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1 - May 2013 - Books: SIXTUS V: the Hermit of Villa Montalto, by W.T. Selley, Michael Daniel
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It is generally agreed that Felice Peretti who was to become Sixtus V was born on 13 December 1521 at Grottamare in the then Papal States into a poor family.
2 - May 2013 - Youth: Reasons for Hope retreat for young adult Catholics, Barry Coldrey
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As the years pass the leadership team renews itself constantly and at present Richard Sofatzis of the well-known Hurstville Catholic family is Chair.
3 - May 2013 - News: The Church Around the World
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Zenit News Catholic marriage prep program bucks trends With more couples choosing to use contraception and live together before marriage the Catholic definition of marriage is more at risk than ever says Christian Meert of the Office of Marriage amp; Family Life in the US Diocese of Colorado Springs.
4 - May 2013 - Francis: pope of paradox, Damian Wyld
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He even found the time to write voluminous books and successfully scuttle an anti-family Italian referendum question by suggesting Catholics stay home and void the results by low turnout.
5 - Apr 2013 - Books: PERPETUA'S PASSIONS, ed. Jan N. Bremmer and Marco Formisano, Peter Westmore
Perpetua whose name became associated with the manuscript was clearly a well-educated woman who came from a Roman patrician family which had settled in the provinces.
6 - Apr 2013 - Books: REDEEMING GRIEF: Abortion and Its Pain (2nd and Revised ed.), by Anne R. Lastman, Fr Paul Crotty
the babys family members including parents grandparents aunts uncles as well as other relatives and friends.
7 - Apr 2013 - Correction
Br Coldrey said that Jonathon and Karen Doyle along with their three children were recently granted the Australian Capital Territory Family of the Year Award.
8 - Apr 2013 - Child sexual abuse: looking beyond the institutions, Anne Lastman
The violence inherent in the act of this type abuse is also manifested in the physical living realm of society because the victim carries into life family and then society the reactions to this abuse.
9 - Apr 2013 - 'Jesus Abandoned' in Nigeria: Chiemera's new freedom, Madonna Brosnan
Her family is of the Igbo tribe and lives in Ozubulu village in Anambra State Nigeria.
10 - Apr 2013 - Obituary: Vale Dr Lyn Billings AM, DCSG, MBBS (Melb), DCH (Lond), Joan Clements
Dr Lyn and her husband Dr John Billings co-founded the world-renowned Billings Ovulation Method of natural fertility regulation (natural family planning).
11 - Apr 2013 - News: The Church Around the World
Rev Owens is the founder of the Coalition of African-American Pastors a group that describes itself as a grass-roots movement of Christians who believe in traditional family values such as supporting the role of religion in American public life protecting the lives of the unborn and defending the sacred institution of marriage.
12 - Apr 2013 - AD2000: the changing of the guard, Michael Gilchrist
It seemed a risky move given that I had a well-paid tenured lecturing position in Ballarat a young family to support and the move would involve lengthy travel from the bush to Melbourne each week.
13 - Mar 2013 - Obituary: Creos Roman: may he rest in peace, Bishop Anthony Fisher OP
He lost contact with his family for nearly three decades but by Gods grace was restored to them before his death.
14 - Mar 2013 - Religious persecution occurs in democracies, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò
) where young children were obliged to learn about family diversity as presented in a childrens book that elevated as natural and wholesome same-sex relations in marriage.
15 - Mar 2013 - 1000 UK priests sign joint letter against same-sex 'marriage', AD2000 Report
Marriage and the home children and the family life it generates is the foundation and basic building block of our society.
16 - Mar 2013 - News: The Church Around The World
Aged 40 Dr Messmore is married with a young family.
17 - Feb 2013 - Books: THE PASSION OF PERPETUA AND FELICITY, by Thomas J. Heffernan, Peter Westmore
Vibia Perpetua was a well-educated woman from a noble Roman family which had settled in north Africa a century earlier.
18 - Feb 2013 - Grace: Indulgences: relics of the past or still Church teaching?, John Young
Saying five decades of the rosary in continuity with meditation on the mysteries in a church in a public oratory in the family or in some pious Association.
19 - Feb 2013 - Religious freedom: The widows of Kandmahal: anti-Christian violence in India, Babette Francis
Initially she worked only with family members and close friends to raise money for the women.
20 - Feb 2013 - Events: iWitness Retreat: a celebration of young adult Catholic faith, Br Barry Coldrey
These sponsors are Cardinal George Pell Bishop Anthony Fisher OP of Parramatta Dooleys Catholic Club Lidcombe and the Marriage and Family Centre of the Archdiocese of Sydney.
21 - Feb 2013 - Marriage: UK Family Court judge: why marriage is worth fighting for, Madonna Brosnan (ed.)
The following are edited extracts from a statement in 2012 by British Family Court judge Sir Paul Coleridge when he announced the launch of The Marriage Foundation (marriagefoundation.
22 - Feb 2013 - News: The Church Around the World
Bishop Robert Morlino is well known to pro-life and pro-family activists for his strong defence of Church teachings particularly on life and family and he has earned praise from Catholics in the past for cracking down on dissent in his diocese.
23 - Feb 2013 - Editorial: AD2000 25 years on: the challenges remain, Michael Gilchrist
In most Western countries including Australia attacks on the Churchs positions in defence of marriage family and human life have become more open and aggressive.
24 - Dec 2012 - Books: A BIBLICAL SEARCH FOR THE CHURCH CHRIST FOUNDED, by Linus F. Clovis, Michael Daniel
For this reason it would make an ideal confirmation or Christmas present for a teenage child or grand-child but would also be useful reading for adults as an aid in providing a rationale to younger family members when they ask questions about the faith.
25 - Dec 2012 - Letters: Bob Santamaria, Brian A. Peachey
He changed the course of Australian religious debate on both faith and family.
26 - Dec 2012 - Letters: Abortion silence, Thomas M. Kalotas
Most of us are not even aware of the magnitude of the problem since we read only secular publications where abortion is condoned as family planning and where big numbers are studiously avoided.
27 - Dec 2012 - A different fire: Vatican II and the new evangelisation, Archbishop Mark Coleridge
Tribal Catholicism In the earlier time of tribal Catholicism one was by and large born into a Catholic family went to Mass at a Catholic parish and attended a Catholic school.
28 - Dec 2012 - Events: iWitness Retreat / Campion College Summer Program
com and contact Amy Vierboom Life Marriage and Family Centre Level 11 133 Liverpool Street Sydney NSW 2000.
29 - Dec 2012 - Young Men of God 2012 Conference showcases Christian leadership, Br Barry Coldrey
The Doyles - with their three children - were recently granted the Australian Capital Territory Family of the Year Award.
30 - Dec 2012 - News: The Church Around the World
The Archbishop who took office in March 2011 named five pastoral priorities: improving faith education encouraging vocations to the priesthood and religious life fostering Catholic identity and diversity promoting a culture of life and strengthening marriage and the family.
31 - Dec 2012 - Culture: Western crisis is spiritual: Russian Orthodox leader, Metropolitan Hilarion
In Europe and America we witness growing pressure from those representatives of militant secularism and atheism who attempt to expel Christianity from the public square to ban Christian symbols to destroy traditional Christian understanding of the family of marriage as a union between a man and a woman of the value of human life from inception till natural death.
32 - Nov 2012 - Reflection: Father forgive them ...: God's infinite mercy for the repentant, Anne Lastman
Before the abortion come the threats fears the pressure to end this pregnancy because its still not a baby but some tissue which hasnt formed into a baby so you wont feel anything; and if this cajoling by the boyfriend family friends and abortion facility doesnt work then the boyfriend in question may threaten to harm her and other members of her family or tell her mother who may also harm her (depending on the cultural context).
33 - Nov 2012 - Books: A MIDLIFE JOURNEY, by Gerald O'Collins SJ, Frank Mobbs
The first part gives a history of his grandparents parents and members of his family.
34 - Nov 2012 - Letters: Importance of marriage, Brendan Keogh
The natural foundation of a family is the marriage covenant between a man and a woman to live together exclusively for life for their mutual benefit and the nurture of any children of the marriage.
35 - Nov 2012 - The new evangelisation: restore a sense of the sacred, Andrew Kania
As a young seven-year-old boy he would be collected on a Saturday evening from the family home by a Basilian Monk and taken to train as a future cantor in the Ukrainian Church.
36 - Nov 2012 - Worldwide religious persecution continues, Cardinal Timothy Dolan
Sadly religious intolerance and persecution are largely equal opportunity crimes against the human family.
37 - Nov 2012 - Hong Kong's Catholic Bishop interviewed
In this time your family was not Christian not a Catholic family.
38 - Nov 2012 - Ignite Conference unites young practising Catholics, Br Barry Coldrey
On the weekend of 12-14 October at the Stanwell Tops Conference Centre via Stanwell Park south of Sydney the Young Men of God held their Conference while on 6-9 December at the same venue there will be the impressive iWitness Conference organised by the Life Mission and Family Centre of the Archdiocese of Sydney.
39 - Nov 2012 - Some good 'family' news from Russia, Babette Francis
Family support In September this year following the Ulyanovsk Demographic Summit which was also a World Congress of Families regional event WCF and the Ministry of Labor and Social Development of the Russian Region of Ulyanovsk signed a historic Protocol of Intent pledging to work together to support the natural family support children and provide solutions to Russias well-below replacement fertility rate.
40 - Oct 2012 - Reflection: The Year of Faith and the Church's missionary role, Fr Dennis W. Byrnes
As you did it to one of the least of these who are members of my family you did it to me (Mt 25:40).
41 - Oct 2012 - Letters: Nuclear family, Leon Voesenek
The expression nuclear family seems less familiar to many especially the younger generation.
42 - Oct 2012 - Letters: Information, Robert Bom
To obtain accurate information one needs to read more specialised and reliable publications such as those available through the Australian Family Association (www.
43 - Oct 2012 - G.K. Chesterton on the decay of Western Christianity, Donald Boland
The world has forgotten simultaneously that the making of a Farm is something much larger than the making of a profit or even a product in the sense of liking the taste of beetroot sugar and that the founding of a Family is something much larger than sex in the limited sense of current literature which was anticipated in one bleak and blinding flash in a single line of George Meredith And eat our pot of honey on the grave.
44 - Oct 2012 - The new evangelisation and the culture of life, Anne Lastman
The family life and love can renew each generation and with each generation God speaks again a language of confidence and continuation.
45 - Oct 2012 - Universities: Cardinal Pell's tertiary ministry at Sydney's universities, Br Barry Coldrey
; and Does the Family Matter?
46 - Oct 2012 - News: The Church Around the World
The newly-updated Survey of Religious Hostility in America serves as a testament to the radical shift in our cultures world view on religion said Kelly Shackelford president of Liberty Institute and Tony Perkins president of Family Research Council.
47 - Oct 2012 - Anglican Ordinariate: Melbourne ordinations: historic day for Church in Australia, Peter Westmore
Anglicans and Catholics who have an Anglican background as well as Catholics with a family member who belongs to the Ordinariate can be registered as a member.
48 - Sep 2012 - Letters: Power of the Rosary, Gabrielle Gannon
The daily Rosary can unite a family as never before given that prayer inspires courage gives hope and revives the heart and spirit.
49 - Sep 2012 - Letters: Media bias, Anne Lastman
And while there should be an open and unbiased inquiry which we as Catholics welcome it needs to be said that sexual abuse is by no means confined to the Catholic Church since it occurs in all religions and groups where children are involved not least in some family situations.
50 - Sep 2012 - Australian Catholic Students Association Conference 2012, Br Barry Coldrey
The ACSA leaders thanked their Sponsors the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference in the persons of Cardinal George Pell and Archbishop Denis Hart the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and the Family and the University Chaplaincies of the Archdiocese of Sydney whose Director Daniel Hill was present at the Conference.
51 - Sep 2012 - Noted UK doctor slams BBC program's anti-Catholic bias, Robert Walley
Unfortunately her comment about women not being controlled by old celibate men ended the debate accompanied by the comments and giggles between the presenter and Ms Bond that natural family planning did not work and was simply Vatican roulette.
52 - Sep 2012 - News: The Church Around the World
Zenit News Agency Scotland: jail over gay marriage a possibility Archbishop-designate Philip Tartaglia of Glasgow could see himself being imprisoned for speaking out in support of the traditional married family.
53 - Aug 2012 - Books: LESSONS IN A ROSE-GARDEN: Reviving the Doctrinal Rosary, by Aidan Nichols O.P., Peter Westmore
When he decided to write a contemporary series of papers for retreat conferences on the Rosary he found that no significant theological works had been written on the Rosary for at least two centuries although almost every Pope from the 19th century onwards had urged the faithful to its regular recitation particularly in the family.
54 - Aug 2012 - Letters: Fact-filled article, Thomas and Patricia Watkin
Obama and same-sex marriage: Shaking his fist at God (July AD2000) by Babette Francis with an eye-catching photograph of Rev Franklin Graham introduced an uplifting and instructive experience to our family!
55 - Aug 2012 - Parents' love for their children: finding the right balance, Andrew Kania
Nor does it force a child to feel guilt over becoming an adult and having aspirations and loves and desires outside of the family home.
56 - Aug 2012 - Marriage: Archbishop Hickey: the Eucharist and the Christian family, Archbishop Barry Hickey
In both Jewish practice and the ways of the Roman Empire marriage was based more on perpetuating family ties or inheritance or property or status rather than on love.
57 - Aug 2012 - Youth: Young adult Catholics peer ministry in WA and Queensland, Br Barry Coldrey
Thereafter Bruce did voluntary work for the Church when he was able but with marriage and a growing family of five children he needed a well-paid position.
58 - Aug 2012 - Benedict XVI sets up Anglican Ordinariate for Australia, Monsignor Harry Entwistle
Membership is open to former Anglicans who accept what the Catholic Church believes and teaches; former Anglicans who have previously been reconciled to the Catholic Church but who now wish to reconnect with their Anglican spiritual heritage; and those baptised in the Catholic Church who have close family members who belong to the Ordinariate.
59 - Jul 2012 - Letters: The Year of Grace and the New Evangelisation, Fr Dennis Byrnes
We may not undertake a physical journey to Emmaus but rather a journey of faith by remaining true to Christ and continuing to love our neighbours and family in the midst of everyday life.
60 - Jul 2012 - Letters: US religious women, Richard Congram
Those deviations included avoiding or rejecting Church teachings on abortion euthanasia family life human sexuality and the ordination of women as well as public disagreement with positions adopted by the American bishops.
61 - Jul 2012 - Update: 'Jesus Abandoned' aid reaches the needy in Nigeria, Madonna Brosnan
Fr Anthony located his relatives in a distant village and after lengthy negotiation a relative finally agreed to collect the elderly man so that he could die in a family home and be buried on their plot of ground.
62 - Jul 2012 - Austrian Chancellor's son: How faith helped to survive the Nazis, Michelle Baumann
Due to the family responsibility laws he should have been turned over to the Gestapo and would have been taken to a concentration camp or executed.
63 - Jul 2012 - Obama and same-sex 'marriage': Shaking his fist at God, Babette Francis
Good news The good news in Australia is that Victorias deputy Chief psychiatrist Professor Kuruvilla George and 150 colleagues spearheaded by Dr Lachlan Dunjey of Perth have come out in a submission to the Senate Inquiry stating that marriage between a man and a woman is the best environment for raising a family: Doctors have always accepted people of different beliefs and behaviours with care and compassion.
64 - Jul 2012 - Campus Life: A new model for Catholic university chaplaincy in Brisbane, Br Barry Coldrey
Robert is a very talented motivated and dedicated young Catholic family man who with the Freedom Group team launched this aspect of NET Ministries .
65 - Jul 2012 - News: The Church Around the World
He believes education especially for women is a key factor in achieving a stable democratic society since it is Arab women who build the family not the fathers and that females are also those who are more for peace and not for war.
66 - Jun 2012 - Reflection: Benedict XVI: Pentecost and the Church's universality, Pope Benedict XVI
Now the Lord breathes into our soul the new breath of life the Holy Spirit his most intimate essence and in this way we are welcomed into the family of God.
67 - Jun 2012 - Books: ABOUT BIOETHICS: Philosophical and Theological Approaches, Angela Schumann
Not only is Dr Tonti-Filippini highly qualified with an extensive list of academic credentials including the current position he holds as Associate Dean and Head of Bioethics at the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family Melbourne he also has behind him decades of experience working on the front line of medical and social ethics such as chairing a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Working Committee and having been Australias first hospital ethicist in the early 1980s at St Vincents Hospital in Melbourne.
68 - Jun 2012 - American priest's work for the protection of life in Russia, Eva-Maria Kolman
She has no money nowhere to live and nobody to support her because many of them lose all contact with their family when they move in with their boyfriend says Fr Shields.
69 - Jun 2012 - Christendom: Hungary's new constitution a rebuke to secular Europe, Edward Pentin
The preamble of the new Constitution or Fundamental Law which came into force on 1 January 2012 contains references to God Christianity and traditional family values.
70 - Jun 2012 - NET Ministries: Another Catholic youth ministry success story, Br Barry Coldrey
Sometimes the team is entertained at dinner by a local family.
71 - Jun 2012 - News: The Church Around the World
Mexican bishops defend marriage and family The family founded upon marriage is a patrimony of humanity an essential social institution said Mexicos bishops in a statement released in April.
72 - May 2012 - Religious Freedom: Catholics in Iraq: a struggle for survival, Archbishop Bashar Matti Warda
A family was asked to prepare their daughter to be married to an emir a head of a small radical group within 24 hours.
73 - May 2012 - Young adult ministry 2012: more reasons for hope, Br Barry Coldrey
These included members of the Sofatzis family David Richard Thomas Harry Peter Lucy and mother Gillian four members of the Hill family Matt Tom Bob and Luke and three Slee brothers from St James in northern Victoria Joseph Ben and Jacob.
74 - May 2012 - The culture wars: Archbishop Chaput's call to Christians, Ben Johnson
When sexual minorities routinely use the states power and friendly mass media to break down traditional definitions of marriage and the family they are met with a confused and disengaged response.
75 - May 2012 - Obama imposes contraception document on UN, Babette Francis
The attempt on the part of the main sponsor the US of the text to not recognise the prior and primary responsibilities rights and duties of parents regarding their children is disrespectful of the nature of marriage and the family and undermines international law .
76 - May 2012 - News: The Church Around the World
Bishop Joao Rodriguez of South Africas Tzaneen Diocese said he hopes devotion to this apostle of life will spread and that people will receive special graces from Benedict Daswas intercession especially for problematic family life relations and bondage to the occult and witchcraft.
77 - May 2012 - Mexico: Benedict XVI's reflection on Our Lady of Guadalupe, Pope Benedict XVI
I entrust all their sons and daughters to the Star of both the original and the new evangelisation; she has inspired with her maternal love their Christian history has given particular expression to their national achievements to their communal and social initiatives to family life to personal devotion and to the Continental Mission which is now taking place across these noble lands.
78 - Apr 2012 - Books: FRANK DUFF: A Life Story, by Finola Kennedy, Donal Anthony Foley
He had wanted to go to university but his fathers ill health meant he had to become the family breadwinner.
79 - Apr 2012 - Pro-Life: Albury hosts well-attended Family Life International conference, Wanda Skowronska
At the recent Family Life International Conference held in Albury from 26-30 January special guest Monsignor Reilly addressed audiences in halls filled to capacity.
80 - Apr 2012 - Culture: US Churches unite against Obama over religious liberty, Babette Francis
The Family Research Council released a letter in February signed by over 2500 pastors and evangelical leaders protesting the Obama administrations birth control insurance mandate.
81 - Apr 2012 - Episcopacy: Perth's new Archbishop Timothy Costelloe ready for the challenges of leadership, Michael Gilchrist
Archbishop Costelloe who is no stranger to Perth has some particularly big shoes to fill given Archbishop Hickeys outstanding leadership over an almost 20 year period notably his successful promotion of priestly vocations his creative approaches to evangelisation and his courageous public stances in defence of marriage family and human life.
82 - Mar 2012 - The Immaculate Conception and the development of doctrine, Bishop Peter J. Elliott
In Australia we face new challenges to decency morality the family and now even to the essential nature of marriage.
83 - Mar 2012 - The global financial crisis and the West's fertility decline, Babette Francis
A symposium on the family at the Italian Parliament in January 2012 included a presentation by Ettore Gotti Tedeschi President of the Istituto per le Opere di Religione (the Vaticans Bank).
84 - Mar 2012 - Year of Grace: can Australian Catholicism recover its unity?, Michael Gilchrist
Externally the Church needs a united forceful front on human life marriage and family as it confronts the arrogance of the secularists who seek to marginalise religion from the public square.
85 - Feb 2012 - Reflection: Pope's New Year Message for 2012 underlines the right use of freedom, Pope Benedict XVI
Working conditions often incompatible with family responsibilities worries about the future the frenetic pace of life the need to move frequently to ensure an adequate livelihood to say nothing of mere survival all make it hard to ensure that children receive one of the most precious of treasures: the presence of their parents.
86 - Feb 2012 - Books: THE RETURN OF MODERNISM:The Second Wave Revisited, by Dr J.N. Santamaria, David Perrin
In addition the Catholic Church throughout the world is presently being attacked on its support for marriage human life sexual ethics and traditional family structure.
87 - Feb 2012 - Letters: SSPX schools, Ken Bayliss
There is a strong family connection to five former parishioners of the Oxley Brisbane parish who are serving the church.
88 - Feb 2012 - Mission UK: Can pagan Britain recover its Christian identity?
It has to be the separation from family.
89 - Feb 2012 - Youth: iWitness 2011: a celebration of young adult Catholic life, Br Barry Coldrey
Among the other Conference identities were four members of the Hill family of Culburra Beach NSW and four members of the Langrell family each representing the vitality of strong Catholic family life that flourishes despite the stifling embrace of secularism.
90 - Feb 2012 - Law: Catholic politicians and same-sex 'marriage', Michael Gilchrist
This was an interesting observation given that as he informs us I grew up in Wollongong in a big Catholic family attending St Brigids Primary School Gwynneville and later Edmund Rice College in Wollongong where he graduated as Dux and School Captain.
91 - Dec 2011 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
00 ISBN 978-0-85244-313-7 The Life of St Catherine of Siena Blessed Raymond of Capua The author of this unique biography was one of St Catherines spiritual directors who knew her mother family members and many of her friends.
92 - Dec 2011 - Books: RONALD KNOX AND ENGLISH CATHOLICISM, by Terry Tastard, Michael Daniel
Next sensing a need for a change he became the chaplain of the Acton family at Aldenham.
93 - Dec 2011 - Letters: Homeschooling, Matthew Buckley
For our family it started that way too but gradually one can also realise that it is a good path in itself that is best for ones family regardless of contingent external circumstances.
94 - Dec 2011 - Tyburn world tour: A visually compelling new documentary on the monastic life, AD2000 Report
It offers a vivid and authentic insight into the spirituality of the nuns as they glorify the Most Blessed Trinity through the Holy Mass the choral celebration of the Divine Office Eucharistic Adoration and in daily prayer for the Holy Father the Church and the entire human family.
95 - Dec 2011 - Schools: St Philomena's school: a beacon of excellence, Alistair Barros
Alistair Barros is professor of Information Technology at the Queensland University of Technology and former state president of the Australian Family Association Queensland.
96 - Dec 2011 - Youth Events: iWitness Retreat and Campion Summer Program
com; or Amy Vierboom Life Marriage and Family Centre Level 11 133 Liverpool Street Sydney 2000.
97 - Dec 2011 - Vocations: Do not be afraid: successful Young Men of God retreat, Dr Barry Coldrey
Robert is also married with a young family.
98 - Dec 2011 - Homily: Benedict XVI: From his Christmas homily, Pope Benedict XVI
This new family of God begins at the moment when Mary wraps her first-born in swaddling clothes and lays him in a manger.
99 - Nov 2011 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
00 ISBN 978-0-85244-313-7 The Life of St Catherine of Siena Blessed Raymond of Capua The author of this unique biography was one of St Catherines spiritual directors who knew her mother family members and many of her friends.
100 - Nov 2011 - Books: STRAINED RELATIONS: The Challenge of Homosexuality, by Bill Muehlenberg, Dr Joe Santamaria
Available from Freedom Publishing) I first met Bill Meuhlenberg around 1990 in the offices of the Australian Family Association (AFA) an organisation that was founded by my late brother B.
101 - Nov 2011 - Letters: Catholic schools, Don Gaffney
My own family is descended on one side from the Scots and on the other from the Irish.
102 - Nov 2011 - Pastoral visit: Benedict XVI calls his visit to Germany 'a great feast of faith'
In the pro-life struggle both Catholic and Orthodox could speak up jointly for the protection of human life from conception to natural death and also work together to promote the value of marriage and the family particularly when defending the integrity and the uniqueness of marriage between one man and one woman.
103 - Nov 2011 - News: The Church Around the World
Abstaining from meat is easy to remember a simple way to give witness at work at school and even in the family and although it is still an act of penitence cannot be considered to put any real or substantial additional burden on the lives of the faithful.
104 - Oct 2011 - Letters: Anglican Ordinariate, Bishop Harry Entwhistle
However membership of an Ordinariate group is restricted to those reconciled to the Catholic Church through the Ordinariate unless he or she is a baptised Catholic who belongs to a family which has members belonging to the Ordinariate.
105 - Sep 2011 - Books: SNOW ON THE HEDGES: The Life of St Cuthbert Mayne, by Helen Whelan, Br Barry Coldrey
He had only a year of fruitful ministry while thinly disguised as a steward in the household of the Tregian-Arundel family one of the leading Catholic clans in Cornwall.
106 - Sep 2011 - Interview: Pope's brother sheds more light on Benedict's early years, Zenit News Agency
The book will be published complete with family photographs in Munich by Herbig in September just before Benedict XVIs trip to his native land.
107 - Sep 2011 - Glimpses of a new dawn in Russia, Babette Francis
Against this under-population backdrop the World Congress of Families (WCF) held the worlds first demographic summit: Moscow Demographic Summit: Family and the Future of Humankind at the Russian State Social University (RSSU) between 29-30 June.
108 - Sep 2011 - News: The Church Around the World
Cardinal Antonio Maria Rouco Varela of Madrid in November 2010 said that there had been a revival of radical secularism that had prompted laws aimed at the basic institutions of society such as marriage the family and the right to life.
109 - Aug 2011 - Letters: Anglican ordinariate, Michael Apthorp
However in the Vaticans Complementary Norms for the Apostolic Constitution Article 5 Section 1 we are apparently told the opposite: Those baptized previously as Catholics outside the Ordinariate are not ordinarily eligible for membership unless they are members of a family belonging to the Ordinariate.
110 - Aug 2011 - Letters: Unseen kindness, Anne Lastman
I would add to his many acts of kindness a genuine love and respect because of his loyalty to the people he has known for a lifetime including my family.
111 - Aug 2011 - Young adult Catholic ministry: further progress, Br Barry Coldrey
com and one of the key organisers is Amy Vierboom whose address is: Life Marriage and the Family Centre Polding House Level 11 133 Liverpool Street Sydney 2000.
112 - Aug 2011 - Defending the Catholic Church against ill-informed attacks, Fr John Flynn LC
Coren born into a secular family with a Jewish father became a Catholic in his mid-20s.
113 - Aug 2011 - Events: In defence of the authentic meaning of marriage - Canberra, 16 August 2011, Babette Francis
On 16 August the Australian Family Association the Fatherhood Foundation Endeavour Forum and other pro-family groups are celebrating National Marriage Day with a breakfast at Parliament House Canberra.
114 - Aug 2011 - News: The Church Around the World
Despite these setbacks however he said that Catholic ministries have the duty to faithfully embody Catholic beliefs on marriage the family social justice sexuality abortion and other important issues.
115 - Aug 2011 - The Carbon (dioxide) Tax: a religious perspective, Peter Finlayson
Moreover the UNs Green-motivated international agencies such as the UN Womens and radical feminist groups with their anti-life (abortion euthanasia same-sex marriage and the like) policies are already disrupting traditional family life.
116 - Jul 2011 - Books: A MEMORY FOR WONDERS: a true story, by Mother Veronica Namoyo Le Goulard PCC, Michael Daniel
Denied access to religion by her parents and other family members Le Goulard was largely left to her own devices to try to discover and develop a prayer life.
117 - Jul 2011 - Books: STORIES OF KAROL: the Unknown Life of John Paul II, by G.F. Svidercoschi, Br Barry Coldrey
Stories of Karol would make for ideal family reading especially in the year of Pope John Paul IIs beatification.
118 - Jul 2011 - What attracts converts to the Catholic Church?, Fr F.E. Burns
Coopers daughter Maria tells how her father and Hemingway frequently discussed the Catholic thing and although he had always been well disposed towards the Church and frequently attended Mass with the family he never discussed it with them.
119 - Jul 2011 - Lübeck martyrs of the Nazis beatified on 25 June, Frank Mobbs
Not only the lives of those who spoke out were at stake but also the lives of their acquaintances and family members The following are details about each of the four that underline their heroism and martyrdom (with acknowledgement to the Catholic News Service): Fr Prassek 32 regularly preached against Nazism and ministered illegally to forced labourers from Poland even learning Polish for that purpose.
120 - Jul 2011 - Pro-Life: Hungary's new pro-life 'Easter' Constitution, Babette Francis
Human Life International and pro-life and pro-family groups around the world are delighted with Hungarys new Constitution.
121 - Jul 2011 - News: The Church Around the World
He and his family risked death by drowning or murder by pirates as they set off in a frail barely seaworthy craft from Saigon in search of a safe haven.
