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1 - Feb 2016 - Nostra Aetate: Jewish rabbis’ historic reappraisal of Christianity, AD2000 Report
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As orthodox Jews believe they must never use the word God they often abbreviate it to G-d which is how it appears in the statement the text of which is republished below: After nearly two millennia of mutual hostility and alienation we Orthodox Rabbis who lead communities institutions and seminaries in Israel the United States and Europe recognise the historic opportunity now before us.
2 - Feb 2016 - Marriage: Pope Francis confirms no change to annulment rules, AD2000 Report
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Both the family and the Church assist in accompanying the human person until the end of their existence he said noting that they do this certainly with the teachings that they transmit but also with their very nature as communities of love and life.
3 - Dec 2015 - Ordinariate Missal: "Divine Worship: The Missal" preserves Anglican patrimony, Fr James Bradley
Internal because it establishes the true identity of the communities of the personal ordinariates and external because it places these structures in their appropriate context in the wider Church and offers the distinctive Anglican liturgical patrimony as a treasure to be shared (AC III).
4 - Dec 2015 - China: New clampdown on believers in China, Bernardo Cervellera
Many Christians interviewed by AsiaNews fear that this will only further plunge the life of communities into darkness as they struggle against a swelling tide of increasingly severe restrictions.
5 - Dec 2015 - Germany: Pope Francis deplores decline of Catholicism in Germany, AD2000 Report
The valuable help of lay Christians in the communities of life especially where vocations are missing is not a replacement of the priestly ministry.
6 - Dec 2015 - Genocide: US religious leaders condemn ISIS genocide against Christians, Nahal Toosi
They include evidence of ISIS assassinations of Church leaders; mass murders; torture; kidnapping for ransom in the Christian communities of Iraq and Syria; its sexual enslavement and systematic rape of Christian girls and women; its practices of forcible conversions to Islam; its destruction of churches monasteries cemeteries and Christian artefacts; and its theft of lands and wealth from Christian clergy and laity alike.
7 - Dec 2015 - Apostolic voyage: Pope Francis supports Catholic church during Africa visit, AD2000 Report
One highlight of Pope Francis visit to the Central African Republic was his visit to a mosque in Bangui the capital city following years of fighting between Christian and Muslim militias His presence in the district was meant to show that the bounds of brotherhood between communities remain possible despite all the bloodshed.
8 - Nov 2015 - Synod: Synod reaffirms Church teaching on sexuality, marriage and the family, AD2000 Report
Rejected To those who have divorced and remarried without annulment of the first marriage the Synod rejected a proposal from the German bishops to admit them to Holy Communion but said they need to be more integrated in the Christian communities in different ways as possible avoiding any chance of scandal.
9 - Oct 2015 - Reflection: Fruit of the Garden, Anne Lastman
1-6) The evolution of human beings from very primitive type hominid is generally accepted by all communities except perhaps those whose view of creation is that it everything was created just as it is now.
10 - Oct 2015 - Russia: Church and State in contemporary Russia, Fr Lawrence Cross
Indeed we Russian Byzantine Catholics count him as the inspiring spirit of the Russian Catholic movement finally led by Exarch Leonid Feodorov Fr Abrikosov and their martyred communities.
11 - Oct 2015 - APREL: Wake up the world - Religious Life back on the map, Anne Reeves
While not all speakers were Religious some of the communities represented were the Conventual Sisters of St Dominic the Friars of St Francis and the Confraternity of Christ the Priest.
12 - Oct 2015 - Pastoral visit: Pope Francis’ subtle challenge to Barack Obama, AD2000 Report
Mr President together with their fellow citizens American Catholics are committed to building a society which is truly tolerant and inclusive to safeguarding the rights of individuals and communities and to rejecting every form of unjust discrimination.
13 - Sep 2015 - Refugees: Give priority to Syria’s persecuted Christians: Archbishop Fisher
On a practical level I commit the welfare agencies parishes religious communities and families of the Archdiocese of Sydney to responding generously to assisting any such refugees whom the Commonwealth allows to come to Sydney.
14 - Aug 2015 - Letters: Help Myanmar flood victims, Brother Michael Lynch
The Salesians have ten communities in Myanmar five of which are in relatively remote areas.
15 - Aug 2015 - 5: Greek Orthodox Church’s Encyclical on marriage, AD2000 Report
The encyclical while obviously addressed principally to members of the Orthodox Church is addressed to clergy and the administrative committees of parish communities of the archdiocese.
16 - Aug 2015 - Pope Francis’ rallying call for the poor
This system is by now intolerable: farmworkers find it intolerable labourers find it intolerable communities find it intolerable peoples find it intolerable The earth itself our sister Mother Earth as Saint Francis would say also finds it intolerable.
17 - May 2015 - The situation of Catholics in China is worsening, Lina Chan
This has caused the Catholics in China to split into so-called Official Church and Underground Church communities.
18 - May 2015 - Centenary: Armenian genocide must not be forgotten, Pope Francis
On this anniversary I feel a great closeness to your people and I wish to unite myself spiritually to the prayers which rise up from your hearts your families and your communities.
19 - Feb 2015 - Books: AUSTRALIANS AND THE CHRISTIAN GOD: An historical study, by Hugh Jackson, Michael E. Daniel
Interestingly in recent decades there have been religious revivals in some indigenous communities.
20 - Feb 2015 - Brisbane: powerhouse of Catholic young adult ministry, Br Barry Coldrey
In 2014 they had four houses or communities and sixteen men living in faith and brotherhood.
21 - Feb 2015 - Martyrdom: Would I have had their courage?, Cardinal George Pell
Faith had not vanished from the families and communities which produced so many brave men.
22 - Feb 2015 - Vatican report lays bare problems in US religious life, AD2000 Report
The visitation was ordered in 2008 in response to concerns about the future of these religious congregations and reports of internal problems in some religious communities.
23 - Feb 2015 - News: The Church Around the World
May I suggest that our faith communities are really local neighbourhoods of grace.
24 - Dec 2014 - Separation of church and state: the position outside Australia, Frank Mobbs
Some legitimate communities however voluntarily forgo the right to receive the tax e.
25 - Dec 2014 - Vocations: Young Men of God Retreat for 2014 another success, Br Barry Coldrey
The YMG is a movement closely associated with the Missionaries of Gods Love which arose from the charismatic side of the Australian Catholic Church in 1986 with early members often drawn from the flourishing Disciples of Jesus Covenant Communities.
26 - Dec 2014 - Dissent: New controversy erupts in Toowoomba, Peter Westmore
These statements are both wrong given that Australian society is now made up of many different ethnic communities several of them in the Toowoomba Diocese from India Africa and the Philippines and extremely offensive to priests who have come to serve the people of Australia.
27 - Dec 2014 - News: The Church Around the World
The Catholic faith is spreading rapidly in Africa and the faithful believe that after generations of learning from European missionaries their communities now have something to teach the West.
28 - Dec 2014 - Family Synod: Synod reaffirms Church teaching on marriage and family, AD2000 Report
We warmly thank our pastors lay faithful and communities who accompany couples and families and care for their wounds.
29 - Nov 2014 - Books: HIDDEN PAIN: An Insight into Childhood Sexual Abuse, by Anne R. Lastman, Peter Westmore
This has recently been documented in indigenous communities notably in remote parts of Australia.
30 - Nov 2014 - Youth: Ignite Conference fires up 1,200 young Catholics in Brisbane, Br Barry Coldrey
Challenge The Ignite Conference is not just about personal experience as it challenges young Catholics to take the light out to others many doing so in their schools families workplaces and local communities.
31 - Nov 2014 - News: The Church Around the World
During their trip the bishops said Mass at pilgrimage sites and with Latin Patriarch Fouad Twal and with Palestinian communities.
32 - Nov 2014 - Episcopacy: Bishop Anthony Fisher OP appointed Archbishop of Sydney, AD2000 Report
Sydney is a vibrant growing city with so much potential to be one of the greatest cities and faith communities of the world.
33 - Oct 2014 - The implications of Anglican women bishops, Fr Dwight Longenecker
Jemima Thackray writing in the Daily Telegraph sums up the progressive Anglicans understanding of the churchs mission: Part of me wishes that the liberal wing of the church could just bulldoze right over the evangelicals and Anglo-Catholics who oppose women in leadership offering no concessions and allowing the church to get on with its primary task of caring for the communities it serves.
34 - Oct 2014 - News: The Church Around the World
Madame Mutharika who was guest of honour at the function said the Catholic Church has carried out a lot of crucial development projects in various sectors which have transformed the lives of people and communities across the country.
35 - Oct 2014 - Editorial: Let's help desperate Middle East Christians, Peter Westmore
In close proximity to the war zone there are Muslim countries and communities which can offer safe haven to those fleeing the war and persecution.
36 - Sep 2014 - Students: ACSA Conference: 'an inspiring experience', Br Barry Coldrey
The answer appears to be that they were formed in an underworld of influential Catholic families of the vital networks of strong religious orders (Dominicans Franciscans Capuchins Jesuits) in new congregations such as the Canberra-founded Missionaries of Gods Love in new religious movements such as the Fraternas the Verbum Dei Missionaries or the Disciples of Jesus Covenant Communities.
37 - Sep 2014 - Christian witness in a secular world, Fr Paul Rowse OP
And in another place they say: Forms of government still exist under which even though freedom of religious worship receives constitutional recognition the powers of government are engaged in the effort to deter citizens from the profession of religion and to make life very difficult and dangerous for religious communities (DH 15).
38 - Sep 2014 - News: The Church Around the World
Catholic World News Vatican congress for Ecclesial Movements The Pontifical Council for the Laity will hold its third world congress of ecclesial movements and new communities from November 20-22.
39 - Aug 2014 - Books: NEW OUTPOURINGS OF THE SPIRIT, by Joseph Ratzinger, Pope Benedict XVI, Br Barry Coldrey
Available from Freedom Publishing) This is a compact attractively presented hardback volume which consists of two fundamental texts by Cardinal Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI) which discuss the role of the ecclesial movements and new communities within the Church.
40 - Aug 2014 - Books: RICH IN YEARS: Finding Peace and Purpose in a Long Life, Johann Christoph Arnold, Michael E Daniel
Arnold thus suggests that people should look for ways to support and assist the elderly in their communities particularly those who live alone.
41 - Aug 2014 - Wilcannia-Forbes: An unusual but welcome ordination, Peter Westmore
This is a country diocese which was destined for closure a consequence of the decline in rural communities and of vocations to the priesthood and religious life.
42 - Jul 2014 - Summorum Pontificum: Growth of Latin Mass parishes and chaplaincies in Australia, Michael E. Daniel
Melbourne and Sydney both have Latin mass communities that have existed for several decades.
43 - Jul 2014 - News: The Church Around the World
Unifying the dates of the Easter celebration is felt with particular urgency in North Africa and the Middle East because often churches and Christian communities live together in the same areas but each has a different Easter date depending on whether it follows the Julian or Gregorian calendar.
44 - Jun 2014 - UK Bishop speaks out on secularism's debt to Christianity, CNA REPORT
Based in relativism Secularism indeed has its own theological terms such as equality diversity freedom respect tolerance non-discrimination multiculturalism social cohesion ethnic communities inclusivity quality of life sustainable development and environmentalism he observed.
45 - May 2014 - Priestly Fraternity of St Peter: progress report, Fr Damonn Sypher, FSSP
The Priestly Fraternity of St Peter (FSSP) is one of a growing number of traditional communities which have flourished in recent years.
46 - May 2014 - A new cathedral in the Muslim world
The new structure will be a focal point for the territorys 10 parishes and more than 100 underground communities.
47 - May 2014 - Missionaries of God's Love: Vatican recognition lifts status, Br Barry Coldrey
There is also a mission in Manila in the Philippines where the Missionaries work in squatter settlements to build Christian communities and in 2014 they are launching a new initiative in Flores in Indonesia.
48 - Apr 2014 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
90 ISBN 978-1-58617-852-9 New Outpourings of the Spirit Pope Benedict XVI This book consists of two major texts by Cardinal Ratzinger later Pope Benedict XVI on the ecclesial movements and new communities within the Church since the Second Vatican Council including a dialogue with bishops from all continents.
49 - Apr 2014 - Books: Pope Francis, Our Brother, Our Friend, by Alejandro Bermudez (Editor), Br Barry Coldrey
As religious men both younger and older who lived in Jesuit communities with the future Pontiff they are respectful but not overwhelmed by his range of extraordinary appointments.
50 - Apr 2014 - Ukraine: Bishop Peter Stasiuk: Ukrainian people want peace and justice, Bishop Peter Stasiuk
We can be most effective today if our prayers are for ourselves and our communities in Australia.
