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11-Oct-2012
This weekend, CathNews continues our special coverage to mark the 50th anniversary of Vatican II. Tomorrow's edition of CathNews Perspectives will feature a Reflection by Moira Rayner on the window that John XXIII opened in her mind, a feature on the role played Australian Rosemary Goldie, and other related material.
In these special editions, CathNews Perspectives will be delivered on Saturday mornings instead of the regular Friday afternoon timeslot.
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News
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10-Oct-2012
One of the Church’s oldest lay religious orders, the 900-year-old Sovereign Military Order of Malta, has for the first time held an international meeting in Australia, reports The Catholic Weekly.
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11-Oct-2012
Pope Benedict XVI opened the Year of Faith yesterday at a Mass in St Peter’s Square attended by 14 surviving Fathers of the Second Vatican Council, reports the Catholic Herald.
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11-Oct-2012
New evangelisation will never be possible without women who are proud and happy to belong to the Catholic Church, the president of the Belgian bishops' conference told the Synod of Bishops, reports the Catholic News Service.
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10-Oct-2012
Evangelisation is not a project, but the natural "overflow" of an experience of Christ and his church that transforms lives, giving them meaning and joy, the spiritual leader of the Anglican Communion told Pope Benedict XVI and the Synod of Bishops, reports the Catholic News Service.
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10-Oct-2012
"I can at last consign to the reader the long promised little book on the narratives of Jesus' childhood…” These are the opening words to the foreword of the much awaited book which Italian publishing house Rizzoli and the Vatican Publishing House will release in December, reports Vatican Insider.
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09-Oct-2012
The Catholic church needs to use its media and social networks to spread the faith because much of the news media cover the church in a way that "is full of lies," Hungarian Cardinal Peter Erdo of Esztergom-Budapest has told the Synod of Bishops, reports the Catholic News Service.
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09-Oct-2012
A procession of over 400 bishops from around the world will form a key part of the ceremony to open the Church’s Year of Faith on October 11, a day that will also mark the 50th anniversary of the start of the Second Vatican Council, reports the Catholic News Agency.
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09-Oct-2012
The Italian journalist behind the Vatileaks scandal has defended the actions of the Pope's butler, saying he was trying to protect Benedict XVI from "wolves" circling him in the Holy See, according to a report in the UK Telegraph published by the Sydney Morning Herald.
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08-Oct-2012
Catholic efforts to reach out to lapsed members must show them the relevance of faith today, but "must do so without losing its rootedness in the great living faith tradition of the church," US Cardinal Donald Wuerl told the synod at the Vatican, reports the Catholic News Service, while the Pope warned the gathering about lukewarm faith. “Being tepid is the greatest danger for Christians,” he said.
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08-Oct-2012
The Vatican's doctrine head says hope must be maintained for full communion between the Society of St Pius X and the Catholic Church, despite his telling a German radio network that talks with the society are off for now, reports the Catholic News Agency.
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08-Oct-2012
Pope Benedict XVI has named two new Doctors of the Church: the 16th century Spanish priest St John of Avila and the 12th century German nun St Hildegard of Bingen (pictured), reports the Catholic News Agency.
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07-Oct-2012
Pope Benedict XVI's former butler Paolo Gabriele has been found guilty and sentenced to 18 months prison for stealing secret documents from the Vatican, reports the ABC. But Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi told journalists after the verdict that it is "very concrete and very likely" the Pope will pardon Gabriele.
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07-Oct-2012
Many of the impulses of the Second Vatican Council - such as episcopal collegiality and the co-responsibility of the laity - have "only been half-heartedly realised up till now", a senior cardinal has said, reports The Tablet.
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07-Oct-2012
Three Australian bishops are among the hundreds of Bishops and priests from around the world gathering in Rome for the XXIII Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops, on the theme “The New Evangelization for the Transmission of the Christian Faith,” the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference said in a media release.
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04-Oct-2012
Catholic biishops from around the world are convening for a synod to debate how to counter rising secularism on the 50th anniversary of the historic and controversial Second Vatican Council, reports news.com.au.
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11-Oct-2012
A bishop in Mindanao, Philippines, has called on the faithful not to vote for politicians who back mining in next year’s mid-term elections, reports Ucanews.
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10-Oct-2012
American sweet giant Cadburys has forced the Meaningful Chocolate Company, producers of the UK’s first fair trade religious chocolate tree decorations, to redesign its faith-based range after being advised that ‘Advent purple belongs to Cadbury’, reports the Independent Catholic News.
