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1 - Feb 2016 - Mary “treasured these things and pondered them in her heart”, Peter Westmore
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But internal evidence including the authors clear attempt to anchor his history at a particular moment in both Jewish history and that of the Roman Empire suggests that either directly or indirectly the infancy narrative came from Mary herself because only she would have known these details and could have related them in such a personal way.
2 - Feb 2016 - Nostra Aetate: Jewish rabbis’ historic reappraisal of Christianity, AD2000 Report
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We appreciate the Churchs affirmation of Israels unique place in sacred history and the ultimate world redemption.
3 - Dec 2015 - Has the Messiah come or returned?, Andrew Sholl
Consequently throughout Jewish history and especially since the First Century AD there have been men recognised for a while by certain Jews as Messiah only to turn out to be a false Messiah with consequent disillusionment.
4 - Dec 2015 - China: New clampdown on believers in China, Bernardo Cervellera
Xi Jinping has often spoke about this warning against any revisionism and any criticism of the Partys history.
5 - Dec 2015 - Apostolic voyage: Pope Francis supports Catholic church during Africa visit, AD2000 Report
Later Pope Francis went to the neighbouring country of Uganda a country which has had a troubled history of dictatorship and the misuse of government power since winning independence in 1962.
6 - Nov 2015 - Books: BEYOND LITERAL BELIEF, by David Tacey, Brian Coman
Myth as a concept has had an interesting history.
7 - Nov 2015 - Unity and Beauty: The genius of Vladimir Soloviev, Fr Lawrence Cross
This vision of Solovievs was prompted by the circumstances of the Orthodox Church to which he belonged and he saw that the solutions to her problems were to be found both in Holy Scripture and the history of the Church so far.
8 - Nov 2015 - Salvation: "All Israel will be saved": Romans 11:26, Andrew Sholl
As we know from history the Jewish people were not well disposed towards Christianity from the very beginning of the Church as most expected a military Messiah who would free them from the Roman occupation of the Caesars and their minions.
9 - Nov 2015 - Abortion grief: Life written In tears – the impact of abortion, Anne Lastman
It is still placed in the womans peccadillo history.
10 - Nov 2015 - Marriage: SSM will threaten religious liberty in Australia: Archbishop Fisher, AD2000 Report
Certainly there have been political ramifications: no major party allows dissenters on this issue; this caused some significant haemorrhaging from Parliament before the 2019 election; even for most independents going against the tide of history on this matter is regarded as disadvantageous.
11 - Nov 2015 - Anglican Ordinariate: Radical ecumenism – the Ordinariate’s new Catholic Missal, Fr Ramsay Williams
This is the first time in history that distinctive elements of an ecclesial community established at the Reformation have found an honoured place in the life of the Catholic Church.
12 - Nov 2015 - Synod: Pope Francis confirms Synod guided by the Holy Spirit
Certainly the Synod was not about settling all the issues having to do with the family but rather attempting to see them in the light of the Gospel and the Churchs tradition and two-thousand-year history bringing the joy of hope without falling into a facile repetition of what is obvious or has already been said.
13 - Oct 2015 - Books: HOW THE REFORMATION HAPPENED, by Hilaire Belloc, Paul Simmons
This is a work of popular history and is not to be considered a formal historical work.
14 - Oct 2015 - Books: ABORTION AND MARTYRDOM, edited by Aidan Nichols OP, Paul Simmons
The Abbey at Solesmes about 300 km south-west of Paris in Normandy has had a most interesting history.
15 - Oct 2015 - Pastoral visit: Pope Francis’ subtle challenge to Barack Obama, AD2000 Report
I will also travel to Philadelphia for the Eighth World Meeting of Families to celebrate and support the institutions of marriage and the family at this a critical moment in the history of our civilisation.
16 - Sep 2015 - Books: YEAR OF THE LORD’S FAVOUR: A Homiliary for the Roman Liturgy, Aidan Nichols OP, Paul Simmons
In these four volumes Fr Nichols reflects on the daily scripture readings putting them into the context of the Churchs history and teachings.
17 - Sep 2015 - Apostolic Letter: Pope Francis proclaims Year of Mercy, AD2000 Report
His being merciful is concretely demonstrated in his many actions throughout the history of salvation where his goodness prevails over punishment and destruction.
18 - Sep 2015 - The Americas: Cuba: new centre for evangelisation, AD2000 Report
But the history of the Castro family with the Catholic Church is a longer and more complex story.
19 - Sep 2015 - The Americas: Pope Francis’ challenge to American Catholics, AD2000 Report
In part this reflects his own history as a Jesuit in Argentina preoccupied with the problems of the people of that country.
20 - Sep 2015 - Refugees: Give priority to Syria’s persecuted Christians: Archbishop Fisher
Preaching in St Marys Cathedral on Sunday the Archbishop pointed out that the developing refugee crisis in the Middle East and mass movement of people across Europe had been sparked in large part by the persecution of Middle Eastern Christians the worst persecution of Christians in all of history worse even than that under the maddened Roman emperors.
21 - Aug 2015 - Books: THE 33 DOCTORS OF THE CHURCH, by Fr Christopher Rengers, Paul Simmons
It is therefore a treasury of some of the greatest minds of the church and also a history of some of the great controversies in Christianity which gave rise to many of their writings.
22 - Aug 2015 - The Holy Land: Believers in Israel, Andrew Scholl
She told me that on one occasion during Bible class where the Old Testament is studied not only from a religious perspective but as Jewish history and Jewish literature since the ethos of most kibbutzniks was atheist the teacher asked the students of this primary school class whether they knew about whom Chapter 53 of Isaiah was talking after they finished reading it.
23 - Jul 2015 - Books: THE MYTH OF HITLER’S POPE, by Rabbi David G. Dalin, Paul Simmons
Others including ex-Catholics like John Cornwall joined the chorus with his book Hitlers Pope: the Secret History of Pius XII.
24 - Jul 2015 - Letters: “Our homeland is in heaven”: a response, Audrey English
He says that it is common throughout Christian history to put into Scripture what is not there.
25 - Jul 2015 - Turin and Manoppello: “He has risen as he said ...”, Paul Badde
This brings us to another problem which accompanies the history of the shroud in the West to this day: the question of identification.
26 - Jul 2015 - Religious freedom: Gay lobby targets Tasmania’s Archbishop Julian Porteous, AD2000 Report
These children know their identity and generational history.
27 - Jun 2015 - Letters: "Our homeland in heaven": a rejoinder, Dr Frank Mobbs
Audrey Englishs article Our homeland is in heaven (AD2000 April 2015) provides an example of a failure common throughout Christian history the failure to resist putting into Scripture what is not there .
28 - Jun 2015 - Family: Pope Francis upholds Church teaching on the family, Fr Ken CLark OLSC
Just as our peoples at a certain moment of their history were mature enough to say no to all forms of political colonisation so too in our families we need to be very wise very shrewd very strong in order to say no to all attempts at an ideological colonisation of our families.
29 - Jun 2015 - Jesus: the extra-Biblical evidence, Andrew Sholl
Some critics tell us even among some eminent Israeli history professors that the Israelites never went to or left Egypt in an Exodus.
30 - Jun 2015 - Cardinal Pell, Archbishop Fisher respond to Ballarat allegations, AD2000 Report
Mr Saunders has no direct knowledge of Australia nor the history of clerical sexual abuse in this country.
31 - Jun 2015 - Canonisation: Pope Francis canonises four heroic nuns, AD2000 Report
It is also a hope in these hard moments and circumstances which overwhelm our country in these days for our peoples and our faithful reminding us that the last word in our life and our history belongs to God.
32 - May 2015 - Television: "Jesus: Rise to Power" - flawed account of early Christianity, AD2000 Report
Throughout the course of history much has been written on this subject and this series is testimony to the fact that the explanation is in human terms at least almost unbelievable if it were not true.
33 - May 2015 - Today’s invisible Holocaust, Anne Lastman
An interesting aspect of the years in question was that for the first time in history wars were not only fought on the battlefields where the so called enemies fought but were brought into the home and lounge rooms of nations.
34 - May 2015 - Centenary: Armenian genocide must not be forgotten, Pope Francis
That spiritual event indelibly marked the Armenian people as well as its culture and history in which martyrdom holds a pre-eminent place as attested to symbolically by the sacrificial witness of Saint Vardan and his companions in the fifth century.
35 - May 2015 - Exhibition: Exposition of the Holy Shroud of Turin, AD2000 Report
Although the history of the relic is shrouded in mystery the Holy Shroud is believed by many to be the shroud in which Jesus was laid before being placed in the tomb.
36 - Apr 2015 - Books: INSIGHTS FROM GRECO-ROMAN TIMES: A Christian Response, by Rex Dale, Peter Westmore
He then turns his attention to the Roman philosopher-Emperor Marcus Aurelius whose Meditations have been a constant source of insight to people throughout history.
37 - Apr 2015 - Letters: Mary in Scripture and history, Allan Choveaux
Dr Mobbs does no favour to the Church nor to Mary to suggest that these momentous writings from Johns Gospel have no special and wonderful referrals to Marys work in salvation history.
38 - Apr 2015 - Today's prophets: where are they?, Anne Lastman
Looking back into our recent history we can see that there were voices of warning but we did not listen and hence we are where we are.
39 - Apr 2015 - Designer babies: Dolce&Gabbana versus Elton John, Fr Dwight Longenecker
The fact of the matter is the entire human race is reeling from the most revolutionary inventions history has ever seen.
40 - Mar 2015 - Books: NOT ALL NUNS MAY DO THIS, by Erika Lorenz, Michael E. Daniel
95 ISBN: 9781781829950 Throughout the history of the Church there have been famous friendships/associations such as that between Francis of Assisi and Clare.
41 - Mar 2015 - The person and mission of St Joseph, Pope St John Paul
At the culmination of the history of salvation when God reveals his love for humanity through the gift of the Word it is precisely the marriage of Mary and Joseph that brings to realisation in full freedom the spousal gift of self in receiving and expressing such a love.
42 - Mar 2015 - Challenging radical Islam, John A. Azumah
Contrary to repeated Muslim denials key aspects of the ideology of radical violent Muslim groups are indeed rooted in Islamic texts and history.
43 - Feb 2015 - Books: AUSTRALIANS AND THE CHRISTIAN GOD: An historical study, by Hugh Jackson, Michael E. Daniel
Hugh Jackson a retired university lecturer and author of Churches and People in Australia and New Zealand 1860-1930 explores the history of religious belief in Australia with a particular focus on attitudes towards God and what could be described as orthodox Christianity which believes that God has revealed certain religious truths.
44 - Feb 2015 - Letters: The Church in China, Paul Simmons
He said The Maoist era marks one of the darkest hours of the Churchs history in China and Chinese Catholics are begging to let the world know about the sacrifices of holy men and women to retain their faith.
45 - Feb 2015 - The Eighteen Benedictions of Judaism ... and Christianity, Andrew Sholl
The first three benedictions state the fundamental beliefs of Judaism in the one true creator God: the God of history the God of nature and the God who sanctifies.
46 - Feb 2015 - Vatican report lays bare problems in US religious life, AD2000 Report
Throughout the nations history the educational apostolate of women religious in Catholic schools has fostered the personal development and nourished the faith of countless young people and helped the Church community in the USA to flourish.
47 - Feb 2015 - The survival of the Church, Fr John O'Neill PP
New churches Nevertheless history is full of people starting off their own churches.
48 - Feb 2015 - Consistory: Pope Francis names twenty new Cardinals, AD2000 Report
These cardinals will include the first in history from Cape Verde Tonga and Myanmar.
49 - Dec 2014 - Reflection: The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light, Pope Francis
Walking: this verb makes us reflect on the course of history that long journey which is the history of salvation starting with Abraham our father in faith whom the Lord called one day to set out to go forth from his country toward the land which he would show him.
50 - Dec 2014 - Economic justice: The Catholic Church explains sexual mores - with economics, Emma Green
Plus popes have a long history of drawing a connection between economic forces and the family.
51 - Dec 2014 - The Long View: Catholicism today and the lessons of history, John Young
Some think the present state of things in Christianity and in the secular world points to the Second Coming of Christ; that we are living in the time of the Antichrist and the end of history.
52 - Dec 2014 - Vocations: Young Men of God Retreat for 2014 another success, Br Barry Coldrey
The Missionaries have already sponsored two additional ministries in their short history the Young Men of God and the CSYMA the Catholic Schools Youth Missionary Association the former in 2004 and the CSYMA in 2008.
53 - Dec 2014 - Family Synod: Synod reaffirms Church teaching on marriage and family, AD2000 Report
He gives himself to all of us pilgrims through history towards the goal of the final encounter when Christ is all and in all (Col 3:11).
54 - Nov 2014 - Books: HIDDEN PAIN: An Insight into Childhood Sexual Abuse, by Anne R. Lastman, Peter Westmore
It is not a modern problem but has existed throughout history in all societies and civilisations.
55 - Nov 2014 - Books: EASTERN CHRISTIANITY: The Byzantine Tradition, by Laurence Cross, Paul Simmons
95 ISBN: 978-0-97756-998-4) Dr Laurence Cross born in Sydney in 1943 studied at Sydney University and read history at St Johns College Oxford before completing a Doctorate of Theology at the Melbourne College of Divinity.
56 - Nov 2014 - Family: The global attack on religious belief and moral values, Alejandra Fabris
This is a fact for which twenty centuries of history supply us with conclusive evidence.
57 - Nov 2014 - Human Life: Surrogacy: what the Biblical precedent tells us, Anne Lastman
So surrogacy has a known history of at least five thousand years.
58 - Nov 2014 - News: The Church Around the World
He added that grandparents who have received the blessing to see the children of their children have been given a great task: to transmit the experience of life the history of a family of a community of a people to share with simplicity wisdom and the faith itself the most precious inheritance!
59 - Nov 2014 - Episcopacy: Bishop Anthony Fisher OP appointed Archbishop of Sydney, AD2000 Report
He studied history and law at the University of Sydney and practised in a city law firm before entering the Dominican Order.
60 - Oct 2014 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
90 ISBN 978-0-89555-718-6 Culture and Abortion Edward Short Examining the scourge of abortion from a cultural perspective Edward Short draws on history literature and papal encyclicals to show how defending the right to life can help us reaffirm an understanding of culture based not on human pride or power but on a civilization of life and love.
61 - Oct 2014 - Books: PRAYER FOR BEGINNERS, Peter Kreeft - WAYS OF PRAYING, John Edwards SJ, Br Barry Coldrey
for Dummies such as English History for Dummies.
62 - Oct 2014 - News: The Church Around the World
The Middle East has had a very turbulent history of violence.
63 - Sep 2014 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
90 ISBN 978-0-89555-718-6 Culture and Abortion Edward Short Examining the scourge of abortion from a cultural perspective Edward Short draws on history literature and papal encyclicals to show how defending the right to life can help us reaffirm an understanding of culture based not on human pride or power but on a civilization of life and love.
64 - Sep 2014 - Students: ACSA Conference: 'an inspiring experience', Br Barry Coldrey
ACSAs recent history It has been over twelve years since the rejuvenation of the Australian Catholic Students Association previously known as the International Movement of Catholic Students (Australia) which has seen ACSA transformed into an instrument for revitalising the spiritual life and intellectual faith of Catholic students around the nation.
65 - Sep 2014 - Christian witness in a secular world, Fr Paul Rowse OP
At this time in the Churchs history we can identify certain restrictions on religious freedom and I am not simply looking overseas.
66 - Sep 2014 - Editorial: Don't pigeon-hole Pope Francis, Peter Westmore
In each of these decisions he has exercised the full and unique authority exercised by successive popes since the dawn of history.
67 - Aug 2014 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
90 ISBN 978-0-89555-718-6 Culture and Abortion Edward Short Examining the scourge of abortion from a cultural perspective Edward Short draws on history literature and papal encyclicals to show how defending the right to life can help us reaffirm an understanding of culture based not on human pride or power but on a civilization of life and love.
68 - Aug 2014 - Letters: School chaplains, Arnold Jago
History suggests it could happen again if the will were to be there.
69 - Aug 2014 - Wilcannia-Forbes: An unusual but welcome ordination, Peter Westmore
The present appointment marks a decisive turning point in the history of the Church in Australia.
70 - Jul 2014 - Reflection: The Pope meets ICEL: a bishop's reflection on Vatican II, Bishop Arthur Serratelli
In the entire history of the Church there have only been 20 other such ecumenical councils.
71 - Jul 2014 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
90 ISBN 978-0-89555-718-6 Culture and Abortion Edward Short Examining the scourge of abortion from a cultural perspective Edward Short draws on history literature and papal encyclicals to show how defending the right to life can help us reaffirm an understanding of culture based not on human pride or power but on a civilization of life and love.
72 - Jun 2014 - Reflection: Eucharistic adoration: path to union with the Holy Trinity, Bishop James Conley
The story of the girls martyrdom was passed from home to home and from priest to priest and eventually it was heard by the young Father Fulton Sheen the man who would become an archbishop and one of the most effective evangelists in the history of the United States.
73 - Jun 2014 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
95 ISBN 978-0-85244-353-8 Culture and Abortion Edward Short Examining the scourge of abortion from a cultural perspective Edward Short draws on history literature and papal encyclicals to show how defending the right to life can help us reaffirm an understanding of culture based not on human pride or power but on a civilization of life and love.
74 - Jun 2014 - Books: HANDING ON THE FAITH IN AN AGE OF DISBELIEF, by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, Br Barry Coldrey
He reminds us: The fact that there can be long-lasting periods of decline in the Church is unfortunately plain enough from history.
75 - Jun 2014 - Sisters of St Paul of Chartres and their global impact, CNA REPORT
We have many martyrs in history and iconic people like Cardinal Stephen Kim who was very famous and exemplary and passed away some years ago.
76 - Jun 2014 - Fr Des Byrne: priest and catechist extraordinary, Bishop Peter J. Elliott
But that painful era cannot be erased from the history of the Church of Melbourne.
77 - Jun 2014 - Societal violence and the murder of children, Anne Lastman
When I heard and listened in stunned horror at that breaking news I was reminded of another recent murder of young Luke Batty in front of his mother and friends again by his father; of a little girl called Darcy Freeman aged four tossed over a bridge to her death by her father; of the three Farquaharson children aged 10 seven and two driven into a dam and allowed to drown by their own father; a little toddler called Yasmina also murdered by her father; and of course other names written in our inglorious history.
78 - Jun 2014 - UK Bishop speaks out on secularism's debt to Christianity, CNA REPORT
The most important aspect of the new evangelisation will be to identify retrieve and promote Britains Christian patrimony its history art and architecture its music and literature its liturgy theology and ethics.
79 - Jun 2014 - News: The Church Around the World
The ecumenical movement teaches that legitimate diversity has its place in the Church and history demonstrates that this is true.
80 - Jun 2014 - Saints John XXIII and John Paul II canonised, AD2000 Report
For them God was more powerful; faith was more powerful faith in Jesus Christ the Redeemer of man and the Lord of history the mercy of God shown by those five wounds was more powerful and more powerful too was the closeness of Mary our Mother.
81 - May 2014 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
95 ISBN 978-0-85244-353-8 Culture and Abortion Edward Short Examining the scourge of abortion from a cultural perspective Edward Short draws on history literature and papal encyclicals to show how defending the right to life can help us reaffirm an understanding of culture based not on human pride or power but on a civilization of life and love.
82 - May 2014 - Books: HOW THE WEST WON: The Neglected Story of the Triumph of Modernity, Rodney Stark, Father John Flynn LC
95 ISBN: 978-1-61017-085-7) The unique contribution of Western civilisation to world history is the theme of Rodney Starks latest book How the West Won: The Neglected Story of the Triumph of Modernity.
83 - May 2014 - Apps: Check out religion apps for smartphones!, Peter Westmore
Universalis has a good daily calendar and history of many hundreds of saints.
84 - May 2014 - Poetry: KOKODA a poem, John O'Neill
The 303 the trusty Bren the Aussie Owen Gun No troops in wars long history would ever dare to shun.
85 - Apr 2014 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
95 ISBN 978-1-59417-196-3 Culture and Abortion Edward Short Examining the scourge of abortion from a cultural perspective Edward Short draws on history literature and papal encyclicals to show how defending the right to life can help us reaffirm an understanding of culture based not on human pride or power but on a civilization of life and love.
86 - Apr 2014 - Passover: Jesus last words: 'It is finished', Anne Lastman
The Jewish scholar Israel Jakob Yuval wrote In fact if we trace the history of the afikoman on the one hand and that of the Host on the other we do in fact discover an ancient similarity between the two.
87 - Apr 2014 - Conversion and confession, Cedric Wright
In the modern idiom what passes between us in confession is history.
88 - Apr 2014 - Ukraine: Bishop Peter Stasiuk: Ukrainian people want peace and justice, Bishop Peter Stasiuk
It has lived in harmony with these people despite a very difficult history of occupation oppression and persecution.
89 - Apr 2014 - News: The Church Around the World
Hornsby who graduated from St Thomas Aquinas College in California explained that the idea to begin the college came about through conversations she had with her colleagues recalling how they wanted to link the study of the philosophical traditions of Plato and Aristotle to the study of culture and history.
90 - Apr 2014 - Cardinal Pell appointed to senior Vatican post, Peter Westmore
The Archdiocese was on the international stage in 2008 when the Cardinal hosted World Youth Day and welcomed Pope Benedict and the young people of the world to Sydney for the largest gathering in Australias history.
91 - Mar 2014 - Reflection: Archbishop Chaput's homily on the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, Archbishop Charles J. Chaput
The human person is the subject of life and the subject of history immortal and infinitely precious in the eyes of God not an accident of chemistry not a bit player and not a soulless object to be affirmed or disposed of at the whim of the powerful or selfish.
92 - Mar 2014 - Books: THE WORLD OF ST PAUL, by Joseph M. Callewaert, Michael Daniel
Callewaert displays an excellent knowledge of ancient history and society and provides detailed and fascinating insights into Greco-Roman history and culture.
93 - Mar 2014 - Books: TEN AFRICAN CARDINALS, by Sally Ninham, Michael Gilchrist
Assessing the value of this book an African Jesuit Fr Orobator observes: This book opens a window not only on the history nature and mission of the Church but also on the challenges and prospects of the continent of Africa.
94 - Mar 2014 - None so blind: refusal to see the obvious, Fr John O'Neill
So mans history is very much a highway of destruction his arrogance littering it still with his shattered wrecks.
95 - Mar 2014 - News: The Church Around the World
We are just at the very beginning of a new chapter in our countrys history.
96 - Feb 2014 - Reflections: Australia Day: A time for thanks and commitment, Cardinal George Pell
Sixty percent of Australians declare themselves to be Christians so that in our explicitly secular society which should be religiously neutral and not anti-religious it is not unreasonable to claim that Australia is a predominantly Christian community as it has been during the whole history of European settlement.
97 - Feb 2014 - Books: TO BONEGILLA FROM SOMEWHERE, by Wanda Skowronska, Michael Gilchrist
And most significantly the book sheds light on this countrys recent history involving the mass migrations of the post-World War II period.
98 - Feb 2014 - The transforming power of Eucharistic Adoration, Fr Joel Wallace
Today as we enthrone the Blessed Sacrament in the Sacred Heart Chapel let us recommit ourselves to our thoroughly and unashamedly Eucharistic faith and recall with the joy of the redeemed the composition of the Angelic Doctor written for the new universal Feast of Corpus Christi in AD 1264 which expresses our participation in the drama of Redemption and salvation history: O sacred banquet in which Christ is received: the memory of the passion is recalled the mind is filled with grace and the pledge of future glory is given to us.
99 - Feb 2014 - Pope Francis repeats world peace plea
The biblical account of the beginning of the history of the world and of humanity speaks to us of a God who looks at creation in a sense contemplating it and declares: It is good.
100 - Dec 2013 - Reflection: Benedict XVI's Christmas homily: 'Make room for God', Benedict XVI
Now it is true that in the course of history monotheism has served as a pretext for intolerance and violence.
101 - Dec 2013 - Christifidelis Laici: vocation and mission of the lay faithful (2), Anne Lastman
History has shown that civilisation and safety and cohesiveness of society depend upon the human family and for this reason is the duty of the lay apostolate towards the family which acquires incomparable value.
102 - Dec 2013 - Benedict XVI corresponds with an atheist mathematician, Joseph Trabbic
He then encourages his correspondent to recognise that in the field of history and that of philosophical thought theology has produced lasting results explaining that it is the task of theology to keep religion connected to reason and reason to religion.
103 - Dec 2013 - News: The Church Around the World
1535 Society launched at the Tower of London Archbishop Vincent Nichols of Westminster and the Anglican Bishop of London Richard Chartres participated on 22 October in the launch of The 1535 Society to promote an understanding of the role of St Thomas More and other martyrs in British history.
104 - Dec 2013 - Pope Francis to canonise John Paul II and John XXIII next April, Michael Gilchrist
The testimonies of their lives completely dedicated to proclaiming the Gospel shine in the Church and reverberate in the history of the world as examples of hope and light the cardinal said.
105 - Nov 2013 - Schools: The future of Catholic education, Archbishop Timothy Costelloe
When I was a young man in my final years of preparation for ordination as a priest one of my lecturers in Church History Fr Austin Cooper often spoke about the role and importance of conservatism in the life of the Church.
106 - Nov 2013 - News: The Church Around the World
Catholic World News Catholic-Jewish relations at a new high The World Jewish Congress provided a summary of its presidents September meeting with Pope Francis saying that the Holy Father reiterated that to be a good Christian it is necessary to understand Jewish history and traditions.
107 - Nov 2013 - Human rights: Zoe's Law and the right to life, Eamonn Keane
Some of the worst human rights abuses in history have been associated with denying certain human beings the status of human person.
108 - Nov 2013 - Editorial: Pope Francis' call to holiness, Peter Westmore
And the answer to this question will likely determine whether our civilisation survives or crumbles into the dust of history.
109 - Oct 2013 - Books: ON THE LEFT BANK OF THE TIBER, by Fr Gerald O'Collins SJ, Frank Mobbs
Fr Collins introduces us to its location and history.
110 - Oct 2013 - Interview: Why science needs faith, Professor Dominique Lambert
For example the question of the ultimate foundation of existence the meaning and history of existence life values questions of a metaphysical and ethical nature these are in fact produced by scientific activity but cannot be solved within the borders of scientific method.
111 - Oct 2013 - The Catholic Church is holy, despite its members' sins, Audrey English
Throughout history the Catholic Church has been at the forefront of humanitarian services and continues to be so.
112 - Oct 2013 - OSCE Conference: The new face of religious intolerance, Bishop Mario Toso
This year we celebrate 1700 years of the Edict of Milan issued in 313 AD by Emperor Constantine one of the most important documents in history related to freedom of religion.
113 - Sep 2013 - Books: A PILGRIM'S JOURNEY: Autobiography of Ignatius of Loyola, Joseph N. Tylenda SJ, Michael E Daniel
ISBN: 978-0-89870-810-3) One of the most influential saints in the history of the Church is St Ignatius of Loyola the founder and first Superior-General of the Jesuits.
114 - Sep 2013 - A covenant: essence of true marriage, Anne Lastman
The history of covenants is the timeline of salvation and each new covenant took into account expansion of what He had made until finally in Jesus He becomes what He has made to fulfill His own promise to redeem.
115 - Sep 2013 - The Church's crises old and new, Bishop James D. Conley
My spiritual mentor Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman read history with a hermeneutic of sensibility.
116 - Sep 2013 - Oasis: Finding rapprochement and peace among the Abrahamic religions, Patrick Byrne
The Oasis Foundation which publishes the online journal Oasis at a time in history when there is a deepening interaction of cultures and religions across the globe.
117 - Sep 2013 - Cardinal Burke: What is good liturgy?
Then we need to study carefully how the liturgical rites have developed down the centuries and not to see the history of the Church as somehow a corruption of those liturgical rites.
118 - Sep 2013 - News: The Church Around the World
Catholic World News Forgotten history of Cristero uprising The story of the persecution of Mexican Catholics in the 1920s is being told anew in an English translation of a book by a scholar of Mexican culture and history.
119 - Sep 2013 - Hobart's new Archbishop ready for the challenges of leadership, Michael Gilchrist
And so I would see that the movements are really a pretty good presence for the Church in this moment of our history because there arent a lot of other things that are terribly effective in being able to address the challenges that are facing the Church especially secularisation.
120 - Aug 2013 - Reflection: Benedict XVI's Assumption homily: 'In God there is space for man', Benedict XVI
It is a prophecy for the whole history of the Church.
121 - Aug 2013 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
00 ISBN 978-1-58617-516-0 History and Spirit Henri De Lubac Origen one of the most prolific and influential of the early Church Fathers is best known to us for his Scripture exegesis.
122 - Aug 2013 - Books: ALIVE IN THE SPIRIT, by Fr Ken Barker MGL, Michael Gilchrist
But down through history at times like this when all seems so dismal the Holy Spirit has been poured out afresh generating a new springtime of renewal.
123 - Aug 2013 - Books: FROM BROTHERHOOD TO PRIESTHOOD: Memoirs of Msgr William A. Mullins, Michael Gilchrist
It is especially valuable as a first-hand account of Catholic Church history in this country over many decades and in addition will be of great interest to those many bishops priests religious and lay people whose paths have crossed Monsignor Mullins at different stages of his long and distinguished career.
124 - Aug 2013 - Books: FRANCIS: POPE OF A NEW WORLD, by Andrea Tornielli, Br Barry Coldrey
The present book Francis: Pope of a New World while by no means a definitive biography given that much of the Popes history has yet to occur provides a solid introduction to the career and personality of the Italo-Argentine Jesuit priest who has been elected to the highest office of the Church.
125 - Aug 2013 - National Assembly: Order of Malta renews and grows, Damian Wyld
It would be possible given the weight of history and ritual which the Order carries to mistake it for a nostalgic society or worse an opportunity to play dress-up.
126 - Aug 2013 - News: The Church Around the World
Archbishop Chaput called Serra an extraordinary man who lived at a pivotal moment in the history of the Catholic Church when Catholic and Protestant powers competed for territory around the world.
127 - Jul 2013 - Reflection: Benedict XVI: Sts Peter and Paul, two pillars of the Church
Here we see the tension that exists between the gift that comes from the Lord and human capacities and in this scene between Jesus and Simon Peter we see anticipated in some sense the drama of the history of the papacy itself characterised by the joint presence of these two elements: on the one hand because of the light and the strength that come from on high the papacy constitutes the foundation of the Church during its pilgrimage through history; on the other hand across the centuries human weakness is also evident which can only be transformed through openness to Gods action.
128 - Jul 2013 - Musicae Sacrae: The essential role of music in the Mass, Ronan Reilly
We can see the universality of musical expression throughout the course of history when we look at the array of cultures from various times and places.
129 - Jul 2013 - Obituary: Vale Fr Paul Duffy SJ (1931-2013), Anna Krohn
Having majored in history sociology and political science at Melbourne University he joined the Society of Jesus in 1951 and was ordained a priest in 1967.
130 - Jul 2013 - News: The Church Around the World
Although new to his church the oak confessional has a rich history.