51 - Mar 2014 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
90 ISBN 978-1-58617-852-9 New Outpourings of the Spirit Pope Benedict XVI This book consists of two major texts by Cardinal Ratzinger later Pope Benedict XVI on the ecclesial movements and new communities within the Church since the Second Vatican Council including a dialogue with bishops from all continents.
52 - Mar 2014 - Books: THE WORLD OF ST PAUL, by Joseph M. Callewaert, Michael Daniel
He begins with a survey of Jewish communities outside of Judaea early in the first century AD - St Paul himself was born into such a community at Tarsus.
53 - Mar 2014 - Whither religious education in Australian Catholic schools?, Peter Finlayson
Low expectations Because of the often minority of practising Catholic parents and families with low expectations or indifference to the religious aspects of their childrens education in school communities coupled with the comfort zone factor in our (flawed) human nature the home environment cannot be relied on to support a doctrinally-based RE orientation.
54 - Feb 2014 - Reflections: Australia Day: A time for thanks and commitment, Cardinal George Pell
Christians literally came out of the catacombs as the Empire recog-nised the corporate identity of Christ-ian communities and the regular house worship was transferred into the new church buildings which did not follow the form of pagan temples but of the basilica a multi-purpose hall with a raised section at one end.
55 - Feb 2014 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
90 ISBN 978-1-58617-852-9 New Outpourings of the Spirit Pope Benedict XVI This book consists of two major texts by Cardinal Ratzinger later Pope Benedict XVI on the ecclesial movements and new communities within the Church since the Second Vatican Council including a dialogue with bishops from all continents.
56 - Feb 2014 - Books: THE IMITATION OF CHRIST by Thomas a Kempis, Br Barry Coldrey
In response to Gerards preaching some of the men and women he inspired began to gather in small communities in private homes in Deventer to practise more intense spiritual lives based on prayer the sacraments reading the Scriptures and careful living of the Gospel.
57 - Feb 2014 - Letters: Religious freedom, Keiron Long
The Australian Editorial (quot;A grim outlook for Christianity 26/12) was especially diligent in drawing attention to the tragic fate of Christian communities outside Australia.
58 - Feb 2014 - Victorian Inquiry: First report into clerical sex abuse released, Peter Westmore
It quoted the statement by Professor Patrick Parkinson of Sydney University who has worked with the Catholic and Anglican Churches to develop effective methods of protecting children: The reality is that we have come light years on from 1997 when he conducted a study of sexual abuse within church communities.
59 - Dec 2013 - Christifidelis Laici: vocation and mission of the lay faithful (1), Anne Lastman
The apostolate of the laity is most truly fulfilled and understood as an apostolate of like to like not only in the area of marriage and sexuality as expressed in Humanae Vitae but in catechesis beginning in the family friendship circles parish society work recreation in communities and the world.
60 - Nov 2013 - Books: Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood, Prayer and Sex changed a Nation at War, Gabrielle Walsh
The key to their success in the grassroots campaign was prayer in both the Christian and Muslim communities commencing in Monrovia and ultimately motivating women in other countries in Africa and across the world.
61 - Nov 2013 - Youth: Emmanuel Community: youth ministry powerhouse, Br Barry Coldrey
The Church formally welcomes the contributions of these new communities and movements such as Emmanuel which was itself recognised officially in the Archdiocese in 1979 and by the Holy See in 1990.
62 - Nov 2013 - Schools: The future of Catholic education, Archbishop Timothy Costelloe
From a Christians point of view we might say that if God is as we believe he is if God is as Jesus tells us he is then God stands at the heart of everything: God stands at the heart of an individuals life; God stands at the heart of peoples relationships; God stands at the heart of the common lives we share as members of communities; God stands at the heart of our life as a society.
63 - Nov 2013 - Culture: Cardinal Pell: defend religious freedom, Cardinal George Pell
These protect the right of the communities which established these schools to conduct them in accordance with their beliefs and teachings and to ensure that those they employ and enrol will be happy to support the ethos and witness of these schools.
64 - Oct 2013 - Letters: Anti-religious bigotry, Peter Kamsma
Has this party realised that in areas such as healthcare education care of the aged and the most marginalised including the destitute and indigenous communities churches and religious organisations have played a key role in the provision of basic services to Australians?
65 - Oct 2013 - News: The Church Around the World
I wish to reaffirm my closeness in prayer to individuals families and communities who suffer violence and intolerance and I repeat to them the consoling words of Jesus: Take courage I have overcome the world.
66 - Sep 2013 - The Church's crises old and new, Bishop James D. Conley
And the New Evangelisation - the commitment to presenting the Gospel to a technocratic largely post-Christian West has informed the Church and her youth with a kind of enthusiasm missionary zeal creativity and true fidelity that is transforming families parishes university campuses and entire communities.
67 - Sep 2013 - World Youth Day 2013: Pope Francis inspires Rio, Peter Westmore
We cannot keep shut up in parishes in our communities when so many people are waiting for the Gospel he told clergy and religious at a Mass on 27 July.
68 - Sep 2013 - News: The Church Around the World
Benedict XVI allowed for the Ordinariates to be set up with his 2009 apostolic constitution Anglicanorum coetibus which provided for Anglican communities wishing to enter into the Catholic Church.
69 - Aug 2013 - Books: ALIVE IN THE SPIRIT, by Fr Ken Barker MGL, Michael Gilchrist
In his foreword Archbishop Mark Coleridge of Brisbane notes the important role of the Charismatic Renewal following the Second Vatican Council in nurturing new communities that have brought renewed energy to the Church.
70 - Aug 2013 - Sacra Liturgia 2013: Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith: interview on liturgy, Zenit News Service
Cardinal Ranjith: Already the liturgical life of the Orthodox communities the Orthodox churches is very much more indicative of the devotional and mystical dimensions of for example the Eucharist.
71 - Jul 2013 - Letters: Healthy families vital, Brendan Keogh
Chaos results when communities permit a large number of young men to grow up in broken homes without a stable relationship with a male role-model.
72 - Jul 2013 - News: The Church Around the World
The entire Coptic Church the religious communities and the Egyptian people express their utmost joy and delight to Your Holiness Tawadros said.
73 - Jun 2013 - Letters: Liturgical heritage, 'Temple Policeman'
Not only have these visits seen a revived participation among the large communities of Eastern Catholics in Australia but also sparked the interest of many young Latin Catholics who could be seen doing their best to follow the mysteriously foreign liturgies of the East.
74 - Jun 2013 - Letters: Year of Faith, Edward P. Evans
There are some good starting-points like the seven student communities many prestigious schools and universites in Dresden and Leipzig and the internet-apostolate.
75 - May 2013 - Ancient Greek contributions to Western Church music, Christopher Warner
Yet despite the obvious divergence in style and approach a unified Roman empire and the one apostolic Church did assist cross-cultural contributions made between the various Greek Syriac and Latin Christian communities.
76 - May 2013 - Church unity and the Anglican Ordinariate, Archbishop Gerhard Müller
First communities coming into communion are to be fully Catholic both in faith and in the manner in which they participate in the life of the larger Catholic Church in their local dioceses.
77 - Apr 2013 - Reflection: Easter: the centrality of faith in the risen Christ, Fr Dennis Byrnes
It is in the spirit of this faith of the early Christian communities that we relate to one another reach out to those in need and encourage each other by our prayers witness service and brotherhood.
78 - Apr 2013 - Books: FESTA PASCHALIA: A History of Holy Week Liturgy in the Roman Rite, Goddard, Michael Daniel
Goddard notes that there were some significant modifications to the ceremonies however they succeeded in making Holy Week more accessible to parish communities.
79 - Apr 2013 - News: The Church Around the World
I noticed that some communities have a good sense of solidarity helping other people and working to do good and keep the harmony of the society and family.
80 - Mar 2013 - Medieval parish life: influential roles of religious orders, Frank Mobbs
These men formed communities governed according to a set of rules.
81 - Mar 2013 - News: The Church Around The World
Rev Martin Junge said that the creation of a Lutheran ordinariate - similar to the Anglican ordinariates that are already in place - would have serious ecumenical repercussions insofar as it would signal the Vaticans encouragement for Lutherans to leave their Protestant communities.
82 - Dec 2012 - Advent and the Second Coming: a forgotten article of faith, Br Christian Moe FSC
Indeed the earliest Christian communities seem to have been of the view that this would happen in their own generation.
83 - Dec 2012 - Pilgrimage: Crossroads: young people spread the message of life and love, Angela Schumann
We also speak to parish groups to encourage pro-life activism in their communities.
84 - Dec 2012 - Young Men of God 2012 Conference showcases Christian leadership, Br Barry Coldrey
The Missionaries emerged from the charismatic Disciples of Jesus Covenant Communities and since 1986 have experienced steady growth and established a presence throughout Australia as well as in Papua New Guinea Indonesia and the Philippines.
85 - Dec 2012 - Sectarianism: Dignitatis Humanae Institute: Christian values in public life, Babette Francis
Attention should now turn to other oppressed religious minorities within Pakistan and the wider area in particular the beleaguered Christian communities whose plight was recently highlighted by Lord Alton.
86 - Dec 2012 - Culture: Western crisis is spiritual: Russian Orthodox leader, Metropolitan Hilarion
Christian communities in Syria and other countries of the Middle East are crying for help while the mass media in the West largely ignore their cries and the politicians prefer to close their eyes on this unprecedented wave of persecution.
87 - Nov 2012 - Worldwide religious persecution continues, Cardinal Timothy Dolan
Religious freedom is a value in its own right because it frees up individuals and communities to pursue ultimate truth.
88 - Aug 2012 - Letters: Caritas, Lance Eccles
If their concern simply means that they assist communities to prepare for and deal with flood and drought then that is a good thing.
89 - Aug 2012 - Marriage: Archbishop Hickey: the Eucharist and the Christian family, Archbishop Barry Hickey
The Church will provide for them nurturing parish communities as sources of strength and affirmation.
90 - Aug 2012 - Events: Equipping Christian leaders for the challenges of secularism, Philippa Le Feuvre
I hope it will also strengthen the energy and commitment which sustains leaders in bearing witness to faith in serving their communities and in renewing the culture.
91 - Jul 2012 - Letters: The Year of Grace and the New Evangelisation, Fr Dennis Byrnes
The Australian Bishops decision to call for the year of grace was inspired and guided by Blessed John Paul II who stated in his apostolic letter Novo Millennio Ineuente (2001): Our Christian communities must become genuine schools of prayer where the meeting with Christ is expressed .
92 - Jun 2012 - Reflection: Benedict XVI: Pentecost and the Church's universality, Pope Benedict XVI
Universality With this we are told something very important: that the Church is catholic from the very first moment that her universality is not the fruit of the subsequent inclusion of diverse communities.
93 - Jun 2012 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
For most of the Churchs history secular priests have lived in communities.
94 - Jun 2012 - Latin: Pope John XXIII's document on Latin: 50th anniversary, Salvatore Cernuzio
Among these are the birth of new religious communities and lay movements that have understood well how a most precious patrimony belongs to the Tradition to the life itself of the Church of liturgical canonical magisterial theological expressions whose content is comprehensible only in its linguistic form namely Latin.
95 - Jun 2012 - News: The Church Around the World
Some proponents of same-sex marriage have argued that in the event of marriage being redefined the Catholic Church and other religious communities will be protected or exempted from being required by law to perform same-sex marriages.
96 - May 2012 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
For most of the Churchs history secular priests have lived in communities.
97 - May 2012 - The culture wars: Archbishop Chaput's call to Christians, Ben Johnson
In the years ahead were going to see more and more of this trend along with attempts by civil authority to interfere in the life of believing communities in the name of individual rights.
98 - Apr 2012 - Books: LIGHT OF THE WORLD: The Pope, the Church and Signs of the Times, Archbishop Charles J. Chaput
He is well aware of the scope of sexual abuse in other religious communities and public institutions but he does not use that as an alibi for the sins of Catholic clergy.
99 - Apr 2012 - Culture: Christianity's essential role in civilising our society, Bishop Julian Porteous
Throughout history religion has bound communities and cultures together.
100 - Mar 2012 - Books: Streams of Grace, by Bishop Julian Porteous, Fr Ken Barker MGL
Then in the 20th century Streams of Grace includes an outline of the contribution of the Charismatic Renewal and the other new ecclesial communities and movements which have been breathing new life into the Church especially after the Second Vatican Council.
101 - Mar 2012 - News: The Church Around the World
The push to alter the definition of marriage warrants special attention within our faith communities and throughout society as a whole the letter said because such an action would have grave consequences including interfering with the religious freedom of those who continue to affirm traditional marriage.
102 - Feb 2012 - Letters: Same-sex 'marriage', Robert Bom
But legalising homosexual marriage is a public matter as it becomes a concern that spills into vital areas of our communities.
103 - Feb 2012 - Mission UK: Can pagan Britain recover its Christian identity?
Religious communities spring up where there is great poverty and great need.
