Perspectives
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13-Jul-2012
From Fr Andrew Apostoli (pictured), leading founding of the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal, to Fr Anthony Pinizzotto, a forensic psychologist by day and priest by night, and beyond, the Catholic Herald profiles ten priests leading remarkable lives.
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13-Jul-2012
Mark 6:7-13
Jesus called the twelve and began to send them out two by two, and gave them authority over the unclean spirits. 8He ordered them to take nothing for their journey except a staff; no bread, no bag, no money in their belts; 9but to wear sandals and not to put on two tunics. 10
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13-Jul-2012
'Duty of care’ is an expression most would be familiar with; most however, would not be aware of how a woman drinking ginger beer in a Scottish café in 1928 would impact the meaning and reach of that term, writes Michael Sinclair (pictured), in The Good Oil.
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13-Jul-2012
Global Spirit has been dscribed as an “internal travel” series, because the topics and the discussions so often lead to a kind of inner exploration. The opening program in the series, “The Spiritual Quest,” features renowned author Karen Armstrong (pictured) and religious thinker Tenzin Bob Thurman
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13-Jul-2012
The bishops are right. Women religious have changed throughout the world since Vatican II. We have changed in ways that invited us to let go of who we thought we were. Surrendering to the Spirit, we awakened to new understandings that touched our deepest core, writes Nancy Sylvester in America magazine.
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13-Jul-2012
A time capsule is unearthed at a Sydney school, the Catholic schools strike from 50 years ago is remembered in Canberra, Catholic Care to help more children in the Hunter region of NSW, and a court verdict means a Tasmanian church (pictured) incurs stamp duty.
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13-Jul-2012
Pilgrimages to venerate a saintly heart, an elderly Brazilian cardinal is farewelled, Vatileaks labelled a grave crime by Cardinal Burke (pictured), and a Scottish cleric goes on the offensive over same-sex marriage.
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13-Jul-2012
Born during World War II in Havana, Ada Isasi-Díaz seemed destined for a life in the Church. After her arrival in the US as a political refugee in 1960, she joined the Ursulines and completed an undergraduate degree before the order sent her to Peru for three years. But her experience as a Latina effectively changed her views, and turned her into a dissident theologian who retained her hands-on approach to her ministry while she divided academia.
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13-Jul-2012
In this book, historian Brad Gregory identifies the unintended consequences of the Protestant Reformation and traces the way it shaped the modern condition over the course of the following five centuries. The legacies included a hyperpluralism of religious and secular beliefs, an absence of any substantive common good, the triumph of capitalism and its driver, consumerism. The Unintended Reformation, asks what propelled the West into this trajectory of pluralism and polarisation, and finds answers deep in our medieval Christian past.
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13-Jul-2012
Fr Joseph Petratis’ journey as a priest has crossed four continents – from war-torn Europe to Australia, via the United States and South America, reports The Southern Cross.
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