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1. Judge turns to family, music in difficult cases  

   25-Jan-2013

   Matthew D'Emic is a New York state judge whose work in mental health has been widely acknowledged in his country. While outsiders pay tribute to his successes, D'Emic, 59, is very much aware of his losses. Symbolic of these is the suicide of a 24-year-old man whose funeral D'Emic attended and whose story he shared in an essay titled Requiem for Rene: a suicide lament, which he discusses with Sr Camille D'Arienzo in NCR Online.

   
   

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2. Jesus returned to Galilee and a report spread  

   25-Jan-2013

   

   Luke 1:1-4, 4:14-21

   Since many have undertaken to set down an orderly account of the events that have been fulfilled among us, ²just as they were handed on to us by those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and servants of the word, ³I too decided, after investigating everything carefully from the very first, to write an orderly account for you, most excellent Theophilus, ⁴so that you may know the truth concerning the things about which you have been instructed.

   
   

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3. Prayer keeps us outside the Great March  

   25-Jan-2013

   In virtually all of his novels, the Czech writer Milan Kundera, manifests a strong impatience with every kind of ideology, hype, or fad that makes for group-think or crowd-hysteria. He is suspicious of slogans, demonstrations, and marches of all kinds, no matter the cause, writes Ron Rolheiser.

   
   

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4. Discovering an ancient Christian community   

   25-Jan-2013

   
   The 'St Thomas Christians' are believed to be converts of the Apostle Thomas in the first century. Now a Benedictine is on the trail of some surviving texts from that era.

   
   

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5. Would Thomas Merton have used an iPad?  

   25-Jan-2013

   The kinds of questions that Thomas Merton asked from behind the cloistered walls of his Trappist monastery a half-century ago remain profoundly relevant even in today's rapidly changing technological environment, precisely because Merton's thought kept returning to universal and ethical questions and concerns that remain relevant precisely because they concern virtue before utility, writes Carl McColman in The Huffington Post.

   
   

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6. Private schools numbers, inquiry cost, tributes for priest  

   25-Jan-2013

   Private schools reap gains in student numbers at state schools' expense, the Royal Commission is tipped to cost $100 million and tributes pour in for Irish priest Father John McSweeney, pictured, distributing communion in St Mary’s Cathedral, who passed away recently.

   
   

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7. New Vatican TV chief, Berlin restructure, Vietnam leader meets Pope  

   25-Jan-2013

   Revelations about the Holy See's secret London property empire are very old news, says a Vatican spokesman, the Berlin archdiocese undergoes major restructuring, the Vietnamese Communist leader meets the Pope for first time, and a Brazilian priest (pictured) is appointed the new head of Vatican TV.

   
   

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8. Death of a divisive orthodox patriarch  

   25-Jan-2013

   Patriarch Maxim of Bulgaria, who has died aged 98, led his country’s Orthodox Christians for more than 40 years, fighting off efforts to remove him from office following the end of communism.

   
   

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9. Why is there something, not nothing?  

   25-Jan-2013

   Something simple to start off the new year, and to get the brains back into the habit of thought. Freeman Dyson, writing in The New York Review of Books, casts his eye over a new book which lines up the philosophers and asks them to explain what is going on.

   
   

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10. Pastoral role takes Sister back to where it all began   

    25-Jan-2013

    Mercy Sr Mary Clement gave up a life of teaching to take on a pastoral role that took her back to where it all began – her home town, reports The Catholic Weekly.

    
    

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