104 - Feb 2012 - Census: Growth and decline in the churches: research findings, Frank Mobbs
Hegy describes the parish as a community of communities whose model is the Small Christian Communities of Latin America.
105 - Feb 2012 - Law: Catholic politicians and same-sex 'marriage', Michael Gilchrist
The states interest in marriage arises from the fact that families are the foundation of stable communities and societies.
106 - Dec 2011 - Tyburn world tour: A visually compelling new documentary on the monastic life, AD2000 Report
The film also portrays with great warmth how the monasteries both benefit and are supported by the communities in which they flourish all against a backdrop of extraordinary natural beauty.
107 - Dec 2011 - Vocations: Do not be afraid: successful Young Men of God retreat, Dr Barry Coldrey
The Missionaries emerged from the Disciples of Jesus Covenant Communities and over the past 25 years the Congregation has become securely established with 20-25 priests ministering in Australia Papua New Guinea and the Philippines.
108 - Nov 2011 - The Lion of Munster: Blessed Cardinal von Galen: a voice against tyranny, Babette Francis
At his death the president of the regional association of Jewish communities wrote to the Capitular Vicar in Mnster: Cardinal von Galen was one of the few upright and conscientious men who fought against racialism in a most difficult time.
109 - Nov 2011 - Pastoral visit: Benedict XVI calls his visit to Germany 'a great feast of faith'
During his visit the Pope also spoke to representatives of Germanys Jewish and Muslim communities.
110 - Oct 2011 - Reflection: Benedict XVI's Final Mass homily for World Youth Day, Pope Benedict XVI
Growing in friendship with Christ necessarily means recognising the importance of joyful participation in the life of your parishes communities and movements as well as the celebration of Sunday Mass frequent confession and the cultivation of personal prayer and meditation on Gods word.
111 - Oct 2011 - Episcopacy: Cardinal Pell: the responsibilities of Church leadership, Cardinal George Pell
Two things are probably at work: within all the Christian communities and certainly the Catholic Church there is a fundamental tension between the people on one side - who we might call Gospel Christians - who give priority to the New Testament to Christ and to the Word of God and what you might call liberal or radical Christians who give the priority to the contemporary understandings.
112 - Sep 2011 - Youth: Catholic young adult ministry: Sydney's formula for success, Br Barry Coldrey
Between now and the end of 2011 the following conferences for young adult Catholics will be taking place: - The Young Men of God Conference sponsored by the Young Men of God and the Disciples of Jesus Covenant Communities at the Collaroy Centre Collaroy Sydney 14-16 October.
113 - Aug 2011 - Young adult Catholic ministry: further progress, Br Barry Coldrey
Still to come later in 2011: Young Men of God Conference Collaroy Centre (Sydneys Northern Beaches) 13-15 October Missionaries of Gods Love and the Disciples of Jesus Covenant Communities.
114 - Aug 2011 - News: The Church Around the World
On 21 June during an address to the Catholic Social Workers National Convention in Denver he said that civil society consists not just of autonomous individuals but communities as well.
115 - Jul 2011 - Letters: Bishop or Pope?, Eric Rickards
Among the many achievements of Bishop Morris listed by Fr Dorfield were constant promotion of prayer liturgy and faith education; vigorous encouragement of lay people to take a constructive part in the pastoral leadership of local communities always in partnership with their priests; willing involvement with other Churches in ecumenical initiatives; .
116 - Jul 2011 - Lübeck martyrs of the Nazis beatified on 25 June, Frank Mobbs
Pope John Paul II expressed his recognition of the importance for ecumenism of the shared martyrdom of Catholics and a Lutheran when he said: The valuable legacy that these courageous witnesses have passed on to us is a shared legacy of all churches and all religious communities.
117 - Jul 2011 - Steubenville: How a university's Catholic identity was recovered, AD2000 Report
In various charismatic communities they had established what they called households which were small groups in which people would support each other said Schreck.
118 - Jul 2011 - Homily: Benedict XVI: Sts Peter and Paul and the role of bishops, Pope Benedict XVI
In fact it suffers greatest damage from what pollutes the Christian faith and life of its members and its communities eroding the integrity of the Mystical Body weakening its ability to prophesy and witness tarnishing the beauty of its face.
119 - Jun 2011 - Books: THE STORY OF THE LITURGY IN IRELAND, by Edmond Gerard Cullinan, Michael E Daniel
Due to its isolation the Irish Church developed a different method of computing the date of Easter from the rest of the Western Church with the result that when missionaries from Ireland went to the north of England different communities celebrated different dates for Easter.
120 - May 2011 - Books: CHRISTIANITY IN IRAQ, by Suha Rassam, Michael Daniel
For its almost 2000 years of existence the Christian communities of Iraq have enjoyed periods of tol-erance intermingled with ones of persecution as they lived under a variety of regimes including the Sassanid Empire the Mongols and the Ottoman Empire.
121 - May 2011 - University Life: Australian Catholic Students' Conference 2011 a success, Br Barry Coldrey
The answer appears to be that they are the products of strong Catholic families home schoolers and vital new movements and communities.
122 - May 2011 - Interview: International Conference on Eucharistic Adoration in Rome, Father Florian Racine
The more Christian communities are united to Christ the more they are purified by the Father and made fruitful by the Spirit.
123 - Apr 2011 - Marian Valley and Penrose Park: spiritual powerhouses, Br Barry Coldrey
However from that point their construction and maintenance is the responsibility of the appropriate ethnic communities.
124 - Apr 2011 - News: The Church Around the World
In a 16 February interview he warned that secularisation had penetrated many communities and consciences.
125 - Apr 2011 - Homosexual rights trump the rest, especially Christians', Fr John Flynn LC
At the same time the practice of homosexual behaviour is not accepted by the Catholic Church nor by many other Christian churches and communities.
126 - Mar 2011 - Netherlands: Migrants keep Church alive in Holland, Fr Cornelius van der Geest
Members of HIRCOS have been accompanying the Indonesian community the Portuguese-speaking communities from Brazil Africa and Portugal the English and French-speaking Africans and the Spanish-speaking communities mainly from South America.
127 - Mar 2011 - What are the marks of an authentically Catholic university?, Cardinal Raymond Burke
It demands and inspires much more: namely that each and every aspect of your learning communities reverberates within the ecclesial life of faith.
128 - Feb 2011 - Key issues of ecumenism: new Vatican president's assessment, AD2000 Report
In the realm of ecumenism however the plural churches are not local churches but ecclesial communities not in communion with the Catholic Church.
129 - Feb 2011 - Marriage: US bishops signal a tougher stance in the culture wars, Michael Gilchrist
The mainline churches have abandoned the traditional teaching on marriage and family life he said but the evangelical communities along with the Roman Catholics are strong.
130 - Dec 2010 - Letters: Ecumenism, Kevin McManus
Liberalisation on ethical issues among Protestant communities has resulted as well as fragmentation (particularly among Anglicans).
131 - Dec 2010 - Homily: Christus Rex Pilgrimage: Building God's Kingdom on earth, Bishop Peter J. Elliott
It is corporate and communal the right of faith communities to speak out to educate and play an active role in the formulation of public policy.
132 - Dec 2010 - Youth: Another successful Australian Catholic youth initiative, Br Barry Coldrey
The MGL has arisen from the charismatic side of the Australian Catholic Church with many initially drawn from the flourishing Disciples of Jesus Convenant Communities.
133 - Dec 2010 - News: The Church Around the World
Thompson says he is more and more convinced that the Apostolic Constitution will bear fruit in new evangelistic parish communities that will challenge sluggish mediocrity among some Catholics.
134 - Nov 2010 - News: The Church Around the World
Catholic-Orthodox dialogue Though emphasising that full unity is still in the distant future leaders from Catholic and Orthodox churches recently indicated that progress is underway in the reunification efforts of the two faith communities.
135 - Nov 2010 - Canonisation: St Mary of the Cross MacKillop: let the truth be told, Peter Westmore
What was distinctive about St Mary and her Sisters is that they provided a Catholic education and played a crucial role in creating vibrant Catholic communities which have been a creative presence in all walks of life in Australia over the past century or more.
136 - Oct 2010 - Good priests: the Church's essential foot soldiers, Cardinal George Pell
Unless the seminaries are in good order communities of prayer and purity sanctified by holy routines of life study and service then the Church is self-destructing.
137 - Oct 2010 - Foundations of Faith: Archbishop Hickey: Time to stand up for Christian marriage, Archbishop Hickey
The Church will provide for them nurturing parish communities as a source of strength and affirmation.
138 - Oct 2010 - News: The Church Around the World
During his speech on 1 February to the bishops of England and Wales present in Rome for their five-yearly visit he urged them to stand up when legislation infringed on the freedom of religious communities.
139 - Sep 2010 - Ecclesial movements in the life of the Church, Bishop Julian Porteous
Various charismatic communities would fit this description.
140 - Sep 2010 - University: Another successful Australian Catholic Students Conference, Br Barry Coldrey
There are also passionate members of the Latin Mass communities and of the networks surrounding the Franciscan Capuchin friars and the Missionaries of Gods Love.
141 - Jul 2010 - Trends: The Church in 50 years: John Allen's predictions, Frank Mobbs
5 million people it runs 750 businesses and pools profits) Communion and Liberation SantEgidio Community (influential and intensely liturgical) and LArche (140 communities in more than 30 countries).
142 - Jul 2010 - News: The Church Around the World
These Christian roots he said can in fact inspire a new humanism a new season of authentic human progress in order to respond effectively to the numerous and sometimes crucial challenges that our Christian communities and societies have to face: first among them that of secularism.
143 - Jun 2010 - Reflection: Benedict XVI on the Church's birth and universality at Pentecost, Pope Benedict XVI
From her other communities were to be born in every part of the world particular Churches which are all and always actualisations of the one and only Church of Christ.
144 - Jun 2010 - Books: THE KING'S ACHIEVEMENT, Robert Hugh Benson, Michael E. Daniel
Instead the two communities on which the text focuses namely Lewes Priory and a convent of nuns at Rusper - to which Christophers and Ralphs sister Margaret belongs - are both functional communities in which the majority of the members are content.
145 - May 2010 - Foundations of Faith: The Mass: early centuries to Vatican II, Br Barry Coldrey
Later the body parts of the martyrs were distributed to far-flung Christian communities which therefore shared in their sacrifice.
146 - May 2010 - Obama Health Bill: how liberal nuns undermined US bishops' opposition, Babette Francis
Divisions exist among American nuns: the Council of Major Superiors of Women Religious representing 103 communities and 10000 members issued a statement siding with the bishops against the Bill.
147 - May 2010 - News: The Church Around the World
He added that the very process of working towards union works a change in churches and ecclesial communities that engage one another in dialogue and actual instances of entering into communion do indeed transform the Catholic Church by way of enrichment.
148 - Mar 2010 - Books: LORETO IN AUSTRALIA, by Mary Ryllis Clark, Katharine Munro
New challenges New challenges came after Vatican II with religious communities called on to revisit the roots of their founders.
149 - Mar 2010 - News: The Church Around the World
We are very concerned about the continued attacks against Christian communities in Karnataka.
150 - Mar 2010 - Secularism: Benedict to UK bishops: resist secularist threat, Michael Gilchrist
Yet as you have rightly pointed out the effect of some of the legislation designed to achieve this goal has been to impose unjust limitations on the freedom of religious communities to act in accordance with their beliefs.
151 - Feb 2010 - Foundations of Faith: Celebrating the Eucharist during the early Christian centuries, Br Barry Coldrey
Thus the Didache shows early Christian communities grappling with Jesus command Do this in commemoration of Me.
152 - Feb 2010 - Climate change: which Catholic response?, William Kininmonth
The cold of The Little Ice Age that extended from the 14th through the 17th centuries was no less than that of the Dark Ages but resilience amongst communities had become stronger with technological innovation.
153 - Feb 2010 - News: The Church Around the World
Canadian News Benedict XVI: liberation theology warning In a meeting with a group of Brazilian bishops on 5 December Benedict XVI warned of the dangers of Marxist liberation theology and noted its grave consequences for ecclesial communities.
154 - Dec 2009 - Vatican II: Yves Congar, Vatican II, ecumenism: finding the right balance, Andrew Kania
Similarly a document released by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in July 2007 titled Questions regarding Certain Aspects of the Doctrine on the Church echoed Congars sentiments when it stated It is possible according to Catholic doctrine to affirm correctly that the Church of Christ is present and operative in the churches and ecclesial communities not yet fully in communion with the Catholic Church on account of the elements of sanctification and truth that are present in them.
155 - Dec 2009 - News: The Church Around the World
Archbishop Migliore reported that in recent months Christian communities in some Asian and Middle Eastern countries have been attacked leaving many injured and others killed.
