Perspectives
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16-Nov-2012
In 1968 a young Croatian girl, Slavica Turcic, left her homeland with her parents and eight brothers and sisters to start a new life in Australia. Her plan was to stay with her family just long enough to see them established and to save enough money to return to Croatia and fulfil her dream of becoming a nun. But fate would see her stay in Australia where, as a member of the Sisters Adorers of the Blood of Christ, she is helping to brighten the lives of a group of Croatian migrants in the Outback opal town of Coober Pedy. Jenny Brinkworth spoke with this remarkable woman about her work and her own amazing journey, in The Southern Cross.
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16-Nov-2012
Mark 13:24-32
They will see “the Son of Man coming in clouds” with great power and glory. Then he will send out the angels, and gather his elect from the four winds, from the ends of the earth to the ends of heaven.
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16-Nov-2012
We are all powerfully, incurably, and wonderfully sexed, this is part of a conspiracy between God and nature. Sexuality lies right next to our instinct for breathing and it is ever-present in our lives, writes Ron Rolheiser.
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16-Nov-2012
This webshow by Video Volunteers focuses on the group’s recently launched campaign demanding that the Indian government implements Article 17 of the country’s constitution, which criminalizes practices of untouchability. The video is presented by Bollywood actor Purab Kohli and Video Volunteers director Stalin K.
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16-Nov-2012
Andrew Bernhard, an ancient Gospel scholar who studied at Oxford, explains how the "fake” papyrus with evidence of Jesus's wife was forged, reports Vatican Insider.
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16-Nov-2012
Catholic and Jewish students participate in a Kristllnacht ceremony together, former Olympic sprinter Matt Shirvington visits his old school, A Sydney teacher is an inspiration in a radio competition and Archbishop Mark Coleridge (pictured) takes a trip down mmemory lane at the test cricket in Brisbane,
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16-Nov-2012
The Pope calls for more literary Latin lovers, a British man whose wife was murdered on their honeymoon sets up a foundation, French bishops warn against the rise of Catholic Islamophobia and US bishops consider the sainthood cause of Dorothy Day (pictured).
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16-Nov-2012
Henry Herx was a man who reviewed films for a living. But rather than just pass them through the lens of contemporary society, this film buff also applied moral and theological layers to his reviews. This obituary for the man who critiqued more than 11,000 films was filed by Dennis Hevesi for The New York Times.
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16-Nov-2012
People who have has a near death experience and come back to tell the tale generally make the return journey to Heaven rather than Hell. But what happens when a rational, US doctor experience an NDE, and offers his near-death 'odyssey' as proof of an after-life. Reviewer Peter Stanford in The Guardian thinks that for a scientist, this story's heavy on heavenly cliché.
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16-Nov-2012
It would be a mistake to help the Timorese and expect gratitude, says Rita Mary Hayes SGS. They deserve our assistance because of what we have done to them and not done for them, reports Rita Mary Hayes in the bulletin of the National Office for the Participation of Women's Participation.
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