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1 - May 2013 - Reflection: Pentecost: opening our minds to truth and our hearts to love, Bishop Arthur Serratelli
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He is the new law of love.
2 - May 2013 - Letters: What is Heaven?, Winsome De Jong
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Gods Kingdom is for those He chooses and who in their lives have believed in Christs teachings and exercised His love in their daily tasks.
3 - May 2013 - Youth: Reasons for Hope retreat for young adult Catholics, Barry Coldrey
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There are daily Mass Forty Hours Eucharistic Adoration access to confession (which most took advantage of) inspirational talks Question and Answer sessions the Candle Lit Rosary walking to and from the Werri Beach foreshore and recreational activities Prayer was the principal theme in Saturdays talks: Rich in Mercy Rich in Love (Fr Anthony Bernard) Why do we need to pray?
4 - Apr 2013 - Reflection: Easter: the centrality of faith in the risen Christ, Fr Dennis Byrnes
In the mystery of his death and resurrection God has revealed in its fullness the Love that saves and calls us to conversion (n.
5 - Apr 2013 - Books: THE SEVEN BIG MYTHS ABOUT THE CATHOLIC CHURCH, by Christopher Kaczor, Father John Flynn LC
The Church he explains teaches that happiness comes about in the practice of love of God and neighbour.
6 - Apr 2013 - Books: REDEEMING GRIEF: Abortion and Its Pain (2nd and Revised ed.), by Anne R. Lastman, Fr Paul Crotty
Redeeming Grief not only expresses and reveals the silent grief of abortion with insights into the spiritual and psychological effects of abortion on women and men but identifies the healing which comes through the redemptive love of God Jesus Christ the price has been paid in the blood of the Lamb the eternal Priest and Victim no more needs to be shed!
7 - Apr 2013 - Letters: Holy priest, M.A. Ross
There is no love or thought of charity from souls in Hell.
8 - Apr 2013 - Venerable Fulton J. Sheen's insights on the priesthood, Martin Tobin
Later in his autobiography Sheen professed his love for his fellow priests: I have loved every work to which I have been called or sent.
9 - Apr 2013 - Child sexual abuse: looking beyond the institutions, Anne Lastman
Other reasons proffered are that perpetrators are looking for an absent closeness and love from their own parents whose emotional abandonment and neglect left an imprint of incomplete development.
10 - Apr 2013 - Vocations: Australia's vocations springtime continues into 2013, Br Barry Coldrey
Religious orders The positive priestly vocations picture is also reflected in the increasing numbers of young men seeking admission to some religious orders and congregations including the Missionaries of Gods Love the Franciscan (Capuchins) the Priestly Fraternity of St Peter and the Dominicans.
11 - Apr 2013 - Obituary: Vale Dr Lyn Billings AM, DCSG, MBBS (Melb), DCH (Lond), Joan Clements
Dr Lyn as she was known to and loved by millions could hold her own with popes and scientists but was unfailingly humble gracious and good-humoured with all.
12 - Mar 2013 - Reflection: Icon for the Year of Grace: 'Sir, we wish to see Jesus', Anne Lastman
For life is the result of an overflow of the love of the Father the Son and the Holy Spirit and the home designed for that life is heaven with a vision of the face of divinity forever.
13 - Mar 2013 - Books: HOLY MEN AND WOMEN OF THE MIDDLE AGES AND BEYOND, by Pope Benedict XVI, Michael Daniel
St Bonaventure while recognising the importance of reason in theology stressed the primacy of love: for him a human beings ultimate end is to encounter God in love.
14 - Mar 2013 - Priestly celibacy: being one with Christ and His mission, Father John O'Neill PP
His choice did fall and I trembled in the Spirits love As Da quaesumus rang through the hallowed stones of the arches high above.
15 - Mar 2013 - Obituary: Creos Roman: may he rest in peace, Bishop Anthony Fisher OP
He loved his years as a familiar of the Missionaries of Charity and especially the time spent as a volunteer in India even though he struggled with the heat humidity and health.
16 - Mar 2013 - Religious persecution occurs in democracies, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò
In spite of their previous exemplary service caring for children who needed love and protection the civil authorities of the United Kingdom expressed grave reservations about the continuing suitability of Christians who firmly pursue their Christian faith.
17 - Mar 2013 - News: The Church Around The World
Archbishop Nicholas Okoh of Nigeria said that the decision by the Church of England could very well shatter whatever hopes we had for healing and reconciliation within our beloved Communion He joined Anglican prelates from Uganda and Kenya in protesting against the decision saying that the Church of England had bowed to the contemporary idols of secularism and moral expediency.
18 - Mar 2013 - STOP PRESS: Vale, Pope Benedict!, Peter Westmore
Dear Brothers I thank you most sincerely for all the love and work with which you have supported me in my ministry and I ask pardon for all my defects.
19 - Mar 2013 - Homily: Benedict XVI's 2012 Annunciation homily, Pope Benedict XVI
In contemplating the mystery of the Incarnation we cannot fail to turn our eyes to Mary so as to be filled with wonder gratitude and love at seeing how our God coming into the world wished to depend upon the free consent of one of his creatures.
20 - Feb 2013 - Reflection: The cathedral: symbol of Christ's authoritative teaching, Bishop Michael Kennedy
And just as our cathedral often and eloquently proclaims its message of faith hope and love in silence so too at times we can proclaim the Gospel without a single word allowing the goodness of our actions and the beauty of our lives to speak instead.
21 - Feb 2013 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
95 ISBN 978-0-38534-640-5 Suffering of Love Regis Martin Quoting widely from Christian Jewish and secular sources Regis Martin provides an unflinching examination of the universal question of the meaning of suffering analysing the deeper meaning of Christs life passion death and resurrection.
22 - Feb 2013 - Books: THE PASSION OF PERPETUA AND FELICITY, by Thomas J. Heffernan, Peter Westmore
Perpetuas last recorded words were to her brother: Stand fast in the faith and love one another.
23 - Feb 2013 - Grace: Indulgences: relics of the past or still Church teaching?, John Young
Paul VI recalls that sin is a real and never adequately measured offence against God an ungrateful rejection of Gods love offered to us in Christ ( Indulgentiarum doctrina n.
24 - Feb 2013 - Events: iWitness Retreat: a celebration of young adult Catholic faith, Br Barry Coldrey
Sr Mirian Caritas another of the Sisters of Life spoke about the Eucharist in terms of Extravagant Love and Dr Robert Tilley of the Catholic Institute of Sydney gave a presentation on the Sacrament of Reconciliation (Confession).
25 - Feb 2013 - News: The Church Around the World
Charity must express a genuine love for people a love animated by a personal encounter with Christ and Catholic charities must avoid becoming just another form of organised social assistance.
26 - Feb 2013 - Editorial: AD2000 25 years on: the challenges remain, Michael Gilchrist
AD2000 will continue to report on positive endeavours such as those of Catholic university student groups the Missionaries of Gods Love Campion College the new generation of Catholic priests and many others all indicative that a growing number of Catholics remain serious about their faith and are not prepared to throw in the towel in the face of growing religious scepticism and militant secularism.
27 - Dec 2012 - Reflection: Feast of the Holy Innocents: Rachel weeps for her children, Anne Lastman
Rachels story is what we might call a love story because Jacob - another patriarch - who loved her had to work very hard to be able to marry her.
28 - Dec 2012 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
00 ISBN 978-0-85244-771-0 A Civilization of Love William Newton This book guides the reader through the major themes of Catholic social teaching by drawing directly upon the primary source of this doctrine the social encyclicals of the popes from Leo XIII to Benedict XVI.
29 - Dec 2012 - Advent and the Second Coming: a forgotten article of faith, Br Christian Moe FSC
Benedict writes: Intent on gathering the signs of the times in the present of history faith commits every one of us to become a living sign of the presence of the Risen Lord in the world; and Only in Him is there the certitude for looking to the future and the guarantee of an authentic and lasting love.
30 - Dec 2012 - A different fire: Vatican II and the new evangelisation, Archbishop Mark Coleridge
But it cannot be allowed to reduce us to silence nor can we be intimidated by those who would dearly love the voice of the Church to fall silent on many issues.
31 - Dec 2012 - Catholicism: The Year of Faith: time to revisit the Catechism of the Catholic Church Church, Audrey English
A look at the Catechism section on the Eucharist should increase our knowledge and love of the Mass; and it may also help those who have difficulty understanding transubstantiation (CCC1376).
32 - Dec 2012 - Pilgrimage: Crossroads: young people spread the message of life and love, Angela Schumann
Crossroads recognises the need to spread the message of life and love through the means that the modern world provides.
33 - Dec 2012 - Young Men of God 2012 Conference showcases Christian leadership, Br Barry Coldrey
The YMG are one of the networks of the Missonaries of Gods Love which was founded in Canberra over 25 years ago by Father Ken Barker.
34 - Dec 2012 - News: The Church Around the World
Our Church must lead a cultural renewal so that our society will once more see that marriage is sacred and that the family is the true sanctuary of life and the heart of a civilisation of love.
35 - Dec 2012 - Homily: Benedict XVI: the new consoling certainty of Christmas, Pope Benedict XVI
The kindness and love of God our Saviour for mankind were revealed: this is the new consoling certainty that is granted to us at Christmas.
36 - Nov 2012 - Reflection: Father forgive them ...: God's infinite mercy for the repentant, Anne Lastman
Human Life is the concrete reality of a being capable of love and service to mankind (Blessed John Paul II in his homily in Boston 7 October 1979).
37 - Nov 2012 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
00 ISBN 978-0-85244-771-0 A Civilization of Love William Newton This book guides the reader through the major themes of Catholic social teaching by drawing directly upon the primary source of this doctrine the social encyclicals of the popes from Leo XIII to Benedict XVI.
38 - 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.
39 - Nov 2012 - Books: A MIDLIFE JOURNEY, by Gerald O'Collins SJ, Frank Mobbs
He also fell in love.
40 - Nov 2012 - Letters: Importance of marriage, Brendan Keogh
Arbitrary unions also lessen the chances of persons ever attaining the maturity and fulfilment which result from the total commitment of true love which is so much lacking today.
41 - Nov 2012 - The new evangelisation: restore a sense of the sacred, Andrew Kania
To this end a well-known adage runs: The greatest thing a father can do for his son is to love the sons mother.
42 - Nov 2012 - Worldwide religious persecution continues, Cardinal Timothy Dolan
Ecumenism of martyrs Cardinal Kurt Koch the President of the Pontifical Council for Christian Unity not long ago delivered a profound reflection on Christian Unity and Love of the Poor in which he said God .
43 - Nov 2012 - Hong Kong's Catholic Bishop interviewed
The pastor was an American Maryknoll missionary and he was filled with Christs love and this is the inspiration I saw - and it inspired me - his good example.
44 - Nov 2012 - Shanghai's new auxiliary bishop: a prophet and a hero, Bernard Cervellera
Even today the lay faithful demonstrate their faith and their love for Christ and the bishops deserting Masses where the pastors are illegal and travelling to other dioceses loyal to the spiritual bond with Benedict XVI.
45 - Nov 2012 - News: The Church Around the World
Christian tolerance is fundamentally an orientation of love toward those in error .
46 - Oct 2012 - Reflection: The Year of Faith and the Church's missionary role, Fr Dennis W. Byrnes
Pope Benedict XVI in the Motu Proprio (a Latin phrase which means on his own authority) Porta Fidei (quot;the Door of Faith) stated: Through His love Jesus Christ attracts to Himself the people of every generation: in every age He convokes the Church entrusting her with the proclamation of the Gospel by a mandate that is ever new.
47 - Oct 2012 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
00 ISBN 978-0-85244-771-0 A Civilization of Love William Newton This book guides the reader through the major themes of Catholic social teaching by drawing directly upon the primary source of this doctrine the social encyclicals of the popes from Leo XIII to Benedict XVI.
48 - Oct 2012 - Books: AN AMAZING LOVE, by Father Ken Barker, Br Barry Coldrey
Father Barkers latest book: ideal resource for the new evangelisation AN AMAZING LOVE by Father Ken Barker (Connor Court Publishing 166pp $22.
49 - Oct 2012 - Letters: Nuclear family, Leon Voesenek
For a man and a woman who love each other for the right reasons the pledge to stay together for life is much easier.
50 - Oct 2012 - Liturgical Music: Vatican II: Singing nourishes faith ... raises minds to God, Bishop Arthur Serratelli
We serenade about love and joy.
51 - Oct 2012 - The new evangelisation and the culture of life, Anne Lastman
The evangelical nature of the Church is its raison detre and it could be said that this impetus finds its genesis in God Himself Who reveals and speaks about Himself through all of creation and definitively through His beloved Son Jesus.
52 - Oct 2012 - Missions: Father Raphael: dynamic Nigerian parish priest, Madonna Brosnan
Whirlwind a force of nature best describes Father Raphael Madukwe whose accomplishments over the past six years at St Charles Borromeo Parish Lilu Anambra State Nigeria are testimony to his dedication tenacity and most importantly love for his people.
53 - Oct 2012 - The Year of Faith and true unity of faith, Cardinal Raymond Burke
At the same time the false conflict between canon law and the pastoral nature of the Church between truth and love must be addressed.
54 - Oct 2012 - Universities: Cardinal Pell's tertiary ministry at Sydney's universities, Br Barry Coldrey
As well six young women are in formation with the Fraternas (a new Religious Movement) the Dominican Sisters of Nashville Tennessee and the Missionaries of Gods Love Sisters.
55 - Oct 2012 - News: The Church Around the World
But let it be a legacy that brings life love and laughter into the world in need.
56 - Sep 2012 - Reflection: Fatima: Mary's appeal for penance and conversion, Bishop Arthur Serratelli
After all Benedict XVI has said God made the world so that there could be a space where he might communicate his love and from which the response of love might come back to him (Homily at the Easter Vigil 23 April 2011).
57 - Sep 2012 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
00 ISBN 978-0-85244-771-0 A Civilization of Love William Newton This book guides the reader through the major themes of Catholic social teaching by drawing directly upon the primary source of this doctrine the social encyclicals of the popes from Leo XIII to Benedict XVI.
58 - Sep 2012 - Books: A COMPANION TO CATHOLIC EDUCATION, by Leonardo Franchi (Editor), Gerard O'Shea
I think for example of the work of Cardinal Pell Archbishop Hart and Bishop Elliott in bringing forth the To Know Worship and Love for Catholic schools and I look at the inroads on Catholic youth culture being made by World Youth Day the Thomas More Centre Six-Thirty and Theology On Tap.
59 - Sep 2012 - Australian Catholic Students Association Conference 2012, Br Barry Coldrey
Todays ACSA Mission is to: inspire a deeper love of Jesus Christ and His Church through prayer the Sacraments and in Masses of extraordinary beauty; inform young Catholic adults of the threats which challenge the moral foundation of individuals and society; equip young Catholic adults to speak with authority and act with commitment on their Catholic faith.
60 - Sep 2012 - Time for women's "true genius" to reassert itself, Anne Lastman
John Paul II always believed and taught that the true strength the mystery of the woman is best seen when she sees herself as part of a complementarity with the man and recognises her own self as different but equal to the man: the softer Imago Dei which loves so deeply and endures so long that it becomes transformative.
61 - Sep 2012 - Letters: Archbishop Chaput: how to meet the challenges to religious freedom, Archbishop Charles Chaput OFM
These problems kill a Christian love of poverty and zeal.
62 - Sep 2012 - Sainthood: Cardinal Van Thuân: process to beatification 'very advanced', Michael Gilchrist
Throughout his long years of imprisonment he loved his persecutors some of whom were converted while guarding him in his cell.
63 - Aug 2012 - Reflection: The Pietà: the love of our heavenly Mother, Anne Lastman
The new Mother holds and cradles him in her mantle filled with love both for the mother as she walks with only a memory of her child and the lost child.
64 - Aug 2012 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
00 ISBN 978-0-85244-771-0 A Civilization of Love William Newton This book guides the reader through the major themes of Catholic social teaching by drawing directly upon the primary source of this doctrine the social encyclicals of the popes from Leo XIII to Benedict XVI.
65 - Aug 2012 - Parents' love for their children: finding the right balance, Andrew Kania
One of the types of love that the Greek language offers us is that of storge or affection.
66 - Aug 2012 - The Virgin Mary's key role in our salvation history, Cedric Wright
Any father knows the surge of love he feels when he first sees his new-born child - a deep love for both mother and infant.
67 - Aug 2012 - Marriage: Archbishop Hickey: the Eucharist and the Christian family, Archbishop Barry Hickey
The gift we give to a world of broken relationships and unloved children is the beauty of Christian marriage and our desire to reach out to the victims of broken marriages.
68 - Aug 2012 - Events: Equipping Christian leaders for the challenges of secularism, Philippa Le Feuvre
He highlighted the necessity of the Forum as follows: Catholic leaders continue to make significant contributions to our community building up what Blessed John Paul II called the civilisation of love but often do so working away quietly in their own areas of expertise.
69 - Aug 2012 - Vocations: Australian religious Sisters: 'In the true spirit of Vatican II', Kate Cleary MGL
They heard the call to start a charismatic brotherhood later known as the Missionaries of Gods Love.
70 - Aug 2012 - Youth: Young adult Catholics peer ministry in WA and Queensland, Br Barry Coldrey
Its Mission Statement contains four objectives: Being a witness of Gods love in a manner which is powerful personal and purposeful.
71 - Aug 2012 - Assumption homily: Mary: The true Ark of the Covenant, Pope Benedict XVI
Today the Church praises Gods immense love for his creature: he chose her as a true Ark of the Covenant as the one who continues to generate and to give Christ the Saviour to humanity as the one who in Heaven shares in the fullness of the glory and enjoys the very happiness of God and at the same time also invites us to become in our modest way an ark in which the Word of God is present transformed and quickened by his presence a place of the presence of God so that men and women may find Gods closeness in the other person and thus live in communion with God and know the reality of Heaven.
72 - Jul 2012 - Letters: The Year of Grace and the New Evangelisation, Fr Dennis Byrnes
Sanctifying Grace The Compendium of the Catechism (423) reminds us: Grace is the gratuitous gift that God gives us to make us participants in his Trinitarian life and be able to act by his love.
73 - Jul 2012 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
00 ISBN 978-0-85244-771-0 A Civilization of Love William Newton This book guides the reader through the major themes of Catholic social teaching by drawing directly upon the primary source of this doctrine the social encyclicals of the popes from Leo XIII to Benedict XVI.
74 - Jul 2012 - Books: THE FACE OF GOD and THE TRUE ICON, by Paul Badde, Paul MacLeod
Therefore we love the images that tradition accredits as precious ways to glimpse this face whether in Manoppello or in Turin.
75 - Jul 2012 - 'Born again': how to change from a nominal to a "living" Christian, Andrew Kania
Christian also stands firmly on the principle that good should not bow down to evil and that peace and love should not run from violence and hatred.
76 - Jul 2012 - Obama and same-sex 'marriage': Shaking his fist at God, Babette Francis
I love Grahams rhetoric - he sounds like the prophets of old.
77 - Jul 2012 - Homily: Benedict XVI: Sts Peter and Paul and the priesthood, Pope Benedict XVI
We are reminded that even God stepped outside himself setting aside his glory in order to seek us and to bring us his light and his love.
78 - Jul 2012 - Homily: Benedict XVI: Sts Peter and Paul and the priesthood, Pope Benedict XVI
We are reminded that even God stepped outside himself setting aside his glory in order to seek us and to bring us his light and his love.
79 - Jun 2012 - Reflection: Benedict XVI: Pentecost and the Church's universality, Pope Benedict XVI
For us Christians the world is the fruit of an act of the love of God who made all things and who rejoices in them because they are good very good as the account of creation states (cf.
80 - Jun 2012 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
00 ISBN 978-0-85244-771-0 A Civilization of Love William Newton This book guides the reader through the major themes of Catholic social teaching by drawing directly upon the primary source of this doctrine the social encyclicals of the popes from Leo XIII to Benedict XVI.
81 - Jun 2012 - Books: ABOUT BIOETHICS: Philosophical and Theological Approaches, Angela Schumann
His approach in some ways reminds one of Pope John Paul II perhaps in that it suggests the patience of one who has learned to love each individual without discrimination and the peace of one who has seen truth and embraced it.
82 - Jun 2012 - Latin: Pope John XXIII's document on Latin: 50th anniversary, Salvatore Cernuzio
Hence our Institute wishes to teach a greater number of clerics and lay people to be able to appreciate this patrimony so that every church is able to have access to people who love the way in which truth beauty and harmony are united in this language.
83 - Jun 2012 - American priest's work for the protection of life in Russia, Eva-Maria Kolman
And sometimes the young father who had originally pushed for an abortion also grows to love the baby when it has come into the world.
84 - Jun 2012 - Faith and Reason: Cardinal Pell debates Richard Dawkins on Q&A: a commentary, Frank Mobbs
for the wonders of all your creation Or Psalm 144: The Lord is kind and full of compassion slow to anger abounding in love.
85 - Jun 2012 - NET Ministries: Another Catholic youth ministry success story, Br Barry Coldrey
The team is able to take their enthusiasm love of Christ and his Church and the benefit of all of their skills and training to help build up a lively community of young people and leaders for that particular area.
86 - Jun 2012 - News: The Church Around the World
When we permit same-sex relationships to mimic marriage we also say that children gain no benefit from the knowledge that they were created through an intimate act of love between their parents Cardinal Pell said.
87 - May 2012 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
00 ISBN 978-0-85244-698-0 A Civilization of Love William Newton This book guides the reader through the major themes of Catholic social teaching by drawing directly upon the primary source of this doctrine the social encyclicals of the popes from Leo XIII to Benedict XVI.
88 - May 2012 - Books: A COMPANION TO CATHOLIC EDUCATION, by Leonardo Franchi and Stephen McKinney (ed), Angela Schumann
This area of study which in other hands could become a dry intellectual exercise is charged with passion and love as he instructs us that we cannot escape theology without the involvement of our hearts: You do theology on your knees or you do a pale reflection of theology.
89 - May 2012 - Letters: Year of Grace, Ken Bayliss
Many of our readers will recall that it was Cardinal Ratzinger in his Ratzinger Report (1985 English edition) who cited Paul Vls famous words about the Smoke of Satan in the sanctuary and his appeal to the laity of the world to show their love of the Church and to come to her aid.
90 - May 2012 - Young adult ministry 2012: more reasons for hope, Br Barry Coldrey
In addition the vitality provided by the increasing numbers of vocations to the Missionaries of Gods Love the Franciscan (Capuchins) the Dominican Sisters of Nashville (Tennessee) the Fraternas the Verbum Dei Missionaries and the Dominican Friars were for the future.
91 - May 2012 - The culture wars: Archbishop Chaput's call to Christians, Ben Johnson
Hostility to religion The next America will be increasingly hostile to religion contemptuous of its value dismissive of its suggestions and heedless of its free exercise unless Christians kindle the love of Christ in their hearts and bring its light to the public square.
92 - May 2012 - Obama imposes contraception document on UN, Babette Francis
I leave details to the imagination of readers keeping in mind that the UN bureaucracy aided by US President Obamas delegation just love homosexual rights population control and transgender issues like suggesting to a six-year-old that it is okay for him to feel he is really a girl trapped in a boys body.
93 - May 2012 - News: The Church Around the World
The bishops letter said that the Church cannot ignore the responsibility to speak the truth in love and that this involves reminding people about the truth of the human person.
94 - May 2012 - Mexico: Benedict XVI's reflection on Our Lady of Guadalupe, Pope Benedict XVI
True devotion to the Virgin Mary always takes us to Jesus and consists neither in sterile nor transitory feelings nor in an empty credulity but proceeds from true faith by which we are led to recognise the excellence of the Mother of God and we are moved to filial love towards our Mother and to the imitation of her virtues ( Lumen Gentium 67).
95 - Apr 2012 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
95 ISBN 978-0-85244-251-3 A Civilization of Love William Newton This book guides the reader through the major themes of Catholic social teaching by drawing directly upon the primary source of this doctrine the social encyclicals of the popes from Leo XIII to Benedict XVI.
96 - Apr 2012 - Art: Icons: linking the spiritual and material, Aidan Hart
Creation is there not just to nourish man physically but also to be an image of higher things a gift of love an expression of divine beauty and generosity.
97 - Apr 2012 - The mystery of human suffering: a Christian understanding, Julian McGauren
Humility Nevertheless God loves and guides his theologians and thinkers.
98 - Apr 2012 - Culture: Christianity's essential role in civilising our society, Bishop Julian Porteous
He states There is no ordering of the State so just that it can eliminate the need for a service of love.
99 - Apr 2012 - eVangelisation: The Catholic Church and the digital media revolution - cradio.org.au, Jason Rushton
The Vocations Show with Elizabeth Arblaster and Fr Michael de Stoop Love Talks Back a relationships show hosted by MC and NA two young women with big hearts and even bigger mouths and Qamp;A with Bishop Julian - call in with your questions on 612 8005 1530 - are some of the locally-produced programs that have flourished at the station.
100 - Apr 2012 - Vocations: Australia's seminary numbers continue their growth, Br Barry Coldrey
The encouraging seminary growth is also reflected in the increased numbers of young men seeking admission to religious orders and congregations such as the Missionaries of Gods Love the Franciscan (Capuchins) the Priestly Fraternity of St Peter and the Dominicans.
101 - Apr 2012 - Homily: Holy Thursday: 'With the Eucharist the Church is born', Pope Benedict XVI
Eucharistic communion requires faith but faith requires love otherwise even as faith it is dead.
102 - Mar 2012 - Reflection: The wonder of the Incarnation: Pope Benedict's Nazareth homily, Pope Benedict XVI
The wonder of the Incarnation continues to challenge us to open up our understanding to the limitless possibilities of Gods transforming power of his love for us his desire to be united with us.
103 - Mar 2012 - Books: Streams of Grace, by Bishop Julian Porteous, Fr Ken Barker MGL
The focus is on the grace of a deep love for the word of God and the gift of celibacy for the Kingdom.
104 - Mar 2012 - Letters: Gay peril, Robert Bom
We are grateful our Christian religion warns us of the dangers homosexual physical behaviour entails but to love pray for and respect the individuals.
105 - Mar 2012 - Missions: Bringing hope to Nigeria's abandoned children, Madonna Brosnan
People who have crawled along in the dirt or who have been confined to one position for long periods of time can perhaps for the first time feel dignity and experience the love Jesus has for them in their suffering.
106 - Mar 2012 - Fulton Sheen Cause: progress report, Msgr Stanley Deptula
I can attest that based on the moving and seemingly countless letters and emails we receive Fulton Sheen continues to reach out to converts help young men and women to discover their vocations and inspire many devout Catholics to deepen their love for Christ and His Blessed Mother.
107 - Feb 2012 - Reflection: Pope's New Year Message for 2012 underlines the right use of freedom, Pope Benedict XVI
Its voice calls him to love and to do what is good to avoid evil and to take responsibility for the good he does and the evil he commits.
108 - Feb 2012 - Mission UK: Can pagan Britain recover its Christian identity?
We just smile at them love them and pray for them.
109 - Feb 2012 - Culture Wars: Catholic universities and secularism, Achbishop Charles Chaput
One of the reasons Im grateful to be here is that I share with the community that founded Assumption College a very deep love of St Augustine.
110 - Feb 2012 - News: The Church Around the World
Young people have a right to hear clearly the Churchs teaching and most importantly to be inspired by the coherence and beauty of the Christian message so that they in turn can instil in their peers a deep love of Christ and his Church.
111 - Feb 2012 - Curia: Benedict XVI names 22 new cardinals for his fourth consistory, Peter Westmore
In his closing words in St Peters Square on 6 January Benedict invited the faithful to pray for the new cardinals asking the Blessed Virgin Mary Mother of the Church to intercede that they may always bear courageous and dedicated witness of their love for Christ and His Church.