131 - Jul 2013 - Homily: Saints John Fisher and Thomas More: from Pope Pius XI's canonisation homily
The other star of sanctity that traced a luminous path across that dark period of history was Thomas More Lord Chancellor of the King of England.
132 - Jun 2013 - Books: AGE OF MARTYRS: from Diocletian to Constantine, Abbot Joseph Ricciotti, Br Barry Coldrey
Available from Freedom Publishing) The Age of Martyrs is a well-known history of a turbulent period in the Churchs life.
133 - Jun 2013 - Why we need the Rosary, Cedric Wright
Cornerstone The Holy Rosary the peoples prayer a powerful prayer a rich prayer has been a cornerstone of the Catholic Faith for the better part of a millennium and has even played an important part in history.
134 - Jun 2013 - Farcical history: the 'Gospel of Jesus' wife', Frank Mobbs
The TV programs narrator described this finding as a shocking story which threatens to rewrite history.
135 - Jun 2013 - St Joseph the Worker: Pope Francis: Work is essential to the dignity of the person
Jesus comes into our history among us born of Mary by the power of God but with the presence of St Joseph the legal father who cares for Him and also teaches Him His work.
136 - May 2013 - Books: SIXTUS V: the Hermit of Villa Montalto, by W.T. Selley, Michael Daniel
Sixtus V explores the life and legacy of this fascinating pope one largely unknown even to those familiar with Church history.
137 - May 2013 - Books: SAINTS, SACRILEGE AND SEDITION: Religion and Conflict in the Tudor Reformations, Michael Daniel
Vibrant Church Against this view of history used to justify the Protestant hegemony for centuries Duffy argued that despite certain weaknesses the Catholic Church was a vibrant organisation which provided a coherent world view that was endorsed by the bulk of the population; its passing was lamented and Protestantism ultimately succeeded in England through the repression of Catholicism and when the generations who had remembered it had died out.
138 - May 2013 - Ancient Greek contributions to Western Church music, Christopher Warner
Discoveries A growing body of information about the history and nature of the Byzantine musical tradition is available through the work of scholars such as Diane Touliatos.
139 - May 2013 - Order of Malta: 900 years young (Tuitio Fidei et Obsequium) Pauperum., Damian Wyld
Heavy artillery was employed by both armies - seeing some of the largest bombardments in history at that time - as well as gruesome acts of war which would doubtless fail every aspect of the modern laws of armed conflict.
140 - May 2013 - News: The Church Around the World
The book is composed of numerous essays outlining principles of church buildings examining the history of both classical and modernist architecture and looking to the future of sacred architecture.
141 - Apr 2013 - Reflection: Easter: the centrality of faith in the risen Christ, Fr Dennis Byrnes
Intent on gathering the signs of times in the presence of history faith commits every one of us to become a living sign of the presence of the Risen Lord in the world (n.
142 - Apr 2013 - Books: THE SEVEN BIG MYTHS ABOUT THE CATHOLIC CHURCH, by Christopher Kaczor, Father John Flynn LC
In fact throughout the history of the Church there have been more women converts and women active in Church life than men.
143 - Apr 2013 - Books: FESTA PASCHALIA: A History of Holy Week Liturgy in the Roman Rite, Goddard, Michael Daniel
FESTA PASCHALIA: A History of the Holy Week Liturgy in the Roman Rite by Philip J Goddard (Freedom Books 2012 352pp $40.
144 - Apr 2013 - Books: PERPETUA'S PASSIONS, ed. Jan N. Bremmer and Marco Formisano, Peter Westmore
Rather than inviting historians of the ancient world and early Christianity the conveners wanted new perspectives so invited scholars from various fields (classics comparative and modern literature and cultural history) who had not previously worked on the Passion to contribute their specific interpretations of this extraordinary manuscript.
145 - Apr 2013 - Venerable Fulton J. Sheen's insights on the priesthood, Martin Tobin
His future efforts as a teacher for a quarter of a century were guided by the advice given to him at the time by Cardinal Mercier to always keep current: know what the modern world is thinking about; read its poetry its history its literature; observe its architecture and its art; hear its music and its theatre; and then plunge deeply into St Thomas and the wisdom of the ancients and you will be able to refute its errors.
146 - Apr 2013 - Child sexual abuse: looking beyond the institutions, Anne Lastman
He did not become an abuser since becoming a priest but this anomaly was found in him from his own history.
147 - Apr 2013 - Returning beauty and sacredness to churches, Art Lohsen
Learning from the precedents of history Franck amp; Lohsen designs buildings that are constructed with modern materials and techniques yet are timeless and beautiful.
148 - Apr 2013 - News: The Church Around the World
And of course personally I believe in God who is the Lord of history and He will guide us.
149 - Apr 2013 - POPE FRANCIS: 'REBUILD MY CHURCH', Michael Gilchrist
The new popes priority which is the same as Benedicts was well encapsulated in the latters letter to bishops: The real problem at this moment of our history is that God is disappearing from the human horizon and with the dimming of the light which comes from God humanity is losing its bearings with increasingly evident destructive effects.
150 - Mar 2013 - Obituary: Creos Roman: may he rest in peace, Bishop Anthony Fisher OP
He made many friends there as in Australia for Creos had a great capacity for friendship and a certain innocence that only divine grace can restore to one with a history like his.
151 - Mar 2013 - Women priests and bishops: Anglicanism's crisis of identity, David Wetherell
Dr David Wetherell is Honorary Fellow in History in the Faculty of Arts and Education at Deakin University in Victoria.
152 - Mar 2013 - News: The Church Around The World
Theology philosophy history literature science and math - these are the subjects that equip young people to understand the world and their place in it.
153 - Mar 2013 - Homily: Benedict XVI's 2012 Annunciation homily, Pope Benedict XVI
In Christ God has truly come into the world he has entered into our history he has set his dwelling among us thus fulfilling the deepest desire of human beings that the world may truly become a home worthy of humanity.
154 - Feb 2013 - Reflection: The cathedral: symbol of Christ's authoritative teaching, Bishop Michael Kennedy
They express the reality about Mary that was highlighted by the Second Vatican Council which began fifty years ago at the midpoint of our cathedrals history.
155 - Feb 2013 - Books: TAI CHI, REIKI: A Guide for all Christians, by Br Max Sculley FSC, Br Barry Coldrey
Christians believe that Jesus is the Second Person of the Eternal Triune God and His life death and resurrection represent a turning point in history.
156 - Feb 2013 - Books: THE PASSION OF PERPETUA AND FELICITY, by Thomas J. Heffernan, Peter Westmore
It has recently undergone rigorous examination by historians and the present important book by American history professor Thomas J.
157 - Feb 2013 - History: Parish life in the Middle Ages (Part 2): living under canon law, Frank Mobbs
Early in the history of the Church rulers and bishops decided that everyone had an obligation to support the Church financially.
158 - Feb 2013 - Schools: Drawing pupils to God through the true, the good and the beautiful, Rosemary Anderson
Students will be reading more primary sources for history and in English classes reading historical novels to tie in with their history classes.
159 - Dec 2012 - Letters: Abortion silence, Thomas M. Kalotas
Let us not be judged by history as the people who stood by in comfort while innocents were slaughtered.
160 - Dec 2012 - Advent and the Second Coming: a forgotten article of faith, Br Christian Moe FSC
Liturgically however there has always been a close correlation between this First Coming in history and another a Second Coming in glory as one finds in the liturgical prayers of the season.
161 - Dec 2012 - Caroline Chisholm Library: Melbourne's hidden gem, Angela Schumann
Now as a member of the Committee of the Caroline Chisholm Library the successor of the Central Catholic Library she is enthusiastic about the legacy history and contribution it has made and still makes to the Catholic community in Melbourne.
162 - Dec 2012 - A different fire: Vatican II and the new evangelisation, Archbishop Mark Coleridge
The call to a new evangelisation born of the Second Vatican Council and given momentum by John Paul II and Benedict XVI implies a particular view of the history of the Church.
163 - Dec 2012 - News: The Church Around the World
LOsservatore Romano Los Angeles Archbishops first pastoral letter Archbishop Jos Gmez of Los Angeles has written his first pastoral letter to his archdiocese invoking the Catholic history of California and calling on Catholics to witness to the New World of faith.
164 - Nov 2012 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
Goddard This book provides the first comprehensive history in English for eighty years of the origins and development of the Holy Week liturgy in the Roman Rite.
165 - Nov 2012 - Books: THE GIFT OF THE ROSARY: How to Make and How and Why to Pray, by Brian Peachey, Barry Morgan
Throughout history the mysterious reality of the Blessed Virgins submission to the demands of incarnate love bringing the God man into the world has captured the imagination and loyalty of legions of Catholics and other Christians.
166 - 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.
167 - Nov 2012 - Books: CATHOLICISM: A Journey to the Heart of the Faith, by Fr Robert Barron, Michael Gilchrist
Hence we need to connect with the Churchs art history culture music literature and architecture.
168 - Nov 2012 - Worldwide religious persecution continues, Cardinal Timothy Dolan
The history of our own nation attests to this fact.
169 - Nov 2012 - Shanghai's new auxiliary bishop: a prophet and a hero, Bernard Cervellera
First of all ideological ones and then theological ones: a Church separated from the Pope is not the Catholic Church but just another church which is likely - as has happened many times in history - to become a sect increasingly emptied of its spiritual character and which survives only thanks to the goodwill of a political power.
170 - Nov 2012 - News: The Church Around the World
It is not the individual - priest or layman - or the group that celebrates the liturgy but it is primarily Gods action through the Church which has its own history its rich tradition and creativity the Pope said during his 3 October general audience.
171 - Nov 2012 - Pope's Lebanon visit sends a message of peace to Middle East, Michael Gilchrist
The Secretary of the Commission of the Lebanese Bishops Conference for Dialogue with Islam Father Antoine Daou said It will be a national and popular holiday to show to the world that Lebanon can be in this moment in history the country of co-existence between Christians and Muslims.
172 - Oct 2012 - Reflection: The Year of Faith and the Church's missionary role, Fr Dennis W. Byrnes
The Year of Faith calls us into a deep renewal of our faith through retracing the history of our faith studying the Catechism praying the Creed and seeking to be an active witness of what we believe a call to be missionary.
173 - Oct 2012 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
Goddard This book provides the first comprehensive history in English for eighty years of the origins and development of the Holy Week liturgy in the Roman Rite.
174 - Oct 2012 - Books: AN AMAZING LOVE, by Father Ken Barker, Br Barry Coldrey
The Churchs message remains the same: that Jesus Christ is the Saviour of the world Son of God and the centre of history.
175 - Oct 2012 - History: Melbourne Catholics: Dr Mannix's impact, Patrick Morgan
Patrick Morgan has written a number of books and articles on the connections between literature history and politics and has edited two volumes of the writings of B.
176 - Oct 2012 - News: The Church Around the World
The bequests other donations to the archdiocese include a collection of autographed Gone with the Wind first editions published in various languages and an unpublished history of the Mitchell family handwritten by Margarets father Eugene Muse Mitchell.
177 - Oct 2012 - Editorial: The Year of Faith and Catechism of the Catholic Church, Michael Gilchrist
Here in fact we see the wealth of teaching that the Church has received safeguarded and proposed in her two thousand years of history.
178 - Sep 2012 - Reflection: Fatima: Mary's appeal for penance and conversion, Bishop Arthur Serratelli
History has proven right the prophecies given to the children at Fatima.
179 - Sep 2012 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
Goddard This book provides the first comprehensive history in English for eighty years of the origins and development of the Holy Week liturgy in the Roman Rite.
180 - Sep 2012 - Letters: Appreciation, Frank O'Connor
The same book by Archbishop Sheehan also gives the history of the word transubstantiation and an explanation of the terms substance and accidents and how this understanding of matter is applied to the change of ordinary matter to the Real Presence as in John Youngs article.
181 - Sep 2012 - Letters: Media bias, Anne Lastman
As I said this client has a wounded sexuality in her history and when that occurs then abortions just involve more wounds to sexuality meaning life innocence and getting rid of bits of men.
182 - Sep 2012 - Time for women's "true genius" to reassert itself, Anne Lastman
She hears and understands that within that new creation she carries begins a new tree a new life a new history the same as the one begun when love overflowed from God and began the eternal generation of Adam.
183 - Sep 2012 - Letters: Archbishop Chaput: how to meet the challenges to religious freedom, Archbishop Charles Chaput OFM
We need to look honestly at the arc of Catholic history in our country.
184 - Sep 2012 - News: The Church Around the World
The document signals a new stage and a common perspective on a difficult common history Polish bishops spokesman Father Jozef Kloch said of the document on reconciliation due to be signed by the Moscow Patriarch along with Polish Bishops Conference President Archbishop Jozef Michalik.
185 - Aug 2012 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
Goddard This book provides the first comprehensive history in English for eighty years of the origins and development of the Holy Week liturgy in the Roman Rite.
186 - Aug 2012 - The Virgin Mary's key role in our salvation history, Cedric Wright
Blessed John Paul II Throughout the history of the Church Popes have shown great devotion to Mary acknowledging her as Queen of Heaven and Earth and Mother of the Church.
187 - Aug 2012 - Marriage: Archbishop Hickey: the Eucharist and the Christian family, Archbishop Barry Hickey
History alone clearly shows that.
188 - Jul 2012 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
Goddard This book provides the first comprehensive history in English for eighty years of the origins and development of the Holy Week liturgy in the Roman Rite.
189 - Jul 2012 - Books: FR ALEXANDER MEN: Martyr of Atheism, by Michel Evdokimov, Michael Daniel
This work begins with a survey of the religious history of Russia.
190 - Jul 2012 - 'Born again': how to change from a nominal to a "living" Christian, Andrew Kania
He opens with the sentence: So that the sap of Christianity can still thrust its shoots through the crust of history the Holy Spirit watching over the Church raises up servants whose fidelity goes beyond conformity to the status quo.
191 - Jul 2012 - The climate alarmist 'religion' and Third World poverty, David Legates
History and human nature both testify that forced by economic limits to choose between a cleaner environment and food on the table people always choose food.
192 - Jul 2012 - Campus Life: A new model for Catholic university chaplaincy in Brisbane, Br Barry Coldrey
Father Clark has provided the following outline: The rest is history .
193 - Jun 2012 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
For most of the Churchs history secular priests have lived in communities.
194 - Jun 2012 - Books: OUR GLORIOUS POPES, by Catherine Goddard Clarke, Michael Daniel
Available from Freedom Publishing) As a schoolboy studying European history at a non-Catholic school I recall reading about a number of egregious popes some of whom vied with each other for depravity.
195 - Jun 2012 - Books: DEFEND THE FAITH, by Robert M. Haddad, Jennifer Nowell
Rather than setting out Dawkins objections to religious faith Haddad discusses the weaknesses in his writings including misrepresentation of Christianity poor philosophy deification of chance and inaccurate history.
196 - Jun 2012 - Books: ABOUT BIOETHICS: Philosophical and Theological Approaches, Angela Schumann
He also provides an illuminating outline history of the rise of eugenics in the 20th century the end of the Hippocratic tradition and how these have shaped the context of contemporary bioethics.
197 - Jun 2012 - Latin: Pope John XXIII's document on Latin: 50th anniversary, Salvatore Cernuzio
Half a century later the Pontificium Institutum Altioris Latinitatis organised a conference on 23 February 2012 titled Veterum Sapientia: History Culture and Timeliness.
198 - Jun 2012 - Australian student campaigns for US college's Catholic identity, David Walsh
This is a group that tries to understand and incorporate the schools history into everything it does.
199 - Jun 2012 - Faith and Reason: Cardinal Pell debates Richard Dawkins on Q&A: a commentary, Frank Mobbs
His explanation was simple compared to the vast and complex history of changes in living things.
200 - Jun 2012 - News: The Church Around the World
Bishop Jenky recalled the courage of believers under persecution throughout Church history and urged Catholic men to follow their example.
201 - May 2012 - Reflection: Nicene Creed's "consubstantial":What does this mean?, Bishop Arthur Serratelli
In naming Jesus consubstantial with the Father there is a wealth of meaning a history of struggle and a fidelity to the apostolic faith.
202 - May 2012 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
For most of the Churchs history secular priests have lived in communities.
203 - May 2012 - Books: A COMPANION TO CATHOLIC EDUCATION, by Leonardo Franchi and Stephen McKinney (ed), Angela Schumann
This implied bow to the modern intellectual habit of ignoring the Judeo-Christian origins of our Western civilisation did not seem in harmony with the rest of a text that was clearly proud of the Catholic Church and the place it has held in culture and history.
204 - May 2012 - Religious Freedom: Catholics in Iraq: a struggle for survival, Archbishop Bashar Matti Warda
There is of course violence in the history of Islam and it still is not so long ago that a bishop was killed and so many families have been forced to leave Mosul and Baghdad.
205 - May 2012 - The culture wars: Archbishop Chaput's call to Christians, Ben Johnson
Nothing in this world is inevitable except the victory of Jesus Christ and that includes what history finally says about the character of the nation we call America.
206 - May 2012 - News: The Church Around the World
His history and testimony are very important for the Vietnamese faithful bishops priests women religious and laymen: a long list of persons will be received by the Vatican delegation.
207 - 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.
208 - Apr 2012 - Reflection: Christ's Resurrection: the central truth of our faith, Fr Dennis Byrnes
By virtue of his apparitions Jesus the risen Lord entered into our history and gives us new life.
209 - Apr 2012 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
Goddard This book provides the first comprehensive history in English for eighty years of the origins and development of the Holy Week liturgy in the Roman Rite.
210 - Apr 2012 - Culture: Christianity's essential role in civilising our society, Bishop Julian Porteous
Throughout history religion has bound communities and cultures together.
211 - Mar 2012 - Reflection: The wonder of the Incarnation: Pope Benedict's Nazareth homily, Pope Benedict XVI
What happened here in Nazareth far from the gaze of the world was a singular act of God a powerful intervention in history through which a child was conceived who was to bring salvation to the whole world.
212 - Mar 2012 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
95 ISBN 978-0-85244-392-7 The Sensus Fidelium Kathleen Kirk This book provides an introduction to the nature of the sensus fidelium: its terms of reference its history the views of post-Vatican II theologians and how these can be viewed in the context of John Henry Newmans thought and teaching.
213 - Mar 2012 - Books: The Spiritual Legacy of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, by Rev. Charles P. Connor, Michael Daniel
Here Fr Charles Connor the author of several books on theology the saints and Catholic history and a regular EWTN host has addressed this deficit in The Spiritual Legacy of Archbishop Fulton J.
214 - Mar 2012 - Books: Streams of Grace, by Bishop Julian Porteous, Fr Ken Barker MGL
The Churchs great spiritual awakenings throughout history STREAMS OF GRACE by Bishop Julian Porteous (ConnorCourt 2011 250pp $29.
215 - Mar 2012 - The Immaculate Conception and the development of doctrine, Bishop Peter J. Elliott
As we contemplate this truth of salvation history we are confronted with the reality of Original Sin the flawed nature of the human person the great loss of grace that we all bear before baptism.
216 - Mar 2012 - Campion College's Summer Program on Christian leadership, Br Barry Coldrey
On the academic side there were two strands: one focussed on Year 12 study skills in general and for English and History.
217 - Mar 2012 - Extraordinary life of new Czech Cardinal, Dominik Duka, Peter Westmore
He has written books on theology and biblical history and was one of those initiating a 30-year project now completed to translate the Jerusalem Bible into the Czech language.
218 - Mar 2012 - Year of Grace: can Australian Catholicism recover its unity?, Michael Gilchrist
The Pope emphasises that the former is the correct approach namely that Vatican II must be understood in light of the Churchs 2000 year history its traditions and previous councils and not as a break with the past.
219 - Feb 2012 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
Catholic Thought since the Enlightenment Aidan Nichols OP Leading British theologian Father Nichols explores the theological history of Catholicism over the past 200 years providing a perspective on the present state of the Catholic Church and its institutes of theology.
220 - Feb 2012 - Books: HOW TO GET EXPELLED FROM SCHOOL, by Ian Plimer, Michael Gilchrist
Perhaps the closest contender would be geology since it involves a detailed history of climate fluctuations over millions of years.
221 - Feb 2012 - Census: Growth and decline in the churches: research findings, Frank Mobbs
He exhibits a deep knowledge of the teachings and history and practices of the Catholic Church.
222 - Feb 2012 - Domus Australia: 'Roots and wings': a little corner of Australia in Rome, Fr Anthony Denton
Domus Australia exists to help all visitors in their search for faith and freedom while exploring the beauty and history of this fascinating Eternal City.
223 - Feb 2012 - Culture Wars: Catholic universities and secularism, Achbishop Charles Chaput
To put it another way Catholic higher education is heir to the greatest intellectual moral and cultural patrimony in human history.
224 - Feb 2012 - Religious Freedom: Freedom of religion American style, Babette Francis
President Obama during his speech to the Australian Parliament last November welcomed the rise of a peaceful China while rejecting that countrys one-party political system: History is on the side of the free; prosperity without freedom is another form of poverty.
225 - Dec 2011 - Reflection: Advent faith, Christmas and the Pope's call to evangelise, Fr Dennis Byrnes
In the concrete history of the Church however a contrary tendency is also manifested namely that the Church becomes settled in this world and she becomes self-sufficient and adapts herself to the standards of the world.
226 - Dec 2011 - Books: WHY WE SHOULD CALL OURSELVES CHRISTIANS, by Marcello Pera, Elizabeth Lev
The Judeo-Christian history of Europe is part of its DNA even when unacknowledged.
227 - Dec 2011 - Catholic Literature: Robert Hugh Benson and Christ's Second Coming, Br Christian Moe FSC
In some respects this book is one of the most impressive pieces of futuristic writing in English - though it is hard to find mention of Bensons name in any history of English Literature.
228 - Dec 2011 - Pilgrimage: Young disabled Catholics: new ministry initiative, Fr James McCarthy
As Chaucers Canterbury Tales reminds us the tradition of assisting those with special needs to pilgrimage to sacred places goes back into the first millennium of Christian history.
229 - Dec 2011 - Schools: St Philomena's school: a beacon of excellence, Alistair Barros
St Philomenas classical curriculum includes Latin Ancient Greek and Roman History Logic and French.
230 - Dec 2011 - News: The Church Around the World
The ad used in the campaign notes the beauty and history of the Catholic Church.
231 - Dec 2011 - Homily: Benedict XVI: From his Christmas homily, Pope Benedict XVI
In this sentence Saint Luke recounts quite soberly the great event to which the prophecies from Israels history had pointed.
232 - Nov 2011 - Reflection: The Church's architecture: faith translated into vision, Bishop Arthur Serratelli
Abstract images and splashes of colour have replaced the biblical scenes and figures of the Gothic cathedrals that remind the worshippers of their place in the history of salvation and the communion of saints.
233 - Nov 2011 - Books: STRAINED RELATIONS: The Challenge of Homosexuality, by Bill Muehlenberg, Dr Joe Santamaria
For this reason he has also pursued theological studies at a postgraduate level which he has linked to his knowledge of history sociology philosophy and ethics.
234 - Oct 2011 - Books: ROME AND THE EASTERN CHURCHES: A Study in Schism (2nd ed), Aidan Nichols OP, Michael Daniel
This explains why for example sections of the Catholic Church throughout history - including parts of the Antipodes within the last generation - have held beliefs that can be described as eclectic while still remaining in communion with Rome.
235 - Oct 2011 - Books: BENEDICT XVI: A Guide for the Perplexed, by Tracey Rowland, Michael Daniel
The importance of history also underscores his critique of biblical scholars such as Bultmann who accepted very little of the Gospel narratives as being historical.
236 - Oct 2011 - World Youth Day 2011, Madrid: Australia's participation, Br Barry Coldrey
Those numbers may pale before the vast one million young Catholics assembled in Madrid but they represented the largest gathering in Australias history.
237 - Sep 2011 - Books: THE COUNCIL IN QUESTION: a Dialogue with Catholic Traditionalism, Fr Glen Tattersall
Yet Doorlys frequent reference to the words and actions of Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre and the history of the SSPX tend to give the impression that one cannot (or perhaps should not) separate the two questions.
238 - Sep 2011 - Letters: Book of Genesis, Frank Mobbs
Ancient peoples liked to push back into history their own beliefs and practices.
239 - Sep 2011 - Interview: Pope's brother sheds more light on Benedict's early years, Zenit News Agency
There is still much to be learned about the history and character of Pope Benedict XVI or as he was Joseph Ratzinger particularly from the one closest to him his brother Georg.
240 - Sep 2011 - Sacred Art: Catholic church statuary: a craft in danger, Christopher Akehurst
But even if no craftsman wants them they should be preserved as important in their own right in the history of popular Catholic art.
241 - Sep 2011 - Abortion grief: mother love, mercy love and God's compassion, Anne R. Lastman
As John Paul II pointed out in the above document: Each and every time that motherhood is repeated in human history it is always related to the covenant which God established with the human race through the Motherhood of the Mother of God.
242 - Sep 2011 - Glimpses of a new dawn in Russia, Babette Francis
Society cannot live a calm life or have a decent future unless it learns the lessons of history condemns morally politically and legally the committed crimes and restores the good names of people who were oppressed only because they were clerics nobles Cossacks well-to-do and hardworking farmers merchants or belonged to other social groups declared enemies of the people.
243 - Sep 2011 - Cloyne Report exposes Ireland's continuing sex abuse crisis, Michael Gilchrist
Previously he had been Secretary to three Popes Paul VI John Paul I and John Paul II the only cleric in history to achieve such an honour.
244 - Sep 2011 - 2011 Fighting Fund launched, Peter Westmore
It is a matter of history that this struggle came to a successful conclusion not through legislation but by the actions of thousands of patriotic Australians many motivated by Christian social principles.
245 - Aug 2011 - Reflection: The new evangelisation: 'missionary spirit' needed, Fr Dennis W. Byrnes
Later in 2000 he returned to a meaning of new evangelisation as mission within a new stage of human history society and cultures.
246 - Aug 2011 - Young adult Catholic ministry: further progress, Br Barry Coldrey
The history of this encouraging revival of young adult ministry is a quite recent one.
247 - Aug 2011 - Exegesis: Genesis account of creation and fall: what does the Church teach?, John Young
Clearly there is a wealth of symbolism in the account but there is also true history.
248 - Aug 2011 - Defending the Catholic Church against ill-informed attacks, Fr John Flynn LC
They were not the proudest moment of Christian history but nor were they the childish caricature of modern Western guilt and certainly not that of contemporary Muslim paranoia.
249 - Aug 2011 - Bishop Conley on the new Missal translation: 'The very words of God', Bishop James Conley
Salvation history The words of the liturgy are able to create a universe brimming with spiritual life.
250 - Aug 2011 - Homily: Benedict XVI: Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Pope Benedict XVI
St Paul helps us to shed a little more light on this mystery starting from the central event of human history and of our faith: that is the event of Christs Resurrection which is the first fruits of those who have fallen asleep.
251 - Jul 2011 - What attracts converts to the Catholic Church?, Fr F.E. Burns
But history does reveal any number of failed attempts to discover or create a painless path to God: a type of Christianity without a Cross.
252 - Jul 2011 - Pro-Life: Hungary's new pro-life 'Easter' Constitution, Babette Francis
Eleanor Schlafly President of the US-based Cardinal Mindszenty Foundation which promotes faith family and freedom says she prays that Hungarys new Easter Constitution truly represent a resurrection of this magnificent country that has suffered much during its history.
253 - Jul 2011 - Steubenville: How a university's Catholic identity was recovered, AD2000 Report
The rest is history.
254 - Jul 2011 - Homily: Benedict XVI: Sts Peter and Paul and the role of bishops, Pope Benedict XVI
If we think of the two millennia of Church history we can see that as the Lord Jesus had announced (cf.
255 - Jun 2011 - Reflection: Pentecost, the feast of true hope for humanity, Bishop Arthur Serratelli
It is the New Jerusalem still imperfect because it is yet a pilgrim in history but able to anticipate in some way the heavenly Jerusalem (Pope Benedict XVI Homily on the Solemnity of Christ King of the Universe Sunday 25 November 2007).
256 - Jun 2011 - Books: THE STORY OF THE LITURGY IN IRELAND, by Edmond Gerard Cullinan, Michael E Daniel
One constant theme throughout the work is that Irelands liturgical history cannot be understood without reference to that of Western Europe for various trends and developments within the Latin rite were reflected in the liturgical life of the Irish Church the only Western region outside of the Roman Empire that had an established Christian community by the time of the fall of the Roman Empire.
257 - Jun 2011 - Books: JESUS OF NAZARETH: Holy Week, by Pope Benedict XVI, Fr Glen Tattersall FSSP
Jewish history A striking feature of both volumes has been the Popes mastery of Jewish history theology and liturgy.
258 - Jun 2011 - Letters: North Africa, Andrew Sholl
I carefully looked into the history of this area and found some very disturbing facts and situations from present-day Libya to Morocco.
259 - Jun 2011 - Letters: Climate change, R. Blackstock
In 1968 we had seven feet of snow and this was followed by the coldest month ever recorded in New Zealand history (for below 3000 feet) the mean average temperature for July being 22 degrees fahrenheit (or ten below freezing).
260 - Jun 2011 - Moral values and the march of science, Archbishop Charles J. Chaput
The great French scholar Jacques Maritain once wrote: The devil hangs like a vampire on the side of history.
261 - Jun 2011 - Events: St Thomas More: still A Man for all Seasons, Emma O'Shea
Where MacKillop portrayed the vital role that St Mary of the Cross played in Australian history especially through the establishment of schools A Man for All Seasons highlights the extraordinary life and story of St Thomas More and its central place in English history explains Kieran Walton the co-producer of the play.
262 - Jun 2011 - News: The Church Around the World
In the afflicted history of relations between Roman Pontiffs and the Jewish people in the shadow of the ghetto in which they were reclused for over three centuries in humiliating and depressing conditions the figure of John Paul II emerges luminous in all of its exceptionality.
263 - May 2011 - Reflection: The Resurrection: ultimate meaning of our existence, Fr Dennis Byrnes
Faith in the resurrection of the dead and hope in eternal life open our eyes to the ultimate meaning of our existence: God created us for resurrection and life and this truth gives an authentic and defin-itive meaning to human history to the personal and social lives of men and women to culture politics and the economy.
264 - May 2011 - Books: CHRISTIANITY IN IRAQ, by Suha Rassam, Michael Daniel
Apart from a vague understanding from history textbooks that the Church was established in Mesopotamia in the early centuries of Christianity and at some stage elements had re-united with Rome like most Australian Christians I had little knowledge of the history and situation of Christians in Iraq until news reports of violent actions against Christ-ians in the wake of the US led invasion of 2003.
265 - May 2011 - Letters: 'Spirit of Vatican II', Fr. M. Durham
It was a genuine General Council of the Church just as genuine as Nicea Trent Vatican I and all the other 18 General Councils in the 2000 year history of the Church.
266 - May 2011 - The Anglican Ordinariate: what impact on Catholic worship?, Shawn Tribe
To be clear it is not that I believe these potentialities and aspects are absent from the conversation without the Ordinariate but rather that the Ordinariate bringing with it its own lived experience history and culture brings another and additional dimension to the conversation a dimension that importantly will be a lived one able to be referred to and consulted equally by Catholics within and without the Ordinariate.
