Perspectives
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24-Feb-2012
A British excavation has struck archaeological gold with a discovery that may solve the mystery of where the Queen of Sheba of biblical legend derived her fabled treasures, reports The Observer.
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24-Feb-2012
Mark 1:12-15
And the Spirit immediately drove him out into the wilderness. He was in the wilderness for forty days, tempted by Satan; and he was with the wild beasts; and the angels waited on him.
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24-Feb-2012
In his first Letter, the Apostle Peter unites the Death-Resurrection of Jesus with the mystery or sacrament of baptism, writes the Most Reverend Robert Rabbat, Bishop of the Melkite Catholic Eparchy of Australia and New Zealand.
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24-Feb-2012
Father Greg Boyle is an American Jesuit Priest and the founder and Executive Director of Homeboy Industries, a non-profit that works with former gang members to help transform their lives, create positive communities and "find the person they are really meant to be." In this video he quotes Mother Theresa saying: "The problem in the world is we have just forgotten that we belong to each another."
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24-Feb-2012
Presidential religious lives are, for the most part, rather unremarkable - just like the majority of Americans they represent. As the 2012 presidential race hots up, The Huffington Post examines the faith of eight presidents whose religious lives have troubled and fascinated Americans.
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24-Feb-2012
Soccer fever sweeps Canberra Catholic primary schools, the Prime Minister attends an opening at MacKillop college in the national capital, Caloundra in Queensland gets a new priest and in Sydney, tests are being carried out on the loudness of bells dividing parishioners at a north shore church (pictured).
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24-Feb-2012
The Irish government is talking with the Vatican about sharing an embassy with other countries, the Vatican's property tax could reach $880m, a Catholic sister is stabbed in Congo and singer Susan Boyle (pictured) is helping to fundraise for Lent in Scotland.
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24-Feb-2012
According to her obituarists, very few Australians have made an impression on religious life such as the one Sr Shirley Sedawie made on the international stage. Sr Shirley, formally admitted to the Sisters of Our Lady of Sion in 1946, ‘touched lives from a parish primary school in Ascot Vale to the grandeur of the Vatican, from Cotham Road, Kew, to the Via Dolorosa in Jerusalem, and to the Pontifical Gregorian Institute in Rome.’
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24-Feb-2012
David Hay’s biography of Alister Hardy, founder of the Religious Experience Research Unit, might almost have been entitled, From Plankton to Prayer. This is an attractive portrait of a man – by, it must be noted, a former head of the unit Hardy established – who had both the technical competence and the personal courage to challenge some of the most entrenched prejudices of his, and our, time. If Darwin and Huxley and the intersection of natural selection and religious experience ignite your intellectual lights, read on….
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24-Feb-2012
When Tom Fitzsimon started Prep this year at St Anthony's School in Brisbane (pictured), he continued a family connection with Brisbane Catholic Education that began back in 1973, reports The Catholic Leader.
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