112 - Dec 2011 - Reflection: Advent faith, Christmas and the Pope's call to evangelise, Fr Dennis Byrnes
He further says: The proclamation and witness of the Gospel are called the first service that Christians can offer every person and the whole human race as they are to communicate to all the love of God who manifested himself fully in the Holy Redeemer of the world Jesus Christ (Benedict XVI 4oth Anniversary of Vatican IIs Ad Gentes).
113 - Dec 2011 - Letters: Devotion to Mary, Cedric Wright
The world desperately needs Holy Mary acknowledged and honoured by Catholics (and Popes including Blessed John Paul of recent memory and our beloved Benedict) as Queen of Heaven and Earth and Mother of the Church.
114 - Dec 2011 - Pilgrimage: Young disabled Catholics: new ministry initiative, Fr James McCarthy
Although the pilgrimage often was hard work and for some the hardest work they had ever undertaken all returned with increased faith and a greater love for Christ and the Church.
115 - Dec 2011 - Schools: St Philomena's school: a beacon of excellence, Alistair Barros
Its about developing the individual personalities of children so that they make full use of the various gifts God has given them for the love of God and learning and ultimately for bringing these talents to the betterment of society.
116 - Dec 2011 - Vocations: Do not be afraid: successful Young Men of God retreat, Dr Barry Coldrey
Among the speakers was Father Ken Barker Founder of the Missionaries of Gods Love and Ben OHeir Co-Founder of the Young Men of God in Canberra ten years ago.
117 - Dec 2011 - Homily: Benedict XVI: From his Christmas homily, Pope Benedict XVI
We are grateful that God gives himself into our hands as a child begging as it were for our love implanting his peace in our hearts.
118 - Nov 2011 - Letters: Islam, John Frey
His commitment to love is independent of this however and is directed toward anyone in need whom he can help.
119 - Nov 2011 - Saints: G.K. Chesterton: Is there a case for his canonisation?, Karl Schmude
So on closer examination there are reasons for considering Chestertons claims to sainthood - in particular his love of the poor and championing of their cause and his love of truth and devotion to its defence.
120 - Nov 2011 - Society: Finding hope in the midst of secularism, Cardinal Raymond Burke
Blessed Pope John Paul II practising as Pope Benedict XVI declared the beatitude of faith with the Mother of God as his example and intercessor has taught us all to have faith in Christ to believe that what the Lord has promised to us will be fulfilled and thus to live courageously the truth which has its highest expression in pure and selfless love.
121 - Nov 2011 - WYD Madrid: World Youth Day 2011: Experiencing Christ's presence, Dr Joe Santamaria
The first was the letter of St Paul to Timothy (I Timothy 4:12-16): Do not let people disregard you because you are young but be an example to the believers in the way you speak and behave and in your love your faith and purity.
122 - Nov 2011 - Pastoral visit: Benedict XVI calls his visit to Germany 'a great feast of faith'
He concluded: This apostolic journey to Germany offered me the propitious occasion to meet the faithful of my German homeland to confirm them in faith in hope and in love and to share with them the joy of being Catholic.
123 - Nov 2011 - News: The Church Around the World
St Augustine described the bishops duties in the following way: To rebuke those who stir up strife to comfort those of little courage to take the part of the weak to refute opponents to be on guard against traps to teach the ignorant to shake the indolent awake to discourage those who want to buy and sell to put the presumptuous in their place to modify the quarrelsome to help the poor to liberate the oppressed to encourage the good to suffer the evil and to love all men.
124 - Nov 2011 - Homily: Benedict XVI: From his All Saints Day homily, Pope Benedict XVI
We discover that he loves us infinitely and this prompts us in turn to love our brethren.
125 - Oct 2011 - Reflection: Benedict XVI's Final Mass homily for World Youth Day, Pope Benedict XVI
I ask you dear friends to love the Church which brought you to birth in the faith which helped you to grow in the knowledge of Christ and which led you to discover the beauty of his love.
126 - Oct 2011 - Books: BENEDICT XVI: A Guide for the Perplexed, by Tracey Rowland, Michael Daniel
The next chapter The Theological Virtues explores the Popes thought on the virtues of faith hope and love.
127 - Oct 2011 - Planetary spirituality: what next!, Frank Mobbs
I love the word connected - it is so deliciously vague.
128 - Oct 2011 - Pastoral care: One of the Catholic Church's best kept secrets, Marie Mason
Its not just a conference but also a spiritual retreat away from the world with no TV no newspapers or radio no alcohol and a solid program of talks and workshops Masses Eucharistic adoration and penance and I loved every minute of it.
129 - Oct 2011 - Angelus Message: Our Lady of the Rosary (October 7), Pope Benedict XVI
This important iconography shows that the Rosary is a means given by the Virgin to contemplate Jesus and in meditating on his life to love him and follow him ever more faithfully.
130 - Sep 2011 - Reflection: Proper church etiquette: a public witness of faith, Bishop Arthur Serratelli
It is the hushed awe in the presence of a love too great for words.
131 - Sep 2011 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
90 ISBN 978-1-58617-412-5 Citadel of God Louis de Wohl Here as in all his novels about great saints of the Church Louis de Wohl weaves an intricate and colourful tapestry of violence love and piety to tell with historical accuracy the story of St Benedict and the tempestuous era in which he lived.
132 - Sep 2011 - Interview: Pope's brother sheds more light on Benedict's early years, Zenit News Agency
Joseph shared this love for music and had musical teachers on both the harmonium and the piano in his young years and still even as Pope plays the piano when his time allows.
133 - Sep 2011 - Abortion grief: mother love, mercy love and God's compassion, Anne R. Lastman
This pain is experienced when mother love is wounded.
134 - Sep 2011 - Glimpses of a new dawn in Russia, Babette Francis
A remembrance service for victims of Soviet-era repressions was held by the Solovetsky Stone on Moscows Lubyanskaya Square while Archpriest Chaplin said at the ceremony The Church the public veterans and political repression victims must do their best so that no one and nothing is forgotten.
135 - Sep 2011 - Youth: Catholic young adult ministry: Sydney's formula for success, Br Barry Coldrey
Some of their children including those involved in the above retreat have been home-schooled others move in the networks of confident orthodox religious movements such as the Latin Mass Community Regnum Christi the Emmanuel Community the Neo-Catechumenate the Missionaries of Gods Love the Fraternas the Franciscan (Capuchins) the Dominican friars and the Young Men of God.
136 - Aug 2011 - Reflection: The new evangelisation: 'missionary spirit' needed, Fr Dennis W. Byrnes
Indeed I am the path ( The New Evangelization: Building the Civilization of Love).
137 - Aug 2011 - Books: STANDARD-BEARERS OF THE FAITH: Lives of the Saints for Young and Old, Terri Kelleher
I love the stories of saints lives since I find it the easiest way to seek the answer to the perennial question Wherein lies the good life the life well-lived?
138 - Aug 2011 - Letters: Rose-coloured glasses, Cathy Cleary
I loved the Church of my childhood but I do think that the music when it existed at Mass was mostly either inappropriate or elitist.
139 - Aug 2011 - Letters: Unseen kindness, Anne Lastman
I would add to his many acts of kindness a genuine love and respect because of his loyalty to the people he has known for a lifetime including my family.
140 - Aug 2011 - Young adult Catholic ministry: further progress, Br Barry Coldrey
Still to come later in 2011: Young Men of God Conference Collaroy Centre (Sydneys Northern Beaches) 13-15 October Missionaries of Gods Love and the Disciples of Jesus Covenant Communities.
141 - Aug 2011 - Obituary: John Wright (1923-2011): pillar of the Catholic faith, Michael Gilchrist
He had a natural love of and aptitude for languages excelling at Latin and French and after completing school in 1940 went on to complete a Law degree at Melbourne University.
142 - Aug 2011 - Events: In defence of the authentic meaning of marriage - Canberra, 16 August 2011, Babette Francis
New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan warned it was a perilous presumption for the state to reinvent a God-given institution which has been the cornerstone of Western civilisation: It is an undeniable truth that marriage is one man one woman united in lifelong love and fidelity hoping for children .
143 - Aug 2011 - News: The Church Around the World
In contemporary debates about the meaning of marriage the rights and dignity of the child should be at the forefront The video Made for Life builds on the first video Made for Each Other and invites a renewed appreciation for the child for mothers and fathers and for the bond between love and life in marriage - a bond only possible through the sexual difference of husband and wife.
144 - Jul 2011 - Reflection: Christ's priestly promise: 'I am with you always', Fr John O'Neill
But realising what ordination has given him the priest has to come before Our Lord with a kind of numbness feeling nothing in himself because he is lost all lost in wonder at Christs condescension his power and his love.
145 - Jul 2011 - Whatever happened to the virtue of obedience?, Bishop Julian Porteous
The Lord is aware that his Father clearly loves him and affirms him.
146 - Jul 2011 - News: The Church Around the World
Within the Church believers first steps along the way of Christ must always be accompanied by a sound catechesis that will allow them to flourish in faith love and service.
147 - Jun 2011 - Reflection: Pentecost, the feast of true hope for humanity, Bishop Arthur Serratelli
He sends his Holy Spirit who unites Gods children into a community where all are respected and all are loved.
148 - Jun 2011 - Books: HEART OF THE CHRISTIAN LIFE: Thoughts on Holy Mass, by Pope Benedict XVI, Michael Daniel
Through this encounter believers are called to grow in love of Christ and of their neighbour.
149 - Jun 2011 - Books: MARRIAGE: The Rock on Which the Family is Built, by William E. May, Br Barry Coldrey
Available from Freedom Publishing) This is an edifying book that focuses on many aspects of married love as explained by Pope John-Paul II in his Theology of the Body teachings.
150 - Jun 2011 - Books: JESUS OF NAZARETH: Holy Week, by Pope Benedict XVI, Fr Glen Tattersall FSSP
These words are not a curse: read in the light of faith it means that we all stand in need of the purifying power of love which is his blood (p.
151 - Jun 2011 - Letters: Catholic religious education: some grassroots views, John Morissey
The Bishop outlined the many positive developments in Catholic religious education pointing to the mandated texts To Know Worship and Love which were prepared and published under his direction the training of teachers at the Australian Catholic University and the new staff college for Catholic principals to be opened in East Melbourne.
152 - Jun 2011 - Cardinal Pell: 'liberalism has no young Catholic progeny', Cardinal George Pell
On reflection we should not find this surprising as growth is tied to Gospel fidelity to faith love and sacrifice.
153 - Jun 2011 - Australia's seminary numbers continue to increase, Br Barry Coldrey
This positive diocesan seminary situation is reflected in the increased numbers of young men seeking admission to religious orders and congregations such as the Missionaries of Gods Love the Franciscans (Capuchins) the Priestly Fraternity of St Peter and the Dominicans.
154 - Jun 2011 - News: The Church Around the World
After attending some various Catholic parishes I fell in love with the liturgy and found myself wanting to learn more and more each day.
155 - Jun 2011 - Homily: The Meaning of Jesus' Ascension, Benedict XVI
22) of every human person called to the eternal life of the kingdom of God kingdom of love light and peace.
156 - May 2011 - Books: SIMON, CALLED PETER, by Dom Mauro-Guissepe Lepori, O.Cist., Michael Daniel
Central to this re-telling is the transformative power of Christs love and forgiveness even for one such as Peter who denied Christ.
157 - May 2011 - Poetry: One Cross, Bruce Dawe
One cross of all crosses Men have made To punish others stands for All the rest And whether those who suffered Themselves were laid Reverently in tombs By those who loved them (As their tears attest) Or like criminals on gibbets left For birds of the air To savage at their will.
158 - May 2011 - Letters: A mixture, Arnold Jago
He was not a man of judgment but rather a man of love.
159 - May 2011 - Literature: The 'impossible dream' of Don Quixote - Part 2 (Matthew 6:19), Andrew Kania
This sadness arises not only from the death of the Man of La Mancha whom one has come to love but also because of Don Quixotes shattering awakening that his lifes quest his dream has not come to fruition.
160 - May 2011 - Liturgy: Welcome to the new translation of the Missal, Audrey English
We love the Church and we readily obeyed the decisions made by the Council.
161 - May 2011 - University Life: Australian Catholic Students' Conference 2011 a success, Br Barry Coldrey
Not a few are members of Latin Mass communities or the networks surrounding the Franciscan Capuchin friars the Dominicans and the Missionaries of Gods Love.
162 - May 2011 - Interview: International Conference on Eucharistic Adoration in Rome, Father Florian Racine
But Jesus is the easiest person to encounter to love to visit.
163 - May 2011 - Oppression: Christians under fire worldwide, Cardinal Sean Brady
And here let us be clear Christians have every right to be here: - to gather in the public square; - to hand on their faith to their children; - to proclaim to the world the Christian truth about the dignity of every human being and the infinite love of our merciful God.
164 - May 2011 - Culture: The decline of the Christian West, Cardinal Raymond Burke
Through the spread of the contraceptive mentality especially among the young human sexuality is no longer seen as the gift of God which draws a man and a woman together in a bond of lifelong faithful love crowned by the gift of new human life but rather as a tool for personal gratification.
165 - May 2011 - News: The Church Around the World
For hours they mourn the death of their loved ones and wonder about the future.
166 - May 2011 - Two million in Rome for beatification of John Paul II, Peter Westmore
While a parish priest in Poland in 1960 Fr Karol Wojtyla (as he then was) wrote an important work Love and Responsibility which included a detailed examination of the difficult issue of human sexuality.
167 - Apr 2011 - Reflection: Benedict XVI: Palm Sunday means following Jesus Christ, Pope Benedict XVI
He leads us to love - he leads us to God.
168 - Apr 2011 - Books: THE LOSER LETTERS, by Mary Eberstadt, Terri Kelleher
raised as posing difficulty for the success of atheism were sex (as in free love vs faithful love); faith vs reason; good works; the legacy of art music and literature; the life issues i.
169 - Apr 2011 - Letters: Conscience?, Thomas & Patricia Watkin
It seems this twintruth solution can also be applied to contraception abortion same sex love etc.
170 - Apr 2011 - Literature: The 'impossible dream' of Don Quixote (1 Corinthians 1:21), Andrew Kania
He cannot fail her he loves the thought of her and a thought she is for as the journey goes on we come to realise that Don Quixote has never seen her; in fact she may very well not exist.
171 - Apr 2011 - Music that elevates faith and worship of God, Metropolitan Hilarion Alfeyev
Even Bachs secular music is permeated by a sense of love for God of standing in Gods presence of awe before Him.
172 - Apr 2011 - News: The Church Around the World
does not require that we exclude people who responsibly live out love faithfulness and mutual care in same-sex partnerships or in a remarriage after divorce.
173 - Apr 2011 - Homily: Pope Benedict XVI's Holy Thursday homily, Pope Benedict XVI
His Blood the love of the One who is both Son of God and true man one of us is the Blood that can save.
174 - Mar 2011 - Reflection: Mary's rosary: picture book of faith, hope and love, Bishop Robert Finn
She who through the merciful plan of the Eternal Father gave the world its Redeemer wants us to know and love her Son.
175 - Mar 2011 - Letters: Missionaries of God's Love a welcome initiative, Tom King
Thank you AD2000 and Br Barry Coldrey for informing us as to the successful enterprise Missionaries of Gods Love founded in 1986 by Father Ken Barker and obviously the type of initiative that is needed more than ever in our Church.
176 - Mar 2011 - Letters: New 'morality', Fr Bernard McGrath
They justly discriminated against the evil behaviour while continuing to respect the dignity of those persons concerned (hate the sin but love the sinner).
177 - Mar 2011 - A bishop and his priests: united in truth with Christ, Fr John O'Neill
Let the mind of Christ grow in us by love of Gods Commandments.
178 - Mar 2011 - What are the marks of an authentically Catholic university?, Cardinal Raymond Burke
The Catholic identity of the Catholic university is defined by the fullness of the revelation of Gods love in His only-begotten Son Who became man in order that we might know and live the truth of that love.
179 - Mar 2011 - Faith and reason at Notre Dame, Sydney, Fr Richard Umbers
The God who is Love is the God who is Wisdom who is Reasonable who reveals Himself to our minds as much as to our hearts.
180 - Mar 2011 - News: The Church Around the World
These areas included our united faith in a God of love compassion morality and peace rather than a God of will power and Jihad.
181 - Mar 2011 - Nazareth: Patriarch Fouad of Jerusalem: Annunciation homily, His Beatitude Fouad Twal, Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem
With all love and gratitude I greet you all old and young with the tenderness of Christ the Virgin Mary and St Joseph.
182 - Feb 2011 - Reflection: The great but neglected harvest of inactive Catholics, Joseph Agius
We who appreciate cherish and love our Catholic faith would call this a monumental tragedy and today we can identify with the late Cardinal Danielou who shortly after Vatican II lamented The crisis of faith inside the Church is the gravest problem which torments the heart of Pope Paul VI.
183 - Feb 2011 - Young children: never too early to love God, Bishop Arthur Serratelli
She loved going to Villa Borghese Romes largest park.
184 - Feb 2011 - That ubiquitous F word: don't demean the sacred, Fr Max Barrett CSsR
In the moment of human conception God breathes his life his love his immortality into the life emanating from man and woman.
185 - Feb 2011 - Science and Christian faith: the case for intelligent design, Babette Francis
Pope Benedict XVI In Chapter Four of his most recent encyclical Caritas in Veritate Pope Benedict XVI writes: Nature expresses a design of love and truth.
186 - Feb 2011 - News: The Church Around the World
Given the variety of domestic arrangements available in Australia I request that you protect the unique institution of marriage as traditionally understood and actually lived as the complementary love between a man and a woman.
187 - Feb 2011 - Book Review: Cardinal Pell and Pope Benedict XVI's interview, Cardinal George Pell
Pope Benedict pointed out that the problem of AIDS cannot be solved by distributing condoms and that when sexual activity is separated from love and self-restraint it becomes like a drug deceptive and destructive.
188 - Dec 2010 - Reflection: Messiah: the one anointed by God to reconcile sinners, Fr Dennis W. Byrnes
God has willed to take away our past so that we can begin anew in his merciful love.
189 - Dec 2010 - Books: FIVE SMOOTH STONES: A 40 Day WYD08 Journal, by Stephen Lawrence, Bishop Joseph Grech
This book also shows clearly Steves love and deep connection with his wife Annie and their six children.
190 - Dec 2010 - Books: EDMUND CAMPION, by Richard Simpson, revised by Peter Joseph, Fr Anthony Robbie
It has been a labour of love for Fr Joseph and we must be grateful for his devotion.
191 - Dec 2010 - Letters: Lay saint?, Eamonn Keane
In this he bore witness to the teaching and example of Christ regarding love of enemies combined with unflinching adherence to truth.
192 - Dec 2010 - Homily: Christus Rex Pilgrimage: Building God's Kingdom on earth, Bishop Peter J. Elliott
The preface of todays Mass helps us understand our mission and the meaning of the eternal Kingdom of Our Sovereign Lord Jesus Christ: A kingdom of truth and life a kingdom of holiness and grace a kingdom of justice love and peace.
193 - Dec 2010 - Congress for Life: Catholic orthodoxy: key to promoting the culture of life, Cardinal Raymond Burke
Through the spread of the contraceptive mentality especially among the young human sexuality is no longer seen as the gift of God which draws a man and a woman together in a bond of lifelong and faithful love crowned by the gift of new human life but rather as a tool for personal gratification.
194 - Dec 2010 - Call to Holiness: Facing life issues in love and truth, Babette Francis
A distinguishing feature of the pontificate of Pope Benedict XVI has been his emphasis on reason and truth: in his Regensberg lecture (2006) and his encyclical Caritas in Veritate (2009) the Pope reiterates that love must be combined with truth.
195 - Dec 2010 - Youth: Another successful Australian Catholic youth initiative, Br Barry Coldrey
The Missionaries of Gods Love (MGL) is a new Religious Congregation founded by Fr Ken Barker in the Archdiocese of Canberra-Goulburn in 1986.
196 - Dec 2010 - Euthanasia: Australia's Christian churches unite in opposition, MIchael Gilchrist
With their new-found political clout he observed minority groups are pushing practices that defy our Christian understanding of the sacredness of life and of marriage as the sacrament to seal the committed love of a man and a woman.
197 - Nov 2010 - Saints: Blessed John Henry Newman: why he is worthy of canonisation, Frank Mobbs
Sacraments were charged with the power and love of God.
198 - Nov 2010 - Homosexuality: Courage and EnCourage Chicago Conference: holiness the key, Marie Mason
There was one in particular in which the partner released Dan from the relationship so he could pursue the love of a woman which seemed like a wonderful dream come true only to have her change her mind.
199 - Nov 2010 - News: The Church Around the World
It expressed concern that the reference to comprehensive education on human sexuality stands alone without reference to parents prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children including the religious moral and spiritual dimensions of authentic human love and related matters concerning the nature of sexuality marriage and the family.
200 - Nov 2010 - Homily: Feast of All Saints: Benedict XVI's homily, Pope Benedict XVI
All however were marked by the seal of Jesus the imprint of his love witnessed upon the Cross.
201 - Oct 2010 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
95 ISBN 978-1-58617-269-5 Real Love Mary Beth Bonacci An experienced speaker on Catholic teachings on marriage family and sexuality Mary Beth Bonacci has assembled the many questions she has been asked on these topics along with her answers offering a comprehensive catechesis on Church teachings.
202 - Oct 2010 - Books: THE PATH TO ROME: Modern Journeys to the Catholic Church, Bishop David Robarts
by nature a very cerebral person I have had to let go of my desire to understand the mysteries of life and learn to love instead .
203 - Oct 2010 - Good priests: the Church's essential foot soldiers, Cardinal George Pell
We thank them for their contribution pray that they go from strength to strength remembering Pauls words that it is the love of God which urges them on for many long years before they meet Him who is Goodness itself face to face.
204 - Oct 2010 - Celebrating National Marriage Day 2010, David Walsh
Each was given a rosette of Ruby and Gold which is the emblem of National Marriage Day and to be worn as a sign of love fidelity endurance and hope according to Mary Louise Fowler the Convenor of National Marriage Day.
205 - Oct 2010 - Foundations of Faith: Archbishop Hickey: Time to stand up for Christian marriage, Archbishop Hickey
It is based on a faithful and mutual love an image of the everlasting love of God for humanity.
206 - Oct 2010 - New Missal: Why we need the new translation of the Mass, Bishop Peter J. Elliott
For all of us the transition and the catechesis involved should enrich our faith and worship and our love for the Mass.
207 - Oct 2010 - Real Presence: Nigerian priest brings Eucharistic Adoration to a Brisbane parish, Bob Denahy
They have come from Italy France Ireland Spain and many other countries to bring the knowledge and love of Christ to distant places by means of their preaching and actions including the establishment of schools universities and hospitals.
208 - Oct 2010 - Youth: Young adult Catholic ministry: hopeful signs continue, Br Barry Coldrey
Other positive developments in recent years have included the National Evangelisation Teams (from Brisbane) which focus on ministry with parish youth groups and secondary school students while a five person NET Freedom Group has been inserted into Queensland University of Technology as the Catholic Chaplaincy One should also mention the vigorous efforts of the Missionaries of Gods Love and their Young Men of God Movement which is having its Annual Conference at the Collaroy Centre (Collaroy) on 15-17 October.
209 - Sep 2010 - Reflection: Accepting the reality of sin: a cornerstone of Christian faith, Fr Dennis Byrnes
In the Catechism of the Catholic Church (1849) we are told Sin is an offence against reason truth and right conscience; it is a failure in genuine love for God and neighbour caused by perverse attachment to certain goods.
210 - Sep 2010 - Books: Edith Stein Discovered / Edith Stein and Companions, Terri Kelleher
She loved learning and very quickly understood that real learning is searching for the truth which she did for the rest of her life.
211 - Sep 2010 - Vocations: The story of a grandmother and her love of the priesthood, Andrew Kania
She loved her Latin Church and she loved her priests.
212 - Sep 2010 - Cinema: The Waiting City - An Australian film of religious significance, M.A. Casey
She tells one of Mother Teresas sisters what she wants to do and her reply takes you immediately to the heart of this beautiful film: You must always act from love not need or desperation.
213 - Sep 2010 - University: Another successful Australian Catholic Students Conference, Br Barry Coldrey
There are also passionate members of the Latin Mass communities and of the networks surrounding the Franciscan Capuchin friars and the Missionaries of Gods Love.
214 - Sep 2010 - Britain prepares for Benedict XVI's visit, Joanna Bogle
They ignore his anti-Nazi credentials his decades-long work for Christian-Jewish relations which launched the ground-breaking visit of Pope John Paul to Romes synagogue his encyclicals on love and hope.
215 - Sep 2010 - Appeal: 2010 Fighting Fund launched, Peter Westmore
The future depends on those who are imbued by what are rightly called the Christian virtues of faith hope and love and who live out these principles in their own lives and in our society.
216 - Aug 2010 - Reflection: Why the true meaning of marriage must be enshrined in law, Archbishop John C. Nienstedt
Marriage is the way a man and woman bind their love into a lifelong commitment that is mutual exclusive and open to new life - where they promise not only to love each other but to love any children whom they create together.
217 - Aug 2010 - Vocations: Mother Dolores Hart OSB: from Hollywood to convent, Michael Gilchrist
Her screen break occurred at the age of 18 when using the name Dolores Hart she was signed to play a supporting role as the love interest to Elvis Presley in the 1957 release Loving You.
218 - Aug 2010 - The Mass: why we should focus on its essence, Fr John O'Neill PP
The essence of the Mass is of course the action of God Himself: Our Divine Lord continues to teach (Word) and this prepares us for His presence as He renews or continues the infinite act of saving love that He offered on the Cross (Eucharistic Sacrifice).
219 - Aug 2010 - News: The Church Around the World
However properly understood he said sacrifice is and remains fundamental because it reveals to us with what love God loves us in Christ.
220 - Aug 2010 - Troubled future of the Church in Ireland, Archbishop Diarmuid Martin
There is a sense however in which true reform will spring only from those who love the Church with a love like that of Jesus which is prepared also to suffer for the Church and to give oneself for the Church.
221 - Aug 2010 - Feast of the Assumption: Benedict XVI's homily
And truly God is vulnerable in the world because he is love and love is vulnerable.
222 - Jul 2010 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
90 ISBN 978-0-89870-560-7 Inside the Bible Kenneth Baker SJ Here is a reader friendly introduction to each of the 73 books of the Bible designed to help the non-expert grow in the knowledge and love of Gods Word.
223 - Jul 2010 - FOUNDATIONS OF FAITH: What we can know about heaven from Scripture and the Church, John Young
Some people say we know practically nothing about heaven and they quote St Paul as affirming that no eye has seen nor ear heard nor the heart of man conceived what God has prepared for those who love him.
224 - Jul 2010 - Book launch: Cardinal Pell's new book 'Test Everything' launched, Michael Gilchrist
In his excellent Introduction to Test Everything Cardinal Francis Stafford former Archbishop of Denver Colorado and one of Americas outstanding bishops of the past few decades provides a clear overview of one the books central messages that Christianity involves tough love and that there is no such thing as cheap grace.
225 - Jul 2010 - Archbishop Chaput defends the Pope and the Vatican over abuse lawsuits
Every bishop in the United States has a filial love for the Holy Father and a fraternal respect for his brother bishops he continued.
226 - Jul 2010 - Editorial: Religious education: the challenge of secularism, Michael Gilchrist
He acknowledges that Christianity involves tough love but rejects any thought of watering down the faith whatever the apathy or opposition.
227 - Jun 2010 - Reflection: Benedict XVI on the Church's birth and universality at Pentecost, Pope Benedict XVI
Indeed it is only the Holy Spirit who creates unity in love and in the reciprocal acceptance of diversity which can free humanity from the constant temptation to acquire earthly power that seeks to dominate and standardise all things.
228 - Jun 2010 - Passover: Understanding the Jewish traditions behind the Catholic Mass, Gabrielle Walsh
The Hallel (Praise) was then recited: We now give thanks to God for His love of us and for watching over the Jewish people.