122 - Jun 2011 - Books: HEART OF THE CHRISTIAN LIFE: Thoughts on Holy Mass, by Pope Benedict XVI, Michael Daniel
Benedict thus reflects on the importance of keeping Sunday as the Day of the Lord and is highly critical of secularism which seeks to treat Sunday as any other day of the week and which ultimately ends up depriving people of the leisure not only to worship God but to take time out with their family from work and other commitments.
123 - Jun 2011 - Books: MARRIAGE: The Rock on Which the Family is Built, by William E. May, Br Barry Coldrey
MARRIAGE: The Rock on Which the Family is Built by William E.
124 - Jun 2011 - Australia's seminary numbers continue to increase, Br Barry Coldrey
Many traditional Australians whose family backgrounds are in Ireland Britain or in Western Europe forget sometimes that immigration over the last 20 years has brought increasing numbers of Vietnamese Filipinos south Asians and Africans to Australia.
125 - Jun 2011 - News: The Church Around the World
Catholic News Agency Thousands join Church at Easter in US Tens of thousands of new Catholics joined the Church at Easter including a former Planned Parenthood director and seven members of the same family.
126 - May 2011 - Liturgy: Welcome to the new translation of the Missal, Audrey English
Audrey English teaches at the Centre for Thomistic Studies and Holy Family Education Centre in Sydney.
127 - May 2011 - Culture: The decline of the Christian West, Cardinal Raymond Burke
Agenda One necessarily thinks too of the ever advancing agenda of those who want to redefine marriage and family life to include the unnatural sexual union of two persons of the same sex which is justified as tolerance of the so-called alternative forms of human sexuality as if there were a true form of human sexuality other than that intended by God our Creator and Redeemer as He has written it in our body and soul.
128 - May 2011 - News: The Church Around the World
Orthodox and Catholics face the same challenges cast by the modern epoch to the traditional life-style he added referring to the threats to human life marriage and the family.
129 - May 2011 - Two million in Rome for beatification of John Paul II, Peter Westmore
When Pope he promoted the formation of the John Paul II Institute of Marriage and Family to promote this Christian view of love and marriage.
130 - Apr 2011 - Books: THE LOSER LETTERS, by Mary Eberstadt, Terri Kelleher
In relation to atheisms lack of interest in familial bonds and parental love she observes that many atheists have themselves been childless or lived outside real family bonds: Spinoza Nietzsche and most notably Jean-Jacques Rousseau who apparently had five children all of whom he sent to an orphanage at birth so they wouldnt interfere with his lifestyle.
131 - Apr 2011 - Books: THE RIDDLE OF FATHER HACKETT: A Life in Ireland and Australia, by Brenda Niall, Colin Jory
She has had two previous biographies published; Father Hackett was a family friend with Dr Nialls father being his medical doctor; Dr Niall acquired from her parents and their circle an intimate knowledge of Melbourne Catholicism in the early decades of the 20th century; and she came to know personally most of those who were prominent in Melbourne Catholic affairs during the remainder of the century.
132 - Apr 2011 - Letters: Easter shopping, Arnold Jago
Is forcing workers (who would like to spend Easter going to church and/or relaxing with family) to go to work mean giving them more control?
133 - Apr 2011 - Literature: The 'impossible dream' of Don Quixote (1 Corinthians 1:21), Andrew Kania
Rather Sancho wants to elevate his family beyond their rustic rural existence.
134 - Apr 2011 - Catholic Church's pivotal role in South Korea's pro-life revival, Babette Francis
There is also a proposal that the third-born child of a family be given an advantage in university entrance examinations employment and financial support for high school and university tuition.
135 - Mar 2011 - Reflection: Mary's rosary: picture book of faith, hope and love, Bishop Robert Finn
- every day and often together as a family?
136 - Mar 2011 - Books: William Wardell: Building with Conviction, by A.G. Evans, Terri Kelleher
Dickens was also a friend of Wardell and he and his family took part in amateur theatricals at Dickens home in Tavistock Square in London.
137 - Mar 2011 - Letters: Beatification case for Bob Santamaria, Brian A. Peachey
You know his achievements: a united Christian family of eight magnificent children joyfully imbued with the spirit of Christ an unsurpassed record of loyalty to his Archbishop who expectably in his turn nominated Mr Santamaria as his own special representative to the second World Congress of the Lay Apostolate a long list of published writings reaching from the magazine article to the full length book each manifesting an almost unique grasp of the import and moment of contemporary issues.
138 - Mar 2011 - Personal Ordinariates for former Anglicans: worldwide progress, Michael Gilchrist
A second Ordinariate Festival was due in Perth on 26 February at Holy Family Church Como hosted by Bishop Harry Entwhistle (Traditional Anglican Communion) while other festivals are envisaged for Melbourne Sydney and Adelaide to inform people as plans for an Australian Ordinariate take shape.
139 - Feb 2011 - Young children: never too early to love God, Bishop Arthur Serratelli
For some the violence of adults drugs sexual abuse forced labour and family breakups rob them of their childhood and sometimes their lives.
140 - Feb 2011 - Marriage: US bishops signal a tougher stance in the culture wars, Michael Gilchrist
Americas Catholic bishops have departed from normal practice in choosing their new president by overlooking the current vice-president and instead choosing a man seen as more outspoken on family and life issues.
141 - Feb 2011 - Book Review: Cardinal Pell and Pope Benedict XVI's interview, Cardinal George Pell
I did not know that Germany now has twice as many priests per practising Catholic as in 1960 or that the actress Raquel Welch believes that the pill has weakened marriage and family to situations of chaos.
142 - Feb 2011 - Editorial: Challenges ahead for the Church in 2011, Michael Gilchrist
Even more fundamental to the Churchs spiritual health are the cornerstones of marriage and family each under constant attack from secularist elites totally opposed to Judeo-Christian values.
143 - Dec 2010 - Reflection: Messiah: the one anointed by God to reconcile sinners, Fr Dennis W. Byrnes
From the Prophets of the Old Testament namely those authorised to speak for God we are told that the hope of future salvation will be accomplished by an anointed king of the family of David.
144 - Dec 2010 - Books: FIVE SMOOTH STONES: A 40 Day WYD08 Journal, by Stephen Lawrence, Bishop Joseph Grech
Family life is so important as a source of affection encouragement and strength and I was touched by the tenderness and care that Steve displays as a husband and a father.
145 - Dec 2010 - Books: EDMUND CAMPION, by Richard Simpson, revised by Peter Joseph, Fr Anthony Robbie
Natural talents St Edmund Campion was born in London to a Catholic family just as the brutal process of the Protestant Reformation was being imposed in England.
146 - Dec 2010 - Letters: Family breakdown, Peter Gilet
I think that we are at last seeing the full effects of the breakdown of the Australian family.
147 - Dec 2010 - Letters: Lay saint?, Eamonn Keane
This would highlight the fact that for the vast majority of Catholic men and women the call to holiness is lived out in the ordinary things of life: marriage family profession politics friendships recreation etc.
148 - Dec 2010 - Letters: Marriage, Arnold Jago
not since the Family Law Act (no-fault divorce etc) was proclaimed under the 1970s Whitlam Government.
149 - Dec 2010 - Congress for Life: Catholic orthodoxy: key to promoting the culture of life, Cardinal Raymond Burke
Many governments and international organisations openly and aggressively follow a secularist anti-life and anti-family agenda.
150 - Dec 2010 - Call to Holiness: Facing life issues in love and truth, Babette Francis
Ann Starrs Family Care International (an abortion advocacy group) told scientists at a symposium on maternal and child health hosted by Washington Universitys Institute for Health Matters and Evaluation and the British Medical Journal to lock all the academics in a black box and have them come out with a consensus set of numbers - or conceal the fact that there is disagreement between their numbers and those of abortion activists.
151 - Dec 2010 - Youth: Another successful Australian Catholic youth initiative, Br Barry Coldrey
- Among those present were the Melbourne youth leader Tim Davis three members of the Nichols family from Ballarat Jake Luke and Amos the Campion College representatives the Victorian and Sydney YMG leaders.
152 - Dec 2010 - News: The Church Around the World
Human Rights Without Frontiers Argentinian Archbishop targets UN agenda Archbishop Hector Aguer of La Plata Argentina has criticised the United Nations for spreading ideologies that fail to respect fundamental human rights and the family.
153 - Dec 2010 - Euthanasia: Australia's Christian churches unite in opposition, MIchael Gilchrist
Culture war The culture war is clearly hotting up on the back of the euthanasia debate as strategically placed elites opposed to Christian values on human life (as well as marriage and family) seek to impose their relativistic secular agenda on the Australian people.
154 - Nov 2010 - Fighting Fund progress
The Fighting Fund was established by our founder Mr Bob Santamaria to provide resources for the National Civic Council and its associated organisations to help create a better Australia based on principles which have built our nation: a Christian society based on the primacy of life and family the family farm and small business.
155 - Nov 2010 - Books: BLESSED JOHN  HENRY NEWMAN: A Richly Illustrated Portrait, by K.D. and D. Fso, Br Barry Coldrey
John Henry Newman was born in 1801 into a family of Anglican bankers the eldest of six children.
156 - Nov 2010 - Letters: Future Church, Tom King
Saint Lukes Church is filled to capacity each Sunday with large family groupings in evidence.
157 - Nov 2010 - Saints: Blessed John Henry Newman: why he is worthy of canonisation, Frank Mobbs
In these he writes confidentially to members of his family and to close friends revealing his constant awareness of the presence of God and his concern to discern and carry out the will of God.
158 - Nov 2010 - Liturgy: Catholic funerals: Bishop Elliott explains Melbourne's guidelines, Bishop Peter J. Eliott
To maintain what the Church expects the Guidelines affirm that the celebrant of a funeral is in control not the family or the funeral director: The Parish Priest or the priest or deacon designated to celebrate a funeral determines the content and form of the funeral liturgy.
159 - Nov 2010 - Homosexuality: Courage and EnCourage Chicago Conference: holiness the key, Marie Mason
It was a story of addictions hope in God rejection of religion desire for marriage and a family and gay partnerships.
160 - Nov 2010 - News: The Church Around the World
Zenit News Agency Bishops of Costa Rica on same-sex unions The Bishops Conference of Costa Rica has sent a message to the countrys lawmakers noting that it is an injustice to sacrifice the common good and the rights of the family in response to pressure from those who support making gay unions equal to marriage.
161 - Nov 2010 - Homily: Feast of All Saints: Benedict XVI's homily, Pope Benedict XVI
Let us lift in our hearts the desire to always unite ourselves to the family of the saints of which we already have the grace to be a part.
162 - Oct 2010 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
95 ISBN 978-1-58617-269-5 Real Love Mary Beth Bonacci An experienced speaker on Catholic teachings on marriage family and sexuality Mary Beth Bonacci has assembled the many questions she has been asked on these topics along with her answers offering a comprehensive catechesis on Church teachings.
163 - Oct 2010 - Books: WEDNESDAY WARRIORS: The St Pat's Ballarat Tradition, by James Gilchrist, Cardinal George Pell
We cannot deny or ignore the relentless and hostile pressures on self-discipline family and faith from the surrounding society.
164 - Oct 2010 - Letters: Little Angels, Fr M. Shadbolt
Firstly we priests there seldom took children for rides in our vehicles unless they were part of a family group.
165 - Oct 2010 - Latin Mass Melbourne: Rosary Sonatas
Entry: Requested donation of $50 per family $20 adult $15 students/pensioners.
166 - Oct 2010 - Good priests: the Church's essential foot soldiers, Cardinal George Pell
I am equally sure that they think with special affection and gratitude towards all those who helped them to priesthood and sustain them now in their work fellow priests family friends and work colleagues.
167 - Oct 2010 - Celebrating National Marriage Day 2010, David Walsh
The National Marriage Coalition including the Australian Family Association (AFA) supports and endorses a Marriage Benefit Pack which was launched at the National Marriage Day Dinner and includes seventeen different ways to strengthen the culture of marriage.
168 - Oct 2010 - Foundations of Faith: Archbishop Hickey: Time to stand up for Christian marriage, Archbishop Hickey
Large numbers of children are taken into care by the State today because the family unit can no longer cope.
169 - Oct 2010 - News: The Church Around the World
The Catholic and Russian Orthodox Churches are already united in their common stance on many issues affecting Europe: challenges to life and family and religious freedom among them.
170 - Oct 2010 - Culture of Death: Euthanasia: latest frontier for legalised death in Australia, Babette Francis
Schadenberg is to speak on Caring not Killing and his schedule is as follows: Perth: 11 October 2010 contact John Barich Australian Family Association (08) 9277 1222.
171 - Sep 2010 - Formation: MacKillop College: Wagga's educational showcase, Joanne Andrews
At present plans are in train for offering residential accommodation in a good Catholic family setting for boys from Years 9-12 whose parents want for them what the school has to offer but who live at too great a distance for daily travel to and from the school.
172 - Sep 2010 - Books: LETTERS TO A NON-BELIEVER, by Thomas Crean, Michael Daniel
LETTERS TO A NON-BELIEVER by Thomas Crean OP (Family Publications 2009 186pp ISBN 9781871217964.
173 - Sep 2010 - Books: Edith Stein Discovered / Edith Stein and Companions, Terri Kelleher
Fr Hamans an expert on the 20th century Dutch martyrs has compiled biographies of not only Edith Stein and her sister Rosa but of 24 other Jewish Catholic converts including six religious sisters and four male religious (five of them from the one family) who were taken by the Nazis from their convents monasteries and homes on that same fateful day 2 August 1942 and taken to Auschwitz where they were murdered.
174 - Sep 2010 - Vocations: The story of a grandmother and her love of the priesthood, Andrew Kania
I can recall during the time that she lived with our family in a granny flat her praying the rosary in bed.
175 - Sep 2010 - Natural Family Planning: Kyrgyzstan leads the way, Paula Flynn
However the Kyrgyz people are very family-conscious and have a well-defined system of hierarchy within their extended families.
176 - Sep 2010 - University: Another successful Australian Catholic Students Conference, Br Barry Coldrey
bull; The ACSA Alumni including three members of the legendary OKane family from Yarrawonga Camillus Xavier and Myles.
177 - Sep 2010 - News: The Church Around the World
Catholic News Agency Social benefits of religious practice Its little known to the public or to elite commentators in the national discourse notes Patrick Fagan director of the Marriage and Religion Research Institute at the Family Research Council.
178 - Sep 2010 - Appeal: 2010 Fighting Fund launched, Peter Westmore
The radical individualism of contemporary society has inevitably been accompanied by moral confusion and an increase in selfishness and lack of concern for others the breakdown of the family unit and the erosion of standards of conduct in the media film TV and the internet.
179 - Aug 2010 - Reflection: Why the true meaning of marriage must be enshrined in law, Archbishop John C. Nienstedt
High rates of fatherlessness and family fragmentation impoverish children and leave women with the unfair burden of solo parenting.
180 - Aug 2010 - Books: THE GUILLOTINE AND THE CROSS, by Warren H. Carroll, Michael Daniel
Dr Warren Carroll founder and first president of Christendom College Virginia and former chairman of its history department challenges the popular interpretation of the French Revolution through an examination of the events from the transfer of the royal family on 10 August 1792 to the Temple prison to the execution of Robespierre generally considered to signal the end of the Reign of Terror.
181 - Aug 2010 - Foundations of Faith: The angel who died on Christmas Day, Arthur N. Ballingall
One such family Father was never to forget.
182 - Aug 2010 - Foundations of Faith: The Sacrament of Penance: whatever happened to confession?, Br Barry Coldrey
On life-support and pumped with drugs he struggled to greet family crowding around the bed.
183 - Aug 2010 - Troubled future of the Church in Ireland, Archbishop Diarmuid Martin
Our system of religious education - especially at secondary level but also at primary level in urban areas - more and more bypasses our parishes which should together with the family be the primary focal points for faith formation and membership of a worshipping community.
184 - Jul 2010 - Reflection: The challenge: how to spread God's word in a secular culture, Bishop Arthur Serratelli
Second our age is witnessing the breakdown of family in the traditional sense and a lessening of a sense of community.
185 - Jul 2010 - Books: THE ABBESS OF ANDALUSIA: Flannery O'Connor's Spiritual Journey, Lorraine Murray, Terri Kelleher
A Polish Catholic worker and his family had been brought by the local Catholic priest to the farm of local landowner Mrs McIntyre to help them settle in to a new life in America and to help her as farm workers were scarce due to the war.
186 - Jul 2010 - Trends: The Church in 50 years: John Allen's predictions, Frank Mobbs
It is conservative on morals intolerant of any weakening of the family and of homosexuality and abortion.
187 - Jul 2010 - Book launch: Cardinal Pell's new book 'Test Everything' launched, Michael Gilchrist
This is especially evident in the areas of human life marriage family and sexuality.
188 - Jul 2010 - Archbishop Chaput defends the Pope and the Vatican over abuse lawsuits
But these family-like words filial fraternal brother are not mere window-dressing.
189 - Jul 2010 - Editorial: Religious education: the challenge of secularism, Michael Gilchrist
It now takes considerable courage for Christians in public life to articulate what today are counter-cultural views on human life family and sexuality.
190 - Jun 2010 - Reflection: Benedict XVI on the Church's birth and universality at Pentecost, Pope Benedict XVI
It is a description rich in detail: the place where they were staying - the Cenacle - was an Upper Room; the 11 Apostles are listed by name and the first three are Peter John and James the pillars of the community; mentioned with them are the women and Mary the Mother of Jesus and his brethren already an integral part of this new family no longer based on blood ties but on faith in Christ.
191 - Jun 2010 - Passover: Understanding the Jewish traditions behind the Catholic Mass, Gabrielle Walsh
Gabrielle Walsh is National Secretary of the Australian Family Association.
192 - Jun 2010 - Pysanky: Paschal traditions: symbolism in popular Ukrainian Christianity, Andrew Kania
These are but part of the colours and patterns of writing pysanky and various combinations of these help write a Paschal story on each egg for instance the use of four or more colours on an individual egg indicates peace love and happiness for the family; or the use of black and white is a sign of respect for the souls of a departed loved one.
193 - Jun 2010 - American survey of young Catholics confirms Benedict's agenda, Carl Anderson
Weve heard so much about what is not allowed that now its time to say: we have a positive idea to offer that man and woman are made for each other that the scale of sexuality eros agape indicates the level of love and its in this way that marriage develops first of all as a joyful and blessing-filled encounter between a man and a woman and then the family that guarantees continuity among generations and through which generations are reconciled to each other and even cultures can meet.
194 - Jun 2010 - Christians and political action: euthanasia, Babette Francis
The defeat of the Bill in South Australia was a victory but it did not come without a lot of ground work especially by the Australian Family Association and a lot of lobbying and personal contact with Members of Parliament.
195 - Jun 2010 - News: The Church Around the World
Participants will learn ways to form our youth for responsible sexuality better prepare couples for sacramental marriage enrich and strengthen those who are married provide marriage care for those in need and heal the pain of divorce for both the spouses and the kids said Lorrie Gramer conference chair of the National Association of Catholic Family Life Ministers.
196 - May 2010 - Reflection: Our prayers and God's silence: what Scripture says, Arthur Ballingall
This wealthy man quite suddenly lost his entire family wealth and health and was plunged into a world of misery and near despair.
197 - May 2010 - Books: NINETEEN EIGHTY FOUR, by George Orwell, Michael Daniel
George Orwell the pen name for Eric Arthur Blair was born into a family of civil servants at the height of the Raj.
198 - May 2010 - Culture: The vocation of Christians in public life, Archbishop Charles J. Chaput
Members of a family owe each other more than surface courtesies.
199 - May 2010 - Culture Wars: Christians uniting to take a stand: the Manhattan Declaration, Bishop Julian Porteous
Though acknowledging fail- ures and shortcomings the document argues that Christians have nevertheless defended the weak and vulnerable and worked tirelessly to protect and strengthen the vital institutions of civil society beginning with the family.
200 - May 2010 - News: The Church Around the World
Catholic World News Benedict XVI: parents key to our identity During his address to members of the Scandinavian episcopal conference on their ad limina visit in March Benedict XVI underlined the importance of the family and the need for children to discover their identity through parental relationships.
201 - Apr 2010 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
Currie David Currie explains to his fundamentalist and evangelical friends and family about why he became a Catholic after being raised as a devout Protestant.
202 - Apr 2010 - Books: WEDNESDAY WARRIORS: Doing it for the Jumper, by James Gilchrist, David Perrin
We learn about the role of the legendary Br Bill OMalley who originally coached Rugby teams at Brisbane Christian Brothers coll- eges right through to the present coach Howard Clark a teacher at St Pats and father of a young family.
203 - Apr 2010 - Books: FROM HERMES TO BENEDICT XVI: Faith and Reason in Modern Catholic Thought, Tracey Rowland
Associate Professor Dr Tracey Rowland is the Dean of the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family an Honorary Fellow of Campion College and an Adjunct Professor of the Centre for Faith Ethics and Society of the University of Notre Dame (Sydney).
204 - Apr 2010 - Letters: Family, Arnold Jago
Marriage provides a more stable family environment for children than does living with unmarried parents.
205 - Apr 2010 - Religious freedom: UK Catholic schools forced to teach homosexuality in the classrooms, Babette Francis
Compromise and accommodation with this government will result not in government concessions but in increased persecution of those who stand up for life and family.
206 - Apr 2010 - Formation: Young Australian Catholics commit to promoting Judeo-Christian values, Richard Lyons
The very idea of Catholic social teaching was certainly a hallmark of the conference and struck everybody as an ethos centred on the common good the family and a profound respect for life.
207 - Apr 2010 - News: The Church Around the World
Zenit News Agency Scottish Cardinal on UKs anti-family policies On 23 February Cardinal OBrien the Archbishop of St Andrews and Edinburgh accused the British Government of a systematic and unrelenting attack on family values.
208 - Apr 2010 - Homily: Easter - from death to eternal life, Pope Benedict XVI
The Hebrew Passover commemorating the liberation from slavery in Egypt provided for the ritual sacrifice of a lamb every year one for each family as prescribed by the Mosaic Law.
209 - Mar 2010 - Reflection: Mary in medieval art: an expression of the Church's faith, Bishop Arthur Serratelli
We need to recognise that our life with the talents we have the family we share and even the sufferings we endure is a gift of God.
210 - Mar 2010 - Gaudeamus igitur: University graduation: a young Catholic's Valedictory Address, Michael Gleeson
Finally at this momentous juncture we should salute our friends and family.
211 - Mar 2010 - Conversion: Paul Fitzgerald: my spiritual journey, Paul Fitzgerald
It was then and I am sure again it was the prayers of my two sisters and the rest of the family that God put in my path a book by Dinesh DSouza Whats So Great About Christianity?
212 - Mar 2010 - Culture of Life: Cardinal Pell receives pro-life von Galen Award, Babette Francis
Fr Euteneuers citation on the presentation of the Cardinal von Galen Award to Cardinal Pell reads as follows: Your Eminence As President of Human Life International and on behalf of our worldwide network of pro-life and pro-family organisations I congratulate you on the able leadership you are giving the faithful Catholics of Australia in these difficult times.
213 - Mar 2010 - Courage: A Catholic psychologist exposes 'gay' myths, Marie Mason
In conjunction with the Theology in the Pub crew led by Penny Badwal (Marriage Family and Life Office Melbourne) Marie and Alan Mason and the members of Courage and EnCourage Melbourne hosted a public talk late last year by US Catholic psychologist Dr Timothy Lock at the Cardinal Knox Centre and Campion House Kew.
214 - Mar 2010 - News: The Church Around the World
Later the Lourdes Grotto of St Anthonys Church in Taranmakki Karwar Diocese was damaged and the statue of Our Lady at the Church of the Holy Family in Inkal Mysore Diocese was also smashed.
215 - Mar 2010 - Secularism: Benedict to UK bishops: resist secularist threat, Michael Gilchrist
Therefore let it be known that we will not comply with any edict that compels us or the institutions we lead to participate in or facilitate abortions embryo-destructive research assisted suicide euthanasia or any other act that violates the principle of the profound inherent and equal dignity of every member of the human family.
216 - Feb 2010 - Letters: Vale Brian Mullins, Ken Bayliss
I quickly learned that Brian was a quiet devout Catholic who put his complete trust in God as his magnificent family attested at his funeral last November.
217 - Feb 2010 - Catholic Culture: 'A small brave initiative': Campion College's second graduation, Br Barry Coldrey
Sydneys weather provided a cool overcast day while the heritage buildings and spacious grounds were in pristine order when on 14 December 2009 nine Campion College graduates were awarded their certificates before a large crowd of church and civic leaders close family members and many friends at the College.
218 - Feb 2010 - Climate change: which Catholic response?, William Kininmonth
climate change is the paramount issue that the human family must act on now to secure its future in Gods creation (p.
219 - Dec 2009 - Books: IMAGES OF HOPE, EUROPE TODAY AND TOMORROW, by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Br Barry Coldrey
His father was a rural policeman and the family moved from town to town through the Catholic countryside with his postings.
220 - Dec 2009 - Foundations of Faith: The Eucharist: what the Old and New Testaments tell us, Br Barry Coldrey
The paschal lamb offered annually to God by each household and eaten by the family which made the sacrifice.
221 - Dec 2009 - Victoria: Abortion evil: pro-life forces need to be united, John Morrissey
Her inspiring story also recounted in her autobiography Brave Little Bear: the Inspirational Story of a Teenage Mother describes her anguish at learning that she was pregnant the effect on her family the outstanding support which she received from her parents and some close friends the awkward ensuing relationship with both the schoolboy father of the baby and his family her successful juggling of motherhood with study and her eventual marriage to the most amazing man Steven Black.
222 - Dec 2009 - Marriage: A Biblical defence of marriage: Africans take the lead, Babette Francis
What happens in Maine will have an impact on what other state legislatures do said Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council.
223 - Dec 2009 - News: The Church Around the World
As for solutions Bishop Menghisteab Tesfamariam of Asmara Eritrea pointed to the family as the first and indispensable school of reconciliation justice and peace since it is in the family that one learns the sense of belonging and identity and the values of solidarity sharing respect for others hospitality togetherness.
224 - Dec 2009 - Editorial: Benedict XVI: When God entered human history, Pope Benedict XVI
Let us think of those street children who do not have the blessing of a family home of those children who are brutally exploited as soldiers and made instruments of violence instead of messengers of reconciliation and peace.
225 - Nov 2009 - Reflection: The Feast of All Souls and the Communion of Saints, Fr Dennis Byrnes
All of these together form in Christ one family the Church to the praise and the glory of the Trinity.
226 - Nov 2009 - Books: This month's selection from AD Books
00 ISBN 0-89870-888-5 Stories of Karol Gian Franco Svidercoschi This book tells the personal story of the future Pope John Paul II from the perspective of his early life and the memories of his family and friends.
227 - Nov 2009 - Books: THE CHURCH AND THE WORLD: Essays Catholic and Contemporary, by John Haldane, Tracey Rowland
Available from Freedom Publishing) Professor John Haldane is a leading British philosopher and broadcaster and a member of a Scottish aristocratic family that has included Elizabeth Haldane the first female justice of the peace Lord Haldane the founder of the Territorial Army Admiral Adam Duncan the naval hero and compatriot to Lord Nelson and Andy Haldane the rock star.
228 - Nov 2009 - Letters: Women priests, Robert Prinzen-Wood
The parish is like a family.
229 - Nov 2009 - Missionaries: Mary Glowrey (1887-1957): Australian witness to hope in India, Robyn Fahy And Fr Dan Strickland MGL
Of Irish descent she was the third of nine children born into a loving and prayerful family.
230 - Nov 2009 - Holocaust: English nun who saved Jews from the Nazis put forward as saint, AD2000 Report
The Piperno family moved to Siena to avoid the racial laws imposed by the Fascist government after the outbreak of the war.
231 - Nov 2009 - The work of Courage and EnCourage supported by Melbourne priests, Marie Mason
Fr John Walshe: There is a real need for the Church to make a faithful and compassionate response to people who live with same-sex attraction and also to support and minister to families who are affected by the choices other family members have made in this area of life .
232 - Nov 2009 - News: The Church Around the World
Together we can offer our Christian vision of the family and affirm our concept of social justice of a commitment to protect the environment and to defend human life and its dignity.
233 - Oct 2009 - Books: This month's selection from AD Books
00 ISBN 0-89870-888-5 Stories of Karol Gian Franco Svidercoschi This book tells the personal story of the future Pope John Paul II from the perspective of his early life and the memories of his family and friends.
234 - Oct 2009 - Books: THE QUEST FOR SHAKESPEARE, by Joseph Pearce, Michael Daniel
Hard evidence Pearce acknowledges we lack the hard evidence to prove that other members of the Shakespeare family were Catholics such as their names appearing on lists of recusants that is Catholics who refused to attend the Anglican services.
235 - Oct 2009 - Letters: Christian divisions, Jack Blair
There are enough scandals and problems to focus on that affect the Church in contemporary life: sexual confusion the decline in Christian faith and morals married clergy survival of Christian marriage and family clerical discipline pro-life issues and co-operation between mainstream Christians.
236 - Oct 2009 - Letters: Healthy families, John Carty
The correlations between family breakdown and the pathways to poverty educational failure serious personal debt addictions crime and welfare-dependency are undeniable.
237 - Oct 2009 - Youth: RISE: restoring integrity and sexual ethics to Australia's secular culture, Br Barry Coldrey
RISE (Restoring Integrity and Sexual Ethics) was formed in December 2008 when 15 young adult leaders from across Australia were invited to Canberra by various family organisations such as the Australian Family Association and the Fatherhood Foundation to discuss sexual issues among teenagers.
238 - Sep 2009 - Books: DOVE DESCENDING: A Journey into T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets, by Thomas Howard, Br Barry Coldrey
Eliot: an American from an East Coast evangelical family who became a Catholic at the age of fifty has taught in many tertiary institutions in the USA throughout a long academic career and has written numerous books on both English literature and his own faith journey to Catholicism.