156 - Dec 2009 - Ut Unum Sint: Benedict XVI eases way for Anglicans wishing to 'cross the Tiber', Michael Gilchrist
The Primate of the Traditional Anglican Communion Archbishop John Hepworth welcomed Benedicts decision to permit Anglican communities to join the Catholic Church as communities.
157 - Nov 2009 - Books: THE CHURCH AND THE WORLD: Essays Catholic and Contemporary, by John Haldane, Tracey Rowland
Haldane also concedes that the Catholic education system has itself contributed to this state of affairs: In earlier times training towards teaching had no particular tendency to weaken students faith and they viewed it quite properly as a form of preparation for entry to an important profession through which they could also serve communities.
158 - Nov 2009 - Letters: Dissenting views, John Schmid
The article by Br Paul Macrossan (October AD2000) contained similar observations to those in the book Sisters in Crisis: The Tragic Unravelling of Womens Religious Communities by Ann Cary (Our Sunday Visitor).
159 - Nov 2009 - A Christian response to post-abortion trauma, Julie Cook
South Australian statistics indicate that by the age of forty one in three women have experienced at least one abortion thus giving our communities a saturation level that makes abortion trauma a major mental health issue even if as often claimed the traumatised represent only a minority.
160 - Nov 2009 - News: The Church Around the World
The commission was formed in 1988 for those communities and persons who coming from the Society of St Pius X or from similar groups wish to return to full communion with the Successor of Peter.
161 - Oct 2009 - Priesthood: Why the Catholic Church cannot ordain women, Kathleen Wood OAM
Gentiles were baptised and faithfully served their communities.
162 - Oct 2009 - Community Life: 'Progressive' leadership and the demise of religious life, Br Paul Macrossan
They are much more likely to say that fidelity to the Church is important to them and they are really looking for communities where members wear habits.
163 - Oct 2009 - News: The Church Around the World
Orthodoxy attracts more religious vocations The Georgetown University-based Center for the Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA) recently conducted a survey of US religious communities on behalf of the National Religious Vocations Conference (NRVC) a Chicago-based professional association of religious vocation directors.
164 - Sep 2009 - Reflection: The centrality of the tabernacle, Bishop John M. D'Arcy
Therefore parishes and all communities of the faithful are encouraged to study the tabernacle and its theology as well as the totality of sacred art and architecture regardless of whether any physical modifications are imminent within their places of sacred worship.
165 - Sep 2009 - Priesthood: Reflections of a newly ordained Sydney priest, Fr James Mccarthy
Furthermore the large number of representatives of different Ecclesial communities and other faiths was another sign of the desire for unity in our world.
166 - Sep 2009 - News: The Church Around the World
Repair our communities with life-affirming programs.
167 - May 2009 - FOUNDATIONS OF FAITH: The Crusades: the truth behind the myths, Frank Mobbs
Sadly while on their journey some of them turned aside to massacre communities of Jews.
168 - May 2009 - News: The Church Around the World
Australias religious groups are educating our communities about climate change and are taking actions to reduce our own carbon footprints and we call for stronger action from the Government.
169 - Apr 2009 - Foundations of Faith: The Mass and private devotions in Catholic life, Br Barry Coldrey
Thereafter until her early death from tuberculosis she lived - to all outward appearances - a quiet life while working as portress cook and gardener in various communities of her congregation.
170 - Apr 2009 - American women religious: Vatican apostolic visitation, AD2000 REPORT
The visitation will only assess those religious who engage in apostolic or active work and will not involve contemplative communities.
171 - Apr 2009 - News: The Church Around the World
The bishops call for a review of existing illegitimate contracts and above all of those not yet signed so that our communities are not impoverished by the activities of dishonest exploiters.
172 - Mar 2009 - Books: THE BIBLE AND THE QUR'AN, by Jacques Jomier OP, Tim Cannon
Yet in the battle to save an ailing values-based culture are not the devout tight-knit Muslim communities nestled in pockets around the country those in whom Christians may find their most steadfast allies?
173 - Feb 2009 - Letters: Inclusive language, Eamonn Keane
Contradictions of the Churchs teaching and disobedience to its liturgical norms lead to bad outcomes for both individuals and communities.
174 - Feb 2009 - Christian-Muslim dialogue: glimmerings of hope, Babette Francis
In the Joint Declaration serious problems arose on the right of persons and communities to practise their faith in private and in public.
175 - Dec 2008 - FOUNDATIONS OF FAITH: Which Church did Jesus establish with his authority?, Frank Mobbs
We must keep in mind that Christians were few scattered in small communities and frequently weakened by persecution.
176 - Dec 2008 - Pub life: Young adult Catholic ministry: ingredients for success, Br Barry Coldrey
The young adult activities sponsored by dynamic religious orders at central venues such as those of the Missionaries of Gods Love and the Disciples of Jesus Covenant Communities (Burwood Victoria) the Franciscans (Capuchins) and the Domini- cans (Frassati Circle Camberwell Victoria).
177 - Oct 2008 - Reflecton: Benedict XVI: the natural family, cornerstone of world peace, Pope Benedict XVI
This is as true for local communities as it is for national communities; it is also true for the international community itself for the human family which dwells in that common house which is the earth.
178 - Oct 2008 - In the Public Square: US presidential campaign: Catholic bishops speak out on the evil of abortion, Archbishop Charles Chaput and Bishop James Conley
The duty of the Church and other religious communities is moral witness.
179 - Oct 2008 - News: The Church Around the World
The director of the Institute for Justice Peace and the Preservation of Creation Father Karl Golser had asked Benedict how to increase a sense of responsibility for creation among Christian communities and how to view creation and redemption as more closely united.
180 - Sep 2008 - Foundations of Faith: Priesthood and the sacraments: Divine help for eternal salvation, Br Barry Coldrey
However there is clear evidence in the New Testament that as the Christian communities spread and leadership passed to the first generation after the apostles new leaders were commissioned into the order of bishops priests or deacons by prayer a liturgical ceremony and the laying on of hands (1 Tim.
181 - Aug 2008 - Letters: Timeless truths?, John Frey
Although fully present only in the Catholic Church nevertheless at the same time beyond the boundary of the Catholic Church Christs Church is also present and operative in churches and ecclesial communities lacking full communion with the Catholic Church.
182 - Aug 2008 - Census shows a strong Church in Singapore, AD2000 Report
The findings highlighted areas seen to be of concern such as the need to engage more Catholics beyond Mass the need to build small Christian communities the need to improve the prayerful atmosphere at Mass and the need to strengthen the prayer lives of families.
183 - Jul 2008 - FOUNDATIONS OF FAITH: Jesus: how do we know he was God?, Br Barry Coldrey CFC
What makes the Catholic Church unique among all Christian communities?
184 - Jun 2008 - Books: FR WERENFRIED: A Life, by Joanna Bogle, Michael E. Daniel
Aid to the Church in Need also began to assist communities in the Third World.
185 - Jun 2008 - Books: RATZINGER'S FAITH: The Theology of Pope Benedict XVI, by Tracey Rowland, Michael E. Daniel
In celebrating community many communities believed they could make almost any alteration to the liturgy to make it more meaningful.
186 - Apr 2008 - Books: THE ENEMY WITHIN: Radical Feminism in the Christian Churches, Catherine Sheehan
Some of the stories related are horrifying as they describe feminist liturgies paganism witches covens pro-abortion rhetoric and lesbianism all occurring within Christian communities.
187 - Apr 2008 - Christ's commandment: Church's 'primary task' is evangelisation: Benedict XVI, Michael Gilchrist
Some assert that any attempt to convince others on religious matters is a limitation of their freedom believing it is enough to help people to become more human or more faithful to their own religion; it is enough to build communities which strive for justice freedom peace and solidarity.
188 - Mar 2008 - Books: JOURNEY OF A FAITH COMMUNITY, compiled by Tom Johnstone, James E. Scarlett
Founded in the wake of Vatican II under the wise administration of Father (now Melbourne auxiliary Bishop) Hilton Deakin the parish had the advantage of drawing upon the insights of the Council rather than reconciling people to them as happened in many older communities.
189 - Mar 2008 - News: The Church Around the World
Its been the business of religious communities for centuries.
190 - Feb 2008 - Technical school: Salesians continue to help post-tsunami Sri Lanka, Michael Lynch SDB
Through their centres of education they are building bridges with local communities by providing the young people with skills to secure employment and earn an income to support their family.
191 - Feb 2008 - Grace under fire: ordinations, and first Holy Communion in Iraq, Babette Francis
The deterioration of religious rights in some Muslim countries is increasing the exodus of Christians and severely eroding formerly robust Christian communities in the Middle East says a report from the Hudson Institutes Center for Religious Freedom.
192 - Dec 2007 - Books: Books available from AD Books
Vena Eastwood who is an experienced teacher shows how the Rule can be used to build stronger school communities and enhance their spiritual development.
193 - Dec 2007 - Letters: True Church, Peter D. Howard
She acknowledges many truths in other ecclesial communities but not seven sacraments not a valid priesthood and no Eucharistic sacrifice therefore and no Magisterium.
194 - Dec 2007 - Britain: British Catholicism: the salt has lost its flavour, John Haldane
On the one hand there are those who argue that the values of political liberalism - freedom of thought and expression toleration and respect for persons - are all threatened by authoritarian dogmatic religiously identified communities.
195 - Nov 2007 - Books: Books available from AD Books
Vena Eastwood who is an experienced teacher shows how the Rule can be used to build stronger school communities and enhance their spiritual development.
196 - Nov 2007 - Letters: True Church?, John Frey
Cardinal Ratzinger warned that the Christian faithful are not permitted to imagine that the Church of Christ is nothing more than a collection of churches and ecclesial communities and he said that the Christian faithful are required to profess that there is an historical continuity - rooted in the apostolic succession - between the Church founded by Christ and the Catholic Church (Dominus Jesus 17).
197 - Nov 2007 - Ora et labora: How monastic hospitality can strengthen one's faith, Br Barry Coldrey CFC
At the moment one of the points of light in the Australia is the devotion of the Latin Mass communities around the country.
198 - Oct 2007 - Letters: St Therese Church Torquay demolition threat, Charles Haber
After speaking to some of the parishioners recently it is clear they wish to retain the church for their Sunday worship since it is the most centrally located for all of the Surfcoast communities especially for the residents of Torquay.
199 - Oct 2007 - Truth: And the Light shines in the darkness: the meaning of true ecumenism, Andrew Kania
In essence what Congar was saying is that a non-Catholic Christian may quite possibly be a better follower of Christ than a Catholic but this does not justify the acceptance of the entire tenets of that particular non-Catholics denomination nor justify the prevalence and existence of Christian communities struggling in opposition to one another.
200 - Oct 2007 - Sacred space: Sydney seminar promotes improved church architecture and art, John O'Brien
St Peters Church Surry Hills Archdiocese of Sydney (see front cover of this edition of AD2000) exemplifies what the Architects Association is seeking to achieve while standing tall in its commitment to the spiritual and pastoral needs of its parishioners in an environment which cultivates social and cultural interactions within the Catholic and local communities.
201 - Oct 2007 - More of the same: Retired Sydney bishop calls for a radical overhaul of the Catholic faith, Michael Gilchrist
The recent revelations of endemic child abuse in outback aboriginal communities which prompted belated federal government action underline the fact that child abuse is a broad social problem not just a Catholic one.
202 - Sep 2007 - Letters: Religious attire, Tom King
Fr James Lloyds contribution (May AD2000) New religious communities flourishing in the United States confronts the issues of priests and religious abandoning their distinctive attire in favour of civilian clothing.
203 - Sep 2007 - Letters: Vatican II, Peter D. Howard
This Council for the first time in conciliar history defined unequivocally that the sole Church of Christ subsists in the one holy catholic and apostolic Church and that Christs Church is not an end yet to be achieved by all churches and ecclesial communities (LG 8).
204 - Sep 2007 - New Age: Centering Prayer and other spiritualities: are they Catholic?, Wanda Skowronska
But this is a minor concern in comparison with the fact that the cafeacute;s venue is offered to various groups and communities as a meeting place and that these groups are advertised on the website.
205 - Sep 2007 - Rome reaffirms Vatican II's teaching on 'one true Church', Frank Mobbs
It follows that communities of Christians who do not have seven sacraments and those who reject the authority of the Pope and bishops form no part of the People of God the Catholic Church.
206 - Sep 2007 - Pastoral Letter: NSW and ACT Bishops call for a shake-up in Catholic education, Michael Gilchrist
The Bishops cite Pope John Paul IIs call in Redemptoris Missio (1990) for a new evangelisation to preach the Gospel anew in previously Christian communities which were falling away from the Gospel in the face of secularisation and other cultural change.
207 - Aug 2007 - Books: AD2000 Books
Vena Eastwood This book is not about our present Pope but rather the Rule of St Benedict and how it can be used to build stronger school communities and enhance their spiritual development.