229 - Jun 2010 - Pysanky: Paschal traditions: symbolism in popular Ukrainian Christianity, Andrew Kania
These are but part of the colours and patterns of writing pysanky and various combinations of these help write a Paschal story on each egg for instance the use of four or more colours on an individual egg indicates peace love and happiness for the family; or the use of black and white is a sign of respect for the souls of a departed loved one.
230 - Jun 2010 - American survey of young Catholics confirms Benedict's agenda, Carl Anderson
And it is this faith - only faith - that creates unity and is fulfilled in love.
231 - Jun 2010 - Christians and political action: euthanasia, Babette Francis
It is usually Greens who move euthanasia or abortion bills - Greens love trees but hate people.
232 - Jun 2010 - Ecumenism: Christians and Muslims: peaceful co-existence?, Mohammad Al-Sammak
This reflects negatively on the Islamic presence in the world and so it is in the interests of Muslims for the image of Islam in the world and for the interests of Muslims in different parts of the world to maintain the presence of Christians in the Arab world and to protect this presence with all its might not only out of love for Christians but because this is their right as citizens and inhabitants of the region who were there before Muslims.
233 - Jun 2010 - News: The Church Around the World
This he explained quoting his Encyclical Caritas in Veritate is because without truth without trust and love for what is true there is no social conscience and responsibility and social action ends up serving private interests and the logic of power resulting in social fragmentation especially in a globalised society at difficult times like the present.
234 - May 2010 - Books: NINETEEN EIGHTY FOUR, by George Orwell, Michael Daniel
Instead the focus of party members love is Big Brother and their frustrations and feelings of anger are directed by the Party towards its enemies such as the bogeyman figure of Goldstein.
235 - May 2010 - Conversion: 'Strangely and suspiciously tall': an Evangelical meets the Mother of God, Terri Kelleher
And He gave us this from the cross in the midst of His agony with a love beyond all telling.
236 - May 2010 - Culture: The vocation of Christians in public life, Archbishop Charles J. Chaput
cfm/ID/3489 I love my country.
237 - Apr 2010 - Books: FROM HERMES TO BENEDICT XVI: Faith and Reason in Modern Catholic Thought, Tracey Rowland
What one finds in Benedicts many publications is a convergence of the mainly philosophical disclosure of logos with the chiefly theological revelation of love.
238 - Apr 2010 - Letters: Debate needed, Fr Bernard McGrath
Instead of a culture of life based on the rights and duties of all in a civilisation of justice and love the secularists want a society based on greed lust free choice and the power of the dominant social group.
239 - Apr 2010 - Foundations of Faith: How do Catholics relate to non-Christians?, Fr Dudley Perera OMI
Some of these religions are theistic while others contain and preach many values of Gods Kingdom such as love compassion and tolerance.
240 - Apr 2010 - Bishop Kevin Rhoades: Tribute to an outstanding American Church leader, Fr John Trigilio
Sad news permeated the Diocese of Harrisburg on 14 November 2009 for Benedict XVI had appointed our beloved bishop to take over the Diocese of South Bend-Fort Wayne Indiana.
241 - Apr 2010 - Formation: Young Australian Catholics commit to promoting Judeo-Christian values, Richard Lyons
Visiting clergy such as Archbishop Denis Hart Bishop Elliott Fr Glen Tattersall Fr Joseph Pich and others not only said Mass but gave their own unique view of Catholicism in the public sphere which clearly has a lot to offer the world in motivation love and change.
242 - Mar 2010 - Books: THE GOD WHO LOVES YOU, by Peter Kreeft, Br Barry Coldrey
THE GOD WHO LOVES YOU by Peter Kreeft (Ignatius Press 2004 226pp $25.
243 - Mar 2010 - Youth: Summer School of Evangelisation: helping young people's faith, Johanna Banks
The theme for 2010 I am the Bread of Life he who comes to Me shall never be hungry (Jn 5:35) was addressed by speakers including Fr Mark Freeman Vicar General of the Archdiocese of Hobart Fr Chris Ryan MGL Rector of the Missionaries of Gods Love Seminary and the Youth Mission Team Australia.
244 - Mar 2010 - Conversion: Paul Fitzgerald: my spiritual journey, Paul Fitzgerald
The Church teaches hate the sin but love the sinner.
245 - Mar 2010 - News: The Church Around the World
Love becomes an empty shell to be filled arbitrarily.
246 - Mar 2010 - Annunciation: Benedict XVI: Mary's acceptance of the Divine Word
Every Ecclesial Community like the Mother of Christ is called to accept with total generosity the mystery of God who comes to dwell within her and guides her steps in the ways of love.
247 - Feb 2010 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
95 ISBN 978-0-385-52374-5 The Death of a Pope Piers Paul Read This powerful tale combines vivid characters high drama love betrayal faith and redemption in a story of intrigue church espionage and an attempt to destroy the Papacy.
248 - Feb 2010 - Letters: Greetings from India, Fr S. John Joseph PP, VF
With love and gratitude.
249 - Feb 2010 - Indian martyrs: Present-day martyrs in India and Pakistan, Babette Francis
In a note sent to Fides Bishop Anil Cuto of Jalandhar President of the Commission for Ecumenism emphasised: Martyrdom is the highest form of love.
250 - Feb 2010 - Letters: New priests for the Sydney Archdiocese, Fr Michael De Stoop
Gerard Woo Ling age 39 from Surry Hills is one of eight children born in Trinidad to Catholic parents especially a mother whose love for the gift of the faith she imparted to her children by example.
251 - Dec 2009 - Reflection: The sacrament of Christian marriage: a nuptial Mass homily, Fr Glen Tattersall
In Gods Providence you have met and you have fallen in love with each other.
252 - Dec 2009 - Books: This month's selection from AD Books
95 ISBN 978-0-385-52374-5 The Death of a Pope Piers Paul Read This powerful tale combines vivid characters high drama love betrayal faith and redemption in a story of intrigue church espionage and an attempt to destroy the Papacy.
253 - Dec 2009 - Letters: Saint Damien of Molokai, Arnold Jago
He also called for prayer and help for all those engaged with generosity in the fight against leprosy and what he called other forms of leprosy - caused by lack of love by ignorance and cowardliness.
254 - Dec 2009 - Saints: Saint Damien of Molokai: Robert Louis Stevenson's prediction fulfilled
We are not all expected to be Damiens; a man may conceive his duty more narrowly he may love his comforts better; and none will cast a stone at him for that.
255 - Dec 2009 - Victoria: Abortion evil: pro-life forces need to be united, John Morrissey
Gwen Winterscheidt and Rosemary Woods of the John Paul II Centre for Family amp; Life Centacare Brisbane concluded the afternoon with a report on the Walking with Love program in Brisbane parishes.
256 - Dec 2009 - Editorial: Benedict XVI: When God entered human history, Pope Benedict XVI
Nothing can be more sublime nothing greater than the love which thus stoops down descends becomes dependent.
257 - Nov 2009 - Reflection: The Feast of All Souls and the Communion of Saints, Fr Dennis Byrnes
A believer in Christ following his example is thus able to transform his own death into an act of obedience and love for the Father.
258 - Nov 2009 - Books: This month's selection from AD Books
95 ISBN 978-0-385-52374-5 The Death of a Pope Piers Paul Read This powerful tale combines vivid characters high drama love betrayal faith and redemption in a story of intrigue church espionage and an attempt to destroy the Papacy.
259 - Nov 2009 - Books: THE CHURCH AND THE WORLD: Essays Catholic and Contemporary, by John Haldane, Tracey Rowland
His grandfather never complained about this but he did explain to his grandson that the reason why the pope wears dresses is to hide his cloven hooves.
260 - Nov 2009 - Letters: Dissenting views, John Schmid
According to Sr Ruffing (page 321): Jesus is not so much ones Lord and Master to whom one gives obedience by accepting the superiors decisions as He is the animating source of compassion energy and love.
261 - Nov 2009 - Missionaries: Mary Glowrey (1887-1957): Australian witness to hope in India, Robyn Fahy And Fr Dan Strickland MGL
When Mary finally died on 5 May 1957 her last words were Jesus Mary and Joseph and My Jesus I love you.
262 - Nov 2009 - Campion College celebrates its fourth Year of operation, Br Barry Coldrey
These are fearlessness in the advocacy of human dignity love and proclamation of the mission of Christ.
263 - Nov 2009 - A Christian response to post-abortion trauma, Julie Cook
The righteous wanted to throw stones but He reached out with love and she responded for she knew how broken she was.
264 - Nov 2009 - News: The Church Around the World
Catholic News Agency Catholic-Russian Orthodox relations improving Russian Orthodox Archbishop Hilarion Alfeyev said there are so many reasons for Catholics and Orthodox to cooperate in our de-Christianised world that it is time to move past divisions and competition and co-exist in solidarity and mutual love.
265 - Nov 2009 - Editorial: Catholics and Orthodox: improving relations, Michael Gilchrist
He said there are many reasons for Catholics and Orthodox to co-operate in our de-Christianised world and it is time to move past divisions and competition and exist in solidarity and mutual love.
266 - Oct 2009 - Letters: Christian divisions, Jack Blair
The exchange on occasion of Anglican and Catholic pulpits I see as a practical if timid expression of the gospel of Jesus all mankind will know that you are my disciples if you have love one for another.
267 - Oct 2009 - Letters: Healthy families, John Carty
We must promote the traditional culture of the true self-sacrificing love and life of stable marriages and reject the false self-indulgent greed and lust of any unstable or sterile arrangement.
268 - Oct 2009 - Priesthood: Why the Catholic Church cannot ordain women, Kathleen Wood OAM
He may act with an equally nurturing ability of love and compassion but he cannot be mother.
269 - Oct 2009 - FOUNDATIONS OF FAITH: Cutting edge moral issues for the third millennium, Br Barry Coldrey
Father is in turmoil as he attempts to deal with his passionate love for his partner (Robert Carlyle) and the teaching of the Church of which he is an official witness.
270 - Oct 2009 - Seminary Life: Spiritual direction at Sydney's Good Shepherd Seminary, Fr Paul Glynn SM
In that case make the last thing to go your spiritual reading some time reading a book that speaks to your heart and not just to your head about the love of God.
271 - Oct 2009 - Youth: RISE: restoring integrity and sexual ethics to Australia's secular culture, Br Barry Coldrey
In recent episodes of the groundbreaking ABC series The Science of Teens which explores the sexual attitudes of Australian teenagers Jessica was one of two young Catholic women demanding a return of love truth respect and traditional values in relationships.
272 - Oct 2009 - Community Life: 'Progressive' leadership and the demise of religious life, Br Paul Macrossan
In Australia for example one of our own home-grown institutes the Missionaries of Gods Love not forty years old is looking for financial help to build new houses of formation as they have accommodation only for the thirty students currently in residence with others wishing to enter.
273 - Oct 2009 - News: The Church Around the World
In their message titled Doing the Truth in Love a group of university leaders and professors press editors and presidents of various institutions signed a message to applaud the Popes encyclical Caritas in Veritate.
274 - Oct 2009 - Priestly Identity: Renewing the priesthood in the Year for Priests, Fr Anthony Denton
Human dimension St John Vianney famously described the Catholic priesthood as the love of the heart of Jesus.
275 - Sep 2009 - Reflection: The centrality of the tabernacle, Bishop John M. D'Arcy
Doing so can only serve to deepen a love for Christ thereby promoting the life of prayer and possibly even vocations among our young people.
276 - Sep 2009 - FOUNDATIONS OF FAITH: Sola Fide (by Faith Alone): is this sufficient for salvation?, Frank Mobbs
The Solid Declaration of the Formula of Concord of the Lutheran Churches dated 1571 - a creed of Protestants - says: Indeed neither contrition nor love nor any other virtue but faith alone is the means by which we can reach forth and obtain the grace of God the merit of Christ and the remission of sin.
277 - Sep 2009 - Priesthood: Reflections of a newly ordained Sydney priest, Fr James Mccarthy
Since the Ordination I have been delighted by the love joy and support that the faithful have shown towards me and it is clear to me that Catholics value the vocation witness and ministry of priests.
278 - Sep 2009 - Christian Life: Courage and EnCourage: a chaste lifestyle for the same-sex attracted, Marie Mason
The more we carry our particular cross with sacrificial love for God and our brothers and sisters the more we feel Gods love and manifest it to the world.
279 - Sep 2009 - News: The Church Around the World
From our awakening to the end of the day it is the day Christians remember that Jesus Christ suffered and died for us so that we might know and enjoy the love of God for all eternity.
280 - Aug 2009 - Reflection: Mary in God's plan of salvation, Bishop Arthur J. Serratelli
Love is the soul of fidelity.
281 - Aug 2009 - Poetry: Nkosi J, Will Elsin
Mamas gone I love you Gail For all your help with my travail; I cannot do it on my own So please be for us our good St Joan.
282 - Aug 2009 - God's Messengers: Angels: what Scripture and Tradition reveal, Susan McKinley
Miltons angels by contrast enjoy a healthy love life a fact which has baffled literary critics given that Milton would have been well aware of the Churchs teaching that angels are immortal and thus have no need to procreate.
283 - Aug 2009 - Priesthood: Benedict XVI's Letter to priests: follow example of the Curé of Ars
The saintly Cureacute; of Ars would often say The priesthood is the love of the heart of Jesus.
284 - Aug 2009 - News: The Church Around the World
Sullivan says that he has experienced a very deep sense of the reality of Gods love for each one of us especially during times of immense difficulties and suffering.
285 - Aug 2009 - Caritas in Veritate: Benedict XVI's social encyclical: public life needs Christian principles, Michael Gilchrist
Titled Caritas in Veritate (Love in Truth) Pope Benedict XVIs first social encyclical was released on 7 July the day before the Group of Eight began their international summit in LAquila Italy and three days before Benedicts scheduled first meeting with US President Obama.
286 - Jul 2009 - Reflection: The full meaning of love: Christ and St Peter in St John's Gospel, Andrew Kania
The tripartite questioning is symbolic for in the three questions that are asked lies a penitential act with each subsequent affirmation of love erasing each previous denial on Holy Thursday.
287 - Jul 2009 - Books: LIKE A SAMURAI: The Tony Glynn Story, by Fr Paul Glynn SM, Tim Cannon
Padre Marsdens brutal experiences had eventually led him to resolve to return to Japan after the war to establish a Marist mission and to preach Christs gospel of love and forgiveness.
288 - Jul 2009 - Letters: The unborn, Brian Harris
It will encourage abortions a great imbalance of the sexes around the world offend Gods love greatly morally speaking and destroy mankind.
289 - Jul 2009 - Life Marriage Family: The secular culture's flawed view of sexuality, Bernard Toutounji
In practice the ads have little to do with health and even less with love in relationships.
290 - Jul 2009 - News: The Church Around the World
If Catholics dont see a problem with this then I dont think they understand the threat it represents to the meaning of marriage to fidelity to chastity to the very sanctity of human life and intimate love.
291 - Jul 2009 - St Marys Cathedral: Sydney ordinations and a new beginning for Australian Catholicism, Fr Gregory Jordan SJ
It is the mystery of Gods love mediated through family friends teachers and increasingly those Catholic institutions that have been founded in recent years to form Catholic men and women.
292 - Jul 2009 - Editorial: The Feast of Saints Peter and Paul (29 June), Michael Gilchrist
And this is Peters ongoing mission: to ensure that the Church is never identified with a single nation with a single culture or with a single State but is always the Church of all; to ensure that she reunites humanity over and above every boundary and in the midst of the divisions of this world makes Gods peace present the reconciling power of His love.
293 - Jun 2009 - Books: ISLAND OF THE WORLD, by Michael O'Brien, Luke McCormack
Yet it out of these the author weaves a complex tapestry of hope love beauty truth goodness and salvation.
294 - Jun 2009 - Letters: Holy Land Pilgrimage - Association of Hebrew Catholics, Andrew Scholl
How did this Jew manage to attract the immense love and admiration of the whole world .
295 - Jun 2009 - Letters: Superior design, John H. Cooney
Jesus declared If you love me keep my commandments (John 14:14).
296 - Jun 2009 - Youth: Forming a new generation of pro-life leaders, Patrick Langrell
Life truth love and family matter because of what they are and what we are and not because of what they give.
297 - Jun 2009 - Events - July: Australian Catholic Students Association: continuing spiritual impact, Br Barry Coldrey
If past conferences are any guide ACSA 09 will show that Catholic students across the nation are vitally interested in the same issues of ethics abortion gender sex love and responsibility as well as conventional and student politics.
298 - Jun 2009 - FOUNDATIONS OF FAITH: The Last Things: death, judgment, Heaven, Purgatory, Hell, Br Barry Coldrey
The homily was reassuring: everyone would save his or her soul except perhaps one-or- two whose lives were so utterly evil that they had lost all power whatsoever to love.
299 - Jun 2009 - Vocations: Brisbane's Holy Spirit Seminary: promising signs of growth, Anthony Barich
I love it too Msgr Randazzo says.
300 - Jun 2009 - Cardinal Pell's UK interview: Liturgy, Missal translation, World Youth Day, Luke Coppen
I was very pleasantly surprised that his first encyclical was on love.
301 - May 2009 - Letters: Doctrinal differences, John Morrissey
For all of his sincere spirit of ecumenism and Christian charity Alan Barrons ideas on the sufficiency of love and the disastrous effects of the Council of Trent (Church Unity April AD2000) should not go unchallenged.
302 - May 2009 - Staying together: Stable families: the best defence against violence
A fathers love for his wife the mother of his children is fundamental to his children growing up with the secure knowledge that they too are lovable.
303 - May 2009 - US Catholics leaving the Church in droves: what can be done?, Fr Joseph A. Sirba
There are more and more young people who are on fire with the love of God and who are willing to live the faith to its fullness.
304 - Apr 2009 - Books: AD2000 Books for April
50 Covenant of Love Richard M.
305 - Apr 2009 - Books: LIVING BIBLICALLY, by Archbishop Barry Hickey, Michael Gilchrist
Chapter six shows readers how to live out Christs law of love in a vital area too often ignored by Catholics these days in their marriages and family lives.
306 - Apr 2009 - Books: RENDER UNTO CAESAR:Living Our Catholic Beliefs in Political Life, Charles Chaput, Tim Cannon
But Christs call for the faithful to love and serve one another has political consequences since the pursuit of justice - which is the goal of politics - is a public manifestation of love of neighbour.
307 - Apr 2009 - Letters: Church unity, Alan Baron
What defines the congregation of the faithful is its ability to demonstrate love and unity despite doctrinal differ- ences.
308 - Apr 2009 - Letters: Hippies, Stephen Hemingway
They are in reality a lot of ageing hippies who having dusted off their love beads come together to sing 1960s protest songs in a nostalgic haze recalling their glory days supported by such luminaries as the Raelians and Socialist Alliance.
309 - Apr 2009 - Red Mass Homily: Catholics as 'bearers of light' in a secular culture, Bishop Peter J. Elliott
By keeping that flame of faith burning brightly we are saying yes to a culture of life yes to procreation to marriage and family yes to educating our children and young people in love goodness and freedom yes to justice for poor families.
310 - Apr 2009 - US Catholic universities: how not to observe Lent
Another upcoming film in the series concerns a 12-year-old boy who falls in love with a male police officer.
311 - Mar 2009 - Reflection: Benedict XVI: why kneeling is central to Christian worship, Benedict XVI
It is precisely this humility which comes from love that is the truly divine reality and procures for Him the name which is above every name that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow in heaven and on earth and under the earth (Phil 2:5-10).
312 - Mar 2009 - Books: Books available now from AD2000 Books
50 Covenant of Love Richard M.
313 - Mar 2009 - Books: THE BIBLE AND THE QUR'AN, by Jacques Jomier OP, Tim Cannon
A reflection on the primacy of faith in both Christianity and Islam reveals a fundamentally divergent understanding of this virtue and a far greater emphasis in Christian faith on the immensity of Gods love for mankind.
314 - Mar 2009 - Letters: In communion?, Errol P. Duke
He wined dined and showed enormous love and compassion towards the wayward but said Go and sin no more!
315 - Mar 2009 - The family and the culture of death: a challenge for Christians, Fr Dennis Byrnes
Creators love If we exist it is because God created us through love and through love He continues to hold us in existence.
316 - Mar 2009 - Foundations of Faith: Protestant Churches: origins and beliefs (2), Frank Mobbs
Pentecostals love to be assured of salvation unlike poor Catholics and Orthodox who have to spend their lives loving God by obeying him.
317 - Mar 2009 - Editorial: Lent: preparing for the risen Christ, Peter Westmore
Together they are a reflection of our response to the great command which Jesus gave us to love God and to love our neighbour.
318 - Feb 2009 - Reflection: Pope St Gregory the Great's advice to bishops and priests, Pope St Gregory the Great
And to stand in battle in the day of the Lord is to resist the forces of evil out of a love of justice.
319 - Feb 2009 - Books: QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS: Pope Benedict XVI, Siobhan Reeves
It is proving highly successful in teaching children that Pope Benedict is real human being who loves the Lord loves the Church and loves all of them (in the words of Rev Joseph Classen a teacher in a St Louis Catholic school).
320 - Feb 2009 - Flying into the Wind for the new evangelisation, Fr John Fowles CCS & Fr Joel Wallace CCS
The Flyaway to Heaven project had begun by flying out on a wing of a prayer and returned home knowing that the message of charity had been spread around the nation (over $225000 was raised for the poor and Australians were challenged to become ambassadors of love).
321 - Feb 2009 - Christian-Muslim dialogue: glimmerings of hope, Babette Francis
We had chosen the title Love of God and Love of Neighbour for the encounter.
322 - Feb 2009 - Vibrant retreat: Young adult ministry builds on WYD: iWitness Conference in Sydney, Br Barry Coldrey
Father Tony changed the word sex to love and placed the challenge of Christian sexual standards in the context of our Christian purpose in life.
323 - Dec 2008 - Reflection: Benedict XVI's Christmas homily: how God became a child for us, Pope Benedict XVI
He asks for our love: so he makes himself a child.
324 - Dec 2008 - Books: The Life of Saint Joseph, by Maria Cecilia Baij, OSB, Tim Cannon
Indeed the relationship between Joseph and Mary here depicted provides an exceptional archetype for married love: determined to serve one another with humility the holy couple will undoubtedly inspire readers to a better appreciation of the beauty and fruitfulness of the marital union lived in a spirit of selfless love.
325 - Dec 2008 - 'Catholic literature': what does this mean?, David Birch
For example does the fiction of a contemporary writer and Catholic commentator (love him or hate him as you will) like Fr Andrew Greeley or the 20th century novels of the Melbourne-born Catholic writer Morris West dealing as they both do with Catholic themes and prac- tices constitute the same Catholicity in literature as a Dante or St John of the Cross?
326 - Dec 2008 - Pub life: Young adult Catholic ministry: ingredients for success, Br Barry Coldrey
The young adult activities sponsored by dynamic religious orders at central venues such as those of the Missionaries of Gods Love and the Disciples of Jesus Covenant Communities (Burwood Victoria) the Franciscans (Capuchins) and the Domini- cans (Frassati Circle Camberwell Victoria).
327 - Dec 2008 - News: The Church Around the World
He condemned violence particularly violence done in the name of religion and said that Gods name can only be a name of peace and fraternity justice and love.
328 - Nov 2008 - Reflection: Purgatory: hope, mercy, love, Bishop Peter J. Elliott
Purgatory is a state of being where we are loved intensely by God.
329 - Nov 2008 - Letters: Rebel church in South Brisbane, Bob Osmak
In one of them he used the words: Name we baptise you in the name of God the Creator the Redeemer the Son and the Holy Spirit the God of Love the Creator Redeemer and Sustainer of life.
330 - Nov 2008 - What happened then: what matters now - Swithun Wells, martyr of England, Rosemary Lucadou-Wells
That is where no doubt he came to know romance languages and love music and art.
331 - Nov 2008 - Foundations of Faith: God's gift of sex: building a civilisation of life and love, Catherine Sheehan
Disrespect Paul VI expressed grave concern about the increasing disrespect for women that would likely follow the contraceptive mentality and practices: It is also to be feared that the man growing used to the employment of contraceptive practices may finally lose respect for the woman and no longer caring for her physical and psychological equilibrium may come to the point of considering her as a mere instrument of selfish enjoyment and no longer as his respected and beloved companion (HV n.
332 - Nov 2008 - Anima Women's Network: giving 'heart' to women of faith, Anna Krohn
The Pope reminds us that these women along with the Beloved John stayed by Christ in his Passion on the Cross while all the other Apostles took fright and denied their Lord or ran away in despair.
333 - Nov 2008 - News: The Church Around the World
Suggesting that only a relatively few Catholics would prefer the extraordinary form of the liturgy the Pope said: But it seems to me a normal requirement of faith and pastoral practice for a bishop of our Church to have love and forbearance for these people and allow them to live with this liturgy.
334 - Oct 2008 - Reflecton: Benedict XVI: the natural family, cornerstone of world peace, Pope Benedict XVI
In a healthy family life we experience some of the fundamental elements of peace: justice and love between brothers and sisters the role of authority expressed by parents loving concern for the members who are weaker because of youth sickness or old age mutual help in the necessities of life readiness to accept others and if necessary to forgive them.
335 - Oct 2008 - Books: Books available from AD2000 Books
50 Love and Responsibility Pope John Paul II Drawing on his own pastoral experiences as a priest and bishop in Poland before he became Pope John Paul II Karol Wojtyla produced an eloquent and resourceful defence of Catholic teaching on sexual morality and family life.
336 - Oct 2008 - Books: WHAT MOTHER TERESA TAUGHT ME, by Maryanne Raphael, Catherine Sheehan
Not simple in terms of a blind faith but simple in being focussed solely on that which is most important: love of God and love of neighbour.
337 - Oct 2008 - Foundations of Faith: Recent Marian apparitions and the life of the Church, Br Barry Coldrey
Our Ladys messages consistently include calls to conversion of heart as well as prayer and penance coupled with an assurance of the persevering love of Mary and the boundless mercy of God.
338 - Oct 2008 - Timor L'Este: Fly Away to Heaven: East Timor and World Youth Day, Sister Terezinha
On behalf of the group of East Timorese visitors I would like to express our deepest gratitude to the Lord the Almighty for His love and compassion in every moment of our lives.
339 - Oct 2008 - News: The Church Around the World
Instead he says bishops conference statements must be passionate and courageous and dare to speak the full truth in love.
340 - Oct 2008 - Response: Archbishop Bathersby's concerns over rebel Brisbane parish, Michael Gilchrist
The Memorial Acclamation reads as follows: I am Inner Stillness Deep within I am I am conscious Presence Deep within I am I am Pure Love Deep within I am.
341 - Sep 2008 - Reflection: Archbishop Burke of St Louis: the responsibilities of a bishop, Archbishop Raymond Burke
By your tireless care to be a loyal and selfless teacher of the faith you will draw all to Him whose glorious pierced heart never ceases to pour out upon souls the truth and love of God the Father.
342 - Sep 2008 - Books: Books available from AD2000 Books
50 Love and Responsibility Pope John Paul II Drawing on his own pastoral experiences as a priest and bishop in Poland before he became Pope John Paul II Karol Wojtyla produced an eloquent and resourceful defence of Catholic teaching on sexual morality and family life.
343 - Sep 2008 - Books: THE WISDOM OF NAZARETH: Stories of Catholic Family Life, Siobhan Reeves
In his address on the Feast of the Holy Family 30 December 2007 Benedict XVI appealed to Catholic families to bear witness before the world of the beauty of human love of marriage and of the family.
344 - Sep 2008 - Foundations of Faith: Priesthood and the sacraments: Divine help for eternal salvation, Br Barry Coldrey
The goal of human life put in simple language is to know love and serve God in this world and to be happy with him for ever in Heaven.
