Perspectives
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14-Oct-2011
By the time director-writer Emilio Estevez’s new film The Way opens in the United States next week, he and his lead star, dad Martin Sheen, will have crisscrossed the United States and part of Canada on a bus tour with exclusive screenings in about 30 cities, reports NCR Online.
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14-Oct-2011
Matthew 22:15-21
Then the Pharisees went and plotted to entrap him in what he said.16
So they sent their disciples to him, along with the Herodians, saying, ‘Teacher, we know that you are sincere, and teach the way of God in accordance with truth, and show deference to no one; for you do not regard people with partiality. 17
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14-Oct-2011
Is it not time for the resurgence of true humilitas in the world of business, sport, politics and the Church, asks Clare Condon SGS in The Good Oil.
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14-Oct-2011
Though he lived at the dawn of the 17th century, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio is considered by many to be the first modern painter. Host Jenna Murphy takes a closer look at this complicated revolutionary who inspired admiration and imitation through his sacred art.
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14-Oct-2011
While John Paul II’s canonization proceeds quickly, the cause of his namesake and immediate predecessor, Albino Luciani, initiated nearly eight years ago, still moves sluggishly, its ultimate resolution still in doubt, writes Mo Guernon in America.
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14-Oct-2011
A former MacKillop orhpanage in Melbourne (pictured) has been revamped, a Catholic homeless program won a SA government grant, Newcastle held a healing service for children lost in childbirth, and in Sydney a worshipper is suing a Greek Melkite archbishop.
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14-Oct-2011
The Church in India urges people to have more children, a Christ relic was stolen in a raid in Ireland, a bishop condemned Saudi executions, and in Honduras a bishop (pictured) is running for political office.
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14-Oct-2011
At Fr Christopher Sheehy’s requiem mass, Bishop Geoffrey Robinson confessed that in 1980, after a decade or so at the Matrimonial Tribunal, and emotionally drained by the work, he had recruited the young Fr Sheehy as an assistant. He was clearly in awe of the fact that, more than 30 years later, Sheehy was still there.
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14-Oct-2011
In his new book Charles E. Curran points out that clergy, religious and laity have not yet tapped the potential of our tradition of social teaching to bring about a much-needed conversion of social structures, personal attitudes and the cultural environment.
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14-Oct-2011
While participating in the "Occupy Wall Street" protests in lower Manhattan, I have begun to wonder what would happen if Catholics took this model and applied it to their passion for and grievances with their own church, writes lay theologian Tom Beaudoin.
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