Perspectives
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29-Jun-2012
Each week, Fr George Williams, SJ, stands in front of a group of inmates at San Quentin prison in California wearing his priestly garb and collar. In front of him sits a group of up to a dozen men wearing another sort of uniform. The men gather to attend Father Williams’s class called “Introduction to Church Teaching,” reports America magazine.
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29-Jun-2012
Mark 5:21-43
When Jesus had crossed again in the boat to the other side, a great crowd gathered around him; and he was by the sea. 22Then one of the leaders of the synagogue named Jairus came and, when he saw him, fell at his feet 23and begged him repeatedly, ‘My little daughter is at the point of death. Come and lay your hands on her, so that she may be made well, and live.’
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29-Jun-2012
It has taken a long time to create the mess the Church finds itself it in, and it may well take longer to remedy it. But for everyone’s sake, fix it we must. Here are ten tips that might be considered as ways to help make the Church healthier, Father Michael Kelly SJ in CathNews USA.
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29-Jun-2012
Using art and technology, image-maker Alexander Tsiaras shows extraordinary visualisation of human development from conception to birth and beyond.
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29-Jun-2012
Fear is running rampant in the Curia, where the mood has rarely been so miserable. It's as if someone had poked a stick into a beehive. Men wearing purple robes are rushing around, hectically monitoring correspondence. No-one trusts anyone anymore, and some even hesitate to communicate by phone, reports Der Spiegel.
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29-Jun-2012
The passing of Peter Steele, priest and poet, Catholic schools face budget pressure over computers, a Brisbane aged care development, large crowd tipped for a youth ministry conference and Sydney schools participate in a refugee performance event (pictured).
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29-Jun-2012
The Paraguayan leader, a former priest, is ousted in a coup, the Church in Spain may lose its tax perks, an Austrian rebel priest is given an ultimatum and Cafod declares the Rio environment conference a failure.
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29-Jun-2012
Gitta Sereny, the author who has died aged 91, was celebrated for her detailed studies of iniquity, of which she had had unusual experience as a child living in Central Europe between the wars. But despite all she had experienced and learned during her life, she told the newspaper, The Scotsman, in 2000: "I’m very optimistic. About the world. About people. I believe the majority of people are good."
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29-Jun-2012
In The Old Ways, writer and academic Robert Macfarlane offers an elegant and insightful journey along the tracks of antiquity.
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29-Jun-2012
Joining the Good Samaritan Sisters probably seemed, to some, a logical step for Judith Foster SGS. After all, she’d been educated by the sisters throughout her school years and knew them well. But in the early 1960s, the young Judith was contemplating a few vocational options, reports The Good Oil.
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