208 - Aug 2007 - Errol P. Duke
What kinds of messages are they sending out to the Australian Catholic and secular communities?
209 - Aug 2007 - News: The Church Around the World
The CDF document explains: It is possible according to Catholic doctrine to affirm correctly that the Church of Christ is present and operative in the churches and ecclesial Communities not yet fully in communion with the Catholic Church on account of the elements of sanctification and truth that are present in them.
210 - Aug 2007 - University: Australian Catholic students' conference: 'an inspiring experience', Br Barry Coldrey
There are also the passionate members of Latin Mass communities.
211 - Aug 2007 - Lex orandi: Benedict XVI's liturgical armistice: 'Summorum Pontificum', Fr Glen Tattersall
Provision is made for religious communities to use either Missal (or both) on a regular basis.
212 - Jul 2007 - Books: AD2000 Books
Vena Eastwood This book is not about our present Pope but rather the Rule of St Benedict and how it can be used to build stronger school communities and enhance their spiritual development.
213 - Jul 2007 - News: The Church Around the World
A constant commitment was needed to place God always at the centre of the lives of our communities giving primacy to prayer to personal friendship with Jesus and hence to the call to sanctity.
214 - Jul 2007 - Pastoral Plan: Cardinal Pell's blueprint for the future in the Sydney Archdiocese, Michael Gilchrist
In addition the Vocations Office will collaborate with school communities in order to develop strategies and programmes to promote vocations to the priesthood and religious life by December 2008.
215 - Jun 2007 - Books: AD2000 Books
Vena Eastwood This book is not about our present Pope but rather the Rule of St Benedict and how it can be used to build stronger school communities and enhance their spiritual development.
216 - Jun 2007 - Tsunami: Salesians help Solomon Islanders
The Don Bosco Technical Institute in Honiara Solomon Islands has pledged its support to assist schools and communities destroyed by the tsunami in the western extremes of the Solomon Islands on 1nbsp;April 2007.
217 - May 2007 - Books: Liturgy, Life of the Church; The Modern Rite; Pope and Council on Sacred Liturgy, Michael Daniel
From this reviewers perspective it seems that a greater emphasis on the eschatological dimension may facilitate a movement away from celebrations that end up with communities worshipping themselves football the environment or anything else but the triune eternal God.
218 - May 2007 - Vocations: New religious communities flourishing in the United States, Fr James Lloyd
It is also noteworthy that these new communities usually wear full habits ankle length.
219 - May 2007 - Editorial: AD2000: accentuating the positive, Michael Gilchrist
However promoting and defending orthodoxy necessarily involves both positive and negative elements: pinpointing where orthodoxy is working in practice in parishes schools seminaries and religious communities; but also drawing attention to errors that can undermine or dilute the faith.
220 - Apr 2007 - St Faustina: The Divine Mercy apostolate: a spirituality to transform the world, Eva Kimnes
For the past two years various communities have gathered together on the first Sunday afternoon of each month at the Divine Mercy Shrine in Keysborough to pray for healing for individuals families youth Australia the Church and the world.
221 - Apr 2007 - News: The Church Around the World
Without this practice there can be no spiritual growth in Christians nor will we ever be able to promote spiritually vibrant parish communities he said.
222 - Mar 2007 - Books: SEEKING THE ABSOLUTE: The Founders of Christian Monasticism, Michael E. Daniel
It was his disciples who were to form Monastic communities and write rules for these communities.
223 - Mar 2007 - Sandhurst: Goddess worship at Victorian education conference?, Michael Gilchrist
Her main goal is said to be helping to create healthy working communities.
224 - Mar 2007 - News: The Church Around the World
The Bodmer Papyrus demonstrates therefore that the oldest versions of the New Testament that are preserved in their totality correspond with the Gospels that already circulated among the Christian communities centuries earlier.
225 - Feb 2007 - Letters: Truth and love, Chris Hilder
That means that human communities have to have organisation structures and laws in order to live together in love.
226 - Feb 2007 - Priesthood: Orthodox priests in a divided Church, Fr John Trigilio
Families of faith Real faith communities are not places where the clergy have abdicated their authority to teach and govern and become mere sacrament dispensers.
227 - Feb 2007 - News: The Church Around the World
Indeed it is valid for the Latin Church but not for the oriental rites where even in communities united to the Catholic Church it is normal for there to be married priests.
228 - Dec 2006 - Shrines: Marian Valley: Queensland's centre of pilgrimage, Peter Westmore
Many other communities visit the shrine including Ukrainian Lebanese Timorese and Filipino people as well as Catholic and Muslim members of the Eritrean community who also have devotion to Our Lady.
229 - Nov 2006 - Liturgy: US bishop sets out clear guidelines on celebrations of the Mass, AD2000 REPORT
For this reason I would caution that this gradual but definite reintroduction of Gregorian chant into our parishes and communities be done with careful study deliberate consultation and much prayer.
230 - Nov 2006 - Books: Is the Catholic Church in Australia 'lost'?, Michael Gilchrist
Moreover a commitment to orthodoxy is the only approach that will attract any of the young on a long term basis as evidenced in the upswing in vocations reflected in seminary enrolments and the focus of the more successful ecclesial movements and communities that have emerged in recent decades.
231 - Oct 2006 - News: The Church Around The World
Since his appointment was announced he had visited several monasteries around Genoa to ask for special prayers and written to other contemplative communities with the same request.
232 - Sep 2006 - Books: Why Must I Suffer? by Fr F.J. Remler CM, Jacinta Cummins
In the same way sin not only affects the perpetrator but often has a wider capacity to harm not just the sinner but other individuals and even communities.
233 - Sep 2006 - Books: William Bernard Ullathorne: A Different Kind of Monk, by Judith Champ, Michael Gilchrist
None says Champ became such an advocate of the ministry of nuns in the local Church and its surrounding society nor did they take such a personal interest in them as communities and individuals.
234 - Aug 2006 - Books: SEEDS OF LIFE: Early Christian Martyrs, Julia Bakowski
Available from Freedom Publishing) The Wellspring of Faith series is sponsored by Aide Inter-Monasteres an international movement whose aim it is to assist young African and Asian monastic communities.
235 - Jul 2006 - US Archbishop: how to reform the Liturgy
If there could be recovery of at least some standard elements - in terms of the music such as the use of Gregorian chant and Latin texts in communities that are diverse - this would be a wonderful development.
236 - Jul 2006 - News: The Church Around the World
To correct these problems Benedict exhorted religious superiors to make courageous decisions renewing dedication and discipline within their communities.
237 - Jun 2006 - News: The Church Around the World
The Fellowship of Catholic University Students (FOCUS) is a national outreach program whose goal it is to form Catholic communities on college campuses where students can follow Jesus and live out their faith.
238 - May 2006 - Vocations: Can religious life be rebuilt in Australia?, Sr Mary Augustine OP
For the traditionally-minded Dominican this means a commitment to the choral recitation of all the Hours of the Divine Office - something not available in very active communities like the Nashville Dominicans - as well as considerable time for silent prayer study spiritual reading and writing.
239 - Apr 2006 - Reflection: The redeeming Cross: at the centre of Christian faith, Cardinal George Pell
So a redemptive understanding of suffering is not only a radical point of difference between us and neo-paganism but it is a sore point of difference very deep and important in all the Christian communities and even our own Catholic Church.
240 - Mar 2006 - Archbishop Hickey: how to address the crisis of faith, Archbishop Barry Hickey
In that community removed a little from the world new energies and missionary zeal will grow enabling the Church to recapture the secular society much like the approach of St Benedict whose name he chose and who formed new communities to preserve and offer again to humanity the good news of Jesus Christ.
241 - Feb 2006 - News: The Church Around the World
Female Anglican bishops and threats of schism Although several Anglican communities have expressed their rejection of the proposal a number of Anglican bishops have said they plan to go ahead with a proposal at the next General Synod to allow women to be ordained bishops.
242 - Dec 2005 - Letters: Evangelisation, Michael Dunlea
Many I am quite sure are strongly inspired to evangelise others similarly and to induce them to join evangelical communities.
243 - Dec 2005 - Formation: St John Vianney's blueprint for the priesthood back in favour, Fr John Cihak
The Revolution and subsequent Terror the hardships under Napoleonic rule the widespread devastation of churches religious communities and practices and the outright attack on the Church in France herself were still fresh in the minds of many.
244 - Nov 2005 - Synod of Bishops on the Eucharist: areas for remedial action identified, Peter Westmore
The Second Vatican Council brought great blessings and substantial gains; for example continuing missionary expansion and the new movements and communities.
245 - Nov 2005 - National Press Club: Cardinal George Pell on the dictatorship of relativism, Cardinal George Pell
Simple-minded relativism is alive and well within the Christian communities.
246 - Oct 2005 - Books: Your Life is Worth Living: The Christian Philosophy of Life, by Fulton J. Sheen, Michael Gilchrist
He sets out the purpose of the book as threefold: (1) To continue Sheens work of spreading the Light in the world (2) to renew a commitment to spiritual leadership in families churches and communities and (3) to create an historical record of a work which took Sheen months to produce.
247 - Sep 2005 - A religious response to evil ideologies, John Rego
Islam in practice and structure is somewhat comparable to Protestant communities in that there is no central teacher like that which is found in our Pope.
248 - Aug 2005 - London's Balham parish, 'an icon of liturgical hope', Joanna Bogle
I remember a time when many people were convinced that the traditional Catholic parish was a dead idea that small informal Mass communities meeting in peoples homes would become the norm.
249 - Jul 2005 - Vocations: John Paul Il's Milwaukee connection, Fr John Walter
As a young auxiliary Bishop Karol Wojtyla visited Polish immigrant communities in many Western countries among them Australia.
250 - Jun 2005 - Habemus Papam: Benedict XVI charts course as successor to John Paul II, Michael Gilchrist
He was he said fully determined to cultivate any initiative that may seem appropriate to promote contact and agreement with representatives from the various Churches and ecclesial communities.
251 - May 2005 - Letters: Appeal to the young, Justin Lynch
Reinforce and deepen your bond with the Christian communities to which you belong.
252 - May 2005 - St Patrick's Church, Soho Square, a spiritual oasis in London, Tess Livingstone
The Blessed Sacrament is exposed every week day from 11am to 6pm confessions are heard for 30 minutes before the daily weekday Mass at lunch time and at weekends Masses are celebrated for the Brazilian Chinese and Latin American communities as well as in English.
253 - May 2005 - News: The Church Around the World
In the meantime Priests for Life will continue to help priests become stronger in their pro-life work within their assignments as diocesan priests and within other communities he said.
254 - Apr 2005 - Marian Valley Shrine of Our Lady Help of Christians, Canungra
There feast days in honour of Our Lord and His Blessed Mother are celebrated while various ethnic communities celebrate their annual pilgrimage days.
255 - Apr 2005 - Vocations: Why some new religious orders are attracting recruits, Fr John Hogan
In the Bronx St Crispins Friary is the headquarters of one of many new religious communities growing in the Church.
256 - Apr 2005 - News: The Church Around the World
We trust it that Christian communities will pray the Lord to welcome Msgr Giussani in his kingdom.
257 - Apr 2005 - Australia prepares for World Youth Day 2005 in Cologne, AD2000 Report
This has been due to the active involvement of parishes dioceses youth ministries lay workers clergy communities and movements throughout the country.
258 - Feb 2005 - Religious Life: Faith and Reason: for a true renewal in religious life and the Church, Sr Mary Augustine OP
The period before Vatican II was not particularly notable for its emphasis on a reasoned faith which is probably why religious communities fell apart on a massive scale after the Council.
259 - Feb 2005 - The Church in Australia 2005: can the tide be turned?, Michael Gilchrist
This journal has devoted much space in recent years to strong episcopal leadership upturns in seminary numbers new religion texts and renewal programs based on the Catechism of the Catholic Church outstanding parish initiatives flourishing religious communities promotion of Catholic culture and university youth ministry endeavours.
260 - Feb 2005 - Appeal: Missionaries' vital role in helping tsunami victims, Peter Westmore
While media reports have concentrated on government and NGO fund-raising campaigns to help the victims of the Indonesian tsunami in which up to 200000 people are believed to have died in countries bordering the Indian Ocean and even more are destitute and homeless Christian missionaries on the ground are playing a key role in providing food and shelter to the victims and will play a crucial role in re-establishing businesses and communities long after the overseas agencies and governments have left.
261 - Dec 2004 - Gone fishing: Catholic Earthcare Australia adopts discredited Green agenda, Pat Byrne
Yet the Barrier Reef Pastoral contains a mere two paragraphs expressing concern about the effect of the new Green Zones on fishermen with no mention of their families or the effect on their regional communities where commercial fishing is worth $119 million and recreational fishing $240 million annually.