267 - May 2011 - News: The Church Around the World
Rabbi Jacob Neusner Distinguished Research Professor of Religion and Theology at Bard College in New York said the Pope aimed to unify theology and critical history in response to the failure of critical scholarship during the last century.
268 - Apr 2011 - Books: EUROPE AND THE FAITH, by Hilaire Belloc, Michael Daniel
From time to time a version of history prevalent since the so-called Enlightenment and popularised by historians such as Gibbon rears itself namely that the adoption of Christianity by the Roman Empire was essentially a negative move as not only did it hasten the fall of the Roman Empire but was responsible for the loss of much classical learning and knowledge.
269 - Apr 2011 - Books: THE RIDDLE OF FATHER HACKETT: A Life in Ireland and Australia, by Brenda Niall, Colin Jory
Colin Jory is a Catholic writer and teacher based in Canberra and is author of the definitive history of the Campion Society (available from Freedom Publishing for $15.
270 - Apr 2011 - Music that elevates faith and worship of God, Metropolitan Hilarion Alfeyev
Shostakovich It is my personal view that in the history of 20th-century music there is only one composer who in terms of talent and depth of inspired searching comes close to Bach and that is Shostakovich.
271 - Apr 2011 - News: The Church Around the World
Cardinal Rode said that religious communities had been hotbeds of spiritual liveliness and missionary dynamism throughout the Churchs history.
272 - Apr 2011 - Climate expert refutes alarmist attack on Cardinal Pell, William Kininmonth
History shows the dangers of corrupting science in the service of political objectives.
273 - Mar 2011 - Books: THE AUSTRALIAN BOOK OF ATHEISM, Edited by Warren Bonett, Frank Mobbs
Chrys Stevenson opens with a potted history of atheism in Australia.
274 - Mar 2011 - Letters: New 'morality', Fr Bernard McGrath
Every society in human history has considered marriage to be between two persons of the opposite sex for the union of spouses the procreating of children and the founding of families as the very basis of human society (public and private good).
275 - Mar 2011 - What are the marks of an authentically Catholic university?, Cardinal Raymond Burke
During various periods of the Churchs history the service of the Catholic university has been critical to meeting the challenges of the time.
276 - Mar 2011 - News: The Church Around the World
The healing of a French nun with Parkinsons disease is to go down in history as the miracle that made John Paul II a blessed.
277 - Feb 2011 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
Renowned British theologian Aidan Nichols provides a systematic account of the origins development and recent history of the relations between the Catholic Church and all the separated Eastern Christians.
278 - Feb 2011 - Books: MOTHER BENEDICT: Foundress of the Abbey of Regina Laudis, by Antoinette Bosco, Br Barry Coldrey
Available from Freedom Publishing) Christian history is alive with the stories of formidable contemplative Religious women whose spiritual influence extended far beyond the walls of their enclosed convents.
279 - Feb 2011 - Books: Isabel of Spain: The Catholic Queen, by Warren Carroll, Terri M. Kelleher
Isabel of Spain: The greatest woman ruler in all history ISABEL OF SPAIN: The Catholic Queen by Warren Carroll (Christendom Press 385 pp $29.
280 - Feb 2011 - Young children: never too early to love God, Bishop Arthur Serratelli
They are now the youngest non-martyrs ever to be beatified in the history of the Catholic Church.
281 - Feb 2011 - Book Review: Cardinal Pell and Pope Benedict XVI's interview, Cardinal George Pell
The conversation between Pope Benedict and the German journalist Peter Seewald published as Light of the World has no precedent in papal history.
282 - Feb 2011 - Editorial: Challenges ahead for the Church in 2011, Michael Gilchrist
The Church has faced a wide range of challenges throughout its two millennia history some external some internal.
283 - Dec 2010 - Books: EDMUND CAMPION, by Richard Simpson, revised by Peter Joseph, Fr Anthony Robbie
Fr Anthony Robbie is a priest of the Sydney Archdiocese and has a Licentiate in Church History from the Pontifical Gregorian University Rome.
284 - Nov 2010 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
John McCloskey et al This is a timely new compilation of Hilaire Bellocs insights on religion politics Western history and culture an ideal reference for Christians as they contend with the inroads of secularism.
285 - Nov 2010 - Books: BLESSED JOHN  HENRY NEWMAN: A Richly Illustrated Portrait, by K.D. and D. Fso, Br Barry Coldrey
By now Newman was publishing scholarly works some on the history of the early Church and during the 1830s he became a leader in the Oxford Movement which consisted of several Oxford theologians who addressed key issues relating to the authority nature and history of the Anglican Church.
286 - Nov 2010 - Ukrainian Catholics: Ukraine's University of the Catacombs, Andrew Kania
in the entire history of the Ukrainian Church in the twentieth century.
287 - Nov 2010 - Homosexuality: Courage and EnCourage Chicago Conference: holiness the key, Marie Mason
Through the example of Christ in the Gospels Thomas Merton and a movie about Trappist monks and his own life history Dan came to understand that God had always loved him and had used his same-sex attraction to redeem him from sin and draw him to Himself.
288 - Oct 2010 - Reflection: The faith through symbols and stories, Andrew Kania
Even those who are only vaguely familiar with Christianity recognise in the baptismal font or the Signing of the Cross that these objects and actions are connected to a perceived sacredness; they herald a belief in a higher reality and are an attempt to signify the real presence of God in the life of human history.
289 - Oct 2010 - Books: Two upcoming launches of new titles from Freedom Publishing/Gracewing UK
Blessed John Henry Newman: A Richly Illustrated Portrait Editors: Kathleen Dietz and Mary-Birgit Dechant Speaker: Fr Austin Cooper OMI (Head Department of Church History Catholic Theological College Melbourne) 15 October 2010 2pm RSVP: (03) 9816-0888 by 11 October.
290 - Oct 2010 - Books: WEDNESDAY WARRIORS: The St Pat's Ballarat Tradition, by James Gilchrist, Cardinal George Pell
On the other hand it was a Melbourne-born Sydneysider a Collingwood diehard who paid me the ultimate compliment of claiming that my transfer to Sydney was the best thing to happen since Plugger Lockett one of the finest full forwards in the history of the game left St Kilda for the Sydney Swans.
291 - Oct 2010 - Books: THE PATH TO ROME: Modern Journeys to the Catholic Church, Bishop David Robarts
As Sheridan Gilley wisely reminds us conversion is part of the history of a soul and its public face can seem as remote as the stars from what the convert thinks and feels.
292 - Oct 2010 - Letters: Pastoral Council?, Peter D. Howard
Hardon SJ describes this as collegial infallibility marking a turning point in doctrinal history (The Catholic Catechism 1975 Doubleday pp.
293 - Oct 2010 - Good priests: the Church's essential foot soldiers, Cardinal George Pell
There too the wheel is turning Today worldwide we have no Hitler imprisoning priests while the Communist persecution of Christians and their infamous network of concentration camps have disappeared into history at least in Europe.
294 - Oct 2010 - Celebrating National Marriage Day 2010, David Walsh
Dr Carlson concluded with encouragement to move on with confidence because human nature innate human longings human biology and human history are all on your side.
295 - Oct 2010 - Foundations of Faith: Archbishop Hickey: Time to stand up for Christian marriage, Archbishop Hickey
History alone clearly shows that.
296 - Sep 2010 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
90 ISBN 978-0-89870-180-7 A History of Apologetics Cardinal Avery Dulles One of Americas greatest theologians the late Cardinal Avery Dulles provides an overview of Christian apologetics from the New Testament through the Middle Ages to the present.
297 - Sep 2010 - Formation: MacKillop College: Wagga's educational showcase, Joanne Andrews
Students in both of these streams will attend regular classes in the school and sit for exams in Catholic Moral and Dogmatic Theology Philosophy and Church History.
298 - Sep 2010 - Books: THE TEMPLARS: Knights of Christ, by Régine Pernoud, Br Barry Coldrey
Available from Freedom Publishing) Rgine Pernoud is a French specialist in mediaeval history.
299 - Sep 2010 - Vocations: The story of a grandmother and her love of the priesthood, Andrew Kania
We must remember that even though we hear much of scandal within the Church we must similarly never forget those men of the Church throughout history up to the present day who have given their lives selflessly and heroically for a God made man who taught them the Way; a numerous anonymous army of the Church of those who chose suffering and renunciation.
300 - Sep 2010 - Ecclesial movements in the life of the Church, Bishop Julian Porteous
Yes creation and history - they are waiting for us for men and women who are truly children of God and behave as such.
301 - Sep 2010 - Academia: Challenging times for Catholic universities, Babette Francis
An egregious example of this was when President Obama the most pro-abortion president in US history was invited to give the graduation address at Notre Dame University Indiana.
302 - Sep 2010 - Britain prepares for Benedict XVI's visit, Joanna Bogle
They want to stand and cheer the Pope they see him as the successor of St Peter and as tangible evidence of the reality of a Church that has withstood all the ravages of history and binds them to the heroism of the martyrs.
303 - Aug 2010 - Reflection: Why the true meaning of marriage must be enshrined in law, Archbishop John C. Nienstedt
Throughout history human beings in virtually every society have recognised that to make a marriage one needs a man and a woman.
304 - Aug 2010 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
90 ISBN 978-0-89870-180-7 A History of Apologetics Cardinal Avery Dulles One of Americas greatest theologians the late Cardinal Avery Dulles provides an overview of Christian apologetics from the New Testament through the Middle Ages to the present.
305 - Aug 2010 - Books: DON'T KNOW MUCH ABOUT CATHOLIC HISTORY: From the Catacombs to the Reformation, Terri Kelleher
DONT KNOW MUCH ABOUT CATHOLIC HISTORY: From the Catacombs to the Reformation by Diane Moczar (Our Sunday Visitor 2006 176pp.
306 - Aug 2010 - Books: BLESSED PIUS IX, by Roberto de Mattei, Michael Daniel
Part One examines what could be described as his political career for Pius IX was Pope during one of the most turbulent times in history.
307 - 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.
308 - Aug 2010 - Letters: Obama Health Bill, Sr Rose Mary Kinne OP
I understand that Professor Stephen Schneck of the Catholic University of America has said After long and careful analysis I am confident that history will prove this Health Care Bill is the most effective pro-life legislation ever crafted.
309 - Aug 2010 - Letters: Infallibility, Dr Frank Mobbs
Catholics can find relief from history on realising that the ordinary universal magisterium never defined as a doctrine that deniers of the Catholic Faith have no rights to hold or propagate their beliefs and act in accordance with them.
310 - Aug 2010 - Troubled future of the Church in Ireland, Archbishop Diarmuid Martin
The Catholic Church in Ireland is coming out of one of its most difficult moments in its history and the light at the end of the tunnel is still a long way off.
311 - Jul 2010 - Reflection: The challenge: how to spread God's word in a secular culture, Bishop Arthur Serratelli
But each period of history presents its own challenges for Gods Word to be heard.
312 - Jul 2010 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
90 ISBN 978-0-89870-180-7 A History of Apologetics Cardinal Avery Dulles One of Americas greatest theologians the late Cardinal Avery Dulles provides an overview of Christian apologetics from the New Testament through the Middle Ages to the present.
313 - Jul 2010 - Books: THE ABBESS OF ANDALUSIA: Flannery O'Connor's Spiritual Journey, Lorraine Murray, Terri Kelleher
Recently I posed the same question about the Catholic Church in the American South to my son who is an aficionado of all things American and knows a bit about American history.
314 - Jul 2010 - New apologetics for the new evangelisation
He calls the saints a great luminous trail on which God passed through history.
315 - Jul 2010 - Book launch: Cardinal Pell's new book 'Test Everything' launched, Michael Gilchrist
He has that enviable ability to draw upon his wide and deep learning in the Scriptures history and literature to illustrate and enrich his message and in a way that is intelligible and interesting.
316 - Jul 2010 - News: The Church Around the World
In a message to the Pope Patriarch Kirill I called it an event of great importance in the history of cultural exchanges between our Churches adding that music gives us the possibility to communicate with our hearts.
317 - Jul 2010 - Editorial: Religious education: the challenge of secularism, Michael Gilchrist
As Bishop Serratelli reminds us (page 20) the Church over her long history has faced different kinds of challenges in spreading Christs message.
318 - Jun 2010 - Reflection: Benedict XVI on the Church's birth and universality at Pentecost, Pope Benedict XVI
The universal Church is brought into being the Catholic Church which is the extension of the Chosen People and makes its history and mission her own.
319 - Jun 2010 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
99 ISBN 978-1-58617-134-6 A History of Apologetics Cardinal Avery Dulles One of Americas greatest theologians the late Cardinal Avery Dulles provides an overview of Christian apologetics from the New Testament through the Middle Ages to the present.
320 - Jun 2010 - Books: SURVIVALS AND NEW ARRIVALS: Old and New Enemies of the Catholic Church, Belloc, Terri M. Kelleher
Belloc says that at any given time in history the Churchs enemies fall into three categories: The Main Opposition (which doesnt get a guernsey in the title but which occupies centre stage while it is at its height); the Survivals; and the New Arrivals.
321 - Jun 2010 - Ecumenism: Christians and Muslims: peaceful co-existence?, Mohammad Al-Sammak
I personally was a member of working commissions and this was a fact without precedent in the history of synods in general and in the history of Muslims at Christian meetings.
322 - May 2010 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
90 ISBN 978-0-89870-976-8 A History of Apologetics Cardinal Avery Dulles One of Americas greatest theologians the late Cardinal Avery Dulles provides an overview of Christian apologetics from the New Testament through the Middle Ages to the present.
323 - May 2010 - Books: NINETEEN EIGHTY FOUR, by George Orwell, Michael Daniel
He works at the Ministry of Truth his task being to change historical records to reflect the version of history which the Party is endorsing at any one time.
324 - May 2010 - Conversion: 'Strangely and suspiciously tall': an Evangelical meets the Mother of God, Terri Kelleher
After the greatest bloodbath in human history the Church reasserted this belief as a sign to a tormented world that this is the true destiny of man.
325 - May 2010 - Culture: The vocation of Christians in public life, Archbishop Charles J. Chaput
Catholics and Protestants have different memories of American history.
326 - May 2010 - Culture Wars: Christians uniting to take a stand: the Manhattan Declaration, Bishop Julian Porteous
The Declaration begins with an appeal to Christian history that reflects the social commitment of Christianity.
327 - May 2010 - News: The Church Around the World
To assert that Pope Benedict XVI has done more than any other pope or bishop in history to rid the Catholic Church of the scourge of child sexual abuse and provide for those who have been injured.
328 - Apr 2010 - Books: WEDNESDAY WARRIORS: Doing it for the Jumper, by James Gilchrist, David Perrin
However this book by James Gilchrist a teacher at Genazzano College in Melbourne is a study of the football history and culture at St Patricks College Ballarat one of Victorias leading Catholic schools at least in terms of its footballing prowess.
329 - Apr 2010 - Letters: No citadels, Arthur N. Ballingall
In history citadels were frequently the difference between the survival of populations or annihilation.
330 - Apr 2010 - Jerusalem: Catholic soldiers' World War I military pilgrimage in the Holy Land, Tom Johnstone
Australians thus join the cavalcade of the centuries which as known history have rounded the sentinel gracefulness of Carmel and pass on into infinity.
331 - Apr 2010 - Foundations of Faith: How do Catholics relate to non-Christians?, Fr Dudley Perera OMI
Naturally claims to superiority on both sides have left a legacy of mutual bitterness and suspicion with the relationships between Christians and Muslims generally souring the history of religions.
332 - Apr 2010 - Bishop Kevin Rhoades: Tribute to an outstanding American Church leader, Fr John Trigilio
God has blessed us with great popes in recent history and with some phenomenal bishops as well.
333 - Mar 2010 - Reflection: Mary in medieval art: an expression of the Church's faith, Bishop Arthur Serratelli
This statute of Mary would open up to reveal scenes from the history of salvation.
334 - Mar 2010 - Books: THE GOD WHO LOVES YOU, by Peter Kreeft, Br Barry Coldrey
In this book Peter Kreeft explores the love of God from a variety of angles: The History of Gods Love Scripture as Love Story and Gods Love in Political Theology: Why Gods Love is neither Right nor Left!
335 - Mar 2010 - Letters: Women priests, Robert Prinzen-Wood
It wasnt simply a fact of sacred history as Kathleen Wood states.
336 - Mar 2010 - Conversion: Paul Fitzgerald: my spiritual journey, Paul Fitzgerald
By taking arguments from history theology philosophy and science without bringing in religion but by employing the atheists own method of arguing DSouza clearly demonstrates the truth of Gods existence and that He was the creator of the world and life on it.
337 - Mar 2010 - Courage: A Catholic psychologist exposes 'gay' myths, Marie Mason
All cultures throughout history have accepted homosexuality.
338 - Feb 2010 - Books: FIRES OF FAITH: Catholic England Under Mary Tudor, by Eamonn Duffy, Bishop Peter J. Elliott
We sat in the darkened cinema muttering with anger as a burlesque of English history unfolded before our eyes.
339 - Feb 2010 - Indian martyrs: Present-day martyrs in India and Pakistan, Babette Francis
However while these programs have been available to Hindu Sikh and Buddhist dalits they have not been offered to Christian dalits - although all of the dalits suffer from the same history of abuse and discrimination.
340 - Feb 2010 - News: The Church Around the World
Archbishop Ieronymos of Athens and All Greece said that the European Court of Human Rights (EHCR) had ignored the role of Christianity in Europes history.
341 - Feb 2010 - St Mary Mackillop: Canonisation: about holiness, not miracles, Fr Paul Gardiner SJ
The Cause was an excellent one the decree said but a full history called a Positio Super Virtutibus had yet to be submitted.
342 - Dec 2009 - Books: This month's selection from AD Books
95 ISBN 978-0-64227-685-8 The Battle Ground Hilaire Belloc First published in 1936 and written in Hilaire Bellocs usual vivid and readable style The Battle Ground provides a lively account of the ancient Jews and other Middle Eastern cultures and their impact on history and todays world.
343 - Dec 2009 - Letters: Complementarity, Kathleen Wood
This tradition interprets first and foremost a fact of sacred history not judging what may be regarded as complementarity or even the biblical creation of male and female as dependent on the ordination of men only.
344 - Dec 2009 - Vatican II: Yves Congar, Vatican II, ecumenism: finding the right balance, Andrew Kania
The Spirit of grace and salvation is not confined within one religious history nor is it a sullen recluse in periods of time before or after Bethlehem.
345 - Dec 2009 - How to get Vatican II back on track: a bishop's prescription, Bishop R. Walker Nickless (Sioux City, Iowa)
Have we understood the Council within the context of the entire history of the Church?
346 - Dec 2009 - News: The Church Around the World
He called for it to be strongly rejected saying Italy has its culture its traditions and its history.
347 - Dec 2009 - Ut Unum Sint: Benedict XVI eases way for Anglicans wishing to 'cross the Tiber', Michael Gilchrist
The unity of the Church does not require a uniformity that ignores cultural diversity as the history of Christianity shows.
348 - Nov 2009 - Books: JESUS AND THE EYEWITNESSES: Gospels as Eyewitness Testimony, by Richard Bauckham, Peter Westmore
The separation of the Jesus of history from the Christ of faith has dominated biblical scholarship for the past 200 years.
349 - Nov 2009 - Books: THE CHURCH AND THE WORLD: Essays Catholic and Contemporary, by John Haldane, Tracey Rowland
In this context Haldane writes: The result of this situation is that Catholics know little about the history of their faith its distinctive content its theological philosophical literary and artistic products its traditions of spirituality the nature and modes of grace the gravity of sin and so on.
350 - Nov 2009 - Foundations of Faith: 'O happy fault': the Christian doctrine of original sin, Noel Roberts
The doctrine of original sin defined at the Council of Trent was reaffirmed at the second Vatican Council: Although he was made by God in a state of holiness from the very onset of his history man abused his liberty at the urging of the Evil One.
351 - Nov 2009 - Schools: How to rebuild Catholic education from the grass-roots, Sr Mary Augustine OP
The religion program which is based on the Catechism of the Catholic Church encompasses all the doctrines of the faith Catholic morality and spirituality and Church history.
352 - Nov 2009 - Campion College celebrates its fourth Year of operation, Br Barry Coldrey
However the College has a wider and longer history with an international input flowing from its contacts with overseas institutions in Europe and North America.
353 - Oct 2009 - Books: This month's selection from AD Books
95 ISBN 0-85244-396-X Caroline Chisholm: The Emigrants Friend Joanna Bogle Joanna Bogles compact and readable biography sheds light on one of the most remarkable individuals in Australias history.
354 - Oct 2009 - Books: THE CASE FOR CHRISTIANITY: St Justin Martyr on Religious Liberty, Robert Haddad, Br Michael McMurray CCS
Robert Haddad is well credentialled to handle this subject with qualifications in law theology and religious education and is author of the Christ the Teacher and Lord of History series.
355 - Oct 2009 - Letters: Galileo debate, David Walker
But the findings of the papal commission which rehabilitates Galileo are not good history.
356 - Oct 2009 - Letters: Christian divisions, Jack Blair
As another lay Catholic Christian it seems to me counter- productive for Gary Crowthers (June AD2000) and so many others to constantly regurgitate the past in order to blame other Christians for tragedies in church history.
357 - Oct 2009 - Priesthood: Why the Catholic Church cannot ordain women, Kathleen Wood OAM
The Catholic Churchs position on ordaining women to the ministerial priesthood has always been clear throughout its long history even if many inside and outside the Church remain unconvinced.
358 - Oct 2009 - FOUNDATIONS OF FAITH: Cutting edge moral issues for the third millennium, Br Barry Coldrey
In contrast Catholicism teaches: A loving God has intervened in human history and given His guidance for living.
359 - Sep 2009 - Reflection: The centrality of the tabernacle, Bishop John M. D'Arcy
Pope John Paul II noted that a heightened sense of mystery and a deeply theological reverence have guided the Churchs Eucharistic devotion throughout her history: The designs of altars and tabernacles within church interiors were often not simply motivated by artistic inspiration but also by a clear understanding of the mystery.
360 - Sep 2009 - Books: JOHN GERARD: Autobiography of an Elizabethan, trans. By Philip Caraman SJ, Michael E. Daniel
Available from Freedom Publishing) Reviewed by Michael Daniel The standard account of the Tudor period of English history paints the English Reformation as a much needed and desired change to the religious landscape which was welcomed by the people with very little resistance during the golden age reign of Good Queen Bess aka Elizabeth I.
361 - Sep 2009 - Priesthood: Reflections of a newly ordained Sydney priest, Fr James Mccarthy
When I answered the call to enter into formation for the priesthood I was studying History and Politics at the University of Sydney.
362 - Sep 2009 - News: The Church Around the World
From knowledge enriched with the contribution of faith depends the capacity of a people to look to the future with hope overcoming the temptation of a purely materialist vision of life and of history.
363 - Aug 2009 - Books: This month's selection from AD Books
In The Carmelite Way Fr Welch outlines the spiritual wisdom and ways of the Carmelites drawing from the Orders 800-year history.
364 - Aug 2009 - Books: BECAUSE GOD IS REAL: Sixteen Questions, One Answer, by Peter Kreeft, Br Barry Coldrey
He targets students of Confirmation age - from adolescents to young adults - and poses a series of sceptical questions about God salvation history and Church teaching.
365 - Aug 2009 - Letters: Pope Pius XII vindicated, Tony Evans
The unfair charge made against Zolli that he was writing as a convert Catholic and therefore his defence of Pius was prejudiced cannot be levelled at Dalin who remains a practising Rabbi and Professor of Modern History at a university in Florida.
366 - Aug 2009 - God's Messengers: Angels: what Scripture and Tradition reveal, Susan McKinley
Scripture Looking through both the Old and New Testaments it is clear that angels have been part of Gods divine plan since creation and throughout all of history.
367 - Aug 2009 - Foundations of Faith: Sola Scriptura (Scripture Alone): a recipe for doctrinal chaos, Dr Frank Mobbs
In a previous series of articles I summarised the history and theology of six different Christian Churches.
368 - Jul 2009 - Reflection: The full meaning of love: Christ and St Peter in St John's Gospel, Andrew Kania
The Resurrection of Christ the most awesome event in history accompanies in the Gospel of St John the spiritual resurrection of St Peter (21:5-17 RSV).
369 - Jul 2009 - Books: Books available from AD Books and Freedom Publishing
Carm In The Carmelite Way Fr Welch outlines the spiritual wisdom and ways of the Carmelites drawing from the Orders 800-year history.
370 - Jul 2009 - Letters: Vatican II, Valentine Gallagher
The Protestant David Wells Associate Professor of Church History at the Trinity Evangelical School in Illinois also considers the official documents to be ambiguous.
371 - Jul 2009 - History: Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust: revisiting Jewish sources, Fr Michael Butler
The second book is History of the Jews in Italy by Cecil Roth probably the most distinguished Jewish historian of the 20th century and a professor at Oxford as well as editor of the seventeen volume Jewish Encyclopaedia and other works.
372 - Jul 2009 - Foundations of Faith: Galileo: heretic or hero? What are the facts?, Noel Roberts
He recently contributed a chapter to a history of Christianity.
373 - Jul 2009 - Ryan Commission: Irish report: child abuse in Church institutions, Br Barry Coldrey
In this Commission Report as in most of the other exposes of the industrial schools there is a pervasive tendency to read history backwards to forget that times have changed since the 1930s to the 1970s when these imposing schools were a prominent feature of the Irish social scene.
374 - Jul 2009 - New Evangelisation: Catholics Come Home: a fresh approach to re-evangelising, Bob Denahy
They tell how the Church contains sinners and saints and how it can trace its history back in an unbroken line to the first pope appointed by Jesus Christ Peter; that it has founded more hospitals schools and universities than any other institution on the planet; that under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit it compiled the Bible; that it has always promoted the sanctity of human life at all stages of development as well as the sanctity of life-long marriage; and that in a confused and hurting world its teachings are consistent true and strong.
375 - Jul 2009 - Life Marriage Family: The secular culture's flawed view of sexuality, Bernard Toutounji
We see the classical examples of this throughout history in slavery Nazism and abortion but each one of us must be alert for it in our own lives especially in regards to sexuality.
376 - Jul 2009 - St Marys Cathedral: Sydney ordinations and a new beginning for Australian Catholicism, Fr Gregory Jordan SJ
This very considerable number of young people thirst to know more and to do more: to know about the Church its history its teaching; they thirst for Christ Himself in a word for God.
377 - Jun 2009 - Reflection: Pentecost and the power of the Holy Spirit for today, Fr Dennis W Byrnes
If we reflect upon the history of the Church we see clearly the truth of this reflected in the case of the sacraments the hierarchy and the decrees of the Second Vatican Council.
378 - Jun 2009 - Books: ISLAND OF THE WORLD, by Michael O'Brien, Luke McCormack
True to history the home- grown communist resistance is engaged in a bloody overthrow with Allied backing and quickly becomes as trigger-happy as the World War II Axis occupation.
379 - Jun 2009 - Letters: Pontius Pilate, Grahame Fallon
Indeed as John Paul II affirmed in the first words of his first Encyclical Redemptor Hominis (The Redeemer of Man 1979) Jesus Christ is also the centre of the universe and of its history.
380 - Jun 2009 - Sharia Law: Lights dim for Christians in Pakistan, Babette Francis
Archbishop Williams has a history of ambiguous if not muddled pronouncements but one wonders what he knows of the implications of Sharia for women Christians Jews infidels and apostates who convert from Islam to another faith.
381 - Jun 2009 - FOUNDATIONS OF FAITH: The Last Things: death, judgment, Heaven, Purgatory, Hell, Br Barry Coldrey
He points out that on the back window of his second hand car there are two stickers: Make Poverty History and Save the Whale.
382 - Jun 2009 - News: The Church Around the World
He predicted As momentum continues to build we are now certain that the financial penalty resulting from the decision to honour the most pro-abortion president in our nations history will be enormous.
383 - Jun 2009 - Cardinal Pell's UK interview: Liturgy, Missal translation, World Youth Day, Luke Coppen
It has been described as the largest gathering in Australias history.
384 - May 2009 - Reflection: 'What is truth?' (John 18:38) - The tunnel vision of Pontius Pilate, Andrew Kania
From the Gospel accounts Pilate cements for himself a place in history for villainy for a man who kills in error is distinct from one who kills with the knowledge that what he does is wrong.
385 - May 2009 - Books: Hilaire Belloc and G.K. Chesterton, by Karl Schmude, Br Christian Moe
Similarly Chesterton perceived that we were entering a period of history when Western people would not only reject God but man; not only the supernatural but the natural (p.
386 - May 2009 - Letters: Fundamentals, J. Loring
Would that our bishops teachers and students were to value more and teach/learn the history of and reasons for traditional Catholic resolve including martyrdom so clearly demonstrated in the lives of such pre-eminent youth models for our times as St Agnes St Gemma Galgani and St Maria Goretti who taught two indispensable lessons: 1.
387 - May 2009 - Staying together: Stable families: the best defence against violence
Dr Tappers conclusion has been endorsed by history and by countless other studies of the effect of family breakdown over the last 50 years.
388 - May 2009 - Inter-faith dialogue: Jewish leader defends Pope over Bishop Williamson controversy, AD2000 Report
Anyone who understands and follows Vatican history knows that in the last three decades one of the moral and intellectual underpinnings of the papacy of Pope John Paul II was Cardinal Ratzinger.
389 - May 2009 - News: The Church Around the World
While claiming to separate politics from science he has in fact separated science from ethics and has brought the American government for the first time in history into supporting direct destruction of innocent human life.
390 - Apr 2009 - Reflection: The Resurrection: confirmed by faith and reason, Bishop Arthur J. Serratelli
Throughout the course of history religious leaders have met untimely deaths.
391 - Apr 2009 - Books: LIVING BIBLICALLY, by Archbishop Barry Hickey, Michael Gilchrist
After all Catholics have assumed however well meaning such figures may be and how correct their arguments for Christianity may seem that they also appear to lack a certain well sophistication or depth that the Church by contrast clearly possesses in institutions such as the papacy or in places embodying millennia of clearly Catholic history and identity such as Rome.
392 - Apr 2009 - Letters: Love and truth, Frank Mobbs
In two further articles I summarised the history distinctive theology and organisation of six Protestant groupings of Churches.
393 - Apr 2009 - Letters: Church unity, Alan Baron
There is much one can say about history - its like art one can view it in any way one chooses.
394 - Apr 2009 - Andrew Cichy: A bold project to reinvigorate Church music in Australia, Anthony Barich
His plan to reinvigorate the archdiocese - as his inspiration Fr Lynch did - involves lecturing in sacred music publishing scores articles and other guides providing resources for those who need them and continuing research into his personal areas of interest as well as aspects of liturgical music history including those affecting the Archdiocese of Perth and New Norcia.
395 - Apr 2009 - Foundations of Faith: The Mass and private devotions in Catholic life, Br Barry Coldrey
The relative disappearance of Mary from public view was some said consistent with the intentions of Vatican II which declined to issue a separate document on Our Lady and instead treated her role in salvation history in a Chapter on the Dogmatic Constitution of the Church (Lumen Gentium 1964).
