http://www.cathnews.com The Faith Project http://www.cathnews.com http://www.cathnews.com/_sharedimg/img_cathnews_logo_rss.jpg http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss CathNews Tue, 11 Dec 2012 15:13:06 +1100 Tue, 11 Dec 2012 15:13:06 +1100 A Sydney digital creative and father of three, Galvin Scott Davis, has taken the idea that the anonymity of technology encourages bullying and turned it on its head. http://www.cathnews.com/article.aspx?aeid=34518 http://www.cathnews.com/article.aspx?aeid=34518 Tue, 11 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +1100 Holy Hell author Patricia Feenan, the mother of sexual abuse victim Daniel Feenan, writes that friends and associates from the ‘Catholic flock’ wished the family well although support from priests and the Maitland-Newcastle Diocese was lacking until it set up a child protection unit. http://www.cathnews.com/article.aspx?aeid=34519 http://www.cathnews.com/article.aspx?aeid=34519 Tue, 11 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +1100 The man in the red suit is an imposter, writes Fr John Corrigan in the Blog of a Country Priest.   http://www.cathnews.com/article.aspx?aeid=34520 http://www.cathnews.com/article.aspx?aeid=34520 Tue, 11 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +1100 There are patron saints for everything from hats – St Barbara, who was beheaded – to shoes – St Crispin, who was also beheaded, writes Michael McGirr. http://www.cathnews.com/article.aspx?aeid=34521 http://www.cathnews.com/article.aspx?aeid=34521 Tue, 11 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +1100 Sydney Archdiocese’s online youth community xt3 has a contemporary take on a very traditional story. http://www.cathnews.com/article.aspx?aeid=34522 http://www.cathnews.com/article.aspx?aeid=34522 Tue, 11 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +1100 What better way to spend a few hours over the holidays than in the company, not only of Santa Claus himself, but of the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy and the Sandman? http://www.cathnews.com/article.aspx?aeid=34523 http://www.cathnews.com/article.aspx?aeid=34523 Tue, 11 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +1100 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.” (Luke 3:10-18) http://www.cathnews.com/article.aspx?aeid=34524 http://www.cathnews.com/article.aspx?aeid=34524 Tue, 11 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +1100 We are in Advent all through our lives, for we Christians await one who is still to come. Only then shall we be proved right. Until then, however, the world seems to be right, writes Sr Hildegard Ryan, quoting theologian Karl Rahner. http://www.cathnews.com/article.aspx?aeid=34525 http://www.cathnews.com/article.aspx?aeid=34525 Tue, 11 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +1100 Dietrich Bonhoeffer was one of the most outspoken Christian voices raised in opposition against Adolph Hitler and the Nazis during World War II, writes Dr John Frauenfelder. http://www.cathnews.com/article.aspx?aeid=34526 http://www.cathnews.com/article.aspx?aeid=34526 Tue, 11 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +1100 Many people today define themselves as ‘spiritual but not religious’, but is it really that easy, or healthy, to separate spirituality and religion from one another, asks James Martin SJ. http://www.cathnews.com/article.aspx?aeid=34527 http://www.cathnews.com/article.aspx?aeid=34527 Tue, 11 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +1100