Perspectives
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24-Aug-2012
Have you heard the one about the Jesuit doing stand-up comedy at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe? With just one performance remaining of his show, Learning to Pray in Front of the Television, Jake Martin SJ tells Thinking Faith what it has been like to take the stage at the world-famous arts festival.
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24-Aug-2012
John 6:60-69
When many of Jesus’ disciples heard his words, they said, ‘This teaching is difficult; who can accept it?’ 61But Jesus, being aware that his disciples were complaining about it, said to them, ‘Does this offend you? 62Then what if you were to see the Son of Man ascending to where he was before? 63It is the spirit that gives life; the flesh is useless.
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24-Aug-2012
Within the Catholic Church, the topic of vocation often focuses on the priesthood and religious life. Marriage, family and single life, or one’s chosen work, tend to be discussed as an afterthought. When I Googled “vocation in the Catholic Church”, my hunch was confirmed, writes Clare Condon SGS in The Good Oil.
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24-Aug-2012
Home of Pro Life was established few years ago by three Catholics who are concerned with street children and those who have no relatives. They have lived in different locations, and now they are settled in Matraman, East Jakarta.
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24-Aug-2012
Of all the organisations that serve America’s poor, few do more good work than the Catholic church: its schools and hospitals provide a lifeline for millions. Yet even taking these virtues into account, the finances of the Catholic church in America are an unholy mess, reports The Economist.
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24-Aug-2012
A new principal for Trinity College in northern NSW, across the border police investigate a blaze in a Gold Coast school, and in Sandringham, Victoria, Sr Patrice Timoney (pictured) wages a battle on behalf of nursing home residents.
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24-Aug-2012
English breakaway group seeks unity with Rome, Nigerian bishops appeal for international help, US Catholics pray for the Vice-Presidential candidates to have a change of heart, and Argentine bishops condemn the euthanasia plan for a patient in a coma.
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24-Aug-2012
One of Cuba's most prominent dissidents has been killed in a car crash that his daughter claims was ‘not an accident.’ Oswaldo Payá, a long-standing critic of the Castro dynasty and the winner of Europe's top human rights prize, died of injuries after his car left the road and hit a tree in Bayamo, Granma province. A fellow Cuban democracy activist Harold Cepero was also killed, while two visiting European politicians – Angel Carromero and Jens Aron Modig – were injured. Details of the crash remain sketchy and contentious. Rosa María Payá, the dissident's daughter, said the vehicle was deliberately rammed. The coverage of his death – and life – begins with an obituary from The Los Angeles Times.
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24-Aug-2012
Anthony Shadid died in February at the age of 43 while reporting the crisis in Syria for The New York Times. His career had taken him recently through North Africa, reporting on the collapse of the Gaddafi regime, and seen him shot by sniper fire. One of the most intelligent, experienced and well-informed journalists covering the Middle East, his writing showed a depth of intellectual inquiry and a scepticism toward conventional wisdom matched by few other correspondents. But in his final book, Shadid takes on a more domestic view to illustrate the broader picture of the Middle East. Patrick Cockburn reviewed his last, plaintive cri de cœur for The New York Times.
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24-Aug-2012
Gerard D’Souza is national coordinator of the Young Christian Workers movement and he is based in the Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne. Originally from Adelaide and now living in Northcote, the 23-year-old has been in this role for the past 15 months. Here, Gerard shares his thoughts with Kairos Catholic Journal on a working life guided by Christian faith and principles.
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