345 - Sep 2008 - WYD08: Theology on Tap: young Catholics' response to relativism, Patrick Langrell
Today the image of Christianity which most of us hear through secular media channels seems to be one of Christ without the Cross - a combination of nice ethical and humanist aspirations devoid of the need to transform our lives into one of true love - agape.
346 - Sep 2008 - News: The Church Around the World
htm Catholic News Agency Archbishop of Canterbury in gay relations controversy According to a report in the London Times (7 August 2008) the Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams considers that gay sexual relationships can reflect the love of God in a way that is comparable to marriage.
347 - Sep 2008 - WYD08: Memories of homestay hosts, Emidio and Phyllis Restall
When you witness such energy and love you start to realise that God really excelled himself when he decided to create the human race.
348 - Sep 2008 - WYD08: A reflection on WYD, Tim Cannon
It has served as a reminder - a vibrant reminder - that Christ is alive is here and is deeply in love with each of us.
349 - Sep 2008 - WYD08: Faith: alive and well! - A pilgrim's progress, Catherine Sheehan
What struck me the most was the size of the crowds that converged on Sydney and their infectious joy and love for the Catholic Church and the Pope.
350 - Sep 2008 - WYD08: World Youth Day 2008: what the media missed, Deborah Baker
Apart from the fact that Benedict is Peters successor he stands for and speaks to what expectant youth of the Church are looking for: truth and love.
351 - Aug 2008 - Reflection: World Youth Day: bringing a message of hope to the secular culture, Fr Dennis Byrnes
By contrast and in the context of World Youth Day Pope Benedict XVI has offered the world a message of Christian hope in his encyclical Spe Salvi: It is not the elemental spirits of the universe the laws of matter which ultimately govern the world and mankind but a personal God governs the stars that is the universe; it is not the laws of matter and of evolution that have the final say but reason will love - a Person.
352 - Aug 2008 - Books: Books available from AD2000 Books
50 Love and Responsibility Pope John Paul II Drawing on his own pastoral experiences as a priest and bishop in Poland before he became Pope John Paul II Karol Wojtyla produced an eloquent and resourceful defence of Catholic teaching on sexual morality and family life.
353 - Aug 2008 - Letters: Human rights, Maureen Federico
Here is just a hint that militant feminists in and out of Parliament not known for their love of children or respect for men (even their malleable supporters) might like to claim a victory.
354 - Aug 2008 - Education: Progress continues with the new Wagga Wagga independent schools, Barbara Chigwidden
Obedience must be first of all to persons prompt and unquestioning then to laws a reasonable service (Romans 12:1) then to the wider law which each one must enforce from within; I am speaking here of the law of love which is the law of liberty.
355 - Aug 2008 - Interview: Denise Mountenay on post-abortive women: from silence to lawsuits, Luke McCormack
I dont know any post-abortive women who have accepted the truth of abortion and dont know the love and forgiveness offered by God through Jesus.
356 - Aug 2008 - Benedict XVI reaffirms Humanae Vitae on its 40th anniversary, Pope Benedict XVI
Exclusive love In fact conjugal love is described within a global process that does not stop at the division between soul and body and is not subjected to mere sentiment often transient and precarious but rather takes charge of the persons unity and the total sharing of the spouses who in their reciprocal acceptance offer themselves in a promise of faithful and exclusive love that flows from a genuine choice of freedom.
357 - Jul 2008 - Books: Books available from AD2000 Books
90 A Radical Way of Love Fr Ken Barker mgl Following his earlier best-seller Becoming Fire Fr Barker provides an inspiring vision of consecrated life based on his own experiences.
358 - Jul 2008 - Letters: Culture of life, Fr Bernard McGrath
These same people view personal sex as a recreation and would separate baby-making from love-making by means of contraception abortion and sterilisation.
359 - Jul 2008 - Religious faith and the power of music and song, Andrw Kania
It was here and in such circumstances as a refugee that Wade is said to have sat down and penned in 1743 one of the worlds best loved Christmas carols Adeste Fideles (O Come All Ye Faithful).
360 - Jul 2008 - WORLD YOUTH DAY 2008: Juventutem Australia: young people devoted to the traditional liturgy, Alice Woolven
What a great opportunity to meet other pilgrims from such diverse cultures united in their love of the Latin Mass!
361 - Jun 2008 - Reflection: Benedict XVI on the mystery of the Body and Blood of Christ, Pope Benedict XVI
But we can only ascend to this room by walking to Galilee walking on the roads of the world taking the Gospel to all nations taking the gift of his love to the men of all times.
362 - Jun 2008 - Books: Books available from AD2000 Books
90 A Radical Way of Love Fr Ken Barker mgl Following his earlier best-seller Becoming Fire Fr Barker provides an inspiring vision of consecrated life based on his own experiences.
363 - Jun 2008 - Books: RATZINGER'S FAITH: The Theology of Pope Benedict XVI, by Tracey Rowland, Michael E. Daniel
God of love Similarly Ratzinger argues that an over-distinction between grace and nature has fostered an approach which views ethics as being autonomous from faith.
364 - Jun 2008 - Letters: Priests needed in Ballarat, Jenny Bruty
I have been informed by one priest from overseas that he would love to come and work in the Ballarat Diocese.
365 - Jun 2008 - Education: Pope: Catholic education must uphold Church teachings, Pope Benedict XVI
First and foremost every Catholic educational institution is a place to encounter the living God who in Jesus Christ reveals his transforming love and truth (cf.
366 - May 2008 - Reflection: How to recover a sense of the sacred at Mass, Bishop Arthur Serratelli
The Second Vatican Council began the liturgical reform with the hope of reinvigorating a sense of the Presence of God who comes to meet us in love.
367 - May 2008 - Books: THE REALM: An Unfashionable Essay on Converting England, Aidan Nichols OP, Tim Cannon
Secondly a mystical evangelisation is required such that the Church is once again championed by the faithful as the means by which mankind receives and fulfils its destiny: to be loved by God and to know and love Him in return.
368 - May 2008 - Books: NEWMAN'S APPROACH TO KNOWLEDGE by Laurence Richardson, Philip Trower
He does not give us proofs of a mathematical kind or evidence that would overwhelm our freedom since without freedom there cannot be love or sincere and honest belief.
369 - May 2008 - FOUNDATIONS OF FAITH: What are the basics of Catholic belief and practice?, Lucy Tucker
It is along with theology a way to love the Lord with our whole mind as well our whole heart.
370 - May 2008 - Summorum Pontificum: Benedict XVI's Latin Mass document: a parish priest's response, Fr Andrew Wise
Having celebrated the Novus Ordo Mass with love and devotion for the last 20 years I found this new form of the Mass deeply moving and highly significant.
371 - Apr 2008 - Reflection: Original Sin, the 'madness' of the Cross and the 'foolishness' of God's love, Fr Dennis Byrnes
Christ the new Adam resists and his victory proclaims that of his passion which is the supreme obedience of his filial love.
372 - Apr 2008 - Adult education: Sydney's Centre for Thomistic Studies, Donald G. Boland
It is in charity or the love of Christ that true wisdom is to be found.
373 - Apr 2008 - News: The Church Around the World
Benedicts first two encyclicals on love and hope were dedicated to the theological virtues and reflected his own background as an academic theologian.
374 - Mar 2008 - Reflection: Benedict XVI on Lent: 'authentic conversion to the love of Christ', Pope Benedict XVI
Lent is a favourable time to learn to stay with Mary and John the beloved disciple close to him who on the cross consummated for all mankind the sacrifice of his life.
375 - Mar 2008 - Books: SEARCHING FOR AND MAINTAINING PEACE, by Father Jacques Philippe, Tim Cannon
So with the human soul which derives its goodness from Gods love and whose purpose is to reflect this love in the world: to love as God loves.
376 - Mar 2008 - Crescat amor: What is the nature and purpose of theology?, Fr John O'Neill PP
The following is not intended for those theologians whose studies bring them to loving Jesus Christ which is theologys purpose: Per scientiam crescat amor (Through knowledge may love grow).
377 - Mar 2008 - News: The Church Around the World
Speaking as a professor of his love for the university Benedict explained I am very much connected to the university environment which was my world for many years by my love for the search for truth through debated frank dialogue and respect for others positions.
378 - Feb 2008 - Books: Books available from AD2000 and Freedom Publishing
Here he provides an overview of the spiritual life for those seeking to grow in the love of God and neighbour.
379 - Feb 2008 - What the social reign of Christ means today, Bishop Peter Elliott
But once we reduce those words truth life holiness grace justice love and peace to abstractions or nice sentiments then something is missing.
380 - Feb 2008 - News: The Church Around the World
Addressing specific areas Cardinal Rode said May those who according to your legislation have to oversee the doctrine of your magazines and publications do so in the light of and according to the rules for sentire cum ecclesia with love and respect.
381 - Feb 2008 - Spe salvi: Benedict's second encyclical calls for a rediscovery of hope in Christ, Michael Gilchrist
It followed his first encyclical Deus Caritatis Est God is love.
382 - Dec 2007 - Books: THE CATHOLIC PRIESTHOOD AND WOMEN by Sara Butler MSBT, Paul Woodbury
John Paul II noted that in the Old Testament from the time of the prophets onwards Gods compassionate love for his chosen people was depicted as that of the Bridegroom of Israel.
383 - Dec 2007 - Letters: Latin Mass, Carol V. Phillips
I also love the sound of a beautiful choir and a well-sung Missa Cantata can lift the soul.
384 - Dec 2007 - Letters: Narrow way, F. Thims
Wed love to lend a hand.
385 - Dec 2007 - Schools: The state of Catholic education: teacher and student experiences, Br Barry Coldrey
The following would be a few examples in the Melbourne Archdiocese: SIX30 Thursday Holy Hours in St Patricks Cathedral; Emmanuel Youth Suppers and other associated youth activities at the Hermits Retreat St Anthonys Shrine a Franciscan (Capuchin) Ministry; the ministries of the Disciples of Jesus Covenant Community and the Missionaries of Gods Love in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne; the NET (National Evangelisation Teams) Ministry in senior secondary Catholic colleges directed from 260 Queens Parade Clifton Hill Vic; the Apologetics Evenings arranged at the Thomas More Centre 582 Queensberry Street North Melbourne.
386 - Nov 2007 - Reflection: Benedict XVI on Sunday Mass: 'not a command, but an inner necessity', Pope Benedict XVI
We need this encounter which brings us together which gives us space for freedom which lets us see beyond the bustle of everyday life to Gods creative love from which we come and towards which we are travelling.
387 - Nov 2007 - Books: Books available from AD Books
95 Jesus Our Eucharistic Love Fr Stefano M.
388 - Nov 2007 - Books: Catholicism and Fundamentalism by Karl Keating: essential reading in apologetics, Valerie Renkema
It is one thing to say that belief should so manifest itself in Christians that people will say See how they love one another.
389 - Nov 2007 - Prayer: John Paul II and the Rosary, Fr. M. Durham
Jesus dying for love of us on the cross.
390 - Nov 2007 - Poetry: A poem on the priesthood - Among the Apostles, John O'Neill
His choice did fall and I trembled in the Spirits love As Da quaesumus rang through the hallowed stones of the arches high above.
391 - Nov 2007 - Ora et labora: How monastic hospitality can strengthen one's faith, Br Barry Coldrey CFC
After Mass everyone embraced and I felt keenly the contrast of this communal love with the harsh professional world I inhabit normally.
392 - Nov 2007 - Liturgical Abuse: Trinitarian language lost in Brisbane Scriptures, Michael Apthorp
Johns themes here are love reassurance and the sending of the Holy Spirit: in the original If anyone loves me .
393 - Nov 2007 - Australia's Missionaries of God's Love congregation continues to grow, Mary Pidcock
The story of the Missionaries of Gods Love (MGL) is one of real hope for the Church in Australia.
394 - Oct 2007 - Reflection: Archbishop Hickey on the Christian concept of marriage, Archbishop Barry Hickey
He implied that the world would be changed if his listeners changed from the way they lived to His way of living love.
395 - Oct 2007 - Books: Books available from AD Books
95 Jesus Our Eucharistic Love Fr Stefano M.
396 - Oct 2007 - Letters: Mass attendance, John Schmid
Top of the list would be love of God and His Son Jesus Christ not so much whether those in the pews like the priest how Mass is celebrated or the level of community acceptance etc.
397 - Oct 2007 - Sacred language: New US liturgy head endorses revised Missal translation
Finally since sometimes the language used at Mass can mimic our attitudes in dress and become less fitting for the house of God the revised translation will help remind us that we are in the presence of the All- Holy God who stoops to love us in Christ.
398 - Oct 2007 - More of the same: Retired Sydney bishop calls for a radical overhaul of the Catholic faith, Michael Gilchrist
Many of the Bishops proposals are not new being similar to those suggested in an earlier book by another retired Sydney auxiliary the late Bishop John Heaps titled A Love That Dares To Question: A Bishop Challenges His Church (1998) as well as by Paul Collins in his book Papal Power (1997).
399 - Sep 2007 - Reflection: An informed conscience: what the Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches, Bishop Luc Matthys
After all we have the Ten Commandments of God as well as the rules of the Church the beatitudes the general exhortation to live by faith by hope and by love.
400 - Sep 2007 - Books: Books available from AD2000
95 Jesus Our Eucharistic Love Fr Stefano M.
401 - Sep 2007 - Books: THE BEAUTY OF THY HOUSE, by Mark Alessio, Tim Cannon
Serious Catholics strive throughout their lives to deepen their understandings of the truths of faith filling them out with detail and colour according to their abilities; for we are called to love God with all our heart soul and mind and we cannot love what we do not know.
402 - Sep 2007 - Laity: How the Legion of Mary can benefit parishes, Fr Hugh Thwaites SJ
He has a duty to sanctify his parishioners and here are these good people coming to him week after week looking for advice on how to serve God better how to love Our Lady more.
403 - Sep 2007 - Catholic education must be 'unashamedly Catholic', Bishop Robert Finn
The catechism teaches us that the reason why God made us is so that we may know love and serve him in this world so that we may be happy with him for all eternity.
404 - Sep 2007 - Rediscovering the real history of Australian Catholic education, Eamonn Keane
Further I consider it to be egregiously false to suggest that bishops were by and large harsh overbearing and unfeeling individuals; and equally false to suggest that religious teachers were not smart enough to teach sound Catholic doctrine nor virtuous enough to practise it properly being motivated largely by fear and not love.
405 - Sep 2007 - Rome reaffirms Vatican II's teaching on 'one true Church', Frank Mobbs
Article 2 gives defining marks of this Church including: it is the one which possesses the Eucharist and Christs commandment to love one another and was taught ruled and sanctified by Peter and the Twelve is taught and given the sacraments and is governed by the Pope and the bishops - successors of Peter and the Twelve.
406 - Aug 2007 - Reflection: The Assumption: how the Christian arts honour the Virgin Mary
In the Gardens of God in the daylight divine I shall look on thy loveliness Mother of mine.
407 - Aug 2007 - Books: AD2000 Books
95 Jesus Our Eucharistic Love Fr Stefano M.
408 - Aug 2007 - Books: The World's First Love, by Fulton J. Sheen, Michael Daniel
THE WORLDS FIRST LOVE by Fulton J.
409 - Aug 2007 - Books: Jesus of Nazareth: Baptism to Transfiguration, by Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI, Tim Cannon
In his encyclical Deus Caritas Est Benedict suggested that true Christian discipleship which presumes a labour of love springs forth from a personal encounter with an event the real event of Christs Life Passion Death and Resurrection.
410 - Aug 2007 - Letters: Study leave, Eamonn Keane
He stated that such legislation is disastrous because it questions the meaning of being man or woman the characteristics of love and sexuality.
411 - Aug 2007 - Catholic students' joyful encounter with the Church's sacred music treasury, Gabrielle Walsh
Where charity and love areEacute; is based on the antiphons sung during the ceremony of the Washing of the Feet at the Mass of the Last Supper on Holy Thursday and as it is included in this particular Mass it is closely connected with the Eucharist.
412 - Aug 2007 - Why Catholic parents choose home-schooling, Leslie Sammut
Another said We love the home-school lifestyle: the wonderful curriculum the family togetherness the freedom the ability to have a truly Catholic education for our children.
413 - Aug 2007 - Catholics and the pornography epidemic, Bishop Robert Finn
It gives us the ability to connect and give ourselves in love to another person.
414 - Aug 2007 - University: Australian Catholic students' conference: 'an inspiring experience', Br Barry Coldrey
Some are associated with the Disciples of Jesus Covenant Communities and the Missionaries of Gods Love; others with the Franciscan Capuchin Youth Ministry.
415 - Jul 2007 - Reflection: Bishop Robert Finn on what it means to be a Catholic priest, Bishop Robert Finn
Above all be filled with wonder and awe at the mystery of the Holy Eucharist from which flows the life of the Church and which is the primary source of the priests pastoral love (Presbyterorum Ordinis no.
416 - Jul 2007 - Poetry: A legacy of virtue: the remarkable Craig sisters, Fr John Lea McDaniels FSSP
I love them!
417 - Jul 2007 - Why truth and charity are inseparable, Alice von Hildebrand
In 1989 Sophia Institute Press published her book By Love Refined.
418 - Jul 2007 - Events: Canberra 6-8 July - Australian Catholic Students' Association 2007 Conference, Patrick Giam
The wide experience of university life the matrix of friendship love sport and academia must remain infused with the Catholic faith.
419 - Jul 2007 - Interview: He could no longer explain why he wasn't Catholic, Tim Drake and Francis Beckwith
I attended that seminar and was very much taken by the Dominicans erudition and deep spirituality and the love of Jesus that was evident in the way they conducted themselves.
420 - Jun 2007 - Reflection: Pentecost, the Holy Spirit and the Eucharist, Fr Dennis Byrnes
Jesus told us if anyone loves him my father will love him and we shall come to him and make our home in him.
421 - Jun 2007 - Books: AD2000 Books
He directs the reader to the more humble safer path which discerns Gods presence in prayer Scripture sacraments and love of neighbour.
422 - Jun 2007 - Books: THE SONG OF BERNADETTE, by Franz Werfel, Michael E. Daniel
Nevertheless it was part of the jigsaw puzzle in the path to conversion and is a story that continues to inspire faith hope and love in God.
423 - Jun 2007 - Books: EDITH STEIN, WOMAN OF PRAYER: Her Life and Ideals, by Joanne Mosley, Tim Cannon
In her account Mosley shows that Ediths faith was anchored in the various devotions which permeated the saints life: her yearning for the truth which is shown to be instrumental in her discovery of the true faith; her devotion to contemplative prayer before the Blessed Sacrament; her love of the Cross and her joy at being called to carry it with Christ; and her devotion to the saints particularly the great saints of the Carmelite tradition including Theacute;rse of Lisieux St John of the Cross and Teresa of Avila.
424 - Jun 2007 - Books: IN THE LIGHT OF CHRIST: Writings in the Western Tradition, by Lucy Beckett, Francis Phillips
With the advent of the universities of Peter Abelard and St Thomas Aquinas a chasm developed between professional theologians and the amateurs (literally lovers).
425 - Jun 2007 - Poetry: A Glimpse of My Glory, Maureen Bidess
A sinner you are - this is true - But Im touched by the depth of the love child You show me in much that you do.
426 - Jun 2007 - Letters: Vatican II (letter), Francis Vrijmoed
Vatican II) wishes to set forth authentic doctrine on divine revelation and its transmission so that by hearing the message of salvation the whole world may believe by believing it may hope and by hoping it may love (emphasis mine).
427 - Jun 2007 - Sigrid Undset: Revived interest in a remarkable Norwegian Catholic novelist, Michael Daniel
Betrothed in marriage to Simon Darre Kristin falls in love with the widower Erlend Nikulausson.
428 - Jun 2007 - Youth ministry active in the Melbourne archdiocese, Barry Coldrey
It is partly a co-ordinating body with its Mission Statement affirming: We work with individuals parishes schools and youth groups to help young people live love and spread the Gospel.
429 - Jun 2007 - Verbicide: 'Happy' or 'Blessed'? How faith can be drained of meaning, Arthur Ballingall
Charity or love?
430 - Jun 2007 - Obituary: A tribute to natural family planning pioneer, Dr John Billings, RIP, Msgr Peter J. Elliott
In Melbournes noble cathedral we offer the redeeming Sacrifice of Jesus Christ this Holy Mass for a man so many of us know and love.
431 - 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.
432 - May 2007 - Books: AD2000 Books
He directs the reader to the more humble safer path which discerns Gods presence in prayer Scripture sacraments and love of neighbour.
433 - May 2007 - Books: The Heresy Of Formlessness: The Roman Liturgy and Its Enemy, by Martin Mosebach, Tim Cannon
His passion derives from a clearly evident and devout love of the Mass and particularly of its culmination in the sacrifice of the altar the sacrament of the Eucharist.
434 - May 2007 - Letters: Marital fidelity, Br Con Moloney
After watching her loving care of her husband I made the following remark: It is very clear to me that you have a great love for your very sick husband.
435 - May 2007 - Letters: Teachers' conference, Ron Munro
The reason for the existence of Catholic schools amongst other things is to inculcate in students a knowledge of love for and practice of the Catholic faith.
436 - May 2007 - Vocations: New religious communities flourishing in the United States, Fr James Lloyd
The new nun Many of the single Catholic young women of my world who are daily communicants and who have great love of the Lord show utterly no interest in joining these liberated religious groups.
437 - May 2007 - Cinema: New movie offers an authentic representation of monastic life, Rosina Gordon
Grouml;ning wanted to make a film about time and thats what I love about Into Great Silence the extended shots the slow edits the time to think.
438 - May 2007 - Catechesis: Sydney RCIA conference in June on forming new adult Catholics, Joanne Zwaans
The RCIA process seeks to prepare people not only for assent to eternal truths but more so to fall in love with an eternal Lover.
439 - May 2007 - Documents: Benedict XVI's new document on the Eucharist - Sacramentum Caritatis, Michael Gilchrist
Benedict XVIs long-awaited Apostolic Exhortation on the Eucharist Sacramentum Caritatis (The Sacrament of Love) was released on 13 March.
440 - Apr 2007 - Reflection: Benedict XVI on the transforming power of the Resurrection, Pope Benedict XVI
The Resurrection was like an explosion of light an explosion of love ushering in a new dimension of being a new dimension of life in which in a transformed way matter too was integrated and through which a new world emerges.
441 - Apr 2007 - Books: Books available from AD2000 and Freedom Publishing
He focuses especially on the true meaning of love anticipating his first encyclical as Benedict XVI.
442 - Apr 2007 - Books: The Way of Love: Reflections on Deus Caritas Est, Livio Melina and Carl Anderson, Tim Cannon
A collection of unique and profound insights into the nature of Christian love THE WAY OF LOVE: Reflections on Pope Benedict XVIs Encyclical Deus Caritas Est Edited by Livio Melina and Carl A.
443 - Apr 2007 - Belief: Christian-Muslim dialogue: major stumbling blocks, Fr Richard Umbers
They would even see how Jesus needed to be both son of God and son of Mary so that his death on the Cross could be a saving reality and not just a sign of Gods love.
444 - Apr 2007 - St Faustina: The Divine Mercy apostolate: a spirituality to transform the world, Eva Kimnes
The Shrine was subsequently chosen for Australia Unites in Prayer gatherings to bring the ministry of Gods love and mercy to those in need of healing grace and miracles.
445 - Apr 2007 - Rockhampton Lenten program: 'whatever that might mean', AD2000 Report
Further comments derive from the Gospel reflections and stories used in the program: The Father doesnt just recognise Jesus but recognises him in love as his chosen one.
446 - Apr 2007 - Catholicism and secularism in Britain: a test of strength on same-sex adoption, Joanna Bogle
What will happen if it is announced that they may not teach homophobic ideas on love and sexual ethics i.
447 - Mar 2007 - Reflection: The Holy Trinity - source of true Christian unity, Fr John O'Neill
There the mind realises why there have to be Three Persons that they are boundless in their love which is the determined and infinite bestowing of infinite goodness on each other through their shared Nature thus eternally producing their infinite joy and so the mind can come to know why they created then redeemed the fallen creation then sanctified it: it was all out of their shared Divine Joy.
448 - Mar 2007 - Books: Order Books from freedompublishing.com.au
He focuses especially on the true meaning of love anticipating his first encyclical as Benedict XVI.
449 - Mar 2007 - Media: The Rosary of the Virgin Mary - 4 DVD or 4 CD set, Michael Gilchrist
Confraternity of Christ the Priest Thurgoona NSW) In the introduction to Pope John Paul IIs Rosarium Virginis Mariae we read: The Rosary of the Virgin Mary which gradually took form in the second millenium under the guidance of the Spirit of God is a prayer loved by countless Saints and encouraged by the Magisterium.
450 - Mar 2007 - Letters: Ten Commandments, Arthur Hartwig
One difficulty is with the English word love which covers everything from the perfect eternal love shown by God for His creation to the inane I love fairy floss.
451 - Mar 2007 - Catholic religion courses and the challenge of relativism, Audrey English
With religion however love of God must have priority and tolerance does not mean indifference about religion.
452 - Mar 2007 - 'Professional', a lá carte Catholicism and its papier màché schools, Andrew T. Kania
They had a love for teaching an appreciation of their own subject discipline and a personal interest in students.
453 - Mar 2007 - Leadership: The scandal of Australia's anti-life Catholic politicians, Marcel White
Status of embryo Happy to play World Youth Day liaison and gracious host Turnbull concludes an article with this prayerful reflection on the 2008 Catholic event Let us pray that World Youth Day 2008 in Sydney will fill the world with Christs love and that all of us who are engaged in this great endeavour shall share in and be inspired by Gods passionate love for the human adventure.
454 - Mar 2007 - Formation: Continuing growth of Sydney's Catholic Adult Education Centre, AD2000 Report
Given over a weekend they emphasise the spirituality and sacramentality of marriage openness to life and the importance of love in its two dimensions of eros and agape as mentioned by Benedict XVI in his encyclical God is love.
455 - Feb 2007 - Reflection: Why the Church must continue to uphold priestly celibacy, Fr Pat Stratford
It is an imitation of the celibate Jesus motivated by love of Him.
456 - Feb 2007 - Books: New Titles from AD Books
Here he provides an overview of the spiritual life for those seeking to grow in the love of God and neighbour.
457 - Feb 2007 - Letters: Truth and love, Chris Hilder
In response to Alan Barrons previous letters (October and Dec- ember-January AD2000) I came across the following view from Fr Michael Himes in his book Doing the Truth in Love which is worth quoting: The separation of theology and agapic (i.
458 - Feb 2007 - Music: Johann Sebastian Bach and the heavenly choir, Fr Finbarr Flanagan
To the believer nothing can separate us from the love of Christ neither here nor in the hereafter.
459 - Feb 2007 - The Church and the environment: address the moral pollution first, Wanda Skowronska
One is certainly more socially popular if one sticks to externals denounces climate change and advocates love of the visible environment than if one exhorts love for the invisible child threatened with abortion in the womb.
460 - Dec 2006 - Reflection: Jesus' law of love and the Ten Commandments, Fr Dennis Byrnes
Many young people may not be marrying but in their relationships they long for love and permanence.
461 - Dec 2006 - Books: New Titles from AD Books
95 Theology of the Body Explained Christopher West Love sexuality and human flourishing are inseparable.
462 - Dec 2006 - Letters: True Church, E. Makaus
The reality is that God favours with incomparable love the one and only Church founded by His Beloved Son Jesus Christ on Peter the Rock who had the mandate along with his successors through the ages down to the present Pope to keep the Lords teaching whole intact.
463 - Dec 2006 - Letters: Christian differences, Alan Barron
Despite the very real differences which exist between Catholics and Protestants we should love one another as Christ loved the Church and gave Himself for it.
464 - Dec 2006 - Letters: Infant Baptism
Had the human race not been raised to the supernatural order with heaven as our destiny our end would have been to know and love God for all eternity by our natural powers.