396 - Apr 2009 - Benedict XVI addresses a Vatican conference on evolution and Christianity, Michael Gilchrist
In his 1988 publication A Brief History of Time Hawking discussed the possibility of a creator.
397 - Mar 2009 - Reflection: Benedict XVI: why kneeling is central to Christian worship, Benedict XVI
For example there is the touching story told by Eusebius in his history of the Church as a tradition going back to Hegesippus in the second century.
398 - Mar 2009 - Books: THE BIBLE AND THE QUR'AN, by Jacques Jomier OP, Tim Cannon
Here the author unpacks the familiar and paradoxical notion that while Islam recognises in some capacity the authenticity of the Old and New Testaments it rejects outright the conclusions drawn by both Jews and Christians from those texts and questions the fidelity with which these Scriptures have been transmitted through history.
399 - Mar 2009 - Foundations of Faith: Protestant Churches: origins and beliefs (2), Frank Mobbs
History shows Baptists to have been strongly hostile to the papacy.
400 - Feb 2009 - Reflection: Pope St Gregory the Great's advice to bishops and priests, Pope St Gregory the Great
Saint Gregory who reigned from 590 to 604 was the first pope to make clear to the world that he headed the entire Church and was the outstanding pontiff of the early medieval era indeed one of the great popes of history.
401 - Feb 2009 - Books: QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS: Pope Benedict XVI, Siobhan Reeves
He also touches on the Churchs unique spiritually fertile history and wonderfully condenses the fundamental values of the Ten Commandments reinterpreted in the life of Christ and in the light of the Church and her experiences.
402 - Feb 2009 - Letters: Inclusive language, Eamonn Keane
the dissolution of the historical Church whose existence across time is rooted in its liturgical history going back to Christ himself.
403 - Feb 2009 - Culture of death: US bishops confront Barack Obama's sweeping abortion agenda, Paul Kengor
This would not only be unprecedented in American history but light years away from Obamas claim that he respects those with different points of view in the pro-life camp.
404 - Feb 2009 - News: The Church Around the World
He continued: The very acts of Mohammed documented by history and which the Muslim faithful themselves do not deny testify to massacres and exterminations perpetrated by the prophet.
405 - Dec 2008 - Books: Books available now from AD2000 Books
90 Poems of Incarnation and History George Every George Every is one of Englands premier Catholic poets and scholars.
406 - Dec 2008 - Books: Down in Adoration Falling, by Gareth Grainger, Br Christian Moe, FSC
For anyone sympathetic to the history of Anglo-Catholicism - consider such converts as Gerard Manley Hopkins Ronald Knox Christopher Dawson and so many others of yesteryear - this book is a fascinating insight into how deeply members of that movement appreciate the treasures of Catholic tradition and devotion: treasures which we so-called cradle Catholics sometimes seem to take for granted.
407 - Dec 2008 - Letters: Evolution conference, Grahame Fallon
The whole history of the universe he said is that of its progressive information by Christ.
408 - Dec 2008 - 'Catholic literature': what does this mean?, David Birch
11) Pope John Paul II reiterated the position of the Second Vatican Council on a renewed relationship between the Church and culture with immediate implications for the world of art by referring to the Pastoral Constitution Gaudium et Spes which stressed the great importance of literature and the arts in human life stating that: They seek to probe the true nature of man his problems and experiences as he strives to know and perfect himself and the world to discover his place in history and the universe to portray his miseries and joys his needs and strengths with a view to a better future (Gaudium et Spes 62).
409 - Dec 2008 - FOUNDATIONS OF FAITH: Which Church did Jesus establish with his authority?, Frank Mobbs
Early in its history it was called the Catholic Ekklesia.
410 - Dec 2008 - The decline of British Catholicism: the future?, John Haldane
Jewish teachers have long distinguished between hope and optimism recognising that their own history gives limited scope for the latter but that their survival as people of God has rested on the former as a response to a divine promise first made to Abraham.
411 - Dec 2008 - News: The Church Around the World
But Sydney lecturer in Church history Fr Anthony Robbie said Fr Dressers claims defied all scriptural evidence.
412 - Nov 2008 - Books: A STORY AND PAINTINGS by Don Gallagher CFC, Michael Gilchrist
In addition his vivid memories of the Australian Catholic community its parishes schools and religious life from the 1920s onwards is a valuable slice of history which brings the past back to life.
413 - Nov 2008 - What happened then: what matters now - Swithun Wells, martyr of England, Rosemary Lucadou-Wells
and many more hundreds of pages of history must be turned to find some hints about the person Swithun Wells.
414 - Nov 2008 - Anima Women's Network: giving 'heart' to women of faith, Anna Krohn
Its conferences and educational programs (which are open to men) aim to deepen the knowledge love and involvement in the faith and to highlight as models the great and holy figures of the Churchs history and experience.
415 - Nov 2008 - News: The Church Around the World
He described this as the greatest mistake of my life Eacute; and the greatest mistake in our nations history.
416 - Oct 2008 - Eugenio Pacelli: The enduring legacy of Pope Pius XII: a 50th anniversary tribute, Fr John Walshe
He died hailed as a saintly and gifted Pope during one of the most trying times of world history and was called by his successor Pope John XXIII supreme doctor light of holy mother Church lover of the divine law.
417 - Oct 2008 - Foundations of Faith: Recent Marian apparitions and the life of the Church, Br Barry Coldrey
However throughout history countless miracles and private revelations have illustrated that God is active assisting people to accept his revelation in Jesus Christ his witness and his teaching.
418 - Oct 2008 - In the Public Square: US presidential campaign: Catholic bishops speak out on the evil of abortion, Archbishop Charles Chaput and Bishop James Conley
Regrettably knowledge of Catholic history and teaching does not seem to be one of them.
419 - Oct 2008 - News: The Church Around the World
Chinese officials - particularly in the Hebei diocese where the underground Catholic Church is strong - have a history of arresting Christian leaders just before and after major public events such as Communist Party Congresses.
420 - Sep 2008 - Books: Saving Those Damned Catholics, by Judie Brown, Catherine Sheehan
Judie Browns book is most timely at this point of the Catholic Churchs history and essential reading for all committed Catholics concerned about the future of their Church.
421 - Sep 2008 - Poetry: The Sermon at Templestowe, Bruce Dawe
- guilty as tax-gatherers weve heard and the rest (as the saying goes) is history.
422 - Sep 2008 - Vatican: Restoration work completed near tomb of St Peter
After the presentation of this restoration Cardinal Comastri referred to the importance of the Vatican necropolis: We must make everyone understand that the basilica was not built here because of a whim but because it has a history underneath that has been preserved protected with extreme scruple and it is the history of the Apostle Peter.
423 - Sep 2008 - Liturgy: No smoke without fire: Benedict XVI and true liturgical reform, David Birch
The rest as they say is history.
424 - Sep 2008 - News: The Church Around the World
You read about me in history books but now I am dedicated to spreading the truth about preserving the dignity of all human life from natural conception to natural death.
425 - Sep 2008 - Editorial: World Youth Day 2008: the challenge ahead, Michael Gilchrist
Indeed it was the biggest religious event in Australias history in terms of numbers involved the range of nationalities and presence of the reigning Pontiff.
426 - Aug 2008 - Books: Books available from AD2000 Books
95 Ratzingers Faith Tracey Rowland Dr Tracey Rowland provides a concise illuminating overview of the theology of Benedict XVI one of the most intellectual popes in history.
427 - Aug 2008 - Books: MYSTERY OF CREATION by Paul Haffner, Michael Daniel
These beliefs about creation are for Haffner not merely curios in the history of religious thought since one of his interests in this book is the interplay between science and theology.
428 - Aug 2008 - DVD Review: APOCALYPSE? NO! Why global warming is not a crisis, by Christopher Monckton, Peter Finlayson
Either they have occurred routinely throughout history or can be explained by natural phenomena.
429 - Aug 2008 - Foundations of Faith: How much history do the Scriptures contain?, Frank Mobbs
An account of what happened is history so people commonly ask: does the Bible provide reliable history?
430 - Jul 2008 - Books: Books available from AD2000 Books
00 Ratzingers Faith Tracey Rowland Dr Tracey Rowland provides a concise illuminating overview of the theology of Benedict XVI one of the most intellectual popes in history.
431 - Jul 2008 - Books: TURMOIL AND TRUTH, by Philip Trower, Tim Cannon
Available from Freedom Publishing) Turmoil and Truth British journalist Philip Trowers insightful history of the roots of the modern crisis in the Catholic Church is by turns consoling enlightening and inspiring the perfect antidote to the anxiety confusion and contradiction which have typified Catholic life following the Second Vatican Council.
432 - Jul 2008 - Letters: Climate concerns, Dr Brian E. Lloyd
Marginal uncertainties do not negate what we know: that global warming is at a rate unprecedented in human history primarily the result of increasing emission of greenhouse gasses from human activities.
433 - Jul 2008 - Religious faith and the power of music and song, Andrw Kania
And history - both sacred and secular - is replete with examples of the power of music and song.
434 - Jul 2008 - FOUNDATIONS OF FAITH: Jesus: how do we know he was God?, Br Barry Coldrey CFC
At the centre of salvation history is the person of Jesus of Nazareth the eternal Son of God who became truly and completely human in the womb of Mary while remaining truly and completely divine.
435 - Jul 2008 - News: The Church Around the World
Bishop Morgan enjoys a place in Australian history not only because of his longevity but also because of his long service as chaplain to the Australian Army and later as Military Vicar of Australia.
436 - Jul 2008 - Editorial: Significance of World Youth Day 2008, Michael Gilchrist
There is no doubt the upcoming World Youth Day in Sydney from 15-20 July will go down in Church history as one of a handful of religious events in Australia of international significance.
437 - Jun 2008 - Letters: FEMINISM V. MANKIND: Selected Essays, Catherine Sheehan
Feminism Vs Mankind provides a good summary of the history and evolution of feminism and also of the many logical and ethical flaws and contradictions it contains.
438 - Jun 2008 - Books: RATZINGER'S FAITH: The Theology of Pope Benedict XVI, by Tracey Rowland, Michael E. Daniel
Indeed he goes as far as to argue that history is a struggle between love and the inability to love and that refusal to accept the gift of Christianity has tragic consequences for the prospects of love (p.
439 - Jun 2008 - Letters: Infallible?, Frank Mobbs
History is unkind to the ordinary universal Magisterium.
440 - Jun 2008 - Letters: Climate change, J. Holder
7 degrees C one of the largest temperature movements in recorded history.
441 - Jun 2008 - Climate Debate: Man-made climate change is a reality, Dr Alex Gardner
The Christian Churches have a long history of seeking justice and I hope they will contribute actively to defining the solutions to climate change.
442 - Jun 2008 - FOUNDATIONS OF FAITH: Reasons for believing in God, Frank Mobbs
Evidence I do not think history is a science.
443 - Jun 2008 - Human Rights: China: Olympic rings - or shackles?, Babette Francis
Cardinal Shan who is suffering from lung cancer but devotes his time to giving talks to a wide range of groups including university students doctors prisoners and non-Christian religious groups was in Rome in March to attend a meeting of the Popes Commission for the Church in China expressed optimism about the future of the Church in the mainland because we are in the hands of God and from history we know that no dictatorial regime will last forever.
444 - May 2008 - Books: THE REALM: An Unfashionable Essay on Converting England, Aidan Nichols OP, Tim Cannon
Nevertheless this book seems to be aimed at an audience more familiar with the ecclesial history of England than an average Australian Catholic might be.
445 - May 2008 - Letters: Cosmic Liturgy, Grahame Fallon
52) the Roman or Western creed was more concerned with the history of salvation than with Christology as such: The East on the other hand has always sought to see the Christian faith in a cosmic and metaphysical perspective.
446 - May 2008 - Youth: Eucharistic devotions: revival in Melbourne, Br Barry Coldrey
Scripture In fact intense active Eucharistic devotion has a very long history.
447 - May 2008 - FOUNDATIONS OF FAITH: What are the basics of Catholic belief and practice?, Lucy Tucker
The essential Catholic apologetic also insists on the connection between Jesus Lordship and history.
448 - May 2008 - Green sisters: New-look US religious: Al Gore's latest 'eco-justice' disciples, AD2000 REPORT
That something eventually led to a major commitment by the college to advance sustainability said Mercyhurst history professor Chris Magoc who has worked closely with Sister Maura as a member of the colleges Green Team which has convinced administration to purchase at least 10 percent of its total energy from wind sources secured funding to install solar panels and hosts an annual Earth Day event now named in honour of Sister Maura.
449 - Apr 2008 - Books: Books available from AD2000 Books
Groeschel CFR Fr Groeschels anthology of profound prayers drawn from all of Christian history aims to bring us closer to Jesus Christ.
450 - Apr 2008 - Progress report: AD2000's worldwide outreach via the Internet, Francis Young
Santamaria founded AD2000 in 1988 as a monthly journal of religious opinion he set a target of finding 5000 Australian subscribers in its first year and questioned whether history would judge the whole enterprise of launching a new religious journal when others were failing as an act of folly or of faith.
451 - Apr 2008 - Christ's commandment: Church's 'primary task' is evangelisation: Benedict XVI, Michael Gilchrist
The growth of the Church in history which results from missionary activity is at the service of the presence of God through his Kingdom: one cannot in fact detach the Kingdom from the Church.
452 - Mar 2008 - Books: JOURNEY OF A FAITH COMMUNITY, compiled by Tom Johnstone, James E. Scarlett
Available through Central Catholic Bookshop Melbourne (03) 9638-0844) Twenty-five years of parish life is perhaps a brief span to cover in a full-blown history rather than a commemorative booklet but careful preservation of documents and memories have enabled Tom Johnstone to detail at close quarters the journey of Catholics in Mount Eliza Victoria during that time.
453 - Mar 2008 - Books: SEARCHING FOR AND MAINTAINING PEACE, by Father Jacques Philippe, Tim Cannon
Certainly by global standards and especially by the standards of history we are far richer in a material sense than ever before.
454 - Mar 2008 - Letters: Abortion laws, Robert Prinzen-Wood
History has shown this is not the case.
455 - Mar 2008 - La Sapienza: Benedict XVI: the papacy and the university, Pope Benedict XVI
Secondly there are the social sciences and the humanities in which man has tried to understand himself by looking at his own history and uncovering his own nature.
456 - Mar 2008 - Tribute: B.A. Santamaria: ten years on, Cardinal George Pell
A host of others came also to fill the large cathedral; the Prime Minister John Howard many politicians from both sides some of his old foes but predominantly those who belonged to that broad natural law Judaeo-Christian tradition which for most of our history has provided the cement the social cohesion which brought out the best in Australian society.
457 - Feb 2008 - Reflection: Devotion to Our Lady: eclipse and revival, Br Barry Coldrey
The relative disappearance of Mary from public view was some said consistent with the intentions of Vatican IIacirc; which declined to issue a separate document on Our Lady and instead treated her role in Salvation History in a chapter on the Dogmatic Constitution on the Church (Lumen Gentium 1964) Yet the Council said nothing to encourage the eclipse of veneration to Our Lady which occurred in its name.
458 - Feb 2008 - Books: A YEARBOOK OF SEASONS AND CELEBRATIONS, by Joanna Bogle, Eric Hester
The book is not antiquarian (though it contains much living history) and contains for example plenty of recipes which are I am informed on the best of authority that of my wife accurate easy to follow and producing of delicious food.
459 - Feb 2008 - Books: NO PLACE FOR GOD: The Denial of the Transcendent in Modern Church Architecture, Tony Evans
The result has been the rise of the ugliest and emptiest church buildings in history.
460 - Feb 2008 - What the social reign of Christ means today, Bishop Peter Elliott
Some critics on the one hand and some imprudent partisans of Christs social reign on the other were equally ill-informed in matters of history.
461 - Feb 2008 - Spe salvi: Benedict's second encyclical calls for a rediscovery of hope in Christ, Michael Gilchrist
Following the French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution Karl Marx took up the rallying call and applied his incisive language and intellect to the task of launching this major new and as he thought definitive step in history towards salvation.
462 - Dec 2007 - Books: Books available from AD Books
Hammond Dr Hammond has brought together essays by significant scholars in Franciscan theology history and hagiography which together serve as a helpful beginners guide to the relevant medieval texts.
463 - Dec 2007 - Books: THE CATHOLIC PRIESTHOOD AND WOMEN by Sara Butler MSBT, Paul Woodbury
There seems to be a suggestion that Jesus having died is gone from history while only The Christ an impersonal (and multi-personal) figure remains with some doubt as to whether Jesus and the risen Christ are the same person.
464 - Dec 2007 - Books: JESUS, THE APOSTLES AND THE EARLY CHURCH by Pope Benedict XVI, Tim Cannon
Early Church It is a message which reaches beyond mere history.
465 - Dec 2007 - Letters: True Church, Peter D. Howard
Fr John Hardon SJ described this teaching as unequivocal ( clearly defined) for the first time in conciliar history .
466 - Dec 2007 - Letters: Response, Don Gaffney
In 70 plus years of reasonably close acquaintance with Church history Ive never heard any authority make any claim remotely resembling that amusing furphy.
467 - Dec 2007 - Britain: British Catholicism: the salt has lost its flavour, John Haldane
Of course the history of Catholic entry into higher education and into middle class society is more complex bringing benefits and gains as well as losses.
468 - Dec 2007 - Church History: Interesting aspects of ecumenical councils, Frank Mobbs
In an article in the April AD2000 I wrote Study of the history of ecumenical councils is fascinating and important.
469 - Nov 2007 - Music: Cherished Hymns of the Forefathers - 2DVD and CD set, Peter Donald
Cherished Hymns of the Forefathers will be enjoyed by those with an interest in fine classical music and church history and architecture with the added attraction of superb British country scenery.
470 - Nov 2007 - Books: Catholicism and Fundamentalism by Karl Keating: essential reading in apologetics, Valerie Renkema
Available from Freedom Publishing) Karl Keating is the director of Catholic Answers in the US a lay organisation which explains and defends the beliefs history and practices of the Catholic Church.
471 - Nov 2007 - Liturgical Abuse: Trinitarian language lost in Brisbane Scriptures, Michael Apthorp
So much for 3000 years of religious history and tradition!
472 - Nov 2007 - News: The Church Around The World
is to determine whether the right to same- sex marriage is so deeply embedded in the history tradition and culture of this state and nation that it should be deemed fundamental the court wrote in a 244-page opinion.
473 - Oct 2007 - Books: SPANISH ROOTS OF AMERICA, Tim Cannon
The final two chapters of Part One trace the dynamic presence of the Hispanic people and their culture in North America in the 19th and 20th centuries as well as identifying some of the more influential Spanish and Hispanic figures in North American history.
474 - Oct 2007 - Books: JOHN HENRY NEWMAN: In His Time, Tim Cannon
After giving a brief overview of the history of the role of Doctors of the Church the author examines the degree to which Newman fulfilled the six procedural norms and doctrinal criteria for the judgment concerning the eminence of Doctrine of Saints proposed as Doctors of the Church as set out by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
475 - Oct 2007 - Letters: Catholic education, June See
Congratulations to Eamonn Keane for his excellent article Rediscovering the real history of Australian Catholic education (September AD2000).
476 - Oct 2007 - Letters: Moral standards, Don Gaffney
History abounds with examples of civilisations which either succumbed to despotism or rotted away and disappeared.
477 - Oct 2007 - Truth: And the Light shines in the darkness: the meaning of true ecumenism, Andrew Kania
Those people who walk in the way of salvation through an encounter with God of which the Catholic Church was not corporeally the minister those who are at any rate related to the mystical Body such are not strangers to her Eacute; The Spirit of grace and salvation is not confined within one religious history nor is it a sullen recluse in periods of time before or after Bethlehem.
478 - Oct 2007 - Sacred language: New US liturgy head endorses revised Missal translation
Writing in his diocesan newspaper on the revisions to the English translation of the Missal Bishop Serratelli points out that the words of the liturgy are not expressions of one individual in one particular place at one time in history since these words also pass on the faith of the Church from one generation to the next.
479 - Oct 2007 - Queensland: Liturgy in Brisbane and the rights of the laity, Michael Apthorp
Dr Michael Apthorp is an Honorary Research Adviser in the School of History Philosophy Religion and Classics at the University of Queensland.
480 - Oct 2007 - More of the same: Retired Sydney bishop calls for a radical overhaul of the Catholic faith, Michael Gilchrist
Original Sin At the heart of the Christian story is mans fall at the beginning of human history and the consequent need for Christs redemptive sacrifice - hence the doctrine of Original Sin.
481 - Oct 2007 - News: The Church Around the World
Benedict XVI demolishes the many widespread myths and misconceptions about the early Christians and enables contemporary readers to discover the accurate history of Jesus and His early followers.
482 - Sep 2007 - Books: THE BEAUTY OF THY HOUSE, by Mark Alessio, Tim Cannon
Church teaching regarding her pivotal role in salvation history her Immaculate Conception and her relationship to the Church and its members is complex and challenging but the Church has long taught that drawing nearer to Our Blessed Mother is a sure way to draw nearer to her Son.
483 - Sep 2007 - Letters: Vatican II, Peter D. Howard
This Council for the first time in conciliar history defined unequivocally that the sole Church of Christ subsists in the one holy catholic and apostolic Church and that Christs Church is not an end yet to be achieved by all churches and ecclesial communities (LG 8).
484 - Sep 2007 - Rediscovering the real history of Australian Catholic education, Eamonn Keane
The assertion that Irish Catholics who came to Australia in the 19th and 20th centuries - as well as the religious brothers and sisters who served them - were a servile mob motivated largely by cultural insecurity suggests a certain ignorance of the place of Catholic faith in the history of Ireland and of its influence on the Irish diaspora.
485 - Sep 2007 - 'Thought that has been thought out', John Haldane
Time was when those interested in justice debated the claims of egalitarian socialism and liberal capitalism and those concerned with history discussed whether it was inevitable rationally intelligible or merely one thing after another.
486 - Aug 2007 - Catholic students' joyful encounter with the Church's sacred music treasury, Gabrielle Walsh
The enthusiasm of those who presented some of historys greatest musical masterpieces was there for all to see.
487 - Aug 2007 - Lex orandi: Benedict XVI's liturgical armistice: 'Summorum Pontificum', Fr Glen Tattersall
In the history of the liturgy there is growth and progress but no rupture.
488 - Jul 2007 - Books: The Seven Capital Sins, by Fulton J. Sheen, Tim Cannon
Of all the moments in the history of creation Sheen suggests this moment most warranted the wrath of God and yet Christ the innocent victim knowing the imperfect hearts and minds of his assailants more perfectly than they knew even their own hearts and minds provides a perfect example of forgiveness.
489 - Jul 2007 - Books: ILLUSTRISSIMI: Letters of Pope John Paul I, by Albino Luciani, Tim Cannon
It is unlikely that any reader will be familiar with all of Lucianis subjects but this is inconsequential; a small blurb recounting the subjects particular history immediately precedes each letter.
490 - Jul 2007 - Poetry: A legacy of virtue: the remarkable Craig sisters, Fr John Lea McDaniels FSSP
Again their knowledge of history and literature was a deep well they shared with each other and drew upon in the most delightful way to entertain their visitors.
491 - Jul 2007 - Interview: He could no longer explain why he wasn't Catholic, Tim Drake and Francis Beckwith
Some of the hostility was not surprising for some of it came from well-meaning Protestants who simply do not have a good grounding in Christian history or the Catholic Catechism.
492 - Jul 2007 - Pastoral Plan: Cardinal Pell's blueprint for the future in the Sydney Archdiocese, Michael Gilchrist
It is the most ambitious project of its kind in the history of the Church in Australia and one which will be watched closely by Catholics and their leaders around the country.
493 - Jun 2007 - The Caroline Chisholm Library: Melbourne's hidden treasure, John Young
There are sections on philosophy religion social science language studies mathematics and natural science the arts literature geography and history.
494 - Jun 2007 - Sigrid Undset: Revived interest in a remarkable Norwegian Catholic novelist, Michael Daniel
Suggest further that you have a great admiration for that period of history and many might think you are overdue for a psychiatric assessment.
495 - Jun 2007 - New Zealand Catholic college's intellectually challenging RE program, Bernard Moran
Curriculum The full curriculum covers Years 7 to 13 and includes an Introduction to Catholic Christianity Study of Scripture History of Christianity Introduction to Philosophy and Theology Ethics Spirituality and World Religions Philosophy and Theology.
496 - Jun 2007 - Obituary: A tribute to natural family planning pioneer, Dr John Billings, RIP, Msgr Peter J. Elliott
Yet there are certain people in history who respond to the vocation of Baptism in a way that is distinctive rare in its virtuous quality and fruitfulness.
497 - Jun 2007 - Editorial: Sacred music: an integral part of worship, Michael Gilchrist
In the course of her two- thousand year history he said the Church has created and still creates music and songs which represent a rich patrimony of faith and love.
498 - May 2007 - Books: AD2000 Books
95 Christian Spirituality in the Catholic Tradition Jordan Aumann Father Aumann provides a comprehensive history of the origins and development of Christian spirituality and the lives and teachings of those who have reached a high degree of sanctity.
499 - May 2007 - Documents: Benedict XVI's new document on the Eucharist - Sacramentum Caritatis, Michael Gilchrist
In this regard the calibre of sacred music is a major factor: In the course of her two-thousand-year history the Church has created and still creates music and songs which represent a rich patrimony of faith and love.
500 - Apr 2007 - Reflection: Benedict XVI on the transforming power of the Resurrection, Pope Benedict XVI
What does it mean for us for the whole world and the whole of history?
501 - Apr 2007 - Letters: Saints needed, Arthur N. Ballingall
However for most of the apostolic era of the Churchs history the reverse was the general rule.
502 - Apr 2007 - History: How much do Catholics know about ecumenical councils?, Frank Mobbs
While a pope can teach infallibly over the Churchs two millennia history councils in practice have defined the overwhelming majority of dogmas.
503 - Apr 2007 - News: The Church Around the World
The cardinal pointed out that enormous climate changes have occurred in the past with long and terrible droughts not infrequent in Australias history.
504 - Mar 2007 - Books: Order Books from freedompublishing.com.au
95 William Bernard Ullathorne Judith Champ This is the definitive biography of a key figure in Australian Catholic history.
505 - Mar 2007 - Letters: Presumption, John H. Cooney
While humanity is on the edge of a new era tasks of immense gravity and amplitude await the Church as in the most tragic periods of its history (W.
506 - Mar 2007 - Letters: Reform needed, T. Kalotas
It should be centred on the Catechism of the Catholic Church supplemented with Church history and appropriate apologetics to show that despite some peoples perception Catholicism is not based on irrationality.
507 - Mar 2007 - Catholic religion courses and the challenge of relativism, Audrey English
Similarly in history topics are discussed and students are invited to analyse the way a particular topic e.
508 - Mar 2007 - 'Professional', a lá carte Catholicism and its papier màché schools, Andrew T. Kania
It has often been said that Australias Catholics are living in a time of greater material affluence and of better Church infrastructure than at any other time in our nations history.
509 - Mar 2007 - Formation: Continuing growth of Sydney's Catholic Adult Education Centre, AD2000 Report
The programs cover such areas as Church doctrine given largely by Fr Flader Sacred Scripture given by Peter Holmes Church history given by Fr Anthony Robbie and a wide variety of others.
510 - Feb 2007 - Books: New Titles from AD Books
95 William Bernard Ullathorne Judith Champ This is the definitive biography of a key figure in Australian Catholic history.
511 - Feb 2007 - Books: B.A. Santamaria's correspondence published by MUP
All people with an interest in the history of the Movement Labor history and the role of the Catholic church in public life will find this book a fascinating insight into the mind of one of the most original thinkers Australia has produced and one of the most important figures in 20th century Australia.
512 - Feb 2007 - Books: SPIRITUAL DIRECTION: Who Is It For and What Are Its Benefits?, Michael Gilchrist
The biblical and ecclesial foundations History of spiritual direction What can I expect a spiritual director to do?
513 - Feb 2007 - Books: BEGINNING AT JERUSALEM: Five Reflections on the History of the Church, Sr Mariana Handley
BEGINNING AT JERUSALEM: Five Reflections on the History of the Church by Glenn W.
514 - Feb 2007 - Books: TREASURE IN CLAY: The Autobiography of Fulton J. Sheen, Michael Gilchrist
While Sheen has much to say that is positive about his experiences at the Council as well as its later fruits he acknowledges the problems the Church would encounter after Vatican II: The tensions which developed after the Council are not surprising to those who know the whole history of the Church.
515 - Feb 2007 - Poetry: Gender-Bender Autos, Bruce Dawe
History said Henry Ford is bunk (He knew the game); One look around our showrooms And youll be glad you came!
516 - Feb 2007 - Music: Johann Sebastian Bach and the heavenly choir, Fr Finbarr Flanagan
Schweitzer believed that Bachs real religion was mysticism and in his innermost essence he belongs to the history of German mysticism.
517 - Feb 2007 - Why we need holy days of obligation, Joanna Bogle
Attending Mass on a Holy Day unites us with other Catholics around the world - it gives us a brief vision of a Church that is global and stretches down through history.
518 - Dec 2006 - Reflection: Jesus' law of love and the Ten Commandments, Fr Dennis Byrnes
The giving of the Ten Commandments was the high point of Israels history.
519 - Dec 2006 - Books: New Titles from AD Books
95 William Bernard Ullathorne Judith Champ This is the definitive biography of a key figure in Australian Catholic history.
520 - Dec 2006 - Books: SACRED PLACES, PILGRIM WAYS: Catholic Pilgrimages in France and Belgium, Michael Gilchrist
The author provides a broad overview of Church history along with a presentation in laymans language of the theology and status of Christian pilgrimages over two millennia.
521 - Nov 2006 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
9 William Bernard Ullathorne Judith Champ This is the definitive biography of a key figure in Australian Catholic history.
522 - Nov 2006 - Letters: Conversion by violence, Gregory F.J. O'Regan
Imams muftis and preachers of Islam feel exposed by the Popes reference to its history of conversion by violence which the Pope illustrates is not in accordance with reason and is contrary to Gods nature.
523 - Nov 2006 - Liturgy: US bishop sets out clear guidelines on celebrations of the Mass, AD2000 REPORT
It is that perfect sacrifice from which the Church derives her life; thus the liturgy must never be used as an opportunity to teach as the context for a history or an art lesson as the background for a concert of sacred music neither to build community nor to foster parish identityrsquo;.
524 - Nov 2006 - Brisbane Archdiocese: inclusive language in the liturgy continues, Michael Apthorp
Dr Michael Apthorp is an Honorary Research Adviser in the School of History Philosophy Religion and Classics at the University of Queensland.
525 - Nov 2006 - Books: Is the Catholic Church in Australia 'lost'?, Michael Gilchrist
The Catholic Church is not in such bad shape as the historical mainline Protestant Churches but it also faces the problems of this moment in historyrsquo;.
526 - Nov 2006 - Living the Faith: What distinguishes a practising Catholic?, Bishop Luc Matthys
Over the centuries God further revealed Himself in their history through prophets and kings and other sages.
527 - Nov 2006 - Education: The Spirit of Generation Y: the challenge for Catholic schools, Cardinal George Pell
Catholics have always been the most significant and interesting minority in Australian history.