239 - Sep 2009 - Books: JOHN GERARD: Autobiography of an Elizabethan, trans. By Philip Caraman SJ, Michael E. Daniel
The gripping autobiography of a Catholic priest in the time of Elizabeth I JOHN GERARD: Autobiography of an Elizabethan Translation by Philip Caraman SJ (First published 1951 1956 Family Publications 2006 336pp $44.
240 - Sep 2009 - The Reformation and England's changing Coronation Oath, Tom Johnstone
Several Catholics have already married into the royal family with the Queens permission and junior royals have become Catholics and renounced their right to succession.
241 - Sep 2009 - Campus Life: Brisbane hosts 2009 Australian Catholic Student Association Conference, Br Barry Coldrey
ACSAs basic clientele consists of dedicated Catholic tertiary students but senior secondary students are welcome with the youngest attendee at ACSA 09 15-year-old Tom Hill a fine Rugby League player from a famous Catholic family on the New South Wales south coast.
242 - Sep 2009 - Christian Life: Courage and EnCourage: a chaste lifestyle for the same-sex attracted, Marie Mason
Of the 300 present about three-quarters were people who struggle with this condition and the rest were family members.
243 - Sep 2009 - News: The Church Around the World
CathNews Vandals target World Congress of Families The Amsterdam offices of an organiser for the upcoming World Congress of Families were defaced with paint and vandalised with obscenities and anti-Christian slogans on 30 July prompting the pro-family conferences leaders to pledge they would not be intimidated.
244 - Sep 2009 - USA: Anglicans fragmenting over homosexuality, Babette Francis
Marriage will be strong family will be strong and society will be strong.
245 - Aug 2009 - Books: THE WINE OF CERTITUDE: a Literary Biography of Ronald Knox, by David Rooney, Michael Daniel
Eventually he was received into the Catholic Church ordained a priest and became the Catholic chaplain to Oxford University and later chaplain to the Acton family.
246 - Aug 2009 - Letters: Appeal - World Congress of Families, Jenny Davies
The Netherlands won the right to host the Congress through a promise that its libertarian government would not interfere with the pro-life pro-family Congress program.
247 - Aug 2009 - God's Messengers: Angels: what Scripture and Tradition reveal, Susan McKinley
Angels were present when God banished Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden; helped Lots family escape from Sodom; rescued Hagar and her unborn child Ishmael; prevented Abraham from sacrificing Isaac; communicated Gods law and guided His people; proclaimed the births of significant leaders (Ishmael Isaac Samson John the Baptist and Jesus) and guided individuals in discovering their vocations.
248 - Aug 2009 - Human rights: Small victories for pro-lifers at the UN, Babette Francis
However due to the valiant efforts of the Holy See Egypt and Pakistan who opposed adoption of this report and the lobbying of pro-life groups such as the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute (CAFHRI) and Patrick Buckley of the UK Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) the report was dropped from the final Resolution.
249 - Aug 2009 - News: The Church Around the World
Nor would I have been able to continue in my chosen profession as a magistrate in our court system to support my family.
250 - Jul 2009 - Reflection: The full meaning of love: Christ and St Peter in St John's Gospel, Andrew Kania
The English language although rich in scope has only one word for love whereas the Greek - the language of the New Testament - gives us four words: eros or sexual love; philio the love between friends; storge the love between family members; and agape unconditional love.
251 - Jul 2009 - Books: LIKE A SAMURAI: The Tony Glynn Story, by Fr Paul Glynn SM, Tim Cannon
Thus the author commences with a fascinating account of Fr Tonys Irish ancestry and of the familys experiences settling in Australia several generations prior to Tonys birth.
252 - Jul 2009 - Books: Before the Dawn, by Eugenio Zolli, Michael Daniel
Zollis critics allege that he focused on saving himself and his family.
253 - Jul 2009 - History: Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust: revisiting Jewish sources, Fr Michael Butler
Edith Stein of an Orthodox Jewish family had become a Catholic at the age of 31 then a Carmelite nun.
254 - Jul 2009 - Life Marriage Family: The secular culture's flawed view of sexuality, Bernard Toutounji
Bernard Toutounji is the Education Officer of the Life Marriage and Family Centre in the Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney.
255 - Jul 2009 - News: The Church Around the World
The poll reported that about half of Americans said they would like to hear Benedict XVI on issues like abortion and stem cell research while 57 percent wanted to hear his views on marriage and the family.
256 - Jul 2009 - St Marys Cathedral: Sydney ordinations and a new beginning for Australian Catholicism, Fr Gregory Jordan SJ
It is the mystery of Gods love mediated through family friends teachers and increasingly those Catholic institutions that have been founded in recent years to form Catholic men and women.
257 - Jun 2009 - Books: AD2000 Books for June
00 A Family Retreat Preached before a church congregation in the 1970s this retreat consists of twelve half-hour talks directed at all age groups: Youth and Sex The Devil Confession The Meaning of the Mass Our Cross and others.
258 - Jun 2009 - Books: ISLAND OF THE WORLD, by Michael O'Brien, Luke McCormack
While the story commences with young Josips boyhood in a quaint Catholic village full of outdoor adventures friendships family church and his first crush OBrien soon unravels the geo-political tangle of the Balkan states.
259 - Jun 2009 - Books: The Catholic Church and Conversion, by G.K. Chesterton, Michael Daniel
However unlike many of his contemporaries Chesterton himself was not raised in a Protestant but rather in a free-thinking family.
260 - Jun 2009 - Youth: Forming a new generation of pro-life leaders, Patrick Langrell
Life truth love and family matter because of what they are and what we are and not because of what they give.
261 - Jun 2009 - Events - July: Australian Catholic Students Association: continuing spiritual impact, Br Barry Coldrey
Dr James Franklin University of NSW will speak on the topical issue of Regulating Capitalism: Economics with Social Justice and Dr Tracey Rowland Dean of the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and the Family will also address the gathering.
262 - Jun 2009 - Sharia Law: Lights dim for Christians in Pakistan, Babette Francis
The Easter of 2009 passed by in silence and fear without family visits and dancing in the streets of Christian colonies throughout Pakistan.
263 - Jun 2009 - FOUNDATIONS OF FAITH: The Last Things: death, judgment, Heaven, Purgatory, Hell, Br Barry Coldrey
In fact neither his family (whose attitude to their religious faith was vague) nor his school (whose teachers shared every shade of religious persuasion and practice) gave John clear and unambiguous guidelines for living.
264 - May 2009 - Books: AD2000 Books for May
00 A Family Retreat Preached before a church congregation in the 1970s this retreat consists of twelve half-hour talks directed at all age groups: Youth and Sex The Devil Confession The Meaning of the Mass Our Cross and others.
265 - May 2009 - Books: Hilaire Belloc and G.K. Chesterton, by Karl Schmude, Br Christian Moe
In the case of Belloc his range was wide perhaps too wide for as he said he had to write to provide for his family (with champagne and caviar!
266 - May 2009 - Books: Golden Years: Grounds for Hope: Fr Golden and the Newman Society 1950-1966, David Kehoe
Key players The Golden Years publishes the reminiscences of several dozen mem- bers of the University of Melbourne Newman Society (MUNS) of their chaplain the Jesuit priest Father Gerry Golden and their lives as undergraduates and professional and family men and women since.
267 - May 2009 - Staying together: Stable families: the best defence against violence
Tougher laws and more prison sentences might have their place but if we want to understand why our society has become so violent we must look at the state of marriage and family.
268 - May 2009 - FOUNDATIONS OF FAITH: The Crusades: the truth behind the myths, Frank Mobbs
Hazards Crusades were hazardous as crusaders knew they would be away from their family and homes for years and in one Crusade the casualty rate was 35%.
269 - May 2009 - Pro-family culture: AIDS in Africa: science vindicates Catholic Church, Babette Francis
Pro-family culture However scientists and pro-family organisations have defended Benedict pointing out that not only is science on his side but his remarks acknowledged the pro-family culture of Africa which is opposed to the population control agenda promoted by many Western aid agencies.
270 - May 2009 - Inter-faith dialogue: Jewish leader defends Pope over Bishop Williamson controversy, AD2000 Report
The most important issue he said is the work the Church is doing to save babies from abortion and to save childrens and young peoples minds helping them to know right and wrong on the life and family issues.
271 - Apr 2009 - Reflection: The Resurrection: confirmed by faith and reason, Bishop Arthur J. Serratelli
Responsible scholarship would have placed the claims about the tomb of Jesus and his family in the hands of fellow archaeologists for scientific review before going so public.
272 - Apr 2009 - Books: AD2000 Books for April
LeVoir This valuable analysis of Pope John Paul IIs writings on sexuality marriage and family in the modern world is once more available.
273 - Apr 2009 - Books: LIVING BIBLICALLY, by Archbishop Barry Hickey, Michael Gilchrist
Chapter six shows readers how to live out Christs law of love in a vital area too often ignored by Catholics these days in their marriages and family lives.
274 - Apr 2009 - Letters: Capitalism, William Briggs
His philosophy of culture war to weaken the institutions of church family education and media so as to radically alter the status quo has been vigorously followed since he was rediscovered in the 1960s.
275 - Apr 2009 - Foundations of Faith: The Mass and private devotions in Catholic life, Br Barry Coldrey
Some three or four years ago this writer was at a family funeral for the last of the twelve survivors of my fathers five brothers and sisters and their spouses.
276 - Apr 2009 - Anti-life platform: Archbishop Chaput: President Obama and the challenge for US Catholics, Archbishop Charles Chaput
They gave nobody a mandate to retool American culture on the issues of marriage and the family sexuality bioethics religion in public life and abortion.
277 - Apr 2009 - Red Mass Homily: Catholics as 'bearers of light' in a secular culture, Bishop Peter J. Elliott
By keeping that flame of faith burning brightly we are saying yes to a culture of life yes to procreation to marriage and family yes to educating our children and young people in love goodness and freedom yes to justice for poor families.
278 - Mar 2009 - Books: Books available now from AD2000 Books
LeVoir This valuable analysis of Pope John Paul IIs writings on sexuality marriage and family in the modern world is once more available.
279 - Mar 2009 - The family and the culture of death: a challenge for Christians, Fr Dennis Byrnes
In his opening address the President of the Mexican Bishops Conference Bishop Carlos Aguiar Retes said the traditional family was under siege by civil laws that by favouring contraceptives and abortion are threatening the future of the people.
280 - Mar 2009 - Vocations: Indian priests: still plentiful but fewer available for overseas, AD2000 Report
In past generations having a son become a priest increased the familys stature said Fr Jose Kuriedath a sociologist in Aluva who has written a book about vocations in India .
281 - Mar 2009 - News: The Church Around the World
In his statement President Obama said It is clear that the provisions of the Mexico City Policy are unnecessarily broad and unwarranted under current law and for the past eight years they have undermined efforts to promote safe and effective voluntary family planning in developing countries.
282 - Feb 2009 - Flying into the Wind for the new evangelisation, Fr John Fowles CCS & Fr Joel Wallace CCS
The impact on marriage and family the fundamental cell of society tells the whole story.
283 - Feb 2009 - Foundations of Faith: Protestant Reformation: origins and beliefs, Frank Mobbs
Today with the focus on ecumenism and the challenge of aggressive secularism relations have improved with extensive cooperation in areas of common concern - marriage family abortion euthanasia - although fundamental doctrinal differences remain.
284 - Feb 2009 - Christian-Muslim dialogue: glimmerings of hope, Babette Francis
The Taj Mahal Hotel one of the sites of the Mumbai terrorism of November 2008 is just a couple of blocks from where my family and I lived while I was a university student.
285 - Feb 2009 - News: The Church Around the World
He denounced the governments moves to liberalise abortion law and said that legal recognition of same-sex unions goes against nature family and a healthy society.
286 - Dec 2008 - Poetry: Genealogy, Bruce Dawe
For as in every family The past is present still And looks on family happenings Hoping they will fulfil Every fathers expectation To know that among his heirs He may be entertaining An angel unawares.
287 - Dec 2008 - Books: Down in Adoration Falling, by Gareth Grainger, Br Christian Moe, FSC
Born in 1925 in South Australia into a deeply religious family Geoffrey Taylor was a staunch believer and practitioner of the ideals of Methodism having even in his teens become an assistant lay-preacher.
288 - Dec 2008 - Books: The Life of Saint Joseph, by Maria Cecilia Baij, OSB, Tim Cannon
Available from Freedom Publishing) It is always a pleasure to make the acquaintance of a saint and in Maria Cecilia Baijs The Life of St Joseph readers have a rare opportunity to forge a friendship with the devoted patriarch of the Holy Family.
289 - Dec 2008 - 'Catholic literature': what does this mean?, David Birch
Indeed to become a Catholic when Newman did was to effectively cut oneself off from established privilege status and position - and if you happened to be a clergyman as many of the converts to Catholicism were at this time it was also to cut yourself off from your income as well; and indeed in many cases from family and friends.
290 - Dec 2008 - The decline of British Catholicism: the future?, John Haldane
With parents distracted by work and leisure now a dissociating rather than a bonding force in family life it is unrealistic to think that the faith is being nurtured in the home.
291 - Dec 2008 - News: The Church Around the World
Likewise the cardinal reminded those present that the intention of their celebration was to pray to the Virgin for respect for life and the family which is the sanctuary of life it is where life is born and grows.
292 - Nov 2008 - What happened then: what matters now - Swithun Wells, martyr of England, Rosemary Lucadou-Wells
He was born in 1536 at Brambridge House in Hampshire England where his family farmed and guarded the riverbank bordering their land.
293 - Nov 2008 - Foundations of Faith: God's gift of sex: building a civilisation of life and love, Catherine Sheehan
Today especially in the Western world we have high rates of marital and family break-down and there has been a dramatic loosening of sexual morality since the 1960s.
294 - Nov 2008 - Anima Women's Network: giving 'heart' to women of faith, Anna Krohn
All the women were already over-committed (not to mention over- burdened) with professional family and social responsibilities and with life in general.
295 - Nov 2008 - History: Cardinal Stafford on Humanae Vitae: how dissenters tore the Church apart, Cardinal Francis Stafford
Pope Paul VI had appointed him along with others as additional members to the Papal Commission for the Study of Problems of the Family Population and Birth Rates first established by Blessed Pope John XXIII in 1963 during the Second Vatican Council.
296 - Nov 2008 - News: The Church Around the World
He concluded: Progressing along the path of sanctity you will manifest that indispensable moral authority and prudent wisdom that is demanded of one who is at the head of the family of God.
297 - Nov 2008 - Editorial: All Saints Day and All Souls Day, Peter Westmore
The feasts of All Saints Day and All Souls Day when we are encouraged to offer Masses and prayers for our deceased family members and relatives were the living expression of a doctrine which stretched back to the earliest era of Christianity and which is embodied in the Apostles Creed.
298 - Oct 2008 - Reflecton: Benedict XVI: the natural family, cornerstone of world peace, Pope Benedict XVI
In a healthy family life we experience some of the fundamental elements of peace: justice and love between brothers and sisters the role of authority expressed by parents loving concern for the members who are weaker because of youth sickness or old age mutual help in the necessities of life readiness to accept others and if necessary to forgive them.
299 - Oct 2008 - Books: Books available from AD2000 Books
50 Love and Responsibility Pope John Paul II Drawing on his own pastoral experiences as a priest and bishop in Poland before he became Pope John Paul II Karol Wojtyla produced an eloquent and resourceful defence of Catholic teaching on sexual morality and family life.
300 - Oct 2008 - Books: MARY: A CATHOLIC-EVANGELICAL DEBATE, Dwight Longenecker, David Gustafson, Michael E. Daniel
Longenecker was eventually to become an Anglican priest before being received with his family into the Catholic Church in 1995.
301 - Oct 2008 - Books: WHAT MOTHER TERESA TAUGHT ME, by Maryanne Raphael, Catherine Sheehan
After his death her family was plunged into poverty yet her faith in God deepened.
302 - Oct 2008 - WYDSYD08: Thomas More Centre Youth follow up World Youth Day, Bridget Spinks
To this end earlier this year Matthew Restall 19 presented the Thomas More Centre (TMC) in Melbourne and the Australian Family Association (AFA) with the idea of initiating a petition in order to secure a ban on sexual advertisements from roads and public spaces in Victoria and NSW.
303 - Oct 2008 - Eugenio Pacelli: The enduring legacy of Pope Pius XII: a 50th anniversary tribute, Fr John Walshe
He grew up in a family where the grave matters which the Church faced following the unification of Italy were vigorously discussed.
304 - Oct 2008 - News: The Church Around the World
Benedict noted that in his dialogue with Peter Christ mentions the Church for the first time whose mission is the actuation of the great design of God to gather the whole of humanity into one family in Christ.
305 - Sep 2008 - Books: Books available from AD2000 Books
50 Love and Responsibility Pope John Paul II Drawing on his own pastoral experiences as a priest and bishop in Poland before he became Pope John Paul II Karol Wojtyla produced an eloquent and resourceful defence of Catholic teaching on sexual morality and family life.
306 - Sep 2008 - Books: THE WISDOM OF NAZARETH: Stories of Catholic Family Life, Siobhan Reeves
THE WISDOM OF NAZARETH: Stories of Catholic Family Life Editors Sr Crucis Beards FMDM and Anna Schaefer (Family Publications 2008 205pp $26.
307 - Sep 2008 - The physical and mental scars of abortion, Charles Francis
The VLRC Report claimed there was no need for anti-coercion legislation despite case histories cited by myself and barrister Michael Houlihan and in Anne Lastmans book Redeeming Grief showing that often abortion was not the choice of the woman but resulted from pressure by a husband boy-friend or family.
308 - Aug 2008 - Books: Books available from AD2000 Books
50 Love and Responsibility Pope John Paul II Drawing on his own pastoral experiences as a priest and bishop in Poland before he became Pope John Paul II Karol Wojtyla produced an eloquent and resourceful defence of Catholic teaching on sexual morality and family life.
309 - Aug 2008 - Interview: Denise Mountenay on post-abortive women: from silence to lawsuits, Luke McCormack
She was interviewed by Luke McCormack Victorian State Vice-President of the Australian Family Association during her visit to Melbourne in May.
310 - Aug 2008 - The tragic dilemmas of China's one-child policy, Babette Francis
One Extra Birth Whole Family Sterilised warns a Chinese government propaganda poster.
311 - Aug 2008 - Census shows a strong Church in Singapore, AD2000 Report
The census was undertaken by the Catholic Research Centre of Singapore and the Family Life Society both headed by Father Charles Sim SJ.
312 - Jul 2008 - Books: TURMOIL AND TRUTH, by Philip Trower, Tim Cannon
Origins of the crisis of faith that followed the Second Vatican Council TURMOIL AND TRUTH: The Historical Roots of the Modern Crisis in the Catholic Church by Philip Trower (Ignatius Press/Family Publications 2003 207pp soft cover $29.
313 - Jul 2008 - FOUNDATIONS OF FAITH: Jesus: how do we know he was God?, Br Barry Coldrey CFC
Hence Catholics encounter questions and situations like the following: A member of the family leaves the Catholic Church and joins another Christian community.
314 - Jul 2008 - News: The Church Around the World
In paying tribute Archbishop Mark Coleridge said Bishop Morgan was the son of a remarkable Melbourne family and showed himself through his life to be an outstanding human being soldier and priest.
315 - Jun 2008 - Letters: FEMINISM V. MANKIND: Selected Essays, Catherine Sheehan
MANKIND: Selected Essays (Family Publications 1990 74pp $7.
316 - Jun 2008 - Books: RATZINGER'S FAITH: The Theology of Pope Benedict XVI, by Tracey Rowland, Michael E. Daniel
Caricature In her second book Dr Tracey Rowland Dean of the John Paul Institute for Marriage and the Family Melbourne clearly demonstrates that the caricature/myth presented above is precisely that: a facile and egregious caricature/myth that fails to take into account the complexity of Ratzingers thought and key trends that have emerged within his writings spanning almost five decades.
317 - Jun 2008 - Human Rights: China: Olympic rings - or shackles?, Babette Francis
The entire female population of China is subjected to forced sterilisation and abortion for those who do not submit to state rules on family size.
318 - Jun 2008 - News: The Church Around the World
Catholic News Agency Cardinal Trujillo RIP: champion of the family Both the Church and the world have lost a true champion of the natural family.
319 - May 2008 - Books: THE REALM: An Unfashionable Essay on Converting England, Aidan Nichols OP, Tim Cannon
(Family Publications 2008 160pp soft cover $26.
320 - May 2008 - Books: Irish journalist exposes 'Kathy's Story' book and movie as fabrications, Gary Brady
The trump card in Kellys hand was the support of OBeirnes own family who she claimed was her adoptive family.
321 - Apr 2008 - Books: THE ENEMY WITHIN: Radical Feminism in the Christian Churches, Catherine Sheehan
Kelly (Family Publications 1992 135 pages $7.
322 - Apr 2008 - Legal Year homily: Truth and the law: legal should also mean moral, Bishop Peter Elliott
Bishop Elliott is an Auxiliary Bishop of Melbourne and Director of the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family.
323 - Apr 2008 - WYDSYD08: World Youth Day Sydney: look for the wider trend, Joanna Bogle
But todays young Catholics in the Western world each with his or her own reason for being present at church - a staunchly Catholic family a good local priest involvement in or around one of the New Movements a lingering tradition despite semi-practising parents or a muddled education at nominally Catholic school - are now open to the idea of adoration of the Blessed Sacrament a sense of Catholic identity Latin chant on a summer evening.
324 - Apr 2008 - News: The Church Around the World
The bishop continued: We are hearing from some Christian leaders that marriage between a woman and a man is not the only possible option for the creation of a Christian family that there can be other types of couples and that the Church should be inclusive by recognising such lifestyles and grant them a solemn blessing.
325 - Mar 2008 - DVD: NO TURNING BACK: Confessions of a Catholic priest, by Fr D. Calloway, Fr Martin Durham
God however was miraculously leading him and his family to convert to Catholicism.
326 - Mar 2008 - Books: SEARCHING FOR AND MAINTAINING PEACE, by Father Jacques Philippe, Tim Cannon
Professional commitments and family life place serious and legitimate demands on our time which is ever scarce and there looms a constant temptation to dedicate what little spare time we have to escapist endeavours.
327 - Mar 2008 - Letters: Married clergy, Frank Bellet
There could be no argument about the dramatic slide in the number of parishioners so if that fact is accepted you have to ask where will the money come from to feed clothe and educate what one would expect to be a rather large family?
328 - Mar 2008 - Vocations: The priesthood: a special relationship with Christ, Fr Pat Stratford
For some their families may be opposed to a change in family lifestyle Mention is sometimes made of the Eastern Rite Catholic Churches.
329 - Mar 2008 - News: The Church Around the World
Bishop Elliott referred to the challenge of social engineering that is attempts to use legislation and subsequent laws to change the way people act and think on areas concerning the value of human life the right to life the integrity of marriage even the nature of parenthood and the family.
330 - Mar 2008 - Tribute: B.A. Santamaria: ten years on, Cardinal George Pell
His large extended family his many friends (and he had a gift for friendship) his dedicated co-workers from the Movement and then the NCC were there of course with some bishops and his allies in the priesthood.
331 - Feb 2008 - Books: A YEARBOOK OF SEASONS AND CELEBRATIONS, by Joanna Bogle, Eric Hester
Family-centred Her joy in Catholicism is matched by her joy in the family: this is very much a family-centred book.
332 - Feb 2008 - Books: WHEN MIGHT BECOMES HUMAN RIGHT:Essays on Democracy and the Crisis of Rationality, Tim Cannon
For example advocates of the right of gay men and women to raise children argue that since the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights states that all men and women have the right to marry and found a family laws which restrict marriage and child-rearing to heterosexual couples contravene the rights of gay men and women.
333 - Feb 2008 - Letters: Natural Law, Fr Bernard McGrath
The fundamental essentials of society are at stake - human life human dignity the institution of the family and equity of the social order - in other words the fundamental rights of man.
334 - Feb 2008 - What the social reign of Christ means today, Bishop Peter Elliott
Still Jesus Christ will reign no matter what secularists old or new attempt no matter how grandiose their plans for social engineering may be no matter what affluent forces they raise against human life freedom justice married love and the family.
335 - 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.
336 - Feb 2008 - News: The Church Around the World
His remarks deriving from his annual message for World Peace Day titled The Human Family A Community of Peace and released on 1 January were according to a London Daily Mail report conveyed to delegates from 190 countries meeting in Bali in December for UN climate change talks.
337 - Dec 2007 - Letters: Latin Mass, Carol V. Phillips
Although my family and I had attended the Latin Rite several times over previous years the Mass was quite unfamiliar to me and I had a lot of trouble getting used to several aspects.
338 - Dec 2007 - Letters: Narrow way, F. Thims
Take others with you; and The family that prays together stays together.
339 - Nov 2007 - Reflection: Benedict XVI on Sunday Mass: 'not a command, but an inner necessity', Pope Benedict XVI
To be someones child means as the early Church knew to be a free person not a slave but a member of the family.
340 - Nov 2007 - Internet 'Singing Catechism': catechesis for the 21st century, Fr James Tierney
It has 50 Questions and Answers from the Catholic Family Catechism Disciples Edition on Creed Sacraments Commandments and Prayer which are the core of our holy faith.
341 - Nov 2007 - Books: ONE MAN, ONE WOMAN by Dale O'Leary, Bill Muehlenberg
There is probably no greater threat to the institutions of marriage and family than that posed by the militant homosexual lobby.
342 - Nov 2007 - Books: Catholicism and Fundamentalism by Karl Keating: essential reading in apologetics, Valerie Renkema
I found there was an emphasis on marriage and family life the sanctity of human life and works of charity all of which are essential along with a personal commitment to Jesus Christ in the Eucharist.
343 - Nov 2007 - Prayer: John Paul II and the Rosary, Fr. M. Durham
In the letter he reminds us that the Rosary though Marian in character is centred on Christ; it is a compendium of the Gospel; it is and always has been a prayer of and for the family.
344 - Nov 2007 - World Youth Day: Wagga Wagga priest's 'fly-a-thon' project to aid East Timor
To rediscover these basic family values we need to be challenged to go beyond ourselves to serve the downtrodden and in doing so find new meaning and purpose in our lives.
345 - Nov 2007 - News: The Church Around The World
The state it said has a legitimate interest in maintaining heterosexual marriage as the institution that allows procreation and the traditional family structure.
346 - Nov 2007 - Australia's Missionaries of God's Love congregation continues to grow, Mary Pidcock
The congregations priests exude a freshness and a joy in their ministry to young people which I have experienced at first hand with my own family.
347 - Nov 2007 - Democracy: Religious leaders must have freedom to speak, Cardinal George Pell
In asking Catholic politicians - and other Members of Parliament who are Christian or who respect human life - to vote against this legislation the New South Wales bishops were not calling for the enforcement of Catholic beliefs but reminding legislators to fulfil the demands of justice and the common good that follow from the inherent and equal dignity of every member of the human family.
348 - Oct 2007 - Reflection: Archbishop Hickey on the Christian concept of marriage, Archbishop Barry Hickey
The vision of Jesus of marriage and family life restored was a critique of the paganism of his time and the redemption of marriage as transmitted by Judaism.
349 - Oct 2007 - Books: JOHN HENRY NEWMAN: In His Time, Tim Cannon
A new anthology of writings on Cardinal John Henry Newman JOHN HENRY NEWMAN: In His Time Edited by Philippe Lefebvre and Colin Mason (Family Publications 2007 271pp softcover $35.
350 - Oct 2007 - Sacred space: Sydney seminar promotes improved church architecture and art, John O'Brien
Linda Klarfeld a sculptor who was born in Czechoslovakia came to Australia with her family in 1980.
351 - Oct 2007 - News: The Church Around the World
In June Archbishop Elden Curtiss of Omaha officially disassociated the archdiocese from the universitys Center for Marriage and Family after two of its researchers published an article in US Catholic magazine encouraging couples to have sex and children before marriage as long as they were engaged.
352 - Oct 2007 - Catholic Life: Sydney's Pastoral Plan ready for implementation in 2008, Michael Gilchrist
Marriage and family Here the nurturing and strengthening of marriage and family is a key priority if the faith is to be revived in parishes.
353 - Sep 2007 - Letters: African prisoners, John Evans
They rarely see friends or family.
354 - Sep 2007 - Laity: How the Legion of Mary can benefit parishes, Fr Hugh Thwaites SJ
After a weary day spent with pagans and lapsed Catholics and Catholics who just arent interested in what we have to offer we can relax in the family of our legionaries.
355 - Sep 2007 - News: The Church Around the World
Mike OShea said the lifestyle offered in Ave Maria close to Naples is exactly what he and his wife were seeking for their family reported the Naples Daily News.
356 - Aug 2007 - Books: Mother Angelica's Little Book of Life Lessons and Everyday Spirituality, Michael E. Daniel
The topics covered range from Gods Will and Providence to Sin and Temptation Overcoming faults and Motherly advice for the family.
357 - Aug 2007 - Letters: Study leave, Eamonn Keane
It stated that there existed fundamental and inalienable ethical demands that obliged Christians to seek to safeguard the family based on monogamous marriage between a man and a woman adding that in no way can other forms of cohabitation be placed on the same level as marriage nor can they receive legal recognition as such.
358 - Aug 2007 - Catholic students' joyful encounter with the Church's sacred music treasury, Gabrielle Walsh
Gabrielle Walsh is National Secretary of the Australian Family Association whose son David is a member of the St Kevins College senior choir and took part in the concert.
