News
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26-Nov-2007
Talking Jesus toys, bearded Moses models, and muscle-bound Goliath
figures are part of a range of faith-based action toys being marketed
by a US company.
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26-Nov-2007
Pope Benedict’s second encyclical, on the virtue of hope, will be released on Friday.
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26-Nov-2007
Pope Benedict will not meet the Dalai Lama when he visits Italy next
month, despite earlier reports the two religious leaders had planned a
meeting.
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26-Nov-2007
Pope Benedict has asked the new cardinals he consecrated at the weekend to make work for peace their priority.
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26-Nov-2007
A working group is seeking help youth ministers in its efforts to
compose a vision statement that will help meet the expected surge in
interest after World Youth Day.
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26-Nov-2007
Religious education academic, Dr Richard Rymarz, has looked into the
impact of World Youth Day with a 12 month follow-up of Under 18
Australian participants in the 2005 event in Cologne, Germany.
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26-Nov-2007
World Youth Day 2008 organisers have announced Sydney 2000 Olympics
Cauldron designer Michael Scott-Mitchell as the Set Designer for the
Stations of the Cross production.
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26-Nov-2007
After 150 days in 15 dioceses, the 2007 national Diocesan Journey of
the Cross and Icon has concluded, with the objects now set to embark
upon a gruelling Summer schedule of youth camps and conferences.
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26-Nov-2007
A new CD brings together the music of Jesuit Fr Christopher Willcock and the words of writer and artist Michael Leunig.
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26-Nov-2007
Two Melbourne social justice organisations have published a 52-page booklet to counter arguments to expand nuclear power.
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26-Nov-2007
An international writer on Genetic Modification has applauded the
initiative of Catholic schools in bringing GM case studies into their
curricula.
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26-Nov-2007
Pope Benedict has reached out to AIDS victims saying he feels “spiritually close” to those who suffer from the disease.
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26-Nov-2007
St Vincent de Paul Society National CEO Dr John Falzon has welcomed
Kevin Rudd's decision to address homelessness as one of his
government's top priorities.
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26-Nov-2007
The Australian Catholic Students Association has pledged its loyalty to
Pope Benedict XVI on women's ordination, despite calls for discussion
of the issue by signatories of a recent petition from Australian
Catholics.
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26-Nov-2007
Soon to retire High Court judge Michael Kirby has accused Cardinal
George Pell of making it difficult for people to adopt a more tolerant
attitude to gays.
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26-Nov-2007
Divine intervention could be the secret weapon of Labor’s star recruit Maxine McKew.
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26-Nov-2007
Australia's Catholic Bishops have offered their prayers and
congratulations to Kevin Rudd and the ALP, following the party's
landslde victory in Saturday's Federal Election.
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News - National
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26-Nov-2007
Catholic Social Services Australia and Jesuit Social Services have welcomed the ALP's release of its Social Inclusion Agenda.
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26-Nov-2007
Retired Archbishop Leonard Faulkner of Adelaide, and retired Archbishop
Francis Carroll of Canberra-Goulburn, have both celebrated the 40th
anniversaries of their ordination as bishops during November.
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26-Nov-2007
Brisbane's Catholic Justice and Peace Commission has urged the new
Prime Minister to commit to fresh partnerships with Aboriginal and
Torres Strait Islander Australians, to end "gross Indigenous
disadvantage".
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News - International
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26-Nov-2007
Muslims on the western outskirts of Jakarta have successfully protested
the legality of a Church, forcing its closure and putting a halt to
further religious activity.
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26-Nov-2007
The Vatican sent a high-level delegation to yesterday's one-day peace
conference in Annapolis, Maryland, to help broker peace between Israel
and the Palestinians.
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26-Nov-2007
A Vatican official has sparked headlines by saying Palestinians have
the right to return to their homeland, a controversial issue which has
dogged Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts.
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Religion
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26-Nov-2007
Pope Benedict has reminded the faithful that Christianity’s roots lie
deep in the Old Testament, and that it is not a European export
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26-Nov-2007
In a statement for Monday's International Day of People of People with
Disability, Bishop Max Davis has called for a change in thinking to
counter the assumption that people with a disability are a burden.
