Perspectives
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16-Dec-2011
Archbishop Philip Wilson's fascination with history has had a strong impact on his thinking. “One of the things that strikes me is that the world is concurrently beautiful and frightening - human nature can be both good and bad,” he says in an interview with Southern Cross.
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16-Dec-2011
Luke 1:26-38
In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a town in Galilee called Nazareth, 27to a virgin engaged to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David. The virgin’s name was Mary. 28And he came to her and said, ‘Greetings, favoured one! The Lord is with you.’ 29But she was much perplexed by his words and pondered what sort of greeting this might be.30
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16-Dec-2011
Advent is an invitation to clear away the clutter in our lives, to make time to stop and pray and welcome God. If we do make the effort to make time, then we will be conscious that in the quiet silence we will find an ever widening welcome which God will fill, writes Denis Hart, the Archbishop of Melbourne.
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16-Dec-2011
Bishop Thomas Dowd is the first Canadian priest with a blog (titled "Waiting in Joyful Hope"). Now an Auxiliary Bishop in Montreal, Bishop Dowd has extended his online ministry to Facebook and Twitter. In this interview, the bishop offers his insights on the Church in the digital age.
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16-Dec-2011
If memory serves, this past year saw electronic books top printed books in the sales figures at Amazon.com. Be that as it may, books - real books - still make wonderful Christmas gifts. Here are some recently published (and read) titles I can recommend with enthusiasm, writes George Weigel in Ethics and Public policy Centre.
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16-Dec-2011
Catholic Community Services helps the elderly living in squalor, a new deacon for Canberra-Goulburn, Cardinal Pell hails a film censorship reversal, and Northern Territory Bishop Hurley (pictured) warns over the growing divide between rich and poor.
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16-Dec-2011
North Korea warns the South over Christmas lights, the Pope will visit Cuba and Mexico before Easter, the SSPX says it cannot accept Rome's response, Archbishop Chaput says Philadelphia has serious problems and the Roman Missal translation is voted the top religious news story of 2011.
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16-Dec-2011
After a mental breakdown, Alcoholics Anonymous was the only organisation Father Con Keogh felt he could turn to. It got him back on his feel and gave him the principle of mutual help for the mentally ill that he used to found the international self-help organisation GROW.
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16-Dec-2011
In 1938, the dying Pope Pius XI broadcast in a trembling voice his conclusion that "anti-Semitism is inadmissible. Spiritually we are all Semites", thereby affirming Catholic objection to the practice of Nazi racism.
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16-Dec-2011
On a recent visit to Australia, Claretian priest Father Peter Puthenkandam cfm (pictured with General Peter Cosgrove) spoke to the Catholic Weekly about his path to priesthood and his ministry in East Timor, in an article published on the Catholic Religious Australia website.
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