528 - Oct 2006 - Books: Order AD2000 books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
95 William Bernard Ullathorne Judith Champ This is the definitive biography of a key figure in Australian Catholic history.
529 - Oct 2006 - Letters: Abortion and health insurance discounts, Robert Bom
For these companies to get involved they needed to accept worldwide research that women who want to have abortions or with a history of them need to be placed in a higher risk classification.
530 - Oct 2006 - Letters: Counter Reformation, Alan Barron
That is to say He is not interested primarily in Catholics or Protestants justifying their interpretation of history or their understanding of various doctrines.
531 - Oct 2006 - Modernism's 'second wave' continues to impact on the Church, Fr Martin Durham
In the light of history as outlined above it is the modernists and their trendy fellow-travellers who are truly pre-Vatican II.
532 - Oct 2006 - University: Campion College: a pioneer in Australian higher education, Stephen McInerny
In providing a three year program in the liberal arts which includes core units in history literature philosophy and theology the Colleges curriculum draws on the great tradition of the liberal arts as handed down from antiquity and perfected in the Middle Ages and Renaissance.
533 - Oct 2006 - Benedict XVI interviewed by German journalists
Today other continents and other cultures play with equal importance in the concert of world history.
534 - Oct 2006 - Spanish bishops attack false theologies, AD2000 Report
Instead of integrating the contributions of history philology and other scholarly disciplines with the faith and the Churchs tradition frequently the ecclesial interpretation itself is presented as the problem and considered as extraneous if not opposed to scientific exegesis.
535 - Sep 2006 - Books: Stimulating reading from Freedom Publishing
00 The Incredible Da Vinci Code Frank Mobbs Clear concise and penetrating this is an ideal gift for friends or relations who believe The Da Vinci Code contains accurate history.
536 - Sep 2006 - Books: William Bernard Ullathorne: A Different Kind of Monk, by Judith Champ, Michael Gilchrist
Available from AD Books) Few Australian Catholics will have heard of the Yorkshire-born William Bernard Ullathorne who was a pivotal figure in the history of the Church in this country and one deserving to be listed alongside such giants as Archbishop Mannix and Cardinal Moran.
537 - Sep 2006 - Family in Society: Asian and Australian families face similar challenges, Leslie Sammut
He began his address with a description of the long history of Asias civilised social living noting that most Asians still live and practise their old distinctive traditions and cultures as Asians different from Americans Europeans and Africans.
538 - Sep 2006 - History: The Counter Reformation and the Jesuits, John Morrissey
John Morrissey who has taught history English and religious education at Melbourne Catholic Independent and State secondary schools provides an outline of the volatile post-Reformation period in Europe and the important role played by the newly formed Jesuit order.
539 - Sep 2006 - Chavagnes: Catholic education in a secular culture, Alexander Morrison
I did not have anything in particular to complain about and yet in choosing to finish my secondary education at Chavagnes I recognised that I was embarking on a whole new adventure into culture history and the faith one that I needed more than I knew.
540 - Sep 2006 - Conscience: AD2000 interviews Cardinal Pell, Cardinal George Pell
But as a bishop for nearly 20 years I suspect that history will judge us the Australian Bishops of the last 40 years as being more guilty of a reluctance to grasp nettles and exercise authority rather than any regular authoritarianism.
541 - Aug 2006 - Books: Stimulating reading from Freedom Publishing
00 The Incredible Da Vinci Code Frank Mobbs Clear concise and penetrating this is an ideal gift for friends or relations who believe The Da Vinci Code contains accurate history.
542 - Aug 2006 - Books: SEEDS OF LIFE: Early Christian Martyrs, Julia Bakowski
Early Christian Martyrs is not only a brief history of the early Church heroes and heroines but is ideal as an introduction to the Churchs myriad of rituals and treasury of writings which even after almost two millennia have not lost their relevance.
543 - Aug 2006 - Books: Land of Carmel, by Elizabeth Ruth Obbard, Jacinta Cummins
00 Available from Freedom Publishing) The author of Land of Carmel writes: The history of the Carmelite Order has not been without its share of infidelity of obscurity of times when sacrifice rather than mercy prevailed.
544 - Aug 2006 - Does Wollongong's Catholic Education Office endorse dissent?, AD2000 Report
His broad knowledge of theology scripture history and anthropology were said to equip him for this task.
545 - Jul 2006 - Reflection: US bishop: making saints should be the goal of Catholic schools, Bishop Robert Finn
Like science or history or mathematics well taught they first need to know all the basics through and through forward and backward.
546 - Jul 2006 - Books: Stimulating reading from Freedom Publishing
00 The Incredible Da Vinci Code Frank Mobbs Clear concise and penetrating this is an ideal gift for friends or relations who believe The Da Vinci Code contains accurate history.
547 - Jul 2006 - Books: Hell and Other Destinations, by Piers Paul Read, Francis Phillips
There are two stimulating essays on Islam a religion of force with a long history of conquest and the Crusades: a response to this force on the part of Western Christians.
548 - Jul 2006 - Letters: Anti-Catholicism, Paula Gartland
As Kevin Donnelly points out (June AD2000) in his article on textbooks and anti-Catholicism the blatant anti-Catholicism shown by the intelligensia (and apparatchiki) of our nation is disturbing but I feel Donnelly goes too far in his criticism of black armband history.
549 - Jul 2006 - Letters: The Da Vinci Code, Denis Dominguez
Did Dan Brown pull off the biggest confidence trick in literary history upstaging Hans Christian Andersens The Emperors New Clothes?
550 - Jul 2006 - Evangelisation: Strong leadership: US bishop Robert Finn shows how, AD2000 Report
Apologetics he continued properly understood as the practice of elucidating the articles of faith and explaining their authentic history and profound meaning must find its rightful place again in Catholic education and formation.
551 - Jun 2006 - Books: Stimulating reading from AD Books
95 The Incredible Da Vinci Code Frank Mobbs Clear concise and penetrating this is an ideal gift for friends or relations who believe The Da Vinci Code contains accurate history.
552 - Jun 2006 - Books: Letters to a Young Catholic, by George Weigel, Michael Daniel
Each essay commences with a description of a place in Catholic/ Christian history that is of significance for the author.
553 - Jun 2006 - Letters: The new barbarism, Fr. B. McGrath
In varying degrees history has told us as much.
554 - Jun 2006 - Liturgy: Catholics at prayer: why we stand and kneel, Fr Sebastian Camilleri OFM
As we enter the third millenium it is good to be mindful of the liturgical treasures accumulated during the past two thousand years of our Christian history.
555 - Jun 2006 - The John Paul II Institute after five years, AD2000 Report
She is one of 25 scholars from around the world invited to take part in an international colloquium on the philosophy of history and the thought of Benedict XVI at the Institut Catholique de Paris in June 2006.
556 - Jun 2006 - Respect: New text book series vilifies the Catholic Church, Kevin Donnelly
Since the release of the Keating Governments national curriculum during the early 90s history has been transformed into studies of society and the environment with a politically correct stance on multiculturalism feminism and environmentalism.
557 - Jun 2006 - Is dialogue possible between Christians and Muslims?, Cardinal George Pell
The history of relations between Muslims on the one hand and Christians and Jews on the other does not always offer reasons for optimism in the way that some people easily assume.
558 - Jun 2006 - Education: Why do CEOs use Groome's RE method?, AD2000 Report
Gods revelation occurred in the past and continues throughout history in world events in the lives of human beings in the life of the Church community etc.
559 - Jun 2006 - The Da Vinci Code: did the Church vilify Mary Magdalene?, Frank Mobbs
Paul Sheehan (Sydney Morning Herald Much more than whore wife virgin 17 April 2006) manages to rival Dan Brown in that he writes fiction as if it were history.
560 - May 2006 - Reflection: Oneness in Christ: the heart of the priesthood, Fr John W. O'Neill PP
If this oneness in Christ is not seen as the heart of the priesthood then the seminarians philosophy and theology all his study of Sacred Scripture Liturgy Canon Law languages history all will be a waste of time like following old tracks that disappear into drought-stricken country leading at best only to dry old ruins the worn out faded attempts of human learning to fulfil itself without the life-giving presence of God as teacher and goal.
561 - May 2006 - Books: Stimulating reading from AD Books
00 The Incredible Da Vinci Code Frank Mobbs Clear concise and penetrating this is an ideal gift for friends or relations who believe The Da Vinci Code contains accurate history.
562 - May 2006 - Letters: Warning!
They go under the name of The Knights of St Michael the Archangel and are believed to have the support of the toughest bouncer in history.
563 - May 2006 - Letters: Religious dissent, Kevin McManus
While a few famous names have to be mentioned because Church history is complex many more must be ignored here although they too greatly influenced the reform eras and periods between.
564 - May 2006 - Vocations: Can religious life be rebuilt in Australia?, Sr Mary Augustine OP
It means a life of monastic-type observance - following the customs that have come down to us through the Orders long history.
565 - May 2006 - Catholicism-lite's Church of convenience, Paul A. Wagner
These clerics of the Church of Catholic Convenience made their understanding of New Testament history patently clear on American television when for example following Pope John Paul IIs approval of Mel Gibsons traditional Catholic movie The Passion of the Christ they apologised for the Pope and condemned the movie.
566 - May 2006 - News: The Church Around the World
He was backed by Jonathan Riley-Smith of Cambridge University who said that those who sought forgiveness for the Crusades do not know their history.
567 - May 2006 - Papacy: Benedict completes his first twelve months as Pope, Fr Ephraem Chifley
The pontificate of Pope John Paul II spanned an extraordinary time in the religious history of Western Civilisation.
568 - Apr 2006 - Reflection: The redeeming Cross: at the centre of Christian faith, Cardinal George Pell
In some ways we have moved even beyond Richard Niebuhrs verdict on The Kingdom of God in America - We want a God without wrath/who took a man without sin/into a kingdom without justice/through the ministrations of a Christ without a cross - because the United States still remains one of the most religious societies in history; far more religious than Australia and most of Europe.
569 - Apr 2006 - Books: Stimulating reading from AD Books
00 The Incredible Da Vinci Code Frank Mobbs Clear concise and penetrating this is an ideal gift for friends or relations who believe The Da Vinci Code contains accurate history.
570 - Apr 2006 - Books: Swear To God: The Promise and Powers of the Sacraments, by Scott Hahn, Jacinta Cummins
marked the moments in history - world history salvation history and personal history - when God was making a new start with His people.
571 - Apr 2006 - Letters: Church of England, Jim Turley
Its magnificent tradition of Church music is without parallel and its profound spirituality little known and only briefly accounted by such people as Louis Boyer in his History.
572 - Apr 2006 - Letters: Religious education, Saskia Ebejer
Let us begin to teach share guide and lead our children to the authentic Catholic faith the faith that so many died for and which contains so much richness: the Eucharist our saints our philosophy and our Church history.
573 - Apr 2006 - Creation: Intelligent Design and the war against God, Stephen Hitchings
This is an astonishing position for a nation whose whole history has been Christian.
574 - Apr 2006 - News: The Church Around the World
Throughout the history of the Church religious orders and congregations were always the ones pushing forward bringing dynamism and a call for holiness.
575 - Mar 2006 - Books: Stimulating reading from AD Books
00 The Incredible Da Vinci Code Frank Mobbs Clear concise and penetrating this is an ideal gift for friends or relations who believe The Da Vinci Code contains accurate history.
576 - Mar 2006 - Books: Black Robe And Tomahawk: Fr Pierre-Jean De Smet SJ (1801-1873), Michael Daniel
Although Black Robe and Tomahawk is at times very detailed in its descriptions of his travels it remains a fascinating account of a priest whose missionary career and role in US history would be unknown to many readers.
577 - Mar 2006 - The distribution of Holy Communion past and present: an historical survey, Fr Sebastian Camilleri OFM
According to one history of the Church: The early Christians received Holy Communion under both species bread and wine.
578 - Mar 2006 - Liturgy: Eucharistic faith: why the Mass needs re-enchanting, Alvin F. Kimel Jr
The answer is a clear negative especially when one considers the history of the congregational response.
579 - Mar 2006 - Archbishop Hickey: how to address the crisis of faith, Archbishop Barry Hickey
The Church has already been reshaped by the acceptance of secular values in themselves good but naively embraced with little critical judgement applied in the light of Scripture Catholic teaching and Catholic history.
580 - Feb 2006 - Books: Stimulating reading from AD Books
00 The INCREDIBLE Da Vinci Code Frank Mobbs Clear concise and penetrating this is the ideal gift for friends or relations who believe The Da Vinci Code contains accurate history.
581 - Feb 2006 - Letters: Clerical Celibacy (letter), Fr Adrian Head
In 1969 Christian Cocchini SJ completed his doctoral thesis at the Institute Catholique on the history of clerical celibacy.
582 - Feb 2006 - Education: Catholic Church and her schools face a 'wake-up call', Bishop Geoffrey Jarrett
She passes through the ebbs and flows of human history; she adapts and changes in response to the needs of an age or a culture but remains always recognisably the same in her doctrine her discipline and her worship.
583 - Dec 2005 - Reflection: Journey of the Magi and the search for truth, Cardinal George Pell
He became a Catholic through the study of Church history.
584 - Dec 2005 - Books: Christmas reading from AD Books
00 The INCREDIBLE Da Vinci Code Frank Mobbs Clear concise and penetrating this is the ideal gift for friends or relations who believe The Da Vinci Code contains accurate history.
585 - Dec 2005 - Books: Good News About Sex And Marriage, by Christopher West, Kerrie Allen
John Paul II stated: Human life its dignity and its balance depend at every moment of history and at every point on the globe on the proper ordering of love between the sexes.
586 - Dec 2005 - Books: The Cube and the Cathedral, by George Weigel, John Ballantyne
Weigel like Alexander Solzhenitsyn and the late John Paul II believes that the deepest currents of history are spiritual and cultural rather than political and economic (p.
587 - Dec 2005 - Letters: Vatican II myths, Peter D. Howard
Headed in Flannerys edition of the Vatican II documents Christ: Alpha and Omega the Council proclaims (45) that The Lord is the goal of human history the focal point of the desires of history and civilisation the centre of mankind the joy of all hearts and the fulfilment of all aspirations.
588 - Dec 2005 - The Eucharist: gift of an interventionist God, Chris Hilder
The words Repent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand (Mt 4:17) remind us of the beginning of Gods Kingdom in human history the Kingdom that saves us from sin and the consequence of sin which is death the Kingdom that ends the separation between God and ourselves and the Kingdom of eternal life.
589 - Dec 2005 - Episcopacy: Archbishop Chaput of Denver: America's plain-speaking Pope's man, Peter J. Boyer
Promoting bishops within the hierarchy to high ranking positions in the hierarchy he has named and Im not exaggerating he has named the worst group of bishops in modern Church history.
590 - Nov 2005 - Reflection: The concrete character of Christianity, John Young
Meditation on that considerable catastrophe (Bellocs expression I think) which is original sin helps us understand history and the current state of the world.
591 - Nov 2005 - Books: More good reading from AD Books
00 Introduction to Christianity Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger Cardinal Ratzinger provides an illuminating detailed explanation of the Apostles Creed as the basic summary of Christian beliefs while drawing upon Scripture and the history of theology.
592 - Nov 2005 - Books: The Incredible Da Vinci Code, by Frank Mobbs, Michael Gilchrist
As he puts it in his Introduction: It is as much a matter of interest to an atheist whether Jesus married as it is to a Christian for it is either a fact of history or not.
593 - Nov 2005 - Letters: Myths exploded, Nola Viney
In my mind it provides the necessary contrast to the kinds of progressive Catholic ideas which people like Paul Collins articulate via the ABC and which appear convincing to those unaware of the Churchs long past history.
594 - Nov 2005 - Call to Holiness: Contemplating the Eucharistic Face of Christ, Christine McCarthy
Secret of holiness The Holy Father spoke about the Magis gesture of adoration which prefigured the faith of St Peter and the Apostles and the many holy seminarians and priests throughout the 2000 years of the Churchs history: They fell down and worshipped Him .
595 - Nov 2005 - Thomas More Centre: Fifty years from Shadowlands: Childhood memories of the world of C. S. Lewis, Msgr Peter J. Elliott
These memories I share are distant fragmentary not particularly significant in terms of history nevertheless they are cherished.
596 - Nov 2005 - National Press Club: Cardinal George Pell on the dictatorship of relativism, Cardinal George Pell
Relativism is powerful in Western life evidenced in many areas from the decline in the study of history and English literature through to the triumph of subjective values and conscience over moral truth and the downgrading of heterosexual marriage.
597 - Oct 2005 - Reflection: What the early Church tells us about the celebration of Mass, Fr Sebastian Camilleri OFM
Likewise as history gloriously testifies through the following centuries in various unbelieving countries many more thousands of brave Christians laity and clergy alike defied dungeon fire and sword and died as martyrs for their staunch belief in the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist.
598 - Oct 2005 - Books: More good reading from AD Books
95 Introduction to Christianity Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger Cardinal Ratzinger provides an illuminating detailed explanation of the Apostles Creed as the basic summary of Christian beliefs while drawing upon Scripture and the history of theology.
599 - Oct 2005 - Books: A Beautiful Story to be Told: The Legion of Mary in Oceania 1932-2005, Michael Gilchrist
Here was history of the Legion of Mary as an eminent part of the Australian and Pacific Catholic Church during the twentieth century the story of men and women legionaries of Mary who made this possible.
600 - Oct 2005 - Letters: Watered-down faith, Paula Gartland
The appeal to dubious early Church history to water down our faith is typical of this sort of modern Catholic thinking as is the general dumbing down of the message i.
601 - Oct 2005 - Culture: How the Catholic Church built Western civilisation, Thomas E. Woods Jr
During the eighteenth-century Enlightenment the Churchs privileged position and the respect it was traditionally accorded were both called into serious question to an extent without precedent in the history of Catholicism.
602 - Oct 2005 - Conference: C.S. Lewis: defender of objective truth, Adam Glyn Cooper
Dr Cooper is Pastor of St Johns Lutheran Church Geelong an Honorary Fellow Department of Classics and Archaeology at the University of Melbourne and author of books on early Christian history and numerous articles and reviews.
603 - Oct 2005 - Benedict XVI speaks out on the crisis of faith in Australia, Michael Gilchrist
The Catholic Church is not in such bad shape as the historical mainline Protestant Churches but it also faces the problems of this moment in history.
604 - Sep 2005 - Books: More good reading from AD Books
95 Fatima Handbook Leo Madigan Here is an inexpensive comprehensive guide to Fatima providing detailed information on timetables for ceremonies Fatimas history biographies of the visionaries a guide to the shrines buildings and their treasures and a lot more.
605 - Sep 2005 - Books: The Holy Shroud, by Antonio Cassanelli, Gabrielle Walsh
Based on the renowned work of Monsignor Ricci the author Antonio Cassanelli surveys the history of the Shroud and in particular its religious significance.
606 - Sep 2005 - Books: STAIRWAY TO THE UPPER ROOM: Daily Meditations on the Gospel Readings, Michael Gilchrist
STAIRWAY TO THE UPPER ROOM: Daily Meditations on the Gospel Readings for Sundays and Solemnities (Volume I Salvation History Volume II Sundays of Ordinary Time 13-24) by Ronald Walls (Gracewing 2002 and 2003 155 and 145pp $22.
607 - Sep 2005 - BOOKS: The Myth of Hitler's Pope: How Pope Pius XII Rescued Jews from the Nazis, Thomas E. Woods Jr
Professor Woods studied history at Harvard University and gained his doctorate from Columbia University.
608 - Sep 2005 - News: The Chuch Around the World
Experience again those authentic values that made your history glorious and your presence in other continents beneficial.
609 - Sep 2005 - Events: Sydney to host World Youth Day 2008, AD2000 REPORT
The 1995 event in Manila drew what was perhaps the largest crowd in human history estimated at up to five million.
610 - Aug 2005 - Books: More Good Reading from AD Books
95 Fatima Handbook Leo Madigan Here is an inexpensive comprehensive guide to Fatima providing detailed information on timetables for ceremonies Fatimas history biographies of the visionaries a guide to the shrines buildings and their treasures and a lot more.
611 - Aug 2005 - Books: More Catholic Than the Pope, by Patrick Madrid and Pete Vere, Fr Glen Tattersal FSSP
An essential history of the Society of St Pius X in an easily digestible format MORE CATHOLIC THAN THE POPE: An Inside Look at Extreme Traditionalism by Patrick Madrid amp; Pete Vere (Our Sunday Visitor 2004 186pp $27.
612 - Aug 2005 - Letters: Small Catechisms available (letter), Fr Edward P. Evans
In the same series they have published My First Bible My First History of the Catholic Church My First Rosary My First Way of the Cross A Prayer Book and My First Lives of the Saints (Sons of Holy Mary Immaculate Isabella De Rosis St Multinational Village 1700 Paranaque M.
613 - Aug 2005 - John Paul II: a Jewish appreciation
For the first time in history the Jews no longer had fear: this Pope listened to them under- stood them comforted them not by words but by deeds.
614 - Aug 2005 - London's Balham parish, 'an icon of liturgical hope', Joanna Bogle
When I was invited to write a history of Holy Ghost Church Balham I discovered a newer reason for putting the place on the map.
615 - Aug 2005 - Benedict XVI's pontificate: the possibilities, Damian Thompson
Benedict XVI is the first pope in history to have gone about his daily life as a Catholic priest wearing a collar and tie.
616 - Aug 2005 - Feminist translation: Inclusive language and the Trinity: the latest from Brisbane, Michael Apthorp
Dr Michael Apthorp is an Honorary Research Adviser in the School of History Philosophy Religion and Classics at the University of Queensland.
617 - Aug 2005 - News: The Church Around the World
According to the Argentinean daily La Nacion Cardinal Poupard said that to speak about the truth in contemporary culture constitutes an annoyance in an atmosphere characterised by nihilism and he criticised universities for turning away from the classical questions about human existence - God the meaning of life death and justice as presented in literature history and ethics - in favour of satisfying the demand for job opportunities in the marketplace.
618 - Aug 2005 - What the Church can teach the secular world, Archbishp Barry Hickey
It is not just that people are drifting away from the churches; the Churchs 2000-year history is full of peaks and troughs of religious and moral life.
619 - Jul 2005 - Books: More Good Reading from AD Books
95 The Holy Shroud Antonio Cassanelli This book provides a thorough survey of the history of the Shroud of Turin along with its scientific challenges and religious significance.
620 - Jul 2005 - Books: The Catholic Community in Australia, by Robert E. Dixon, Michael Gilchrist
While the brief outline of the Churchs history in Australia provides a helpful backdrop especially for those not familiar with this area it is the vast assortment of statistical tables with commentaries that make this book such a an essential reference.
621 - Jul 2005 - Books: Letters To a Young Catholic, by George Weigel, David Birch
Thats what it means to understand history as His-story.
622 - Jul 2005 - Letters: Ecumenism or Indifferentism, Edgar Bremmer
It is time the present perverse brand of ecumenism is consigned to the rubbish bin of history.
623 - Jul 2005 - Science: God, physics and Stephen Hawking, Fr Matthew Kirby
In his justly famous book A Brief History of Time Hawking outlines his theory of how the Big Bang occurred that is how the universe got started.
624 - Jul 2005 - Society: Catholics must play an active role in public life, Archbishop Charles J. Chaput OFM Cap
Additionally Catholics see politics as part of the history of salvation.
625 - Jul 2005 - News: The Church Around the World
The stamp depicts the pontiffs visit to Israel in 2000 and his stop at the Western Wall where he left a letter asking forgiveness for acts committed against Jews by Christians throughout history.
626 - Jul 2005 - Editorial: Can Catholic "salt" flavour the secular culture?, Michael Gilchrist
Meanwhile recent history in Australia has shown that the decent majority are open to well-reasoned arguments on issues such as marriage euthanasia and abortion.
627 - Jun 2005 - The previous Pope Benedict and his quest for world peace, R.J. Stove
An obituary in Italys Socialist journal Avanti on 24 January 1922 snarled: cold mediocre obstinate - tomorrow history will have forgotten him.
628 - Jun 2005 - News: The Church Around the World
The decision to honour one of Congresss most outspoken and strident advocates of abortion rights was just the latest episode in a long history of secularisation at Marymount Manhattan College said Patrick Reilly President of the Cardinal Newman Society.
629 - Jun 2005 - Habemus Papam: Benedict XVI charts course as successor to John Paul II, Michael Gilchrist
His grasp of world history and his track record of protecting the faith for the past 24 years had prepared him to lead the Church Cardinal George told a news conference at the Pontifical North American College following the new Popes first Mass.
630 - May 2005 - Reflection: Pope John Paul II and the redemptive power of suffering, Fr Paul Stuart
Giants in history sometimes have the Great added after their name.
631 - May 2005 - Books: A GENTLE JESUIT: Philip Caraman SJ, by June Rockett, George Russo
From the outset Fr Caraman intrigued me; not only through his knowledge of history which was his passion but more through his wit and humour.
632 - May 2005 - Books: Sacred and Secular Scriptures / The Catholic Revival in English Literature, David Birch
The world of a company report is not just the world of a specific company it is also the world of finance in general; of economics; of politics; of culture; of history and so on.
633 - May 2005 - Letters: Catholic hymns, Dolores Lightbody
Decorating the booklets are over 100 photos with notes which include reproductions of old masters as well an impressive number of photos of people places and events from Catholic history in Australia.
634 - May 2005 - The Da Vinci Code and the itching ears syndrome, John Young
The Chicago Tribune claimed the book contains several doctorates worth of fascinating history and learned speculation.
635 - Apr 2005 - Cardinal Ratzinger: Liturgy should be God-centred, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger
Running through the history of the Roman Rite (Mass and Breviary) from its beginnings up to the eve of the Second Vatican Council this book seeks to establish the principles of liturgical development and thus to draw from history - from its ups and downs - the standards on which every reform must be based.
636 - Apr 2005 - 'Flying bishops' consecrated for orthodox Anglicans, Fr Nigel Zimmerman
For orthodox Anglicans who are concerned about the consecration of Bishop Chislett as to its catholicity or its timeliness one can only answer that they ought to re-read the history of previous flying bishops like Athanasius or Eusibius.
637 - Mar 2005 - Reflection: The Holy Trinity and the Church: the truth will set you free, Fr John O'Neill
We know the next tragic part of creations history.
638 - Mar 2005 - Books: Books to read in 2005
00 Praying to Our Lord Jesus Christ Fr Benedict Groeschel CFR Father Groeschel provides an anthology of profound prayers drawn from all of Christian history.
639 - Mar 2005 - Books: DOLLFUSS: An Austrian Patriot, by Fr Johannes Messner, Alice von Hildebrand
On the other hand there are some truly great men who are so maligned by an antagonistic press during their lifetime that even though their names make the headlines when they die (or are murdered) history must rediscover them.
640 - Mar 2005 - Letters: Leadership needed (letter), Tom King
During the 20th century more Christians were murdered for the belief they refused to relinquish than in any previous century in world history.
641 - Mar 2005 - Culture: Secularism, not religion, is threatened with extinction, David Quinn
Here is the script of history as it is supposed to play out.
642 - Mar 2005 - News: The Church Around the World
According to the Canadian Globe and Mail the groups findings mean that those scholars convinced that the Hebrew Old Testament is at best a compendium of revisionist fragmented history mixed with folklore and theology and at worst a piece of outright propaganda likely will have to apply the brakes to their thinking.
643 - Mar 2005 - Editorial: Pray for John Paul II ..., Peter Westmore
So the situation which we face today is one which has occurred frequently throughout the Churchs history.
644 - Feb 2005 - Reflection: Archbishop Hart: Pope John Paul II and the Year of the Eucharist, Archbishop Denis Hart
He reminds us that Our Lord stands at the centre not just of the history of the Church but at the centre of the history of humanity.
645 - Feb 2005 - Books: A Christian Apocalypse:The Sexual Abuse crisis in the Catholic Church, 1884-2004, David Williams
However the reverberations of and the repercussions from the abuse scandals have not faded into history.
646 - Feb 2005 - Letters: Fiji example (letter), Tom King
Fijis Catholics may not have wealth a compass or a map but they have something God-given: priests and religious who are proud of their calling churches that have not abandoned history tradition and an atmosphere that distinguishes a house of God from a theatre.
647 - Feb 2005 - Religious Life: Faith and Reason: for a true renewal in religious life and the Church, Sr Mary Augustine OP
History teaches us that we avoid renewal at the peril of our spiritual lives.
648 - Dec 2004 - Reflection: Today is born to us a Saviour of the world, Pope John Paul II
At this hour the word today rings out with a unique sound: we are spiritually linked to that unique moment of history when God became man taking to himself our flesh.
649 - Dec 2004 - Books: Decoding Da Vinci, by Amy Welborn, Anthony Cappello
Quite simply what Brown has done here is weave a number of different strands of speculation esoteric lore and pseudo- history published in other books cramming them all on to the pages of his novel.
650 - Dec 2004 - Letters: Election result (letter), Maureen Federico
Well that spitefulness will be overcome as it has been for the past 2000 years because people with short memories and a faulty sense of history tend to forget that our socially responsible freedoms and privileges stem from Christian values not parallelled in any non-Christian part of the world.
651 - Dec 2004 - Letters: Seminary reforms (letter), Fr Peter Thompson CM
Vianney College has played a significant part in the recent history of seminaries in Australia and I am confident will continue to do so.
652 - Dec 2004 - Archbishop Fulton Sheen: 25th anniversary, Martin Tobin
Sheen did this so successfully that these electronic broadcasts are unmatched in the history of the industry.
653 - Dec 2004 - Editorial: Religious literacy: why not a national inquiry?, Michael Gilchrist
A similar situation prevails in mathematics history and geography.
654 - Nov 2004 - Reflection: Saint Francis and the universal call to holiness, Fr Sebastian Camilleri OFM
This style of human relations based on the perennial Christian principles proved to be a cultural turning point and an inspiring trend in human history.
655 - Nov 2004 - Books: From East to West You Gather a People, by Fr Russell Hardiman, Brian Peachey
One of his guiding beliefs was that the human story would be of interest to people beyond the confines of those listed in a family history.
656 - Nov 2004 - Books: MARRIAGE UNDER FIRE, by James Dobson, Bill Muehlenberg
Western civilisation itself says Dobson appears to hang in the balance and we dare not lay down our arms at this vital juncture in history.
657 - Nov 2004 - Letters: Abortion issue (letter), Greg Byrne
History never repeats itself but historical trends re-emerge.
658 - Nov 2004 - Deer Park: Transforming our secular culture: the role of women, Marcia Riordan
We in the 21st century appear to have forgotten our history and to have lost our way again - but we can find it once more.
659 - Nov 2004 - British Catholic writers call for a better Mass translation, AD2000 Report
In a move unprecedented in its 70-year history the Catholic Writers Guild in September published a pamphlet condemning the inaccuracy and theological distortion of the current English Mass translation and called on bishops to ensure that a revised version is once more faithful to the traditions of the universal Church.
660 - Oct 2004 - Books: More new titles from AD Books
Olsen This book consists of the reflections of a practising historian on Church history.