262 - Dec 2004 - News: The Church Around the World
While the positions are advertised as Parish Priest and Administrator applicants must realise that other possibilities may eventuate by necessity including a new form of pastoring these communities such as a Pastoral Director with a Priest in Residence.
263 - Oct 2004 - Today's non-practising young Catholics: are Church conservatives to blame?, Michael Gilchrist
Religious life The picture is the same with religious life (both in Australia and the US) where communities with a clear identity strong spiritual formation fidelity to Catholic teachings and obedience to Church authority are attracting significant numbers of young men and women.
264 - Sep 2004 - Sydney Catholic Adult Education Centre courses prove popular, Peter Holmes
In fact constantly learning and living in Christ is the only way to grow both as individuals and as Church communities.
265 - Aug 2004 - Carnivale Christi: Whatever happened to beauty in art?, Paul Fitzgerald
Ronald Conway cogently points out: The great leaders and wise men of all communities have found the secret of combining the innovating impatience of youth with the need to preserve traditions having beauty and meaning channelling innovating energy into life-preserving and life-enhancing activity.
266 - Jul 2004 - Eucharistic Adoration: heart of evangelisation, Fr Sebastian Camilleri OFM
In the current volatile secular society and fragmented Christian communities it is our duty to be on guard against certain radical innovations and unauthorised ecclesial changes that challenge the Magisterium in the guise of updating.
267 - Jul 2004 - Pastoral Letter: The secular challenges to our faith: how to respond, Bishop Geoffrey Jarrett
It can only be a work of the Holy Spirit that in so many parishes and communities throughout the world today there is a resurgence of Eucharistic Adoration.
268 - Jun 2004 - News: The Church Around the World
Affirm and encourage Catholic schools efforts to celebrate important events and hold prayer services in ways that include the faith traditions present in the school communities (7.
269 - May 2004 - Australian Bishops' ad limina: strong leadership needed to confront secularism
On his return from Rome Archbishop Denis Hart of Melbourne circularised his priests regarding the ad limina including the following reminder: As Archbishop I ask all our priests and communities to follow the approved liturgical texts and rites with the vestments and ceremonies given there without change.
270 - May 2004 - News: The Church Around the World
Elsewhere in his Letter the Holy Father appealed to parish communities and priests in particular to show special care for altar servers who make up a garden of priestly vocations: The group of altar servers under your guidance as part of the parish community can be given a valuable experience of Christian education and become a kind of pre-seminary.
271 - Mar 2004 - HIV/AIDS: A Catholic approach to AIDS: value-based behaviour change, Sr Miriam Duggan
The following statement was drawn up: We believe that individuals and whole communities have the inherent capacity to change attitudes and behaviours.
272 - Feb 2004 - Modern church design: 'Spank the architect!', Paul Mees
Keysborough is full of them including three Catholic churches built by Polish Croatian and Vietnamese communities and young researchers examine their very traditional designs for clues to a way out of the desert of neo-modernism.
273 - Dec 2003 - Social Justice Statement 2003: a response from Bishop Saunders
Evidence In reflecting on Australias past the Statements consideration of the treatment of Indigenous communities fairly represents what happened.
274 - Dec 2003 - VOCATIONS: Melbourne's 'Hearts on Fire' vocations congress a success, Fr Paul Stuart
And lastly young people reported being amazed at discovering just how many priests nuns and brothers we have in Australia and at how much they do and have done for their communities and society.
275 - Nov 2003 - Reflection: Cardinal Pell on Pope St Gregory the Great and the duties of bishops, Cardinal George Pell
For them all communities and especially institutions are reduced to exercises in power politics.
276 - Nov 2003 - Vocations: Missionaries of God's Love congregation flourishes in Canberra, Mary Pidcock
The MGL priests also have a mission in Manila Philippines where they have been working in the squatter settlements to build communities of the poor that are focussed in commitment to Christ and the spreading of the Good News.
277 - Sep 2003 - Books: The Practical Preacher: Handy Hints for hesitant homilists, by Paul Edwards SJ, Anthony Cappello
It was during this period while preaching in parishes schools religious communities and at universities that he compiled this book titled The Practical Preacher.
278 - Sep 2003 - Understanding the Catholic Liturgy since Vatican II, Dom Alcuin Reid OSB
This is not to deny that many individuals and communities sought - and continue to seek - to celebrate the Sacred Liturgy according to the new liturgical books as faithfully as possible.
279 - Aug 2003 - Catalyst for Renewal Address: The legacy of Vatican II, Archbishop George Pell
In many places they are strong and vibrant communities which figure very rarely in the public media.
280 - Jul 2003 - Brisbane Synod ends: Archbishop Bathersby to announce pastoral programs, AD2000 REPORT
One of the proposals Building Communities of Faith includes reference to a need for faith formation through small groups with formation material requested from the archdiocese.
281 - Jul 2003 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000
After noting that obstacles to conversion are not always external but may occur within your own communities he said that this can happen when those of other religions see disagreement scandal and disunity within our Catholic institutions.
282 - Jun 2003 - Letters: Brisbane Synod (letter), Alistair Barros
Another proposal is Building Communities of Faith which seeks archdiocesan facilitation of small group formation stronger parish and school connection lay pastoral leadership and promotion of priesthood diaconate and religious life.
283 - Jun 2003 - Laity: The role of lay Catholics in a time of crisis, Mary Ann Glendon
Geographic and social mobility shrank Catholic communities of memory and mutual aid.
284 - Jun 2003 - Liturgy: John Paul's new encyclical on the Eucharist targets liturgical abuses, Michael Gilchrist
Priests who faithfully celebrate Mass according to the liturgical norms and communities which conform to those norms quietly but eloquently demonstrate their love for the Church.
285 - May 2003 - Letters: Praying for priests (letter), Denise Kelly
Let us pray in Rosary prayer groups across Australia and the world in churches homes schools communities.
286 - Mar 2003 - Ten years on former Anglicans enrich Church, Fr Peter Geldard
Many - including married men - are administering parishes or servicing vibrant communities in prisons schools or universities.
287 - Feb 2003 - Events: Europe's most influential Catholic lay association coming to Melbourne, Anthony Cappello
The Community of SantEgidio is a Church public lay association with the different communities spread throughout the world sharing the same spirituality and principles which characterise the way of SantEgidio: Prayer an essential part of the life of the community in Rome and communities throughout the world and central to the overall direction of community life.
288 - Feb 2003 - Vocations: Sydney seminary growth based on orthodoxy, fidelity, Fr Julian Porteous
These priests from ethnic backgrounds will bring to their ministry a contribution to the Church in Australia from their experience of Catholic life lived in their ethnic communities.
289 - Dec 2002 - Education: Most teachers reject Church teaching: ACU professor, Michael Gilchrist
and other approachable teachers who have been given the unofficial leadership of local Catholic communities.
290 - Sep 2002 - CHURCH ATTENDANCE: The family, feminism and the declining role of fatherhood, Richard Egan
They will not produce men of faith or fathers of the faith communities.
291 - Sep 2002 - Promoting Catholic vocations in the Melbourne Archdiocese, Joanne Grainger
Correspondence to Catholic Vocations by many Orders represented in the booklet A Chosen Life has highlighted that several have received inquiries and visits from young women to their communities.
292 - Aug 2002 - Reflection: What Catholics should expect of their priests: men 'clothed in holiness', Fr Fabian Duggan OSB
This must also explain to a large extent the woeful depletion of religious communities and the return to the world of so many priests and consecrated religious.
293 - Aug 2002 - New program to apply Papal teachings in Melbourne Archdiocese, Michael Gilchrist
This focus should radiate through all the groups and normal activities of our parishes and communities.
294 - Aug 2002 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000
The Vatican said the purpose of the decree of approval is to regulate the normal procedure of the Neocatechumenal Way and its adaptation into the ecclesiastical fabric offering help to pastors of the Church in their paternal and attentive guidance to Neocatechumenal communities.
295 - Jul 2002 - Vatican II, church architecture and "reform of the reform", Sidney Rofe
Misguided values Documents such as the notorious Environment and Art in Catholic Worship (EACW) did much to promote these misconceptions resulting in the desecration of many beautiful churches and the disruption of parish communities all around the world.
296 - Jul 2002 - Interview: George Weigel: the impact of John Paul II's pontificate, Zenit News Service
Some of the most vibrant Catholic communities in the world are among the youngest Catholic communities in the world in Africa and Asia.
297 - Jul 2002 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000
To respond to this new demand Vita Pastorale offers four suggestions: Spiritual Exercises and retreats; the apostolate of prayer; communities of Christian life; spiritual support not only on the part of priests and men and women religious but also of trained laymen.
298 - Jun 2002 - Pope John Paul II on Catholic Action (from Ecclesia in Oceania), Pope John Paul II
So-called economic rationalism is a tenet which tends increasingly to divide rich and poor nations communities individuals (27).
299 - Jun 2002 - Following our baptismal calling takes courage - Chrism Mass homily, Bishop Geoffrey Jarrett
From the ranks of the faithful new responses to Gods call are being made new vocations are being realised and young men are coming from our families and communities to prepare for the priesthood.
300 - Jun 2002 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000
In fact there are seminaries that are full of youths thanks among other things to the vocational fruitfulness of ecclesial communities and movements that have recently arisen.
301 - May 2002 - Letters: Liturgical abuses (letter), Name and Address Supplied
I can inform Michael that the priest concerned serves six distinct communities each with its own church where Mass is celebrated regularly each separated by many kilometres and each with its own problems.
302 - May 2002 - Catholicism in Australia: facing the challenges of Western secularism, Archbishop George Pell
Our Catholic situation would be much weaker than it is without the infusion of vigour and enthusiasm from the migrant communities such as the Maltese Italians and Lebanese and more recently the Croatians Vietnamese and Filipinos.
303 - May 2002 - News: The Church Around the World
Today there are 25 Neocatechumenal communities and 27 priests from the Redemptoris Mater Seminary have been ordained.
304 - Apr 2002 - Letters: Reforming the reform (letter), Valentine Gallagher
The Cardinal lamented that the desire for creativity in the liturgy has been fostered by a wish for self- expression among communities and many people are complaining that no two Masses are alike and asking whether a Catholic liturgy any longer exists.
305 - Apr 2002 - Melbourne TMC: The rights and responsibilities of laity in the Catholic Church, Archbishop Denis Hart
All Church teaching exists for the good of individual men and women and their communities and we will live happier the more we come to understand this.
306 - Apr 2002 - Adelaide Thomas More Centre address: The key elements of Catholic Action today, Archbishop Philip Wilson
This vision he said was modern because it was about how Catholic lay people could be formed to become engaged in the society in which they found themselves so that their values and vision would inform the way they behaved and contribute to and influence the life of their communities.
307 - Mar 2002 - Books: Fr Werenfried - A Life, by Joanna Bogle, Michael Daniel
Aid to the Church in Need also began to assist communities in the Third world.
308 - Mar 2002 - Letters: Apology, Fr M. Shadbolt PP
I am not aware that there was a great demand for a papal apology among Aboriginal communities.
309 - Mar 2002 - North American vocations summit overlooks orthodox success stories, Zenit News Service
It lists 25 new religious communities that are growing rapidly and more than 100 growing communities that are awaiting Church approval.
310 - Feb 2002 - Reflection: NCC Mass of Thanksgiving: Archbishop Hart's homily, Archbishop Denis Hart
Many people have felt that we stand at a moment of decision - whether because of the terrorist threat refugees or decisions in our local communities.
311 - Feb 2002 - The Church in South Korea: dynamic and fast-growing, Pat O'Brien
Vocations are very healthy with Korean priests serving two communities in Sydney and one in Melbourne.
312 - Feb 2002 - Archbishop Philip Wilson sets out his agenda for Adelaide, Michael Gilchrist
Significantly in light of the efforts in some quarters to promote the role of smaller groupings of the faithful - such as Basic Ecclesial Communities - at the expense of the parish the Archbishop made clear that these kinds of initiatives should defer to the central role of the parish which must care for all in a community and be confined to assisting the parish to go about its work and do what it has to do.
313 - Dec 2001 - Tenth Synod of Bishops' statement, Michael Gilchrist
to strengthen the faith of some to reawaken the faith of others and to preach confidently to all; and also to apply their vigilance and concern to the roles of movements small communities and agencies of formation and charity which constitute the tapestry of Christian life.
314 - Oct 2001 - Letters: True picture (letter), Christine Slagter
In referring to your AD2000 article the Archbishop states: Rather than re-creating isolated self-reliant missionary-oriented communities as the article suggests my pastoral letter sets out a vision for integrating BECs into parish life and structures.
315 - Oct 2001 - Anglican General Synod 2001 - moves towards women bishops delayed, Nigel Zimmermann
Too many parishes clergy and laity have found their communities decimated already in the intervening years since the introduction of women priests by bishops who wish to force the revisionist agenda on conservatives.
