Perspectives
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15-Feb-2013
Contraception. sexual abuse, same-sex marriage, abortion and women: these are the five key issues awaiting the next Pope, reports the Guardian.
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15-Feb-2013
Luke 4:1-13
Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness, 2where for forty days he was tempted by the devil. He ate nothing at all during those days, and when they were over, he was famished. 3The devil said to him, ‘If you are the Son of God, command this stone to become a loaf of bread.’ 4Jesus answered him, ‘It is written, “One does not live by bread alone.”’
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15-Feb-2013
Regarded as among the most accomplished Catholic theologians of his generation, Benedict XVI was what church historians call a "teaching pope" as opposed to a governor. His passion was invested in his teaching documents, his speeches on foreign trips, his regular catechesis at the Vatican, and the three books on the life of Christ he published. This teaching often struck people as profound and surprisingly free of ideological edge, writes John Allen in NCR Online.
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15-Feb-2013
A new digitisation project aims to preserve the manuscripts contained in the Vatican Library - more than 80,000 in number - and make it available online for wider study, says this video by EMCCorp.
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15-Feb-2013
After a seemingly endless series of scandals, the 85-year-old Pope who so ably enforced doctrine for his predecessor, Pope John Paul II, seemingly came to understand that only a new pope, one with far greater energies than he, could lead a global church and clean house inside the hierarchy at its helm. In the end, he decided he could best serve the church by resigning, a momentous decision with far-reaching implications that are still not fully understood, reports The New York Times.
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15-Feb-2013
The Pope's exit is genuinely historic, says Prime Minister Julia Gillard, it will be his legacy, says former NSW Premier Kristina Keneally, and an ACU academic says he won't be the last Pope to quit. More domestically, the government has been urged to act faster on poker machine legislation.
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15-Feb-2013
Police disarm explosive device found in Madrid cathedral, the Pope decided to resign after Cuba trip, says an advisor,Latin American bishops unite in prayer for Benedict, and Rowan Williams says his resignation could boost ecumenical relations.
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15-Feb-2013
A woman who was both a role model for girls and other women, and passionate about education, has died in Sydney. Her life is a model to many, wrote Angela Shanahan in The Australian.
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15-Feb-2013
Fifty years after the Second Vatican Council, some observers are saying that it is still too early to judge its outcomes. It’s been 550 years since the Council of Trent, so it might be time for a considered view to be formed. Fr John O’Malley SJ has a shot, and is reviewed by Hilmar Pabel in The Tablet.
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15-Feb-2013
Patrick Winter's life has lately had its share of fortuitous coincidences. Thanks to the Catalyst-Clemente program run by the Australian Catholic University in conjunction with Mission Australia, he is now settling down to study after battling alcoholism for most of his adult life, reports The Catholic Leader.
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