Perspectives
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28-Sep-2012
Within the Catholic Church there is a community of speakers who seem to enjoy scraping the marble cladding off the the language of Shakespeare and reducing it to brick. This is one Romanist conspiracy that is sadly all too real. Here are 10 examples of Catholic-speak that should be banned, writes Alexander Lucie-Smith in The Catholic Herald.
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28-Sep-2012
Mark 9:38-43, 45, 47-48
John said to Jesus, ‘Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in your name, and we tried to stop him, because he was not following us.’ 39But Jesus said, ‘Do not stop him; for no one who does a deed of power in my name will be able soon afterward to speak evil of me. 40
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28-Sep-2012
Rediscovering the presence of Jesus in the community of which we are a part and especially when we gather for the Eucharist, is another potential source of great fruitfulness in the Year of Grace. The list is endless. All of these examples will lead us to Christ if we approach them with expectant faith, writes Michael Putney, the Bishop of Townsville.
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28-Sep-2012
Leah Darrow, former contestant on America’s Next Top Model, finished her Australian tour two weeks ago, after speaking to a packed house at two Melbourne events. Leah walked out in the middle of a modelling shoot for an international magazine, because she had an encounter with God that would change the direction of her life forever. Watch the interview.
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28-Sep-2012
Bp Emil Wcela makes a case for expanding the diaconate to include women, and outlines his argument in America magazine.
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28-Sep-2012
A new president for the Canon Law Society, in Sydney the veteran catechist for the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine receives an award for her years of service, Cardinal Pell is invited to attend the upcoming Vatican Synod and students in Brisbane (pictured above)spread the word on awareness of human trafficking.
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28-Sep-2012
Argentina cries out for a Papal visit, French bishops challenge their president over same-sex unions, a surge in vocations in Scandinavia, Nigerians see the social benefits of pilgrimages, and a new English bishop makes a plea to the faithful.
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28-Sep-2012
Tim Martin’s life got off to a pretty rocky start. The only child of elderly parents, he spent some time pierced by the thorny breast of a country boarding school, then went on to another where many shone. He didn’t and in the 1970s he was drowning in alcohol and swamped by depression. But Tim managed fought back with courage that should give heart to us all.
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28-Sep-2012
It was the era when just being Catholic was a crime, and just speaking about the Eucharist could get you killed. Ed West reviews a new history of Gloriana’s not-so-glorious England for The Catholic Herald.
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28-Sep-2012
A conversation with Fr Paul Check, executive director of Courage International, Church apostolate for same-sex attraction, in
The Catholic Weekly.
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