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1. Twin priests inspired by Vietnamese 'boat people'  

   12-Oct-2012

   Australian-born Father Kevin O'Neill, who was elected Superior General of the Missionary Society of St Columban in Los Angeles last month, is not the only member of his family to pursue a priestly or religious vocation. His identical twin brother, Fr Peter O'Neill, is also a Columban priest while the brothers' sibling, Sr Kate O'Neill, is Province Leader for Our Lady of the Missions in the Philippines, reports the Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney.

    

   
   

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2. How to inherit eternal life  

   12-Oct-2012

   As Jesus was setting out on a journey, a man ran up and knelt before him, and asked him, “Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”

   
   

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3. John XXIII dramatically opened a door for me  

   12-Oct-2012

   John XXIII  broke the mould of my strictly Presbyterian Dunedin upbringing by calling Vatican II and by being a good, kind, humble old man. The two are indivisible, writes Moira Rayner.

   
   

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4. The Vatican's Facebook guru  

   12-Oct-2012

   
   As the Vatican synod espouses the power of new media to evangelise, the man featured in the above interview, Monsignor Paul Tighe, grapples daily with its dilemmas and promises, and is trying to harness its potential to communicate about religion in a positive way.

   
   

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5. ‘The biggest meeting in the history of the world’  

   12-Oct-2012

   Today, 50 years after the opening of Vatican II on October 11, 1962, we may still wonder why the council happened when it did. John XXIII consistently maintained that his desire for a council was the product of an inspiration. The idea came to him, he said, “like a flash of heavenly light”, reports The Tablet.
   

   
   

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6. PNG campaign, politician's RBT legacy  

   12-Oct-2012

   Brisbane students raise $1700 for infrastructure in PNG, a search for more pastoral carers, and former NSW politicIan George Paciullo (pictured), who died this week, leaves a legacy of saving lives through his advocacy of random breath testing.

    

   
   

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7. Beatles praised, Pope in Arabic, American study  

   12-Oct-2012

   Fifty years on, the Vatican newspaper praises The Beatles, Christians are excited to hear the Pope's messages in Arabic, Philippine Catholics join the push against a new cybercrime law, and almost one in five Americans has no religious affiliation.

   
   

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8. The man who reassessed the New Testament’s greatest villain  

   12-Oct-2012

   Marvin Meyer, an expert on Gnosticism and ancient texts about Jesus outside the New Testament who challenged the traditional portrayal of Judas Iscariot as the ultimate biblical villain, has died at the age of 64. This obituary of the man who, to some, appeared to rehabilitate Judas appeared in The Telegraph, London.

   
   

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9. The best painter ever in the history of the world?  

   12-Oct-2012

   There are any number of Renaissance masters – da Vinci, Raphael and Michelangelo three of them. But according to the art historian, Bernard Berenson, the greatest of them all was Titian, who brought the Virgin down from the heavens and planted her squarely in northern Italy, showing the world the humanity behind the Biblical figure. An exceptional biography of Titian – the first since 1877 – coincided with an exhibition of new art and poems inspired by the Renaissance master in London. Michael Prodger filed this review for The Guardian.

    

   
   

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10. Rosemary Goldie, a pioneer for Catholic women at the Vatican  

    12-Oct-2012

    Rosemary Goldie was a historic figure for the church in many ways. With her 1966 appointment as undersecretary of the Council for the Laity, she became the first woman to hold a senior management position in the Roman Curia, according to a Catholic News Service report on NCR Online.

    
    

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