661 - Oct 2004 - Books: The Two Wings Of Catholic Thought, edited by D.R. Foster, J.W. Koterski SJ, Br Christian Moe FSC
The survey of the history of philosophy from the patristic age to the post-modern (pp.
662 - Oct 2004 - Books: The Organic Development of the Liturgy, by Alcuin Reid OSB, Msgr Peter J. Elliott
At certain points of history Popes Councils Vatican departments and influential liturgists have said we retain this but not that or now we do this and no longer that.
663 - Oct 2004 - The Pope's Encyclical on the Eucharist, Sr Mary Augustine OP
In that profound mystery which is the Church the Eucharist that self-emptying sacrifice of Christ represented on the altar throughout history is reflected in a very tangible way by the self-emptying sacrifice of those men and women who throughout the Churchs history have given themselves up to God in close imitation of the Saviours life of poverty chastity and obedience and in union with His redeeming act of love and mercy.
664 - Oct 2004 - Liturgy: Why priests should stick to the Mass texts, Bishop T.J. Paprocki
History has shown that the even the seemingly slight difference between saying The Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son versus The Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father through the Son can be the source of schism.
665 - Oct 2004 - News: The Church around the World
America has a proud history of defending human rights the Pope observed and the religious and ethnic diversity of American society has necessarily involved practical cooperation helping Catholics in the US to understand the need for respectful dialogue with other cultures.
666 - Sep 2004 - Books: More new titles from AD Books
Olsen This book is a practising historians reflection on Church history.
667 - Sep 2004 - Books: The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity, by Philip Jenkins, John Barich
Available from AD Books) Philip Jenkins who is a Professor of History and Religious Studies at Pennsylvania State University challenges the opinion of people such as Samuel Huntington who believe that in the long run .
668 - Sep 2004 - Letters: The Power of One, Carola Morgan
When one reads a short history of our senator one is astounded at his achievements.
669 - Sep 2004 - Events: Carnivale Christi Melbourne to celebrate Graham Greene's centenary, Liam Houlihan
While Greene is by no means a relic of history - he died in 1991 - he remains a writer who is not easily pinned down or pigeonholed.
670 - Sep 2004 - Sydney Catholic Adult Education Centre courses prove popular, Peter Holmes
This is an exciting time in the Churchs history in Australia with the future of our neighbourhoods and even of our nation in the balance.
671 - Sep 2004 - Books: Exposing 'The Da Vinci Code' fraud, James Hitchcock
James Hitchcock is a professor of history at St Louis University and a prolific writer on Catholic topics.
672 - Sep 2004 - News: The Church Around the World
The vote saw the highest turnout for any primary election in Missouris history since records were first kept in 1980.
673 - Aug 2004 - Letters: Threats to family, Gordon Southern
Just a quarter of them present would have made political history here.
674 - Aug 2004 - History: Catholic education: triumph over adversity, Cardinal George Pell
This article is adapted from Cardinal Pells comments made at the launch of From the Murray to the Sea: The History of Catholic Education in the Ballarat Diocese by Dr Jill Blee at St Patricks Cathedral Hall 18 May 2004.
675 - Aug 2004 - Bioethics: Embryo stem-cell research: time for a moral benchmark, Christopher Pyne MP
There are answers to these questions although they are in some ways harder to offer in the public domain and to defend than at any time in our history as a nation.
676 - Aug 2004 - Pope's representative reminds Australian religious leaders on liturgy abuses, Archbishop Francesco Canalini
3) and needs to be faithfully cared for as the most precious possession which the Church can have in her journey through history (n.
677 - Jul 2004 - Books: More new titles for 2004 from AD Books
Aladel CM This is a welcome reprint of the 1880 translation from the French of Father Aladels famous book which ranges over the origin history circulation and results of The Miraculous Medal.
678 - Jul 2004 - Books: Flee To the Fields - The Founding Papers of the Catholic Land Movement, Peter Chojnowski
Industrialism In an article titled The Rise and Fall of Industrialism Commander Herbert Shove grounds the ideology of British Agrarianism in a systematic analysis of British history beginning with the Medieval feudal system and ending with the emergence of a fully industrial and monopolistic system in the 19th century.
679 - Jul 2004 - Letters: Christian models (letter), Brett Powell
The history of Cain and Abel and human belligerence in general shows that our nature needs supernatural assistance to cultivate mutual love and respect.
680 - Jul 2004 - Letters: Catholic schools (letter), George Simpson
The same claims could be made of the most notorious heretics in Church history.
681 - Jul 2004 - Eucharistic Adoration: heart of evangelisation, Fr Sebastian Camilleri OFM
The Church was born in crisis and through its history has endured severe crises.
682 - Jul 2004 - News: The Church Around the World
Liturgy therefore he said demands knowledge of tradition and history.
683 - Jun 2004 - Letters: Catholic books (letter), Frank Carleton
Good quality secondhand Catholic books are available including traditional works of Church history hagiography Holy Scripture spirituality Sacred Liturgy etc.
684 - Jun 2004 - Letters: New Liturgy document (letter), John Schmid
Having read the article on the new Liturgy document (May AD2000) I wonder whether Rome has learned from history.
685 - Jun 2004 - Education: Chavagnes en Paillers: a Catholic college with a Catholic culture, Paul Russell
The Vendeacute;ans have a proud history having staged a war against the Revolutionary forces for God and King at great cost.
686 - Jun 2004 - Society: Why Chesterton is needed now more than ever, Dale Ahlquist
Chesterton leaves no wiggle room in demonstrating the unique position of Christ in our history and culture.
687 - May 2004 - Reflection: Why the world needs Jesus Christ and Christian models, Fr Sebastian Camilleri OFM
The Church was born in a crisis and through its history it endured severe crises.
688 - May 2004 - Books: ANGLICANS AND ORTHODOX: Unity and Subversion (1559-1725), by Judith Pinnington, Tracey Rowland
Available from AD Books) This work is a mixture of social history and biography focused on the Anglican interest in eastern Orthodoxy and written by a member of the Russian Orthodox parish of St Ephraim the Syrian Cambridge whose academic speciality is the history of the Anglican tradition.
689 - May 2004 - Books: Why Must I Suffer?, by Francis Remler, Bill Muehlenberg
There has been a long tradition in Christian history of speaking of the value of suffering in terms of soul-making with Christian character developed through the furnace of affliction.
690 - May 2004 - Books: Marriage and Family in the Biblical World, edited by Ken Campbell, Bill Muehlenberg
Taken together they provide comprehensive coverage of the issues as developed over several thousand years of biblical history.
691 - May 2004 - Art: Beauty is very much an attribute of God - Sister Wendy, Sarah Macdonald
We must forget the densities of history and simply surrender to the wonder of the story.
692 - May 2004 - News: The Church Around the World
Communist ideological opposition to religion remains strong despite attempts to couch it in milder terms combined with fears - rooted in Chinese history - of foreign religious involvement.
693 - Apr 2004 - Poetry: Two Poems on the Passion, Marion Craig and Brian Mulligan
History is dumb what did he become?
694 - Apr 2004 - Theology: Fr Aidan Nichols to lecture on von Balthasar in Melbourne, Tracey Rowland
Fr Nichols is one of the leading theologians in the English-speaking world renowned for his knowledge of the history of theological ideas and his special interest in the revival of Catholic culture.
695 - Apr 2004 - Events: Chesterton conference to be held in Melbourne, Tony Evans
Proving that Chesterton is not the exclusive property of Catholics Dr Race Mathews a leading authority on the history development and future of Distributism has been invited to give a paper.
696 - Apr 2004 - God 'number one' in East Timor, Paul Russell
The beautiful nature of these local heroes as Major David Tilt described them (who was also part of the entourage) belies the recent history of the young nation and their life and death struggles in the fight for freedom.
697 - Apr 2004 - National Church Life Survey: church-going declines further, Michael Gilchrist
These statistics are self-explanatory and represent the most pressing challenge the Church has ever had to face in this nations history.
698 - Mar 2004 - Books: Archbishop Fulton Sheen : A Man for All Media, by Gregory Joseph Ladd, Michael Gilchrist
For anyone interested in this legendary media priest or in recent Church history generally this is a must have book.
699 - Mar 2004 - Books: Lord, Have Mercy : The Healing Power of Confession, by Scott Hahn, Paul Russell
His is a more extensive catechesis on sin and the sacrament because he combines scholarly thought history and common sense through a series of expositions that are directed to the heart.
700 - Mar 2004 - Letters: Social Justice Statement (letter)
Windschuttle is yet to write on the Mounted Police but he wrote in The Fabrication of Aboriginal History that the Black Line was a general mobilisation of the white population of the colony and a similar muster of the military to capture the hostile tribes or permanently expel them.
701 - Mar 2004 - Virtue ethics: Challenging our contemporary culture's flawed worldview, Hayden Ramsey
When authority is no part of a broader ethical and political life no part of a tradition with a history and a future then that authority is proceduralist and self-justifying.
702 - Mar 2004 - Archaeology: Macquarie University's latest papyrus fragments shed light on early Christianity, Peter Westmore
In particular Macquaries Ancient History Documentary Research Centre scholars will benefit.
703 - Feb 2004 - Books: The Beginner's Book Of Chant, by a Benedictine monk, Paul Russell
While being a little light on the history of chant it more than makes up for this in the practical tutorials rehearsal methods and hints for choirmasters.
704 - Feb 2004 - Books: The Rosary : Chain of Hope, by Benedict J. Groeschel CFR, Michael E. Daniel
It has been a much loved prayer amongst Catholics for much of the Churchs history.
705 - Feb 2004 - Letters: Social Justice Statement, John R. Barich
However a reading of Windschuttless devastating book The Fabrication of Aboriginal History gives support to Egans assessment.
706 - Feb 2004 - Melbourne and Sydney initiatives to educate adults in the Catholic faith, Peter Holmes
The Certificate in Adult Faith Education will include the core units of the Youth Certificate with added units such as Early Church History Social Teachings of The Church and more Scripture and will involve a variety of high quality lecturers under the direction of Fr John Flader Director of CAEC Sydney.
707 - Feb 2004 - News: The Church Around the World
And while it had had a paradoxical history as it both created the European conscience and caused wars it had ultimately always come down to a choice for individuals and their consciences.
708 - Dec 2003 - Reflection: 'Jesus Christ: the door of our salvation' : the meaning of Christmas, Pope John Paul II
His words inspired by God surprising words come down through history and re-echo all through the earth proclaiming the great mystery of the Incarnation.
709 - Dec 2003 - Books: Socrates meets Machiavelli, Socrates meets Marx, by Peter Kreeft, Bill Muehlenberg
You seek in vain to slay the juggernaut of historys dialectic with the weapons of words.
710 - Dec 2003 - Books: Celibacy in the Early Church, by Stefan Heid, Fr Peter Murphy
But as early Church history clearly illustrates argues Heid continence was never regarded in the beginning as an externally imposed law of the Church but rather an interior charism essentially united to those who are called to be clerics be they single or married to consecrate themselves by perfect chastity for the sake of religious reverence to the sacred mysteries.
711 - Dec 2003 - Books: Adventures in Orthodoxy, by Dwight Longenecker, Richard Egan
In his chapter on Christ as true God and true man titled Arians Apollinarians and One-Eyed Pirates Longenecker succinctly summarises the whole complex history of Christology.
712 - Dec 2003 - Letters: Perth homeschooling conference, Lorraine Haydon
The conference will include workshops on maths writing reading and history.
713 - Dec 2003 - Letters: Men at church, Rosanne Turne
if he is fearful say Jesus can wipe out all care; if God is an ogre inflicting suffering say Christianity is the Way of the Cross so each believer has a cross and suffers too; if the man loves adventure tell stories of the saints and Church history.
714 - Dec 2003 - Letters: Heresies, John K. Hannon
I hope that my fellow-Catholics are aware that we are living through one of the great periods of world history - the last of the great heresies of the Roman Catholic Church.
715 - Dec 2003 - Letters: Social Justice Statement, Michael Barr
Mr Egan cites the Statements claim (made in reference to Australias history of race relations) that in many parts of Australia there were massacres and incidents of a kind that are more common in civil war than in peace.
716 - Dec 2003 - Social Justice Statement 2003: a response from Bishop Saunders
The Bishops Statement - A Generous Heart in the Love of Christ - recounts our history of cultural diversity from European settlement and recognises that in very significant respects this is to be celebrated.
717 - Dec 2003 - BOOKS: DANIEL MANNIX : Wit and Wisdom - new edition, Michael Gilchrist
INTRODUCTION Over 40 years have passed since the death of Archbishop Daniel Mannix arguably the most influential and controversial churchman of Australias 200 year history.
718 - Dec 2003 - INTERVIEW: New Melbourne and Sydney Religious Education texts, Msgr Peter Elliott
Scripture spirituality liturgy the lives of saints Church history education in Catholic social teaching and the riches of Catholic art and culture run through these books.
719 - Dec 2003 - John Paul II's 25th anniversary: the impact of his teachings, Cardinal George Pell
George Weigel the American author of the best biography of the present Pope Witness to Hope claims that John Paul II came to realise that history is driven by ideas ideals and the moral commitment of people to their versions of culture which are always more powerful in the long run than politics or economics or armies.
720 - Nov 2003 - Books: Built On A Hilltop: Good Shepherd Sisters in WA 1902-2002, by Geraldine Byrne, Anthony Cappello
BUILT ON A HILLTOP: A History of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd in Western Australia 1902-2002 by Geraldine Byrne (Perth 2003 247pp.
721 - Nov 2003 - Books: A Grief Unveiled, by Gregory Floyd, Bill Muehlenberg
If God can take the most horrible and painful event in human history the cross and turn it into the most glorious and blessed of events then there is hope for us as well.
722 - Nov 2003 - Letters: Vatican II, Peter D. Howard
clearly defined) for the first time in conciliar history; the Church is thus not one of many branches.
723 - Nov 2003 - Social Justice Statements: in whose name should they be published?, Richard Egan
But the Statement has embedded this teaching within an account of welcome and exclusion in Australian history and contemporary society which is most notable for asserting as fact several theses that continue to be subject to vigorous public debate.
724 - Oct 2003 - Orthodox US Catholic colleges and universities continue to flourish, Julia Duin
The freshman classes of 102 students both this fall and last are the largest in the colleges 32-year history.
725 - Oct 2003 - Why Catholic teaching on marriage is 'good news' for all humanity, Eamonn Keane
Despite the failings of its individual members the Church continues throughout history to be regarded as a sign of contradiction in so far as she bears witness to the truth about God and man.
726 - Oct 2003 - Youth: Thomas More Winter School in Sale Diocese has Eucharistic focus, Michael Casanova
John Morrissey a Melbourne man with relatives in Gippsland took us through the history of the Eucharist.
727 - Oct 2003 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000
The letter was discovered in August by historian Francesco Beretta professor of the history of Christianity of the German University of Freiburg.
728 - Oct 2003 - After 25 years: the impact of John Paul II's pontificate, Michael Gilchrist
Revolution Certainly in terms of the extent of his travels over the past 25 years John Paul II has revolutionised the papacy as the most-travelled pope in history.
729 - Sep 2003 - Books: Great books at the best prices!
Those Terrible Middle Ages Regine Penoud This is a persuasively argued book and a useful introduction to the subject which seeks to to bring more balance to a much-maligned period of history.
730 - Sep 2003 - Books: OLD THUNDER: A Life of Hilaire Belloc, by Joseph Pearce, Scott J. Bloch
Available from AD Books) What Hilaire Belloc once said about Catholic history and the Church applies just as well to Belloc the writer: you have to see them from the inside in order to appreciate them.
731 - Sep 2003 - Understanding the Catholic Liturgy since Vatican II, Dom Alcuin Reid OSB
This is not to deny that liturgical forms have developed and changed throughout history but they do so according to the principle of organic development which insists that any pruning of or grafting onto the organism that is the Liturgy is proportionate is truly necessary and shows the utmost respect for the received Liturgy (Vatican II Sacrosanctum Concilium 23 50).
732 - Sep 2003 - Catholic summer conferences in the United States: signs of hope, Richard Egan
As one said To become deep in history is to cease to be Protestant.
733 - Sep 2003 - New auxiliary bishops appointed to the Sydney Archdiocese, Michael Gilchrist
A graduate of the University of Sydney with an honours degree in History and Law he practised law for a time in a city firm.
734 - Aug 2003 - Reflection: The Apocalypse: proclaiming the final victory of Christ and His Church, Fr G.H. Duggan SM
Hilaire Belloc has told us that this was the great lesson he learned as a young man from Cardinal Manning who insisted that this is much the most important war in human history.
735 - Aug 2003 - Books: Great books at the best prices!
95 Roses Fountains and Gold John Martin This book examines in depth the story and message of each of Marys major apparitions from 1830-1933 in the context of history and art.
736 - Aug 2003 - Books: Will Catholics be Left Behind, by Carl Olson, Envoy Magazine
Olson then shows how Left Behind creator LaHayes many works on Bible prophecy are filled with attacks on Catholicism and often rely on sensationalism shaky scholarship and subjective interpretations of Scripture Olson himself a former dispensationalist also presents a history of apocalyptic belief and theology beginning with the Early Church Fathers and including the Montanists St Augustine Joachim of Fiore the Protestant Reformers and the American Puritans.
737 - Aug 2003 - Letters: Orthodoxy? (letter), Brian Dethridge
We hear talk of Salvation History frequently to paper over the cracks between the cosmic claims for Christ and what probably really happened by way of human origins.
738 - Aug 2003 - Is Pope John Paul II canonising too many saints?, Michael Casanova
The saints have always been the source and origin of renewal in the most difficult moments in the Churchs history.
739 - Aug 2003 - Catalyst for Renewal Address: The legacy of Vatican II, Archbishop George Pell
The Second Vatican Council was the largest restructuring in Catholic history for at least 400 years since the Council of Trent 1545-1563 responded to the challenge of Luther and the Protestant Reformation.
740 - Aug 2003 - Documents: Ecclesia in Europa - Pope challenges Christians to re-evangelise Europe, Michael Gilchrist
As John Paul II observes in his introduction: The Synod Fathers saw that possibly the most urgent matter Europe faces in both East and West is a growing need for hope a hope which will enable us to give meaning to life and history and to continue on our way together.
741 - Jul 2003 - Books: Great books at the best prices!, Anthony Cappello
95 DK: The Story of Christianity Michael Collins amp Matthew Price An impressive and valuable history of the Church this hardcover coffee-table style book with numerous colour illustrations is a bargain!
742 - Jul 2003 - Catholic Literature: Hilaire Belloc's 50th anniversary: is he 'yesterday's man'?, Br Christian Moe FSC
From the point of view of general cultural history Belloc is also considered pass.
743 - Jul 2003 - Books: AD2000 to distribute Ignatius Press titles in Australia from July, Peter Westmore
Its book titles cover the widest range of subjects: from Church history Fathers of the Church and the lives of the saints to contemporary moral issues scripture studies theology and spirituality.
744 - Jul 2003 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000
The Cardinal described the project titled Science Theology and the Ontological Quest (STOQ) as a fundamental step in the history of relations between the Church and scientific researchers.
745 - Jun 2003 - Reflection: Church scandals: focus on the message, not just the messengers, Fr Kevin Brannelly
The scandals of recent years are something we Catholics have not witnessed within the contemporary history of the Church.
746 - Jun 2003 - Books: Our books are the cheapest!
95 The Story of Christianity Michael Collins amp; Matthew Price An impressive and valuable history of the Church this hardcover coffee-table style book with numerous colour illustrations is a bargain!
747 - Jun 2003 - Books: The Story of Christianity : 2000 Years of Faith, Anthony Cappello
The Story of Christianity represents a collaboration between Catholic and Protestant authors presenting the history of the Christian Church on that basis; but teachers catechists and readers of history will not want to put it down.
748 - Jun 2003 - Letters: Teilhard de Chardin (letter), Grahame Fallon
As Pope John Paul II said in the first words of his first encyclical Redemptor Hominis (1979) the Redeemer of Man Jesus Christ is also the centre of the universe and of its history.
749 - Jun 2003 - Laity: The role of lay Catholics in a time of crisis, Mary Ann Glendon
By the 1960s the nation-within- a-nation had dissolved and the people-called-together were embarked on what Morris describes in his history as the dangerous project of severing the connection between their Catholic religion and the separatist culture that had always been the source of its dynamism its appeal and its power.
750 - Jun 2003 - AD2000 staff members awarded federation Centenary Medals, AD2000
He has written numerous articles on immigration Church- migrant relationships and migrant history and has presented several papers in Australia and the US on these themes.
751 - May 2003 - Books: Christianity On Trial: Arguments Against Anti-Religious Bigotry, Bill Muehlenberg
In time the cyclical view of history of pagan Rome was replaced by the linear conception of history found in Christianity.
752 - May 2003 - Cardinal Nguyen Van Thuan (1928-2002): How faith survived in a Communist prison, Cardinal Francis Xavier Nguyen Van Thuan
When the cadre returned I explained a few words of the index to him the meanings the history and development of the Church for instance what is an abbot or what does monastical life involve e.
753 - Apr 2003 - Books: A Seat At The Supper, by Frank Colyer, Mark Posa
Theological argument and debate have their place in the world of faith but I have always believed in the words of great figures in the history of the Church who maintain that we do not try to understand in order to have faith; rather we have faith in order to understand.
754 - Apr 2003 - Books: Marian Apparitions, The Bible, And The Modern World, Michael Gilchrist
In addition the background to each approved apparition includes elements of the Churchs history such as the Council of Trent the Cureacute; of Ars Marian dogmas Vatican I and various pontificates including the present one.
755 - Apr 2003 - Letters: Experiential catechesis (letter), Fr. G.H. Duggan SM
We have to learn by learning that is by the assiduous study that will alone enable us to grasp the content of the lecture notes or the textbook dealing with the subject in question whether it be geology or Roman history or the teaching of the Church.
756 - Apr 2003 - Education: Chavagnes International Catholic college update, Br John Moylan
Nearly all the boys study four languages English Latin French and Spanish with Maths physics science chemistry history geography music computing choir and art also among the subject offerings at present.
757 - Apr 2003 - Film Review: Why 'Gangs of New York' misses the boat as history, William J. Stern
As entertainment Gangs of New York is fine and though as history the film is bunk it nevertheless has a wonderfully evocative feel.
758 - Apr 2003 - Dr Claudio Betti's inspiring visit to Australia, Peter Westmore
The path of history leads to a mutual comprehension and collaboration he said particularly in the current environment coloured by terrorism and war.
759 - Mar 2003 - The media and evangelisation, Moira Kirkwood
It offers a wide variety of inspiring programs ranging from devotions and Scripture studies to defending Christianity and the rights of all who wish to bring up their families according to standards of decency recognised throughout history by peoples of all cultures and creeds.
760 - Mar 2003 - New Age ideas: how Catholics should respond, Fr Peter Joseph
It is in fact a New Age fad never practised or taught by a single Pope or Saint or any notable writer in the whole history of the Church.
761 - Mar 2003 - Religious faith and modern culture: responding to a secular critic, Bill Muehlenberg
Secularism The facts of history are quite clear.
762 - Mar 2003 - Ten years on former Anglicans enrich Church, Fr Peter Geldard
When the history of England in the 1990s can finally be written I am convinced that as far as the Catholic Church in this land is concerned its judgement will once again be Deo gratias!
763 - Feb 2003 - Books: How To Win The Culture War, by Peter Kreeft, Bill Muehlenberg
This is the dilemma or paradox of democracy with history offering us many examples of how this works out in a society.
764 - Dec 2002 - Reflection: John Paul II on Christmas: 'the mystery of humanity redeemed by Christ', Pope John Paul II
A mystery hidden in Gods eternal plan; a mystery which in a certain way became history with the incarnation of the Eternal Word of the Father; a mystery which the Church re-lives with profound emotion each Christmas.
765 - Dec 2002 - Books: Top Ten AD2000 Books for 2002
Dynamics of World History (Christopher Dawson $34.
766 - Dec 2002 - Books: Beyond the Blue Glass: Catholic Essays on Faith and Culture, Aidan Nichols OP, Tracey Rowland
Meanwhile the Thomists tend to regard the Balthasarians as unsystematic and therefore unstable incomprehensibly obsessed with beauty in circumstances where the fight for truth and goodness would appear to be more urgent and above all people who share the Modern and Post-Modern interest in culture history and subjectivity - themes which were not part of the repertoire of classical Thomism and have a decidedly relativist smell about them!
767 - Dec 2002 - Books: Eucharistic Devotion : renewing a timeless tradition / Heart of St Alphonsus, Michael Daniel
The first section consists of an introduction that explores the history and theology of Eucharistic devotion; the second section contains well known and loved Eucharistic prayers and devotions.
768 - Dec 2002 - The sound of thunder and laughter: Hilaire Belloc re-consideredA.G. Evans, Joseph Pearce, biography, Catholic literature, G.K. Chesterton
Bellocs historical biographies which sought to correct the anti-Catholic slant of so much official English history at the time may be another reason why they are now ignored in most universities schools and seminaries to be read only by an admiring few.
769 - Nov 2002 - Letters: Embryo experimentation (letter), Brian A. Coman
History is not likely to look kindly on the day we abandoned respect for the individual human life.
770 - Nov 2002 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000
Reports indicate that after a recent history of older seminarians the average age of those entering now appears to be lower.
771 - Nov 2002 - Editorial: The essential role of saints in the Church, Michael Gilchrist
All Saints Day is an annual reminder for the faithful of the essential role played by saints in the life and history of the Church.
772 - Oct 2002 - Reflection: Devotion to God through the Angelus and Rosary, Fr Fabian Duggan OSB
The Rosary With regard to the saying of the rosary it is questionable whether many Catholics have ever fully understood the full import of this ancient and sacred prayer much loved by the popes and saints of history and credited with astounding miraculous effects.
773 - Oct 2002 - Books: Completed Jew, by Andrew Sholl, Michael Casanova
Beginning with an overview of the history of the Jewish dispersion into Europe and of his personal story as a Hebrew Catholic the author turns Jewish eyes and a knowledge of the Hebrew and Aramaic tongues to the liturgy life and Scriptures of the Church.
774 - Oct 2002 - Books: The Courage to be Catholic, by George Weigel, Michael Novak
As no other commentator or critic has done George Weigel situates the current crisis of sexual abuse and episcopal malfeasance in the context of recent Catholic history.
775 - Oct 2002 - Letters: US theologians (letter), Fr G.H. Duggan SM
It is in Kellys words the most outspoken contradiction of the Catholic moral code by Catholic theologians in the recent history of the American Church; and he quotes eleven texts to show that this judgement is justified.
776 - Oct 2002 - Letters: Shepherds (letter), Br Con Moloney CFC
In fact it is not at all surprising that our Church leaders are being attacked for this has been the case through the entire history of the Church.
777 - Sep 2002 - Books: The Arians of the Fourth Century, by John Henry Newman, Peter Westmore
Church history tell us that Arius was a priest in Alexandria who formulated the doctrine that God created before all things a Son who was the first creature but who was neither equal to nor coeternal with the Father.
778 - Sep 2002 - Letters: Zero tolerance (letter), J. Dekker
It used to be said There but for the grace of God go I but in this present period of the Churchs history it is: There go I.
779 - Sep 2002 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000
Catholic culture has an enormous history to offer Ms Houlihan says.
780 - Aug 2002 - Books: Dynamics Of World History, by Christopher Dawson, Michael Lynch
DYNAMICS OF WORLD HISTORY by Christopher Dawson (ISI Books 2001 500pp $35.
781 - Aug 2002 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000
He holds a licentiate in theology and a doctorate in Church history.
782 - Jul 2002 - Letters: Vatican II (letter), Peter D. Howard
7) is that the problem is in the authors concentration on the confusion that dissenting readings of the text have caused without referring to the textual history or the explanations of the official relators of any ambiguous passages.
783 - Jul 2002 - Poetry: It Is (The Alternative to 'Star Wars'), Andrew Huntley
Angels were some hence never could repent; Their duller human dupes with mercy could - And now-the-Judge promised His help to these: To meet lost human history His tent He pitched within it taking flesh and blood To save all those His love could ever seize.
784 - Jul 2002 - Vatican II, church architecture and "reform of the reform", Sidney Rofe
One need only look at St Marys Cathedral in Sydney to see the layers of history reflected in the stained glass windows statues and memorials that keep alive the memory of Catholics who have worshipped there over the generations.
785 - Jul 2002 - Chavagnes International College for boys, Paul Russell
The Vendeacute;e region in France south west of Paris and bordering the Loire Valley is an area steeped in Catholic history.
786 - Jul 2002 - Interview: George Weigel: the impact of John Paul II's pontificate, Zenit News Service
However one measures the magnitude of the Holy Fathers achievement it seems clear that the Catholic Church and the world will be living with the intellectual spiritual and pastoral effects of this pontificate well into the third millennium of Church history.
787 - Jul 2002 - Tablet article prompts critical response from Archbishop Pell, Michael Gilchrist
The article also criticised what it called their prejudicial distortions of history.
788 - Jun 2002 - Reflection: A reason for mercy: healing post-abortion trauma, Anne R. Lastman
The memory of the abortion remains salvific because it deepens and continues to deepen the understanding of the individuals personal history action and salvation.
789 - Jun 2002 - Books: New Titles from AD Books
95 Dynamics of World History Christopher Dawson In scope and vision Dawsons conception of history ranks as one of the most penetrating.
790 - Jun 2002 - Books: 'Socrates Meets Jesus', by Peter Kreeft, Arthur N. Ballingall
SOCRATES MEETS JESUS: Historys Greatest Questioner Confronts the Claims of Christ by Peter Kreeft (InterVarsity Press 2001 $24.
791 - Jun 2002 - How John Paul II's 'new springtime' came to an American parish, Elizabeth A. Wittman
Catechist enrichment days dealt with topics from moral theology to Church history.
792 - May 2002 - Reflection: The Ascension: climax of Our Lord's life on earth, Fr Ian Falconer SJ
What happened next history cannot tell us.
793 - May 2002 - Books: New Titles from AD Books
95 Dynamics of World History Christopher Dawson In scope and vision Dawsons conception of history ranks as one of the most penetrating.
794 - May 2002 - Books: Pedophiles and Priests: Anatomy of a Contemporary Crisis, by Philip Jenkins, David Ross
Neither an exposeacute; nor an apology Pedophiles and Priests takes a close dispassionate look at the entire history of this mushrooming scandal from the first rumblings to todays headlines.
795 - May 2002 - Books: Demons and Democrats: 1950s Labor at the Crossroads, by Gavan Duffy, Anthony Cappello
Available from AD Books or any bookshop) Demons and Democrats is a history of the Catholic Social Studies Movement (Movement) - later to become the National Civic Council - and its influence in the Australian Labor Party until it was forced out in 1955.
796 - May 2002 - Letters: Harry Potter? (letter), John F. Doherty
These are themes as old as human story-telling and predate recorded history and Christianity by thousands of years.
797 - 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.
798 - May 2002 - Letters: Decline of the faith (letter), Brian Carter
We are not receiving the full Catholic message and are being robbed of our history doctrine and moral resources; it is no wonder our seminaries and churches are empty.
799 - May 2002 - US research puts clerical sex-abuse in perspective, Philip Jenkins
Philip Jenkins is a Pennsylvania State University professor of history and religious studies and author of Pedophiles and Priests: Anatomy of a Contemporary Crisis (Oxford University Press 2001).
