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1. 'The city I love is in ruins': Bishop of Aleppo  

   26-Oct-2012

   The Bishop of Sleppo in Syria has painted a grim picture of life for Syrians in the city. As president of Caritas Syria, he said, he co-ordinates emergency relief for tens of thousands of people. “People, many of them Christians, have lost everything. In some areas like Midan they have fled their homes because of the threat of bombs, they have lost their livelihoods, schools, hospitals and other public services do not function. There is chaos," reports The Catholic Herald.

   
   

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2. The blind beggar on the roadside  

   26-Oct-2012

   

   Mark 10:46-52

   As Jesus and his disciples and a large crowd were leaving Jericho, Bartimaeus son of Timaeus, a blind beggar, was sitting by the roadside. ⁴⁷When he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to shout out and say, “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!” ⁴⁸

   
   

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3. Bathurst, the Beatles and the spirit of Vatican II  

   26-Oct-2012

   Over the past month, media stories have focussed on three recent fiftieth anniversaries: the Bathurst 1000 car race, the release of the first Beatles’ record, Love Me Do and the beginning of the Second Vatican Council of the Catholic Church. Indeed, these are three very different events whose influence on contemporary society varies greatly, writes Clare Condon SGS in The Good Oil.

   
   

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4. The Church Alive  

   26-Oct-2012

   
   While delivering a homily in Poland in June, 1979 Pope John Paul II first uttered the words "New Evangelisation." In our time, Pope Benedict XVI has brought this concept to life. Watch the pilot episode on a new documentary series, The Church Alive.

   
   

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5. Up close and personal with Fr James Martin  

   26-Oct-2012

   Jesuit Fr James Martin is one of the most popular and respected contemporary Catholic authors. His award-winning books, numerous magazine articles, blogs and personal presentations invest him with an aura of omnipresence. NCR Online tries to find out what makes him tick.

   
   

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6. School program, Opposition accused, singing priest  

   26-Oct-2012

   A pilot school program is accused of 'denigrating' marriage, the Opposition is playing politics with boat people, says the Edmund Rice Centre, and Fr Rob Galea, the singing priest, returns to Brisbane for a youth festival.

   
   

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7. Syrian mission postponed, EU's Marian history  

   26-Oct-2012

   The Vatican condemns a car bomb attack in Beirut, an elderly Chinese bishop sends a message to the Synod in Rome, the Pope's delegation to Syria is postponed due to violence and the European Union flag (pictured) has a Marian history.

   
   

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8. Dead Sea Scrolls scholar dies  

   26-Oct-2012

   One of the world experts on the Dead Sea scrolls has died in the US… but the life and work of this giant in his field, the source of an ‘authoritative survey on the bearing of the Dead Sea Scrolls on the Bible’, has been remembered by William Yardley in a fascinating obituary in The New York Times.

   
   

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9. As it was in the beginning  

   26-Oct-2012

   Think about it… a minor Jewish sect takes root in the Levant and within a couple of hundred years beats off many rivals to become Rome's state religion. How on earth did that happen? Manda Scott reviews a new book about the religious world at the time of Jesus for The Independent.

   
   

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10. Wartime ministry proved a grace moment  

    26-Oct-2012

    Fr John Healy regards his time as a military chaplain in Afghanistan as a “moment of grace”.
    And instead of experiencing the despondency and despair that can go hand in hand with suffering and death, the 52-year-old priest said that in the darkness of tragedy he found hope and the reassuring presence of God, reports The Catholic Weekly.
    
    

    
    

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