Perspectives
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24-Jun-2011
Modern society is tainted by the high level of intolerance towards people of faith and towards belief, much of it driven by fashionable atheism, says the head of Britain's anti-discrimination watchdog in a wide-ranging interview on the role of religion in modern life, reports the Sunday Telegraph in Britain.
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24-Jun-2011
John 6:51-58
‘I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats of this bread will live forever; and the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.’
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24-Jun-2011
The great feast of Corpus Christi is about more than the Eucharist, because the Eucharist is about more than the Eucharist, writes Michael McKenna, the Bishop of Bathurst.
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24-Jun-2011
In this segment from the film Who Cares About The Saints?, Rev James Martin of America magazine discusses the life of St Peter and how his experiences may speak to our own today. June 29 is the Feast of Saints Peter and Paul.
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24-Jun-2011
In this new era of academic theology, a convention of religion professors this month faced a crucial question: what is the role of the theologian in the church? reports NCR Online.
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24-Jun-2011
A geographically varied agenda: new priest takes over south of Sydney, a fresh parish created near Brisbane, the Social Inclusion Commissioner in SA was criticised over travel claims, and an exhibition of bibles opened in Melbourne.
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24-Jun-2011
Some deep-seated issues underpin this week's menu: Scotland is tackling a new outbreak of sectarian violence in football, Peru's archbishop defended a cardinal's stand against forced sterilisation, and Caritas welcomed a treaty on labour conditions. On a happy note, the relic of St Anthony stolen in America last week was returned.
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24-Jun-2011
Claudio Bravo, a Chilean-born artist whose technically dazzling trompe-l'oeil paintings blended hyperrealism and classical Spanish influences, died earlier this month aged 74, at his home in Morocco.
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24-Jun-2011
The esteemed author John Julius Norwich has had great success with his histories of Norman Sicily, the Byzantine Empire and, most recently, the Mediterranean. But was he up to the task of tackling the religious complexities required for a history of the popes?
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24-Jun-2011
San Francisco voters will be asked to weigh in on what was until now a private family matter: male circumcision. Many believe it's forcing a choice between human rights and religious freedom, writes Rebecca Goldstein in the Washington Post.
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