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19-Sep-2011
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Perspectives
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30-Sep-2011
Vatican Radio was launched by Pope Pius XI and Guglielmo Marconi on 29 September 1929, thus celebrating its 80th anniversary this week.
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30-Sep-2011
Jesus said to them, 'Have you never read in the scriptures: "The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone; this was the Lord's doing, and it is amazing in our eyes? - Sunday Gospel, Matthew 21:33-43
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30-Sep-2011
Being with Christ, with the living God, is one thing: another is that we can only ever believe within the "we". I sometimes say that Saint Paul wrote: "Faith comes from hearing" – not from reading. It needs reading as well, but it comes from hearing, that is to say from the living word, addressed to me by the other, whom I can hear, addressed to me by the Church throughout the ages. - Pope Benedict
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30-Sep-2011
This 42-minute film captures a glimpse of the conflict faced by the Karen people in Myanmar; with tales of suffering related with seemingly stoic resignation by those experiencing it. The US filmakers are appealing to viewers to take action.
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30-Sep-2011
Pope Benedict XVI's four-day visit to Germany highlighted two closely connected challenges for the church: how to re-evangelise traditionally Christian countries in the West, and how to regain a credible voice in modern society, writes John Thavis at CNS.
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30-Sep-2011
Catholic Women's League of Australia president Madge Fahy has confirmed that the League had entered a new era with younger women in leadership roles while a Sydney's Life, Marriage and Family Centre has hit out at plans to market the abortion drug RU486 more widely.
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30-Sep-2011
Vatican official Archbishop Dominique Mamberti has called for a two-state solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict insisting that "if we want peace, courageous decisions have to be made", while Italian sculptor Oliviero Rainaldi has bowed to criticism and will rework his controversial statue of the late Pope John Paul II.
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30-Sep-2011
Wangari Maathai, the Kenyan environmentalist who started out by paying women a few shillings to plant trees and went on to become the first African woman to win a Nobel peace prize, has died of cancer in Nairobi. She was 71.
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30-Sep-2011
The search for good resources is not easy. There is the Catechism of the Catholic Church itself, of course. But using it as a text in a parish is like trying to teach people about baseball with the Baseball Encyclopedia instead of taking them to a game.
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30-Sep-2011
Imagine your editor hands you the first assignment, and it’s a report on the Catholic Church. Pope Benewhatsit has gone to some place to give some speech about God and stuff. What are you to do?
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