316 - Oct 2001 - News: The Church Around the World
Alongside well-structured lay ministries such as that of the missionary and catechist so-called de facto ministries have been growing in Christian communities.
317 - Sep 2001 - Letters: BECs (letter), Marie Kennedy
Archbishop Faulkner explains (July AD2000) that Basic Ecclesial Communities are valid and approved by the present Pope.
318 - Sep 2001 - Letters: More on Marins (letter), Peter Finlayson
My main point was captured and confirmed by Dr White (letters August): that as (apparently) in Adelaide so also in Ballarat Diocese there appears to exist a vocal and influential group of Catholics mainly female including religious which supports the Marins model as a convenient vehicle for imposing a non-hierarchical lay-led Church structure on our diocesan communities.
319 - Sep 2001 - Feminism's broad agenda within the Catholic Church, Donna Steichen
In a 1997 address Sister Sandra Schneiders Professor of Christian Spirituality at the Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley California told the Leadership Conference of Women Religious that todays shrinking religious communities are really being led by the Spirit out of the medieval worldview of Aristotelian Thomism into the postmodern worldview of chaos theory where they are developing a spirituality without religion.
320 - Sep 2001 - Archbishop Hart's reception at St Patrick's Cathedral, Melbourne - Homily, Archbishop Denis Hart
I recognise the tremendous enrichment which lay people provide and I thank them for their generous service in the multi-ethnic communities of this vast Archdiocese.
321 - Aug 2001 - Letters: Radical feminists (letter), Dr T.R. White
Archbishop Faulkner in replying to Michael Gilchrists article in the June AD2000 has a vision for the Adelaide Archdiocese through the help of Basic Ecclesial Communities.
322 - Aug 2001 - Letters: BECs not new (letter), John Barich
Basic Ecclesial Communities are nothing new in the Church.
323 - Aug 2001 - Denver Archdiocese: the future of Catholicism, David Scott
Archbishop Chaput has encouraged parishes to welcome these groups which typically stress a personal encounter with Christ and forming small faith-sharing communities.
324 - Jul 2001 - First Tetum-language New Testament for East Timor
Due to this grant Fr Rolando said Now we will be able to send complimentary copies to all the priests and religious communities in Timor and then be able to sell the rest at a much lower price than it would have cost if we did not have the subsidy.
325 - Jul 2001 - Report on Marins BECs workshop in Ballarat, Peter Finlayson
au From the Adelaide Archdiocese BEC website: The Church in your street I would concede that Basic Ecclesial Communities (BECs) could have a role in Australia provided they operate within guidelines set out by a bishop within the framework of Catholic orthodoxy subject to the direction of the parish priest and are used to spearhead parish missionary activity not to take over the running of the parish with or without a priest.
326 - Jul 2001 - Basic Ecclesial Communities, Archbishop Leonard Faulkner
Archbishop Faulkner responds to BECs article Archbishop Leonard Faulkner of Adelaide has responded to the article Basic Ecclesial Communities: Adelaides new model of church which was published in the June edition of AD2000 and dealt with Basic Ecclesial Communities and their operation in the Archdiocese of Adelaide.
327 - Jul 2001 - Education: National Catholic Education Conference: but who chose the guest speakers?, Michael Gilchrist
He also praised the Latin American Basic Ecclesial Communities as a key to his vision of the future.
328 - Jun 2001 - How a small rural parish survived against the odds, Paul Newton
As has always been the case many isolated Catholic communities are struggling simply to survive.
329 - Jun 2001 - Basic Ecclesial Communities: Adelaide's 'new model of church', Michael Gilchrist
To be church is not to do the religious thing but to listen to struggle with people Experts on Latin American Basic Ecclesial Communities - Fr Jos Marins and his Team from Brazil - are currently touring several Australian dioceses training participants in a series of workshops.
330 - Jun 2001 - Archbishop Pell installed in Sydney, Michael Gilchrist
Educational priorities In an interview with The Sydney Morning Herald prior to the installation Mass Archbishop Pell also indicated his educational priorities: I will be doing what I can to strengthen the religious education programs and strengthen the faith communities in Catholic schools.
331 - May 2001 - The Church in Germany: John Paul II expresses serious concerns, Catholic World News
Intercommunion Turning to ecumenical affairs the Pope states that Catholic leaders in discussions with other Christian communities must uphold the teaching and discipline of the Church.
332 - Apr 2001 - Books: The Seven Cities of the Apocalypse, by Roland J. Worth, Michael Daniel
The survey provided helps acquaint the reader with a portrait of the world to which the Apostles first preached the Good News and the early Christian communities many of whom were in Asia Minor emerged.
333 - Apr 2001 - Thomas More Centre Summer School 2001: "Building a Culture of Life", Michael Daniel
This grace of conversion has led many to establish new communities of religious and faithful.
334 - Apr 2001 - US parishioners more outspoken about church "renovations", Zenit News Service
In communities as divergent as Petoskey; Grand Rapids Michigan; Ohio; and Rochester New York lay people are questioning whether changes really are mandated or even recommended by the Church in the spirit of Vatican II a phrase often invoked as a blessing for such projects.
335 - Mar 2001 - Books: The Pange Lingua Hymnal, compiled by Paul Newton, Fr Gregory Pritchard PP
Now let those responsible for music in our parishes - including priests who have a special responsibility for the Sacred Liturgy - rediscover these riches and commit themselves and their communities to good music and meaningful words which sing of the mystery of God.
336 - Mar 2001 - Books: Streams of Living Water: Autobiography of a Charismatic Leader, Anthony Cappello
Streams of Living Water is the autobiography of Brian Smith the founder of Covenant Communities in Australia.
337 - Mar 2001 - Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter ordinations
On the tenth anniversary of the promulgation of the document Ecclesia Dei Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith remarked on the great number of priestly and religious vocations that have come from communities attached to the traditional Latin liturgy founded as a result of that document.
338 - Mar 2001 - Seminary numbers up in orthodox US dioceses, Michael S. Rose
When this formula based on total fidelity to Church teaching is followed in dioceses and religious communities he writes then vocations will increase.
339 - Feb 2001 - New patterns of religious vocations in France
But the real news Father Lachivert added is the birth of new communities and movements that have come into existence over the past 30 years.
340 - Feb 2001 - Letters: Consecrated life (letter), Sr Mary Augustine Lane OP
It seems to me that in times like ours in which the young are conspicuous for their general lack of decision and commitment and in particular for their apparent hesitancy to give themselves to God through the life and rules of existing religious communities we should not expect a flood of founding charisms.
341 - Feb 2001 - Letters: Vocations (letter), Mrs Irena Nagy
: When dioceses and religious communities are unambiguous about ordained priesthood; when there is strong support for vocations and a minimum of dissent about the male celibate priesthood and religious life loyal to the magisterium; when bishops priests religious and lay people are united in vocation ministry then there are documented increases in the numbers of candidates who respond to the call.
342 - Feb 2001 - Letters: Feminist book (letter)
My explorations in feminist religious communities have nurtured spiritual parts of myself not accessible through the church .
343 - Feb 2001 - The "priest shortage": natural or artificial?, Larry A. Carstens
Similar trends are evident among American Protestant churches as well: the mainline bodies (Episcopal Presbyterian Methodist) that have become the most trendy are dying out while the Evangelical communities (where pastors insist on the importance of doctrine and preach a strongly biblical Christianity) are growing.
344 - Feb 2001 - Religious persecution continues in Vietnam, AD2000 Report
According to Compass Direct violations of religious liberty have been continuing especially among Protestant communities.
345 - Dec 2000 - Summer School of Evangelisation 2001
It is a member of the Catholic Fraternity of Charismatic Communities whose statutes were recognised by the Pontifical Association for the Laity in 1990.
346 - Dec 2000 - Books: 'Biblical Holy Places: An Illustrated Guide' by Rivka Gonen, Catherine Sheehan
Each of these six Christian communities has its own clearly defined section of the church to look after which is guarded zealously.
347 - Nov 2000 - Toowoomba's 'Creating Our Future' - or a recipe for further decline?, Michael Gilchrist
Expressions like collaborative and participative enables and empowers and inclusiveness provide a politically correct flavour as do such recommendations as The sharing of stories of those who have chosen to resist economic pressure to conform All Diocesan organisations ensuring gender balance in membership where appropriate Indigenous Studies and Perspectives now incorporated into both curriculum and school practice Inclusive language in all Diocesan documents dealings and Liturgy and Involvement in Reconciliation activities by all local faith communities.
348 - Oct 2000 - 'Dominus Jesus' reaffirms Catholic Church's claims to truth, AD2000 Report
Critical response However the statement that Ecclesial communities that have not preserved the valid episcopate and the genuine and integral substance of the Eucharistic mystery are not churches in the proper sense drew a critical response from the Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury Dr George Carey.
349 - Sep 2000 - Reflection: Religious life: death or re-birth?, Fr Benedict Groeschel
These include many communities which have done outstanding work and even now have large numbers of ageing and dedicated religious - who feel deeply disheartened.
350 - Sep 2000 - The 'Statement of Conclusions' and liturgy: what needs to be done, Msgr Peter J. Elliott
They see what is going on in parishes and religious communities.
351 - Aug 2000 - Eucharistic Congress in Wollongong: 'a time of blessing', Fr Mark De Battista
He concluded: Let us go back to our parishes and our communities refreshed and enthusiastic about the great gift of the Faith.
352 - Aug 2000 - Rockhampton: shuffling deck chairs on the 'Titanic', AD2000 Report
Some of this feedback included affirmations that Faith is not priest- centered changes should be accepted We are the Church Community is the heart of our Church and faith people should be trained for lay ministry and there should be ongoing education of parish communities.
353 - Aug 2000 - News: The Church Around the World
Bishop John Rawsthorne of Hallam told the Catholic Times: Recent years have seen significant changes in all schools including our own schools which have affected relationships with local parish communities and with the diocese.
354 - Aug 2000 - Archbishop Hickey on Perth's priestly vocations success story, Archbishop Barry J. Hickey
It has been my practice to appoint them to our parishes for a period of two years after which by a gentlemens agreement I release them to work with Neo- Catechumenal communities anywhere in the world.
355 - Jun 2000 - How Catholics can help rebuild Christian culture, Archbishop Charles J. Chaput
What this means is that communities of faith - which have the solidarity and resources to turn their moral beliefs into public influence - are slowly being replaced by unconnected individuals with looser spiritual yearnings individuals who want to reshape religion for themselves and who experience God in a narrowly crafted private way.
356 - May 2000 - The priesthood: John Paul II's Holy Thursday Letter sets guidelines, Pope John Paul II
Priests should help Catholic communities rediscover the treasure of the Eucharistic presence in the daily celebration of Holy Mass and especially in the more solemn Sunday assembly.
357 - Mar 2000 - Reflection: Does Lent retain its spiritual meaning today?, Mary Kenny
Some fasting traditions arose out of necessity anyhow: February and March were the thinnest time of the year in traditional agricultural communities and people were eking out the winter stocks before the spring crops.
358 - Feb 2000 - Defending the faith against secularism and relativism, Bishop Kevin Manning
The evangelising thrust of the Church has been somewhat muted because individuals and communities have come to rely on their own interpretation of the Councils documents.
359 - Feb 2000 - The comunità: a new form of monastic life for Australia, Peter Westmore
Unlike other monastic communities its members are mainly lay people - men and women married and single - but includes priests as well.
360 - Feb 2000 - News: The Church Around the World
Founded 15 years ago by religious and lay people APREL aims to promote support and encourage communities of consecrated men and women to live their particular vocation in the Church authentically for the glory of God and the welfare of Gods People.
361 - Dec 1999 - History: The Crusades: separating myth from reality, Zenit News Service
Later it was the turn of Spain Sicily and Greece and the land that would eventually become Turkey where the communities founded by St Paul himself were turned into ruins.
362 - Dec 1999 - The Holy City: recent impressions of old and new Jerusalem, Desmond Piggin
it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities .
363 - Dec 1999 - Church art and architecture: 'sacramental role' is central, Msgr M. Francis Mannion
Body of Christ Today more than ever Catholics need reminders that liturgy is never the act of isolated self-expressing communities but always the action of the whole Body of Christ whose horizon is the Kingdom of God.
364 - Dec 1999 - Stress Christianity's uniqueness says Pope, Father Bernardo Cerveller
Spiritual needs To meet the spiritual needs of Asia the Pope strongly encourages monastic and contemplative communities to open mission fields in Asia and also to establish relations with the other monastic traditions of that continent.
365 - Sep 1999 - Reflection: A spirit of poverty and the level of vocations: how they connect, Fr Fabian Duggan OSB
It is a fact and a matter of concern that many presbyteries and religious communities are much better off than the people they serve.
366 - Sep 1999 - Religious Life: The crisis of women religious not confined to the United States, Sr Kathleen Dalton
The author states however that the purpose of this book is not to point fingers or to place blame but to report the facts so that the answers to these questions can be used to help address the crisis in womens religious communities.
