Perspectives
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16-Sep-2011
Archbishop Vincent Nichols, the Archbishop of Westminster, spoke on September 12 on Future goals for inter-faith relations. The text of his speech is reported in the Independent Catholic News.
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16-Sep-2011
Matthew 20:1-16
"For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire labourers for his vineyard. After agreeing with the labourers for the usual daily wage, he sent them into his vineyard."
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16-Sep-2011
Anyone who has been cut off from light or, like those Chilean miners, trapped in a dark place, will know the deep hunger that rises within for this most taken-for-granted gift, writes Sr Redempta Twomey in the St Columbans Mission Society journal.
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16-Sep-2011
Sr Nuala Kenny is a medical doctor, ethicist, professor, as well as a co-author of the Winter Report and a contributor to the groundbreaking "From Pain to Hope" guidelines addressing clergy sexual abuse. In this special Witness interview on Salt and Light, Sr Kenny talks about how the Church can begin to heal from the crisis.
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16-Sep-2011
Mythology is not only loads of fun, but often highly profitable. Dan Brown has written a book about the Vatican, which was pure fantasy. Yet mythology is also dangerous, never more so than when it fosters misleading diagnoses of serious problems. We’ve seen two good examples recently, writes John Allen in NCR Online.
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16-Sep-2011
A priest in Victoria questioned the Afghan war, another recalled his desperate flight from Ethiopia. Noel Pearson criticised the impact of social inclusion policy on Aborigines, while young indigenous mentors are having a positive effect at schools (pictured).
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16-Sep-2011
UK judges accused of bias against Christians, Indonesian Muslim students visit the Vatican, a priest in Gaza says conditions are unbearable, and the Russian patriarch urges Rome to end their disupute.
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16-Sep-2011
With the death of the eminent art historian Bernard Smith, a chapter closes in Australian intellectual life. He was a rigorous historian of Australia's cultural development and an astute critic of art and society, and was recognised as the father of Australian art history.
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16-Sep-2011
Trappist monk Thomas Merton wrote in his journal: “I myself am part of the weather and part of the climate and part of the place … It is certainly part of my life of prayer.”
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16-Sep-2011
This is the period in the liturgical year in which the second reading at the Office of Readings comes from St Augustine’s Sermon on the Shepherds. Despite his brilliance, Augustine did produce a few duds.
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