herald.
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13-May-2011
The agenda has been dominated by education news: a push to take NAPLAN tests national, the teacher bonus plan and Qld gives money to kindergartens. In the Northern Territory, a stroke victim has had a miracle survival.
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13-May-2011
A week full of conflict: Filipino bishops clashed with the President over contraception, An Egyptian bishop called for quicker police response to violence, in Mexico a Catholic poet has held the government to account over the drug war bloodshed. In America, pop star Madonna visited an Opus Dei centre.
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13-May-2011
Leo Steinberg, one of the most brilliant and original art historians of his generation, has died aged 90. His best-known and most intriguing work was about the sexuality of Christ in Renaissance art, and he also wrote a book about da Vinci's Last Supper.
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13-May-2011
The English writer GK Chesterton became a Catholic only at the age of 48, and proceeded to wrestle the universe inside out. He saw the big question for Christians as: "How can we contrive to be at once astonished at the world and yet at home in it?"
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13-May-2011
Christianity in Australia ought to be distinguished by a certain vulnerability, because it relies on the health and charity of local communities of disciples and not the largesse of the state, writes the ABC's Scott Stephens.
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