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09-Oct-2012
Moral theologian Father Thomas Berg has praised the work of Shinya Yamanaka (pictured), the winner of this year's Nobel Prize in medicine, for helping to “put human embryonic stem cell research largely out of business,” reports the Catholic News Agency.
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11-Oct-2012
CatholicCare’s program that includes finding jobs for people with mental health problems is expanding its role in Sydney, reports The Catholic Weekly
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09-Oct-2012
Animals around the world received a blessing from priests as part of an annual event which celebrates the feast day of St Francis of Assisi, the patron saint of animals and ecology, reports The Age.
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07-Oct-2012
More than 350 inspired bishops, priests and youth ministers gathered in Campbelltown, in western Sydney, last month for the Australian Catholic Youth Ministry Convention, reports the Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne.
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04-Oct-2012
A leading Church historian in Britain, and former Canon Chancellor of York Minister, is turning Catholic through the Personal Ordinariate on Sunday, reports the Catholic Herald.
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10-Oct-2012
Police have accused the Catholic Church in Victoria of hindering its efforts to investigate child abuse by clergy. The damning assessment of the Catholic Church's conduct is contained in a submission Victoria Police has made to a state parliamentary inquiry into child abuse, reports the ABC.
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10-Oct-2012
Despite revelations of coarsely worded text messages by Peter Slipper, he would be welcomed back as a priest in the TAC, according to Archbishop John Hepworth, reports PerthNow.
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08-Oct-2012
Joseph Fernando (pictured) has been fishing every day since he returned to Sri Lanka 17 days ago. Most of his 45 fellow Sri Lankans who have chosen to leave Australia or Nauru since the new government asylum seeker policy - the vast majority Sinhalese Catholics - are relying on a $3300 Australian government sweetener to help lift them out of the emergency poverty to which many have returned, reports The Australian.
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07-Oct-2012
Perth's recently installed Catholic Archbishop has weighed into the same-sex marriage debate for the first time, saying politicians who attempt to change the law to have it recognised are misusing their power, reports Yahoo7.
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07-Oct-2012
The mother superior of a 1500-year-old monastery in Syria has warned during a visit to Australia that the uprising against Bashar al-Assad has been hijacked by foreign Islamist mercenaries, with strong support from Western countries, reports The Australian.
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09-Oct-2012
Higher education needs a back-to-the future evolution, according to Australian Catholic University vice-chancellor Greg Craven, who says a universities commission could redress problems in universities' "mega-governance", reports The Australian.
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08-Oct-2012
Thousands of children fell victim to violence and abuse in Catholic boarding schools in Switzerland up until the 1970s, according to a recent study, according to an AFP report published by Yahoo7.
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08-Oct-2012
A human forearm touted as ''the most significant Jesuit relic to ever visit Australia'' has arrived in Melbourne as part of a national tour. Safely secured in its own custom-built glass case, what's claimed to be the 506-year-old right forearm of St Francis Xavier will be taken to Catholic churches across the state for the next six days, reports The Age.
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Regulars
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11-Oct-2012
Fifteen years in the South Australian Police Force have exposed Detective Brevet Sergeant Mark Sheehy to at least a dozen sudden infant deaths, leaving him determined to try and make a difference, reports The Southern Cross.
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10-Oct-2012
Sydney teen, Robert Gilmore had learning difficulties and despite his best efforts, he continued to fall behind. Frustrated and embarrassed at not being able to keep up with his peers Robert began to lose interest in school and started skipping classes. "That was last year. Today he is a new person," says his mother, Debra Gilmore, reports The Catholic Archdiocese of Sysdney.
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08-Oct-2012
South Australia’s newest District Court Judge, and North Adelaide parishioner, Paul Slattery, recollects the positive impact a few words of encouragement from a local Catholic priest had on initiating his 35-year-long journey to the Bench, in an interview with The Southern Cross.
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07-Oct-2012
Eight new priests ordained for the Archdiocese of Melbourne: it was a spring blessing on the Church on a cold September day a month ago. But the weather only served to emphasise the warmth of the welcome they received and to highlight the palpable air of joy in St Patrick’s Cathedral as these men offered their lives to God, reports Kairos and published by the Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne.
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11-Oct-2012
This is the Catholic Diocese of the Australian Defence Force, which has been charged with the pastoral care of the uniformed members of Australia's navy, army and air force, their families and of the civilians employed by the Department of Defence.