359 - Aug 2007 - Obituary: Death of distinguished Australian philosopher John Ziegler, John Young
A devoted family man with five children John nursed his wife Pam in her last illness until she died about four years ago.
360 - Aug 2007 - Why Catholic parents choose home-schooling, Leslie Sammut
The disruptive negative influence of some students in classrooms was mentioned and the fact that home-schooling fostered closer family ties.
361 - Aug 2007 - Catholics and the pornography epidemic, Bishop Robert Finn
There are those exploited by pornography those who use it and then the family and associates of both groups.
362 - Aug 2007 - Society: Defending faith and reason in public life, Eamonn Keane
Coupled with this the human embryo should always be recognised as a member of the human family - not to do so would be to dehumanise it.
363 - Aug 2007 - World Congress of Families: grass roots ecumenism at work, Babette Francis
While media attention is given to ecumenical initiatives by church leaders little notice is taken of growing ecumenical co-operation by the laity on pro-family issues.
364 - Aug 2007 - University: Australian Catholic students' conference: 'an inspiring experience', Br Barry Coldrey
Some attended elite Jesuit colleges where family wealth and high social status gave them the personal confidence to buck peer group pressure and the toxic anti-religious aggro around much of the Catholic system.
365 - Jul 2007 - Reflection: Bishop Robert Finn on what it means to be a Catholic priest, Bishop Robert Finn
Defend the integrity of marriage and the family which as the Church teaches are at the core of our society.
366 - Jul 2007 - Books: A Catholic Replies to Professor Dawkins, by Thomas Crean OP, Tim Cannon
A convincing response to Richard Dawkins The God Delusion A CATHOLIC REPLIES TO PROFESSOR DAWKINS by Thomas Crean OP (Family Publications 2007 160pp soft cover $25.
367 - Jul 2007 - News: The Church Around the World
Armed with this new understanding of where the countrys mind is on abortion the two pro-family networks plan to launch a campaign to educate the public.
368 - Jul 2007 - Interview: He could no longer explain why he wasn't Catholic, Tim Drake and Francis Beckwith
You were born into a Catholic family.
369 - Jul 2007 - Pastoral Plan: Cardinal Pell's blueprint for the future in the Sydney Archdiocese, Michael Gilchrist
The Draft Pastoral Plan sets out eight priorities: Evangelisation and Spiritual Renewal; Clergy and Religious Renewal; Parish Renewal; Marriage and Family Life; Pastoral Care Outreach and Social Welfare; Ministry to Young People; Catholic Education and World Youth Day.
370 - Jun 2007 - Reflection: Pentecost, the Holy Spirit and the Eucharist, Fr Dennis Byrnes
When we speak of team spirit or family spirit this spirit is hard to define.
371 - Jun 2007 - Books: THE SONG OF BERNADETTE, by Franz Werfel, Michael E. Daniel
The account begins with a description of the dire poverty of the Soubirous family who lived a hand to mouth existence.
372 - Jun 2007 - Obituary: Bill Daly RIP: fearless defender of Catholic orthodoxy in Australia, Fr James Tierney
Later he would be vital in setting up the monthly family catechetics gatherings in the early 1980s.
373 - Jun 2007 - The Caroline Chisholm Library: Melbourne's hidden treasure, John Young
Recently family responsibilities have prevented her from continuing to do this.
374 - Jun 2007 - Sigrid Undset: Revived interest in a remarkable Norwegian Catholic novelist, Michael Daniel
Medieval period Born in Denmark in 1882 Undset moved with her family to Kristiania (renamed Oslo in 1925) Norway while still a small child.
375 - Jun 2007 - Obituary: A tribute to natural family planning pioneer, Dr John Billings, RIP, Msgr Peter J. Elliott
Therefore mourning and celebrating him we are honoured to join his devoted family Dr Lyn and their children - and their children - and their children to pray with Christian hope for the gentle soul of this unique man whose love they knew best of all.
376 - Jun 2007 - News: The Church Around the World
In the letter released to the Baltimore Sun by Catholics for a Free Choice 19 MEPS - who comprise The European Parliamentary Working Group on Separation of Religion and Politics - charged that organisers of the World Congress of Families had shown prejudiced attitudes toward foreigners people from other religions homosexuals and the inclusive vision of what represents a family unit that has been developed by the United Nations and the European Union.
377 - May 2007 - Reflection: Teaching children about the Eucharist, Audrey English
Audrey English is a former school teacher who works at the Holy Family Education Centre and the Centre for Thomistic Studies in Sydney.
378 - May 2007 - Books: The Catholic Church and the Counter-Faith, by Philip Trower, John Morrissey
THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AND THE COUNTER-FAITH: A Study of the Roots of Modern Secularism Relativism and de-Christianisation by Philip Trower (Family Publications 2006 327pp $37.
379 - May 2007 - Letters: Thank you from India, Fr. A. Joseph
May the Risen Lord shower His choicest graces upon you and all your family members.
380 - May 2007 - Letters: Scourge of euthanasia, Brian Harris
Euthanasia kills: the terminally ill; the deeply depressed; those who have no family or friends; the intellectually handicapped.
381 - May 2007 - The importance of 'holy things' for one's Christian faith, Andrew Kania
There in the sanctuary of his dwelling he quietly lit a fire in his stove and turned to his family saying to them I do not know what is written on these pages but I do know that this is the Word of God and Holy Things are for the holy.
382 - May 2007 - Catechesis: Sydney RCIA conference in June on forming new adult Catholics, Joanne Zwaans
He was most recently the Director of Family Faith Formation at two parishes in Stillwater Minnesota.
383 - May 2007 - News: The Church Around the World
The homosexual agenda is a threat to that freedom explained the spokesman of the League Krzysztof Bosak a well-known pro-family activist.
384 - May 2007 - Documents: Benedict XVI's new document on the Eucharist - Sacramentum Caritatis, Michael Gilchrist
This is especially incumbent upon those who by virtue of their social or political position must make decisions regarding fundamental values such as respect for human life its defence from conception to natural death the family built upon marriage between a man and a woman the freedom to educate ones children and the promotion of the common good in all its forms.
385 - Apr 2007 - Books: The Way of Love: Reflections on Deus Caritas Est, Livio Melina and Carl Anderson, Tim Cannon
It is in response to this important document that the Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family has published The Way of Love: Reflections on Pope Benedict XVIs Encyclical Deus Caritas Est.
386 - Apr 2007 - Letters: Free and fair markets and the Church's social doctrine, Chris Hilder
Turning to my second point the principle of subsidiarity proposes that activities more appropriately undertaken at the lower levels of social organisation such as the person family or local community OUGHT to be undertaken at that level and not be taken over by larger organisations or by government.
387 - Apr 2007 - Letters: Catholic schools
We need better Catholic homes more than we need better Catholic schools - homes where there is an atmosphere of fair discipline some mortification where the Rosary is recited where Grace before meals is said where there is spiritual discussion where the whole family attends Sunday Mass together each week and where mother and father have complementary rather than competing roles.
388 - Apr 2007 - St Faustina: The Divine Mercy apostolate: a spirituality to transform the world, Eva Kimnes
The spirituality of Gods merciful love attracts millions worldwide not only because of the miracles that occur but because it responds to the needs of people living in times of depression family crisis confusion anti-life social values and the marginalising of Christianity generally.
389 - Apr 2007 - Catholicism and secularism in Britain: a test of strength on same-sex adoption, Joanna Bogle
At present all that the Catholic agencies are seeking is the right to send children to families where the Catholic understanding of marriage and family (i.
390 - Apr 2007 - 'Equal opportunity' legislation threatens Christian teachings, Babette Francis
Austin Ruse President of the Catholic Family amp; Human Rights Institute has highlighted some of the dangers: CEDAW condemns prostitution but the UNs CEDAW committee has directed governments to legalise prostitution.
391 - Apr 2007 - Book Launch: B.A. Santamaria and Australian Catholicism: Cardinal Pell's tribute, Cardinal George Pell
For him government money produced ecclesiastical bureaucracies which took power from the bishops so that the faith of two generations was threatened by the unexpected consequences of Vatican II and the disintegration of the family.
392 - Mar 2007 - Books: Order Books from freedompublishing.com.au
95 A Family Retreat DVD Archbishop Fulton J.
393 - Mar 2007 - Media: The Rosary of the Virgin Mary - 4 DVD or 4 CD set, Michael Gilchrist
Faithful to John Paul IIs renewal of the Rosary and his introduction of the Luminous Mysteries The Rosary of the Virgin Mary DVD and Audio CD sets re-introduce the Christian family to this School of Mary and the contemplation of the beauty of the face of Christ.
394 - Mar 2007 - Books: SEEKING THE ABSOLUTE: The Founders of Christian Monasticism, Michael E. Daniel
Available from Freedom Publishing) Reviewed by Michael Daniel If any institution stands in stark contrast to contemporary material culture it would have to be that of monasticism: too many people in the modern world simply cannot conceptualise how any individuals would forego marriage a family and a career to dedicate themselves entirely to God through the monastic vocation.
395 - Mar 2007 - Books: LISTEN MY SON: St Benedict for Fathers, by Dwight Longenecker, Michael E. Daniel
Applying this counsel to the family situation Longenecker speaks of the importance of fathers seeking forgiveness from other family members when they have wronged them.
396 - Mar 2007 - Catholic religion courses and the challenge of relativism, Audrey English
Audrey English is a former school teacher who works at Holy Family Education Centre and the Centre for Thomistic Studies in Sydney.
397 - Mar 2007 - The changing panorama of Victoria's historic 'Rupertswood', Michael Moore
Many still remember the family picnics but above all the procession with the Monstrance shining in the sunlight and Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament.
398 - Mar 2007 - Leadership: The scandal of Australia's anti-life Catholic politicians, Marcel White
Malcolm Turnbull visited the Vatican as part of an official delegation on Palm Sunday 2006 while his website proudly beamed his association with World Youth Day (including hosting three prominent international archbishops at his family home).
399 - Mar 2007 - News: The Church Around the World
The Pope was given the 14-15 Bodmer Papyrus (P75) dated between AD175 and 225 in January by Frank Hanna and his family of the United States.
400 - Mar 2007 - Editorial: How we can help young East Timorese, Peter Westmore
Fr Calleja pointed out that in East Timor even professional people such as teachers earn little more than $100 a month and with this a person may need to support a family.
401 - Feb 2007 - Books: New Titles from AD Books
95 A Family Retreat DVD Archbishop Fulton J.
402 - Feb 2007 - Books: B.A. Santamaria's correspondence published by MUP
The letters are both personal and professional and in them he speaks frankly on matters of church state and family and he is revealed as a person more subtle in his views than his public persona would suggest.
403 - Feb 2007 - Books: BEGINNING AT JERUSALEM: Five Reflections on the History of the Church, Sr Mariana Handley
The role of the family parish and its priests in this task is developed with an uncompromising emphasis on this particular need in society today.
404 - Feb 2007 - Books: TREASURE IN CLAY: The Autobiography of Fulton J. Sheen, Michael Gilchrist
Early years Sheens recollections of family life in his early years include strong discipline and a solid work ethic.
405 - Feb 2007 - Music: Johann Sebastian Bach and the heavenly choir, Fr Finbarr Flanagan
Bach was not only the greatest genius in the whole family but was also a genuinely holy man.
406 - Feb 2007 - Why we need holy days of obligation, Joanna Bogle
There are also those who come from happy and flourishing Catholic families and rather enjoy a sense of being counter-cultural while finding joy in establishing a Catholic family of their own.
407 - Feb 2007 - Priesthood: Orthodox priests in a divided Church, Fr John Trigilio
Many priests who find themselves discouraged disenchanted or even demoralised are so because they do not feel see themselves or are treated as spiritual fathers of a local family of faith.
408 - Dec 2006 - Books: New Titles from AD Books
00 A Family Retreat Archbishop Fulton J.
409 - Dec 2006 - Letters: Liberal Catholicism, Paula Gartland
When these progressives focus on the diocese rather than Rome on the parish rather than the diocese on family churches rather than the parish they are conducting a sort of guerrilla warfare in which like the Peoples Liberation Army moving among the Chinese peasants they capture the grassroots and the state falls.
410 - Dec 2006 - Religious Life: Tyburn Sisters' communities spread around the world, Tess Livingstone
As the Holy Father had died before we were able to establish our Roman monastery which was our special Eucharistic gift to him and to the Church in the Year of the Eucharist which he had solemnly proclaimed would he now in a very special and personal Eucharistic way give us a clear sign that he had accepted and would bless our humble Eucharistic offering of this foundation and that he would continue blessing us all everywhere our monastic family is present by the way he could answer my prayer.
411 - Dec 2006 - Modest dress: Suitable attire for Mass: the moral dimension, Bishop John W. Yanta
Part of the essence of that teaching is a wholesome orthodox first hand appreciation of Gods plan for our sexuality - its sacredness its fulfilment in marriage its place in family Church and world.
412 - Dec 2006 - Catechesis of the Good Shepherd: the Montessori method for RE, Anne Delsorte
One special feature of this catechesis is the way it draws in parents and family members often at first to help in some way but later to discover for themselves what it is that draws and feeds the spirit of the child in such a unique way.
413 - Dec 2006 - Benedict XVI challenges 'de-Christianisation' of society, Michael Gilchrist
In this context he referred to the crisis of marriage and the family the increase in divorce and abortions and unions between people of the same sex all of which he said are evident signs of de-Christianisation.
414 - Dec 2006 - Editorial: The first Christmas, Peter Westmore
For if it is he says No love that in a family dwells No carolling in frosty air Nor all the steeple-shaking bells Can with this single Truth compare - That God was man in Palestine And lives today in Bread and Wine.
415 - Nov 2006 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
00 A Family Retreat Archbishop Fulton J.
416 - Nov 2006 - DVD: A Family Retreat, by Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, Daniel Tobin
A FAMILY RETREAT by Archbishop Fulton J.
417 - Nov 2006 - Books: St John Bosco, St Dominic and the Rosary, St Thérèe of Lisieux, Siobhan B. Reeves
St Theacute;rse of Lisieux St Theacute;rse of Lisieux the impulsive saintly child of a middle- class French family is charmingly portrayed in a book focusing on her youth and family.
418 - Nov 2006 - Poetry: Sometimes Gladness: Collected Poems 1954 to 2005, by Bruce Dawe, Michael Gilchrist
The themes include city suburbs family friends reflections war dreams and questions and elegies.
419 - Nov 2006 - Letters: Generation 'Y', Kevin Cains
Bishop Pat Power Chairman of the Bishops Education Committee was advertised in parish notices in Canberra as a speaker with Senator Lyn Allison Senate Leader of the neo- pagan Democrats at a recent remembrance ceremony held by the group Family amp; Friends for Drug Law Reform.
420 - Nov 2006 - Letters: Education needed, Judy O'Reilly
I recall a time I attended many baptisms within my own family or celebrated with friends.
421 - Nov 2006 - Television: EWTN: now affordable and accessible in Australia, Moira Kirkwood
There is no more important investment that anyone could make for the temporal and eternal welfare of ones family.
422 - Nov 2006 - News: The Church Around the World
rsquo; Hence there is a particular need for lsquo;the apostolate of intellectual charity which upholds the essential unity of knowledge guides the young towards the sublime satisfaction of exercising their freedom in relation to truth and articulates the relationship between faith and all aspects of family and civic life.
423 - Nov 2006 - Living the Faith: What distinguishes a practising Catholic?, Bishop Luc Matthys
Catholics say daily prayers alone or in the family circle.
424 - Nov 2006 - Education: The Spirit of Generation Y: the challenge for Catholic schools, Cardinal George Pell
Too many young Catholics have been led by the pressures of contemporary propaganda whatever might be said about the inadequacies of family life and Catholic religious education so that their religious confusion is worse than that of all other young Australian Christians.
425 - Nov 2006 - Editorial: EWTN and the secular media: fighting fire with fire
Weakened family life inadequate religion teaching in Catholic schools and widespread confusion (even among some priests) as to what constitutes the essence of the faith have contributed to the swelling ranks of the unchurched a situation aggravated by the mass medias generally un- or anti- Christian output.
426 - Oct 2006 - Books: Order AD2000 books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
It tells of his family life the years of Nazi oppression and war his intellectual and spiritual formation his involvement during Vatican II and more.
427 - Oct 2006 - Books: ARMS OF LOVE by Carmen Marcoux, Jacinta Cummins
Courtship places emphasis on getting to know a person within the parameters of friendship and particularly within the family unit with physical contact kept to a minimum.
428 - Oct 2006 - Educating young Catholics: a bold initiative in Wagga Wagga, Michael Gilchrist
The indifferent performances of many Catholic schools - leaving aside the impact of secularism and family breakdown - have arisen due in part to the presentation of false or incomplete teachings in religion lessons along with the absence of strong witness to the Faith on the part of some teachers and parents.
429 - Oct 2006 - Benedict XVI interviewed by German journalists
Starting from this point we must find the way to meet each other in the family among generations and then among cultures and peoples as well.
430 - Oct 2006 - News: The Church Around The World
Chen was charged with organising a mob when he staged a public protest against the aggressive family- planning efforts in the Linyi region.
431 - Sep 2006 - Books: Why Must I Suffer? by Fr F.J. Remler CM, Jacinta Cummins
Todays public searches for answers not only to world crises like the war on terrorism and the alarming rise of family breakdown and dysfunction but also for solutions to issues relating to their personal lives.
432 - Sep 2006 - Letters: Helping the Carmelites, Beth Burns
The beautiful stationery is made by a family company in America and follows the tradition of the old masters.
433 - Sep 2006 - Letters: Judicial activism, Henk Verheven
Not only does the PNVD seek a lowering of the legal age of consent to 12 it seeks the eventual phasing out of any arbitrary age of consent as well - except in dependent or intra-family relationships.
434 - Sep 2006 - Letters: African pen-friend, Fr Vincent Kajoba
I promise to pray for any family that God willing makes contact with me.
435 - Sep 2006 - Family in Society: Asian and Australian families face similar challenges, Leslie Sammut
My wife Carmen and I were invited to represent Australia at the 7th Asian Continental Christian Family Conference held at Marriage Encounter House in Singapore from 16-18 June.
436 - Sep 2006 - Chavagnes: Catholic education in a secular culture, Alexander Morrison
I grew up in a family that attended Mass more times in a week than it watched television I served Mass as a boy and was sent to local Catholic schools.
437 - Sep 2006 - Conscience: AD2000 interviews Cardinal Pell, Cardinal George Pell
He would like to portray them as permissible but divergent views in one happy family; or perhaps as merely personal differences between himself and his friends on the one hand and the Pope (or Popes) and myself on the other.
438 - Sep 2006 - Editorial: 2006 Fighting Fund launched, Peter Westmore
The intact family which provided the most favourable environment for the care of the young and the elderly is under unprecedented threat.
439 - Aug 2006 - Letters: Funeral eulogies, Greg O'Regan
Funerals of public figures are well-attended affairs characterised by solidarity for the deceased and family.
440 - Aug 2006 - Letters: Pregnancy Support, Robert Bom
Dont we have any true family parties left?
441 - Aug 2006 - Letters: Tasmania, Justin Kearney
Attending Mass at our Hobart Cathedral recently my family and I had the opportunity to listen to a seminarian from Victoria.
442 - Aug 2006 - Teen STAR: Sex education for young adults: a pro-life approach, Jacinta Cummins
On 30 June 2006 the Australian Family Association was privileged to host Dr Hanna Klaus who was visiting from Washington DC and teaching her course at the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family in Melbourne.
443 - Aug 2006 - Victoria-Tasmania: Continued growth in vocations at Melbourne's Corpus Christi seminary, Joan Clements
When was the last time you spoke to a young man of your acquaintance family or friend about the possibility that God may be calling him to the priesthood?
444 - Aug 2006 - News: The Church Around the World
Catholic News Agency Spanish policies a death sentence for the family Cardinal Antonio Canizares Llovera has charged that the Spanish Government has written a sort of death sentence for the family with its new policies.
445 - Aug 2006 - Editorial: Falling Mass attendances and liturgical reform, Michael Gilchrist
The causes of such a decline - which has occurred in most Western countries over the same period - no doubt include the heavy inroads of secularism and relativism weakened family life and deficient religious education programs in Catholic schools since the 1970s.
446 - Jul 2006 - Reflection: US bishop: making saints should be the goal of Catholic schools, Bishop Robert Finn
These our like our precious family customs.
447 - Jul 2006 - Letters: Anti-Catholicism, Paula Gartland
Nor should we celebrate a nationhood build on the slaughter of the unborn the dissolution of the family and a huge and artificial unemployment.
448 - Jul 2006 - Internet pornography: raising the alarm, Fr Stephen J. Rossetti
Similarly some Internet service providers provide family-friendly usage and block access to objectionable sites.
449 - Jul 2006 - New Vatican document emphasises centrality of marriage and family, AD2000 Report
The central role of marriage and family has been a constant theme in Benedict XVIs speeches in recent months.
450 - Jul 2006 - Evangelisation: Strong leadership: US bishop Robert Finn shows how, AD2000 Report
It is in the family the workplace the marketplace.
451 - Jul 2006 - News: The Church Around the World
Important points of mutual interest for Catholic and Orthodox leaders were the defence of family life and bioethical questions.
452 - Jun 2006 - Books: Dear Son, Dear Daughter: God's Plan for Catholic Marriage and the Family, Michael Gilchrist
DEAR SON DEAR DAUGHTER: Gods Plan for Catholic Marriage and the Family by Carol Phillips (St Philomena Catechetics Perth 2006 16pp $4.
453 - Jun 2006 - Letters: Priestly celibacy, Tim Coyle
For instance how is a young priest going to provide for his family and childrens education?
454 - Jun 2006 - The John Paul II Institute after five years, AD2000 Report
The Institute offers Graduate Diplomas in marriage and family studies and bioethics Masters degrees in the same fields as well as the PhD degree.
455 - May 2006 - Books: Young Faces of Holiness: Modern Saints in Photos and Words, by Ann Ball, Jacinta Cummins
It will particularly appeal to secondary school students with its simple yet realistic stories and accompanying photos of young people who stood firm for God in the face of illness family opposition and even civil war.
456 - May 2006 - News: The Church Around the World
In his pastoral letter in March Archbishop Agustrsquo;n Garcrsquo;a-Gasco stated that those who dedicate themselves to abolishing family identity who are making the juridical and social meaning of being father and being mother disappear are imposing their ideological instructions to destroy the institution of the family and with it society itself.
457 - May 2006 - Papacy: Benedict completes his first twelve months as Pope, Fr Ephraem Chifley
Last year Anne Rice a quintessential baby-boomer and New Orleans chronicler of vampires and all things gothic published a novel called Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt about Jesus family and upbringing.
458 - Apr 2006 - Letters: Inclusive language, Ottavio Kos
If he doesnt like the inclusive language in his own Archdiocese of Hobart let him come over and join the women and men of the great family of humankind in one parish of the Melbourne Archdiocese.
459 - Apr 2006 - Letters: Religious education, Saskia Ebejer
Thanks be to God my family was strong in the faith and I have received this legacy the pearl of great price.
460 - Apr 2006 - Music and Culture: Benedict XVI, Mozart and the quest for beauty, Mark Freer
Msgr Ratzinger also gives a musical portrait of their family home.
461 - Apr 2006 - The Domestic Church: The Christian Family Movement: re-evangelising through families, Leslie Sammut
Recently retired Mr Sammut and his wife were chosen as the Oceania President Couple by the International Confederation of Christian Family Movements.
462 - Apr 2006 - Creation: Intelligent Design and the war against God, Stephen Hitchings
Supreme Court ruling The judges decision was based on a 1987 Supreme Court ruling: Families entrust public schools with the education of their children but condition their trust on the understanding that the classroom will not purposely be used to advance religious views that may conflict with the private beliefs of the student and his or her family.
463 - Apr 2006 - Conscience: Dissenters' appeal to Rome 'a real hoot' says Cardinal Pell, Michael Gilchrist
reiterated traditional teachings on matters such as contraception the family abortion and so on seemingly without listening to what an increasing number of women may have to say on these issues or taking into account recent developments in the understanding of human sexuality and fertility and the crisis of overpopulation.
464 - Mar 2006 - Reflection: Bringing Christ's love to the bereaved: a ministry for Catholic parishes, Fr Dennis Byrnes
One of the most important ministries of any parish community is that of consolation for the bereaved namely the presence of parishioners offering emotional and spiritual care and comfort when a family has experienced a death.
465 - Mar 2006 - Books: Golden Priest, Wooden Chalice, by Fr Tim Norris, Michael Gilchrist
The book commences with recollections of an Irish childhood the signposts of faith and colourful details of Church and family life in Ireland that were prompted by a return visit to Ireland in 2005.
466 - Mar 2006 - Books: Edith Stein Discovered: A Personal Portrait, by Pat Lyne OCDS, Michael Daniel
Born in 1891 into a Jewish family by early adulthood she had drifted from her religion.
467 - Mar 2006 - Books: 'The Case For Marriage' by Linda J. Waite and Maggie Gallagher, Kerrie Allen
Kerrie Allen is Research Officer for the Australian Family Association.
468 - Mar 2006 - Letters: Vaccines and abortion, Judy Law
Just recently I found an article on a website titled Aborted Fetal Cell Line Vaccines And The Catholic Family: A Moral Perspective (www.
469 - Mar 2006 - Media: Archbishop Hickey presents the Christian message on TV, Daniel Tobin
His topics have included Violence Honesty Marriage and Family and Justice.
470 - Mar 2006 - Vocations: Dominican Sisters: religious vocations continue to rise in Nashville, Tracey Rowland
Dr Tracey Rowland is Dean of the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family in Melbourne.
471 - Mar 2006 - Archbishop Hickey: how to address the crisis of faith, Archbishop Barry Hickey
Family prayer is not spoken of much.
472 - Mar 2006 - News: The Church Around the World
He said that such trends manifested themselves in the progressive ethical impoverishment of civil laws and political agendas resulting in the legalisation of abortion euthanasia and drug use as well as contempt for the indissolubility of marriage and the traditional family.
473 - Feb 2006 - Books: Stimulating reading from AD Books
It tells of his family life the years of Nazi oppression and war his intellectual and spiritual formation his involvement during Vatican II and more.
474 - Feb 2006 - Books: CATHOLIC FAMILY CATECHISM: Disciples' Edition and Apostles' Edition, Fr Tierney, Michael Gilchrist
CATHOLIC FAMILY CATECHISM: Disciples Edition and Apostles Edition by Fr B.
475 - Feb 2006 - Books: Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church, Peter Westmore
It upholds the family as the fundamental unit of society the dignity of work the importance of trade unions and the right to strike.
476 - Feb 2006 - The Church of England: beyond satire?, Rev Peter Mullen
I think there should be a rubric in the margin saying At this point the congregation shall throw up - brides familys side first.
477 - Feb 2006 - New Age paganism's creeping influence within the Church, Wanda Skowronska
She has done some pro-life lobbying at the UN and does voluntary work for Family Life International.
478 - Dec 2005 - Books: Christmas reading from AD Books
It tells of his family life the years of Nazi oppression and war his intellectual and spiritual formation his involvement during Vatican II and more.
479 - Dec 2005 - Books: Good News About Sex And Marriage, by Christopher West, Kerrie Allen
West says that as sexual morality disappears so to does civilisation through the loss of marriage and family.
480 - Dec 2005 - Books: The Cube and the Cathedral, by George Weigel, John Ballantyne
With the loss of a sense of the sacredness of human life come selfishness the weakening of family ties and obligations and the fragmentation of society.
481 - Dec 2005 - Formation: St John Vianney's blueprint for the priesthood back in favour, Fr John Cihak
Prayer Family prayer had all but died out in the village and Vianney realised that most farmers and workers could not attend daily Mass in the morning.
482 - Dec 2005 - News: The Church Around the World
In a rare public disagreement between Vatican prelates the President of the Pontifical Council for the Family spoke to the Italian daily La Repubblica just four days after Cardinal Walter Kasper made the claim that the proper pastoral policy toward divorced and remarried Catholics remained an open question.
483 - Dec 2005 - Synod on the Eucharist sets agenda for Benedict's pontificate, Michael Gilchrist
It cautions that such groups must serve to unify the parish community not to divide it and that as much as possible they must preserve the unity of the family.
484 - Nov 2005 - Reflection: The concrete character of Christianity, John Young
Some people are thrilled at being able to trace their family tree back a few hundred years; but we rarely reflect on the fact that we all go back in an unbroken line to the very first humans who ever existed.
485 - Nov 2005 - Books: Stem Cells, by Norman M. Ford and Michael Herbert, Kerrie Allen
During an IVF debate on the ABC religion program Compass (Family Matters August 2001) he said: The way God made our nature male and female the child is to arise from the context of the intimacy of love in a sexual union.
486 - Nov 2005 - Books: The Incredible Da Vinci Code, by Frank Mobbs, Michael Gilchrist
Movie The Incredible Da Vinci Code would be an ideal gift for ones friends family members or relations who have read The Da Vinci Code and seem impressed with its authenticity; even more so given the planned release of a movie version of the book in mid-2006.
487 - Nov 2005 - Letters: Myths exploded, Nola Viney
Like a number of our radio and TV comperes and presenters Liam is a product of Catholic family and schools.
488 - Nov 2005 - Thomas More Centre: Fifty years from Shadowlands: Childhood memories of the world of C. S. Lewis, Msgr Peter J. Elliott
Our eventual family encounter with what is now called Shadowlands came about in an unexpected way.
489 - Nov 2005 - Synod of Bishops on the Eucharist: areas for remedial action identified, Peter Westmore
Basic formation needed Leonardo Casco President of the Honduran Alliance for the Family pointed out that a huge number of Catholics in the world today have no exact knowledge of the doctrinal principles of the faith they profess living what could be called (to use a fashionable term) light Catholicism.
