Perspectives
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04-May-2012
I am driving through the Languedoc region in the southern depths of France, through a taut, spare landscape that the French know as the garrigue after its fragrant vegetation. Crumbling fortresses crown the sharp limestone hills that erupt like blades, an echo of the Pyrenees that rise to my left, writes Michaell Gebicki in The Sydney Morning Herald.
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04-May-2012
John 15:1-8
Jesus said to his disciples: ‘I am the true vine, and my Father is the vine grower. 2He removes every branch in me that bears no fruit. Every branch that bears fruit he prunes to make it bear more fruit. 3You have already been cleansed by the word that I have spoken to you. 4Abide in me as I abide in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit by itself unless it abides in the vine, neither can you unless you abide in me.
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04-May-2012
Does simply remembering somebody or publicly celebrating his life make him alive? And when someone dies, what does happen to that very unique and wonderful energy, vitality, love, colour, and humour that a person embodied during his or her life?
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04-May-2012
Why is religious practice found in almost every culture throughout history? Can religions continue to occupy a place in the secular, Western societies of the 21st century? Do religions need to evolve as globalization brings different cultures closer together? Two religious leaders help viewers comprehend the practice, purpose and symbolism behind religious practice.
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04-May-2012
Vatican Insider interviews Mark von Riedemann, director of Catholic Radio and Television Network and international communications coordinator for Aid to the Church in Need
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04-May-2012
St Pius College in Chatswood has its 75th anniversary, a principal is appointed to a new school near Goulburn, a Geelong couple celebrates 70 years of marriage and a former priest (pictured) becomes a mayor in regional Queensland.
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04-May-2012
The British Prime Minister is accused of ignoring the poor, calls for Desmond Tutu to be banned from a Catholic University, the church in Britain announces a vocation drive and a US Catholic funds manager asks Rupert Murdoch (pictured) to step down as Chairman of News.
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04-May-2012
A convert from a Jewish-Anglican background was inspired to become a Catholic through the faith of her husband's missionary brother. Tim Devlin remembers this outstanding centenarian in The Tablet.
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04-May-2012
No one argues that the scandal of child sexual abuse by priests and religious is not a tremendous stain on the Church. But Mercy-educated Irish writer Marie Keenan (pictured) can help those in the Church understand why it happened. In this book, she offers an analysis of the perpetrators' accounts of how and why they sexually abused minors, engaging the first-person narratives of a group of Roman Catholic clergy in depth and detail. Review by Brid Featherstone in The Tablet.
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04-May-2012
“I’m not very good at being sweet and compassionate and kind, tending to individual people’s wounds,” says Good Samaritan Sister, Catherine Norman. “I’m not bad at that, but I think I’m better at seeing how I can change systems”, reports The Good Oil.
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