465 - Dec 2006 - Letters: News from India, Fr Francis Pinto CSsR
You are succeeding in deepening and strengthening the faith of a great many and spreading the love of our Mother Mary to many more.
466 - Dec 2006 - A 'best practice' guide to priestly vocations
It is crucial to form mature and balanced personalities men capable of establishing sound human and pastoral relationships knowledgeable in theology solid in the spiritual life and in love with the Church.
467 - Dec 2006 - Catechesis of the Good Shepherd: the Montessori method for RE, Anne Delsorte
The perfect time to commence in this Catechesis of the Good Shepherd is at the age of three when the childs capacity for wonder and for falling in love with God are at an optimum.
468 - Dec 2006 - Sydney RCIA conference for 2007 on authentic formation of new Catholics, Paula Flynn
It is well known that catechumens and candidates for full communion often feel loved and treasured in the cocooning ambience of the RCIA group; but once the excitement of initiation at Easter has worn off and they are just like everyone else in the pews they can feel let down and lonely.
469 - Dec 2006 - Editorial: The first Christmas, Peter Westmore
Through his example he proved that God is love to use the title of Pope Benedicts first Encyclical.
470 - Nov 2006 - Reflection: Catholic schools must proclaim the total love of Christ, Fr Sebastian Camilleri OFM
rsquo; Students cannot leave before they meet him hear him know that he loves them and duly acknowledge his law in their lives.
471 - Nov 2006 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
00 Arms of Love Carmen Marcoux Arms of Love presents the truth about Christian intimacy based on John Paul IIs Theology of the Body.
472 - Nov 2006 - Books: St John Bosco, St Dominic and the Rosary, St Thérèe of Lisieux, Siobhan B. Reeves
For most of this book Beebe focuses on John Boscos love for the poor boys of Turin whom he brought together at weekly meetings to teach them about the faith.
473 - Nov 2006 - Letters: Faith and reason, Peter D. Howard
Alan Barrons concept of loving one another (October AD2000) is vital and true if we accept also Christs command of loving even our enemies but woefully inadequate in failing to include what Christ also taught that to love Him we must keep His commandments.
474 - Nov 2006 - Television: EWTN: now affordable and accessible in Australia, Moira Kirkwood
EWTN is anathema to all who would seek to conform the Church to the secular world whereas our divinely enjoined mission is to transform the secular culture to an awareness and love of God.
475 - Nov 2006 - Liturgy: US bishop sets out clear guidelines on celebrations of the Mass, AD2000 REPORT
Bishop Slattery concluded that it was lsquo;critical for us as Catholics who are in the midst of a great struggle to recover our celebration of the Lords Day to recover first our traditional and accurate understanding that individual holiness our coming closer to God depends directly on our appreciation of the sacrifice of the cross and the enormous gap between Gods faithful redeeming love for me personally and my indifferent and inconsistent love for Him.
476 - Nov 2006 - News: The Church Around the World
This right and duty of bishops is absolutely vital in order that the diocesan community may be internally united and progress in profound union of faith of love and of discipline with the Bishop of Rome and with the entire Church.
477 - Nov 2006 - Living the Faith: What distinguishes a practising Catholic?, Bishop Luc Matthys
Catholics live by Faith Hope and Love.
478 - Nov 2006 - Education: The Spirit of Generation Y: the challenge for Catholic schools, Cardinal George Pell
Catholicism calls to faith and reason as well as love and hope.
479 - Oct 2006 - Books: ARMS OF LOVE by Carmen Marcoux, Jacinta Cummins
A novel which presents chastity and courtship in a positive light ARMS OF LOVE by Carmen Marcoux (One Way Publishing House 2002 438 pp $34.
480 - Oct 2006 - Letters: Counter Reformation, Alan Barron
Rather God wants all believers to live in harmony peace and goodwill working together to extend the love of Christ in the world eschewing endless debates on theology; and if possible even loving one another as He Christ has loved us.
481 - Oct 2006 - University: Campion College: a pioneer in Australian higher education, Stephen McInerny
If you forget everything you learned at college - most of it you will - remember at least this question - it will be on the very final examination which your own conscience will make at the last hour of your life: In your pursuit of horizons of horizontal things have you failed to raise your eyes and mind and heart up to the stars - to the reasons for things and beyond as the great poet Dante says at the top of the tower of his poem: To the love which moves the sun and all the other stars.
482 - Oct 2006 - Benedict XVI interviewed by German journalists
Weve heard so much about what is not allowed that now its time to say: We have a positive idea to offer that man and woman are made for each other that the scale of sexuality eros agape indicates the level of love and its in this way that marriage develops first of all as a joyful and blessing-filled encounter between a man and a woman and then the family that guarantees continuity among generations and through which generations are reconciled to each other and even cultures can meet.
483 - Oct 2006 - Spanish bishops attack false theologies, AD2000 Report
The dignity of human life demands that its transmission take place within the context of conjugal love.
484 - Sep 2006 - Reflection: Cardinal Arinze on the need for Eucharistic reverence, Cardinal Francis Arinze
The homily needs special attention because for most Catholics it is the single most effective weekly moment in which they can be fed on the doctrine of the faith to help them know it love it and live it with ever greater authenticity.
485 - Sep 2006 - Books: Stimulating reading from Freedom Publishing
00 Seeking the Absolute Love Mayeul de Dreuille OSB The author presents a concise account of the early founders of Christian monasticism from Clement of Alexandria to St Bernard.
486 - Sep 2006 - Books: Why Must I Suffer? by Fr F.J. Remler CM, Jacinta Cummins
His advice is to try to see Gods infinite love manifested in the afflictions He sends you.
487 - Sep 2006 - Letters: Judicial activism, Henk Verheven
A Dutch judge in The Hague has ruled that the recently-formed pedophile party PNVD (Partij voor Naastenliefde Vrijheid en Diversiteit - Party for Love of ones neighbour Freedom and Diversity) has the right to exist since the democratic freedom to form political parties is enshrined in the Dutch constitution.
488 - Sep 2006 - Letters: Baptism, Mark Moriarty
I believe that God who has entrusted this child to them through love would have known that their desire would have been baptism for their child therefore I believe that child would enter heaven.
489 - Sep 2006 - Clergy: ACCC Annual Conference focuses on theology of Benedict XVI, AD2000 Report
The Conference Dinner talk titled Why I love being a priest!
490 - Sep 2006 - History: The Counter Reformation and the Jesuits, John Morrissey
A reservoir of prayer and piety in the Catholic world represented by the Oratory of the Divine Love in Italy and St Teresa and Carmelite reform in Spain was a force behind the Catholic or Counter Reformation.
491 - Sep 2006 - Chavagnes: Catholic education in a secular culture, Alexander Morrison
Our faith is constantly challenging us to reject evil and do good to love our enemies to overcome our human weaknesses in short to follow the Gospel of Christ and not the false attractions of the world.
492 - Sep 2006 - News: The Church Around the World
Today he said as I look out at you standing here in St Peters Square I think of the Apostles and feel the voice of Jesus who says to you I no longer call you servants but friends remain in my love and bear much fruit.
493 - Aug 2006 - Reflection: The importance of early baptism, John Young
While it is a child of God in a natural sense (because created and loved by Him) it is not a child of God in the supernatural sense of having been raised to a share in His own life.
494 - Aug 2006 - Books: Stimulating reading from Freedom Publishing
00 Seeking the Absolute Love Mayeul de Dreuille OSB The author presents a concise account of the early founders of Christian monasticism from Clement of Alexandria to St Bernard.
495 - Aug 2006 - Books: Land of Carmel, by Elizabeth Ruth Obbard, Jacinta Cummins
Carmel is for anyone who loves or wants to love Mary and her Son - sinners and outcasts aliens and strangers as well as the good and the genuinely holy.
496 - Aug 2006 - Books: In This Vale of Tears (Winterbine Trilogy), by Gerard Charles Wilson, Michael Gilchrist
Let us proceed in joy happiness and love.
497 - Aug 2006 - What makes a Catholic university 'Catholic', Father John Coughlin
Father Coughlin: A Catholic university is a community of scholars and students who are united by the love for truth and the desire to integrate faith and reason.
498 - Aug 2006 - Victoria-Tasmania: Continued growth in vocations at Melbourne's Corpus Christi seminary, Joan Clements
Whether it be at boxing training (which he does weekly) or at football matches of his beloved Collingwood Magpies Fr Denton is always alive to the possibility that God may be calling the young men he meets.
499 - Aug 2006 - News: The Church Around the World
Catholic News Agency Spanish policies a death sentence for the family Cardinal Antonio Canizares Llovera has charged that the Spanish Government has written a sort of death sentence for the family with its new policies.
500 - Aug 2006 - Liturgy: The new Missal translation: Archbishop Hart's progress report, Michael Gilchrist
Catholics will quickly get used to it and come to love it.
501 - Jul 2006 - Reflection: US bishop: making saints should be the goal of Catholic schools, Bishop Robert Finn
Our students cannot must not leave before they meet him hear him know that he loves them and acknowledge his law in their lives.
502 - Jul 2006 - Books: Good News About Sex and Marriage, by Christopher West, Jacinta Cummins
Not only does the Church teach that sex is a holy expression of love between a married man and woman which is open to the gift of life it is also an incredible indissoluble glue which strengthens the bond of matrimony.
503 - Jul 2006 - Letters: Degrees of Homosexuality, Vincent Bemowski
Others should one of their parents/guardians not truly love them from a very early age may unconsciously imitate certain masculine or feminine characteristics of the parent/guardian that they most admired.
504 - Jul 2006 - Re-mythologising: Narnia - faith and fiction: The parallel world of C.S.Lewis, Msgr Peter J. Elliott
The deep magic is not to be confused with the so-called white witchcraft of Harry Potter or New Age practitioners rather it represents a kind of sacramental application of divine goodness the all-powerful love and serene justice that prevails in the end.
505 - Jul 2006 - New Vatican document emphasises centrality of marriage and family, AD2000 Report
These problems have arisen alongside several new trends in bioethics that have the same tendency to separate sexualty from love.
506 - Jun 2006 - Reflection: Pentecost, launching of the Church, Cardinal Francis Arinze
The love of Christ urges us on (cf.
507 - Jun 2006 - Letters: Meditation, Rosemary Chandler
At the same time it opens enters a more profound unity which is the unity of love that does not destroy.
508 - Jun 2006 - Is dialogue possible between Christians and Muslims?, Cardinal George Pell
Think for example of the Christian understanding of the person as a unity of reason freedom and love and the way these attributes characterise a Christians relationship with God.
509 - Jun 2006 - Education: Why do CEOs use Groome's RE method?, AD2000 Report
Otherwise wherever the Holy Trinity is referred to it is always as God: Communion of Love Source of all Being Eternal Word and Holy Spirit.
510 - Jun 2006 - News: The Church Around the World
It pointed to the impact Benedict XVIs visit for World Youth Day had had on young people in speaking to them about frustration dissatisfaction and love in a way perhaps unlike any other pastor of the Catholic Church in Germany before.
511 - Jun 2006 - China defies Holy See to 'ordain' two bishops, Peter Westmore
Cardinal Zen in turn responded in a statement then that he acted in the best interests of China and added Is it too much to hope that our leaders may finally discern who are those who truly love their country and those who betray the real interests of the country?
512 - May 2006 - Reflection: Oneness in Christ: the heart of the priesthood, Fr John W. O'Neill PP
Eternal love Down the shore comes this so-called new prophet Jesus from Nazareth.
513 - May 2006 - Books: Young Faces of Holiness: Modern Saints in Photos and Words, by Ann Ball, Jacinta Cummins
Available from AD Books) There will always be the classic biographies of pious saints from the early Church and the Middle Ages providing inspiration for many young readers but one must not forget that todays young Catholics are growing up in a world alienated from many Christian values and one in which the concepts of sacrifice and unconditional love are largely foreign.
514 - May 2006 - Books: On The Way To Jesus Christ, by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI), Jacinta Cummins
Consider: it is far easier and much more comfortable for one to take the Golden Rule and treat others the way one would wish to be treated than to fully embrace Jesus command to turn the other cheek when struck and love all men irrespective of how they treat us.
515 - May 2006 - Letters: Liturgical abuses, Rosanna Sherman
He must therefore learn to unite himself intimately to the offering placing his entire life upon the altar of sacrifice as a revealing sign of the gratuitous and anticipatory love of God.
516 - May 2006 - Letters: Adoption - our experience, Bella and Leon Voesenek
There are many married couples out there who cannot have children and would love to adopt.
517 - May 2006 - Foreign priests - a tale of two Brisbane parishes, Bob Osmak
The parishioners seem to love his Masses.
518 - May 2006 - Benedict's first twelve months: 'We Are Church' delivers its verdict, Michael Gilchrist
We call upon him to begin a new phase of the church by recognizing that laity is the Churchs treasure rather than its problem and that those of us who raise our voices for reform and renewal are indeed faithful Catholics possessing a true capacity for reflection and discernment and a genuine love for the whole church.
519 - May 2006 - Events: Carnivale Christi 2006 scheduled for Melbourne and Sydney in May, AD2000 Report
Lewis Shadowlands concerning the unlikely life-changing love story between English don C.
520 - May 2006 - News: The Church Around the World
Echoing the words of Benedict XVI to the members of the Pontifical Academy of Life he said The Bible expresses love for each human being even before he is formed in his mothers womb.
521 - May 2006 - Papacy: Benedict completes his first twelve months as Pope, Fr Ephraem Chifley
He concludes by saying: The West has lost all capacity for self- love.
522 - May 2006 - Editorial: Benedict XVI: love and truth are inseparable
During his general audience on 5 April in St Peters Square in the presence of 30000 people Benedict XVI developed themes raised in his recent encyclical Deus Caritas Est including the inseparable roles of love and truth in building communion - the unified body of believers.
523 - Apr 2006 - Books: Fr Martin D'Arcy: Philosopher of Christian Love, by H.J.A. Sire, Michael E. Daniel
FR MARTIN DARCY: Philosopher of Christian Love by H.
524 - Apr 2006 - Books: Swear To God: The Promise and Powers of the Sacraments, by Scott Hahn, Jacinta Cummins
After discussion with his wife Kimberly he investigated further only to find he was being absorbed in a consuming appreciation and eventual love for the sacraments.
525 - Apr 2006 - Letters: Church of England, Jim Turley
The rise of the so-called New Theology in the 1960s referred to by Mullen was essentially I believe an outcome of Nietzsches condemnation of Christian love as the result of mans fear of God.
526 - Apr 2006 - Music and Culture: Benedict XVI, Mozart and the quest for beauty, Mark Freer
Everyone it seems loves Mozart.
527 - Apr 2006 - Has just punishment had its day?, Fr Matthew Kirby
Of course Christians must love all people even those who offend against them but this does not preclude punishing the guilty as punishments need not be motivated by or associated with hate.
528 - Apr 2006 - The Domestic Church: The Christian Family Movement: re-evangelising through families, Leslie Sammut
Improving society through actions of love service education and example by cultivation of a missionary spirit in member couples who then offer their services to other families.
529 - Mar 2006 - Reflection: Bringing Christ's love to the bereaved: a ministry for Catholic parishes, Fr Dennis Byrnes
Such visits constitute the beginning of an important ministry in a parish community that cares one which is the essence of Christ-like love.
530 - Mar 2006 - Letters: Elitism, Jeff Harvie
He came for the sinners and He loved them no less despite their sins or their ignorance.
531 - Mar 2006 - Letters: St John Vianney, Maureen Wright
He burned with love for Jesus and through him Jesus ignited many flames of faith.
532 - Mar 2006 - Letters: The Eucharist, Jim Howe
And yet precisely here we run into difficulties with Jesus major commandment his most basic law to love one another tending to become a stumbling block.
533 - Mar 2006 - Letters: The Fortified School, Chris Hilder
Some advice from St Teresa of Avila to the problem presented by Br Luke Saker and Bishop Geoffrey Jarrett (February AD2000) on the dismal performance of our Catholic schools in instilling love of the Catholic faith in its students could be: What is necessary is the approach of a lord when in times of war his land is overrun with enemies and he finds himself restricted on all sides.
534 - Mar 2006 - Mass: How can differences over the Liturgy be resolved?, Fr John O'Neill
Because Catholics (those practising) love the Mass so much then such is the measure of the tensions sometimes running to bitterness among us over liturgical differences.
535 - Mar 2006 - Archbishop Hickey: how to address the crisis of faith, Archbishop Barry Hickey
Welcome though it was at the time the assertion of Vatican II that it would approach the modern world not so much with dogma and morality but with love and an openness to movements of the Spirit was never intended to forfeit the Churchs dogmatic and moral responsibilities.
536 - Mar 2006 - News: The Church Around the World
This vision could be realised he said only through the work of the Messiah and his people and could be reached only by making a clear choice to take the side of God of love and of justice.
537 - Mar 2006 - Documents: Benedict's first encyclical 'Deus Caritas Est' speaks to the heart of the Faith, Michael Gilchrist
Benedict XVIs first encyclical Deus Caritas Est (God is Love) was released at the Vatican on 25 January.
538 - Feb 2006 - Reflection: The hidden treasure of the Holy Mass, St Leonard of Port Maurice
He is the primary offerer because He has instituted this Holy Sacrifice and through His merits for love of us deigns to change the bread and wine into His holy Body and precious Blood.
539 - Feb 2006 - Books: For the Life of the World:St Maximilian and the Eucharist, by Fr Jerzy Domanski, Michael Gilchrist
Fr Felix Rossetti in his Preface to the original 1982 edition explains St Maximilians approach as follows: Perfect devotion to Mary coincides with adoring love for Christ really present in His divinity and in His humanity under the eucharistic species.
540 - Feb 2006 - Prayer: The Abandonment Prayer of Charles de Foucauld
Into your hands I commend my soul; I offer it to you with all the love of my heart for I love you Lord and so need to give myself to surrender myself into your hands without reserve and with boundless confidence for you are my Father.
541 - Feb 2006 - The Church of England: beyond satire?, Rev Peter Mullen
Everywhere you peer inside this once refined and educated lovely and lovable national institution there is only a mania for self-destruction.
542 - Feb 2006 - Blessed Charles de Foucauld: seeking nothing but God's will, Dr Frank Mobbs
In short he fell in love with both.
543 - Feb 2006 - Priestly vocations: the key role of bishops, John Mallon
Leaving aside the question of whether the Lord is going to bless dissent with abundant vocations is the other more practical question of what young man firmly committed to and in love with the Lord and His Church is going to seek ordination in a diocese where the clergy has a reputation for chewing up orthodox people both clerical and lay and spitting them out?
544 - Feb 2006 - Education: Catholic Church and her schools face a 'wake-up call', Bishop Geoffrey Jarrett
But they have to encounter this in people who believe it love it live it and practise it as the basis of their teaching it.
545 - Dec 2005 - Books: Good News About Sex And Marriage, by Christopher West, Kerrie Allen
West writes: Sex is so beautiful so wonderful so glorious that its meant to express Gods free total faithful and fruitful love.
546 - Dec 2005 - Cinema: New movie's balanced presentation of exorcism: The Exorcism of Emily Rose, Shannon Donahoo
It is easy to talk about the need to love each other and be hospitable because everyone - Christian and non-Christian - can see the advantages in that.
547 - Dec 2005 - The Eucharist: gift of an interventionist God, Chris Hilder
What inconceivable love God has for us that he reached right down to the depths of the earth to meet us as we are.
548 - Dec 2005 - Formation: St John Vianney's blueprint for the priesthood back in favour, Fr John Cihak
His love of the Mass could be read on his face.
549 - Dec 2005 - Episcopacy: Archbishop Chaput of Denver: America's plain-speaking Pope's man, Peter J. Boyer
This is a seminary where people love the Church and they love Jesus Christ the Archbishop says.
550 - Nov 2005 - Reflection: The concrete character of Christianity, John Young
He gave undeserved gifts; then after his love was rejected he promised Redemption.
551 - Nov 2005 - Books: Stem Cells, by Norman M. Ford and Michael Herbert, Kerrie Allen
the idea that human beings in their early embryonic stage are only potential persons (The Prenatal Person); or for saying: A conscience is said to be certain when the individual believes his judgment to be true without any reasonable fear of error (Live Out the Truth in Love).
552 - Nov 2005 - Books: Philosophy 101 Meets Socrates, by Peter Kreeft, Bill Muehlenberg
As we all know philosophy is the love of wisdom.
553 - Nov 2005 - Letters: Vatican II and Benedict XVI, Jim Howe
The authentic Catholic sensibility is to be on the side of Peter to stand with Peter even as a little child (as Jesus indicated to his disciples) with a heart full of love of reverence of faith in his words and in the words of Jesus vicar on earth.
554 - Nov 2005 - Call to Holiness: Contemplating the Eucharistic Face of Christ, Christine McCarthy
Here is the culmination of the whole journey: encounter becomes adoration; it blossoms into an act of faith and love which acknowledges in Jesus born of Mary the Son of God made man.
555 - Nov 2005 - Thomas More Centre: Fifty years from Shadowlands: Childhood memories of the world of C. S. Lewis, Msgr Peter J. Elliott
Through these exhibitions he raised large sums of money for his beloved charity the Missions to Seamen.
556 - Nov 2005 - National Press Club: Cardinal George Pell on the dictatorship of relativism, Cardinal George Pell
Pope Benedict knows this well just as he knows that a vibrant Christianity can still transform even post- industrial societies with its love and faith its principles and communities of service.
557 - Oct 2005 - Reflection: What the early Church tells us about the celebration of Mass, Fr Sebastian Camilleri OFM
Out of intense love for Christ during the early persecutions in Pagan Rome many thousands of gallant Christians challenged to deny their faith in Christ died as martyrs in his defence and for the Sacrifice of the Mass.
558 - Oct 2005 - Books: A Beautiful Story to be Told: The Legion of Mary in Oceania 1932-2005, Michael Gilchrist
Available through AD Books) The present work has been a labour of love for Fr Joachim OBrien and will be welcomed by all who have been involved with the Legion of Mary over the years in this part of the world.
559 - Oct 2005 - Letters: Anti-Christian media, Frank Bellet
such sewage as Big Brother dont waste your time complaining to the TV stations (they love that).
560 - Oct 2005 - Dies Domini: Armidale Diocese promotes Sunday observance, Bishop Luc Matthys
To put it another way God loves all of his creation with infinite love and desires all creation to come to fulfilment in Him.
561 - Oct 2005 - News: The Church Around the World
Joaquin Navarro-Valls the director of the Vatican press office reported that the meeting had been held in a climate of love for the Church and a desire to arrive at perfect communion.
562 - Sep 2005 - Reflection: Benedict XVI: how to make the new evangelisation more effective, Fr Dennis Byrnes PP
In other words I have the response to your questions; I will show you the path of life the path towards happiness - rather I am the path (The New Evangelization: Building the Civilization of Love Cardinal Ratzinger par 2 12 December 2000).
563 - Sep 2005 - Books: STAIRWAY TO THE UPPER ROOM: Daily Meditations on the Gospel Readings, Michael Gilchrist
His autobiography Love Strong as Death is also published by Gracewing.
564 - Sep 2005 - Books: THE PATH OF LIFE: Benedictine Spirituality for Monks and Lay People, Gabrielle Walsh
Saint Benedict recommended the enclosed life as the most stable and therefore the best context for remaining in Gods steadfast love.
565 - Sep 2005 - Books: THE ART OF GIVING by Francine Black, Kerrie Allen
And not only does Black discuss material gifts but also specific acts of love and service which we may do for people to show care and love - walking their dog minding their children writing a poem helping elderly people.
566 - Sep 2005 - A religious response to evil ideologies, John Rego
self- love to the point of contempt for God the primordial sin of Genesis.
567 - Sep 2005 - BOOKS: The Myth of Hitler's Pope: How Pope Pius XII Rescued Jews from the Nazis, Thomas E. Woods Jr
Moving testimonies on the part of prominent European Jews (see below) likewise indicate the esteem and love that so much of the world had for him.
568 - Sep 2005 - Education: Catholic schools of the future, Br John Moylan CFC
They believe that such good example does not only include such matters as the avoidance of drug-taking but extends to a cheerful willingness to pray assist at Mass and to strong love for and loyalty to the Church and its teachings.
569 - Sep 2005 - Interview: Benedict XVI and the power of the Eucharist, Fr John Corapi
I am trying to concentrate on this theme attempting to both educate and inspire the faithful to a greater knowledge of the doctrine of the Eucharist and a practical love that engenders reverence at Mass and the practice of the Holy Hour or a holy minute as I tell people.
570 - Sep 2005 - News: The Chuch Around the World
Benedict then turned to the pilgrimage made by Pope John Paul II in 1982 to Santiago de Compostela where he performed a solemn European act during which he pronounced these memorable words: I bishop of Rome and pastor of the Universal Church from Santiago address to you old Europe a cry full of love: Return to yourself!
571 - Aug 2005 - Reflection: How we will overcome the shortage of priests, Fr John O'Neill PP
While there were always families who loved and kept Gods law there were many more it would seem who not accepting the teaching of Humanae Vitae of Pope Paul VI and falling generally into a secular lifestyle got away from sacraments and prayer.
572 - Aug 2005 - Letters: Dissenter's manifesto (letter), Imelda Aslett
Gartland (June AD2000) refers to the promotion within our ranks of a recent publication Priests in Love advertised as a major Australian study of Catholic priests and their intimate relationships with men and women.
573 - Aug 2005 - London's Balham parish, 'an icon of liturgical hope', Joanna Bogle
At Balham there is a parish choir that sings Latin plainchant and lovely settings of the Introit verse in Latin and English.
574 - Aug 2005 - What the Church can teach the secular world, Archbishp Barry Hickey
On behalf of the Catholic Church my reply is that we offer the truth about our relationship with God the truth that there is a life after death the truth that the only way to interior peace and happiness is a moral life and a life of love and that all of this is found in a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.
575 - Jul 2005 - Reflecton: The soul: what reason and revelation tell us, John Young
We are concerned here with the human soul which has the powers of nutrition growth and generation found in vegetative life and the powers of sensitive knowledge and love possessed by animal life.
576 - Jul 2005 - Books: Letters To a Young Catholic, by George Weigel, David Birch
Because all of it - you me our friends our critics the man I jostled on the subway this morning and the bag lady sleeping on the heating grate at the Farragut North Metro stop the whole mad sad noble degraded endlessly fascinating human story - is really His-story Christs story supercharged with that fullness of truth and love that can only come from Truth and Love itself: that can only come from God (p.
577 - Jul 2005 - Rockhampton: Year of the Eucharist: a time for clear thinking, AD2000 REPORT
I laughed at myself and told myself You with all your sin and all your selfishness I forgive you I accept you I love you.
578 - Jul 2005 - Year of Eucharist: The Eucharist: heart of our faith, Cardinal George Pell
It is a memorial to the death and resurrection of Jesus a sacrament of love a sign of world-wide unity a bond of charity and an anticipation of eternal life.
579 - Jun 2005 - Reflection: Cardinal Nguyen van Thuan: witness to the priesthood and Eucharist, Fr Dennis Byrnes
It is the same mystery of sanctification and love through the Holy Spirit that makes the bread and wine become the Body and Blood of Christ which is also bestowed upon the person of the future minister at the moment of priestly ordination.
580 - Jun 2005 - Books: John Paul the Great, edited by William Oddie, John R. Barich
She concludes that the Pope tells us that while the relationship with God of those who devote their lives to Him in virginity or celibacy is a more transparent sign of our future union with God in Heaven no human relationship better reflects divine love than that founded on love between husband and wife.
581 - Jun 2005 - Letters: Revolt manifesto, P. Gartland
A recently published book by Jane Anderson Priests in Love is a manifesto for revolt against the papacy and many other aspects of orthodox Catholicism.
582 - Jun 2005 - Mother Teresa's legacy continued at Georgetown University, Peter Reynolds
To the sisters the neglected poor man is nothing less than Jesus crying for recognition and love Jesus in need of food Jesus without a home.