490 - Nov 2005 - Sister Miriam Duggan: the Church's response to AIDS, Anh Nguyen
Its not just about AIDS says Sr Miriam its about family about future about life and if we didnt have AIDS tomorrow Id still be promoting abstinence and faithfulness.
491 - Nov 2005 - News: The Church Around the World
Eduardo Hertfelder the president of the Family Policy Institute welcomed the appeal of a laws that he characterised as regressive and unjust toward the family and children.
492 - Nov 2005 - National Press Club: Cardinal George Pell on the dictatorship of relativism, Cardinal George Pell
Generally accepted understandings of family sexuality maleness femaleness parenthood and culture are treated as dominant discourses that impose and legitimise injustice and intolerance.
493 - Oct 2005 - Books: More good reading from AD Books
It tells of his family life the years of Nazi oppression and war his intellectual and spiritual formation his involvement during Vatican II and more.
494 - Oct 2005 - Letters: Anti-Christian media, Frank Bellet
The ones that saved themselves whether consciously or otherwise from this satanic juggernaut were those who continued with personal prayer particularly of the family variety.
495 - Oct 2005 - Society: The latest marriage statistics: implications, Zenit News Agency
The following statistics on marriage family and divorce refer to the United States and Sweden but to some extent they reflect trends in Australia and the Western world generally and are therefore cause for concern with their negative implications for the churches as well as for the wider society.
496 - Oct 2005 - Editorial: Health of Church and health of family connect, Michael Gilchrist
It is not without reason that the Catholic Church describes the family as the domestic Church for the family is the cornerstone of the Church.
497 - Sep 2005 - Books: More good reading from AD Books
00 Stories of Karol Gian Franco Svidercoschi This book tells the story of the future Pope from the perspective of his family and friends.
498 - Sep 2005 - Books: The Holy Shroud, by Antonio Cassanelli, Gabrielle Walsh
Gabrielle Walsh is National Secretary of the Australian Family Association.
499 - Sep 2005 - Books: THE ART OF GIVING by Francine Black, Kerrie Allen
Dr Kerrie Allen is Research Officer for the Australian Family Association.
500 - Sep 2005 - A religious response to evil ideologies, John Rego
John Rego was born into a large family in Indooroopilly Brisbane.
501 - Sep 2005 - Cinema: The Church under Nazism: a sensitive film portrayal in 'The Ninth Day', Michael E. Daniel
On the one side he is urged by his family to escape even to the point where his brother offers him a lift home only to start to drive him to Paris.
502 - Sep 2005 - Can reverence at Mass make a comeback?, Michael Ryan
The well-educated Catholic knows that the Mass is not a religious service a family meal or a community feast.
503 - Sep 2005 - News: The Chuch Around the World
Aquila announced that the Diocese of Fargo would begin requiring couples preparing for marriage in that diocese to complete courses in Natural Family Planning the Churchs only accepted form of birth regulation.
504 - Sep 2005 - Editorial: Support the 2005 Fighting Fund!, Peter Westmore
As Benedict XVI has pointed out repeatedly the future of Western civilisation is threatened by the forces of individualism materialism and secularism which are dissolving the bonds that hold society together particularly marriage and the family undermining legitimate authority in both Church and state and causing the de-Christianisation of society.
505 - Aug 2005 - Books: More Good Reading from AD Books
00 Stories of Karol Gian Franco Svidercoschi This book tells the story of the future Pope from the perspective of his family and friends.
506 - Aug 2005 - Letters: Government review of RE in State Schools (letter), Maureen Federico
The same can be said of family funerals and even Anzac Day when in the services (including at Gallipoli) hymns and prayers are included?
507 - Aug 2005 - Letters: Dissenter's manifesto (letter), Imelda Aslett
Anderson is a member of our Holy Family parish.
508 - Aug 2005 - London's Balham parish, 'an icon of liturgical hope', Joanna Bogle
The traffic litter and crime along the Balham High Road all continue but in the quiet residential roads there is an air of prosperity and family life.
509 - Aug 2005 - Media: Our Lord's name: responding to media blasphemy, Andre Van Der Linden
Some six years ago assisted by my wife and a family friend I began to write to television stations whenever I heard the name of Jesus Christ blasphemed on television.
510 - Aug 2005 - News: The Church Around the World
Catholic News Agency Worlds bishops support Spanish pro-family rally The Vatican agency Fides united the voices of bishops worldwide in support of the protest in Madrid last June against legislation - subsequently ratified by the Spanish Parliament - to recognise homosexual marriage in Spain.
511 - Aug 2005 - What the Church can teach the secular world, Archbishp Barry Hickey
Contraception The West Australian editorial mentioned contraception as though this is a weakness of the Catholic Church but the dramatic rise in the divorce rate started with the arrival of the contraceptive pill and the false philosophy that it is the way to strengthen family life.
512 - Jul 2005 - Editorial: Can Catholic "salt" flavour the secular culture?, Michael Gilchrist
With the fruits of the 1960s cultural revolution starkly evident around us in family breakdown anti-life policies and rampant pornography the time is indeed ripe for a more confident assertive Christian presence in the shaping of public opinion and political decision-making.
513 - Jun 2005 - Reflection: Cardinal Nguyen van Thuan: witness to the priesthood and Eucharist, Fr Dennis Byrnes
This tiny faded box contained two photographs of the family two small jars used to contain the altar wine and the hosts as well as old handkerchiefs used for altar cloth and purificator.
514 - Jun 2005 - Books: John Paul the Great, edited by William Oddie, John R. Barich
John Barich is WA State President of the Australian Family Association (AFA).
515 - Jun 2005 - Letters: Another Parish, Peter Gilet
If we have not one parish but a lot of little family churches then it is easier to exclude orthodox Catholics and each group can be controlled by one or two liberals.
516 - Jun 2005 - Papal awards for WA Catholic politicians, Hugh Ryan
Phil Pendal grew up in a family of mixed religion and mixed politics with his Catholic mother supporting the Labor Party and his Anglican father the Liberals but he said he was never going to be anything but a Catholic and a Liberal.
517 - Jun 2005 - Mother Teresa's legacy continued at Georgetown University, Peter Reynolds
Other times one has the privilege of listening and sharing a personal story about life faith family hobbies or other thoughts with one of the poor persons.
518 - Jun 2005 - News: The Church Around the World
The President of the Bishops Conferences Commission for the Family Bishop Rodrigo Aguilar Martnez of Matehuala warned in April that the campaign of the Secretary of Health struck directly against natural law because it affirmed that homosexuality was a valid option of life.
519 - May 2005 - Letters: Catholic hymns, Dolores Lightbody
Early Christians could be heard singing hymns from their prison cells and hymns have also been sung in homes in the prayer life of the family or during prayer group meetings.
520 - May 2005 - Letters: Sex before marriage, Dr Arnold Jago
Zhoa Journal of Marriage and Family 57 1995).
521 - May 2005 - Bioethics: IVF and embryonic stem cell research: the social and ethical issues, Kerrie Allen
Dr Kerrie Allen is Research Officer for the Australian Family Association.
522 - May 2005 - St Patrick's Church, Soho Square, a spiritual oasis in London, Tess Livingstone
Father Alexander who comes from Britains beautiful county of Dorset where his family has lived for generations attended Eton College and the University of Edinburgh then studied for the priesthood in Rome.
523 - May 2005 - News: The Church Around the World
The issues included marriage and the family criminal justice education the global common good and immigration.
524 - May 2005 - 'Santo Subito': the impact of John Paul II, Peter Westmore
Eulogy In his eulogy the principal celebrant Cardinal Ratzinger said: The Holy Father was a priest to the last for he offered his life to God for his flock and for the entire human family in a daily self-oblation for the service of the Church especially amid the sufferings of his final months.
525 - Apr 2005 - Books: Love Alone Is Credible, by Hans urs von Balthasar, Kerrie Allen
Dr Kerrie Allen is the Research Officer for the Australian Family Association.
526 - Apr 2005 - Books: The Path to Rome: Modern Journeys to the Catholic Church, Michael Casanova
During that time the flood of converts has included four Anglican bishops a member of the Royal Family two Ministers of the Crown and a host of ordinary clergy and lay people.
527 - Apr 2005 - Letters: Practice of faith, Br Con Moloney CFC
I feel that all AD2000 readers could benefit from applying this check-list to their own lives: Do you pray when you are in trouble whether the trouble be from family or romances or exams or sport?
528 - Apr 2005 - Adore 05: Sydney's successful Eucharistic Youth Congress, Nicole Osmak
Arellano better known to young people as Fr Bing is the Spiritual Director of Holy Family International.
529 - Apr 2005 - Exploding myths about the 'pre-Vatican II' Church, John Young
His successor Benedict XV in his 1920 encyclical Spiritus Paraclitus again commended the Society of St Jerome for putting into the hands of as many people as possible the Gospels and the Acts so that every Christian family may have them and become accustomed to reading them .
530 - Apr 2005 - News: The Church Around the World
He took the opportunity to call for a stronger promotion of priestly vocations: I have to ask: do Catholics really want more vocations; do they pray insistently for vocations; how ready are Catholic families to encourage their children to enter the priesthood or religious life; is inherent selfishness which regulates the number of children in the family and seeks the good life the principal goal of families?
531 - Apr 2005 - Editorial: Pope's suffering a potent Easter witness, Michael Gilchrist
In 1994 he told Catholics: The Pope must suffer so that every family and the world should see that there is I would say a higher gospel: the gospel of suffering with which one must prepare the future.
532 - Mar 2005 - Letters: Latin Mass (letter), Alan Freckelton
My family and I have also recently moved to the Fraternity of St Peter Latin Mass and experienced the same kind of blessings Maryse noted.
533 - Mar 2005 - A young Catholic's encounter with Latin at Chavagnes International College, Alexander Morrison
My brother and I come from a practising Catholic family but before going to Chavagnes we had not been exposed to anything other than the Mass in English in our local parish.
534 - Mar 2005 - Cinema: Hollywood's Kinsey whitewash, Bill Muehlenberg
Bill Muehlenberg is the National Vice-President of the Australian Family Association.
535 - Mar 2005 - News: The Church Around the World
Pro-family activists in Washington have been pressing the White House for stronger support of the defence of marriage amendment.
536 - Feb 2005 - Marriage: Why gay marriage is a self-contradiction, Peter Reynolds
Webster defines it as the institution whereby men and women are joined in a special kind of social and legal dependence for the purpose of founding and maintaining a family.
537 - Feb 2005 - Timor Leste: Australia and East Timor: a Timorese Salesian Brother's impressions, Br Marcal Lopes
Our family my mother and father two sisters and four brothers lived in the hills for nine or ten months.
538 - Feb 2005 - News: The Church Around the World
A statistical profile on the family carried out by the Vanier Institute showed that 17 per cent of Canadians have no religion while the number of Muslims in the country grew from a small base by 129 per cent between 1991 and 2001.
539 - Dec 2004 - Books: Inspiring Christmas Gifts
The topics are wide-ranging from Harry Potter and Mother Teresa to organ donors and family life.
540 - Dec 2004 - Letters: Misunderstanding over 'Come As You Are' (letter), Peter Hannigan
Hence there was never any intention on my part to comment on the Cleary family within which there surely is clear admirable parental witness to Christ and His Church on behalf of the children and grandchildren.
541 - Dec 2004 - Letters: Election result (letter), Maureen Federico
On the positive side congratulations to the Family First Party which came from nowhere and did so very well even as they had to wear the term Christian as a form of spiteful put-down.
542 - Dec 2004 - New Evangelisation: Rebuilding a lost Faith, Fr John Walter
In the meantime I suggest that they start bringing the family to Sunday Mass; I give them the Sunday Mass timetable.
543 - Dec 2004 - Administration: Cardinal Pell: Church administrators must put Christ's mission first, Cardinal George Pell
By that I mean that when we can afford a project such as a drug counselling agency a new university an institute for marriage and family or a major conference we should seriously consider doing so.
544 - Dec 2004 - News: The Church Around the World
But for most people they come second to the really intimate issues like marriage family and sexuality which is why abortion continues to be a such a highly-charged battleground despite every media attempt to sideline it he said.
545 - Dec 2004 - US and Australian election results: the cultural revolution challenged, Michael Gilchrist
Significant sections of the US and Australian electorates identified family and moral values as key electoral issues.
546 - Nov 2004 - Books: More new titles from AD Books
The topics are wide-ranging from Harry Potter and Mother Teresa to organ donors and family life.
547 - Nov 2004 - Books: From East to West You Gather a People, by Fr Russell Hardiman, Brian Peachey
In a sense this very large work is a compendium of individual family histories the research of which will be of inestimable value to the descendants.
548 - Nov 2004 - Books: MARRIAGE UNDER FIRE, by James Dobson, Bill Muehlenberg
The forces arrayed against the family comprise a moral tidal wave MARRIAGE UNDER FIRE by James Dobson (Multnomah Publishers 2004 123pp $22.
549 - Nov 2004 - Education: Where secular humanism is triumphing over the Gospel, Fr John Walter
These family members are more than sceptical about the Gospel; rather they are oblivious often rejecting any spiritual dimension to life.
550 - Nov 2004 - News: The Church Around the World
There was a moment of high emotion when the Mass ended and members of the former Emperors family - including his eldest son Otto who aged 92 came to kneel before the Pope and receive his blessing.
551 - Nov 2004 - Ad limina: The Pope calls for strong leadership from New Zealand's Bishops, Michael Gilchrist
New Zealand he said was experiencing the tragic consequences of the eclipse of the sense of God: the drift away from the Church; the undermining of family life; the facilitation of abortion and prostitution; a misguided vision of life which seeks pleasure and success rather than goodness and wisdom.
552 - Oct 2004 - Letters: Come As You Are? (letter), Brigid P. McKenna
Indications would rather suggest this family to be a walking companion to loving and well-informed sacramental repentance.
553 - Oct 2004 - Society: Why marriage should receive greater government support, Michael Casanova
Pope John Paul II has written The family based on heterosexual marriage has vital and organic links with society since the permanent exclusive and voluntary union of one man and one woman is its foundation and nourishes it continually through its role of service to life.
554 - Oct 2004 - Books: Be Not Afraid: Cardinal George Pell's new book to be launched in November
The Dominican family has been associated with the devotion to the Rosary for many centuries.
555 - Oct 2004 - University: International Movement of Catholic Students Australia, Aaron Russell
Other speakers included Dr Tracey Rowland Dean of the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family Patrick Quirk Associate Professor Ave Maria Catholic Law School Eamonn Keane and the movements chaplin Fr Gregory Jordan SJ.
556 - Sep 2004 - Reflection: Why the priesthood is absolutely necessary, Fr John O'Neill
Christ is why he wants to pray; why and what he wants to tell others; why he wants to keep Christs act of love on the Cross living on among the people and where they live their lives; why he wants to bring them Gods forgiveness; and why he wants to bring them into Christs family strengthen them in His service make Godly their love in marriage and set their vision and hope clearly and finally in their Fathers direction when their time on earth is ending.
557 - Sep 2004 - Books: Catholic Family Catechism: 2004 Disciples Edition with 50 Questions and Answers, Fr Peter Murphy
CATHOLIC FAMILY CATECHISM: Disciples Edition with 50 Questions and Answers by Rev.
558 - Sep 2004 - Books: The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity, by Philip Jenkins, John Barich
On the other hand Muslims and Christians have been collaborating on moral and family issues especially at the UN.
559 - Sep 2004 - Letters: The Power of One, Carola Morgan
He has been an example of Christian courage to us all as well as a genial delightful family man and a defender of the dignity of life of the human person.
560 - Sep 2004 - Letters: Maronite Church, L.L. Booth
My friend and his family go to that Mass for that reason as no one in his family understands Arabic.
561 - Sep 2004 - News: The Church Around the World
From this the institution of the family is called into question in its natural two-parent structure of mother and father and the equivalence of homosexuality and heterosexuality is asserted .
562 - Sep 2004 - Editorial: 2004 Fighting Fund launched, Michael Gilchrist
The NCC has been in the forefront of defending the integrity of marriage and the family Judeo-Christian values and Australias national sovereignty in the face of the twin threats of secular individualism and globalism.
563 - Aug 2004 - Letters: Threats to family, Gordon Southern
In his ad limina address to our bishops in March the Holy Father cogently warns of the threat in Australia to families (and therefore to society) of legal and social trends and attitudes and exhorts our bishops to ensure that the values of marriage and family life are supported.
564 - Aug 2004 - The Catholic Church and the Greens: why?, Tony Kearney
These include the constant erosion by sections of the media of family values the obscenely high payments made to leaders in business and sport and the facilitating of the killing of Australias most valuable yet most endangered species voiceless and defenceless unborn babies.
565 - Aug 2004 - Bioethics: Embryo stem-cell research: time for a moral benchmark, Christopher Pyne MP
The following article is adapted from an address given at a Right to Life Conference Xavier College Melbourne on 27 June 2004 by Hon Christopher Pyne MP Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Family and Community Services.
566 - Aug 2004 - News: The Church Around the World
Catholic World News Spanish policies on family concern Pope Pope John Paul II hinted at misgivings over the policies of the new Spanish Government as he welcomed its new ambassador on 18 June 18.
567 - Aug 2004 - Editorial: New challenges for Catholic education, Peter Westmore
He said that Church institutions - universities schools and hospitals - must be genuinely Catholic and conform to official teaching on respect for human life marriage and family and the right ordering of public life.
568 - Jul 2004 - Books: Ethics and the National Economy, by Heinrich Pesch, John Williamson
According to Pesch mans social nature requiring the actualisation of his capacities and the satisfaction of his genuine human needs directs him to move beyond the life of the family and toward that more powerful and comprehensive human association the State.
569 - Jul 2004 - Books: Flee To the Fields - The Founding Papers of the Catholic Land Movement, Peter Chojnowski
His words very much echo those of Arthur Penty who stated that for a family to embrace farm life without price regulation and control on the part of the government would be tantamount to economic suicide.
570 - Jul 2004 - Eucharistic Adoration: heart of evangelisation, Fr Sebastian Camilleri OFM
Questions on abortion artificial birth control homosexuality promiscuity sexual abuse social injustice family breakdown etc and the Churchs teaching on them are aired almost daily in print and electronic media.
571 - Jul 2004 - Pastoral Letter: The secular challenges to our faith: how to respond, Bishop Geoffrey Jarrett
Relationships and family life are more risky and hazardous than they used to be; theres something odd in all the claims that everything and everybody should be given equal rights or that a free-for-all of blame and litigation has broken out in our society.
572 - Jul 2004 - News: The Church Around the World
Bishop Hurley who is the Chairman of the Bishops Committee for the Family and for Life said the move to define marriage as being a man and a woman was a sensible safeguarding of one of societys strongest institutions.
573 - Jun 2004 - Books: More new titles for 2004 from AD Books
95 Marriage and the Family in the Documents of the Magisterium Ramon Garcia de Haro This volume provides a comprehensive and detailed presentation and analysis of the Churchs teaching on marriage and family which is fully faithful to the Catholic tradition.
574 - Jun 2004 - Books: Catharine With An 'A', by Edna Keir, Joan Graham
It is not only the life story of the young lady Catharine who was born with the condition Down Syndrome but also a story of an ordinary Australian farming family who lived in isolated rural western NSW.
575 - Jun 2004 - Books: The Outline Of Sanity, by G.K. Chesterton, Peter Westmore
It is not merely that capitalisms impetus is towards a consolidation of capital and enterprise in the hands of fewer and fewer men which ought to concern a Catholic who desires to see the social Kingship of Jesus Christ extend itself into the economic realm of the family the community and ultimately the nation.
576 - Jun 2004 - Letters: Media Standards Australia (letter), Denise Den-Bakker
Will we continue to tolerate family life being destroyed or hear Our Lords name blasphemed over and over?
577 - Jun 2004 - Society: Why Chesterton is needed now more than ever, Dale Ahlquist
He pointed out all the things in our world that attack the family and attack the faith.
578 - Jun 2004 - Theology of the Body: Why the silence on the Church's moral teachings?, Audrey Dillon
Ideas about sex are vitally important because they are fundamental to issues like the state of marriage the role of family relations between men and women as well as the myriad of other topics that arise like contraception and pre-marital sex.
579 - Jun 2004 - Marriage: Statistics highlight the precarious state of marriage and family, AD2000 REPORT
Many defenders of traditional marriage fear that giving formal legal recognition to homosexual couples would only further weaken an institution already debilitated by several decades of anti-family tendencies.
580 - May 2004 - Books: ANGLICANS AND ORTHODOX: Unity and Subversion (1559-1725), by Judith Pinnington, Tracey Rowland
Dr Tracey Rowland is the Dean of the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family (Melbourne).
581 - May 2004 - Books: Why Must I Suffer?, by Francis Remler, Bill Muehlenberg
Bill Muehlenberg is the National Vice-President of the Australian Family Association and is a Baptist.
582 - May 2004 - Books: Marriage and Family in the Biblical World, edited by Ken Campbell, Bill Muehlenberg
MARRIAGE AND FAMILY IN THE BIBLICAL WORLD edited by Ken Campbell (InterVarsity Press 2003 286pages $35.
583 - May 2004 - Letters: Eucharistic reverence (letter), Carmel Strong
Many adult Catholics have felt hurt and perplexed that this vital Church teaching has been allowed to be downgraded or corroded with subtlety in recent years Judging from the series of supportive letters about Fr Sebastian Camilleris courageous article on the Centrality of the Tabernacle (October 2003 AD2000) it is obvious that many practising Catholics long for restoration of a more reverential attitude towards the Eucharist which in turn would renew family prayer and promote the unity willed by Christ.
584 - May 2004 - Letters: God's house (letter), Melanie Costabile
Perhaps if more Catholic schools implemented this the foundations of their Catholic convictions regarding the Eucharist would not only be more prevalent in their family life but especially when they enter Gods house.
585 - May 2004 - Art: Beauty is very much an attribute of God - Sister Wendy, Sarah Macdonald
It was a very fervent Catholic family her grandfather converted at the behest of her Irish grandmother.
586 - May 2004 - Australian Bishops' ad limina: strong leadership needed to confront secularism
Your own reports unequivocally describe some of the destructive consequences of this eclipse of the sense of God: the undermining of family life; a drift away from the Church.
587 - Apr 2004 - Letters: Taking a stand in the culture war, Robert and Carmel Garrett
The media over the years has played a major role in the destruction of family values promoting evil instead of good.
588 - Apr 2004 - Theology: Fr Aidan Nichols to lecture on von Balthasar in Melbourne, Tracey Rowland
Fr Aidan Nichols the Prior of Blackfriars Cambridge will be a Visiting Professor at the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family in Melbourne from 19-30 April 2004.
589 - Apr 2004 - Books: Archbishop Hart launches new book on Dr Mannix - Daniel Mannix: Wit and Wisdom, Archbishop Dennis Hart
Leadership approach However Gilchrist makes clear Central to Archbishop Mannixs approach to Church leadership and involvement in issues spiritual and temporal and arising from his Catholic and Irish roots and family upbringing was respect for the basic dignity of the human individual as a child of God; the entitlement of ethnic and religious groups to respect freedom of opinion and an equitable share of the nations resources - on merit - in a pluralist democracy; and the right of nations to self-determination and freedom from oppression (page xii).
590 - Apr 2004 - News: The Church Around the World
Catholic World News National Family Gathering for Sydney Prominent speakers to address family issues The Sydney Archdiocese is to host the second National Family Gathering from 16-18 April 2004.
591 - Mar 2004 - Books: Archbishop Fulton Sheen : A Man for All Media, by Gregory Joseph Ladd, Michael Gilchrist
Such a person in such a role is needed more than ever today to defend Christian and family values against the relentless incursions of the feminist- and gay-biased mass media and entertainment industry.
592 - Mar 2004 - Virtue ethics: Challenging our contemporary culture's flawed worldview, Hayden Ramsey
He has worked on the personal staff of Archbishops Pell and Hart in Melbourne and is now Academic Research Fellow in the Archdiocese of Sydney and Professor of Philosophy at the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family.
593 - Mar 2004 - World AIDS Day: A Cardinal, AIDS and the BBC, Msgr Peter J. Elliott
In December Cardinal Alfonso Lopez Trujillo President of the Pontifical Council for the Family issued a Reflection Family Values Versus Safe Sex on the AIDS issue as presented in a BBC Panorama program Sex and the Holy City.
594 - Mar 2004 - HIV/AIDS: A Catholic approach to AIDS: value-based behaviour change, Sr Miriam Duggan
Human values We recognise that behaviour change is inextricably linked to such basic human values as care love faith family and friendship respect for people and cultures solidarity and support.
595 - Mar 2004 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000
Perth Record Mass media should support family says Pope World Day for Communications The mass media should serve the needs of the family Pope John Paul II argued in his message for the 38th World Day for Communications.
596 - Mar 2004 - Red Mass Homily: Can Lawyers Be Saints?, Bishop Anthony Fisher
The law in our country today is challenged in many directions by those who would compromise its reverence for human life especially in its beginning and end; those who would equate all sorts of relationships with marriage and family life; those who would respond to perceived threats to security with suspension of rights; those who put the interests of the privileged and powerful before Gods little ones the orphan and widow the sick and poor the stranger and refugee the ones most in need of the protection of law.
597 - Feb 2004 - Books: The Beginner's Book Of Chant, by a Benedictine monk, Paul Russell
Paul Russell is SA President of the National Civic Council and SA Vice President of The Australian Family Association.
598 - Feb 2004 - Books: Mystical Flora, by St Francis de Sales, Mark Posa
It would be a wonderful addition to both family home and Catholic schools.
599 - Feb 2004 - Letters: New Age?, Fr Don Coutts
Healing the Family Tree by the Eucharist is far from a New Age fad.
600 - Feb 2004 - Letters: One-World Church?, Philip Robinson
The report is confirmed by John Vennari editor of Catholic Family News.
601 - Feb 2004 - Letters: Social Justice Statement, John R. Barich
As a senior member of the Australian Family Association Richard Egan has co-operated with Muslim pro-life and pro-family groups at the UN by means of the World Congress of Families which at its 1999 Meeting was addressed by the widow of President Sadat of Egypt who was assassinated by fundamentalists.
602 - Feb 2004 - Human life: precious from conception, Fr Angelo Serra SJ
This favours the process of normal development which could otherwise be altered through the absence of even one of the junctional proteins of the connexin family.
603 - Dec 2003 - Books: Socrates meets Machiavelli, Socrates meets Marx, by Peter Kreeft, Bill Muehlenberg
Bill Muehlenberg is the National Vice-President of the Australian Family Association.
604 - Dec 2003 - BOOKS: DANIEL MANNIX : Wit and Wisdom - new edition, Michael Gilchrist
Central to his approach to Church leadership and involvement in issues spiritual and temporal and arising from his Catholic and Irish roots and family upbringing was respect for the basic dignity of the human individual as a child of God; the entitlement of ethnic and religious groups to respect freedom of opinion and an equitable share of a nations resources - on merit - in a pluralist democracy; and the right of nations to self-determination and freedom from oppression.
605 - Dec 2003 - EVENTS: Adore 2004: a Eucharistic Congress for youth
Adore 2004 is organised by the Youth Sector of the Alliance of the Holy Family International located at Deer Park in the Melbourne Archdiocese.
606 - Dec 2003 - VOCATIONS: Melbourne's 'Hearts on Fire' vocations congress a success, Fr Paul Stuart
A Family Day picnic was held at the Fitzroy Gardens where hundreds were entertained by African Gospel singers.
607 - Dec 2003 - INTERVIEW: New Melbourne and Sydney Religious Education texts, Msgr Peter Elliott
We have aimed at family ownership of the texts.
608 - Dec 2003 - News: The Church Around the World
How Popes teaching defends family Cardinal Trujillo points to world conflict of values Cardinal Alfonso Lopez Trujillo delivered a powerful indictment of efforts to undermine family life as he made his presentation to an assembly of prelates gathered in Rome for the 25th anniversary of Pope John Paul IIs pontificate.
609 - Dec 2003 - Editorial: The challenge of Christmas, Peter Westmore
Despite the extent to which it has been secularised in the contemporary world Christmas is still the occasion on which people everywhere - even in non-Christian countries such as Japan - celebrate the great virtues of fellowship of family of giving.
610 - Nov 2003 - Books: Great books at the best prices!
00 Love and Responsibility Karol Wojtyla Drawing from his own pastoral experience as a priest and bishop before he became Pope John Paul II Karol Wojtyla has produced an eloquent and resourceful defence of Catholic tradition in the sphere of family life and sexual morality.
611 - Nov 2003 - Books: A Grief Unveiled, by Gregory Floyd, Bill Muehlenberg
It happened to our family earlier this year.
612 - Nov 2003 - Tattoos and body-piercing: the moral dimension, Fr Peter Joseph
In Samoa it was once a widespread custom to tattoo the eldest son or daughter of the local ruling family.
613 - Nov 2003 - Vocations: Father James Gould and the hallmarks of successful vocations promotion, Michael Rose
The first thing that comes to mind for most people is giving up marriage and family life.
614 - Nov 2003 - Vocations: Missionaries of God's Love congregation flourishes in Canberra, Mary Pidcock
To alleviate the problem at least temporarily the congregation has decided to buy a convent building previously owned by the Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth.
615 - Nov 2003 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000
sparing no geographic segment of the human family.
616 - Nov 2003 - John Paul II elevates Archbishop George Pell to the College of Cardinals, Michael Gilchrist
And having served as a Consultor to the Pontifical Council for the Family for many years he was appointed to the Presidential Committee of the Council in 2002.