800 - Apr 2002 - Books: For Youth and the Poor - De La Salle Brothers in Australia, PNG and NZ 1906-2000, Michael Bohan
95 plus postage) Past students of the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools (FSC) known in Australasia as the De La Salle Brothers will welcome this history written by Peter Donovan with its foreword by Archbishop Eric DArcy an old collegian of De La Salle Malvern.
801 - Apr 2002 - Books: 'The Church In The Dark Ages' by Henri Daniel-Rops, Michael Lynch
Available from AD Books) One of the great advantages of being immersed in history is to free ourselves from the parochialism of the present and in doing so to understand how many of the current theological and cultural debates mirror what has occurred in the past.
802 - Apr 2002 - Australian version of Maltese Marian shrine of Ta' Pinu
The Basilica of Ta Pinu has a very interesting history.
803 - Apr 2002 - A fresh way for children to learn the faith - Catechesis of the Good Shepherd, Anne Delsorte
Rather a room or atrium is used as a place of simplicity and order prayer and work and community which allows the children to come in contact with Scripture the liturgy of the Church and for older ones the whole of sacred history.
804 - Apr 2002 - News: The Church Around the World
The function of the magisterium is to place itself at the service of the Word of truth to protect it from deviations and deformations always guaranteeing the People of God to live in history guided and sustained by Christ-Truth.
805 - Mar 2002 - Books: Fatima Handbook, by Leo Madigan, Catherine Sheehan
Included are a handy map of the shrine a brief history and numerous accompanying photographs - some taken at the time of the apparitions of Our Lady in 1917.
806 - Mar 2002 - Books: Faith of the Fatherless: The Psychology of Atheism, by Paul Vitz, Bill Muehlenberg
As this book makes clear there is a real correlation between personal psycho-history and belief systems.
807 - Mar 2002 - The Benedictine medal: a long history of devotion, Fr Fabian Duggan OSB
With the possible exception of the Miraculous Medal there is no other medal in Catholic piety with such a long history of devotion as the medal of St Benedict.
808 - Mar 2002 - 'Liturgiam Authenticam', ICEL and the need for improved Mass translations, Anna Silvas
To recapture this lost tradition of chanting by which the Western liturgy was governed for most of its history is vital for us I submit.
809 - Feb 2002 - Reflection: NCC Mass of Thanksgiving: Archbishop Hart's homily, Archbishop Denis Hart
You have a proud history and generous support and I hope you will take up the challenge and help carry through the next missionary phase in Australia and throughout Oceania.
810 - 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.
811 - Feb 2002 - Letters: Human evolution, Fr Brian Harrison OS
For although the revilers of the Christian faith shrink from acknowledging the Churchs permanent doctrine on this matter and persist in their long-standing efforts to erase the history of all nations and all ages they have nonetheless been unable to extinguish or even to weaken the strength and fight of the truth.
812 - Feb 2002 - Letters: Islam, Andrew Sholl
Thus when Tariq began the conquest for Islam of Spain and Portugal in 711AD (incidentally Gibraltar means in Arabic the mountain Jebel of the al Tariq) and those lands were finally reconquered by Ferdinand and Isabella at Granada in 1492 Islam has technically never given up on reclaiming these lands for Dar-ul-Islam no matter how far down the track of history.
813 - Feb 2002 - Letters: Boat people, George F. Simpson
Australia can be proud of its history in the matter of resettlement.
814 - Feb 2002 - Catholic schools and 'youth spirituality', John Kelly
In this domain the Church is abundantly equipped having engaged critically throughout her history with the prevailing currents of metaphysical and scientific reasoning.
815 - Feb 2002 - The Church in South Korea: dynamic and fast-growing, Pat O'Brien
In great danger but with great enthusiasm they set up the Catholic Church the only example in history where lay people introduced Christianity into their own country.
816 - Feb 2002 - Homily: Most Rev Geoffrey Jarrett installed as new Bishop of Lismore, Bishop Geoffrey Jarrett
In handing on the teaching of the Apostles as it is transmitted down the ages by the Church we may observe that there have been few times in our history when it has been more necessary for the Catholic people to know well the substance of the faith and its attendant moral teaching and have the ability to give their reasons for holding this truth and commending it to others.
817 - Feb 2002 - News: The Church Around the World
The introductory volume is to be published early this year with a history of the project and list of all the texts in the various volumes.
818 - Dec 2001 - Books: 'Desire Of The Everlasting Hills' by Thomas Cahill, Michael Daniel
Available from AD Books) No person is better known throughout the pages of history than Jesus of Nazareth whom Christians call the Christ.
819 - Dec 2001 - Books: De Lubac's writings in English translations, Tracey Rowland
It is particularly valuable for social science students but is otherwise interesting as an excellent account of 19th century European intellectual history.
820 - Dec 2001 - St Vitus Cathedral, Prague, and Europe's Christian heritage, Stephen W. Carson
Though the details of his resistance to the State are disputed the history of Christian martyrs who opposed the State deserves an article of its own.
821 - Nov 2001 - 'Those Terrible Middle Ages', by Règine Pernoud, Christopher Quinn
Available from Ignatius Press PO Box 180 Sumner Park Qld 4074 (07) 3376 0105) Ask a sixth-form pupil studying history or a university student to write a paragraph about the Middle Ages.
822 - Nov 2001 - Books: 'The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Jewish Origins of Christianity', Carsten Theide, Anthony Cappello
He is currently Professor of New Testament History and Papyrology at a Swiss university and teaches at the Department of International Studies at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Israel.
823 - Nov 2001 - Pastoral letter: Taking up John Paul II's concerns about the Sacrament of Penance, Archbishop Barry J. Hickey
This Sacrament has been offered in different ways at different periods of history but its essential elements have always been present: contrition confession penance and absolution.
824 - Nov 2001 - A young Catholic's views on the state of the Church in Australia, James Connolly
It is one thing however for someone like myself who is interested in reading Church history and documents searching for the truth (discerning the wheat from the chaff); it is quite another for those lacking the interest or skills to undertake such research.
825 - Oct 2001 - Books: Tales Without Reason: Forgotten Heroes of the Apostolate in 1840s Australia, Michael Daniel
Tales Without Reason is an excellent account of one of the sadder chapters in Australian Church history.
826 - Oct 2001 - Books: 'The Spirit of the Liturgy' by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Christopher Quinn
The first part of the book deals with the essence of the liturgy what liturgy is in reality in relation to the cosmos and to history and with its Biblical origins.
827 - Oct 2001 - Letters: First parents (letter), Scot Chaston
But it is reasonable for scientists to work on the hypothesis that the Homo lineage whose cells share the same genetic material DNA as do all other life forms did also emerge naturally from the biology and history of this planet.
828 - Sep 2001 - Books: 'The Holocaust, Never To Be Forgotten', Avery Dulles SJ, Rabbi Leon Klenicki, Anthony Cappello
It also wrote about the role of the Church during that period and the Catholic understanding of the Holocaust in Jewish and Christian history.
829 - Sep 2001 - Books: 'The Book of Marriage', edited by Dana Mack and David Blankenhorn, Bill Muehlenberg
Indeed in a culture where history is devalued and religion is mocked marriage like so many other great traditions is seen as passeacute;.
830 - Sep 2001 - Letters: Church teachings (letter), Gerry Keane
(See Robert Sungenis The History of the Catholic Doctrine of Creation.
831 - Sep 2001 - Why today's secular culture is anti-Catholic, James Hitchcock
Dr James Hitchcock is Professor of History at the University of St Louis and author of numerous books on the Catholic Church.
832 - Sep 2001 - Ballarat Thomas More Centre Winter School report
The Winter Schools theme was addressed in the afternoon with a vision of faith action in the history of the Catholic Rural Movement.
833 - Sep 2001 - The John Paul II Cultural Centre opens in Washington DC, Alex Sidhu
The John Paul II Cultural Centre Washington DC is the most recent attempt by the Catholic Church in the United States to present the rich history and traditions of the Church through both age-old and contemporary means.
834 - Aug 2001 - Books: The Christian Travellers' Guides: France, Britain, Italy, Germany, F.T. Long
His approach is straightforward and consistent throughout: a concise informative history lesson followed by an examination of the countrys music art and architecture then an alphabetical listing of the countrys important religious sites and finally a glossary of religious terms.
835 - Aug 2001 - Letters: Evolution/Original Sin (letter), John Schmid
Adam was the first man and as the Catechism states: Revelation gives us the certainty of Faith that the whole of human history is marked by the original fault freely committed by our first parents (390).
836 - Aug 2001 - Appreciating the Mass: a successful new publication, Fr Robert Egar PP
This publication gives a history of the Mass painted with a broad sweep of the brush an explanation of the parts of the Mass and a glossary of all the terms used.
837 - Aug 2001 - After 14 years: why does AD2000 continue?, Michael Gilchrist
AD2000 and the hierarchy Fr Hubert Jedin best known for his definitive History of the Council of Trent and a ten-volume History of the Church published a remarkable Letter to the German Bishops in 1968 in which he drew parallels between the periods following Vatican II and the Protestant Reformation: Had the German bishops in the first years of the 16th centurys schism from the faith joined together for common action before the Reformation became political the schism in the Church even if it were not totally prevented could quite possibly have been reduced to a mere splintering.
838 - Jul 2001 - Music: From the Great South Land of the Holy Spirit:, John Miles
The hymns on the CD go back over many hundreds of years of the Catholic Churchs 2000-year music history the oldest being Come Holy Ghost Creator Come attributed to Rabanus Maurus (c.
839 - Jul 2001 - Books: The Gift of the Rosary: How to make and How and Why to Pray, by Brian Peachey, Barry Morgan
Throughout history the mysterious reality of the Blessed Virgin whose submission to the demands of incarnate love brought the God man into the world has captured the imagination and loyalty of legions of Catholics and other Christians.
840 - Jul 2001 - The case for more Church History in Catholic schools, Michael Lynch
The celebrations surrounding the centenary of Federation have served to refocus attention on our past and more specifically the place of history in our schools.
841 - Jul 2001 - Education: National Catholic Education Conference: but who chose the guest speakers?, Michael Gilchrist
Exploring the history of mankind from the evolutionary record Fr OMurchu argued we need to forge a growing sense of connectedness with so much of our sacred story from which we have been culturally and religiously severed for at least the past 5000 years.
842 - Jun 2001 - Books: 'The Doctors of the Church' by Bernard McGinn, Angela Joseph
In two-thousand years of history only thirty-three individuals have been accorded the title of doctor ecclesiae writes Bernard McGinn author of The Doctors of the Church.
843 - Jun 2001 - Books: 'The Wedding Present' by Viscountess Margaret Long, Michael Daniel
Some of the most inspiring passages from the history of Christian spirituality are to be found in this anthology passages which in her introduction Viscountess Long states she had originally made during a period of severe testing in her own life when I had clung to them as though to a rock.
844 - Jun 2001 - Books: 'As One Struggling Christian to Another: Augustine's Christian Ideal for Today', Bill Muehlenberg
Indeed be it history theology or philosophy Augustine is a towering figure.
845 - Jun 2001 - Books: The Turin Shroud: Past, Present and Future, International Scientific Symposium, Anthony Cappello
The Blood marks on the Turin Shroud The History of the Turin Shroud Origins and Age of the Shroud and Are the radiocarbon results of 1988 conclusive evidence of its medieval date?
846 - Jun 2001 - Letters: Annunciation (letter), Andrew Scholl
While it is true there is good evidence Christ was not born on 25 December since no shepherds or sheep could possibly be outdoors in Bethlehem at that time of the year (Mother Church in her wisdom using Christs birth to blot out the pagan feast of the All Conquering Sun on that day) nine months before it on 25 March seems as good a day as any to celebrate that moment in history when Satan lost out to the loving-kindness of God towards sinful mankind.
847 - Jun 2001 - US missionary risks death in Colombia, Zenit News Service
There are already more couples married in the Church than in the parishs entire history.
848 - Jun 2001 - Archbishop Pell installed in Sydney, Michael Gilchrist
Perhaps the most significant point made during the homily - in the light of recent attempts to cope with the shortfall in clergy numbers - was Dr Pells emphasis on the need for more priests: The one constant in all Catholic history is the need for priests for vocations to the ministerial priesthood.
849 - May 2001 - Books: 'Becoming Fire' by Fr Ken Barker mgl, Peter Westmore
Available from AD Books (03) 9326 5757) Most people I suspect would prefer to read a history of the Ming Dynasty in China than a book on Christian spirituality.
850 - May 2001 - Why John Henry Newman converted to Catholicism, Michael Davies
It was then that the ghost came a second time: In the Arian History I found the very same phenomenon .
851 - May 2001 - New WA Catholic schools document stresses orthodoxy
Effective religious education it says should reflect the same systematic demands and rigour as other subjects such as science history and literature and teachers of RE should present explain and justify the Christian message as it is transmitted by the Catholic Church.
852 - May 2001 - 'Systematic instruction in the faith' program to be launched in July, Bishop Luc Matthys
Third Millennium Ultimately it has its centre in Christ himself who is to be known loved and imitated so that in him we may live the life of the Trinity and with him transform history to its fulfilment in the heavenly Jerusalem.
853 - May 2001 - Vatican signals continuation of reform process, AD2000 Report
Archbishop Pells appointment to Sydney The announcement at midday 26 March Rome time that Archbishop George Pell of Melbourne had been chosen to succeed the 77-year-old Cardinal Clancy as Archbishop of Sydney was one of the most momentous in the history of the Catholic Church in Australia.
854 - Apr 2001 - Books: Keeping The Faith: Making a Difference by Wilson D. Miscamble, Michael Daniel
Available from AD Books) Keeping the Faith is a short book of reflections composed by Fr Wilson Miscamble an Australian priest who is a member of the Holy Cross order and professor of American History at the University of Notre Dame in the United States.
855 - Apr 2001 - Letters: ACU Syllabus (letter), John Kelly
Surely the evangelisation of academia can only be effected by a teaching community thoroughly versed in and committed to official Church teaching Catholic history and philosophy whose own scholarly and faith formation have equipped its members to discern wheat from chaff?
856 - Apr 2001 - Letters: Ambiguities (letter), Valentine Gallagher
We find nothing like this in the history of the Church and in the Councils of Florence Trent and Vatican I.
857 - Apr 2001 - How to avoid banal, superficial liturgies, Bishop Kevin Manning
Throughout the entire history of religion sacrifice and meal are inseparably united.
858 - Apr 2001 - US parishioners more outspoken about church "renovations", Zenit News Service
They have no concept of the history of the Church the theology of space in relationship to the liturgy and rather than go through the educational process they would rather just object to everything she contended.
859 - Apr 2001 - News: The Church Around the World
However such attacks and persecution he suggested could be all for the good of the Church noting that throughout the Churchs history persecutions have always preceded a Church that was flourishing as in Rome almost 2000 years ago and in Korea 200 years ago where some 10000 Christians were martyred.
860 - 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.
861 - Mar 2001 - What we must teach our children: Archbishop Chaput, Archbishop Charles J. Chaput
The Catholic faith has a rich and marvellous history and its always under attack from people who want to reinterpret the papacy or the crusades or Jesus himself to prove the whole thing is a fraud.
862 - Mar 2001 - Cardinal Ratzinger on 'Third Secret' of Fatima
This is the correct response to this moment of history characterised by the grave perils outlined in the images that follow.
863 - Mar 2001 - How monastic life can reinvigorate the Church, Fr Peter Knowles OP
As the 17th century English poet George Herbert phrased it (The Church Militant): Holy Macarius and Great Anthony made Pharaoh Moses changing history.
864 - Mar 2001 - ACU theology: how orthodox, how accountable?, Michael Gilchrist
The critique and the current status of women in academics sic and in religious ministry makes for a unique moment in history.
865 - Mar 2001 - News: The Church Around the World
The conference will run for a week from 5-12 July with speakers covering the wide range of subjects raised by a study of Mores life and works: Renaissance and Reformation history Utopia and attempts at ideal commonwealths comparative studies with the works of Erasmus Tyndale Thomas Aquinas and Thomas Becket Dante Lady Margaret Beaufort Margaret More Roper and many others.
866 - Feb 2001 - Books: 'The Essence Of Feminism' by Kirsten Birkett, Catherine Sheehan
Available from AD Books) In attempting to define the movement called feminism and in studying its history and its effect on the lives of women Kirsten Birkett the author of The Essence of Feminism comes to the conclusion that it has not improved life for women or society in general as is commonly believed.
867 - Feb 2001 - The finest RE texts produced to date, Anthony Cappello
q Anthony Cappello has a Master of Arts degree in History and a Bachelor of Theology from Yarra Theological Union.
868 - Feb 2001 - New RE texts launched in Melbourne's Catholic schools, Michael Gilchrist
At this point in the Churchs history in Australia with problems of belief and practice among many of its members Melbourne Archdioceses initiative to address this situation deserves every support and encouragement from parents teachers clergy and the Catholic community generally.
869 - Dec 2000 - Books: 'Biblical Holy Places: An Illustrated Guide' by Rivka Gonen, Catherine Sheehan
For anyone who wants to travel to these places Biblical Holy Places is particularly valuable as it provides a detailed history of each site and the corresponding scriptural passages.
870 - Dec 2000 - Books: 200 Years of Faith: A Multimedia Tour of the Holy Land, Catherine Sheehan
Available from AD Books also Nutramag International 61 (03) 9571 9516) This CD-ROM of the Holy Land which includes two discs explores the rich history and beauty of the Biblical sites and educates the user at the same time through interactive games and puzzles.
871 - Dec 2000 - News: The Church Around the World
According to the Norwegian Nobel Committee the award to the first Catholic Korean President in history is merited because of his work for democracy and human rights in South Korea and in East Asia in general and for peace and reconciliation with North Korea in particular.
872 - Nov 2000 - Books: A CD-ROM 'Virtual Tour' of St Peter's Basilica, Catherine Sheehan
It also contains a wealth of information about most aspects of the Basilica from its artwork to the history of the buildings and the Popes going right back to St Peter.
873 - Nov 2000 - Science and Christianity: can they co-exist in the new millennium?, Stephen Hitchings
Yet it is a fact of history that modern science - along with democratic government opposition to slavery and other values which anti- Christian liberals have since adopted as their own - was born and nurtured in the cradle of a Christian culture.
874 - Nov 2000 - New lay apostolate: Confraternity of the Holy Name of Jesus, Barry O'Brien
On Sunday 3 September Fr Tobin together with approximately 32 parishioners took a significant step in the history of the Catholic Church in Australia by becoming the first parish to form a branch of the Confraternity of the Holy Name of Jesus.
875 - Nov 2000 - News: The Church Around the World
Meanwhile in response to questions regarding the document Cardinal Francis George of Chicago said he was grateful for this declaration stressing that it opposes religious relativism which bases truth in personal experience rather than in Gods self revelation in history.
876 - Nov 2000 - Canonisation of 120 Chinese martyrs: has much changed under communism?, AD2000 Report
While Christianitys long history in China has been marked by periods of impressive growth it has also had to endure savage per- secutions.
877 - Oct 2000 - An authentic Christian spirituality grounded in objective revelation, Michael Daniel
Christianity exists because Christians believe that God revealed Himself at various points in history the summit of this revelation being Jesus Christ.
878 - Oct 2000 - News: The Church Around the World
As an expert in Church history especially the period of Pius IX John XXIII had on 2 January 1959 already sent a hand-written note to Bishop Canestri in which he said: I bless your person whom I would love to receive in audience and I encourage you in a holy enterprise I feel profoundly: the glorification of Pius IX.
879 - Sep 2000 - Ensuring our schools are truly Catholic, Br John Moylan CFC
Classroom prayer has been a strong feature of Australian Catholic schools in much of their short history.
880 - Sep 2000 - News: The Church Around the World
The Forums theme came from John Paul IIs Letter on pilgrimages to places linked with salvation history (29.
881 - Aug 2000 - A tribute to Cardinal John O'Connor, Msgr Michael J. Wrenn
The rest is history The untimely death of your good and great friend Bishop James Kileen whose first Mass I attended in 1942 at St Jeromes in the South Bronx brought you to New York to work in the Military Ordinariate and to the keen attention of Cardinal Cooke and our Holy Father.
882 - Aug 2000 - 'We Shall Overcome': 'liberal' Catholicism after Vatican II, Norm Yodgee
One professor described them as the most idealistic generation in history.
883 - Aug 2000 - Cardinal Ratzinger on 'Third Secret' of Fatima
This is the correct response to this moment of history characterised by the grave perils outlined in the images that follow.
884 - Aug 2000 - Rockhampton: shuffling deck chairs on the 'Titanic', AD2000 Report
Fr Cyril Hally - at the cutting edge of mission developments throughout the world and with special interests in cultural anthropology mission history peace studies and the social teachings of the Church - delivered several keynote addresses.
885 - Jul 2000 - Reflection: St John the Baptist, the Precursor (Feast Day, 24 June), Br Christian Moe FSC
The Gospel writers were keenly aware of the Precursors significant role in Salvation History and in response to insistent questions Christ himself on more than one occasion underlines this prominence: .
886 - Jul 2000 - Educating Catholics in a secular culture: a Canadian Internet initiative, J. Fraser Field
As the State system has increasingly committed itself to an exclusively secular vision school resources have become less and less reflective of Christian values Christian content and in the areas of history and social studies Christian-based criteria of interpretation.
887 - Jul 2000 - News: The Church Around the World
It is always sad to see a period of history come to an end he continued.
888 - Jul 2000 - New campus of John Paul II Institute set to open in Melbourne, AD2000 Report
He is Episcopal Vicar for Health Care for the Archdiocese of Melbourne Master of Students at the Dominican House of Studies in East Camberwell and a qualified solicitor and bioethicist with degrees in history law philosophy and theology.
889 - Jun 2000 - News: The Church Around the World
EWTN News Update Pope beatifies Fatima children Third secret made public by Cardinal Sodano On 14 May for the first time in the history of the Church a Pope has beatified children who were not martyrs.
890 - May 2000 - Letters: Year of the Lord (letter), Fr Chrysostom Alexander
Another young teacher of devout Catholic upbringing told me quite recently how this part of the curriculum caused distress to some of her young pupils unwilling to see Our Lord removed from his place in history.
891 - May 2000 - Understanding the Incarnation, Msgr Peter J. Elliott
Was he writing fanciful theology or was there real history behind his work?
892 - May 2000 - How do we know whether a sacrament is valid or not?, Fr Peter Joseph
The true meaning of this formula must be understood from history from theologians who used it and from the ancient practice of the Church.
893 - May 2000 - News: The Church Around the World
In a book entitled Fascism the Church and the Catholic Movement in Italy: 1922-1943 published by the Institute of World History of the Russian Academy for Sciences the author states that Pius XIIs attitude towards Nazism was dictated by prudence and that the Vatican was not subject to an anti-Jewish policy.
894 - Apr 2000 - Impressive gathering of young people attend TMC Summer School, Michael Daniel
Sr Mary Augustine a Dominican from Wagga then spoke about Marys role in the history of Salvation.
895 - Apr 2000 - John Paul II calls for recovery of the true spirit of Vatican II, AD2000 Report
The continuity of Vatican II with 2000 years of Church history was emphasised by the Holy Father when he referred to the four fundamental Council Constitutions.
896 - Apr 2000 - News: The Church Around the World
An invitation to ask for a prayer is just one of many features on the site which includes a virtual tour of the convent and a wealth of history about the place.
897 - Mar 2000 - Biography: Fulton J. Sheen: prophetic inspiration for today's new evangelisation, Archbishop Barry J. Hickey
I will give you two suggestions he said always keep current: know what the modern world is thinking about read its poetry its history its literature observe its architecture and its art hear its music and its theatre and then plunge deeply into St Thomas and the wisdom of the ancients and you will be able to refute its errors.
898 - Mar 2000 - Education: Religious education: putting the emphasis back on God, Br John Moylan CFC
Some tried and true methods among many others used in the past include making the liturgical year a highlight in the classroom and home clear thorough and tested knowledge of doctrines prayers Church and Bible history etc the use of aspirations devotional practices inspiring stories of the saints on their feast days the use of the initials AMDG (Ad Maiorem Dei Gloriam) at the top of each page punctuating the school day with set prayer every hour and the bringing of flowers for Our Ladys altar.
899 - Mar 2000 - New York Scripture seminar affirms reliability of New Testament, Eamonn Keane
Wright a former lecturer in the New Testament at Oxford University as well as canon- theologian at Westminster Abbey stated that Christianity depends on things that happened within history and he pointed out that a failure to anchor Christianity in historical realities easily leads to inventing a Jesus to suit our own ideologies.
900 - Mar 2000 - Priestly vocations increasing in Melbourne, Fr Paul Stuart
The orthodoxy of the new seminary is evolving relatively well after a tumultuous period in its eighty-year history.
901 - Mar 2000 - News: The Church Around the World
org/) to provide resources to teachers conveying the important role Christian culture has played in history.
902 - Mar 2000 - English language Mass translation reform: should ICEL be wound up?, Michael Gilchrist
ICEL has a history of attempting to circumvent the authority of Catholic bishops and the Vatican.
903 - Feb 2000 - Reflection: Private revelations: "Keep to what is countenanced by the Church", Fr Peter Joseph
It is not their role to improve or complete Christs definitive Revelation but to furnish help so that it may be more fully applied to life in a certain period of history.
904 - Feb 2000 - Letters: Rockhampton (letter), Franklin J. Wood
But that fact raises the taboo subject history - even if it is politically correct to teach high school students Aboriginal history and about the excessive power of the Catholic Church in medieval Europe.
905 - Feb 2000 - Books: 'A Victorian Convert Quintet' by Michael Clifton, Michael Daniel
A Victorian Convert Quintet would be of value to anyone interested in Catholic history.
906 - Feb 2000 - Books: ‘Invisible Crown: A Story of Dorothy von Flue’ by Michael McGrade, Michael Davies
To this McGrade has added a fascinating short history of the life and times of St Nicholas which he researched in Europe since information in the English-speaking world about this saint is threadbare to say the least.
907 - Feb 2000 - Books: 'Rome Reshaped: Jubilees 1300-2000' by Desmond O’Grady, Michael Daniel
Inquiries Central Catholic Bookshop Melbourne) Desmond OGradys latest book - Rome Reshaped - is an interesting account of the History of Roman Jubilees.
908 - Feb 2000 - Defending the faith against secularism and relativism, Bishop Kevin Manning
The science of theology relates the unchanging Word of God to the various cultural shifts and changes of our history.
909 - Dec 1999 - On the Highway to Heaven: Wagga priest's trucking apostolate, Fr Thomas Casanova
To increase the number and holiness of the faithful is most important but building a church is a unique opportunity of grace in the history of a parish.
910 - Dec 1999 - History: The Crusades: separating myth from reality, Zenit News Service
A simple review of history along very general lines confirms an obvious truth: Christianity is constantly on the defensive when it comes to Moslem aggression; this has been the case from the beginning until now.
911 - Dec 1999 - The Holy City: recent impressions of old and new Jerusalem, Desmond Piggin
Overall Jerusalem has had a long and unhappy history.
912 - Dec 1999 - Church art and architecture: 'sacramental role' is central, Msgr M. Francis Mannion
This problem derives I believe in great part from an impoverished Trinitarian cosmic and eschatological last things artistry in our places of worship and an inadequate presentation of the vision of eternal life of Christian hope in heavenly things of the return of Christ in glory and the lordship of Christ over history.
913 - Dec 1999 - Editorial: Christianity: a new millennium's challenges, Michael Gilchrist
Our Lords guarantee that the gates of Hell will not prevail has never encompassed every section of his Church throughout the world as past history illustrates.
914 - Nov 1999 - The Jesuits: 150 years of ministry in Australia, Elizabeth Ledlin
Church history is adorned with a host of Jesuit saints and martyrs from this theatre alone.
915 - Nov 1999 - New international Catholic university opens Internet campus, AD2000 Report
Reactions to the papal document together with the history of theological dissent since 1968 have made it clear that US Catholic campuses have become a battleground where the ultimate issue still remains in doubt.
916 - Nov 1999 - News: The Church Around the World
Given this state of affairs Pope John Paul II has convoked the second Continental Episcopal Synod in European history.
917 - Oct 1999 - Spanish academic revives speculation about authenticity of the Holy Grail, Zenit News Service
Over the length of 220 pages the author reviews the tradition that envelops the Sacred Chalice including archaeological research on its use in the Last Supper its use by the first Popes of Christianity it relocation to Spain medieval legends its stay in the Monastery of St John of la Peoa and its first entry into documented history at the end of the 14th century.
918 - Oct 1999 - Pope Pius XII's efforts to avert World War II, Zenit News Service
The release this October of Hitlers Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII by John Cornwall signals yet another campaign against Pope Pius XII over his role during World War II and in particular his alleged silence and inaction over the Jewish Holocaust.
919 - Oct 1999 - News: The Church Around the World
Within these are to be found examples of the seven foundation stones for catechetical content identified by the General Directory for Catechesis (1997): The Creed The Sacraments The Ten Commandments The Lords Prayer The Old Testament The New Testament and the History of the Church.
920 - Sep 1999 - Reflection: A spirit of poverty and the level of vocations: how they connect, Fr Fabian Duggan OSB
Of course many face-saving excuses are found to explain the sad phenomenon but I think all through Church history one salient failing is discernible one which grew until it became accepted as inevitable and its destructive influence was done: namely a breakdown in observance of the vow or spirit of poverty.
921 - Sep 1999 - Scripture: The call to conversion in the early Church: lessons for today, Rev Dr Peter Waters
The structure in the missionary speeches to the Gentiles - differing from that adopted in the case of the Jews - was as follows: Mention is made of the personal revelation of God in cosmic and human history.
922 - Aug 1999 - The pipe organ and Catholic liturgy: an expression of Church teaching, Jeremy Fletcher
A plaque will be placed on the organ noting the instruments original history and location.
923 - Aug 1999 - 'Veil of Veronica' rediscovered in Italian abbey, Zenit News Service
Fr Pfeiffer a professor of Christian Art History at the Pontifical Gregorian University says he found the relic in the Abbey of Monoppello Italy high in the Apennine Mountains.
924 - Aug 1999 - Vatican II and "Signs of the times": a call for a democratic Church?, Fr G.H. Duggan SM
Hegel the 19th century philosopher understood the signs of the times in a pantheistic sense as if the course of history properly understood in terms of his philosophy threw a clearer light on the nature of God and human destiny than that provided by the Christian Gospel as this is usually interpreted.
925 - Aug 1999 - News: The Church Around the World
He has written the official history of that club.
926 - Jul 1999 - Reflection: John Paul II: how the arts and Christian faith nourish each other, Pope John Paul II
In the Pastoral Constitution Gaudium et Spes the Fathers of the Council stressed the great importance of literature and the arts in human life: They seek to probe the true nature of man his problems and experiences as he strives to know and perfect himself and the world to discover his place in history and the universe to portray his miseries and joys his needs and strengths with a view to a better future.
927 - Jul 1999 - Jacques Maritain: modern philosophy in the tradition of St Thomas Aquinas, E. J. Borich
He was a progressive open to development and growth in human history but tied to the faith and living tradition of the Church he never veered in his Christian humanism into unreality.
