Perspectives
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20-Apr-2012
Ilyas Khan, a British merchant banker by training and the owner of the Accrington Stanley soccer team, is also chairman of the prominent British charity Leonard Cheshire Disability - the largest organisation in the world helping people with disabilities. In a revealing interview with the National Catholic Register, Khan explains what drew him to the Catholic Church.
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20-Apr-2012
Luke 24:35-48
Then the disciples told what had happened on the road, and how Jesus had been made known to them in the breaking of the bread. While they were talking about this, Jesus himself stood among them and said to them, ‘Peace be with you.’ 37
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20-Apr-2012
What is it about Benedictine spirituality and history that enables it to be so formative of people’s humanity across time, ecumenical boundaries and cultural divides, asks Carmel Posa SGS, in The Good Oil.
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20-Apr-2012
Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary, Sister Rose's Passion tells the inspirational story of a most unlikely activist who has made the battle against anti-Semitism her life’s work. This must-see documentary chronicles the life story of Sister Rose Thering, a gutsy Dominican nun who had the courage, the toughness, and the passion to resist the status quo.
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20-Apr-2012
Are human beings naturally religious? Should we take religion to be in some way an innate, instinctive, or otherwise inevitable aspect of human life? Or is religion a historically contingent, nonessential aspect of basic human being? These are not questions of merely academic curiosity, writes Christian Smith in First Things.
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20-Apr-2012
Archbishop Coleridge begins his farewell Masses in Canberra, Bishop Bill Wright (pictured)returns to his old church at Stanmore in Sydney, Brisbane mourns the death of Fr Jim Hynes and a new Sunday Missal is launched.
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20-Apr-2012
The British military chaplaincy launches a prayer card, a letter reveals that Joseph Ratzinger, as a younger man, wanted an Italian pope, and Cecil Chaudry, Pakistani pilot and teacher of murdered politician Shahbaz Bhatti (pictured) dies.
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20-Apr-2012
It was a big event at St Mary’s Cathedral; a State funeral presided over by the Cardinal Archbishop of Sydney, Dr George Pell, and a concelebrated, according to writer David Marr, by ‘a squad of bishops’. Given that the deceased was former Deputy Prime Minister Lionel Bowen, a man eulogised for his humility, it might not have been his choice for a requiem. But those who attended doubtless recognised it as not only marking the passing of an extraordinary man, but also the end of an era.
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20-Apr-2012
The historical Jesus – essentially, fundamentally Jewish – provides a challenge for New Testament scholars: moving from Galilean prophet to the Christ of St Paul’s epistles. How to deal with an all but irreconcilable rift between Paul and his gentile followers on the one hand, and, on the other, the Jerusalem ‘church’, on the other Anglican Bishop Tom Wright has a shot at distinguishing the Jesus of history from the Jesus of faith, and writer A N Wilson reviews his effort.
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20-Apr-2012
Helene O’Neill is a woman who wears many hats, all but simultaneously. She is known to some through her involvement in sport on all levels, to others because of her work with fellow cancer survivors, to Newcastle locals as a former City Councillor and to fellow parishioners as an active member. Last year Helene was Education Officer with the Catholic Schools Office. This year she is pioneering a new role, reports Aurora.
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