Perspectives
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01-Jun-2012
In the space of a single generation, the deepening dearth of priests will lead to the collapse of the entire structure of parish administration, says Fr Michael Kelly SJ in a speech delivered at St Mary's Church, North Sydney, on May 31, and published in Eureka Street.
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01-Jun-2012
Matthew 28:16-20
Now the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain to which Jesus had directed them. 17When they saw him, they worshipped him; but some doubted. 18And Jesus came and said to them, ‘All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.
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01-Jun-2012
There's a much-quoted line from Leonard Cohen that suggests that the place where we are broken is also the place where our redemption starts: There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in, writes Ron Rolheiser.
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01-Jun-2012
James Martin SJ pays tribute to women religious since Vatican II.
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01-Jun-2012
Beyond the reach of the heavy patriarchal authority of the Catholic hierarchy is a kinder, wiser and more accepting church which needs to step up, writes Will Day in The Sydney Morning Herald.
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01-Jun-2012
A round of farewells for Bishop Pat Power in Canberra-Goulburn, the Catholic guy minstry tour gets under way, the Bishop of Bathurst is saddened by the departure of a parish priest and Brisbane mourns the passing of refugees advocate Sister Mary de Lourdes Jarrett (pictured).
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01-Jun-2012
Lady Gaga's Jakarta concert is cancelled, US bishops join a petition to change the government's nuclear policy, Polish bishops call for an alcohol-free Euro soccer tournament and the Pope's favourite band (pictured) releases a new single.
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01-Jun-2012
In his long life, Bill Staff was a husband, a father, grandfather and a teacher. He was also a talented musician with a passion for Gilbert and Sullivan, and an ardent historian for his local community at Rylestone, north-west of Sydney. But Bill Staff was also a man of faith, one who until he went into the nursing home where he ended his days, claimed he had missed Sunday Mass only once in his life...
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01-Jun-2012
Bloody Mary is dead; Good Queen Bess is the then- Virgin Queen who ascends the throne of England. So how does life change for those left behind? Who will pay the bills for the debts run up by Mary’s supporters? Historian of the Popes and cradle Catholic, Eamon Duffy, picks up the challenge and does the head count (sadly literal, in many cases) of those who found themselves on the wrong side of the reformers’ blade.
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01-Jun-2012
Before dementia entered Judy and Ted Kelso’s life, Judy remembers her husband as an active person and ‘jack of all trades’, who took care of the cooking and housework while she worked, reports the Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne.
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