583 - Jun 2005 - Benedict XVI and liturgical reform, Dom Alcuin Reid OSB
This enthusiasm - and that of many others - was grounded in a desire that the whole Church might through some moderate reforms come to draw from the riches of liturgical tradition he had known and loved from his youth.
584 - Jun 2005 - Habemus Papam: Benedict XVI charts course as successor to John Paul II, Michael Gilchrist
He continued: I ask everyone to intensify in coming months love and devotion to the Eucharistic Jesus and to express in a courageous and clear way the real presence of the Lord above all through the solemnity and the correctness of the celebrations my emphasis.
585 - Jun 2005 - Editorial: Corpus Christi - the Body of Christ
While welcoming positive signs of Eucharistic faith and love John Paul II warned that in some places the practice of Eucharistic adoration has been almost completely abandoned.
586 - May 2005 - Reflection: Pope John Paul II and the redemptive power of suffering, Fr Paul Stuart
It is another to be rocked in your faith and then to question Gods love or even Gods existence.
587 - May 2005 - Books: Remembering Pope John Paul II
00 The Jewelers Shop Karol Wojtyla This is the only Vatican-approved English translation of Pope John Paul IIs most famous play written in the 1940s on the theme of relationships and love and marriage.
588 - May 2005 - Books: Sacred and Secular Scriptures / The Catholic Revival in English Literature, David Birch
His Catholic reading of Frodo in Lord of the Rings for example indicates that Frodos world and that of his fellow hobbits is not simply a fantasy world or even one celebrating hobbit virtues but a combination of a sense of a personal vocation and a belief in the joint or collective nature of faith in the indispensability of the Church and the love of Christians for one another (Boyle p.
589 - May 2005 - Letters: Catholic hymns, Dolores Lightbody
I have some good news for Bruce Dawe (The Salami Treatment December 2004-January 2005 AD2000) and others like him who love and understand the value of hymns.
590 - May 2005 - Letters: Appeal to the young, Justin Lynch
It is only now that much of the Western world is realising through the incredible outpouring of love and affection that has followed his death what an impact this holy man has had on so many over his long pontificate.
591 - May 2005 - St Patrick's Church, Soho Square, a spiritual oasis in London, Tess Livingstone
In Father Alexanders words this involves sharing their love and zeal for God with those they encounter.
592 - Apr 2005 - Reflection: Pope John Paul II: 'In the risen Christ all creation rises to new life', Pope John Paul II
Made obedient by love even to the extreme sacrifice Jesus Christ is now exalted by God who has bestowed on him the name which is above every name (Phil 2:9).
593 - Apr 2005 - Books: Love Alone Is Credible, by Hans urs von Balthasar, Kerrie Allen
LOVE ALONE IS CREDIBLE by Hans urs von Balthasar (Ignatius 2004 153pp $29.
594 - Apr 2005 - Letters: Good news, Geoff Storey
Since October 2004 when the Year of the Eucharist began lay Catholics throughout Australia have been making a commitment to Our Lord in the Eucharist Our Lady and the Holy Father to become apostles in proclaiming the knowledge love and worship of Jesus in the Eucharist and to offer reparation for the insults sacrileges and indifferences by which He is offended.
595 - Apr 2005 - Letters: ACU, Sabina Sannen
We are happy to follow the program set out in the Melbourne To Know Worship and Love series of RE texts.
596 - Apr 2005 - Adore 05: Sydney's successful Eucharistic Youth Congress, Nicole Osmak
Through these we can deepen our love and reverence for Jesus while making up for the many acts of sacrilege committed against Him in the Eucharist.
597 - Apr 2005 - Scripture: So, what else did Jesus say?, Gavan O'Farrell
On the other hand I have found that anything I learn about someone I love is of interest.
598 - Apr 2005 - Letters: Dissent, Fr John Speekman
Later in the article he says they and presumably he would resign from the priesthood except for their loyalty to their parishioners whom they love and their parish which they wish to serve.
599 - Apr 2005 - Exploding myths about the 'pre-Vatican II' Church, John Young
People were driven by fear of hell and purgatory more than by love of God.
600 - Mar 2005 - Reflection: The Holy Trinity and the Church: the truth will set you free, Fr John O'Neill
Now goodness of its nature has to go out to someone or something else; so the Fathers love - His determination to do good - has to have someone to receive that infinite love someone who is both capable of receiving it all and returning it all so that the Father in turn is adequately satisfied by receiving infinite love.
601 - Mar 2005 - Books: Books to read in 2005
95 The Cry Chiara Lubich This book is written as an extended love song to Jesus dying forsaken on the cross.
602 - Mar 2005 - Obituary: The passing of a holy, many-talented Jesuit - Fr Victor Ian Falconer SJ, Michael O'Callaghan
The eulogy at Fr Falconers Requiem Mass was delivered by Fr Tom Lake-Smith SJ who referred to a quote from the late Superior-General of the Jesuits Fr Pedro Arrupe: Nothing is more practical than finding God that is falling in love in a quite absolute final way.
603 - Mar 2005 - Letters: Mangled hymns (letter), Michael Apthorp
In verse three McAuleys original words are: Strengthen in our hearts the love we owe to one another.
604 - Mar 2005 - Dissent: Notes from a theology unit at Australian Catholic University
I would love to see all those Monsignori floating around.
605 - Mar 2005 - Moral divisions among the Christian Churches threaten ecumenism, Archbishop Barry Hickey
Those traditional moral positions include the inviolability of all human life born or unborn the dignity of every human person the divine origin of marriage infused by grace through Christ the links between human sexuality and love and procreation and the right of every person disabled or not to a life of dignity and respect.
606 - Mar 2005 - Vocations: Australian diocesan seminary numbers continue to increase, Michael Gilchrist
Religious priests Not to be overlooked in considering the likely number of available priests in the future are those in formation for Australias around 40 religious orders such as the Dominicans Oblates and Missionaries of Gods Love.
607 - Feb 2005 - Reflection: Archbishop Hart: Pope John Paul II and the Year of the Eucharist, Archbishop Denis Hart
Because of our participation in the Mass and our commitment to Eucharistic Adoration we will then encounter the Lord who summons us to showing his truth and his love to others.
608 - Feb 2005 - Books: Rise, Let Us Be On Our Way, by John Paul II, Richard Egan
This coming together of faith reason and the heart is strongly influenced by our sense of wonder at the miracle of a human person - at mans likeness to the Triune God at the immensely profound bond between love and truth at the mystery of mutual self-giving and the life that it generates at our reflections on the succession of human generations.
609 - Feb 2005 - Letters: Ten Commandments (letter), Arthur Negus
To love is to wish well.
610 - Feb 2005 - Letters: Revival of faith (letter), Errol P. Duke
How can our Catholic youth be expected to exercise love based on truth when they are not taught the rule book or even know the Ten Commandments e.
611 - Feb 2005 - Marriage: Why gay marriage is a self-contradiction, Peter Reynolds
The trouble is that the word love is being bandied about like a whore.
612 - Feb 2005 - Religious Life: Faith and Reason: for a true renewal in religious life and the Church, Sr Mary Augustine OP
The life of poverty chastity and obedience is in fact the most reasonable response to an overwhelming faith in and love for Christ.
613 - Dec 2004 - Reflection: Today is born to us a Saviour of the world, Pope John Paul II
We are witnesses of that instant of love which unites the eternal to history: the today which begins the time of jubilation and hope for to us a son is given; and dominion is laid upon his shoulders (Is 9:6) as we read in the text of Isaiah.
614 - Dec 2004 - Books: Inspiring Christmas Gifts
00 (Christmas special price) Your Questions: Gods Answers Peter Kreeft Peter Kreeft uses Scripture to provide Gods answers to the most common and important questions young people ask about the deeper meaning of life their own identity overcoming failure and temptation and the mystery of Gods love.
615 - Dec 2004 - Books: Decoding Da Vinci, by Amy Welborn, Anthony Cappello
According to Brown Jesus lived and preached a message of peace love and human dignity and to embody this message he took Mary Magdalene as his wife to whom he entrusted the leadership of this movement.
616 - Dec 2004 - Letters: Nihilism (letter), Robert Prinzen-Wood
It is only within the Body of Christ that true love true humanity and the true ordering of values can be nurtured.
617 - Dec 2004 - Society: American surveys show advantages of sexual abstinence education
As well they examine themes such as love intimacy and commitment.
618 - Dec 2004 - Archbishop Fulton Sheen: 25th anniversary, Martin Tobin
He also used the newsprint media with a similar effect in his God Love you column which appeared in the Catholic press throughout the US and the Bishop Writes syndicated column for the secular press.
619 - Nov 2004 - Reflection: Saint Francis and the universal call to holiness, Fr Sebastian Camilleri OFM
Here sainthood is understood in the context of endeavouring constantly to overcome sin by practising faithfully the tenets of our Faith communicating Christs message of fraternal love to others and trying earnestly to save our souls redeemed by the precious Blood of Christ on the Cross.
620 - Nov 2004 - Books: More new titles from AD Books
00 (Christmas special price) Your Questions: Gods Answers Peter Kreeft Peter Kreeft uses Scripture to provide Gods answers to the most common and important questions young people ask about the deeper meaning of life their own identity overcoming failure and temptation and the mystery of Gods love.
621 - Nov 2004 - Letters: Church teaching (letter), Carmel Pittari
Do they not set us free to love God and our neighbour?
622 - Nov 2004 - Letters: Pastoral problems (letter), Fr Frank Brennan SJ
They are: take us beyond our comfort zones; help us to count our blessings without feeling guilty; assure us that the balance holds; trust us and teach us to form and inform our consciences as we decide how to act how to relate and how to love; inspire us and console us that there is such a thing as truth; provide us with the tools to critique our society; invite us to participate in a Church that speaks to us of life love mystery suffering death and hope; teach us to engage in respectful dialogue in our Church and in our society; and put everything in the context of love.
623 - Nov 2004 - Letters: The Passion of the Christ (letter), Arnold Jago
Her tears and His blood mingle to bathe the world in hope and love.
624 - Nov 2004 - Deer Park: Transforming our secular culture: the role of women, Marcia Riordan
Yet however gloomy (or depressing) this picture appears the one sure remedy remains at our fingertips: the good news about a culture of love that is to be found in the Gospels.
625 - Nov 2004 - News: The Church Around the World
The success of The Passion of the Christ conclusively demonstrates that the unethical campaign to censor the movie and malign the millions who love it has been an abject failure said Donohue.
626 - Nov 2004 - Ad limina: The Pope calls for strong leadership from New Zealand's Bishops, Michael Gilchrist
As a gift to the Church the consecrated life lies at her very heart manifesting the deep beauty of the Christian vocation to selfless sacrificial love.
627 - Oct 2004 - Books: More new titles from AD Books
The Worlds First Love Fulton J.
628 - Oct 2004 - Letters: Come As You Are? (letter), Brigid P. McKenna
The hymn Come As You Are always brings to me a surge of happiness and reassurance - as a whispered breeze of love from the Almighty Father to His stumbling child.
629 - Oct 2004 - Letters: Graham Greene (letter), Thomas A. Watkin
In the same work Sherry points out that Greenes intensely romantic love for his wife Vivien died under the weight of children (two) and domestic tedium and was followed by many affairs.
630 - 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.
631 - Oct 2004 - Society: Why marriage should receive greater government support, Michael Casanova
At the same time some paradoxical opposites are joined: firstly the biological and psychological diversity of a member of each sex; the making of love with the making of life; the totally faithful love for one person alone with the generous love for many; personal fulfilment with lifelong self-sacrifice; private decision with vital public interest; men and women with mothers and fathers in law - social cohesion at its most challenging!
632 - Oct 2004 - Books: Be Not Afraid: Cardinal George Pell's new book to be launched in November
The most important truth is that God the invisible Spirit is love and God loves all His creation every person every one of you me too.
633 - Oct 2004 - University: International Movement of Catholic Students Australia, Aaron Russell
It was heart-warming to note that Catholic students across the nation are interested in the same issues of abortion ethics questions of gender love and responsibility as well as conventional and student politics.
634 - Sep 2004 - Reflection: Why the priesthood is absolutely necessary, Fr John O'Neill
We come to see that the vast bulk of reality has been going on forever that God the Father has been loving God the Son always the Son loving the Father always and that their mutual and eternal love is the person of the Holy Spirit.
635 - Sep 2004 - Books: More new titles from AD Books
95 The Living Flame of Love Elizabeth Ruth Obbard The amazing depth of St John of the Crosss spiritual experience is made accessible to all in this appealing book which opens up the ways of God in drawing persons to share in the intimacy of His own life.
636 - Aug 2004 - Reflection: Why teaching in a Catholic school is far more than a profession, Fr Dennis Byrnes
In the words of the old catechism: to know love and serve God in this life and to be happy with Him forever in the next.
637 - Aug 2004 - Letters: Casual trend, Gina Voskulen
In Come As You Are the line love sets no limits simply isnt true because all loving parents know that they must set some limits.
638 - Aug 2004 - The morning after pill, Bishop Anthony Fisher
Instead of being socialised to love our lives our marriages and our children we are increasingly being taught by our culture to fear our fertility to withhold it even from our spouses to drug-bomb it out of existence.
639 - Jul 2004 - Reflection: No time to pray? Try contemplation, Fr Leo J. Trese
Mental prayer We think of His lovableness and wish that we could love Him more ardently; perhaps resolve that we shall try harder to deserve His love.
640 - Jul 2004 - Letters: Sacred Heart (letter), V. Mulligan
Sacred Heart of Jesus burning with love for men.
641 - 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.
642 - Jul 2004 - Pastoral Letter: The secular challenges to our faith: how to respond, Bishop Geoffrey Jarrett
This is what the Church has to offer to human beings in the search for the real food that satisfies: for peace for love for meaning.
643 - Jul 2004 - News: The Church Around the World
Fallen heroes rest there joined together by the ideal of fighting for our and your freedom that includes not only love for ones homeland but also concern for the political and spiritual independence of other nations.
644 - Jul 2004 - Feminist 'rituals': no substitute for prayer, Joanna Bogle
I contacted a national newspaper which loved the joke and splashed it across three columns.
645 - Jul 2004 - Liturgy: New improved English Mass translation nears completion, Michael Gilchhrist
The celebrants words before Communion are currently: Lord Jesus Christ with faith in your love and mercy I eat your body and drink your blood.
646 - Jun 2004 - Books: Catharine With An 'A', by Edna Keir, Joan Graham
They used their own initiative and resolve motivated by their parental love to confront and overcome the challenges.
647 - Jun 2004 - Poetry: The power and beauty of religious poetry - Star-Life, Identikit, Ministers, Bruce Dawe
Star-Life On every starlit night we see hung in the heavens the mystery of worlds and their creation and (tilted with its burden bright as though twice heavy with its light) one special constellation for when we see the Southern Cross the thoughts we have betoken loss and love that must abide and we must variously bear the upright and the crossbeam there - and the spear-thrust in the side.
648 - Jun 2004 - The importance of beauty in the Liturgy, Christopher Pearson
He said: We can be sure that whoever sneers at Beautys name as if she were the ornament of a bourgeois past - whether he admits it or not - can no longer pray and soon will no longer be able to love (Preface to The Glory of the Lord.
649 - Jun 2004 - Society: Why Chesterton is needed now more than ever, Dale Ahlquist
He was one of the most well-known and most beloved writers of the early 20th century whose writings profoundly affected a wide range of leading figures from Gandhi to Michael Collins to C.
650 - Jun 2004 - News: The Church Around the World
The Pope insisted that bishops must personally supervise the formation of future priests visiting the seminaries frequently and making sure that they produce mature and balanced personalities and men who are solid in the spiritual life and in love with the Church.
651 - May 2004 - Reflection: Why the world needs Jesus Christ and Christian models, Fr Sebastian Camilleri OFM
He preached peace not only by his generous message but also by his charismatic spirit of personal worldly detachments and intense love for Christ.
652 - May 2004 - Books: ANGLICANS AND ORTHODOX: Unity and Subversion (1559-1725), by Judith Pinnington, Tracey Rowland
Pinnington suggests that his great love was not so much Greek thought and religion but botany and indeed that he accepted the chaplaincy at Cambridge as a way of being gainfully employed while having the time to pursue his botanical interests.
653 - May 2004 - Letters: Darwinism (letter), Michael Griffiths
My reasons for writing are my love of science and the hope that others especially students might choose to look up the evidence for themselves.
654 - May 2004 - Letters: No laughing matter (letter), Dr Lance Eccles
Having read the brief report on the document released by Rockhampton Dioceses Commission for Environmental Awareness (April AD2000) I felt the urge to laugh at the idea of hugging trees and writing love letters to the earth.
655 - May 2004 - Art: Beauty is very much an attribute of God - Sister Wendy, Sarah Macdonald
If you want to be open to God to let God love you then Puritanism just isnt possible because you have to be open to all the ways He comes - in your neighbour in your job in what you eat and in what you see and read.
656 - May 2004 - Education: The religious character of Catholic schools: how can it be enhanced?, Br Paul Macrossan CFC
Instead of presenting a Christianity that panders overly much to this ethic the love of youth for a challenge might be used to good effect in schools by presenting some counter-cultural advice about the benefits of the neglected sacrament of Reconciliation or discussion about the meaning of some of the hard sayings of Jesus on the conditions of discipleship such as His words If anyone would be a follower of mine let him deny himself take up his cross daily and follow me.
657 - May 2004 - Australian Bishops' ad limina: strong leadership needed to confront secularism
In proclaiming this hope which springs from the Cross I am confident that you will lead men and women from the shadows of moral confusion and ambiguous thinking into the radiance of Christs truth and love.
658 - May 2004 - News: The Church Around the World
Zenit News Service Manila Archbishop recommends The Passion But cautions on its suitability for children Manilas Archbishop Guadencio Rosales has urged Christians to see The Passion of the Christ calling the film a serious labour of love painstakingly made of genuine artistic and religious value.
659 - Apr 2004 - Books: The Catholic Revival in English Literature 1845-1961, by Ian Ker, Francis Phillips
Catholic voices Fr Ker a renowned Newman scholar and biographer ably communicates his love knowledge and understanding of these distinctive Catholic voices and his carefully selected quotations serve to stimulate a reading or re-reading of the whole text to which he refers.
660 - Apr 2004 - Letters: Taking a stand in the culture war, Robert and Carmel Garrett
If the media since the introduction of television in 1956 had promoted family values in tune with the Ten Commandments love of God and love of neighbour what a different Australia we would have today.
661 - Apr 2004 - Letters: Life under threat, Brian Harris
For those who look after the disabled there are good times and there are bad times and the face of true love then can be a terrible thing.
662 - Apr 2004 - Letters: Jehovah's Witnesses
Their proclaimed belief that Hell is only a temporary state is equally and wholly refuted by Matt 3:12 18:8 25:46 Mk 9:43 and Rev 20:10 Catholics are constantly challenged to stand up for the truth in love in their everyday lives.
663 - Apr 2004 - Whatever happened to reverence at Mass?, Matthew Greene
Father had just dismissed us with the final exhortation Go in peace to love and serve the Lord and proceeded to leave the sanctuary.
664 - Apr 2004 - Theology: Fr Aidan Nichols to lecture on von Balthasar in Melbourne, Tracey Rowland
Beauty His secondary education began at a Benedictine school where his love of music was fostered but he then moved on to a Jesuit school with an otherwise more demanding academic curriculum.
665 - Apr 2004 - Events: Adore 2004 Youth Eucharistic Congress, Nicole Osmak
Adore 2004 was led by the Oblates Apostles of the Two Hearts (OATH Brothers) who by their inspiring testimonies and unvarying cheerfulness love and example displayed to us that God was working through them in a powerful way.
666 - Apr 2004 - Film Review: Mel Gibson's 'The Passion of the Christ': a contemporary masterpiece, David Schütz
The film said Cardinal Pell shows us how Jesus redeems us from our sins with his message one of universal love certainly love for his own people the Jews.
667 - Apr 2004 - News: The Church Around the World
The book consists of the essence of the Popes many addresses to young people around the world grouped under headings such as vocation freedom love peace and service.
668 - Mar 2004 - Reflection: Scholarship, truth and Divine Revelation, Fr John O'Neill
A true philosopher has the love of wisdom which is what the word philosophy means.
669 - Mar 2004 - Books: Archbishop Fulton Sheen : A Man for All Media, by Gregory Joseph Ladd, Michael Gilchrist
Those of this writers generation will recall Sheens weekly prime time television program Life is Worth Living during the 1950s (in black and white) which was as much a part of mainstream viewing patterns as I Love Lucy The Untouchables The Honeymooners and Sergeant Bilko.
670 - Mar 2004 - Books: Lord, Have Mercy : The Healing Power of Confession, by Scott Hahn, Paul Russell
However the subject matter is treated with respect by an obvious lover of the box.
671 - Mar 2004 - Books: John Henry Newman on the pre-eminent place of the Blessed Virgin in Christianity, Leo Madigan
One would dearly love to shout that from the rooftops.
672 - Mar 2004 - Wisdom from the 17th century: an anonymous nun's prayer
They are increasing and love of rehearsing them is becoming sweeter as the years go by.
673 - Mar 2004 - HIV/AIDS: A Catholic approach to AIDS: value-based behaviour change, Sr Miriam Duggan
Human values We recognise that behaviour change is inextricably linked to such basic human values as care love faith family and friendship respect for people and cultures solidarity and support.
674 - Mar 2004 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000
He concluded: The identity of a priest lived known admired and loved is the necessary point of reference for facing the problem of vocations .
675 - Mar 2004 - Red Mass Homily: Can Lawyers Be Saints?, Bishop Anthony Fisher
People love telling lawyer jokes and commonly place them in hell.
676 - Feb 2004 - Books: Spiritual Combat Revisited, by Jonathon Robinson, Richard Egan
Robinson uses Lorenzo Scupolis 16th century work Spiritual Combat as the framework for Part One of this book which deals with the fight every Christian is bound to engage in to overcome the vices and develop the virtues through an asceticism of love the goal of which is an ever more intimate union in love between the individual and Christ.
677 - Feb 2004 - Letters: Clarification, August Magdaleno
Therefore I must say the term love one another in the Gospel includes loving and having compassion for those experiencing the homosexual condition.
678 - Feb 2004 - Letters: New Age?, Fr Don Coutts
I believe it is a God-given opportunity (among many others and particularly for this time) to heal hurts bandage the wounds reconcile enemies and evangelise showing that God is at work among us with His redemptive love!
679 - Feb 2004 - Interview: Scott Hahn interviewed on Dei Verbum : What Vatican II taught about Scripture, Zenit News Service
Its sharing the power of divine love with the Father Son and Holy Spirit.
680 - Feb 2004 - Human life: precious from conception, Fr Angelo Serra SJ
Before this day it was to be considered a cluster of cells and not a human being the gift and living expression of the love of a father and a mother.
681 - Feb 2004 - Modern church design: 'Spank the architect!', Paul Mees
Architects were missionaries charged with educating or bullying the general public to abandon its love of forbidden pleasures.
682 - Dec 2003 - Reflection: 'Jesus Christ: the door of our salvation' : the meaning of Christmas, Pope John Paul II
God the Father so loved the world that he gave his only Son (Jn 3:16).
683 - Dec 2003 - Books: AD Books - A happy and a holy Christmas!
95 Cradle of Redeeming Love John Saward Saward draws upon the rich traditions of the Church and the writings of the great Christian mystics in this meditation of the meaning of the Incarnation.
684 - Dec 2003 - Books: Socrates meets Machiavelli, Socrates meets Marx, by Peter Kreeft, Bill Muehlenberg
For men to get along trust love and self-sacrifice are required.
685 - Dec 2003 - Letters: Centrality of tabernacle, Marie Cassey
Through our incarnational human way of affirming priorities through signs and symbols let Jesus be seen to be who He is - the centre of our faith and love the summit and source of the life of the Church.
686 - 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.
687 - Dec 2003 - INTERVIEW: New Melbourne and Sydney Religious Education texts, Msgr Peter Elliott
The 1997 consultation report provided the title of our whole project To Know Worship and Love.
688 - Dec 2003 - News: The Church Around the World
He will proclaim to all the Gospel of life truth and love.
689 - Nov 2003 - Books: Great books at the best prices!
00 Love and Responsibility Karol Wojtyla Drawing from his own pastoral experience as a priest and bishop before he became Pope John Paul II Karol Wojtyla has produced an eloquent and resourceful defence of Catholic tradition in the sphere of family life and sexual morality.
690 - Nov 2003 - Books: A Grief Unveiled, by Gregory Floyd, Bill Muehlenberg
It is only because of the great love grace and mercy of God that the Floyds can make it through the valley of the shadow of death.
691 - Nov 2003 - Education: The Catholic Church's one Founder, Fr John O'Neill
God did not desert man the reason being that he loves mankind not because we deserve it but because he is good.
692 - Nov 2003 - Interview: Vatican Cardinal praises Mel Gibson's film 'The Passion'
In my opinion one of the great achievements of this film is to have shown so effectively both the horror of sin and selfishness and the redeeming power of love.
693 - Nov 2003 - Vocations: Missionaries of God's Love congregation flourishes in Canberra, Mary Pidcock
At a time when many religious congregations are wondering what to do with their buildings the Missionaries of Gods Love (MGL) do not have enough room to accommodate the influx of new recruits.
694 - Nov 2003 - Social Justice Statements: in whose name should they be published?, Richard Egan
It is titled A generous heart in the love of Christ: challenging racism in Australia today.
695 - Oct 2003 - Books: I The Lord Am With You Always: Prayers and Meditations for Eucharistic Adoration, Msgr Peter J. Elliott
Adoration is included in the Melbourne-Sydney religious education texts To Know Worship and Love.
696 - Oct 2003 - Letters: Clerical celibacy (letter), Gerard Wilson
Those of us who have been used to defending clerical celibacy primarily on what he calls secondary reasons now know what is the biblical basis of the discipline: Celibacy chosen for the love of God is a higher state than marriage.
697 - Oct 2003 - AD2000 readers' generous response to Queensland Lourdes appeal, Jenny Davies and Nicole King
There has been a tremendous outpouring of love and charity from all over the country resulting in a total to date of $54000.
698 - Oct 2003 - Why Catholic teaching on marriage is 'good news' for all humanity, Eamonn Keane
In reference to the challenge secularised culture presents to the Church in regard to its teaching on marriage Pope John Paul II said: When the truth and meaning of sexuality is undermined by a secularised mentality the Church must increasingly teach and uphold Gods wise and loving plan for conjugal love.
699 - Oct 2003 - Melbourne Archdiocese responds to John Paul II's Year of the Rosary, AD2000 Report
Connections are made with the relevant Supportive Units and chapters from the Melbourne/Sydney series of RE texts To Know Worship and Love along with a listing of resource materials on the Rosary and where to obtain them.
700 - Oct 2003 - Youth: Thomas More Winter School in Sale Diocese has Eucharistic focus, Michael Casanova
This not only gives meaning to marriage and consecrated life but also sheds light on the love of God through the Incarnation and Eucharist.
701 - Oct 2003 - Saints: The Beatification of Mother Teresa of Calcutta
What made Mother Teresa so widely admired and loved was that she saw Jesus in even the most distressing situations and in her own life fulfilled in the most radical way Jesus teaching Whenever you do this to even the least of my brethren you do it to me.
702 - Sep 2003 - Reflection: A Christian response to bereavement: Jesus' ministry to the sick and dying, Fr Dennis Byrnes
After the death of a terminally ill person family members or loved ones left behind experience many feelings.
703 - Sep 2003 - Books: Great books at the best prices!
95 Love and Responsibility Karol Wojtyla (Pope John Paul II) This is a book that may revolutionise the sexual revolution.
704 - Sep 2003 - Books: Some Fell On Rock, by Fr John O'Neill, Fr Peter Joseph
The key themes that animate the book are charity unity love of Christ and love for the Church as our mother.
