Perspectives
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23-Dec-2011
"There are two things you do not do alone: liturgy and sex." Jesuit Fr Robert Taft is renowned for his wit and humour as well as his world-renowned liturgical scholarship. He reflects on nearly half a century in Rome, in an interview with the Catholic News Service.
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23-Dec-2011
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23-Dec-2011
Luke 2:1-14
In those days a decree went out from Emperor Augustus that all the world should be registered. 2This was the first registration and was taken while Quirinius was governor of Syria. 3All went to their own towns to be registered. 4Joseph also went from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to the city of David called Bethlehem, because he was descended from the house and family of David. 5
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23-Dec-2011
At Christmas five years ago, the nativity crib in St Francis Xavier’s Cathedral in Adelaide was vandalised. Rather than have the statue of Jesus replaced, the Archbishop instructed that the broken pieces be gathered together in a basket, writes Greg O'Kelly, the Bishop of Port Pirie.
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23-Dec-2011
Cardinal Renato Martino, a distinguished Vatican Diplomat, earned a reputation as one of the most vocal prelates on human rights issues. In 2002 he was appointed President of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace. Salt + Light interviewed him prior to his retirement.
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23-Dec-2011
Lord Jonathan Sacks, Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregation of the Commonwealth, met with Pope Benedict last week to discuss interfaith relations and their common concern for the decline of spiritual values within European culture. Vatican Radio interviews Lord Sacks about his meeting with the Pope.
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23-Dec-2011
Qld Catholic schools get a council exemption, an artist walks out of his retrospective in a dispute over censorship and Archbishop Hickey (pictured) calls for religion to return to classrooms.
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23-Dec-2011
The confessional goes green in India, Hong Kong activists urge the release of a detained priest, in East Timor Jesuits have returned a school to the Dili diocese and in Minneapolis, a communion wafer was found to have turned red (pictured) because of a fungus, not a miracle.
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23-Dec-2011
Cardinal John Foley’s voice was known to millions throughout the world as the English language narrator on broadcasts of the pope’s midnight Christmas Mass in St Peter’s Basilica. As president of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications, he expanded the church’s use of the electronic news media.
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23-Dec-2011
Carmelite nun Ruth Burrows only has darkness to show for her 65 years trying to pray. As a young woman, when she prayed, nothing “happened”, and she soon realised it would always be like this.
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23-Dec-2011
In a career spanning more than 35 years as an educator, Kay Herse says there have been many memorable moments. But the ones that stand out are those revolving around the growth and achievement of individual students or school communities coming together during times of celebration or sadness, reports The Good Oil.
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