Perspectives
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27-Jan-2012
There are many stories from the Vatican that are given too much oxygen. But there are also several that otherwise flew below radar over the past year but were actually fairly important, writes John Allen in NCR Online.
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27-Jan-2012
Mark 1:21-28
They went to Capernaum; and when the Sabbath came, he entered the synagogue and taught. 22They were astounded at his teaching, for he taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes.
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27-Jan-2012
When grace enters, there is no choice - humans must dance. The British poet W.H. Auden wrote those words and, beautiful as they sound, I wish they were true, writes Ron Rolheiser.
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27-Jan-2012
A highly sought after teacher and preacher, Fr Timothy Radcliffe OP led the international Dominican order from 1992-2001. Now residing with the Dominican community at Oxford in England, Fr Radcliffe talks to Salt + Light.
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27-Jan-2012
Opened by Pope John XXIII in October 1962, the Second Vatican Council went to the roots of faith. But how much of that radicalism of the greatest church event of the last century survives today, asks John Wilkins in the Tablet.
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27-Jan-2012
School holiday vandalism rates in Canberra are down, a priest has been re-elected as chancellor of Sunshine coast university, a Brisbane Catholic school will host a forum on bullying and in Sydney, an inner-city priest (pictured) has declared his parish must use top quality coffee.
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27-Jan-2012
US Catholic leaders fight Obama on the proposed contraceptive health plan cover, a Franciscan sister writes a letter from Nigeria, the brain is found to make special decisions over sacred values, and in Britain the Archbishop of Southwark (pictured) questions the government over its same-sex marriage plans.
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27-Jan-2012
Brother Charles Howard, who has died at 87, was the only Australian to be appointed Superior General of the Marist Brothers. As head of St Joseph’s College, Hunters Hill, Sydney, he proved himself a strong consultative leader full of humour, serenity and compassion.
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27-Jan-2012
God and Mammon, medieval power plays, and the role of sheer firepower in carrying the faith to Asia in the 15th century. Holy War is a great tale.
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27-Jan-2012
Many concerns weigh on the minds of two Sisters from a tiny, endangered religious order in Iraq currently studying at Brisbane's Australian Catholic University (ACU), reports the Catholic Leader.
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