367 - Sep 1999 - News: The Church Around the World
The economic difficulties of family farms they note can take a toll on family life and contribute to the breakdown of small communities.
368 - Aug 1999 - Archbishop Pell celebrates traditional Latin Mass in St Patrick's Cathedral, Gerard McManus
Vocations Increasingly however Latin Mass communities are seeing an influx of young people in their 20s and 30s who come to the traditional Mass out of curiosity and then fall in love with it.
369 - Aug 1999 - Vatican II and "Signs of the times": a call for a democratic Church?, Fr G.H. Duggan SM
Many communities of religious she assures us have abandoned the hierarchical principle in practice if not in theory so that obedience is now regarded not so much as submission to a superior as co- operation with the community in the achievement of a common task.
370 - Jul 1999 - News: The Church Around the World
The assembly of superiors calls on religious communities to make an examination of conscience.
371 - Jul 1999 - General absolutions to continue in Adelaide, AD2000 Report
With general absolutions he said where there are cases of real necessity - and there will be in many cases - all the parishes and communities have to do is contact me and the approval will be given.
372 - Jun 1999 - News: The Church Around the World
To teach and live in appreciation of the Eucharistic mystery around which our parish communities are built.
373 - May 1999 - Victoria's Governor pays tribute to Dr Mannix, Sir James Gobbo
The first was his support for immigrant communities such as the Italian community.
374 - May 1999 - Vatican launch of book highlights Pius XII's World War II role in saving Jews, Zenit News Service
According to Cardinal Edward Cassidy President of the Pontifical Commission for Relations with Judaism: The document We Remember: A Reflection on the Shoah published by the Holy See on 12 March recalls that at the end of World War II Jewish communities and personalities expressed their gratitude for what Pius XII and his representatives did to save the lives of thousands of Jews.
375 - May 1999 - Vocations: Confronting today's vocations crisis, Fr Paul Stuart
Bishops priests religious communities and men and women who take this path and call others to it inevitably attract high-spirited enthusiastic and idealistic youth.
376 - Mar 1999 - Vocations: The Brothers of St Francis: a sign of renewal in religious life, Fr Christopher Sharah FSF
There are many new religious communities being born as well as a number of reforms of established Orders.
377 - Feb 1999 - Liturgy: Cardinal Ratzinger on the old and the new Mass, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger
The divers communities that were born thanks to this pontifical text have given the Church a great number of priestly and religious vocations who zealously joyfully and deeply united with the Pope have given their service to the Gospel in our present era of history.
378 - Dec 1998 - Pope John Paul II calls for more 'balance' in the reformed liturgy, AD2000 Report
But this involved not only training in good use of the Bible but the clergys familiarity with the whole patristic theological and moral tradition as well as a penetrating knowledge of their communities and of society in general.
379 - Aug 1998 - Cardinal John Henry Newman and the development of doctrine, Fr Peter Waters
The eminent Newman scholar Fr Ian Ker suggests that it would hardly be possible for Newman to have a systematic theory of development since he does not regard the actual doctrinal developments which have taken place as being in any way systematic: The development - of an idea (like Christianity) is not like an investigation worked out on paper in which each successive advance is a pure evolution from a foregoing but it is carried on through and by means of communities of men and their leaders and guides; and it employs their minds as its instruments and depends upon them while it uses them.
380 - Aug 1998 - Decline in priests 'an opportunity for growth!' says Townsville's Bishop, Michael Gilchrist
This Townsville initiative was described in the above summary as a break-through for the whole Australian Church in moving away from the geographical parish system in favour of Small Christian Communities.
381 - Jun 1998 - New Texts the key to reshaping religious education, Msgr Peter J. Elliott
I am also currently working on a program of enriching the prayer life of our school communities.
382 - Jul 1997 - Reflection: Catholic youth: facing the challenges to faith (Pastoral Letter), Archbishop George Pell
Most importantly they need to find among those of us who are older credible signs of faith and goodness and caring communities of service.
383 - Feb 1997 - The Catholic Church in Singapore: why is it strong and healthy?, Michael Barr
Impressions Although my impressions of the Church in Singapore are based primarily on my contact with the local Franciscan communities and my attendance at Sunday Mass at St Josephs Parish Upper Bukit Timah my experience with other parishes and religious communities suggests that these observations are valid in varying degrees for the Church throughout Singapore.
384 - Feb 1997 - The Catholic Church in Adelaide: Road to renewal? Or decline?, Michael Gilchrist
They reflected on the diocesan vision Community for the World the diocesan strategy of Basic Ecclesial Communities and the Pastoral Principles that underpin all this.
385 - Feb 1997 - 'Catholic Church Life Survey': 250,000 parishioners polled, Michael Gilchrist
They are consulting Catholics of all ages to hear how they understand and experience their faith today; what they are doing to strengthen their parish communities.
386 - Jun 1996 - Michael Davies' Australia / NZ tour - The Catholic liturgy: where is it headed?, Michael Gilchrist
The Catholic liturgy now threatens to disintegrate altogether into a thousand or more grass roots versions according to the whims of bishops priests liturgical experts local congregations or basic Christian communities.
387 - May 1996 - Archbishop Little warns priests on flawed 'priestless liturgies' document
There exist many types of communities not bound by geography such as ethnic school and work communities which are shifting coming to birth and dying.
388 - Sep 1995 - Saints and heroes: where the difference lies, Lawrence Cross
To speak like this is doubtless all Greek to the Australian post-Christian politician or civic dignitary for example who believes that Mary MacKillops significance is as a role model for leadership within the smaller communities which make up the wider life of the Australian nation.
389 - May 1995 - Lincoln, Nebraska: how a Catholic diocese was built
The Catholic education system in Lincoln continues to expand at all levels thanks to the presence of three flourishing diocesan communities of religious sisters dedicated to Catholic education.
390 - Apr 1995 - New Melbourne R.E. Guidelines: an improvement on the old, Michael Gilchrist
identify the cultures represented in the class school and parish communities and celebrate the richness and diversity of these cultures along with the intermittent prominence given to Aboriginal culture and spirituality.
391 - Mar 1995 - Leonid Federov (1879-1935): Russian Catholicism - a brave vision unfulfilled, Fr Peter Knowles OP
The old rivalries between these two cities were reflected in the Catholic Russian communities in each town and Fedorov sometimes despaired of keeping the peace.
392 - Mar 1995 - Aboriginal religion and Christianity: 'fundamentally incompatible', Max Champion
The idea of a universal God who challenges the exclusivism of closed communities is opposed to belief in ancestral spirits who guarantee the continuity of tribal traditions.
393 - Dec 1994 - Many vocations: empty seminaries, Fr Timothy E. Deeter
Some are considering religious life but that poses its own problems: not all are called to be religious and few communities in Australia seem to have a solid spiritual and communal life anymore.
394 - Sep 1994 - New edition of Fr Richard McBrien's 'Catholicism': but dissent still remains, James Likoudis
For McBrien the Gospels were not written by eyewitnesses but are the products of the later Christian communities who concocted miraculous events as a method of conveying certain theological meanings and for communicating their faith in Christ as divine (pp.
395 - Aug 1994 - Not all religious are dissenters: Christian Brother writes, Br John B. Stephenson CFC
Stephenson CFC Christian Brothers Wewak Papua New Guinea were sent to the ACLRI National Executive members Provincials of the Christian Brothers Superiors of Christian Brothers Communities in Australia and PNG.
396 - Aug 1994 - Religious orders, associations refuse to accept 'definitive' Papal teaching
We now recognise that many communities within the Church will be deprived of the Eucharist because of the lack of ordained ministers.
397 - Jun 1994 - Fr Hubert Jedin's 1968 'Letter to the German Bishops', Fr Hubert Jedin
In contrast to the Protestant church-communities the Catholic Church possesses authority since her structure is based on divine law.
398 - Mar 1994 - Townsville Mass attendance document - 'Where have all the parishioners gone?'
The Townsville document contains Mass attendance statistics for 1986-1993 together with commentary and material in praise of Small Christian Communities which the Commission appears to regard as the solution to the Churchs ills.
399 - Oct 1993 - Eucharistic adoration - are we keeping up with the rest of the world?, Christine McCarthy
As recently as June 1993 the Holy Father during his fourth pastoral visit to Spain stated: If only this form of continual adoration which ends tonight in a solemn Eucharistic vigil would continue in the future too so that in all the parishes and Christian communities the custom of some form of adoration of the Eucharist might take root.
400 - Sep 1993 - Lincoln, Nebraska - how to fill seminaries with vocations, Fr T.I. Thorburn
Three diocesan communities of women religious serve in the Diocese of Lincoln.
401 - Jul 1993 - U.S. Bishop solves vocations crisis, Michael Gilchrist
I see among the religious communities that those who have maintained the highest expectations and demand the most have more vocations.
402 - Mar 1993 - The Myth of Latin America's 'Basic Christian Communities', Paul Gray
The movement provides an alternative local church structure to the normal Catholic parish gathering believers into close-knit self-directing religious communities.
403 - Nov 1992 - Where 'normal' religious life flourishes, Fr John Parsons
Again in very small communities of fewer than eight members it would have been impossible to keep up the full regular conventual observance that all these orders aimed at and legislated for in their chapters.
404 - Sep 1992 - Crises in the Church: Fr Hubert Jedin's warning to Rome
Even though in many of the outlying territories some dioceses and many communities temporarily disappeared the liturgical tradition was never interrupted.
405 - Sep 1992 - The Townsville experiment: next stage in the evolution of an Australian Church?
The proposal is to make the new basic unit a network of Small Christian Communities.
406 - May 1992 - Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy: has ecumenism lost its way?, Fr Peter Knowles OP
Weakened and wearied struggling to set up a new life and to rebuild their communities and educate their clergy and their young with almost no resources these are the people described as the long arm of the Vatican in Eastern Europe.
407 - Feb 1992 - The Pope's agenda - overcoming the obstacles, Michael Gilchrist
This is one of the most crucial problems facing Christian communities.
408 - Oct 1991 - France and the revival of traditional Catholicism, Dr Geoffrey Hull
The strident clash between Rome and Archbishop Lefebvre in the 70s and 80s and the muted confrontation between Rome and the traditionalist communities of Le Barroux or Wigratzbad in the 90s is however actually symptomatic of a fundamental difference in the understanding and practice of Catholic tradition in the West - two different emphases one Roman and southern the other northern and Gallic.
409 - Oct 1991 - 'Faith of Our Fathers' - still valid for the 1990s, Bishop George Pell
We should remember who we are hold fast to what we have received so that Catholic faith and Catholic culture become as much a part of Australian life as the gums and the wattle with thousands of communities like Gardenvale parish worshipping and serving and worrying about their children long into the future when names like Hawke and Menzies are only half-forgotten memories.
410 - Feb 1991 - Leading questions for New Zealand's Religious, Sr Micaela Dillon OP
The questionnaire also asks with reference to parish religious community and other groups In what ways would you like to worship in any of these communities?
411 - Nov 1990 - Can Australia's seminaries turn the tide?, Michael Gilchrist
He is to recognise the action of the Spirit in the fresh movements among the human communities he is committed to serve .
412 - Jun 1989 - Australian Catholicism's one million "lost": a sociological analysis, B.A. Santamaria
Without a theologically trained and ordained leadership it must be expected that such communities would adopt a more Protestant style with the Eucharist and other sacraments less central to their lives a greater emphasis on the Word less awareness of doctrinal and theological traditions and less tolerance of authority.
413 - Feb 1989 - The condition of Catholic teacher training in Australia, Michael Gilchrist
These appear peripheral to college life which on the whole seems highly secularised with Catholicism such as it is worn lightly aside from the general pleasantness and camaraderie normal in any smallish communities of whatever religious or professional hue.
414 - Dec 1988 - Books: Liberation theology and the great revolutionary fantasy, by Phillip Berryman, Paul Gray
The membership of the base Christian communities (small local Christian groups organised around the principles of liberation theology) is tiny.
415 - Nov 1988 - The issues facing Australian Catholicism, Bishop George Pell
Political models of left and right are often misleading when crudely pasted onto religious individuals or communities but tribalism is always a temptation for a few.
416 - Jul 1988 - Growth of a 'new church': the Dutch experiment, Michael Gilchrist
Critical Communities concentrated on employing the Church as a change-agent to overturn unjust structures.
417 - Apr 1988 - A kingdom divided in itself, B.A. Santamaria
These are Catholic academic institutions Catholic faculties of theology at colleges and universities seminaries (primarily order rather than diocesan seminaries) renewed religious orders lay-run base communities independent study and action centres and movements concerned with social justice and the independent Catholic media.
418 - Dec 2006 - Religious Life: Tyburn Sisters' communities spread around the world, Tess Livingstone