Perspectives
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07-Oct-2011
American prolife activist Melanie Pritchard was in labor and had just arrived at an Arizona hospital when she convulsed suddenly and her heart stopped beating, writes Peter Baklinski.
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07-Oct-2011
Once more Jesus spoke to them in parables, saying: ’The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who gave a wedding banquet for his son. - Sunday Gospel, Matthew 22:1-14
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07-Oct-2011
Inspired by Seminary Rector Fr Charlie Mayne, I was unwittingly following Cardijn's principles in my desire to set up a Young Catholic Students Group in my first years of teaching at Sacred Heart School in New Town, writes Sr Mary Noonan.
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07-Oct-2011
Ever since the pope officially announced that World Youth Day 2013 would be in Rio de Janeiro, preparations have been in full swing. Now organizers have launched a competition to find the best logo, says Rome Reports.
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07-Oct-2011
A recent article by George Weigel attempts to reconcile Catholic Social Teaching with his free-market opinions by praising Centesimus Annus as a departure from the social patrimony of the Church, but his conclusions clearly contradict the very encyclical he lauds, writes Richard Aleman.
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07-Oct-2011
Melbourne Bishop Tim Costelloe has ordained three new priests for the Divine Word misionaries while Newcastle Bishop Bill Wright says he is appalled by political rhetoric on asylum seekers and an Australian missionary in India plans to walk from Melbourne to Sydney to raise funds.
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07-Oct-2011
Argentina has refused to extradite to France a former army captain convicted of killing two French nuns during the 1970s while the US bishops have reissued their statement on 'Faithful Citizenship' and three Canadian Catholic churches are going for the price of an iTunes song.
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07-Oct-2011
Charles Kingsley Barrett, who has died aged 94, stood alongside CH Dodd as the greatest British New Testament scholar of the 20th century.
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07-Oct-2011
The first edition of Yves Congar’s irrepressible Vraie et fausse réforme dans l’Église appeared in 1950. It remains a seminal work on church reform, a classic of twentieth-century Catholic theology.
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07-Oct-2011
America magazine has launched a campaign to “Save The Altar Girls.” It seems that the practice has barely been in place for five minutes yet already there is a backlash against it.
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