Perspectives
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02-Nov-2012
Twenty three "mothers" attended Vatican II as members of the audience, with no right to speak. It was partly thanks to them that the church now has female theologians and that the male monopoly on theology has ended, reports Vatican Insider.
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02-Nov-2012
Mark 12:28-34
Jesus answered, “Hear, O Israel: the Lord our God, the Lord is one; you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.”
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02-Nov-2012
We live in a time of profound change. That is why faith needs to be intensified. Jesus Christ, yesterday and today, now and forever. This is our personal encounter in faith, writes Denis Hart, the Archbishop of Melbourne
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02-Nov-2012
This documentary video from Salt and Light takes you behind the scenes of the Vatican's three-week gathering that finished last week in Rome.
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02-Nov-2012
Jesuit theologian James Corkery explores the background to and content of one of his favourite documents of Vatican II, Dei Verbum. How did a last-minute intervention from Pope John XXIII prevent the Council’s Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation from becoming a very different document, he asks in Thinking Faith.
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02-Nov-2012
In NSW, a cousin of St Mary macKillop is farewelled in Bathurst, Catholic prison chaplains go on retreat, the Catholic Edcuation Office is called into a TV star's marital dispute, and the Archbishop of Brisbane, Mark Coleridge (pictured), settles into Queensland life.
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02-Nov-2012
The Pope declares faith and hope are the foundation of the migrants' journey, a new Catholic university is slated for Iraq, Belgian Catholic schools to teach Islam and African bishops denounce the Nigerian church attack (pictured) as barbarous.
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02-Nov-2012
Paul Kurtz, who has died aged 86, was an American secular humanist and philosopher who devoted his life to debunking psychics and homoeopathic quacks, mystics, mediums, men of the cloth and other promoters of superstitions and religion; in their place he promoted ‘eupraxophy’ — a science-based alternative that would provide moral and social structure without the need for God. This obituary of the man who challenged religious thinkers for decades appeared in The Telegraph, London.
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02-Nov-2012
Fifty years after the opening of the Second Vatican Council, theologians and other experts have been busy dissecting its meaning and implications. The number emerging recently reached a crescendo, well before the commemorations got underway in Rome last month. Hilmar Pabel looks at one such recent book in The Tablet and concludes that it might be too soon to tell what the upshot of Vatican II is.
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02-Nov-2012
"You'll be back in a month." With his mother's words ringing in his ears, 16-year-old Max Sculley made his way from his Melbourne home to begin his vocation as a De La Salle Brother in Sydney. Some 56 years later, with decades of service to young people, the community and many other ministries, Br Max's mother's initial assessment of his chances of succeeding in religious life were clearly wrong, reports The Catholic Leader.
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