617 - Oct 2003 - Reflection: Why the tabernacle should be centrally located in our churches, Fr Sebastian Camilleri OFM
While it is encouraging to witness many serene and contented Catholics who remain staunch in faith and sound in morality it is a shame that with the current family breakdown and desertion from church practices particularly amongst the younger generation we continue to remain insensitive and indifferent to the spiritual decay.
618 - Oct 2003 - Books: Great books at the best prices!
95 Father Peytons Rosary Prayer Book Fr Patrick Peyton The famous preacher of the family rosary provides the most complete prayer book of inspiring meditations on the mysteries of the rosary.
619 - Oct 2003 - Liturgical Time Bombs In Vatican II, by Michael Davies, Michael Gilchrist
The huge fallaway in Mass attendances in Western countries like Australia and the US since the late 1960s can be attributed to a number of factors not least the weakening of family structures (with so many absent fathers) the cultural revolution and the increasing impact of the secular mass media.
620 - Oct 2003 - Letters: New bishops (letter), Anne Lastman
This became difficult as the numbers increased and it was intruding into my familys life.
621 - Oct 2003 - Orthodox US Catholic colleges and universities continue to flourish, Julia Duin
Every Catholic family used to have a black sheep but in the social chaos of the 1960s we lost whole families who didnt practise the faith.
622 - Oct 2003 - Why Catholic teaching on marriage is 'good news' for all humanity, Eamonn Keane
Knowing that marriage and the family are willed by God in the very act of creation and interiorly ordained to fulfilment in Christ the Church recognises in the numerous forces seeking to destroy and deform marriage something that is ultimately a threat to her own good and to that of society (John Paul II Familiaris Consortio n.
623 - Oct 2003 - How fatherhood is crucial to children's faith, Fr Robbie Low
It is overwhelming and it is this: it is the religious practice of the father of the family that above all determines the future attendance at or absence from church of the children.
624 - Oct 2003 - Editorial: The role of the Catholic in public life, Peter Westmore
Both the Marriage Act and the Family Law Act affirm that marriage is the union of a man and a woman to the exclusion of all others for life.
625 - Sep 2003 - Reflection: A Christian response to bereavement: Jesus' ministry to the sick and dying, Fr Dennis Byrnes
After the death of a terminally ill person family members or loved ones left behind experience many feelings.
626 - Sep 2003 - Books: Some Fell On Rock, by Fr John O'Neill, Fr Peter Joseph
Each person has the right to his views but no person has the right to remove those supports which uphold a workable society: among others the individuals right to life (from conception to natural death) the family as the basic unit of formation of sound citizens (family being a male father a female mother and their children and including its extensions) (p.
627 - Sep 2003 - Homosexual conduct: how Gospel teaching can be distorted, Bill Muehlenberg
Bill Muehlenberg is National Vice-President of the Australian Family Association.
628 - Sep 2003 - Events: Hearts On Fire Vocations Congress for Melbourne Archdiocese, Joanne Grainger
This promotion will be achieved through many activities over the three days such as an exhibition of Catholic life at the Royal Exhibition Building in Carlton over thirty workshops highlighting various elements young adults encounter during their vocation discernment journey a concert in the Fitzroy Gardens a family picnic a fundraising ball a Holy Hour for Vocations and finally the event will be closed with Mass at St Patricks Cathedral celebrated by Archbishop Hart.
629 - Sep 2003 - Catholic summer conferences in the United States: signs of hope, Richard Egan
Over 6000 participants attended the 13th Annual National Catholic Family Conference sponsored by the Catholic Resource Centre and held at the Anaheim Convention Centre.
630 - Sep 2003 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000
Catholic World News Australian conference on Humanae Vitae Overseas and Australian speakers address pro-life pro-family themes Pope Paul VIs encyclical Humanae Vitae was published on 25 July 1968.
631 - Sep 2003 - New auxiliary bishops appointed to the Sydney Archdiocese, Michael Gilchrist
For the past three years Dr Fisher has been the foundation director and a Professor of Bioethics and Moral Theology in the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family - a post-graduate pontifical institute with ten campuses around the world.
632 - Aug 2003 - Books: The Divine Primacy: The Bishop of Rome and Modern Eastern Orthodoxy, Fr Peter Knowles OP
Monastic life Good contacts can be created in a world of family and neighbourly relationships but the most effective method for understanding the point of view of the Western Church as of the East is the monastic life.
633 - Aug 2003 - Letters: Lourdes appeal (letter), Jenny Davies
In May 1996 Susan Gunderson wife and mother of two young children suffered a major brain haemorrhage in the kitchen of her family home.
634 - Aug 2003 - Priesthood: Clerical celibacy 'for the sake of God's Kingdom': the Church's teaching, John Young
Love of God The argument that the Church would have to pay him more if he had a wife and family is hardly likely to impress a young man who considers he would be a better priest if married.
635 - Aug 2003 - Catalyst for Renewal Address: The legacy of Vatican II, Archbishop George Pell
It is not clear to me that mandatory celibacy is a major cause of paedophilia most of which occurs in family situations.
636 - Aug 2003 - Bioethics: End-of-life decisions: the moral issues at stake, David Perrin
He is currently President of the Australian Family Association.
637 - Aug 2003 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000
Lifesite News Mel Gibsons new movie The Passion Receives positive responses from Christian organisations Seeking positive reactions and responses to his film The Passion Mel Gibson screened it to hundreds of pastors at Focus on the Familys Colorado Springs headquarters on 27 June.
638 - Aug 2003 - Documents: Ecclesia in Europa - Pope challenges Christians to re-evangelise Europe, Michael Gilchrist
By contrast the Church offers faith in Jesus Christ the source of the hope that does not disappoint along with recognition of the value of the human person and his inalienable dignity the sacredness of human life and the centrality of the family the importance of education and freedom of thought speech and religion the legal protection of individuals and groups the promotion of solidarity and the common good and the recognition of the dignity of labour.
639 - Jul 2003 - Reflection: The meaning of vocation for baptised Christians, Archbishop Philip Wilson
The Church in all its different ways has to put marriage and family life at the very centre of its consciousness.
640 - Jul 2003 - Books: Marriage And Modernization, by Don Browning, Bill Muehlenberg
Available from AD Books) Faith and family have survived for millennia but they have had to undergo tremendous challenges in the recent past.
641 - Jul 2003 - Letters: Pell biography feedback (letter), Mary Lou Corboy
I am the mother of a Catholic family who chose 13 years ago to rescue our children from the Catholic education system and educate them in the faith around the kitchen table at home - a choice we have never regretted.
642 - Jul 2003 - Letters: Misunderstood (letter), Elsie Cunningham
This priest born in France the fourth of a family of eleven was more a seer than a scientist.
643 - Jul 2003 - TMC: Adelaide Thomas More Centre Autumn School a success, Emma Benz
Pat Byrne National Vice-President of the National Civic Council spoke on The call of the Beatitudes to the Lay Apostolate while Andrew Evans leader of the Family First Party in the SA Legislative Council explained his work in politics and how his faith enabled him to stand up and make a difference.
644 - Jul 2003 - School sacramental programs: evangelise Catholic families first, Fr John Speekman
The decision to sacramentalise children should be handed back to the family.
645 - Jul 2003 - The concentration camp prisoner who became a Queensland priest, Warren Losberg
Following the Nazi invasion of Poland his family had to move to a grandmothers home and when the Nazi persecution intensified Joachim escaped to Slovenia but was captured by the Germans and put into a concentration camp at Begunie.
646 - Jul 2003 - Homily: Bicentenary Mass celebrated in Sydney, Archbishop George Pell
He was unlucky enough to belong to a family who were heavily involved such as his cousin Father Thomas Dixon who had been suspended by his bishop in 1794 for drinking dancing and disorderly conduct.
647 - Jul 2003 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000
He then spoke of the importance of family to the Roman Catholic Church: In many parts of the world the family is under siege.
648 - Jul 2003 - Archbishop Hart defends woman in euthanasia case, Peter Westmore
However the procedure had become burdensome to her family.
649 - Jun 2003 - Books: Family in the Bible, edited by Richard H. Hess and M. Danial Carroll, Bill Muehlenberg
FAMILY IN THE BIBLE Edited by Richard H.
650 - Jun 2003 - Books: Culture and the Thomist Tradition : After Vatican II, by Tracey Rowland, Fr Peter Joseph STD
Available from the Central Catholic Bookshop in Melbourne (03) 9639 0844 and Gleebooks Glebe Sydney (02) 9660 2333) This book by the Dean of the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family in Melbourne begins with a study of the treatment of culture in part II of the Conciliar document Gaudium et Spes.
651 - Jun 2003 - The seal of confession: how a priest put his life on the line, Clem Lack
When she did not return home that day her family reported her disappearance to the police to whom they mentioned Madame Blanchards expressed intention of visiting the Abbeacute;.
652 - Jun 2003 - Laity: The role of lay Catholics in a time of crisis, Mary Ann Glendon
The laity are the ones with primary responsibility to bring Christ to the various sectors of family social professional cultural and political life - because we are the ones who are present in those sectors.
653 - Jun 2003 - Interview: Vatican II and the liturgy, 40 years later, Zenit News Service
He is episcopal vicar for religious education professor at the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and the Family and a parish priest in the Archdiocese of Melbourne.
654 - Jun 2003 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000
Hence now is the time to work together for a new constitutional organisation of the human family an organisation that would be in a position to meet the new demands of a globalised world.
655 - May 2003 - Reflection: St Francis on individual confession and receiving Holy Communion, Fr Sebastian Camilleri OFM
The Holy Father has repeatedly warned that unbridled secularism has infiltrated the Church and corroded the very core of religiosity and reverence towards God with moral values in family lives and society tossed out of the window.
656 - May 2003 - Review: Spending The Day With Mary: The Rosary on CD and Tape, Joe Padero
Produced by Zak Zreikat from Marilen Studios this is an ideal present for family friends or yourself.
657 - May 2003 - Books: Christianity On Trial: Arguments Against Anti-Religious Bigotry, Bill Muehlenberg
Bill Muehlenberg is National Vice-President of the Australian Family Association.
658 - May 2003 - Books: Life-Giving Love: Embracing God's beautiful design for marriage, Kimberley Hahn, Leanne and Michael Casanova
Marriage is compared with the Trinity: Two persons become three persons in one family reflecting the three in one Trinity.
659 - May 2003 - Letters: Healing of the family tree (letter), Anne Lastman
As a post-abortion grief counsellor I wish to take issue with Fr Peter Josephs article on healing of the family tree in the February issue of AD2000.
660 - May 2003 - Language: The forgotten language of adoration of God - through words and actions, Audrey English
Audrey English is a former Catholic school teacher who presently works at the Holy Family Education Centre and the Centre for Thomistic Studies in Sydney.
661 - May 2003 - Architecture: 'Re-ordered' and 'new' churches - symptoms of a wider spiritual malaise, Marie Cassey
There was Heaven and Hell fasting before Communion daily prayer and even family prayer.
662 - May 2003 - News: The Church Around the World
In his own meeting with the Minister on 25 March Anglican Archbishop Benjamin Nzimbi presented a similar argument - that the Governments anti-AIDS program should build strong family foundations.
663 - Apr 2003 - Reflection: The road to Emmaus: coming to terms with the hard reality of loss, Fr Dennis Byrnes PP
Back in 1975 I had never thought about anyone in my family dying.
664 - Apr 2003 - Books: A Long Way From Rome, edited by Chris McGillion, John Barich
He makes no reference to the work in Australian dioceses of such groups and organisations as Communion and Liberation Focolare Antioch Ecclesia Dei Neo-Cathechumenal Way Marriage Encounter Marian Movement of Priests Thomas More Centres Charismatics Disciples of Jesus Opus Dei True Love Waits St Egidio Community John Paul Institute for Marriage and the Family Fellowship of Catholic Scholars or G.
665 - Apr 2003 - Books: A Seat At The Supper, by Frank Colyer, Mark Posa
Much has been written and film makers have produced their versions of what took place at Lourdes when a young girl of 14 Bernadette Soubirous illiterate from a desperately poor family and suffering from poor health claimed she had a vision of Our Lady.
666 - Apr 2003 - Our Lady of Peace: one American parish's successful formula, Arthur J. Brew
He and his brother the late Fr Louis Sweeny growing up in San Francisco credited their faith to their parents whose devotion to the Rosary family prayer and serious individual prayer inspired their priestly careers.
667 - Apr 2003 - Education: Chavagnes International Catholic college update, Br John Moylan
Mr McDermotts family literally sold the family farm to help purchase the former minor seminary refurbish it and develop a first-class Catholic English-speaking international college for boys aged 9 to 18 which follows the English curriculum and prepares students for the top level public examinations of that country.
668 - Apr 2003 - Film Review: Why 'Gangs of New York' misses the boat as history, William J. Stern
He reminded listeners that it was Protestant England that crushed religious liberty in Ireland - oppression that had victimised his family who had come to America for its freedom of conscience.
669 - Apr 2003 - Archbishop Hickey's pastoral letter on marriage, Archbishop Barry Hickey
If serious reasons exist couples may use natural methods of family planning that respect the integrity of the marriage act.
670 - Apr 2003 - News: The Church Around the World
The Holy Father also urged the Romanian bishops to be on guard against the dangers of modern society including egotism consumerism and forms of moral licence that undermine family life.
671 - Mar 2003 - Books: The Latest from AD Books
A wonderful addition to any familys library.
672 - Mar 2003 - Books: Human Cloning And Human Dignity: Report of the President's Council on Bioethics, Bill Muehlenberg
Bill Muehlenberg is the National Vice-President of the Australian Family Association.
673 - Mar 2003 - Letters: 'Partner' or spouse? (letter), Peter Hannigan
The matter may seem minor but in a quite insidious way it is a denigration of the legal social and religious status of marriage and the family and offensive to those who value their marriage for what it is and for what it means.
674 - Mar 2003 - The media and evangelisation, Moira Kirkwood
We are well aware of the fact that that media warfare is directed not only against the Catholic Church but against Christianity in general and against the moral code of the Judeo-Christian tradition and family values openly seeking to replace them with irresponsible hedonism and the culture of death.
675 - Mar 2003 - New Age ideas: how Catholics should respond, Fr Peter Joseph
Last month when I dealt with the notion of healing your family tree I said that todays confusion in the Church has led some people to take up New Age ideas unawares.
676 - Mar 2003 - Religious faith and modern culture: responding to a secular critic, Bill Muehlenberg
Bill Muehlenber a Baptist is National Vice-President of the Australian Family Association.
677 - Mar 2003 - Vatican tells politicians: Don't hide your light, Michael Casanova
Other areas include safeguarding and promoting the family based on monogamous marriage between a man and a woman.
678 - Feb 2003 - Books: New year reading from AD Books
Couples who practise Natural Family Planning advocated in this book co-operate with Gods design making wise decisions about family size without losing respect for the mystery and meaning of sex.
679 - Feb 2003 - Books: How To Win The Culture War, by Peter Kreeft, Bill Muehlenberg
Bill Muehlenberg is National Vice-President of the Australian Family Association.
680 - Feb 2003 - Letters: Catholic medical practice (letter), Dr Tim Coyle
This practice St Josephs Family Clinic has the tradition of Natural Family Planning (Billings Ovulation Method) in accord with Familiaris Consortio.
681 - Feb 2003 - Letters: Media distortions (letter), Nell & Rinion Aslikar
Despite this error having been pointed out and an actual photo from 1959 being shown to them (when she was in fact at Wynnum) 60 Minutes refused to accept the family photo as valid and persisted in claiming they had used a real photo of Sister Bernard Mary.
682 - Feb 2003 - 'Healing the family tree': New Age under the guise of religion (Part One), Fr Peter Joseph
A major example of this is the current fad for Healing the family tree.
683 - Feb 2003 - John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family, Melbourne: a progress report, AD2000 Report
The John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family was opened in July 2001 by Cardinal Trujillo.
684 - Feb 2003 - Events: Europe's most influential Catholic lay association coming to Melbourne, Anthony Cappello
Disciples even when they pray on their own are never isolated nor they are orphans; they are always members of the Lords family.
685 - Feb 2003 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000
Zenit News Service Divorce document Church warns against a divorce mentality The Pontifical Council for the Family warned in a document released last November against a divorce mentality noting that the precariousness of the conjugal bond is one of the characteristics of the contemporary world.
686 - Feb 2003 - Vocations: Sydney seminary growth based on orthodoxy, fidelity, Fr Julian Porteous
They come from smaller family units and one detects a reluctance among some families for their sons to pursue their vocations.
687 - Dec 2002 - Books: Ideal Christmas Gifts from AD Books
Couples who practise Natural Family Planning advocated in this book co-operate with Gods design making wise decisions about family size without losing respect for the mystery and meaning of sex.
688 - Dec 2002 - Books: Beyond the Blue Glass: Catholic Essays on Faith and Culture, Aidan Nichols OP, Tracey Rowland
While conceding that the decision of Aquinas to join the Dominicans was not warmly received by his family Nichols nonetheless observes that it was not as if a son of a Duke had absconded from Eton to smoke dope in Islington.
689 - Dec 2002 - Letters: Forgiveness (letter), John Schmid
We should rightly support the paedophiles victims family and all affected by their crimes.
690 - Dec 2002 - The sound of thunder and laughter: Hilaire Belloc re-consideredA.G. Evans, Joseph Pearce, biography, Catholic literature, G.K. Chesterton
Productive Belloc was a compulsive traveller; travel was the inspiration of much of his writing but he was never happier than when he returned to his family.
691 - Dec 2002 - Archbishop Chaput: what makes a good leader?, Archbishop Charles J. Chaput
The philosopher Hugo Grotius once said that A man cannot govern a nation if he cannot govern a city; he cannot govern a city if he cannot govern a family; he cannot govern a family unless he can govern himself; and he cannot govern himself unless his passions are subject to reason.
692 - Dec 2002 - Books: Biography of Archbishop Pell launched in Melbourne: author interviewed
Around 250 people were present as Professor Anthony Fisher OP of the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and the Family launched the book.
693 - Dec 2002 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000
The apostolic letter Rosarium Virginis Mariae also proclaims a special year of dedication to the Rosary with the request that the Rosary be prayed particularly for the causes of world peace and strengthened family life.
694 - Nov 2002 - Reflection: St Maria Goretti's 'perfect Christian death', Mary Kenny
In 1950 she was canonised in the presence of her mother her family and an enormous crowd which included her murderer who had repented of his crime.
695 - Nov 2002 - Books: Ideal Christmas Gifts from AD Books
Couples who practise Natural Family Planning as advocated in this book co-operate with Gods design making wise decisions about family size without losing respect for the mystery and meaning of sex.
696 - Nov 2002 - Books: The New Faithful: Why Young Adults are Embracing Christian Orthodoxy, Michael Gilchrist
This has found expression in such things as pro-life activism eucharistic devotion evangelisation or support for Church teachings on sex marriage and family.
697 - Nov 2002 - Letters: EWTN (letter), Jacqueline Donohue
EWTN transmits high quality programs both content-wise and technically 24 hours a day with regular features covering evangelisation Scripture theology apologetics marriage and family Catholic writers sacred music and lives of the saints.
698 - Nov 2002 - Independent inquiry exonerates Archbishop George Pell, Peter Westmore
I was immensely consoled by the love support and loyalty of family and friends.
699 - Oct 2002 - Books: New Titles from AD Books
Couples who practise Natural Family Planning as advocated in this book co-operate with Gods design making wise decisions about family size without losing respect for the mystery and meaning of sex.
700 - Oct 2002 - Books: Completed Jew, by Andrew Sholl, Michael Casanova
Author of Completed Jew Andrew Sholl born in Yugoslavia of a Jewish family and baptised a Catholic providentially escaped from the Nazi holocaust.
701 - Oct 2002 - Letters: New Zealand (letter), Kevin E. Fennessy
Over the years an immense number of Catholic parents in like category to myself have witnessed the wholesale desertion of family members from the practice of their Faith in any form.
702 - Oct 2002 - Letters: Celibate priesthood (letter), Cyril Drew
I was responsible in the early 1990s for lecturing to students taking BSS Family Studies and Pastoral Studies (the theological units) at Australian Catholic University (Christ Campus).
703 - Oct 2002 - Letters: Archbishop Pell (letter), Eamonn & Patricia Keane
The culture of life is predicated on the truth that God exists that there are objective moral norms the violation of which are intrinsically evil and that the family based on marriage is the foundation of society.
704 - Oct 2002 - US billionaire promotes orthodox teaching, Zenit News Service
According to the Private Catholic School Network independent Catholic schools encourage family involvement character formation and religious instruction based on the established and unchanging teachings of the Church.
705 - Sep 2002 - Reflection: The Christian way to spiritual maturity, Fr Dennis W. Byrnes PP
The amount of insight people gain through this can often mean the difference between a healthy or sick marriage or family.
706 - Sep 2002 - Books: Think Piece: Religious, Ethical and Moral Values, by Sebastian Camilleri OFM, Mark Posa
Think Piece also gives valuable advice on the way children should be taught the Faith in the family home.
707 - Sep 2002 - Books: Open Embrace: A Protestant Couple Rethinks Contraception, Bill Muehlenberg
Natural Family Planning For these and other reasons we need to take a much closer look at contraception.
708 - Sep 2002 - Letters: Feminism dead? (letter)
The truth is many women have come to see the feminist movement as anti-male anti-child anti-family and anti-feminine.
709 - Sep 2002 - CHURCH ATTENDANCE: The family, feminism and the declining role of fatherhood, Richard Egan
To minister to a fatherless society the Church of England in its unwisdom has produced its own single-parent family parish model in the woman priest.
710 - Sep 2002 - Vocations: Corpus Christi Seminary enrolments bounce back, Michael Gilchrist
If the spiritual soil of family parish diocese and seminary is fertile the vocation seed is more likely to take root.
711 - Sep 2002 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000
He added that Today through sonograms and other technology we can see clearly that unborn children are members of the human family as well.
712 - Aug 2002 - Books: New Titles from AD Books
Couples who practise Natural Family Planning as advocated in this book co-operate with Gods design for their bodies making wise decisions about family size without losing respect for the mystery and meaning of sex.
713 - Aug 2002 - Books: Abortion And Martyrdom, edited by Aidan Nichols, Tracey Rowland
Dr Tracey Rowland is Dean of the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family in Melbourne.
714 - Aug 2002 - Books: Dynamics Of World History, by Christopher Dawson, Michael Lynch
However Dawson a convert from Anglicanism a product of an English landowning family and an Oxford graduate was a brilliant and perceptive scholar able to understand the cultural and spiritual crises of his time and some of their future consequences.
715 - Aug 2002 - Letters: Women and the Church (letter), Maureen Federico
This goes with a future of happy well-balanced family and social life.
716 - Aug 2002 - New study of US seminary formation exposes fundamental flaws, John S. Webster
Expelled from a seminary on spurious grounds many decent well-adjusted young men have had to contend with the unspoken suspicions or incomprehension of family and friends as to why they failed while finding it almost impossible to gain acceptance in another dioceses seminary.
717 - Aug 2002 - New program to apply Papal teachings in Melbourne Archdiocese, Michael Gilchrist
Among the monthly themes over the two year period are Contemplate Jesus Mystery of the Faith Word of God Holiness Grace Penance Eucharist The Family Vocations Charity and Challenges.
718 - Jul 2002 - Books: New Titles from AD Books
First Comes Love: Finding Your Family in the Church and the Trinity Scott Hahn Scott Hahn in First Comes Love uses the idea of family to explain Catholic thought about the Trinity.
719 - Jul 2002 - Letters: Short-changed (letter), Mrs Carol V. Phillips
My family was fairly ordinary.
720 - Jul 2002 - '60 Minutes': Archbishop George Pell puts the record straight, Archbishop George Pell
I had no reason when he telephoned me at any other time to try to stop him going to the police because by early February I knew the offender was being questioned by the police had heard rumours that family members and others had been violated and had no reason to believe the offender innocent.
721 - Jul 2002 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000
The cardinal outlined the range of topics covered: There is a discussion on the nature of Catholic social teaching the human person the family the social order the role of the state democracy work and salaries unemployment poverty and charity the environment the beauty of creation environmental problems the international community immigration and foreign debt.
722 - Jul 2002 - Saints: Padre Pio canonised: "a model of the priesthood" (John Paul II), Paul MacLeod
Dr Poltawska has since been a close associate of the Pope and was appointed by him to the Pontifical Commission on the Family.
723 - Jul 2002 - Editorial: Archbishop Pell: the '60 Minutes' beat-up, Michael Gilchrist
But those who like Dr Pell challenge the conventional wisdom of a secular culture in the areas of marriage family or bioethics will be as much a target of criticism as Archbishop Mannix and other earlier Church leaders ever were.
724 - Jun 2002 - Reflection: A reason for mercy: healing post-abortion trauma, Anne R. Lastman
Post-abortion grief is a legitimate type of suffering experienced primarily and precisely because the person belongs to the human family with all its sins and imperfections.
725 - Jun 2002 - Books: 'Right And Reason: Ethics in theory and practice', by Fr Austin Fagothey SJ, Michael Casanova
Anyone who attempts to grapple with todays moral questions - in medical ethics family issues economic organisation - without a solid grounding in the classic principles is guaranteed to flounder about in a swamp of guesswork emotional thinking and mere personal opinion.
726 - Jun 2002 - Letters: An exemplary priest (letter), John Monaghan
My family has resided in the St Francis De Sales Parish Oak Park for approximately 15 years.
727 - Jun 2002 - Pope John Paul II on Catholic Action (from Ecclesia in Oceania), Pope John Paul II
The Christian concept of marriage and the family is being opposed by a new secular pragmatic and individualistic outlook which has gained standing in the area of legislation(45).
728 - Jun 2002 - How John Paul II's 'new springtime' came to an American parish, Elizabeth A. Wittman
Other avenues for education in the faith are semi-annual parish pilgrimages and an extensive audiovisual lending library stocked with videos and tapes on saints miracles and living the Catholic faith as well as family-style entertainment.
729 - Jun 2002 - Moral leadership of American hierarchy under scrutiny at Rome meeting, Philip Lawler
They must know that bishops and priests are totally committed to the fullness of Catholic truth on matters of sexual morality a truth as essential to the renewal of the priesthood and the episcopate as it is to the renewal of marriage and family life.
730 - Jun 2002 - A post-1968 Catholic's view of R.E.: 'My generation was shortchanged', Mark Power
Rock Masses home Masses and Masses where everyone sat down throughout were all introduced at one time or another in the churches I attended with my family.
731 - May 2002 - Books: Prove It! Church, by Amy Welborn, Bill Muehlenberg
Bill Muehlenberg a Baptist is National Vice President of the Australian Family Association and teaches theology at several Protestant Bible colleges in Melbourne.
732 - May 2002 - Books: Beyond Gay, by David Morrison, John S. Webster
Similarly most of us during the course of any week would hear homosexuals described in disparaging terms in conversations with colleagues friends and family members.
733 - May 2002 - Letters: Christian principles (letter), Errol P. Duke
Despite only having been formed some six months ago the new Family First Party has created a sense of significant political history in winning a seat in the parliamentary Upper House.
734 - May 2002 - Catholicism in Australia: facing the challenges of Western secularism, Archbishop George Pell
But by themselves schools are often unable to inculcate or strengthen faith when it is very weak in a family.
735 - May 2002 - News: The Church Around the World
If you are a Catholic and decide to stop working at 6 oclock in the afternoon to go to be with your family then you are regarded as someone who is different a loser you have ended your career said Fr Iapicca.
736 - Apr 2002 - Reflection: Father forgive them ...: Our Lord's example for Christian living, Fr Dennis W. Byrnes PP
Often this is not understood enough in married and in family life.
737 - Apr 2002 - Books: Engaged to be Married - A Giftbook for Engaged Couples, Michael Daniel
A range of clergy and lay authors present chapters on topics such as marriage as a sacrament creating a Christian home as a couple natural family planning the ends of marriage and raising children.
738 - Apr 2002 - Letters: Evangelisation (letter), Mavis Power
It was urged that only comparative religious studies should be taught in deference to the high proportion of non-Catholic students and that catechising was not the role of the teacher but of the family.
739 - Apr 2002 - Australian version of Maltese Marian shrine of Ta' Pinu
It was built by the Gentili family and devoted to Our Lady of the Assumption.
740 - Apr 2002 - Melbourne TMC: The rights and responsibilities of laity in the Catholic Church, Archbishop Denis Hart
He explains for example how the lay apostolate called for by Vatican II has developed into networks of organisations and individuals devoted to respect for human life from conception to natural death the support of family life political and economic solidarity with the victims of unjust and criminal abuses of power care of the sick the revitalisation of parishes and so on through many other concrete and practical ways in which we are to build up personal holiness and holiness in our communities.
741 - Apr 2002 - Melbourne 'Sexuality Directives' put parents first, Anthony Cappello
The document was a collaborative effort between the Catholic Education Office Vicar for Religious Education and members of the archdiocesan Council for Marriage and Family who together formed an advisory committee.
742 - Mar 2002 - Reflection: John Paul II: St Joseph's renewed significance for the Church, Br Christian Moe FSC
Inserted directly in the mystery of the Incarnation the Family of Nazareth has its own special mystery.
743 - Mar 2002 - Books: Faith of the Fatherless: The Psychology of Atheism, by Paul Vitz, Bill Muehlenberg
Bill Muehlenberg a Baptist is National Secretary of the Australian Family Association and teaches theology at several Protestant Bible colleges in Melbourne.
744 - Mar 2002 - Letters: Last straw (letter), Justin Kearney
As parents of a young family we expected faith affirmation and challenge but not secular nonsense like this.
745 - Mar 2002 - Thoughts of a recent convert to Catholicism, Rett Peaden
They will take part in the common life of a people and of a family.
