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1. Anatomy of a conclave  

   08-Mar-2013

   This special feature from Salt and Light provides a comprehensive insight into all of the facets of the conclave - the role of the Sistine chapel, the cardinal electors, the ballots and voting,the stove and smoke, how long previous conclaves have taken, the Habemus Papam moment, and more. It also contains a photo of every caridnal who will vote, their country and their age, and a video of Benedict's last moments as Pope on February 28.

   
   

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2. There was a man who had two sons  

   08-Mar-2013

   

   Luke 15:1-32
   

   Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming near to listen to him.²And the Pharisees and the scribes were grumbling and saying, ‘This fellow welcomes sinners and eats with them.’ ³So he told them this parable:

    ’There was a man who had two sons.¹²The younger of them said to his father, ‘’Father, give me the share of the property that will belong to me.” So he divided his property between them.¹³A few days later the younger son gathered all he had and travelled to a distant country, and there he squandered his property in dissolute living.¹⁴

   
   

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3. Having more or being more?  

   08-Mar-2013

   I am challenged daily by what our Western world portrays as important in the human endeavour, writes Clare Condon SGS in The Good Oil.

   
   

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4. Demystifying 'The Vatican'  

   08-Mar-2013

   "The Vatican". It is perhaps the most misunderstood term in Catholic vocabulary. Does it mean the buildings where the pope lives? Or perhaps it refers to the people running the day to day operations of the Church? Or does it refer the governmental structure and church hierarchy? This first episode in a series seeks to shed some light on its mystery.

   
   

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5. What the Pope achieved and what he leaves behind  

   08-Mar-2013

   The challenge in choosing Benedict's successor will be to find someone who has the strength and ability to deal with the administrative side of the office of the papacy while retaining at least some of the intellectual flair and imagination of Benedict and his predecessor. There are many who think that either Cardinal Angelo Scola of Milan or Cardinal Marc Ouellet of Quebec could carry these responsibilities well, writes Tracey Rowland on the ABC website. 

   
   

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6. New schools, bushfire support, nurse training  

   08-Mar-2013

   The plan for new Catholic schools in Victoria moves ahead, Archbishop Coleridge focuses on the New Evangelisation, Victorian Catholics maintain their support for survivors of the Black Saturday bushfires, and nursing students are offered cutting-edge training at Notre Dame University.

   
   

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7. Irish bishops, French nun murdered, Cardinal O'Brien fallout  

   08-Mar-2013

   Women deserve bigger role in church, says a key cardinal, Irish bishops are urged to act for censured priests, a French nun is murdered in Madagascar, and Cardinal Keith O'Brien (pictured) faces a Vatican probe.

   
   

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8. Faithful pioneer for women and families  

   08-Mar-2013

   For half a century Dr Evelyn Billings and her husband, Dr John Billings travelled the world teaching and promoting their method of natural fertility regulation in faithfulness to Pope Paul VI’s call to ‘men (and women) of science (and) physicians (to) be obedient to the Lord’s call and to act as faithful interpreters of His plan.’ Her studies on breastfeeding mothers and women approaching menopause made a major contribution to the work. Dr Billings died early last month and is remembered here.  

   
   

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9. Apostolic aggression  

   08-Mar-2013

   A political conservative turned liberal, lifelong Roman Catholic and world-class curmudgeon, Garry Wills has called President Barack Obama a disappointment and Pope Benedict XVI irrelevant — and that was before the pontiff announced his resignation. In his latest book, the former seminarian turned historian goes after priests. Randall Balmer filed this review of his contentious book for The New York Times.

   
   

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10. Antarctic experience on a Jesuit bucket list   

    08-Mar-2013

    I have a ‘bucket list’ of things that I want to do before I die, and one of those was to visit to the South Pole, writes Father Michael Smith SJ in Kairos and republished by the Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne.
    
    

    
    

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