Perspectives
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03-Jun-2011
The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith keeps an eye on almost everything coming out of the Vatican, reports the Catholic News Service, in an article republished in The Record.
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03-Jun-2011
Matthew 28:16-20 – Ascension
Now the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain to which Jesus had directed them. 17When they saw him, they worshipped him; but some doubted. 18And Jesus came and said to them, ‘All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.
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03-Jun-2011
It is in our human relationships that we come to God, and it is in these relationships that we come to obedience to the Word of God for ourselves, and for one another, writes Clare Condon SGS in The Good Oil.
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03-Jun-2011
To coincide with World Communications Day, the US Today program made a special broadcast from the Vatican, including this feature about how the church is embracing digital and social media to engage with the faithful.
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03-Jun-2011
The energies of Catholic Australians in recent years have been absorbed by contradictory approaches to being faithful. The first is the church’s institutional integrity (requirements of obedience, orthodoxy and conformity); the second is its moral integrity (what should it be doing, for whom and how), writes Chris McGillion in NCR Online.
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03-Jun-2011
A week marked by deaths and sickness. Two retired priests, in Brisbane and Sydney, passed away, a viral epidemic laid low a quarter of the students at an Adelaide Catholic school, and police tried to stop the euthanasia of a 100-year-old man. On a brighter note, tourists are still flocking to the Mary MacKillop centre in Penola (pictured).
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03-Jun-2011
A diverse menu: Malta legalised divorce, the Vatican is studying the impact of outsourcing labor, and spoke out against piracy, while the Pope reiterated the importance of Gregorian chant. In Holland, a modern version of Noah's Ark has been built (pictured).
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03-Jun-2011
Bob Gould's father described himself as a Marxist Catholic. This family background must have shaped Bob's politics but the famous Sydney bookseller gave as much - if not more - credit to the Christian Brothers at St Patrick's, Strathfield, for inculcating in him a critical and social democratic cast of mind.
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03-Jun-2011
Irish theologian Gerry O’Hanlon SJ analyses the current crisis afflicting the Church in Ireland and identifies the frustrations felt by Irish Catholics who feel that their voices are not being heard.
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03-Jun-2011
The problem with TV dramas is that they make rare events appear common and so distort public opinion on key issues. One program implies that a hugely disproportionate number of people with serious illness or injury wish to kill themselves.
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