746 - Mar 2002 - News: The Church Around the World
The Holy Father referred to the bishops efforts aimed at promoting mutual understanding reconciliation and fraternal love among all the Catholics of the great Chinese family.
747 - Feb 2002 - Books: 'The Martyrdom Of Blessed George Haydock:' by Barry Coldrey and Leo Griffin, Catholic Weekly
In the religious turmoil of the 16th century the family remained firmly Catholic through trial and persecution.
748 - Feb 2002 - Books: St Therese of Lisieux: from Lisieux to the Four Corners of the World, Catherine Sheehan
Also provided is a brief account of her life her family history and her little way of spiritual childhood.
749 - Feb 2002 - Books: Hogwarts or Hogwash? by Peter Furst and Craig Heilmann, Bill Muehlenberg
Bill Muehlenberg a Baptist is National Secretary of the Australian Family Association and teaches theology at several Protestant Bible colleges in Melbourne.
750 - Feb 2002 - Homily: Most Rev Geoffrey Jarrett installed as new Bishop of Lismore, Bishop Geoffrey Jarrett
It is in the environment of determined faith that our family life will flourish our marriages will deepen our priestly and religious commitment will be renewed and ministries and apostolates will be energised: in a word that we will be effective bearers of the holiness of God into the human community of our time and place.
751 - Feb 2002 - Archbishop Philip Wilson sets out his agenda for Adelaide, Michael Gilchrist
Earlier in his Southern Cross interview Archbishop Wilson identified three key insights that he plans to emphasise namely the centrality of Sunday Mass in the parishes the key role of the Bible in forming faith and the life of prayer and finally the family as the major focus of the Churchs pastoral activity.
752 - Dec 2001 - Books: The Prayer Of Jabez' by Bruce Wilkinson, Bill Muehlenberg
Bill Muehlenberg a Baptist is National Secretary of the Australian Family Association and teaches theology at several Protestant Bible colleges in Melbourne.
753 - Dec 2001 - Books: 'Meaninglessness: The Solutions of Nietzsche, Freud and Rorty' by Michael Casey, Anthony Cappello
Its author Dr Michael Casey is a sociologist on the staff of the Catholic Archbishop of Sydney and Permanent Fellow in Sociology and Politics at the Australian Campus of the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and the Family.
754 - Dec 2001 - Letters: Refugees, John McLean
We must welcome those on the humanitarian program (authorised) and those boat people (unauthorised) who ultimately are granted a Temporary Protection Visa (TPV) but who are subsequently denied access to free English language tuition as well as to the Family Reunion program.
755 - Dec 2001 - Letters: 'Familiaris Consortio' 20th anniversary, John Barich
I feel sure your readers would not wish the year to pass without some mention of 2001 being the 20th anniversary of Familiaris Consortio - The Role of the Christian Family in the Modern World - the post-synodal document of the 1980 Synod of Bishops.
756 - Dec 2001 - Books: De Lubac's writings in English translations, Tracey Rowland
The following overview of some of the currently available writings of Cardinal Henri de Lubac (1896-1991) - translated into English - is provided by Dr Tracey Rowland Dean of the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family in Melbourne (trowlandjp2institute.
757 - Dec 2001 - Obituary: Thomas Kendell (1929-2001) R.I.P. - The passing of a great Catholic educator, Nicholas Kendell
This journal extends its sympathy to Toms family - he will be sorely missed.
758 - Dec 2001 - Tenth Synod of Bishops' statement, Michael Gilchrist
Of particular concern was the contempt for human life from conception to death as well as the breakdown of the family.
759 - Dec 2001 - Editorial: A Christmas reflection, Peter Westmore
In contemporary Australia while Christmas is associated with family gatherings gift-giving and holidays in the sun sand and surf its true meaning is a celebration of that moment in time when in the immensely attractive account of St Luke God in the person of Jesus Christ was born in poverty in a stable in Bethlehem because there was no room for Mary and Joseph in the local inn.
760 - Nov 2001 - Reflection: All Souls Day and a Christian response to bereavement, Fr Dennis W. Byrnes PP
I was greeted by a distraught nurse who said The family are all in the room and they are all crying.
761 - Nov 2001 - Bookstore: New Titles from AD Books
00 Family-Friendly Web Sites for Kids Valerie L.
762 - Nov 2001 - Books: 'The Glenstal Book Of Prayer: A Benedictine Prayer Book, Mary-Jane Donnellan
The Blessings cover a wide variety of occasions circumstances and needs - the home the family the elderly the sick and others.
763 - Nov 2001 - Obituary: Lew Bennett R.I.P.
He helped produce the Bulletin of the Ovulation Method Research and Reference Centre of Australia for 28 years as well as arrange for the printing and promotion of resource materials on Natural Family Planning.
764 - Nov 2001 - Letters: Immigration policy, George F. Simpson
Every illegal immigrant family that arrives on our shores does so by knowingly and willingly entering into an unlawful arrangement with those criminals known as people-smugglers.
765 - Nov 2001 - News: The Church Around the World
Bishop Reginald Cawcutt as spokesman for the South African Bishops Conference told Catholic World News in October that the Church supported the rights and duties of a one-parent family and even the right of an individual to adopt.
766 - Nov 2001 - Tenth Synod of Bishops: Bishops called to courageous witness to the Faith, AD2000
Previous meetings of the Synod have dealt with topics such as the family (1980) the role of the laity (in 1987) the priesthood (1990) and consecrated life (1994).
767 - Oct 2001 - Letters: Cult (letter), Wal Maggs
Since I come from the same town and am an ex-member of the same movement I know that Vic Hall and his family still belong to the cult the Magnificat Meal Movement (MMM) condemned by the local bishop Bishop William Morris on several occasions.
768 - Oct 2001 - Letters: Church leadership (letter), Mary Daly
It is often said that the Coalition Government is pro-family but there seem to be just as many abortions done under a Liberal Government as under a Labor one.
769 - Oct 2001 - Education: Mass attendance: a key measure of Catholic schools' effectiveness, Br John Moylan CFC
The same congregation (1977 par 45) made the following statement: The Catholic school has as its specific duty the complete Christian formation of its pupils and this task is of special emphasis today because of the inadequacy of the family and society.
770 - Oct 2001 - Events: Gerry Matatics Visit / Catholic Homeschooling Conference, Parramatta, AD2000
00 per family.
771 - Oct 2001 - Archbishop George Pell: 'The strong family is a religious family', Archbishop George Pell
On 22 August 2001 Archbishop George Pell gave an address at a Quadrant magazine dinner in Sydney on The Future of the Family in Australia.
772 - Sep 2001 - Books: 'Lamentations Of The Father', by Ian Frazier, Mary-Jane Donnellan
Readers who have experienced these testing times will find their memories jogged; those currently coping with a young family will at least see the funny side of often difficult situations.
773 - Sep 2001 - Books: 'Teens and Relationships', 'Teen Life and Christ', by Jerry Shepherd, Mary-Jane Donnellan
Relationships are a basic part of peoples well-being - especially with peers and family.
774 - Sep 2001 - Books: 'The Book of Marriage', edited by Dana Mack and David Blankenhorn, Bill Muehlenberg
Available from AD Books) Some of the most profound witty incisive comments on marriage available When one considers that the institutions of marriage and family were the first ordained by God preceding even the State or the Church one can see the great importance placed on them.
775 - Sep 2001 - Letters: Fatima Family Apostolate (letter), Margaret Grace
He is Founder/Director of the Fatima Family Apostolate (FFA) and editor of the Apostolates publication Immaculate Heart Messenger Magazine.
776 - Sep 2001 - Kenneth Bruce Dowding, Australian Catholic hero: his brother's tribute, Rev Keith Dowding
No eulogy for Bruce should omit a tribute to the very courageous Father Steinhoff who risked his life by disobeying the strict Gestapo injunction that no details about Bruce - name family or home address - should be taken wrote them down secretly and wrote to us at the first possible moment.
777 - Sep 2001 - Commission for Australian Catholic Women: Executive members' feminist views, Richard Egan
Speaking at a Womens Dinner organised by Holy Family Parish Gowrie ACT on 23 February 2001 Mrs Geraldine Hawkes Chairperson of the Commission for Australian Catholic Women expressed her view on the ordination of women.
778 - Sep 2001 - Successful Thomas More Centre Winter School in Brisbane, Sidney Rofe
Referring to the events of the 1960s Dr Hitchcock noted how an explosion of scepticism had led to widespread repudiation of institutions such as the family education government and of course the Church.
779 - Sep 2001 - News: The Church Around the World
They also noted the importance of dialogue between civilisations for a common commitment in favour of peace and the protection of humanity from disasters poverty ignorance moral degradation family disintegration wars and the effects of weapons of mass destruction.
780 - Sep 2001 - Archbishop Hart's reception at St Patrick's Cathedral, Melbourne - Homily, Archbishop Denis Hart
It is to this purpose that the tenth campus of the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and the Family has been opened in Melbourne.
781 - Sep 2001 - Editorial: A letter from the Publisher, Peter Westmore
I am acutely aware that the financial demands on families today are heavier than ever in many cases being additional to commitments to running a family farm a business holding down a job (for many families unfortunately a second job) and educating children.
782 - Aug 2001 - Books: Hail, Holy Queen: The Mother of God in the Word of God, by Scott Hahn, Catherine Sheehan
Another way to understand Marys place in our Church is to recognise that the Holy Trinity is a family and as Hahn so succinctly puts it a family is incomplete without a loving mother.
783 - Aug 2001 - Books: Genetic Turning Points, by James Peterson, Bill Muehlenberg
Bill Muehlenburg a Baptist is National Secretary of the Australian Family Association and teaches theology at several Protestant Bible colleges in Melbourne.
784 - Aug 2001 - Letters: Choosing life (letter), Mark Whybrow
The Family Life Pregnancy Centre provides assistance with the aid of the Missionary Sisters of Charity.
785 - Aug 2001 - Letters: Orthodox seminary (letter), Paul Chigwidden
For my family and myself this is not a problem.
786 - Aug 2001 - Letters: BECs not new (letter), John Barich
More recently Focolare and Opus Dei have provided for these groups to include every member of the family.
787 - Aug 2001 - Australian scholarship for African priest
Father Philemon comes from a family of nine and has been a priest for 15 years.
788 - Aug 2001 - After 14 years: why does AD2000 continue?, Michael Gilchrist
This idea asserted that a person was only free when freed from the restraints of all forms of authority - the restrictive authority of the state the Church and the family.
789 - Jul 2001 - Reflection: An Australian World War II hero, Ron Cowban
The time I could devote to your son was so short that I did not ask him for his family.
790 - Jul 2001 - Letters: De facto relationships (letter), Deirdre Lyra
The Australian Family Association President John Barich said the move was an attack on the institution of marriage.
791 - Jul 2001 - Report on Marins BECs workshop in Ballarat, Peter Finlayson
It challenged the contemporary concept of being a Christian - confined to church attendance (however irregular) and family - and stressed our missionary obligation to take the Church in person directly to the wider community especially targeting the disadvantaged and marginalised people.
792 - Jul 2001 - New Vatican guidelines call for sound, accurate liturgy translations, Michael Gilchrist
Although the document never directly mentions inclusive language there is no ambiguity: When the original text for example employs a single term in expressing the interplay between the individual and the universality and unity of the human family or community (such as the Hebrew word adam the Greek anthropos or the Latin homo) this property of the language of the original text should be maintained in the translation (sect;nbsp;30).
793 - Jun 2001 - Books: 'As One Struggling Christian to Another: Augustine's Christian Ideal for Today', Bill Muehlenberg
Bill Muehlenberg who is a Baptist is National Secretary of the Australian Family Association and teaches theology at several Protestant Bible colleges in Melbourne.
794 - Jun 2001 - Denver document addresses challenges to Catholic marriage teachings, AD2000 Report
Living with a Catholic family from the parish could serve as an additional means of formation for the engaged and facilitate a sense of belonging to the parish community.
795 - Jun 2001 - News: The Church Around the World
Shortly after he was moved to found a religious family centred on the Gospel the Eucharist and the apostolic life.
796 - Jun 2001 - Archbishop Pell installed in Sydney, Michael Gilchrist
The good God and his only Son must not be shunted from centre stage by any human good or activity; not by life issues or family or social justice work or inter-religious dialogue.
797 - May 2001 - Books: 'Prayers From The Heart: for the Feasts of the Year', Joanna Bogle, Mary-Jane Donnellan
As a family or alone we are invited to enter into the traditional prayers of St Francis of Assisi St Augustine John Henry Newman Wordsworth and others and be drawn into a time of personal reflection.
798 - May 2001 - Books: 'Becoming Fire' by Fr Ken Barker mgl, Peter Westmore
When we examine a typical week it is possible that television gains greater priority than prayer that the gym is more important than family that the football ranks higher than spiritual reading and that work squeezes out everything else.
799 - May 2001 - Letters: Eucharistic Congress (letter), Basil Lane
Its a pity we are not fortunate so far in having him conduct a nine-day Family Mission.
800 - May 2001 - New WA Catholic schools document stresses orthodoxy
This was necessary since as the new Mandate acknowledges there are considerable difficulties in catechising children through families and parishes given the declining participation rate in parish life and widespread family breakdown.
801 - May 2001 - The Church in Germany: John Paul II expresses serious concerns, Catholic World News
Next the Pope points to the condition of family life in Germany.
802 - May 2001 - Vatican signals continuation of reform process, AD2000 Report
Our message morally is much broader than that; but my primary concern is to defend and protect marriage and the family and all the other teachings on sexuality come from that concern.
803 - Apr 2001 - Reflection: Giving witness to the Gospel of Life, Rebecca van Rensburg
In such a situation the family and the medical profession consent to the disposing of a child precisely at a time when it should be nourished protected and cared for by these very people.
804 - Apr 2001 - Books: The Apostles' Creed, Defend the Faith and other apologetics topics, Michael Daniel
The Family and Human Life examines ethical issues notably those most under siege in our contemporary secular society while Law and Life discusses the Ten Commandments the Seven Sacraments and the Lords Prayer.
805 - Apr 2001 - Books: 'Contraception: The Hidden Truth' by Christine de Stoop, Katie Forster
This then leads into the Church- accepted birth control method - Natural Family Planning - with an illuminating explanation on why NFP is Church-approved: NFP remaining passive towards life whereas contraception aggressively prevents it.
806 - Apr 2001 - Thomas More Centre Summer School 2001: "Building a Culture of Life", Michael Daniel
Senator Harradine argued that the challenge for the 21st century was to uphold the dignity of each human being marriage family friendly policies and the dignity of work.
807 - Apr 2001 - Archbishop Curtiss on implementing the theology 'mandatum', Archbishop Elden Curtiss
The text is available courtesy of Voices the publication of Women for Faith and Family.
808 - Apr 2001 - John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family to open in July 2001, AD2000 Report
Perhaps the most important event in the recent history of Australian Catholic higher education is set to occur in July 2001 with the official opening of the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family in Melbourne.
809 - Mar 2001 - Letters: Catholic education (letter), Daniel Bryce
It was expensive mentally physically and emotionally draining and a burden on my family life.
810 - Mar 2001 - Letters: Appeal from India (letter), Kevin L. Fernandes
We as a body with the name Family of Faith Foundation have been officially recognised and warmly encouraged by Archbishop Ivan Dias of Bombay (just made a cardinal by Pope John Paul II).
811 - Mar 2001 - Letters: Supernatural order (letter), Fr G.H. Duggan SM
God the Heavenly Father is our Creator and all human beings in the natural order are His children related to Him as children to the father in a human family.
812 - Mar 2001 - The surprise Cardinal: Fr Avery Dulles SJ, Zenit News Service
In his youth Avery Dulles was party to much of the intrigue connected with members of his family.
813 - Mar 2001 - What we must teach our children: Archbishop Chaput, Archbishop Charles J. Chaput
Chaput of Denver Colorado was in Melbourne during April 2000 and in a keynote presentation to the National Catholic Family Gathering offered some good advice to parents on what to teach their children.
814 - Mar 2001 - Elizabeth Anscombe, R.I.P., Robert P. George
In 1968 when much of the rest of the Catholic intellectual world reacted with shock and anger to Pope Paul VIs reaffirmation of Catholic teaching regarding the immorality of contraception the Geach- Anscombe family toasted the announcement with champagne.
815 - Mar 2001 - How Archbishop Pell will implement Statement on Women in the Church
These must include coherent appropriate promotion of the role of wife and mother especially when the birth rate has dropped dramatically (Victorias rate is the lowest in Australia) many couples are living together there is so much family break-up and consistent advocacy for homosexual and lesbian lifestyles.
816 - Mar 2001 - News: The Church Around the World
We are asking teachers parents parishioners co-workers and family members to look at a young man they know and ask the question Would he make a good priest?
817 - Feb 2001 - Books: 'The Essence Of Feminism' by Kirsten Birkett, Catherine Sheehan
The evidence indicates that feminism has turned its back on the desires and the needs of women: Its individualism and freedom led it to attack the social structures that were good for women (marriage family) and now women are suffering.
818 - Feb 2001 - Letters: Christian art (letter), Kim Portelli
Together with my 21-year-old sister we have begun our own business - Christian Art and Wisdom and Other Fine Things - whose main aim is to promote high quality traditional religious art media and the family.
819 - Feb 2001 - Letters: Consecrated life (letter), Sr Mary Augustine Lane OP
In fact the Church makes many strong objective demands of those who claim to have the necessary unique charism for that delicate and vital matter - the founding of a new religious family.
820 - Feb 2001 - Letters: Church in China (letter), Angela Martello
Wang Qing a seminarian in Baoding Diocese was beaten hanged by his hands and forced to drink filthy liquid after he was arrested while doing a pastoral visit to a family.
821 - Feb 2001 - Successful Thomas More Spring School in Wagga, Paul Sheehan
Those involved in this session were the Dominican Sisters from Ganmain Vianney College (the local seminary) the Australian Family Association True Love Waits and Youth Defence - a pro-life youth organisation in Sydney.
822 - Feb 2001 - The "priest shortage": natural or artificial?, Larry A. Carstens
Feminism begins by denying male headship - in the family or the Church - and ends by decrying the lack of males (in the home or the seminary) which it caused.
823 - Feb 2001 - Liturgy: when will the 'Statement of Conclusions' make an impact?, Michael Gilchrist
While there are many factors that might account for this situation - family breakdown poor religion teaching and the cultural revolution - it is undeniable that liturgical abuses have aggravated the situation with Eucharistic faith progressively undermined by irreverence secular politically correct intrusions and a casual informal approach to the sacred mysteries.
824 - Feb 2001 - The finest RE texts produced to date, Anthony Cappello
The activity suggested for this unit is a family activity where the child is asked to identify the items in the local parish church.
825 - Feb 2001 - News: The Church Around the World
De facto unions not equivalent to marriage Vatican document published The Pontifical Council for the Family has recently published a 79-page document titled Family Marriage and de facto Unions together with a communique signed by Cardinal Alfonso Lopez Trujillo and Bishop Francisco Gil Hellin respectively President and Secretary of the Council.
826 - Feb 2001 - Editorial: New religion texts for Melbourne schools, Michael Gilchrist
Many Catholic homes reflect the widespread breakdown of the family in Australia while as recent research shows a large proportion of teachers graduating from Australian Catholic University are out of step with Church teachings.
827 - Dec 2000 - Books: 200 Years of Faith: A Multimedia Tour of the Holy Land, Catherine Sheehan
2000 Years of Faith is an ideal way to encounter this fascinating land via a PC and a wonderful means of inspiring family interest in the lands of the Bible.
828 - Dec 2000 - The 'new breed' of orthodox seminarians, Carter H. Griffin
We have seen family cohesion dissolve before our eyes and have witnessed galloping violence materialism and radical individualism erode our culture.
829 - Dec 2000 - News: The Church Around the World
Particularly memorable in this regard have been the Jubilee celebrations for youth the sick for consecrated life for artists for bishops and for the family.
830 - Dec 2000 - Jubilee Congress of Families: Rome report, Anthony Cappello
His family - including his wife Brigid and children Liam and Clare - was one of two families representing the Archdiocese of Melbourne.
831 - Nov 2000 - New lay apostolate: Confraternity of the Holy Name of Jesus, Barry O'Brien
By the very nature of our organisation our membership has up until now been on an individual and family basis united in prayer and penance rather than consisting of great numbers from any one particular area or parish.
832 - Nov 2000 - The right to work: central to the Catholic Church's social teaching, Patrick Byrne
When Adam and Eve were driven from the garden of Eden Eve had to bear children and nurture the family.
833 - Nov 2000 - News: The Church Around the World
Zenit News Service Jubilee for Families celebration in Rome Children the springtime of the family and for society The Jubilee for Families celebration in Rome on 14-15 October drew about 200000 people from around the world.
834 - Oct 2000 - Archbishop Pell: social justice for today's family, Archbishop George Pell
In addressing the Churchs struggle against the culture of death he strongly emphasised the role of the lay apostolate in defending the family from todays economic and social evils.
835 - Oct 2000 - Contentious Social Justice Statement on women's participation published, Michael Gilchrist
The Statement pledges to draw up policies of care to respond to the pain of people and groups of people within the Church who are struggling with the implications of Church teaching on the question of divorce and remarriage and to provide guidelines to assist in the pastoral care of those who are finding difficulty in understanding and accepting the Churchs teaching on the restriction of ordination to males as well as appropriate pastoral statements concerning Catholic teaching on such areas as sexuality marriage and family planning.
836 - Oct 2000 - News: The Church Around the World
Popes John XXIII and Pius IX beatified John XXIIIs an admirer of Pius IX On Sunday 3 September Popes Pius IX and John XXIII were beatified along with Tommaso Reggio a 19th century Archbishop of Genoa and founder of the Congregation of the Sisters of St Martha French priest Fr Guillaume Joseph Chaminade founder in the same century of the Marianist Family and Irish Benedictine Fr Columba Marmion a great master of spirituality of our time (see Reflection page 20).
837 - Sep 2000 - Reflection: Religious life: death or re-birth?, Fr Benedict Groeschel
Many women religious however retain a certain family loyalty to the identity and memory of their institutions long after the spirituality and apostolate have actually disappeared.
838 - Sep 2000 - Why singles should not have access to IVF, Peter Westmore
The recent judgment of the Federal Court giving an unmarried single woman Lisa Meldrum in Victoria access to IVF treatment - to enable her to conceive a child without her being married - raises important questions about the rights of children to have a father and mother and to be raised in a stable and loving family.
839 - Jul 2000 - Reflection: St John the Baptist, the Precursor (Feast Day, 24 June), Br Christian Moe FSC
Most of us would be familiar with some of those beautiful early Renaissance paintings depicting the - extended - Holy Family where St Elizabeth and the Blessed Virgin Mary watch their children at play.
840 - Jul 2000 - Family Mission Novena: Australian response to Jubilee 2000
On its final night at the Holy Family parish East Granville in the Parramatta Diocese Sydney the Millennium Family Mission Novena was described by one grateful parent as a miracle - a family miracle.
841 - Jul 2000 - Educating Catholics in a secular culture: a Canadian Internet initiative, J. Fraser Field
Our current issues section deals with multiculturalism homosexuality environmentalism feminism parenting persecution of Christians marriage and family medical ethics euthanasia population control sex and the media.
842 - Jul 2000 - Italians in Australia: Celebrating cultural and Catholic identity, AD2000 Report
The Archbishop also spoke on the importance of Australian Italians holding onto their Catholic values notably the family and challenged the community particularly the second generation to help with the pastoral needs of the ageing Italian community urging them to become qualified pastoral associates or social workers.
843 - Jul 2000 - New Zealand bishops endorse register of same sex couples, Richard Egan
On 17 March 2000 just one week before the New Zealand bishops made their submission Cardinal Alfonso Lopez Trujillo President of the Pontifical Council for the Family decisively rejected a resolution by the European Parliament for legal recognition of homosexual unions.
844 - Jul 2000 - News: The Church Around the World
Respect for the ethical cultural and religious ideas of the family in the prevention of sexually transmitted sicknesses.
845 - Jul 2000 - New campus of John Paul II Institute set to open in Melbourne, AD2000 Report
Archbishop George Pell of Melbourne has appointed Very Rev Dr Anthony Fisher OP as Director of the Melbourne Campus of the Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and the Family.
846 - Jun 2000 - How Catholics can help rebuild Christian culture, Archbishop Charles J. Chaput
Archbishop Chaputs Melbourne address Archbishop Charles Chaput of Denver Colorado was a keynote speaker at the National Catholic Family Gathering Melbourne on 29 April 2000.
847 - Jun 2000 - News: The Church Around the World
Its members include Fr Richard John Neuhaus James Dobson of Focus on the Family and Rabbi Daniel Lapin of Toward Tradition.
848 - Jun 2000 - Editorial: The Church needs strong leaders, Michael Gilchrist
Archbishop Charles Chaput of Denver Colorado was a keynote speaker at the National Family Gathering held in Melbourne at the end of April.
849 - May 2000 - Letters: More on Adelaide (letter), Margret E. Mills
Correlated data relating to employment earnings family and housing is easily available from the ABS and from local reports compiled by various government and private instrumentalities.
850 - May 2000 - How the future John Paul II saved a Jewish girl's life, Zenit News Service
The young Jew who was not yet aware that she was the only member of her family to survive the Nazi massacre let a tall strong 25-year-old tonsured seminarian carry her and give her a ray of hope.
851 - May 2000 - Books: Francis Thompson: author of 'The Hound of Heaven', Michael Daniel
Drug addict Francis Thompson was born in 1859 to a middle class family.
852 - May 2000 - Understanding the Incarnation, Msgr Peter J. Elliott
Because of the memories preserved in the living tradition of the followers and family of Jesus his earthly beginnings were included in two of those Gospels Matthew and Luke.
853 - May 2000 - What are the foundations of a good Catholic education?, Dr. John J. Haldane
The Mass is not a religious service nor is it a family meal nor a community feast.
854 - May 2000 - How do we know whether a sacrament is valid or not?, Fr Peter Joseph
Thus if one says I baptise you in the name of the Holy Family then no Baptism has taken place; it is invalid and it would have to be repeated properly.
855 - May 2000 - News: The Church Around the World
A coalition of some 800 groups spearheaded by the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute (C-FAM) have joined together to defeat the campaign.
856 - Apr 2000 - Coming Home Network: a Catholic apostolate for converts, Marcus Grodi
The following quote from a Protestant minister on the journey home to the Catholic Church best describes the reason the Coming Home Network International exists: I am a Protestant minister with a family of five.
857 - Apr 2000 - Impressive gathering of young people attend TMC Summer School, Michael Daniel
After lunch the participants welcomed His Excellency Bishop Scola Rector Magnificus of the Pontifical Lateran University and the John Paul II Family Institute.
858 - Apr 2000 - News: The Church Around the World
International Express (London) National Family Gathering in Melbourne Archbishop Chaput keynote speaker One of the most inspiring figures in the Catholic Church in the English-speaking world today Most Rev Charles Chaput OFM Archbishop of Denver Colorado will be in Australia between 28-30 April.
859 - Apr 2000 - Should the Church apologise?, Fr Colin Barker
An article in The Catholic Times in the UK on 1 January 2000 said: The family has been declared obsolete and many children are condemned to a life of poverty without a father.
860 - Mar 2000 - Books: 'Building Family Prayer and Traditions' by Steve Givens, Catherine Sheehan
It is obviously something vital in family life for the formation of the next generation and especially for the transmission of religious beliefs and values.
861 - Mar 2000 - Education: Religious education: putting the emphasis back on God, Br John Moylan CFC
Red Cross study Thirdly an International Red Cross study also points to the importance of putting fundamental emphasis on Christs first commandment: According to a study carried out among youths in five European countries by the International Red Cross religious beliefs and a healthy family environment are key factors against drug addiction.
862 - Mar 2000 - Editorial: The recovery of the sacred, Michael Gilchrist
The causes of these declines are many and complex not least the impact of secularisation and weakened family life.
863 - Feb 2000 - Books: ‘Hidden Way: The Life and Influence of Almire Pichon’ by Mary Frances Coady, Mary O'Neill
The Hidden Way tells the life of a Jesuit priest Fr Almire Pichon who was spiritual director first to the Martin family of Lisieux which included Marie Pauline Celine and St Thrse as a postulant in the Carmel.
864 - Feb 2000 - Tom Monaghan: the tycoon who sold his assets to serve the Church, Patrick Ward
TV shows which in his view were anti-family or anti-morality did not get supported.
865 - Feb 2000 - Lay teachers: backbone of the Catholic system, Tom Kendell
She was a strong supporter of family values and the traditional role of parents.
866 - Nov 1999 - Religious Education: 'Gospel of life' in Melbourne's new RE curriculum, Msgr Peter J. Elliott
The Pontifical Council for the Family has set the standard here in its guidelines for parents and all who assist them The Truth and Meaning of Human Sexuality.
867 - Nov 1999 - Piers Paul Read on the future of the Church, Piers Paul Read
Feminism women usurping the roles of men the family becoming a matter of choice rather than a form of community imposed by social reality.
868 - Nov 1999 - News: The Church Around the World
The Pre-Synod European Symposium as it was called which was organised by the Pontifical Council for Culture was attended by distinguished figures like UNESCOs Federico Mayor; Stanislaw Grygiel vice-president of the John Paul II Institute for the Family in Rome; Irina Alberti for many years Alexander Solzenitsyns assistant; and Admond Malinvaud president of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences.
869 - Oct 1999 - Reflection: A Kolbe Quartet, Msgr Peter J. Elliott
The steps of the step accomplished so swiftly quietly without display you take his place the other man whose name is Francis a father of children yearning for the sound and touch of family.