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10-Oct-2012
On 1 January 2012, the former Melbourne College of Divinity was re-named MCD University of Divinity, officially becming Australia’s first University of Specialisation and the first university to be established in Victoria in over two decades. It also includes a growing online repository of research articles. - www.mcd.edu.au
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09-Oct-2012
Domus Australia is a religious and cultural centre for pilgrims to Rome, providing the opportunity for visitors to Rome to learn more about the history of the Church and the many places of religious significance they should see while in Rome.
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08-Oct-2012
The Sydney Alliance brings together diverse community organisations, unions and religious organisations - including many leading Catholic groups - to advance the common good and achieve a fair, just and sustainable city.
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07-Oct-2012
The International Young Christian Workers is this year celebrating the celebrating of the founding of the first YCW team by Fr Joseph Cardijn in the Brussels suburb of Laeken. - www.joci.org
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10-Oct-2012
This is a Richard Gere film and he dominates it as he has for more than 35 years. He is Robert Miller, 60, one of those (until recently) seemingly unassailable lords of finance. The audience is quickly led into his dilemmas concerning selling his company, a false audit, his borrowing over four hundred million dollars from a colleague who wants it back while the potential buyer of his company avoids meeting him and delays the deal.
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09-Oct-2012
Mental reunites Tony Collette with PJ Hogan, who was the director of Muriel’s Wedding (1994), and they obviously work well together. Hogan wrote and directed this movie, and Collette brings a touch of over-the-top madness to her bizarre style of mothering. In a comedy that is fast-paced and energetic, there is no shortage of colour in the behaviour of both nanny and family.
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11-Oct-2012
As soon as the Second Vatican Council was over the backlash began. Vatican II divided the Catholic hierarchy between reformers who thought the church didn’t go far enough, and traditionalists who believed the reforms it triggered would destroy the church. In Vatican II’s aftermath, discussion of contraception, matrimonial morality, the rights of priests to marry, and the role of women in the church, were shut down by Rome.
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07-Oct-2012
In this first of a two-part series to mark the 50th anniversary of Vatican II, Compass revisits the historic three-year council that changed the Catholic Church, and examines the ongoing repercussions of its reforms. This program aired last night but will be repeated tomorrow at 1.30pm on ABC-TV1.
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11-Oct-2012
Fifty years after Pope John XXIII convened the Second Vatican Council that revolutionised the Catholic church, will the jolly man known as the "Good Pope" be declared a saint of the Roman Catholic Church? Perhaps the better question is: should he be, asks Greg Tobin in an article for the Religion News Service, published by NCR Online.
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10-Oct-2012
Today, October 11, marks the fiftieth anniversary of the opening of Vatican II. The anniversary is being marked by a “Year of Faith.” Unless preliminary indications and predictions are wrong, during the year we will probably see yet another case of the Vatican and its minions rewriting the history of the Church, writes Fr Bill Grimm in Ucanews.
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09-Oct-2012
It was a fundamentally wise move of Pope Benedict XVI to urge the Church to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the start of the Second Vatican Council by returning to, and studying afresh, the actual texts the council approved, writes The Tablet in an editorial.
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08-Oct-2012
“The fact that the butler’s trial is open to the public may strike some as unusual”, wrote Philip Pullella, of Reuters, in The Independent on Sunday. “In fact, such trials in the Vatican’s civil and penal tribunal are routinely public. They just don’t happen very often or attract much attention.” Robert Hawes in The Tablet examines the substance versus theatre of Gabriele's trial.
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07-Oct-2012
The 25th Synod of Bishops began yesterday, this one dedicated to "The New Evangelisation for the Transmission of the Christian Faith." New evangelisation is the apple of Pope Benedict XVI's eye, so the synod, held every couple of years or so since 1967, is being touted by the Vatican, along with the Year of Faith that opens on Thursday, as the biggest happening of the northern autumn, writes John Allen in NCR Online.
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08-Oct-2012
Keep it short, says Fr Roy Shelly of the Loyola Institute of Ministry. Eight minutes, tops, and stay focused on the week's readings; avoid talking about parish news, service trips or the latest March for Life.
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Perspectives
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09-Oct-2012
The 50th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council is also an occasion to revive interreligious relations, stresses Khaled Fouad Allam, one of the greatest experts on Christian-Muslim relations, tells Vatican Insider in an interview.
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