Perspectives
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06-Apr-2012
The Sheen-Estevez family has had its gloss knocked off by a prodigal son but they’re still standing tall, reports The Sydney Morning Herald. Martin Sheen and his eldest son, Emilio Estevez, bonded as never before on The Way, a movie set along El Camino de Santiago in Spain, that opens in Australia on Anzac Day.
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06-Apr-2012
John 20:1-9
Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the tomb. 2So she ran and went to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved, and said to them, ‘They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid him.’3
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06-Apr-2012
When Jesus and His disciples walked through the city of Jerusalem to the place where they were going to celebrate the Last Supper, they walked through rubbish and refuse. Everybody did because that’s what it was like living in those cities in those days, writes the Archbishop of Adelaide, Philip Wilson.
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06-Apr-2012
James Martin, SJ, reflects on his visit to Capernaum and the Sea of Galilee.
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06-Apr-2012
Lenten fasting has been a popular topic of conversation in the lead-up to Easter, in secular as well as religious circles. But does giving something up for six weeks each year really have any spiritual value, or is it just a diet dressed up as a religious practice? Gemma Simmonds CJ explains that the purpose of a restraint of the appetite was an important question even for St Ignatius.
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06-Apr-2012
St Vincent de Paul wins a grant to provide meals for the homeless and marginalised, plans for a new hospital in Bathurst are stalled, and Bishop Geoffrey Jarrett gives his support to Faith on Tap in Brisbane.
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06-Apr-2012
A Vatican-Jewish dialogue calls for moderation, the Bilbao soccer team in Spain is supported by nuns' prayers, the Church welcomes Burma's election results, a Mexican drug czar is jailed for 25 years, and a prominent US bishop warns that the film Hunger Games (pictured) is dangerously prophetic.
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06-Apr-2012
A State funeral in Melbourne marked the final public event in the wonderful life and sad death of AFL icon, Jim Stynes. A champion footballer, youth worker, philanthropist, twice Victorian of the Year, husband, father and son, in his journey through cancer to his death, Stynes became so much more than that. Jim Stynes taught us all a final lesson; according to wife Sam, "Jim's lesson is that life was to be challenged and treasured."
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06-Apr-2012
As a tour guide for the strangest and most controversial book of the bible, the Book of Revelation, renowned professor of religion, Elaine Pagels, seems unruffled by her subject matter. Prof Pagels argues that many have clasped the revelations to their bosoms to justify their actions, but their author, John, "wants to speak to the urgent question that people have asked throughout human history: How long will evil prevail, and when will justice be done?"
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06-Apr-2012
Denise Lacey is manager of the Marriage and Relationship Education Unit at CatholicCare. She speaks to the Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne website about her work.
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