Perspectives
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22-Jun-2012
Religious educator Alice Priest writes a letter to her Church to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the opening of the Second Vatican Council, in The Good Oil.
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22-Jun-2012
Luke 1:57-66
Now the time came for Elizabeth to give birth, and she bore a son. 58Her neighbours and relatives heard that the Lord had shown his great mercy to her, and they rejoiced with her. 59On the eighth day they came to circumcise the child, and they were going to name him Zechariah after his father. 60But his mother said, ‘No; he is to be called John.’ 61
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22-Jun-2012
The generosity of religious men and women, especially those who have given up their lives for others, shows us that the meaning of life is to become a loving, caring person, writes Father Brian Gleeson in the Catholic Religious Australia newsletter.
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22-Jun-2012
The four Bishops on the Year of Grace Working Party (Archbishop Coleridge, Archbishop Costelloe, Bishop Putney, Bishop Walker) share their thoughts on the significance of this spiritual journey.
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22-Jun-2012
We may not know much about Carl Anderson, but the American-born director of the Vatican bank is one of the most influential Catholics in the world, reports The Tablet.
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22-Jun-2012
Melbourne priests are honoured by the Pope, a Vinnies dinner raises much-needed funds in the west of Sydney, and Wagga priest Father Bernie Thomas (pictured) celebrates 40 years in the job.
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22-Jun-2012
SSPX predicts delays in Vatican talks due to doctrinal difficulties, the Pope is to meet with cardinals investigating leaked documents, and American nuns (pictured) kick off a nationwide bus tour.
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22-Jun-2012
American Dr Rosalie Bertell joined the Grey Nuns of the Sacred Heart in the 1950s, and found in her religious life the opportunity to serve God around the world through her remarkable talents and insights as an environmental epidemiologist.
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22-Jun-2012
The seismic changes which have been occurring through the Arab world in the past 18 months – governments overthrown in Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, civil unrest in the Gulf, and civil war in Syria – have brought the Islamic world to the brink of, if not, chaos then crisis. Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan (grandson of the founder of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, nephew of a liberal Islamic reformer) looks at how the Middle East is being redefined in this current period.
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22-Jun-2012
“The sick and the poor are always with us, it’s just a matter of responding in one way or another,” says Fra’ Matthew Festing, Prince and Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of St John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes and of Malta, reports the Catholic Weekly.
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