Perspectives
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06-Aug-2011
The residents of a small village in suburban Bangalore, India were ecstatic when the ambulance from the Sumanahalli Society arrived. Their beloved Sister Jean (pictured) was back, reports NCR Online.
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06-Aug-2011
Matthew 14:22-33
Immediately Jesus made the disciples get into the boat and go on ahead to the other side, while he dismissed the crowds. 23 And after he had dismissed the crowds, he went up the mountain by himself to pray.
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06-Aug-2011
World Youth Day helps young people begin to understand we are not on our own, writes Bishop Peter Ingham of Wollongong.
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05-Aug-2011
Robert Fitzgerald speaks at a Social Policy Connections public policy forum on Advancing Human Wellbeing in a changing society.
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05-Aug-2011
In a bindery outside Vicenza, Italy, the new altar missals are picked off a conveyor belt, checked carefully and placed on a stack. They are meant to be beautiful, but also fantastically sturdy: they will be used by priests every day and are expected to last decades, reports the Catholic Herald.
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06-Aug-2011
A new school is to open in Bendigo, one was delayed in Canberra due to moths, unrest over a merger between two in Lismore, and ACU will launch a new degree to help developing countries. In other news, the church is trying to heal a rift over a gas project in Broome (pictured).
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06-Aug-2011
In England a crypt linked to Shakespeare was opened, British Catholic charities are fighting government cuts, a car bomb at an Iraqi church left 15 injured, and Cardinal Burke (pictured) said religion 'purified' politics. In America, women religious have begun reviewing thier future.
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05-Aug-2011
Mao’s China was full of propaganda; the Chinese spin doctors claimed it was the first civilisation to have no gambling, no prostitution and to have eliminated many of the diseases that have plagued humanity since before history was recorded. Father Luis Ruiz found and cared for lepers and later, HIV sufferers in southern China.
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05-Aug-2011
Garry Wills, a bestselling author of several books on religion and on American history, challenges many of the dominant views erroneously held about St Augustine's classic fourth-century text the Confessions.
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05-Aug-2011
The ancient Jewish idea of the sinner being in debt and enslaved to debt also still works for us in today's debt-laden economy, writes Sidney Callahan in America magazine.
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