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26-Nov-2007
A series of “radically pro-woman” symposiums aimed at helping women to
embrace pregnancy and motherhood is part of the Australian Bishops'
strategy to counter abortion.
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26-Nov-2007
An informal meeting between the Pope and the Dalai Lama could still
take place, despite an announcement earlier this week stating that a
meeting of the two leaders would not occur.
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26-Nov-2007
Pope Benedict has invited a delegation of senior Islamic scholars to
the Vatican, as a positive response to the October letter they sent to
initiate dialogue.
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Regulars
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26-Nov-2007
This year’s Christmas will be a special one for the Simba family, their
first in their new home country of Australia. For the last five years,
they have been living in Kakuma Refugee Camp in northern Kenya. But
hope came in February this year, when the family was granted
humanitarian visas by the Australian government.
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26-Nov-2007
Fr Joseph Nguyen Ngoc Thich of Cai Mon in southern Vietnam has provided
graves for the poor from space made available by rich people relocating
big graves built in the past that occupy much space and were not
arranged efficiently.
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26-Nov-2007
Emily Seebohm, a student at St John Fisher College in Brisbane’s
northern suburbs, is one of the youngest members of the Australian
swimming team. With a warm smile and a bubbly nature, this easy-going
teenager takes her commitments in her stride and brushes off any
suggestion she is any different to her peers.
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26-Nov-2007
Melbourne artist Veronika Dimac recently reached new creative heights
when she was invited by Bishop Joseph Grech to exhibit her work in the
Sacred Heart Cathedral in Bendigo from 3-9 December 2007. Bishop Grech
said the Diocese of Sandhurst’s pastoral vision is that ‘every person
in the diocese be inflamed by the love of God’, and the exhibition is
an innovative way to convey Christ’s love for his people, through the
medium of art.
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26-Nov-2007
Good Shepherd Sister Magdalena Barsan Bilibok, 28, of Romania is
studying in Italy. She participates in a street outreach group in Rome
that befriends exploited women. "The girls get in the car, and when
they come back, most look completely gone, like they don't exist, they
are destroyed by this," said Sr Magdalena.
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26-Nov-2007
When Opera Australia's Jonathan Welch gathered together a group of
homeless people for the Choir of Hard Knocks (ABC TV last night), he
did more than get them singing. I don't know what Jonathan Welch's
religious background is, but he reached out to people discarded by the
rest of society, as Jesus did. - Bishop Pat Power, text of Bowral address
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26-Nov-2007
The debate surrounding the atheist philosopher Antony Flew's alleged
admission of the existence of God has resurfaced with the publication
of his latest work, There is a God.
Juornalist Mark Oppenheimer wrote: "Depending on whom you ask, Antony
Flew is either a true convert whose lifelong intellectual searchings
finally brought him to God or a senescent scholar possibly being
exploited by his associate
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26-Nov-2007
We all nurse the secret dream of glory. Partly this is healthy, a sign
that we are emotionally well. But this is meant to mature so that
eventually we will begin, more and more, to envision ourselves as
standing out, not by talent, looks, muscles, and speed, but by the
depth of our compassion and the quality of our forgiveness.
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26-Nov-2007
If a nation is not governed by reason and by values, but only expresses
the power to do as the government wills, then international
commitments, respect for the rights of smaller nations, and
international aid, would be vacuous rhetoric. Hitler's invasion of Austria and Czechoslovakia would be unexceptionable. - Fr Andrew Hamilton SJ
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26-Nov-2007
Luke 1:26-38 depicts Jesus' steadfast waiting for God's word of peace.
Every day during Advent, we can take time to sit in silence and
solitude, in contemplative prayer, and listen for God. When we do,
oddly enough, we notice once again the violence within us, whatever
keeps us unpeaceful. We are then free to allow God to disarm our hearts
and give us the gift of peace. - Fr John Dear SJ
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