New Catholic radio program to start in WA

Contents - Mar 2001 - Buy a copy now Editorial: ACU theology: prompt action needed - Peter Westmore New cardinals to continue John Paul II's agenda - AD2000 Report News: The Church Around the World Seminary numbers up in orthodox US dioceses - Michael S. Rose How Archbishop Pell will implement Statement on Women in the Church Elizabeth Anscombe, R.I.P. - Robert P. George ACU theology: how orthodox, how accountable? - Michael Gilchrist Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter ordinations How monastic life can reinvigorate the Church - Fr Peter Knowles OP Cardinal Ratzinger on 'Third Secret' of Fatima What we must teach our children: Archbishop Chaput - Archbishop Charles J. Chaput New Catholic radio program to start in WA The surprise Cardinal: Fr Avery Dulles SJ - Zenit News Service Letters: Euthanasia in S.A. (letter) - Errol P. Duke Letters: Science and Christianity (letter) - Scot Chaston Letters: Enneagram workshop (letter) - Br Con Moloney CFC Letters: Church doctrine? (letter) - Frank Mobbs Letters: Anti-Catholicism (letter) - Frank Bellet Letters: Old liturgical books (letter) - Frank Carleton Letters: Latin (letter) - Karmenu Attard Letters: Supernatural order (letter) - Fr G.H. Duggan SM Letters: Misguided compassion (letter) Letters: G.K. Chesterton (letter) - Nancy McKelson Letters: EWTN tapes (letter) - John Lovegrove Letters: Vocations and orthodoxy (letter) - John Schmid Letters: Third Rite in Toowoomba (letter) - Mark Power Letters: Poem to Our Lady - Marion Craig Letters: Appeal from India (letter) - Kevin L. Fernandes Letters: Catholic education (letter) - Daniel Bryce Letters: Boredom? (letter) - Josephine Landsberg Books: Come To The Father: An Invitation to Share the Catholic Faith, Aidan Nichols OP - Christopher Quinn (reviewer) Books: Streams of Living Water: Autobiography of a Charismatic Leader - Anthony Cappello (reviewer) Books: Why the hopes of the Council Fathers of Vatican II are yet to be realised - Michael Daniel (reviewer) Books: Why I Am A Priest: Thirty Success Stories, ed. Boadt, Hunt - Katie Lindorff (reviewer) Books: The Pange Lingua Hymnal, compiled by Paul Newton - Fr Gregory Pritchard PP (reviewer) Reflection: Liturgy in the true spirit of Vatican II - Ralph McInerny

A new radio talk-back program - titled The Layman's Hour - was launched on 4 February 2001 in Western Australia. Its host, Raymond de Souza, is the founder and director of St Gabriel Communications, which is an educational initiative specialising in promoting Catholic apologetics.

In 1997-98, the Archdiocese of Perth sponsored an experimental broadcast, Sounds Catholic, with Mr de Souza commissioned by Archbishop Hickey to be its producer and to run its "Radio Replies" section.

The Layman's Hour will present reports, interviews and discussions on issues affecting the Catholic community, providing airtime for Catholics to share their news and views on national and international issues. It will also report on the teachings of the Pope and the Archbishop as they are issued, without distortion or misrepresentation.

The program will not avoid controversy, since it aims to address situations giving rise to dissent, confusion and division in the Church, while defending the Catholic position clearly and without compromise.

On the first Sunday of the month, the Cathedral Youth Forum will be broadcast live. Here, young people are able to ask any questions they wish about matters of faith, morals and authority in the Catholic Church.

The Layman's Hour is being aired on Sunday evenings between 8.00pm and 9.00pm by Radio Fremantle (100.1 FM). Raymond de Souza can be contacted on (08) 9202 1300 or email: laymanshour@hotmail.com

Reprinted from AD2000 Vol 14 No 2 (March 2001), p. 12