870 - Oct 1999 - Apostleship of the Sea: the Stella Maris Seafarers' Centre, AD2000 Report
They face painful problems such as separation from family and friends and the resulting feelings of isolation and loneliness; for extended periods of time they live and work at a great distance from a territorial parish.
871 - Oct 1999 - The UN's war on population confronts religious principles, Stephen Hitchings
This hope bore fruit in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) which proclaimed the rights of all people to life liberty freedom from coercion freedom of thought conscience and religion and the right to found a family and the Declaration of the Rights of the Child (1959) which decreed protection before as well as after birth.
872 - Oct 1999 - News: The Church Around the World
John Paul II Institute seminar in Rome Professors Summit Focuses on Family From 22-27 August some 100 University professors met in the Pontifical Lateran University in Rome to study Gods plan on marriage and the family.
873 - Oct 1999 - Catholic objections to the 'morning-after' pill, Maria Luisa Di Pietro
Family planning organisations It is in fact a routine practice of family planning organisations to send reproductive emergency kits not only after a war - which suggests a concern for the woman who has just been raped although no concern for the baby - but to those places where violent behaviour has not been curbed and so there is a desire to solve the situation in this way.
874 - Sep 1999 - Scripture: The call to conversion in the early Church: lessons for today, Rev Dr Peter Waters
Accordingly when St Luke concludes his story the Church has become a world-wide family of Jews and Gentiles who have come to believe in Jesus and his message.
875 - Sep 1999 - News: The Church Around the World
UN committee opposes motherhood promotion Calls for revision of religious texts A UN committee focussing on womens rights has pressured governments to stop promoting motherhood and called on religions to change the interpretation of their sacred texts as part of a campaign to promote radical feminism according to a Catholic pro-family group last July.
876 - Aug 1999 - Order of Australia for pregnancy counselling centre's founder, AD2000 Report
It is a warm family based program that parents children and teachers find a very sensitive approach to a diffficult subject.
877 - Aug 1999 - News: The Church Around the World
Father Dowling who was ordained in 1958 has served in several Melbourne parishes worked on the staff of the Catholic Family Welfare Bureau (now Centacare) as a priest counsellor since 1963 and hosted a Sunday night talk-back radio program since 1973 - both of which roles he will continue to carry out.
878 - Jul 1999 - News: The Church Around the World
Zenit News De facto unions not an alternative to marriage Popes address to Pontifical Council for the family On 4 June Pope John Paul II received the participants of the 14th plenary session of the Pontifical Council for the Family who have been reflecting on the theme Paternity of God and Paternity in the Family.
879 - Jun 1999 - The Rosary for Youth
It is designed to provide a deeper understanding of Jesus Mary and the Catholic faith through individual family and group prayer.
880 - Jun 1999 - The challenge for religious educators in a secular culture, Archbishop Charles J. Chaput
She is the family in which we encounter Christ who is the way the truth and the life; the same Christ who said no one comes to the Father except through me.
881 - Jun 1999 - News: The Church Around the World
To protect the sanctity of the family and to build up family life.
882 - May 1999 - Association of Catholic Families: meeting challenges to today's family, Chris and Mary Clare Meney
Many of the forums which comment on the current situation affecting the traditional family speak of it as under challenge or of it being severely tested by a society which is often at war with its values.
883 - May 1999 - Victoria's Governor pays tribute to Dr Mannix, Sir James Gobbo
He encouraged them to make a commitment to their new home and at the same time retain their culture their religion and their family trad- itions.
884 - May 1999 - News: The Church Around the World
According to a report in the Filipino family magazine Ugnayan the CBCP said it would not get involved in any program that is value-free (devoid of Christian family values) that promotes situational morality undertakes the sexual indoctrination of children during their formative years and violates the teachings of the Church.
885 - May 1999 - Vocations: Confronting today's vocations crisis, Fr Paul Stuart
As useful and beneficial as clever vocational advertisements and promotions are nothing will beat or replace the example of Christ himself and those who imitate him in their lives in their priesthood marriage family work and vocation.
886 - Apr 1999 - 1999 Thomas More Summer School: another resounding success
His salient example was a familiar one: that of a family from Bethlehem 2000 years ago which travelled into exile in Egypt.
887 - Apr 1999 - Bringing the Faith to life for children, Matthew Greenrod BSJ
The St Josephs Family Catechetical Summer School held in Adelaide was fun it was cool and the children went home knowing more about the foundations of their faith including the Marian doctrines the precepts of the Church and the Bible.
888 - Apr 1999 - What the census statistics on religious affiliations reveal, Michael Gilchrist
The statements challenge to the bishops to arrest the decline has a note of urgency given that the Catholic Church seemingly represents the only substantial religious obstacle to the secularisation of Australian culture particularly as regards marriage and family the sanctity of human life moral values and bio-ethical developments.
889 - Apr 1999 - News: The Church Around the World
EWTN Vatican Update Pro-abortion Catholic group at UN conference Problem of male dominance attacked A US-based pro-abortion group claiming to represent grassroots Catholics was given a prominent role at a UN population conference last February according to the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute (CAFHRI).
890 - Mar 1999 - Reflection: Being a disciple of Christ: no soft option, Archbishop George Pell
Being Catholic means a readiness to pray and to worship at Mass regularly to act decently and honestly - first of all with family and friends - and to strive for honesty integrity and purity.
891 - Mar 1999 - How a parish priest reinforces the Church's moral teaching, Fr Michael Butler
Shortly afterwards I contacted Dr Kevin Hume in Sydney who is a leader in Natural Family Planning (NFP) and he sent me copies of the brochure which accompanies the sale in the United States of a very well-known contraceptive Pill a low hormone one.
892 - Mar 1999 - Vocations: The Brothers of St Francis: a sign of renewal in religious life, Fr Christopher Sharah FSF
In the Franciscan family alone there are at least eleven reform communities of friars around the world counting ourselves each recapturing a deep communal prayer life simplicity in living and great zeal for the Church.
893 - Mar 1999 - Charles Chaput: a remarkable American Archbishop, Louis Power
Second in a family of three his older sister and younger brother are both married.
894 - Mar 1999 - News: The Church Around the World
US Catholic women pledge fidelity to Church Affirmation statement presented to Cardinal Ratzinger The names of more than 2000 Catholic women (about 10 percent of them religious women) who have recently signed a statement of fidelity (or Affirmation) to the Catholic Church were presented on 20 January to Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith by Helen Hull Hitchcock director of Women for Faith amp Family (WFF).
895 - Mar 1999 - John Paul II's successful fourth visit to Mexico, AD2000 Report
The Church said the Pope can contribute effectively to eradicate this evil from civil society by having a greater number of qualified Christian laymen who because of family school and parish background are able to promote the practice of values like truth honesty industry and the service of the common good.
896 - Feb 1999 - Bob Billings (1915-1999): outstanding Catholic layman, Peter Westmore
A distinguished Catholic layman with many years of service to the Church and Australian community Mr Billings was a brother of Dr John Billings famous around the world along with his wife Dr Evelyn for the Billings Method of Natural Family Planning and a close friend and associate of the late Bob Santamaria.
897 - Dec 1998 - The right to work: what does the Catholic Church teach?, Bishop Kevin Manning
Most peoples social circles centre on family and workmates and so the loss of employment can bring with it acute social isolation.
898 - Dec 1998 - Thomas More Centre's Sydney Spring School, Anthony English
Mary Helen Woods National President of the Australian Family Association provided a balanced look at young people and marriage in her talk: The Seinfeld Syndrome - family relationships and all that!
899 - Dec 1998 - News: The Church Around the World
Fox of the Fatima Family Apostolate.
900 - Sep 1998 - Pope John Paul II's new Apostolic Letter on Bishops' Conferences, Apostolos Suos, Michael Gilchrist
Bureaucracy This phenomenon was typified by the recent release of the document Always Our Children: A Pastoral Message to Parents of Homosexual Children by the Committee on Marriage and Family of the US Bishops Conference.
901 - Sep 1998 - Archbishop Pell: 'Humanae Vitae' teachings 'are not an optional extra', Michael Gilchrist
The encyclical he said promoted responsible parenthood teaching that couples must decide how many children they should have and how they should be spaced taking into account their own physical economic psychological and social circumstances and their duties to God themselves their family and society.
902 - Aug 1998 - Australian Rosary tape's success story, Colleen McGuiness-Howard
00 plus postage to make it affordable for the average family.
903 - Aug 1998 - Education: Catholic schools: Do they make enough difference?, Br John Moylan CFC
quot; It is my belief that Catholic schools are the best and only practical way of necessarily supplementing the Catholic education given in the family - primarily - and in the worshipping parish.
904 - Jun 1998 - New Texts the key to reshaping religious education, Msgr Peter J. Elliott
The religious formation of children and young people is of interest to all Christians and people of good-will for it is through commitment to the transcendent that sound values are held and transmitted so that the family and society can flourish in freedom and truth.
905 - Apr 1998 - Obituary: Archbishop Pell's tribute to B.A. Santamaria, Archbishop George Pell
He was educated by the Christian Brothers ultimately at St Kevins College where he was dux of the school then winning his way to Melbourne University through a scholarship like three other members of his family.
906 - Feb 1998 - Vatican Instruction addresses an 'inadequate theology' of priesthood, Fr Ephraem Chifley OP
In directing the energies of the laity towards the service of the sanctuary during the liturgy as is often the case with programs of lay involvement attention is diverted from the real goal of lay activity which should be the winning of the world for Christ: sanctifying the temporal order in family life social and political involvement the work place education health care etc.
907 - Nov 1997 - A young Catholic woman's defence of Church teachings, Anna Silvas
Why is that I hear a mature married woman once a daily Mass-goer patronisingly dismiss the Pope in a way she would have abhorred years before or a senior priest at Mass sneer at the Popes letter for the year of the family and proceed to defend every form of family except that of husband wife and children?
908 - Oct 1997 - Reflection: St Therese of Lisieux: only half the story, Msgr Peter J. Elliott
In fact her life was one continuous string of sacrifices first in giving up the family who adored her and then in giving up everything to follow Jesus in Carmel.
909 - Aug 1997 - Participation of Women in the Catholic Church in Australia: an update, Michael Gilchrist
Harrigan the highest ranking female recipient of a papal award in Australia did not get an opportunity to speak nor did Dr Veronica OConnell representing teachers of the Billings natural family planning method nor did Katrina Lee a high profile journalist and a Catholic convert.
910 - Jul 1997 - Reflection: Catholic youth: facing the challenges to faith (Pastoral Letter), Archbishop George Pell
Increasing family breakdown homelessness and abortion; youth suicide growing environmental damage and easy access to soft and hard drugs are also grim realities for many.
911 - Jul 1997 - Books: 'Banished Camelots: Recollections of a Catholic Childhood', by John Redrup, Br Christian Moe FSC
The unifying themes of his book are the constant love which enveloped his immigrant Anglo-Irish family and his mothers deep if undemonstrative Catholic faith: a faith that looked for and found support in the ordinary Catholic institutions of the time: the parish school - then staffed almost exclusively by Sisters or Brothers of the great teaching Institutes - and the parish church - served by good simple zealous priests who seemed blessedly untouched by the identity crises and the like which seem so often to plague our own liberated generation.
912 - Jul 1997 - Which Catholic women will the Australian bishops listen to?, Michael Gilchrist
However a later presentation by Mary Helen Woods on behalf of the Australian Family Association concentrated on practical family issues and supported Church teachings.
913 - May 1997 - Education: Catholic schools problems can be solved, Tom Kendell
But in the face of a number of issues that threaten the primacy of the Christian family among them abortion pornography homosexuality drugs and alcohol and addictive gambling the role of the Catholic school and the purpose and effectiveness with which it is conducted are of crucial importance for the future of Christianity in this country.
914 - May 1997 - Brisbane pastoral ministers guidelines: 'Zooming along' to priestless parishes?, Michael Gilchrist
Who would prefer the ordained priesthood its celibacy low pay stresses and work-load to the more regular hours normal salary and possibly a wife and family of a de facto lay priest who even occupies a parish presbytery?
915 - Mar 1997 - Brisbane's Banyo seminary: zero recruits is 'not a cause for alarm', Michael Gilchrist
A recent report in The Irish Family (20.
916 - Feb 1997 - The Catholic Church in Singapore: why is it strong and healthy?, Michael Barr
These people are an integral part of the Franciscan family in Singapore and are part of the spiritual life of the communities.
917 - Oct 1996 - How the new Catechism can impact on the secular culture, Archbishop Barry J. Hickey
One could talk of the catechesis that will lead us to acknowledge Jesus as Lord under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit; or lead us along the great journey to eternal life through prayer or talk of the entry into the divine mysteries that enlighten our minds the words of Scripture that penetrate the heart the nourishment of the Sacraments along the way and the joys of forgiveness and inner peace in the family or people of God.
918 - Aug 1996 - Oxford Declaration on Liturgy: intentions of Vatican II 'frustrated', Christopher Quinn
Elliott of the Pontifical Council for the Family author of Ceremonies of the Roman Rite (Ignatius Press) and Fr Edward Yarnold SJ a Research Lecturer at Oxford University author of several books and a long-time member of the ARCIC commission.
919 - Aug 1996 - How to overcome the shortage of priests, Fr Kevin Dillon PP
This pattern has produced 32 priests in three years which Fr Gould attributes to prayers from the dioceses Poor Clare nuns strong Catholic education and family programs and Bishop Keatings own enthusiasm for vocations.
920 - Jul 1996 - Father Joseph Fessio's lecture tour of Australia, Mark First
The most powerful man in the American Church is Father Joseph Fessio of San Francisco a Jesuitical Newt Gingrich who with the help of money from family and friends has turned his Ignatius Press into a base for attacking gender-inclusive language in Catholic documents.
921 - Jun 1996 - Michael Davies' Australia / NZ tour - The Catholic liturgy: where is it headed?, Michael Gilchrist
As Michael Davies conceded during his talk at the Thomas More Centre in Melbourne the banning or virtual disappearance of the traditional Latin Mass after 1970 was not of itself the main cause of the crisis in the Church which has arisen also from other deeper and more extensive factors such as secularisation materialism family breakdown and a general loss of religious belief.
922 - May 1996 - Reflection: Holy Communion and the Real Presence: whatever happened to reverence?, Christine McCarthy
We can spend regular time in prayer in the presence of Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament praying for our priests our parish our own family the Holy Father and his intentions the Church and vocations and we can make reparation for the many offences offered to Our Lord in His sacramental presence.
923 - Apr 1996 - Emperor Charles I: World War I peace campaigner, James Bogle
a small duchy in Italy formerly ruled by a branch of the Bourbon family until they were overthrown and expelled by the revolutionaries.
924 - Mar 1996 - New Vatican document vindicates concerns about classroom sex education
AD2000 REPORT The Pontifical Council for the Family has recently issued a document titled The Truth and Meaning of Human Sexuality: Guidelines for Education Within the Family.
925 - Mar 1996 - Editorial: The problem is belief, B.A. Santamaria
Some like the present writer would sorrowfully revise their hitherto Christian convictions depart the family of the faith and do their best to continue to live by what appears to be the law of mans nature even though there would no longer be any divine foundation on which to rest it.
926 - Feb 1996 - An agnostic medical student on euthanasia: 'Why taking a life is unacceptable', Matthew Bailey
My grandfather a doctor himself had discussed the matter with the treating physician and the family knew exactly what was going on.
927 - Feb 1996 - 'Mass facing the people': did Vatican II require it?, Eamon Duffy
Mass in the round or facing the people does of course express an important dimension of the Eucharist that of the Church as a community gathered around the family table and among whom the Lord is fully present.
928 - Dec 1995 - Beijing UN Conference on Women - How Holy See took on the feminist agenda, Rita Joseph
This analysis of the Holy Sees impact at Beijing is provided by Rita Joseph a Canberra-based writer who attended the Conference as an Australian Family Association representative.
929 - Nov 1995 - Post-conciliar renewal? Some Queensland snapshots, Michael Gilchrist
The style is 1970s experiential: Make rainbow place mats to use at a special family meal; Try doing things with your hands tied behind your back.
930 - Nov 1995 - Evangelium Vitae - Catholicism, the media and the 'culture of death', Bishop George Pell
These conflicts focus upon the sanctity of life (euthanasia infanticide) gender (feminism) race (multiculturalism) the definition of the family children (blessing or burden?
931 - Oct 1995 - Lord Ripon (1828-1909) - I - How to base political life on Christian principles, Fr John Parsons
The progression from a devout but historically narrow Evangelical family background to some kind of High Church Anglicanism and then to Catholicism was repeated in thousands of lives.
932 - Sep 1995 - Alexander Rzewuski (1893-1983): The Catholic Church viewed with 'fresh eyes', Fr Peter Knowles OP
He differed in religious experience family background education and artistic talents.
933 - Aug 1995 - Blessed Edith Stein (1891-1942): The most significant German woman this century, Mary O'Neill
Born into a Jewish family in eastern Germany on 12 October 1891 she became an outstanding student and teacher of philosophy with a brilliance and a clarity in her thought and writings which shines through collections of her works more than 50 years after her death in a Nazi gas chamber.
934 - Aug 1995 - Fr Paul Collins: seeking a new green constituency?, Michael Gilchrist
The statistics show that as a whole food production per capita is rising as is life expectancy family income and so on.
935 - Jul 1995 - Edel Quinn (1907-1944): Ireland's 20th century apostle to Africa, Michael Gilchrist
On leaving school at 17 however Edels desire for the religious life had to take second place to supporting her financially stretched family - now located in Dublin.
936 - May 1995 - Lincoln, Nebraska: how a Catholic diocese was built
The biological aspects of sex education are taught he says in a private kind of way by our natural family planning people who take mothers and daughters or fathers and sons into this educational enterprise.
937 - Mar 1995 - Leonid Federov (1879-1935): Russian Catholicism - a brave vision unfulfilled, Fr Peter Knowles OP
He died while still under arrest attended only by the family with whom the Soviet authorities had billeted him in the frozen Arctic north.
938 - Feb 1995 - Education: How to keep Catholic schools 'Catholic', Tom Kendell
A further component to such a successful partnership is that of priest and parish oriented to family and school.
939 - Oct 1994 - An Australian's impressions of an orthodox U.S. Catholic college, Renee Ryan
Last year Renee Ryan a member of a rural Victoria home-schooling family won a scholarship to one of these institutions the Thomas More Institute of Liberal Arts in New Hampshire.
940 - Aug 1994 - Not all religious are dissenters: Christian Brother writes, Br John B. Stephenson CFC
(a) It was St Peter who first admitted not just Jewish converts in the person of Cornelius with his family and friends (Acts 10:47-48).
941 - May 1994 - Reflection: Our Lady: the family context, Bishop George Pell
We know this we understand its consequences but it needs to be restated for those outside the Christian family and especially for the young people of today who are smothered by neo-pagan propaganda against children against motherhood and against the irreplaceable importance of family life and women in the family.
942 - Mar 1994 - Townsville Mass attendance document - 'Where have all the parishioners gone?'
; How does each of us personally witness God-with-us to those in our family workplace leisure environments etc?
943 - Feb 1994 - The state of Catholicism after 'Veritatis Splendor', B.A. Santamaria
Contraception must rightly be regarded it is occasionally added as a serious disorder; but the serious disorder involved in the practice of contraception must be balanced against the damage to ones family life consequent upon the decision not to practise it.
944 - Nov 1993 - Thomas More Centre Lecture: Janet Smith champions Church's moral teaching, Dr Janet Smith
was in Melbourne as keynote speaker for the Billings Family Life Centre last month.
945 - Nov 1993 - In the aftermath of 'Veritatis Splendor', B.A. Santamaria
Why should they if the Church to which they belong seemed to adopt the position that it had nothing to say on that aspect of life which is so powerfully linked with marriage the family and children?
946 - Sep 1993 - Archbishop Hickey's Pastoral Letter - 'Humanae Vitae' 25th anniversary, Archbishop Barry J. Hickey
Natural Family Planning I know that many couples agonise over decisions about having another child fearful of the possible social medical or genetic consequences.
947 - Sep 1993 - Lincoln, Nebraska - how to fill seminaries with vocations, Fr T.I. Thorburn
In support of this doctrine the Diocese sponsors teachers to be trained as natural family planning instructors maintains 11 training centres at convenient locations includes this doctrine in its marriage preparation policy and even instructs high school students about the message of Humanae Vitae through its religious education program.
948 - Aug 1993 - Reflection: Feast of the Assumption and the Japanese connection, Robert Denahy
For two hundred and fifty years the Faith went underground and was passed on family by family from parents to children.
949 - Jul 1993 - Brother Andrew speaks out on the Catholic crisis, Brother Andrew
But 25 years of easy contraception have not led to health harmony or happiness in marriages family and sexual relationships.
950 - Feb 1993 - Marriage destabilised by contraception, Archbishop Barry J. Hickey
During an address at the Australian Family Association Conference in Perth in October 1992 Archbishop Barry Hickey of Perth spoke of the ways in which contraception could undermine the Christian concept of marriage.
951 - Nov 1992 - Where 'normal' religious life flourishes, Fr John Parsons
Enlightened despots the French Revolution and the Bonaparte family then proceeded to destroy the religious life all over Catholic Europe between 1759 and 1813.
952 - Nov 1992 - From a 'workshop' for Pastoral Associates
Various issues rose within the context of Womens Ordination to called Priesthood dress of women priests Blessings Holy Family Eucharist Communion Services marginalised various groups within the Church .
953 - Oct 1992 - Reflection: Fatima - after seventy-five years, Bishop George Pell
Lucias mother was frightened that there would be no miracle and the crowd would take revenge on the family; thousands were on their knees weeping and praying when Our Lady did appear telling Lucia that she was the lady of the Rosary.
954 - Oct 1992 - Why is Archbishop Weakland invited to Australia?, AD2000 Report
Archbishop Weakland had supported Fr Arimond against Catholics United for the Faiths 1987 criticisms of his dissenting teachings in a course of lectures Homosexuality and Its Impact on the Family given at the archdiocesan Archbishop Cousins Catholic Centre.
955 - Aug 1992 - The problem of suffering, Fr Campion Murray OFM
He had received much good from God - family children possessions esteem good name - but he also received bad.
956 - Aug 1992 - Editorial: The graph points downwards, B.A. Santamaria
Although the de-stabilisation of the institution of the family throughout the Western world has had a profound effect on the two generations which have followed the greatest cause of failure is the lack of effective response within the Church itself.
957 - Jul 1992 - Editorial: The principle for which Thomas More died, B.A. Santamaria
More was not only one of the greatest humanists of the age but a practising lawyer from a legal family who was appointed by Henry VIII to the position of Lord Chancellor of England.
958 - May 1992 - Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy: has ecumenism lost its way?, Fr Peter Knowles OP
The meeting - and the willingness of so many Heads of Churches to lay aside for the time their family squabbles to attend - was quite out of the ordinary.
959 - Feb 1992 - The Pope's agenda - overcoming the obstacles, Michael Gilchrist
It is clear at the outset that John Paul has been at one with Pope John XXIII in striving to safeguard the deposit of Faith (while renewing its presentation) and with Pope Paul VI in confirming the force of the Churchs moral teachings on marriage and family in Humanae Vitae complementing these with encyclicals of his own such as Familiaris Consortio.
960 - Oct 1991 - The priesthood: one layman's view, B.A. Santamaria
The influence of the active nihilists - many in high positions in political business artistic and above all educational life - over the rapidly-growing proportion of those whose lack of belief is merely passive largely explains the disastrous transformation of the attitudes laws and customs relating to the family to business and to politics ever since the Whitlam era.
961 - Jun 1991 - Encyclical: John Paul II's Memorial to 'Rerum Novarum': a summary of 'Centesimus Annus', B.A. Santamaria
John Paul II then outlines the essential principles promulgated by his predecessor - among them the natural right to the ownership of private property (and the limit placed on that right); the right of workers to form trade unions and of employers to form parallel organisations; the right to an adequate period of rest recreation safe and hygienic conditions of work; the right to a just wage (sufficient for an entire family) guaranteed by the State; the right to religious freedom.
962 - Nov 1990 - Can Australia's seminaries turn the tide?, Michael Gilchrist
For if outside factors - materialism family breakdown (and smaller families) sexual permissiveness religious scepticism and secularism - are limiting or hindering vocations how much stronger would need to be a seminarys stabilising power to counter these factors.
963 - Oct 1990 - Newman belongs to us all, Fr Peter J. Elliott
Elliott an Australian priest who is an official of the Pontifical Council for the Family in Rome.
964 - Jun 1990 - Being a Catholic in 1990: Rev James Murray interviews Bob Santamaria, James S. Murray
With Bob Santamaria those who cross it especially those who have waged words with him any time find a man of consummate charm courtesy and warmth proud of his family and grateful for its stability.
965 - Apr 1990 - Editorial: 'Everything is connected with everything else', B.A. Santamaria
December with its overtones of Christmas the birth of Christ the Holy Family the Shepherds the Ox and the Ass the Three Kings with their gifts of gold frankincense and myrrh epitomises the miracle of love and all of the softness of Christianity.
966 - Mar 1990 - Parish assemblies - pluralism or brainwashing?, Michael Gilchrist
The priorities would be clear and urgent: falling Mass attendances empty confessionals the rapid decline of priestly and religious vocations defective catechetics courses a breakdown in family life little understanding and/or observation of the Churchs moral teachings widespread liturgical abuses and much unorthodox content in seminary adult education and teachers college courses.
967 - Mar 1990 - 'Being church': manipulating language to change meaning, Fr Peter J. Elliott
When you cease to define anything by the definite or indefinite article you also adopt a kind of pop existentialism for example We are family or I am woman.
968 - Feb 1990 - 'Holland of the Pacific'?: Catholicism in New Zealand, John Kennedy OBE
Back in July 1988 at the Sydney conference on The Christian Family Towards 2000 I was startled when a young Religious priest referred to the Church in New Zealand as the Holland of the Pacific.
969 - Dec 1989 - Can Catholic integrity be recovered?, Colin Jory
Some such principles are: that the family is the basic social unit; that it is via the medium of each citizens God-implanted familial instincts that any government acquires its moral right to govern; that higher social units are not morally entitled to appropriate to themselves powers which can as effectively be exercised by subsidiary social units.
970 - Nov 1989 - Thomas More and today's crisis in faith and morals, John Finnis
Free choice A Catholic theology of course knows of a fundamental option and identifies it plainly enough: it is the option of faith and it is a free choice to accept consciously the proposal to believe in God and to accept his offer of adoption into his family here on earth his Church.
971 - Nov 1989 - Teaching Christian doctrine in Catholic primary schools, Gerard Gaskin
In Grade Prep the children learn: When we are Baptised as Catholics we become part of Gods family.
972 - Sep 1989 - Christianity: new threats in the aftermath of the fall of Communism, Paul Johnson
Throughout the West the rules - based essentially on the unique legitimacy of the monogamous union on fidelity within marriage and chastity outside it and on the notion of reciprocal duties between spouses and between parents and children - are designed to preserve the family as the ideal social unit and as such reflect basic Christian moral theology.
973 - Sep 1989 - Three problems for Catholic schools, Michael Gilchrist
It is also true that Catholic education is not confined to the school; far more crucial is the role of the family not to mention the local parish and the mass media.
974 - May 1989 - Catholic educational bureaucracies - what now?, B.A. Santamaria
The schools would then claim and collect the money as is done by mothers with family allowances today.
975 - Apr 1989 - The Catholic Church in Britain: Piers Paul Read interviewed by 'AD2000', Paul Gray
Another was I think the beauty of the liturgy and the mystery and devotion to the Blessed Sacrament and the third was the family.
976 - Nov 1988 - The issues facing Australian Catholicism, Bishop George Pell
Certainly core doctrines for example the divinity of Jesus the central position of the Pope and important moral teaching on for example the indissolubility of the family the defence of life and human dignity through social justice cannot be jettisoned to gain adherents.
977 - Sep 1988 - 'Putting the essence of the Faith in doubt' (Jean Guitton), B.A. Santamaria
In this country thanks to the Family Law Act introduced by the late Lionel Murphy there are now hundreds of thousands of divorced people living with varying degrees of internal trauma unhappiness and distress.
978 - Jul 1988 - 'Humanae Vitae' twenty years after, B.A. Santamaria
The Family Law Act transformed permanent marriage into temporary concubinage thereby dissolving the fabric of the family.
979 - Jun 1988 - Muggeridge at eighty-five: the long road from agnosticism to faith, B.A. Santamaria
An Australian journalist Deborah Smith has written that his ostracism in Britain after his criticism of the Royal Family in October 1957 was almost complete until in the following year he was invited to tour Australia by the Sydney Morning Herald.
980 - Jun 1988 - A pen picture of American Catholicism, Michael Gilchrist
The more aware members of the former can be found among a minority of US bishops a significant section of very active priests and religious a host of lay organisations such as Catholics United for the Faith and Women for Faith and Family a number of journals and newspapers such as Crisis Fidelity The Wanderer and the National Catholic Register and in such large publishers as Ignatius Press and the Daughters of St Paul.
981 - May 1988 - John Paul II's new social encyclical, Sollicitudo rei socialis, B.A. Santamaria
Development which is registered in terms of higher GDP but which results in the disintegration of family and/or tribal patterns is not automatically to be regarded as progress - unless it can be shown that the institutions which have disappeared (like slavery) did not deserve to survive.
982 - Mar 2009 - Letters: Cure for AIDS, Ben Veitz
983 - Sep 2004 - Letters: Moral relativism, Tim Coyle
984 - Jun 2003 - Events: Corpus Christi Procession - Brisbane, 22 June 2003
985 - Dec 2002 - Books: Bio-Engagement: Making a Christian Difference through Bioethics Today, Bill Muehlenberg
986 - Mar 2002 - Letters: Indian appeal, Kevin L. Fernandes