Perspectives
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11-May-2012
The extraordinary life of South African poet Roy Campbell (pictured), who hid St John of the Cross’s letters from Spanish militiamen. By Joseph Pearce in the Catholic Herald.
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11-May-2012
John 15:9-17
Jesus said to his disciples: ‘As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you; abide in my love. 10If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love. 11
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11-May-2012
When I read the headlines that followed the Pell-Dawkins debate on the ABC, I thought I must have watched and listened to a different program! Heat or battle I did not observe. I thought it was rather tame, with two disconnected arguments, writes Clare Condon SGS in The Good Oil.
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11-May-2012
Could you forgive the killer of your child? In the new documentary One Day After Peace, Robi Damelin, a bereaved mother-turned-peace activist, looks for solutions to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict after her son is killed by a sniper.
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11-May-2012
An assembly of the entire church in Ireland took one step closer this week with an overflow meeting that saw more than 1,000 priests, religious and laypeople gather to discuss the future of the church, reports NCR Online.
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11-May-2012
The Australian Personal Ordinariate is to start next month, a surprise award for a NSW country teacher and hundreds gather for a Marian procession in Canberra (pictured).
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11-May-2012
Indonesian officials close three churches, Catholic summer courses to be offered at Oxford, religious statues decaptitated in Peru and the Vatican welcomes a new intake of Swiss Guards (pictured).
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11-May-2012
At 16, she wanted to be an actress like her elder sister, Diana. But parental concerns about that lifestyle meant Sybil Boddington, aged 18, chose a radically different path; she entered the Order of the Sisters of Notre Dame. Fiona Boddington and Clare Barfoot remember her for The Tablet.
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11-May-2012
The excitement... Hilary Mantel has produced a sequel to Wolf Hall, her award-winning blockbuster of a novel centred on the schism in the Church – that King, determined to have his divorce! – and takes us further into a delicious soup of religion, politics and sex. Book groups are aTwitter. Janet Maslin reviews the second instalment of the trilogy for The New York Times.
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11-May-2012
Giving back to the community has been a motto and way of life for John Arthur and it is now something for which he has been formally recognised, reports Kairos Catholic Journal, in a story published on the Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne website.
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