928 - Jun 1999 - St Thomas Aquinas: philosopher for our time, Fr G.H. Duggan SM
In his masterly one-volume history of philosophy entitled From Socrates to Sartre chapter 9 is headed: The Apex of Medieval Philosophy: The Scholastic System of St Thomas Aquinas.
929 - Jun 1999 - The challenge for religious educators in a secular culture, Archbishop Charles J. Chaput
I became a soldier of Christ in a spiritual war that has gone on throughout history on every continent in every culture and in every individual heart I suppose expressions like spiritual warfare fell out of favour in the 1960s because they had a flavour of militarism or preconciliar theology.
930 - Jun 1999 - News: The Church Around the World
He traces the history of Christian art concluding that although many modern artists and thinkers are indifferent to faith religious art has never lost its vitality.
931 - Jun 1999 - Bishops Conference resolves crisis over 'Statement of Conclusions', Michael Gilchrist
The Australian Catholic Bishops Conference which met at Kensington Sydney between 6-15 April was one of the most important in the Churchs 200-year history in this country.
932 - May 1999 - Historic Marian statue brings joy to Perth's Italian Catholics, Rocco Loiacono
Notwithstanding these calamities of history Delianuova remains.
933 - May 1999 - Victoria's Governor pays tribute to Dr Mannix, Sir James Gobbo
None of these were popular stands at this time but in each case history has fully vindicated him.
934 - May 1999 - News: The Church Around the World
According to Adolfo Varas President of the Commission for the Promotion of Champagnats cause in Spain it was be a key event in the history of this religious congregation.
935 - Mar 1999 - Reflection: Being a disciple of Christ: no soft option, Archbishop George Pell
Original sin In a preliminary sense these are teachings about the cost of discipleship; of the ways we are forced to confront the consequences of original sin that moral fault line which runs through every heart every community indeed the whole of human history.
936 - Mar 1999 - How a parish priest reinforces the Church's moral teaching, Fr Michael Butler
The Pill is the only medication in medical history whose purpose is to take away vitality making a woman sick.
937 - Mar 1999 - Vocations: The Brothers of St Francis: a sign of renewal in religious life, Fr Christopher Sharah FSF
In the history of salvation religious have played a major role in the renewal of the Church: Francis Dominic Theresa of Avila John of the Cross Ignatius of Loyola and so on.
938 - Mar 1999 - News: The Church Around the World
The construction of the new cathedral in the historic centre of Warsaw was decided last October by an large majority of the Sejm the Polish Parliaments lower chamber in thanksgiving for the recovery of liberty following the fall of the Communist rgime in 1989; for the 20 years of John Paul IIs pontificate the first Polish Pope in history; and for the 2000 years since the birth of Christ.
939 - Mar 1999 - John Paul II's successful fourth visit to Mexico, AD2000 Report
For the first time in the history of the Church representatives of the hierarchies of North Central and South America and the Caribbean had sat at the same table to discuss common problems and new challenges.
940 - Feb 1999 - Bob Billings (1915-1999): outstanding Catholic layman, Peter Westmore
with a deep knowledge of the history geography and geology of the Western District of Victoria.
941 - Feb 1999 - Brompton Oratory: London's liturgical oasis, Joanna Bogle
Its history is - or should be - known to all English-speaking Catholics.
942 - Feb 1999 - Liturgy: Cardinal Ratzinger on the old and the new Mass, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger
The divers communities that were born thanks to this pontifical text have given the Church a great number of priestly and religious vocations who zealously joyfully and deeply united with the Pope have given their service to the Gospel in our present era of history.
943 - Feb 1999 - News: The Church Around the World
There are strong doctrinal offerings along with solid grounding in such areas as Latin Maths history and grammar.
944 - Feb 1999 - John Paul II throws down the gauntlet to Australia's bishops, AD2000 Report
Never in Australias history however has the guidance been as wide-ranging and pointed as on their recent visit.
945 - Dec 1998 - John Paul II's new encyclical 'Faith and Reason' analysed, Hayden Ramsay
The Pope provides a history of the Magisteriums interventions in philosophical matters (astrology evolutionism existentialism rationalism fideism .
946 - Dec 1998 - Missionary Brother's heroism in PNG tidal wave disaster, Eric Carman
To this must now be added the role of co-ordinator of the rescue operation during those few days in July 1998 following the worst disaster in the history of Papua New Guinea - the Sissano tsunami.
947 - Dec 1998 - Intercommunion: why Catholics need not 'apologise', Kevin Myers
Sacrifice Even the words - host meaning sacrificial victim sacrament or holy oath Eucharist the thanks for Christs sacrifice on the Cross - declare that what is being celebrated are for Catholics the greatest moments in the history of the world: the Last Supper the Crucifixion the Resurrection.
948 - Dec 1998 - Cardinal Ratzinger presents John Paul II's latest encyclical, Michael Gilchrist
which spans all eras and seasons of life and of the history of humanity.
949 - Sep 1998 - Archbishop Pell: 'Humanae Vitae' teachings 'are not an optional extra', Michael Gilchrist
The Archbishop described Humanae Vitae as probably the most famous and least understood encyclical in history.
950 - Aug 1998 - U.S. Priests and seminarians survey: more vocations in orthodox dioceses, Human Life International
A list of these dioceses was then submitted to a number of individuals with extensive knowledge of the history of the American Catholic Church for confirmation and correction.
951 - Aug 1998 - Cardinal John Henry Newman and the development of doctrine, Fr Peter Waters
Vincent a priest-monk of Lerins the island monastery founded by St Honoratus circa 400AD near Cannes on the French Riviera is a quite important figure in the history of doctrine.
952 - Jul 1998 - Inclusive language: 'eventually all nonsense implodes upon itself', Gerald Wilson
History records no martyrs who suffered for the Unknown God.
953 - Jun 1998 - John Henry Newman on liturgical tradition, Cardinal John Henry Newman
We have other instances in our Lords history besides those of his circumcision and baptism to show the reverence with which he regarded the religion which he came to fulfil.
954 - Jun 1998 - New Texts the key to reshaping religious education, Msgr Peter J. Elliott
These stories not only give children and young people a positive sense of Christian history but offer examples to follow and personalities who inspire.
955 - Mar 1998 - Vatican Instruction on the role of the laity is binding on Catholics, Peter Westmore
He showed how this had been derived from Christs commands to St Peter and the Apostles and the teachings in other books of the New Testament which have been confirmed and developed throughout the history of the Church by Councils of Bishops and Popes most recently the Second Vatican Council.
956 - Feb 1998 - Reflection: The Mass: the symbolism of 'facing East', Fr Fabian Duggan OSB
Much devastation and vandalism have been wrought by self-appointed prophets and much serious damage to immortal souls with the sacred liturgy often reduced to the level of a low grade concert hall by people lacking the slightest notion of what liturgy is let alone its history and development through the centuries.
957 - Dec 1997 - Cardinal John O'Connor: what Catholics believe, Cardinal John O'Connor
Neither money nor history nor legitimate community pride can replace the spirit of truth.
958 - Nov 1997 - Editorial: Can the tide of religious illiteracy be reversed?
It is now history that the Commission of Cardinals instruction was disobeyed with the corrections/ clarifications confined to a supplement at the back of the Dutch Catechism instead of in the body of the work.
959 - Jul 1997 - Reflection: Catholic youth: facing the challenges to faith (Pastoral Letter), Archbishop George Pell
No generation in Australian history has been offered richer prizes for success or been forced to pay more for failure.
960 - Jul 1997 - Books: 'Banished Camelots: Recollections of a Catholic Childhood', by John Redrup, Br Christian Moe FSC
History itself will ultimately determine whether the direction-setters of the contemporary Church have been in error; if this should prove to be the case then the Church itself in Gods good time will make the necessary corrections.
961 - May 1997 - Pilgrimage in search of Byzantium and early Christianity
Anyone interested in the art and history of this intriguing and neglected side of Christianity and its place in European thought and philosophy should contact Archdeacon Cross for details on (03) 9563 3631.
962 - Feb 1997 - The Catholic Church in Singapore: why is it strong and healthy?, Michael Barr
I have however been studying aspects of Singapores history and society for several years and feel that I can at the risk of oversimplifying the situation report a few personal observations which may be of interest to AD2000 readers.
963 - Feb 1997 - 'Catholic Church Life Survey': 250,000 parishioners polled, Michael Gilchrist
During November 1996 in what must be the largest project of its kind in the Churchs history 250000 Catholics in about 400 Australian parishes were asked to fill out one of four different survey forms distributed during Masses.
964 - Oct 1996 - Reflection: Mediator Dei: Recovering the 'vital impulse' of the liturgical movement, Bishop Basil Meeking (Christchurch, New Zealand)
In the history of the Church he pointed out the old and the new are always closely linked.
965 - Sep 1996 - Editorial: Archbishop Pell’s appointment to Melbourne, B.A. Santamaria
Granted the size and the history of the Archdiocese perhaps this would have been so in any period in the history of the Catholic Church in Australia.
966 - Jul 1996 - Books: 'Critics on Trial - An Introduction to the Catholic Modernist Crisis', O'Connell, Fr John Parsons
Its ridiculous little world scheme and its fussy little god (sic) and above all its deplorable history.
967 - Jun 1996 - Michael Davies' Australia / NZ tour - The Catholic liturgy: where is it headed?, Michael Gilchrist
What occurred after Vatican II was absolutely unique in the history of the Churchs liturgy: previously all liturgical rites had evolved gradually over centuries; by contrast the new Mass was the first to be manufactured by a committee of liturgists.
968 - Jun 1996 - McBrien's 'Catholicism': what the US Bishops criticised
the description of the history of the development of this belief gives the impression that rather than a truth that the Church only gradually uncovered the belief in the perpetual virginity of Mary was a creation of the third-century Church as part of its program to promote virginity and asceticism.
969 - May 1996 - Books: 'Redefining The Church: Vision and Practice', Richard Lennan ed, Fr Ephraem Chifley OP
As history demonstrates a democracy without values easily turns into open or thinly disguised totalitarianism.
970 - Apr 1996 - Emperor Charles I: World War I peace campaigner, James Bogle
This Charles came to the throne of his Habsburg ancestors at a time when Europe and the world were plunged into the bloodiest war that human history had ever at that time known.
971 - Apr 1996 - Vatican II, 1962-1965 - The next 30 years: to bring about a Catholic revival, Fr John Parsons
This latter theory is in no way taught by Vatican I and does not form part of Catholic doctrine; indeed an acquaintance with Church history makes such a theory scarcely tenable.
972 - Mar 1996 - Examining the impact of Vatican II after 30 years, Fr John Parsons
Having reached such a significant anniversary of an event so important in the life and history of the Church it is appropriate that we evaluate the results of that great assembly and the events which have flowed from it and consider where the Church might be headed in the next millennium.
973 - Feb 1996 - 'Mass facing the people': did Vatican II require it?, Eamon Duffy
Dr Duffy is Reader in Church History at the University of Cambridge and author of a definitive analysis of the Reformation in England The Stripping of the Altars.
974 - Feb 1996 - Editorial: When - if ever - will the Church act to safeguard her authority?, B.A. Santamaria
Accordingly one may hope that in the longer term the supernatural factors which have operated at different times of crisis during its long history will reassert themselves.
975 - Nov 1995 - Evangelium Vitae - Catholicism, the media and the 'culture of death', Bishop George Pell
) the environment the interpretation of literature the writing of history and centrally the meaning of sex with all the consequent differences over abortion contraception and pornography.
976 - Oct 1995 - Lord Ripon (1828-1909) - I - How to base political life on Christian principles, Fr John Parsons
When this dogmatic and traditional core of Christianity was confronted with the facts of Church history whether patristic or medieval and with the need to take a more balanced view of human culture and human nature than Calvinism could integrate many Evangelicals turned to a more Catholic vision of a continuous visible and sacramental Church.
977 - Sep 1995 - Alexander Rzewuski (1893-1983): The Catholic Church viewed with 'fresh eyes', Fr Peter Knowles OP
Alexander was descended from a long line of Poles who had played a prominent part in the history of their country as hereditary Hetman of the crown.
978 - Aug 1995 - Reflection: A Catholic undergraduate faces the future with confidence, Lucy O'Connell
If we know our faith if we really know its depths and its history and its reasons then we will be equipped to participate actively in this dialogue.
979 - Aug 1995 - Fr Paul Collins: seeking a new green constituency?, Michael Gilchrist
Today the people of the world - including Asia - are better fed better clothed and better educated than at any time in history.
980 - Jul 1995 - Edel Quinn (1907-1944): Ireland's 20th century apostle to Africa, Michael Gilchrist
Edel is going to make history - if she is let.
981 - Jun 1995 - Why Vatican rejected 'inclusive' New Revised Standard Version Bible, Fr G.H. Duggan SM
The history of English literature shows that the dualistic nature of the word man has been inherent in the English language for about a thousand years.
982 - May 1995 - Editorial: Re-defining Christianity through substitution, B.A. Santamaria
The history of these kinds of experiments over the past twenty years ought to have indicated how misguided they are.
983 - Apr 1995 - Catholicism: 'revealed by God, not devised by man', Fr Graham Leonard (former Anglican Bishop of London)
He has written extensively on religious topics including What Anglicans Believe (Mowbray) and the three-volume history Christian England (HarperCollins).
984 - Apr 1995 - New Melbourne R.E. Guidelines: an improvement on the old, Michael Gilchrist
It is good to find ample scope offered at different levels for a study of such topics as the Churchs rich legacy of religious art architecture and music Eastern Catholicism and the Churchs different Rites the impact of Vatican II the role and significance of Mary Church history (both general and Australian) lives of the saints and the history and work of religious orders.
985 - Mar 1995 - Leonid Federov (1879-1935): Russian Catholicism - a brave vision unfulfilled, Fr Peter Knowles OP
And during his years of study at the Academy his preferred subjects were Church History and the Greek and Latin Fathers.
986 - Mar 1995 - Aboriginal religion and Christianity: 'fundamentally incompatible', Max Champion
Human existence and history are also given a relative value.
987 - Mar 1995 - A young Catholic's view of Youth Liturgies, Bernard Finnigan
He said that the Mass was beyond history.
988 - Dec 1994 - An Open Letter to the Manly Seminary staff, Fr Brian Harrison OS
It includes such elements as the law of non-contradiction and the awareness that after all allowance has been made for changing circumstances and historical conditioning it is possible to formulate true propositions about religion history metaphysics and ethics whose meaning is not only immutable but accessible and intelligible to people of all times and cultures.
989 - Nov 1994 - Editorial: The Church's Achilles Heel: administration, B.A. Santamaria
At the end of the twentieth century the Church is fortunate to have one of the most able courageous and inspiring Pontiffs in its long history.
990 - Oct 1994 - An Anglican Bishop responds to Bishop Spong - defending Christian revelation, Bishop David Silk (Anglican Bishop of Ballarat)
As Stephen Neill wrote somewhere That Jesus Christ whom the Christian meets when he comes to Holy Communion who is made present to him in the proclamation of the Gospel in Christian worship to whom he speaks when he prays who speaks to him through the Holy Spirit is the same Jesus who was born at a specific time and place in history who lived a human life who spoke certain words did certain deeds and suffered certain things of which we have clear though far from complete knowledge.
991 - Oct 1994 - Canberra-Goulburn diocese's 'Gender Inclusive Guidelines', Colin Jory
The Guidelines happily use the term woman even though the man in wo-man has exactly the same inclusive meaning and linguistic history as man in mankind.
992 - Sep 1994 - New edition of Fr Richard McBrien's 'Catholicism': but dissent still remains, James Likoudis
Two of the same factors which generated a change in our understanding of Jesus Christ and of Christian faith itself namely a newly critical way of reading the New Testament and a newly evolutionary way of perceiving human existence and human history (p.
993 - Aug 1994 - How dissent operates in the Church, Bishop George Pell
What about the many saintly and powerful women in Church history ranging from Mary Mother of God to Mary MacKillop?
994 - Aug 1994 - Bishop Spong at Australian Catholic University - Why?, Michael Gilchrist
Reviewing Spongs book in the Church Times (18 March) Bishop Richard Holloway of Edinburgh commented: Spong leaves us with a God who cannot save because He has no control over nature and history.
995 - Aug 1994 - Editorial: Now that the rebellion is in the open - what?, B.A. Santamaria
Past history indicates that the likely answer is Nothing.
996 - Jul 1994 - The revolt of the Religious Orders - Cardinal Ratzinger's statement
Leonard who has conducted postgraduate research on the history of papal teaching on women said that a person who was informed about the findings of the Pontifical Biblical Commission and other recent research on the issue could continue to believe in good conscience that the question was not yet settled.
997 - Jul 1994 - Putting orthodoxy on the line, B.A. Santamaria
Even for the Catholic to whom all of the serious arguments against religious belief are as well-known as the many unpalatable aspects of Papal history it is not easy to accept.
998 - Jun 1994 - Fr Hubert Jedin's 1968 'Letter to the German Bishops', Fr Hubert Jedin
Father Hubert Jedin is best known as the author of the definitive History of the Council of Trent (4 volumes) and a ten-volume History of the Church which was translated into English the year after his death in 1981.
999 - May 1994 - Reflection: Our Lady: the family context, Bishop George Pell
Mary had no easy run through life because of her unique position in salvation history.
1000 - Apr 1994 - Making sense of 'Veritatis Splendor', Bishop Kevin Manning
In history martyrs by preferring death to sin have borne witness to the inviolable holiness of Gods law and the respect due to the requirements of the dignity of each person.
1001 - Mar 1994 - The new Catechism and Cardinal Newman, Archbishop Eric D'Arcy
who know their faith who enter into it who know just where they stand who know what they hold and what they do not who know their creed so well that they can give an account of it and who know enough of history to defend it.
1002 - Feb 1994 - Can liturgical 'reform' be reformed?, Simon Matthews
However two recent publications open the possibility of a detailed study of the principles and events behind the most radical change in the liturgy of the Roman Rite in the history of the Church.
1003 - Feb 1994 - The state of Catholicism after 'Veritatis Splendor', B.A. Santamaria
Strauss for example regarded the Gospels not as history but as myth; as expressing religious but not historical truth.
1004 - Nov 1993 - Brompton Oratory, London: Keeping Catholic tradition alive, Simon Matthews
As other congregations and orders suffer the fate not uncommon in the history of the Church of dying out the Congregation of the Oratory appears secure in its priestly charism of faithful service at the altar pulpit and confessional.
1005 - Nov 1993 - In the aftermath of 'Veritatis Splendor', B.A. Santamaria
In the light of that fact what will be the effect of its publication at this particular moment in the Churchs history?
1006 - Aug 1993 - Reflection: Feast of the Assumption and the Japanese connection, Robert Denahy
The Blessed Virgin and in particular the Feast of her Assumption have played a significant part in the history of modem Japan.
1007 - Mar 1993 - What the secular humanists are up to, David Quinn
Throughout human history almost all cultures arose out of a common value system a metaphysic.
1008 - Nov 1992 - Editorial: Turning the Faith inside out, B.A. Santamaria
If Jesus was not God he was no more than one of thousands of itinerant holy men who have lived throughout the course of history some Christian some Muslim some Buddhist some anything.
1009 - Oct 1992 - Reflection: Fatima - after seventy-five years, Bishop George Pell
Whatever the subsequent history of Eastern Europe and the former U.
1010 - Sep 1992 - Crises in the Church: Fr Hubert Jedin's warning to Rome
He wrote the definitive history of the Council of Trent and a ten-volume History of the Church.
1011 - Sep 1992 - 'Science can't explain Creation of the Universe' - Fr. Stanley Jaki in Australia, Peter Westmore
is the distinguished Professor of the History and Philosophy of Physics at Seton Hall University New Jersey.
1012 - Aug 1992 - The problem of suffering, Fr Campion Murray OFM
To use the language of metaphor and the language of faith the darkest moment in human history was when the sky was darkened on Calvary and the sun stopped shining as represented in the Gospel texts.
1013 - Aug 1992 - Surveys highlight decline of mainline Christianity, Michael Gilchrist
programs remains undeniable - and in the Catholic secondary school this must mean at the very least apologetics Church history and Scripture study.
1014 - Aug 1992 - Editorial: The graph points downwards, B.A. Santamaria
whose definitive work was a history of the Council of Trent and whose subsequent 10-volume history of the Church was finally translated into English in 1982 the year after his death.
1015 - Jun 1992 - Monika Hellwig visits Australia, Michael Gilchrist
827 2): Books dealing with matters concerning sacred Scripture theology canon law church history or religious or moral subjects may not be used as textbooks on which the instruction is based in elementary intermediate or higher schools i.
1016 - May 1992 - Christianity's first three centuries - the truth behind the myth, Andrew Quinlan
One of the places where the battle rages is in history since the way one reads the Churchs history can be determined by a certain bias of belief related to the present day situation.
1017 - May 1992 - Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy: has ecumenism lost its way?, Fr Peter Knowles OP
Their history is that after decades of discussion some Orthodox subjects of the King of Poland who were yet ecclesiastically members of the beleaguered Patriarchate of Constantinople petitioned Rome that they might place themselves within the number of those Christians who were in full union with Rome.
1018 - Apr 1992 - Sexist language: theological mumbo-jumbo, Frank Mobbs
That through most of its history the English language evolved in a patriarchal or male-dominated society and as a result its vocabulary and grammar tend to exclude women.
1019 - Apr 1992 - Whence Ecumenism? The Vatican and ARCIC, Michael Davies
a Catholic member of and longstanding apologist for ARCIC claimed that the latest chapter in its history does have a happy ending.
1020 - Apr 1992 - Problems of modern Biblical scholarship, B.A. Santamaria
the bishops) to decide what was the tradition can the passage of the Church scatheless through this crisis be explained (Philip Hughes History of the Church Vol.
1021 - Dec 1991 - Editorial: Can the internal schism be solved?, B.A. Santamaria
If however its proponents are right then the claims of the Catholic Church have been false from the beginning of its history and we have all been misled.
1022 - Nov 1991 - NCC Anniversary: National Civic Council 50th anniversary celebration, 7 October 1991 - address, Bishop George Pell
History has vindicated your judgement and only the dominoes of Cuba Vietnam North Korea and China remain to fall.
1023 - Nov 1991 - Editorial: When television told the truth, B.A. Santamaria
The second group barely gave nodding recognition to the essential principles of the Faith as revealed by Christ; to the development of doctrine and ecclesiastical structures - particularly the episcopate and the priesthood - which flowed from His teachings in the first two centuries of the Churchs history; and to the organic development of the concept of authority which has evolved consistently through the Churchs General Councils down to the Second Vatican Council.
1024 - Oct 1991 - France and the revival of traditional Catholicism, Dr Geoffrey Hull
Throughout the history of the Western Church developments of the first importance have begun in France and only later reached Rome.
1025 - Oct 1991 - 'Faith of Our Fathers' - still valid for the 1990s, Bishop George Pell
The Catholic Church in Australia is passing through a period of pluriformity unusual in our brief history but one finds many parallels in the two thousand-year-long Christian story and the longer story of Judaism beforehand.
1026 - Oct 1991 - The priesthood: one layman's view, B.A. Santamaria
Catholicism with 4 million adherents now embraced 26% of the population and for the first time in the history of Australia had become numerically the largest denomination.
1027 - Aug 1991 - New Zealand Catholicism to put on Maori clothing?, John Kennedy OBE
First for most of the Churchs history here Maori Catholics tended to be neither seen nor heard.
1028 - Jun 1991 - Encyclical: John Paul II's Memorial to 'Rerum Novarum': a summary of 'Centesimus Annus', B.A. Santamaria
The third section of the new Encyclical traces the social history of Western societies since World War II which the Pope characterises as a situation of non-war rather than genuine peace!
1029 - Mar 1991 - Editorial: Statistician registers numbers of believers - but what do they believe?, B.A. Santamaria
For the first time in Australian history Catholics constitute numerically the largest denomination in Australia.
1030 - Oct 1990 - Newman belongs to us all, Fr Peter J. Elliott
The year 1990 marks the centenary of the death of John Henry Newman one of the most influential figures in the recent history of the Catholic Church.
1031 - Aug 1990 - Christians and the 'Green' prophets of doom: the need for scepticism, Bill Muehlenberg
However a casual review of recent history suggests that various apocalyptic predictions have been uttered in the past.
1032 - Jun 1990 - Being a Catholic in 1990: Rev James Murray interviews Bob Santamaria, James S. Murray
If the Catholic Church in wants the whole-hearted support of its believing community its got to be true to itself its doctrines its history and its social teaching.
1033 - Apr 1990 - Architects of failure on the offensive: US theologians 'pan' new Catechism, Michael Gilchrist
The Woodstock experts then argue that the Catechism lacks an appreciation of history and development of doctrine.
1034 - Apr 1990 - Editorial: 'Everything is connected with everything else', B.A. Santamaria
No one can ignore the force of the argument arising from the simple volume of human suffering endured throughout human history often completely undeserved and without apparent meaning or purpose.
1035 - Mar 1990 - 'Being church': manipulating language to change meaning, Fr Peter J. Elliott
The very concept of nation has an interesting and complex history.
1036 - Feb 1990 - 'Holland of the Pacific'?: Catholicism in New Zealand, John Kennedy OBE
What was to have been a triumph of renewal became one of the saddest weekends in the history of the Auckland Diocese.
1037 - Feb 1990 - Books: Archbishop Oscar Romero: a modern martyr - 'Romero: a Life', by James Brockman, Paul Gray
) 283 pp James Brockmans biography of Archbishop Oscar Romero is a thorough documentation of the life of one of the most significant churchmen of modern history.
1038 - Feb 1990 - Thomas Aquinas College, California: a model of Catholic higher education, Michael Gilchrist
The seminar approach favoured at Thomas Aquinas entails a theoretical inquiry into the great issues raised by classic works in philosophy literature history economics and political science.
1039 - Feb 1990 - Cardinal Newman: a centenary tribute, Dr Frank Mobbs
But Newman grounded as he was in the history of the early Church one riddled with dissensions but one which went on to give salvation to many has taught us to love the Church and to have patience with her.
1040 - Dec 1989 - Can Catholic integrity be recovered?, Colin Jory
The formulation of principles of social justice goes well back into Church history; however it was the Pontificate of Leo XIII which first saw a coherent body of Catholic social thought promulgated throughout the Church.
1041 - Nov 1989 - Thomas More and today's crisis in faith and morals, John Finnis
On such matters our situation is in all essentials humanly the same as our Christian forebears; our options however elaborated at the level of technique are in terms of intentionality (and therefore of moral assessment) the same options and the moral judgement to be made on them is in all essentials to be found in the public revelation completed in Christ and the reception of his words and deeds by his Apostles and thence by the apostolic community established by Christ to transmit those words and deeds through the remainder of human history.
1042 - Sep 1989 - Christianity: new threats in the aftermath of the fall of Communism, Paul Johnson
His recent writings include A History of the Modern World and Intellectuals.
1043 - Jul 1989 - An Agnostic analyses Catholicism: interview with Leszek Kolokawski, Paul Gray
Professor Leszek Kolakowski until 1968 Professor of the History of Philosophy at Warsaw University and now a Fellow of All Souls College Oxford is one of the Western worlds leading scholars in the field of the history of political and religious philosophy.
1044 - Jul 1989 - Making a revolution by changing the meaning of words, Frank Mobbs
and to teach history social studies and religious knowledge in ways that counteract inbuilt prejudices and hostilities .
1045 - Jun 1989 - Australian Catholicism's one million "lost": a sociological analysis, B.A. Santamaria
It is also to be found in the field of doctrine in which the obvious denial of the truth of the Resurrection (as the Church has always understood that central event of its own history) is only one of the many apparently permitted doctrinal deviations.
1046 - May 1989 - Catholic educational bureaucracies - what now?, B.A. Santamaria
Those who foresaw the dangers were simply swept aside and have remained in the dustbin of Catholic history ever since.
1047 - Mar 1989 - Who do they think they are?, B.A. Santamaria
History records it as the first beginnings of the Reformation.
1048 - Feb 1989 - The condition of Catholic teacher training in Australia, Michael Gilchrist
Few if any graduates of our Catholic schools appear to grasp what makes Catholicism distinctive; there is only the barest understanding of the role of the Papacy the supernatural of the sacrifice of the Mass of the need for an informed conscience or of the Churchs rich history.
1049 - Dec 1988 - Books: Liberation theology and the great revolutionary fantasy, by Phillip Berryman, Paul Gray
The history of guerrilla warfare in Latin America since the 1960s shows that the negative effects of a failed revolutionary enterprise are frequently catastrophic for entire populations.
1050 - Dec 1988 - At a Catholic teachers' college, 'A Parent'
The three points of view re: virgin birth are listed and then can be read against earlier times - Since the miraculous is outside our history then recent predispositions are against the idea that Jesus who is like us in all things but sin would be conceived differently from other human beings.
1051 - Oct 1988 - A Catholic university for Australia: surely not modelled on Notre Dame?, Michael Gilchrist
A Church History course titled Church Evolution presented a highly negative version of Catholicism including assertions that Luther was basically right and that Jesus was a creature of his time.
1052 - Jul 1988 - 'Humanae Vitae' twenty years after, B.A. Santamaria
Australias most widely-publicised historian Professor Manning Clark who in the past has proved to be no enemy of these developments has recently written: This is the first generation in history which literally believes in nothing.
1053 - Jun 1988 - Muggeridge at eighty-five: the long road from agnosticism to faith, B.A. Santamaria
Imagination The final lines of his recently published Conversion demand both some knowledge of the history of Christianity as the universal faith of Europe East and West as well as an effort of the imagination to savour their significance.
1054 - May 1988 - Cardinal Ratzinger: defender of the Faith, Andrew Greenwich
Not withstanding the inevitable hostility in a few years Cardinal Ratzinger has raised the reputation enjoyed by the office of the Grand Inquisition to a level that it has never known in all its long history.
1055 - May 1988 - John Paul II's new social encyclical, Sollicitudo rei socialis, B.A. Santamaria
Perhaps the most controversial section of the encyclical is that which articulates its view of two imperialisms or more accurately two tendencies towards imperialism: Each of the two blocs harbours in its own way a tendency towards imperialism as it is usually called or towards forms of neo-colonialism: an easy temptation to which they frequently succumb as history including recent history teaches.
1056 - Apr 1988 - Books: The Desolate City: The Catholic Church in Ruins, by Anne Roche Muggeridge, Michael Gilchrist
There is not only the wider perspective of history but the advent of a remarkable new Pope.
1057 - Aug 2014 - Eyewitness to history: the canonisation of St John Paul II, Wanda Skowronska
1058 - May 2013 - History: The Church in the Middle Ages: the role of bishops, Frank Mobbs
1059 - Dec 2012 - History: Parish life in the Middle Ages (Part 1), Frank Mobbs
1060 - Oct 2011 - History: Lepanto, history's most decisive naval battle, Bob Denahy
1061 - Dec 2009 - Editorial: Benedict XVI: When God entered human history, Pope Benedict XVI
1062 - Nov 2008 - History: Cardinal Stafford on Humanae Vitae: how dissenters tore the Church apart, Cardinal Francis Stafford