Perspectives
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22-Jul-2011
Pompeii has more to offer than dusty ruins filled with plaster casts of people, and one unfortunate puppy, frozen in time. It is also, coincidently, home to the only church in Christendom built by an ex-Satanist, Blessed Bartolo Longo, now on the path to sainthood, reports the Catholic Herald.
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22-Jul-2011
Matthew 13:44-52
Jesus said to the crowds, ‘The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which someone found and hid; then in his joy he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.45
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22-Jul-2011
It is difficult to escape from the drone of external noise, be it the traffic, helicopters and planes, machinery, radios, iPods, televisions or simply constant chatter. But it is our internal noises of anxiety, stress and discomfort that can actually be more disturbing, writes Clare Condon SGS in the Good Oil.
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22-Jul-2011
As the former Archbishop of Hong Kong, Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-kiun continues to be one of the most outspoken defenders of religious freedom in China. Fr Thomas Rosica spoke with Cardinal Zen prior to his retirement, on Salt + Light.
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22-Jul-2011
The executive director of WYD 2011 says he has "seven tonnes of rosaries I have to bail out of customs." With a month to go before half a million young Catholics descend on Madrid, the focus is now on minor problems, the Catholic News Service reports.
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22-Jul-2011
A diverse week: in regional NSW, Catholic teachers were given an update and so, too, were a group of Catholic school parents. Bishop Peter Connors in Ballarat (pictured) marked 50 years of ministry.
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22-Jul-2011
The Pope's brother has written a book about him, Mexican laity have been invited to an exorcism congress, China prepares for another illicit ordination, and New Zeland banned the use of Lucifer as a first name. In the UK, a funding row over a statue of John Henry Newman was settled.
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22-Jul-2011
Gough Whitlam's electoral fortunes took an unexpected turn in Sydney one afternoon in November 1972. Following the initiative of Arthur Rolfe, Archbishop James Carroll said disagreements between political parties over state aid to Catholic schools were unimportant, freeing Catholics to vote for Labor in the approaching election.
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22-Jul-2011
Ordained in 1909, Father Ted McGrath became associated in Sydney with Eileen O’Connor, an invalid who established the order of Our Lady’s Nurses for the Poor. For the next 50 years McGrath experienced unrelenting persecution and John Hosie has fashioned an immensely rewarding and readable biography out of his experience.
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22-Jul-2011
He is brash, outspoken and fearless, energetic, colourful, cultured... indeed, even hard core. Appointed to Philadephia, Archbishop Charles Chaput is set to bring the most revolutionary change to American Catholicism's most traditional major outpost, writes Whispers in the Loggia.
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