705 - Sep 2003 - Books: OLD THUNDER: A Life of Hilaire Belloc, by Joseph Pearce, Scott J. Bloch
Belloc does not talk about his subjects as an expert but as a lover who looks beyond blemishes to what is good and beautiful.
706 - Sep 2003 - Letters: Prophetic words (letter), Errol Duke
To conclude we must resist strongly - but in love.
707 - Sep 2003 - Homosexual conduct: how Gospel teaching can be distorted, Bill Muehlenberg
Our learned academic then informs us that when Jesus said we are to love one another as I have loved you that this is clear proof of his approval of homosexuality.
708 - Sep 2003 - Catholic summer conferences in the United States: signs of hope, Richard Egan
Then the handful of remaining priests who were orthodox and faithful began recruiting a new generation of solid Catholic men who were interested in a religious and priestly vocation with a strong emphasis on love for Jesus Christ in His Real Presence in The Most Holy Eucharist true devotion to our Blessed Virgin Mother missionary evangelisation as a response to our Holy Fathers call for a New Evangelisation and bringing Divine Mercy to as many persons as possible through Parish Missions and Retreats.
709 - Sep 2003 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000
There are now more than one million US teens and college students registered with True Love Waits one of several abstinence campaigns.
710 - Aug 2003 - Reflection: The Apocalypse: proclaiming the final victory of Christ and His Church, Fr G.H. Duggan SM
This knock could well signify the divine touch which the mystical writers regard as a preliminary to entering on the path leading eventually to the mystical union of pure love so highly praised by St John of the Cross in his Spiritual Canticle.
711 - Aug 2003 - Books: Great books at the best prices!
Mary is for Everyone Edited William McLoughlin amp; Jill Pinnock These 24 essays are written by men and women from various denominations who all share a devout love of Our Lady.
712 - Aug 2003 - Priests 24/7 : A video documentary, Michael Gilchrist
Father Dillon makes clear that priests should also have some outside interests so as to maintain a proper balance in their lives - in his case these include a love of country and western music owning a vintage car and visits to the gym to keep fit.
713 - Aug 2003 - Priesthood: Clerical celibacy 'for the sake of God's Kingdom': the Church's teaching, John Young
The fact is that despite variations in practices over the years between Eastern and Western rites of Catholicism regarding compulsory celibacy the principle is clearly and constantly taught that celibacy chosen for the love of God is a higher state of life than marriage.
714 - Aug 2003 - Catalyst for Renewal Address: The legacy of Vatican II, Archbishop George Pell
He explained that the way to love God is to follow His Commandments.
715 - Jul 2003 - Reflection: The meaning of vocation for baptised Christians, Archbishop Philip Wilson
The same values apply despite being expressed in different ways because the same capacity for love has to be revealed in every vocation within the life of the Church.
716 - Jul 2003 - Letters: Pell biography feedback (letter), Mary Lou Corboy
Our reason for bringing the children home then is the same reason we keep them home today - we wanted to be sure that they would grow up to know and love their Catholic faith given to them in Baptism.
717 - Jul 2003 - TMC: Adelaide Thomas More Centre Autumn School a success, Emma Benz
Anna Krohn spoke on Love and Responsibility and Paul Madden Executive Director of the Baptist Community Services of South Australia took a thought-provoking look at Christian service.
718 - Jul 2003 - The concentration camp prisoner who became a Queensland priest, Warren Losberg
Following the Nazi invasion of Poland his family had to move to a grandmothers home and when the Nazi persecution intensified Joachim escaped to Slovenia but was captured by the Germans and put into a concentration camp at Begunie.
719 - Jul 2003 - Events: Seeking the face of Christ through the arts: Carnivale Christi goes national, Nicholas Rynne
Suffice it to say that when I visited Sydney during the Carnivale the same enthusiasm joy and love of Christ was evident in both the youthful organisers and the audiences as it was in Brisbane.
720 - Jul 2003 - Homily: Bicentenary Mass celebrated in Sydney, Archbishop George Pell
This bicentenary Eucharist to commemorate the first officially permitted Mass in the young colony of New South Wales celebrated by Father James Dixon on 15 May 1803 is a Catholic celebration of Christian faith hope and love.
721 - Jul 2003 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000
Catholic World News No peace without respect for life John Paul II addresses Italian Movement for Life On 22 May Pope John Paul II received members of the Italian Movement for Life which he said for 25 years since 22 May 1978 when abortion was made legal in Italy has never ceased to work in the defence of human life one of the central values of the civilisation of love.
722 - Jun 2003 - The environment: rediscovering the balanced Catholic perspective, Michael Casanova
Such subjective experience really mirrors Catholicisms firm and well-ordered interest in ecology: as we learn about the concrete historical expressions of Gods love for us in the Incarnation as we get to know and love our Creator as we come close to Him through the sacraments He gave us we see the material world entirely in relation to Him.
723 - Jun 2003 - Liturgy: John Paul's new encyclical on the Eucharist targets liturgical abuses, Michael Gilchrist
Priests who faithfully celebrate Mass according to the liturgical norms and communities which conform to those norms quietly but eloquently demonstrate their love for the Church.
724 - May 2003 - Reflection: St Francis on individual confession and receiving Holy Communion, Fr Sebastian Camilleri OFM
His deep respect for priests was evident in his writings: I am determined to reverence love and honour priests as my superiors .
725 - May 2003 - Books: Life-Giving Love: Embracing God's beautiful design for marriage, Kimberley Hahn, Leanne and Michael Casanova
LIFE-GIVING LOVE: Embracing Gods beautiful design for marriage by Kimberly Hahn Foreword by Scott Hahn (Servant Publications 2001 375pp $26.
726 - May 2003 - Letters: Teachings promoted (letter), Pat O'Brien
We are realising how many of these groups exist in various dioceses around Australia and hopefully together we can help to restore love of orthodoxy and renewal in the Church.
727 - May 2003 - Language: The forgotten language of adoration of God - through words and actions, Audrey English
When the Gospel is read we sign our foreheads lips and heart to indicate that we believe with our minds respond with our lips and love with our hearts.
728 - May 2003 - Architecture: 'Re-ordered' and 'new' churches - symptoms of a wider spiritual malaise, Marie Cassey
But without our Saviour depicted upon it no cross can convey the enormity of the sacrifice or the overwhelming love it took to make it.
729 - May 2003 - Cardinal Nguyen Van Thuan (1928-2002): How faith survived in a Communist prison, Cardinal Francis Xavier Nguyen Van Thuan
I would live the present moment and fill it with love.
730 - May 2003 - Surge in priestly vocations confounds secular culture, Joanne Grainger
The truth of Jesus Christs eternal love through his sacrifice on the Cross is no longer an abstract experience for many Catholic youth.
731 - May 2003 - News: The Church Around the World
Likewise a failure to speak the truth because of a misconceived sense of compassion should not be taken for love.
732 - May 2003 - Events: Carnivale Christi 2003 - A tale of four cities, Anthony McCarthy
Written while the future pope was a young man in Poland this remarkable play on sexuality and marriage reveals the Holy Fathers profound understanding of human relationships and love.
733 - Apr 2003 - Reflection: The road to Emmaus: coming to terms with the hard reality of loss, Fr Dennis Byrnes PP
Who will be with me in this process - for one cannot endure intense losses without the supports of love and kinship.
734 - Apr 2003 - Books: A Long Way From Rome, edited by Chris McGillion, John Barich
He makes no reference to the work in Australian dioceses of such groups and organisations as Communion and Liberation Focolare Antioch Ecclesia Dei Neo-Cathechumenal Way Marriage Encounter Marian Movement of Priests Thomas More Centres Charismatics Disciples of Jesus Opus Dei True Love Waits St Egidio Community John Paul Institute for Marriage and the Family Fellowship of Catholic Scholars or G.
735 - Apr 2003 - Books: A Seat At The Supper, by Frank Colyer, Mark Posa
For those who cannot make the journey to Lourdes this book is a great help in presenting a picture of genuine love and faith.
736 - Apr 2003 - Books: Marian Apparitions, The Bible, And The Modern World, Michael Gilchrist
He concludes: The Marian apparitions and particularly Fatima are a decisive call to listen again to Christ and the Church and it is the great promise held out by them that the world will see true peace and a new civilisation of love that should encourage us for the future.
737 - Apr 2003 - Archbishop Hickey's pastoral letter on marriage, Archbishop Barry Hickey
Marriage is a true Sacrament that is a sign of the covenantal love of Christ and the Church.
738 - Apr 2003 - News: The Church Around the World
Speakers will include Archbishop Philip Wilson on vocations well-known Melbourne educator Anna Krohn on Love and Responsibility and National Vice-President of the TMC Pat Byrne on the lay apostolate.
739 - Mar 2003 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000
His love of the poor was legendary and always close to his heart.
740 - Mar 2003 - Sydney Archdiocese RE test: behind one school's success story, Michael Gilchrist
The children says Fr Walter love the Mass and they learn to love Benediction.
741 - Feb 2003 - Reflection: Lectio Divina: a way to deepen our prayer life and spirituality, Fr Andrew Wise
Gradually we will find ourselves listening with our heart to the words Jesus has been longing to be more deeply heard by us for so long - I have loved you with an everlasting love .
742 - Feb 2003 - 'Healing the family tree': New Age under the guise of religion (Part One), Fr Peter Joseph
He replied If he were cured he would come to love this life too much and his soul would be lost.
743 - Feb 2003 - Liturgy: The sacrifice of the Mass: the Eucharistic words of Christ, Msgr Peter J. Elliott
Indeed it was a call to ultimate service to lay down ones life like the Good Shepherd who does this for his flock Jesus the Bridegroom who lays down his life for his beloved bride the Church.
744 - Feb 2003 - John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family, Melbourne: a progress report, AD2000 Report
The mission of the Respect Life Office is to work with parishes schools and groups to build up a culture of life and love and there is a strong working relationship between the RLO run by Marcia Riordan and the students and staff of the Institute.
745 - Feb 2003 - Events: Europe's most influential Catholic lay association coming to Melbourne, Anthony Cappello
The disciples cannot do other than remain at the feet of Jesus as did Mary of Bethany to receive his love and learn his ways (Phil 2:5).
746 - Feb 2003 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000
Her main message he said was a reminder of how much God loves human beings expressed in those key words from the cross: I thirst.
747 - Feb 2003 - Vocations: Sydney seminary growth based on orthodoxy, fidelity, Fr Julian Porteous
Theirs is a love of the liturgy as an act of worship of Almighty God.
748 - Dec 2002 - Books: Ideal Christmas Gifts from AD Books
95 Life Giving Love Kimberly Hahn Kimberly Hahn offers a fresh yet solidly-based perspective on the true meaning of marital love.
749 - Dec 2002 - Books: Barb of Fire: Twenty Poems of Blessed Elizabeth of the Trinity, Michael Daniel
Although they wrote independently of each other their writings reflect similar themes in particular their intense love of God.
750 - Dec 2002 - Letters: Forgiveness (letter), John Schmid
Love your enemies .
751 - Dec 2002 - Archbishop Chaput: what makes a good leader?, Archbishop Charles J. Chaput
If a father really loves his children they will know it and forgive him almost anything.
752 - Dec 2002 - Books: Biography of Archbishop Pell launched in Melbourne: author interviewed
I think his Melbourne Religion texts To Know Worship and Love are brilliant in this regard - their excellent presentation is vital.
753 - Dec 2002 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000
Msgr Elliott presented the Melbourne Archdiocese textbook project To Know Worship and Love to the Congress.
754 - Nov 2002 - Books: Ideal Christmas Gifts from AD Books
95 Life Giving Love Kimberly Hahn Hahn offers a fresh yet solidly-based perspective on the true meaning of marital love.
755 - Nov 2002 - Books: Bernard Of Clairvaux: Essential Writings, Michael Daniel
the only way to know God truly is to love Him intellectual knowledge being subordinate to love of God and true love is a selfless love that flows from the love of God; the seriousness of sin and our need for Gods mercy and forgiveness; Bernards belief that true freedom is not the ability to do whatever we want but freedom from sin and for service to God and neighbour; there is no such thing as instant or fast food holiness but rather the Christian life is a pilgrimage and a process; and the need for a balance between action and contemplation.
756 - Nov 2002 - Letters: Tough teachings (letter), Mrs Maureen Federico
In the wake of the recent paedophile scandals affecting all Christian denominations it has been disconcerting to read in letters to Catholic journals and even hear from the pulpit oblique references to not casting the first stone etc and that we should exercise unconditional compassion and love towards these offenders so as to practise true Christianity!
757 - Nov 2002 - Letters: Radical feminism (letter), Gordon Southern
Some are women who by living faithfully and sincerely the consecrated life of religious sisters are a beautiful witness and response to the love of Christ.
758 - Nov 2002 - Catholic schools: restoring a sense of sin, Br John Moylan CFC
This life comes through accepting Gods call to return His love with the totality of our being and by loving our neighbours as ourselves.
759 - Nov 2002 - Sydney Archdiocese courses on 'Catechism', Fr John Flader
A person for example who knows the reality of Gods fatherhood and providence will find it much easier to love Him and accept His will in the midst of the difficulties of life.
760 - Nov 2002 - Opus Dei founder Josemaria Escriva canonised at Papal Mass in Rome, AD2000 Report
On 2 October 1928 during a spiritual retreat in Madrid Escrivagrave; founded Opus Dei or Work of God with the goal of reminding all those who are baptised that the Christian vocation is a call to holiness and apostolate and to promote a personal commitment to follow Christ to love the Church and to search for holiness in ordinary life among men and women from all sectors of society.
761 - Nov 2002 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000
Father Chapline said that Slovenia would be one excellent example of a neutral country in which a meeting between Patriarch Alexei and Pope John Paul could take place.
762 - Nov 2002 - Independent inquiry exonerates Archbishop George Pell, Peter Westmore
My confidence that God loves us all without exception and that He asks of us justice truth and a compassion which bears no one ill will was never shaken.
763 - 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.
764 - Oct 2002 - Books: Completed Jew, by Andrew Sholl, Michael Casanova
Mr Sholl has written Completed Jew for a purpose: that many will come to a greater knowledge and love of the Lord knowing that everything written about Him in the Law of Moses in the Prophets and in the Psalms had to be fulfilled.
765 - Oct 2002 - Books: The Courage to be Catholic, by George Weigel, Michael Novak
Weigel is unusually hopeful about the new breed of priests - the John Paul II breed he calls them - serious orthodox and able to explain their faith in love with their vocations and with the Catholic people.
766 - Oct 2002 - Poetry: The Great Deliverance, Marion Craig
If cruelty be worst of all our sins Pity and solace are the gift of God Love is the remedy that Pity wins For man and lowlier creatures of the sod.
767 - Oct 2002 - Letters: Shepherds (letter), Br Con Moloney CFC
I find it ironic that the roles are now somewhat reversed and that we are called upon to show our leaders the love care and support they now urgently need.
768 - Oct 2002 - Letters: "The Pell Show" (letter), Stephen Hitchings
But what I would dearly love to know is: who is writing the script?
769 - Oct 2002 - John Henry Newman's critique of liberalism, Michael Davies
Faith without love and obedience appeared to him an empty profession which did not make sense and could not be pleasing to God.
770 - Sep 2002 - Reflection: The Christian way to spiritual maturity, Fr Dennis W. Byrnes PP
It challenges us to accept and love the reality of who we truly are not the false image of what we wish we were.
771 - Sep 2002 - Marilen Studios: a Christian approach to business, Joe Padero
Secondly it will be a means of communicating and conveying the beauty of God and His eternal love for each one of us especially to children.
772 - Sep 2002 - Letters: Feminism dead? (letter)
Most of us also have husbands sons and brothers and fathers we love.
773 - Sep 2002 - Letters: Seminaries (letter), Andrew Sholl
As a Hebrew-Catholic faithful to the Magisterium of the Catholic Church I have always had a great love and affection for Catholic priests who because of their vow of celibacy do not have an easy life as some might think.
774 - Sep 2002 - John Paul II and World Youth Day in Toronto: an Anglican perspective, David Warren
So many are hungry and want to be filled; feel that craving not only for love but to love and be worthy of love; to stand on their feet and say the word: forever.
775 - Sep 2002 - The strange case of Father Damien and Robert Louis Stevenson, Fr F.E. Burns PE
and the father of all who love goodness: and he was your father too if God had given you the grace to see it.
776 - Sep 2002 - The 1960s 'cultural revolution': from self-sacrifice to self-fulfillment, Fr Gregory Jordan
The NET team (National Evangelisation Team) True Love Waits the recent World Youth Day in Toronto Newman Societies and Pro-Life groups are all capable of engaging young people and available to be called upon.
777 - Aug 2002 - Books: New Titles from AD Books
95 First Comes Love Scott Hahn Scott Hahn in First Comes Love uses the idea of family to explain Catholic thought about the Trinity.
778 - Aug 2002 - Books: Dynamics Of World History, by Christopher Dawson, Michael Lynch
Each had a deep faith and was imbued with one of the strengths of the countrys cultural life namely an enduring love of tradition and some scepticism about the wilder claims of modernity.
779 - Aug 2002 - Letters: Leaving it to God (letter), Errol P. Duke
Perhaps a backward step needs to be taken more often - with far more prayer reflection love and calmness allowing God to organise us.
780 - Aug 2002 - Letters: Sex abuse crisis (letter), Mark Reidy
While understanding that in our current world we must contend with a complex array of legalities we must always respond with love which is at the very core of our Christianity.
781 - Aug 2002 - Helping Catholic school students to love the Church, Br John Moylan CFC
A Catholic school has a duty to assist its students to love the Church.
782 - Aug 2002 - Events: Thomas More 2002 Winter School in Bendigo
30pm I will make you fishers of men (Bishop Joe Grech) Topics and speakers Moral Principles: Love leading Faith to Action (Justin Ford) My Mission Your Mission (Fr Thomas Casanova CCS) The Thrill of the Chaste (Lara Kirk) Apologetics: Can the Church Help Solve the Worlds Problems?
783 - Aug 2002 - Education: Beliefs and practices of Catholic students: the decline continues, Michael Gilchrist
That hardly eases the task of even the most committed practising Catholic teachers - armed with the best possible RE texts - to cultivate in students a love and acceptance of the Faith.
784 - Jul 2002 - Books: New Titles from AD Books
First Comes Love: Finding Your Family in the Church and the Trinity Scott Hahn Scott Hahn in First Comes Love uses the idea of family to explain Catholic thought about the Trinity.
785 - Jul 2002 - Books: The Modern Rite, by Mgr Klaus Gamber, Fr Peter Joseph
At The Modern Rites launch in London in April Fr Aidan Nichols OP said that Mgr Gamber has let off a set of squibs and rockets seemingly out of character for this learned and scholarly man but motivated by love concern anxiety.
786 - Jul 2002 - Books: A Pope and a Council on the Sacred Liturgy, by Aidan Nichols OP, Msgr Peter J. Elliott
This is why such a compact work is invaluable for anyone who wishes to understand and love the liturgy more deeply.
787 - Jul 2002 - Poetry: It Is (The Alternative to 'Star Wars'), Andrew Huntley
Some beings undeterred By being creatures sinned: they disobeyed; Themselves and their Creator they betrayed (To virtue reason love it was absurd).
788 - Jul 2002 - Events: The Italians: Three Centuries of Italian Art 1500-1800, Francis Young
Narcissus falls in love with his own reflection in a dark pool in a dramatically-framed symmetrical composition.
789 - Jul 2002 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000
The archbishop speaks of his love for Marcoux and the need to renew his commitment to celibacy.
790 - Jun 2002 - Reflection: A reason for mercy: healing post-abortion trauma, Anne R. Lastman
The healing of post-abortion trauma can come only when we understand that the pain which follows an abortion is the pain experienced when mother love is violated.
791 - Jun 2002 - Books: New Titles from AD Books
95 The Private Prayers of Pope John Paul II Published under the authority of the Vatican this convenient volume brings together Pope John Pauls inspiring reflections and illuminating words of hope peace love compassion and spirituality in a beautiful edition to treasure.
792 - Jun 2002 - Letters: Good example (letter), Paul Foster
This surely will be the best way to reflect the love of Christ within us for all His creatures.
793 - Jun 2002 - How John Paul II's 'new springtime' came to an American parish, Elizabeth A. Wittman
The sanctuary was soon resplendent with lovely linens and candlesticks.
794 - Jun 2002 - Following our baptismal calling takes courage - Chrism Mass homily, Bishop Geoffrey Jarrett
Involved participants Yes my dear people you are priests of the Lord consecrated in your sacraments of initiation to bear witness to the power the beauty the truth and the love of God in that everyday world the secular world which is as it were your natural habitat.
795 - May 2002 - Reflection: The Ascension: climax of Our Lord's life on earth, Fr Ian Falconer SJ
Surely they invite us today especially to join them to rejoice in our Blessed Lords incarnate life and in his love for each one of us and to praise God for all his blessings.
796 - May 2002 - Books: New Titles from AD Books
95 The Private Prayers of Pope John Paul II Published under the authority of the Vatican this convenient volume brings together Pope John Pauls inspiring reflections and illuminating words of hope peace love compassion and spirituality in a beautiful edition to treasure.
797 - May 2002 - Books: Beyond Gay, by David Morrison, John S. Webster
Throughout the work he shows compassion towards people who experience same sex attraction and reminds the reader that the Christian response should be a love of all people regardless of their orientation and zero tolerance of belittling of name calling or violence towards homosexuals.
798 - May 2002 - Poetry: Two Loves, John Meston
To love Him deepest as did she!
799 - May 2002 - Letters: Priestly formation (letter), Cyril Drew
While there is much that is positive - encouraging the future priest to be a person of prayer for instance - it is sad that Fr Stuart found it necessary to denigrate those involved in his own formation and to suggest that there is less value in the witness of the lay pastoral worker or social worker than that of the ordained; surely we are all equal in Gods love and ministry.
800 - May 2002 - Letters: Farewell Mass for Fr Des Byrne (letter), Barry O'Brien
He is also a highly educated and most articulate priest a dedicated and totally unapologetic lover and defender of the Church and her teachings.
801 - May 2002 - Gregorian Chant's new lease of life in Brisbane, AD2000 Report
What has also been a surprise is that the Schola has attracted singers from a range of religious backgrounds (Catholic Anglican Greek Orthodox Protestant and others who simply love singing chant).
802 - May 2002 - News: The Church Around the World
Two of the texts most commonly used - Fully Alive and Growing in Love - have come under intense criticism by many Catholic parents for their controversial presentation of human sexuality even to very young children.
803 - Apr 2002 - Books: New Titles from AD Books
The Private Prayers of Pope John Paul II Published under the authority of the Vatican this convenient volume brings together Pope John Pauls inspiring reflections and illuminating words of hope peace love compassion and spirituality in a beautiful edition to treasure.
804 - Apr 2002 - Melbourne TMC: The rights and responsibilities of laity in the Catholic Church, Archbishop Denis Hart
Some people who dearly love the words of Vatican II on the laity can be rather selective in dealing with the rest of the Councils teaching.
805 - Apr 2002 - Adelaide Thomas More Centre address: The key elements of Catholic Action today, Archbishop Philip Wilson
The Gospel call to love our enemies said Archbishop Wilson meant that even in dialogue about fundamental issues of right and wrong we should be able to disagree without being disagreeable.
806 - Apr 2002 - News: The Church Around the World
In a message to a conference being held at the Salesian University in Rome the Holy Father emphasised that Latin remains the official language of the Catholic Church and expressed his desire that the love of that language would grow ever strong among candidates for the priesthood.
807 - Mar 2002 - Reflection: John Paul II: St Joseph's renewed significance for the Church, Br Christian Moe FSC
He shared it with her; he was involved in the same salvific event; he was the guardian of the same love through the power of which the Eternal Father destined us to be his sons through Jesus Christ.
808 - Mar 2002 - Books: Fatima Handbook, by Leo Madigan, Catherine Sheehan
It was named after a young Moorish woman with whom a Christian knight fell in love in 1158.
809 - Mar 2002 - Letters: Parish libraries?, Bob Cotterall
God made us says the old catechism so that we might know love and serve Him in this world and be happy with Him forever in the next.
810 - Mar 2002 - Letters: Sunday obligation, Leo Willems
It has greatly disturbed me also in school youth and funeral Masses to see so many non-practising students going up and showing little sign of reverence love or faith for the Lords Body and making the Lord enter in their apparently unprepared and indifferent hearts.
811 - Mar 2002 - Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration spreads throughout the world, Fr Douglas Harris
Hence: Anyone therefore who approaches this august Sacrament with special devotion and endeavours to return generous love for Christs own infinite love experiences and fully understands .
812 - Mar 2002 - News: The Church Around the World
The Holy Father referred to the bishops efforts aimed at promoting mutual understanding reconciliation and fraternal love among all the Catholics of the great Chinese family.
813 - Mar 2002 - St Thérèse's relics make Australian pilgrimage, Mother Teresa OCDM
For security it is covered with a clear permanent plexiglass which has been carried touched kissed and covered with a sheen of love and prayer by millions of people of all races cultures and nations.
814 - Feb 2002 - Books: St Therese of Lisieux: from Lisieux to the Four Corners of the World, Catherine Sheehan
These exemplify her spirituality her profound love of Christ and her complete confidence in His love for her.
815 - Feb 2002 - Letters: Overcoming evil, Mary Beaumont
Under the heading The Mass - Triumph of Love he makes four important points: By entering into the Saviours Sacrificial Offering the faithful share in the victory won by Him over the evil of the world.
816 - Feb 2002 - Letters: Remarkable man, Elizabeth Gilmour
The numerous past students who attended his funeral were a testimony to the love held by many for a man who will be terribly missed and always remembered.
817 - Feb 2002 - Catholic schools and 'youth spirituality', John Kelly
The created human soul and its operations are structured for the knowledge of its Maker who has endowed it with intelligence freedom and the capacity for love.
818 - Feb 2002 - The Church in South Korea: dynamic and fast-growing, Pat O'Brien
Fr Cleary answered many questions from the audience during which he displayed his great love and affection for the Catholics of Korea.
819 - Feb 2002 - Homily: Most Rev Geoffrey Jarrett installed as new Bishop of Lismore, Bishop Geoffrey Jarrett
Far from feeling the constraint of a serious obligation as indeed it is we ought to feel ourselves captive to the drawing power of that love which will never let us go and seeks our grateful love in return.
820 - Feb 2002 - Into the Deep Forum: young Catholics meet Australian bishops, Helen Ransom
Bishop Manning emphasised virtue in everyday life: love of God and neighbour and the aim for sanctity.
821 - Feb 2002 - Archbishop Philip Wilson sets out his agenda for Adelaide, Michael Gilchrist
Im not just talking about horribly designed suburban brick Mass-barns - Pizza Hut churches - but botched liturgical compromises and the neglect of 2000 years worth of lovely music.
822 - Feb 2002 - Editorial: St Thérèse's relics: a pilgrimage of grace, Peter Westmore
St Thrse is now known and loved worldwide for her passionate devotion to her Saviour and her love for every human person whom God wishes to live with Him forever in Heaven.
823 - Dec 2001 - Reflection: St Thérèse's 'little way', Kate Cleary
For St Theacute;regrave;se love was the foundation of her way of spiritual childhood.
824 - Dec 2001 - Letters: St Thérèse, Fr Jim Dunne CSsR
Yet her desire to love Jesus was unlimited.
825 - Dec 2001 - Letters: Huge response, Dolores Lightbody
Thank you so much for assisting us in our little apostolate to which the Catholics involved have contributed for the love and glory of God as well as for the love and mutual support of their fellow Catholics.
826 - Dec 2001 - Letters: 'Familiaris Consortio' 20th anniversary, John Barich
One of the key messages of the document is simple: The greatest gift a father can give his children is to love their mother.
