Perspectives
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25-May-2012
Religiosity turns out to be the best indicator of civic involvement: it's more accurate than education, age, income, gender or race. Incidentally, religious regular synagogue or church goers are more likely to report themselves as being happier and they also live longer, writes Lord Jonathan Sacks in ABC Online in an article originally published in Standpoint magazine..
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25-May-2012
John 20:19-23
When it was evening on that day, the first day of the week, and the doors of the house where the disciples had met were locked for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said, ‘Peace be with you.’20
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25-May-2012
For all of our good intentions and hard work, we are too platonic, too much trying to have our souls transformed while our bodies sit warm, safe, and uninvolved. The physical elements of nature and our own bodies play too small a role in our efforts to grow spiritually, writes Ron Rolheiser.
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25-May-2012
Archbishop Claudio Maria Celli is the current President of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications. In this new interview, which premiered on the World Day of Social Communications, he shares the pitfalls and promises, the challenges and hopes of the Church's entry into new media.
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25-May-2012
The health mandate debate is not only about religious institutions; it is about the rights of conscience of employers (Catholic or otherwise) whose convictions require them not to include contraceptives, abortion drugs, and sterilisations in the health-insurance coverage they provide their employees, writes George Weigel in Ethics and Public Policy Centre.
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25-May-2012
Wellington in NSW farewells its former mayor, more couples reject church weddings, private schools urge a deferral on the Gonski reforms and a large turnout in Adelaide for the Marian procession.
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25-May-2012
The pope praises American nuns, French Catholics march against their new president, the Vatican makes rulings on Marian apparitions and Mary Kennedy is buried.
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25-May-2012
Sir Roy Shaw was an uncommon man, whose long life saw him in communion with the Catholic Church on at least two different occasions – and then out again. He was an arts administrator and a writer, a man many people admired, and loved. He ended his working life as the drama critic at The Tablet, though by that stage he had ceased his search for God and settled into the agnosticism in which he ended his days. His life was celebrated, fittingly, in The Tablet.
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25-May-2012
Roger Holloway reviews an intriguing book by Roger Scruton (pictured) for The New Statesman, one which attempts what many think might be impossible... understanding our ineffable and mysterious God. The author wonders if this search for the transcendental and not merely the biological might not be beyond the reach of most.
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25-May-2012
Living and working with marginalised people for the past 21 years, Sister Carmel Hanson rsj knows a thing or two about unemployment, homelessness and poverty, reports Catholic Religious Australia.
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