Perspectives
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17-Jun-2011
Pope Benedict XVI recently praised the use of nudity in Michelangelo's masterpiece The Last Judgment, yet scores of believers oppose any nakedness in art as blasphemous or akin to pornography, reports the Religion News Service, in an article published in the Huffington Post.
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17-Jun-2011
John 3:16 - 18
‘For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life. 17
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17-Jun-2011
The Church came to birth amidst the unfolding tensions between the conservative Peter and the liberal, boundary-pushing Paul. Without a liberal component, life petrifies; without a conservative component, the centre doesn’t hold,” writes Patty Fawkner SGS in The Good Oil.
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17-Jun-2011
This online video is a segment from the DVD Who Cares about the Saints?, and contains a brief introduction to the life and times of Thomas Merton.
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17-Jun-2011
Following the recent emergence of another theory about the origins of the Shroud of Turin, the Daily Telegraph in England nominates its top five religious mysteries.
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17-Jun-2011
The Opposition leader went to a church in Nauru, a petrol bomb was thrown into one in Melbourne, and university research examined the fear of God. In Perth, the archdiocese announced a recruitment drive and the archbishop, Barry Hickey (pictured) said he expects to be still doing his job at Christmas.
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17-Jun-2011
The Pope called for an end to prejudice against gypsies, in PNG churches challenged the government over mining, and in Peru a huge Christ is to be unveiled. In America, the Catholic University decided to have single-sex dorms, and a relic of St Anthony, the saint of lost causes, went missing.
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17-Jun-2011
Josephine Hart, the Irish novelist who has died of cancer aged 69, was the author of the bestseller Damage (1990), a savage, shocking novel about passion and betrayal with the now famous line: "Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive."
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17-Jun-2011
The debates on the floor of the second Vatican Council have often been depicted as between "conservatives" and "liberals". Archbishop Agostino Marchetto's book on Vatican II can be read as a serious "conservative" criticism of some 20 years of "liberal" scholarship on the council.
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17-Jun-2011
As the delicate dance between American journalism and the country's Catholic Church continues, the debate could use a moment to pay tribute to one of the divide's greatest bridge-builders of all.
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