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1. Leprosy survivors look to Mother Marianne's sainthood  

   19-Oct-2012

   Barbara Marks is among the last 17 leprosy patients Hawaii banished to the remote peninsula of Kalaupapa. Over more than 100 years, beginning in 1866, more than 8,000 were separated from their families and taken to this distant point on Molokai, where Mother Marianne Cope (pictured) ministered to the settlement, With the canonisation of Cope tomorrow at the Vatican, and their numbers dwindling, the remaining patients are eager to make sure their stories are recorded and their home preserved, says a Religion News Service story published by The Huffington Post.

    

   
   

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2. What is it you want me to do for you?  

   19-Oct-2012

   

   Mark 10:35-45

   James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came forward to Jesus and said to him, “Teacher, we want you to do for us whatever we ask of you.”

   
   

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3. Vatican II's fresh wind fading  

   19-Oct-2012

   Vatican II was an implicit recognition that the bonds of fear at a personal level — which seemed to authorise capricious exercises of authority, a culture of unworthiness and the celebration of a pattern of conformity — were no way to nurture a free embrace of faith, writes Fr Michael Kelly in Eureka Street.

   
   

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4. Martyred for Christ  

   19-Oct-2012

   
   This Christian Broadcasting Network report features the story of North Korean Kim Eun Jin, who defected to China after her father was killed for being a Christian.

   
   

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5. The first turning point of Vatican II  

   19-Oct-2012

   Those of us at Vatican II who knew Father Ed Heston were much amused that he should be given the job of briefing the English press on the council, for he always had taken great delight in revealing Vatican secrets. As the council commenced, however, there was little he could reveal due to the strict rules on secrecy occasioned by the Vatican’s distrust of the press, writes Robert Nogosek CSC in America.

   
   

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6. Irish missionary dies, Year of Faith Mass, health tribute   

   19-Oct-2012

   The last Irish missionary in Canberra-Goulburn dies, St Mary's Mass starts Year of Faith in Sydney, a health service naming tribute to a Sydney Sister, and a Vatican II e-conference draws 20,000.

   
   

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7. Korean bishops, Chad expulsion, support for Shanghai detainee  

   19-Oct-2012

   The Year of Faith app goes live, Korean bishops make a pre-election plea, Chad expels an Italian bishop over an oil row, the Pope believes Christianity will rekindle in Europe, and global support grows for the detained Shanghai bishop Thaddeus Ma (pictured).

   
   

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8. AA champion one of a kind  

   19-Oct-2012

   Steve Clarke was 48 years sober, a man who helped hundreds of others in their battle with alcohol. In The Australian, historian Ross Fitzgerald remembers a man who really made a difference.

   
   

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9. It must be Vat II ‘spirit’   

   19-Oct-2012

   There has been a lot of written about and spoken of Vatican II recently, as the 50^th anniversary of the opening of the Council has been marked. The Second Vatican Council transformed the lives of Catholics through sweeping reforms -- yet its effect on the daily lives of practicing Catholics has not been fully understood.  Kristen Moulton reviews how religious historian Colleen McDannell managed that task in her book, as she presents new insight into Vatican II by shifting the framework of its analysis: from men to women, from urban to suburban, from theory to practice.

   
   

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10. A Catholic girl in the corporate world  

    19-Oct-2012

    I am an almost-thirty Catholic woman and I have spent my career in the corporate world. I loved my job, at least at the beginning, but as 40-hour weeks became 50, then 60 approaching 70, phrases like ‘free time’ and ‘me time’ became a thing of past, and I began to question my role, not only as a cog in the corporate wheel, but as a Catholic girl in the corporate world, writes Laura McIntosh in the Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne newsletter.
    

    
    

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