Perspectives
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14-Dec-2012
Krzysztof Zanussi (pictured), a Polish film-maker, professor of cinematic arts and culture, writer, consultant to the Vatican Commission for Cultural Affairs, and a master in the craft for his generation, has exercised a career that spans more than 50 years. He was recently in Melbourne as a guest of the Polish Institute of Cultural Affairs and the Polish Film Festival. Kairos interviewed Professor Zanussi on faith, culture and film, reports the Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne.
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14-Dec-2012
Luke 3:10-18
The crowds, who were gathering to be baptised by John, asked him, “What should we do?” ... “Do not extort money from anyone by threats or false accusation, and be satisfied with your wages.”
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14-Dec-2012
As well as a Royal Commission to attend to criminal matters, I believe that we Catholics need to ritualise our lament as the Prophets of the Old Testament lamented, writes Clare Condon SGS, writes Clare Condon SGS in The Good Oil.
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14-Dec-2012
Fr James Martin offers a reflection on Christmas carols, and says a moving rendition of Good King Wenceslas is a reminder of the centrality of the poor at Christmas time. The featured version is by US girls group The Roches (pictured).
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14-Dec-2012
I received my first Christmas e-card last week. This surprised me on two counts. First, that anyone would be organised enough to send Christmas cards in the first week of December; and second, that sharing the peace and goodwill of the Christmas season had been reduced to the single click of a mouse. More broadly, 21st-century technology has deleted the manger, the shepherds, the angels, the star, the kings and their gifts, writes Monica Dutton in The Good Oil.
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14-Dec-2012
A Queensland priest reflects on his accidental relationship with the Morcombe family, politicians are accused of scare tactics with boat people, the visit of St Xavier's relic labelled a blessing, and the Pontiff is asked to help replace Ricky Ponting (pictured) in the Australian cricket team.
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14-Dec-2012
The Papal Nuncio to the Ivory Coast (pictured) is killed in a car accident, an American Catholic university rebukes its president over an academic freedom dispute, the Protesant-Catholic gap in Northern Ireland narrows, and the Pope venerates the Virgin Mary in an upmarket shopping district of Rome.
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14-Dec-2012
A frequent winner of the American Catholic Press Association award for best regular column, Father John Kavanaugh, SJ, professor of philosophy at St Louis University in St. Louis, was ‘tough-minded, articulate, on point…’ The author of books including Following Christ in a Consumer Society, Faces of Poverty, Faces of Christ, died at the beginning of November, remembered for those and other qualities.
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14-Dec-2012
While Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) is considered the quintessential Renaissance man, and his reputation as an artist, inventor and creative thinker is assured today, it was not always so, as readers will learn from Ross King’s new book, Leonardo and The Last Supper. Rather, Leonardo’s contemporaries saw him as a still emerging figure, with talents unrealised until late in life, writes Sue Smith in America.
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14-Dec-2012
Lord Nicholas Windsor, 42, is the first cousin of Queen Elizabeth II, and a passionate spokesman and champion for the unborn. He was in Melbourne last month to deliver the inaugural March for the Babies oration. The former Anglican (he became a Catholic in 2001) was last year appointed to the Pontifical Academy for Life in Rome, where he now lives. He is also director of the Dignitatis Humanae Institute, which aims to promote pro-life issues. Lord Nicholas spoke to Kairos, in an interview republished by the Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne.
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