Perspectives
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30-Mar-2012
Bishop Paul Hinder is a 69-year-old Capuchin prelate from Switzerland. He lives in Abu Dhabi, and as the vicar apostolic of Southern Arabia, is responsible for the largest Catholic territory in the world – one covering some three million square kilometres in which there are approximately two million Christians, reports Zenit.
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30-Mar-2012
Mark 14:1 - 15:47
It was two days before the Passover and the festival of Unleavened Bread. The chief priests and the scribes were looking for a way to arrest Jesus by stealth and kill him; 2for they said, “Not during the festival, or there may be a riot among the people.” 3
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30-Mar-2012
As we begin the journey with Christ through Holy Week, Bishop Peter Ingham of Wollongong considers the place of the donkey in the story of the entry into Jerusalem.
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30-Mar-2012
Want to know why Catholics wave palms on Palm Sunday; wash each other’s feet on Holy Thursday; or kiss the cross on Good Friday? Look no further than Busted Halo’s two-minute video that describes the final week of Lent we spend preparing for Easter.
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30-Mar-2012
A university in Philadelphia has asked former Catholics why they left the church, reports NCR Online. The study suggests new ways the church can approach Catholics who are dissatisfied with what the church teaches or how it acts.
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30-Mar-2012
A Melbourne school pilots an anti-bullying program, the restoration of St Mary's in Brisbane has been blessed, a prominent trade union is to pay for Fr Bob Maguire''s outgoings, and the government's school building program is praised in Sydney.
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30-Mar-2012
The British government is urged to cut ties with the abortion industry, Vietnam blocks a Vatican beatification mission, a former English gossip columnist is appointed to a leading church position and in Syria the Orthodox Church says 90% of Christians have been expelled from Homs (pictured).
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30-Mar-2012
Fr Gregory Winterton, who has died in England at the age of 90, was a soldier in World War II but discovered he had a vocation after Anzio and visiting the Shrine of St Francis Assisi. He studied theology at Cambridge, and then took orders in the Anglican Church. To the horror of his family, he converted to Catholicism, and was ordained a priest in 1963. Fr Winterton was Provost of the Oratory in Birmingham for 18 years, and became the longest serving superior since its founder, Cardinal John Henry Newman.
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30-Mar-2012
Abortion, euthanasia, artificial feeding, transplants, stem cell research, the continuing debate around when life begins... these are just some of the subjects covered by Bishop Anthony Fisher in his new book. Using faith and reason, he discusses conscience, relationships and law in relation to the modern-day controversies surrounding those complex questions.
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30-Mar-2012
Football runs deep in the Fosdike family tree. It’s one of the reasons principal Craig Fosdike, father of retired AFL football star Nic Fosdike, chose to head St Joseph’s Memorial School in Norwood, Adelaide, five years ago. But, as Southern Cross reports, it is the suburb’s historic connection to Saint Mary of the Cross MacKillop that has inspired Craig’s spirit.
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