Perspectives
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09-Mar-2012
Fr David Neuhaus was born into a Jewish family and yet at an early age he converted to Christianity. Now the Patriarchal Vicar of the Hebrew-speaking Catholic vicariate in Israel, Fr Neuhaus tells Aid to the Church in Need about his spiritual journey.
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09-Mar-2012
John 2:13-25
The Passover of the Jews was near, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 14In the temple he found people selling cattle, sheep, and doves, and the money changers seated at their tables. 15 Making a whip of cords, he drove all of them out of the temple, both the sheep and the cattle. He also poured out the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables. 16
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09-Mar-2012
Most of us would be offended if we were to be described as aggressive. Most would think of aggressive behaviour as the use of power to achieve one’s ends with total disregard for all those involved. However, psychologists tell us that aggression in part of our make-up and plays an important part in the way we relate to others, writes Leslie Tomlinson, the Bishop of Sandhurst.
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09-Mar-2012
Cardinal Levada is the Vatican's Prefect for the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. In this interview in 2010, Cardinal Levada discusses some of the major issues and challenges facing the Church today: the spread of the Catholic faith, the Holy Father’s outreach to the Anglican Communion, the efforts to reach out to Catholics who have not fully accepted the Second Vatican Council, and the delicate work of the dicastery in dealing with sexual abuse.
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09-Mar-2012
Delegates from the Holy See were in Hanoi last week for bilateral meetings with Vietnamese officials. Relations between the Church and the Communist Government have improved in the booming country, but a recent visitor found rampant materialism and limited religious freedom, reports The Tablet.
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09-Mar-2012
A beloved priest is farewelled in Sydney, the head of Qld Cath Education steps down, the ACU defends its handling of a campus redevelopment and Bendigo schoolgirls (pictured) take a stand against violence on International Women's Day.
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09-Mar-2012
The US Congress fights for an Iranian pastor, an Indian publisher apologises over an image of Christ, Malaysians mark 400 years of a local bible, an Irish church pleads for the return of a 900-year-old relic and the church asks Filipino boxer Manny Pacquiao (pictured) to be a reading ambassador.
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09-Mar-2012
The storm clouds were gathering over Europe in September, 1939, as the Vienna Mozart Boys Choir was about to give the final concert of a tour of Australia. But the escalating conflict meant that the ship they were due to take from Perth home to the other side of the world never left port.
Twenty boys, including Walter Hauser, and their concert master, were trapped. But earlier in the tour, Archbishop Daniel Mannix had told the group that if they were ever stuck, he would take care of them. That is how Walter and his fellow choristers found themselves at St Patrick’s Cathedral in Melbourne, and the cathedral had an instant choir.
Distinguished writer Keith Dunstan wrote this obituary for Walter Hauser, his friend and bridge partner for 14 years.
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09-Mar-2012
Among the absurdly self-referential and self-reverential comments made recently about the former head of the International Monetary Fund, Dominic Strauss-Kahn, those by his wife take the biscuit. She compared him to Alfred Dreyfus (pictured, left). Both, according to her, were victims of injustice.
This bêtise confirms, at least, Dreyfus’ hold on the French public memory, more than 100 years after the scandal out of which modern France was born. Dreyfus, an army officer, was accused of espionage, court-martialled and sentenced at a show trial staged by the French army. Now eminent writer Piers Paul Read retells the tale from the Catholic point of view, and David Bell reviews his book for The Guardian.
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09-Mar-2012
This year marks a significant milestone for Good Samaritan Sister, Margaret Keane. It’s the fiftieth anniversary of her profession as a religious sister, reports The Good Oil.
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