827 - Dec 2001 - Books: De Lubac's writings in English translations, Tracey Rowland
Topics in this collection include: St John Chrysostoms theology of the priesthood the dispute about the salvation of Origen St Paul on the relations between body soul and spirit the theological foundation of the missions thoughts on Catholic Action and a translation of de Lubacs preface to John Paul IIs work Love and Responsibility.
828 - Dec 2001 - Obituary: Thomas Kendell (1929-2001) R.I.P. - The passing of a great Catholic educator, Nicholas Kendell
Soon after Tom began teaching he met fell in love with and married his soul-mate Madeleine.
829 - Dec 2001 - East Timor: how the Church is rebuilding a shattered nation, Peter Westmore
Yet despite this and the obvious poverty which afflicts so many the people of East Timor remain a friendly compassionate people with a deep love of life and particularly children who are everywhere.
830 - Dec 2001 - Tenth Synod of Bishops' statement, Michael Gilchrist
which frees our energies for love and service.
831 - Dec 2001 - Editorial: A Christmas reflection, Peter Westmore
That message is not one of mushy sentimentality but of courage faith hope love and strength.
832 - Nov 2001 - Reflection: All Souls Day and a Christian response to bereavement, Fr Dennis W. Byrnes PP
As I work in the area of death and grief I get the feeling that at times we can assume grief is an un-Christian or sub-Christian response to the death of a loved one; that we Christians have discovered some secret truth which makes grief obsolete; that the Christian hope in eternal life eliminates grieving over those who die.
833 - Nov 2001 - Books: My Dear Young Friends: Pope John Paul II Speaks to Teens on Life, Love, Courage, Mary-Jane Donnellan
MY DEAR YOUNG FRIENDS: Pope John Paul II Speaks to Teens on Life Love and Courage edited by John Vitek (St Marys Press 2001 126pp $16.
834 - Nov 2001 - Winter school: Evangelising in a "post-pagan" culture, Fr Anthony Mastroeni
For our faith is not merely a thing to be known but a Person to be loved and surrendered to.
835 - Nov 2001 - Pastoral letter: Taking up John Paul II's concerns about the Sacrament of Penance, Archbishop Barry J. Hickey
The priest is the sign and the instrument of Gods merciful love for the sinner (CCC No 1465).
836 - Nov 2001 - A young Catholic's views on the state of the Church in Australia, James Connolly
I do not write as someone who is angry or concerned with power plays in the Church but someone who grieves for the current state of the Church a grief born solely from love of Christ and His Bride.
837 - Oct 2001 - Reflection: Christ's Real Presence in the Eucharist, Bishop Kevin Manning
Despite what they think He has given Himself to us as food and drink in the Eucharist as our spiritual nourishment out of love.
838 - Oct 2001 - Books: 'Apologetics and Catholic Doctrine', Archbishop Sheehan, Fr Peter Joseph, Br Christian Moe FSC
For the author/reviser Fr Peter Joseph of the Wagga Wagga Diocese this new book has been a labour of love; for several years he has lived with Archbishop Sheehans originals and chapter by chapter tried where necessary to present the same treasures of wisdom and grace in language and with illustrations more relevant and accessible to a new readership.
839 - Oct 2001 - Education: Mass attendance: a key measure of Catholic schools' effectiveness, Br John Moylan CFC
The question is not of the children being a little better or a little worse but of their being brought up in the fear and love of God or being lost to the Church and their Creator forever.
840 - Oct 2001 - Salesian Archbishop from India visits Australia, Archbishop Thomas Menamparampil SDB
In the town of Goalpara I would love to establish a hospital staffed by doctors and nurses which would then be able to support the dispensaries in the surrounding villages.
841 - Oct 2001 - Archbishop Hart opens Thomas More Centre Bookroom, Catherine Sheehan
We look forward to being of service to our customers in providing them with good books at reasonable prices and to helping to spread a love of knowledge and the faith.
842 - Oct 2001 - Archbishop George Pell: 'The strong family is a religious family', Archbishop George Pell
True and effective love of ones children requires sacrifice making a gift of oneself to others and it is this sacrificial love that maximises the chance of an encounter with the transcendent.
843 - Sep 2001 - Reflection: Saint Catherine of Siena: how to receive the Eucharist more worthily, Sr Mary Jeremiah OP
Holy Communion is a daily renewal of our covenant of love with the Lord.
844 - Sep 2001 - Books: 'Padre Pio: In My Own Words', ed. Anthony F. Chiffolo, Mary-Jane Donnellan
Many were desperate to be part of his life for his manifest love of God evident in every aspect of his life continued to bring a sense of Gods presence into peoples hearts.
845 - Sep 2001 - Letters: Adelaide protest (letter), Pauline Pascoe
Women in the Church have a beautiful role model in Our Blessed Mother whose obedience and love of God is without equal.
846 - Sep 2001 - Kenneth Bruce Dowding, Australian Catholic hero: his brother's tribute, Rev Keith Dowding
He combined a love of poetry and music and classical ballet with above average skill in sports especially in athletics football and gymnastics.
847 - Sep 2001 - Commission for Australian Catholic Women: Executive members' feminist views, Richard Egan
All: I see a New Beginning in all who overcome addiction in all who will not go to war in all those good and generous ones who witness to compassion who struggle to bring about a time when no one is below another and no one is above when we are all within Shalom bonded together in love.
848 - Sep 2001 - Feminism's broad agenda within the Catholic Church, Donna Steichen
Their love for her sometimes turned to hatred.
849 - Sep 2001 - Ballarat Thomas More Centre Winter School report
The Anglican Bishop of Ballarat Dr David Silk spoke on the evidence for the Resurrection while Bishop Joe Grech of Sandhurst focused on the blazing fire of Gods love.
850 - Sep 2001 - Successful Thomas More Centre Winter School in Brisbane, Sidney Rofe
He reminded us that faith is not just a personal experience or knowledge of God but a love affair that is totally unconditional and open to the will of God.
851 - Sep 2001 - News: The Church Around the World
Grosss model life would in time be well summarised by the Diocese of Essen in the motto chosen for the celebration of his beatification on 7 October 2000: Faith Love Cross.
852 - Sep 2001 - Archbishop Hart's reception at St Patrick's Cathedral, Melbourne - Homily, Archbishop Denis Hart
We are redeemed by Jesus Christ the Son of the Eternal God and we are called to live in love and fidelity as Gods people.
853 - Aug 2001 - Reflection: Clerical celibacy: Giving ourselves up completely to God and the people He loves, Fr Dennis W. Byrnes PP
The same words may equally express the marital love which exists between spouses or they may express the loving pastoral involvement which exists between the priest and his people: this is my body my time my energy my efforts my presence my hopes and dreams for the future.
854 - Aug 2001 - Books: The Christian Travellers' Guides: France, Britain, Italy, Germany, F.T. Long
In what is clearly a labour of love general editor Irving Hexham feels obliged to confess that these most accessible guidebooks grew from serious study undertaken by himself and his colleagues (he is professor of religious studies at Calgary in western Canada) and financed by his university and the Canadian Government.
855 - Aug 2001 - Books: Hail, Holy Queen: The Mother of God in the Word of God, by Scott Hahn, Catherine Sheehan
He shows how devotion to the Blessed Virgin is in fact Christocentic as the more we love her the more she teaches us to love her Son.
856 - Aug 2001 - Books: The Cross of Anzac, by Tom Johnstone, Mark Posa
Called initially to the vocation of total service to a loving God each has added to that the call to serve the men and women whose vocation is to strive to preserve truth justice and freedom in the land we love even unto death if so called.
857 - Aug 2001 - Letters: Orthodox seminary (letter), Paul Chigwidden
The professors who teach there are men who have a deep love of the Church and work to pass on to the seminarians all the beauties and truths of the Church.
858 - Aug 2001 - Appreciating the Mass: a successful new publication, Fr Robert Egar PP
Whether we are speaking of faith football fishing or folk- dancing we need to know our subject if we are to love it.
859 - Aug 2001 - Editorial: The Assumption of Our Lady: 15 August, Michael Gilchrist
Accordingly following the Council of Ephesus there was a remarkable growth in the cult of the People of God towards Mary in veneration and love in invocation and imitation according to her own prophetic words: All generations shall call me blessed because He that is mighty hath done great things to me (Lk.
860 - Jul 2001 - Reflection: An Australian World War II hero, Ron Cowban
My sincerest love to you all and please do not worry too much about me Mother.
861 - 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.
862 - Jul 2001 - Books: Testimonies to the Glory of God: World Youth Day Pilgrimage AD2000, Catherine Sheehan
The love these young people have for their faith their Pope and for Christ is truly inspiring These testimonies are very touching as some tell how individuals went to confession during the pilgrimage for the first time in years.
863 - Jul 2001 - Letters: Australia's Patroness? (letter), Rev W.J. Robley Adm
Catholics of Australia you who love Mary under her venerable title stand up and object!
864 - Jul 2001 - Basic Ecclesial Communities, Archbishop Leonard Faulkner
The Holy Father writes further that: These communities are a sign of vitality within the Church an instrument of formation and evangelisation and a solid starting point for a new society based on a civilisation of love.
865 - Jun 2001 - Reflection: The priest: mediator between God and man, Archbishop George Pell
At the Mass of the Oils it is always an appropriate moment for those of us who are priests to meditate on the great mystery of Love which we serve; that love which is a mystery of Trinitarian unity and which we are called to serve as witnesses and ministers.
866 - Jun 2001 - Books: 'Praying with Thomas Aquinas' by Houle, Monshau and Norris, Catherine Sheehan
Some of the themes include: The Trinity Gods Unconditional Love Happiness Friendship with God The Gifts of the Holy Spirit Virtue and Petitionary Prayer.
867 - Jun 2001 - Books: 'The Doctors of the Church' by Bernard McGinn, Angela Joseph
The author believes that the future of Church doctors rests in the continued impact and inspiration that they provide for all Christians especially in the model they present of combining the intense love of God and neighbour with a commitment to the intellectual work of learning preaching teaching and writing.
868 - Jun 2001 - Books: 'As One Struggling Christian to Another: Augustine's Christian Ideal for Today', Bill Muehlenberg
Consider his words on love: Love is the only real distinction between the children of God and the children of the devil.
869 - Jun 2001 - Letters: Sexual abstinence (letter), Errol P. Duke
Recently as a father of teenage children I responded to and received an excellent kit - True Love Waits - which promotes sexual abstinence for youth and highlights its benefits.
870 - Jun 2001 - Letters: Annunciation (letter), Andrew Scholl
My intention in doing so is in no way to detract from the wonderful fiat of our Blessed Mother but to highlight the fact that precisely through her agreement to become the Mother of God our focus should be on the fact that God the Father in His ineffable love for us sinful human beings sent the Holy Spirit to overshadow Mary and thereby conceive Jesus a man like us in all things but sin who was and is God the Son the Second Person of the triune God.
871 - Jun 2001 - Letters: Ballarat Diocese (letter), Fr Gerry Baldock
Regrettably Gilchrists unprofessional selectivity sallies a genuine humble and far- reaching diocesan search for the truth of the Spirit of God to reveal renewed directions for the Church we love and to which we are committed.
872 - Jun 2001 - Light to the Nations 2001 - Young Australian Catholics celebrate their faith, Mary-Jane Donnellan
It was Holy Thursday a good time to remind ourselves of the great love Our Lord has for each one of us to explore the true meaning and message of Jesus life death and resurrection.
873 - Jun 2001 - Denver document addresses challenges to Catholic marriage teachings, AD2000 Report
New catechesis These statistics highlighted the crucial need for a new catechesis in human sexuality involving new methods and approaches that convincingly demonstrate how the Churchs teaching on sexuality corresponds to the deepest desires of the human heart for love and intimate personal union.
874 - Jun 2001 - News: The Church Around the World
The Cardinal also praised the decisive intervention of the Relatives of the Terminally Ill because they have shown which is the key factor: the care and concern of the loved ones around the person in need.
875 - May 2001 - Reflection: 'Blessed are the poor in spirit', Fr Ian Falconer SJ
Why God allows pain and evil in the world is the oldest mystery facing thinking men and women; but by Gods gift to us of the light of faith we know with utter conviction and we trust completely that He loves each and every one of us with an infinite love.
876 - May 2001 - Poetry: The Ballad of Antichrist, Andrew Huntley
Many have found my faithless cause Many have claimed my strife Many have made my blinding charge Against that light in life To break its tyranny of law To tear the creature free In life torn separate at last To master the agony; But always love in servile time Could weave the web anew Seeming so weak proving too strong .
877 - May 2001 - Books: 'Prayers From The Heart: for the Feasts of the Year', Joanna Bogle, Mary-Jane Donnellan
As Pope John Paul II said: There is a need for heralds of the Gospel who are experts in humanity who have a profound knowledge of the heart of present-day man participating in his joys and hopes anguish and sadness and who are at the same time contemporaries in love with God.
878 - May 2001 - Books: 'Becoming Fire' by Fr Ken Barker mgl, Peter Westmore
Becoming Fire is particularly valuable in that it provides sound advice - based on the practical experience of Fr Ken Barker as a priest spiritual director and founder of the Missionaries of Gods Love - on how to organise ones life towards the things which finally matter.
879 - May 2001 - Letters: African reader (letter), Fr Stephen B. Muchemwa
I immediately fell in love with it and I wish to have some copies for my parish.
880 - May 2001 - Letters: 'Courage' (letter), John Dodwell
It is just possible that over time as one falls in love with Our Lord they may find their sexual orientation does change.
881 - May 2001 - A Melbourne artist's labour of love, Michael Gilchrist
It has all obviously been a labour of love for him his helpers and his supporters.
882 - May 2001 - New WA Catholic schools document stresses orthodoxy
All members of the school community it adds should avoid deliberate behaviour that conflicts with the Commandments while remembering their schools need to remain faithful to its role within the Churchs mission remaining in union with the Holy Father attentive to the Magisterium and reflecting the love and fidelity to the Church in whose name it serves.
883 - May 2001 - Vatican signals continuation of reform process, AD2000 Report
These issues he said included the questions of Cafeteria Catholicism versus the Churchs authority calls for so-called democratisation of the Church as opposed to the rightful role of its hierarchy a trend towards forms of pantheism as opposed to seeing God as Creator of the universe seeing sexuality as self-expression rather than affirming its true place in committed love and marriage and a loss of understanding of what happens in the Churchs liturgy.
884 - Apr 2001 - Reflection: Giving witness to the Gospel of Life, Rebecca van Rensburg
It is in our bodies in our masculinity and femininity that we express our love for God and for each other.
885 - Apr 2001 - Books: 'Contraception: The Hidden Truth' by Christine de Stoop, Katie Forster
Christine de Stoop states in her introduction: I have gathered for clarity of understanding the philosophical medical social and theological reasons why contraception is indeed a very grave matter - so that you may come to understand as I have the loveless lies of contraception.
886 - Apr 2001 - JESUS - Jubilee Edition Video, Johanna O'Farrell
We see Jesus as the peoples saviour who preaches among the everyday men and women of Israel providing a present day audience with a stronger appreciation of Jesus love for mankind rich and poor.
887 - Apr 2001 - Review Article: A 'silly book' from ACU professor of theology, Frank Mobbs
It is based on womens experiences such as that of a young woman falling in love with a member of a religious order and the rape of a nun (p.
888 - Apr 2001 - Thomas More Centre Summer School 2001: "Building a Culture of Life", Michael Daniel
When we as Christians choose to obey God who never forces us to obey Him we grow as persons and our love for God and neighbour is strengthened.
889 - Mar 2001 - Books: Why I Am A Priest: Thirty Success Stories, ed. Boadt, Hunt, Katie Lindorff
It is a book of thirty success stories of priests who love being priests.
890 - Mar 2001 - Books: Streams of Living Water: Autobiography of a Charismatic Leader, Anthony Cappello
A Covenant Community has been defined as a group of Christians who have been led by the Lord to express their love and commitment to Him and to one another as part of a divine call or vocation.
891 - Mar 2001 - Books: Come To The Father: An Invitation to Share the Catholic Faith, Aidan Nichols OP, Christopher Quinn
Nichols is equally forthright about Gods love and mercy correcting insipid sentimentalism.
892 - Mar 2001 - Letters: Misguided compassion (letter)
To truly love is to uphold Gods truth and Church teachings while loving the person.
893 - Mar 2001 - What we must teach our children: Archbishop Chaput, Archbishop Charles J. Chaput
The formation which parents give their children is critical to the childs development and if it is done with love will prepare them for their place in the world.
894 - Mar 2001 - Cardinal Ratzinger on 'Third Secret' of Fatima
Allow me to add here a personal recollection: in a conversation with me Sister Lucia said that it appeared ever more clearly to her that the purpose of all the apparitions was to help people to grow more and more in faith hope and love; everything else was intended to lead to this.
895 - Feb 2001 - Letters: Consecrated life (letter), Sr Mary Augustine Lane OP
Perhaps the best demonstration of love for the Church and for the religious state is to emulate Mother Teresa of Calcutta and give oneself humbly to God in an existent (faithful) religious order letting Christ call from there if and when He will.
896 - Feb 2001 - Letters: Limbo (letter), John Young
But that expression should not be taken as a denial of limbo for souls in limbo have great natural happiness and a knowledge and love of God.
897 - Feb 2001 - A former heroin addict's personal testimony
My heart became detached from all human love; it was totally in love with heroin and how it treated me.
898 - Feb 2001 - Successful Thomas More Spring School in Wagga, Paul Sheehan
Other speakers included Dr John Smith on Fatherhood in the Context of Love and Responsibility Alex Sidhu on An Insiders View of the Beijing5 UN Conference and Fr Anthony Robbie on Catholicism: The Foundation of Western Civilisation.
899 - Feb 2001 - Liturgy: when will the 'Statement of Conclusions' make an impact?, Michael Gilchrist
We ask you God for what we need each day - food drink love challenge a sense of community - may all of us experience the fulfilment of these needs.
900 - Feb 2001 - The finest RE texts produced to date, Anthony Cappello
However the To Know Worship and Love primary school texts produced by the Vicariate for Religious Education of the Melbourne Archdiocese are without doubt the finest religious education primary school texts produced to date in Australia.
901 - Feb 2001 - New RE texts launched in Melbourne's Catholic schools, Michael Gilchrist
The project commenced with consultations in 1997 which led to a report titled To Know Worship and Love.
902 - Dec 2000 - Reflection: The coming of Christ on earth, Pope John Paul II
For the more we purify our souls the more shall we make room for Gods love in our hearts the more Christ will be able to come and be born in us!
903 - Dec 2000 - Books: 'John Paul II's Book of Mary', compiled by Margaret R. Bunson, Anthony Cappello
His love and devotion for her which he has expressed repeatedly perhaps dates back to the death of his own mother when he was eight years old.
904 - Dec 2000 - Letters: Hell? (letter), P.J. Jones
Although these zealous Jeremiahs probably caused distress and over-scrupulosity even among the blameless they provided salutary reminders that God is not mocked and must not be lightly dismissed as merely a God of love.
905 - Dec 2000 - New Australian women's religious order, Sr Carmel Doherty
The visitation aspect of the mission of Our Lady who helped her cousin Elizabeth in time of need is an important motivation: In all humility and love the aim is to help our busy priests in todays extending parish boundaries.
906 - Dec 2000 - The 'new breed' of orthodox seminarians, Carter H. Griffin
St Charles Borreomeo in Philadelphia Mt St Marys in Emmitsburg Maryland and the seminaries in Denver (Archbishop Chaput) Arlington Virginia (Bishop Loverde) and Lincoln Nebraska (Bishop Bruskewitz).
907 - Dec 2000 - Jubilee Congress of Families: Rome report, Anthony Cappello
He reminded the gathering that children are the supreme gift of married love that the questions that come from children are an echo of Gods voice and that children must be able to depend on both parents.
908 - Nov 2000 - Reflection: Brother Andrew (1928-2000): returning to spiritual basics, Brother Andrew
The collapse of religious orders that formerly maintained marvellous schools and hospitals with a unique spirit of love service and competence.
909 - Nov 2000 - Books: Casta Meretrix: An Essay on the Eccesiology of St Ambrose, Cardinal Biffi, Michael Daniel
If we look at the phrase in its context St Ambrose was using it to highlight the Churchs holiness and sinlessness: the Church is a chaste whore since many lovers frequent her because of the attractions of love; yet she is free from the contamination of sin (p.
910 - Nov 2000 - The Great Jubilee: reaffirming the spiritual power of indulgences, Catherine Cavanagh
Elsewhere in Sydney are the convict sandstone church of Holy Cross Kincumber - where Blessed Mary MacKillop is known to have worshipped and the lovely chapel at Mount Street North Sydney where the body of Blessed Mary MacKillop rests.
911 - Nov 2000 - Canonisation of 120 Chinese martyrs: has much changed under communism?, AD2000 Report
In addition to their spirit of faith and love they were chosen for their cultural talents and scientific know-how particularly in astronomy and mathematics.
912 - Oct 2000 - How orthodox are Australian Catholic University's professorial staff?, Eamonn Keane
In referring to mortal sin Gascoigne says it should be understood in terms of a fundamental option meaning a state of personal being which rejects the love of God and neighbour at the deepest and freest core of the person.
913 - Oct 2000 - Archbishop Pell: social justice for today's family, Archbishop George Pell
They came much closer to a civilisation of life and love through Christian living.
914 - 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.
915 - Sep 2000 - Ensuring our schools are truly Catholic, Br John Moylan CFC
The fundamental aim of Catholic education is to help students follow Christs first and greatest commandment - You must love the Lord your God with all your heart with all your soul and with all your mind .
916 - Sep 2000 - Why singles should not have access to IVF, Peter Westmore
New generation The Australian community is now trying to come to terms with the fact that some Aboriginal children were wrongly removed from their families and grew up without knowing the love of their parents or their culture.
917 - Sep 2000 - Rome's International Eucharistic Congress: 'an unforgettable week', Christine McCarthy
I had the privilege of attending this Congress accompanied by sixteen other Australians - members of the Society for Eucharistic Adoration an organisation founded in Sydney in 1993 to promote love and reverence for the Blessed Sacrament and to encourage all forms of Eucharistic devotion particularly perpetual adoration where this is feasible.
918 - Aug 2000 - A tribute to Cardinal John O'Connor, Msgr Michael J. Wrenn
On 12 April 2000 the Parish of St John the Evangelist Msgr Wrenns parish will be celebrating the 160th anniversary of its foundation on the site of your beloved Cathedral of St Patrick.
919 - Aug 2000 - Cardinal Ratzinger on 'Third Secret' of Fatima
Allow me to add here a personal recollection: in a conversation with me Sister Lucia said that it appeared ever more clearly to her that the purpose of all the apparitions was to help people to grow more and more in faith hope and love; everything else was intended to lead to this.
920 - Aug 2000 - News: The Church Around the World
Cardinal Lustiger the Archbishop of Paris said that a culture nourished by the Eucharistic mystery can be a reflection of Gods love.
921 - Jul 2000 - John Bradburne: Zimbabwe martyr and lepers' friend
He fell in love and came close to marrying.
922 - Jul 2000 - News: The Church Around the World
Vittorio Messori said: Singing banal songs like How Pretty It Is to Love Oneself hymns to pacifism to save the earth or whatever else is politically correct or afflicting a majority of Christians simply cannot compare with the intensity of feeling inspired by a rendition of Ave Maria de Lourdes.
923 - Jun 2000 - Reflection: Dom Columba Marmion on the significance of Pentecost, Dom Columba Marmion
The gift of the Holy Spirit to the Church and to souls is a priceless gift since this Spirit is Divine Love in person.
924 - Jun 2000 - Highway to Heaven: raffle becomes an apostolate to truck drivers, Neville Kenyon
But the church is so that all may come to know and love and worship and serve Him who is always and everywhere searching and seeking out all whom He has created.
925 - Jun 2000 - How Catholics can help rebuild Christian culture, Archbishop Charles J. Chaput
That means treating each other with the affection and obedience to the truth which flow naturally from love.
926 - Jun 2000 - News: The Church Around the World
Fr Paolo Molinari Postulator of their cause for beatification explained that their example tells us that children have their heart open to God they can and must grow constantly in real personal love for Jesus Christ with sincere and active love for other people.
927 - May 2000 - Books: 'Three Inns of Everlasting Happiness' by Fr Fabian Duggan, Catherine Sheehan
The book consists of 280 steps designed to lead the devout soul gently from the love of created things to the love of the uncreated Good.
928 - May 2000 - Letters: God's love (letter), Justin Ford
However as other correspondents have pointed out this doctrine must not lead us to deny Gods unconditional love.
929 - May 2000 - Letters: Women in the Church (letter), Marie Kennedy
The recently formed Magdalene Foundation promotes Catholic teachings and shows consideration for the majority of women who love Christ and his Church.
930 - May 2000 - Letters: More on Adelaide (letter), Margret E. Mills
Their example reflects their belief: I have had personal experience of their quite extraordinary faith-filled resilience hopeful good humour and sacrificial charity during more than thirty years with them: as a young single parent I was uplifted and sustained by their unstinting practical care and friendship; while teaching in one of the local Catholic schools I have been enriched daily witnessing parents sacrificial love and determination.
931 - May 2000 - Books: Francis Thompson: author of 'The Hound of Heaven', Michael Daniel
It is due not to slovenliness but to the strange places and circumstances under which it has been written.
932 - May 2000 - What are the foundations of a good Catholic education?, Dr. John J. Haldane
Both are important but before anyone will attend to these they must first be brought to the point of recognising that doctrine and Church form part of a single divine answer to a deep human need - the need to be united in love with an unfailing companion.
933 - Apr 2000 - Coming Home Network: a Catholic apostolate for converts, Marcus Grodi
It of course never means that we cease to love those we may need to leave behind or who choose to turn their backs on us.
934 - Mar 2000 - Biography: Fulton J. Sheen: prophetic inspiration for today's new evangelisation, Archbishop Barry J. Hickey
From those hours of intimacy with the Lord he deepened his love for Him and followed Him as faithfully as any Apostle or Disciple.
935 - Mar 2000 - Education: Religious education: putting the emphasis back on God, Br John Moylan CFC
Commandment In Matthew (22:37-40) Jesus told us: You must love the Lord your God with all your heart with all your soul and with all your mind.
936 - Mar 2000 - How the Salesians are helping to rebuild East Timor, Br Michael Lynch
They would dearly love to obtain a couple of hand-tractors to help them prepare the soil for planting.
937 - Feb 2000 - Letters: God’s love (letter), Louise Howell (Dr)
G H Duggans article How unconditional is Gods love?
938 - Feb 2000 - Books: ‘Hidden Way: The Life and Influence of Almire Pichon’ by Mary Frances Coady, Mary O'Neill
Thrse wrote in her autobiography that his words set her soul on the path of confidence and love.
939 - Feb 2000 - Legionaries of Christ: new order for a new millennium, Peter Westmore
They strive to love him in a personal way imitating him as their only model of holiness.
940 - Dec 1999 - Reflection: Christmas: John Paul II's thoughts on the eve of the Jubilee, Pope John Paul II
The Incarnation is the fruit of an immense love which spurred God willingly to share our human condition to the full.
941 - Dec 1999 - The Enneagram: recipe for apostasy?, Rick Kephart
On the other hand goodness and holiness to know love and serve God on Earth and be happy with Him forever in Heaven are the proper goals of the Christian and these are not goals for the Sufi.
942 - Nov 1999 - Reflection: How unconditional is God's love?, Fr G.H. Duggan SM
Recently Bishop Holloway the Anglican Bishop of Edinburgh was reported as saying: Gods love is unconditional: that is the message of the Gospel.
943 - Nov 1999 - Religious Education: 'Gospel of life' in Melbourne's new RE curriculum, Msgr Peter J. Elliott
But pro-life compassion can only begin in the earliest years by teaching little ones to love their brothers and sisters to reverence the life of the new born babe to respect that aged aunt or precious grandmother.
944 - Nov 1999 - St Vincent's drug injecting rooms: 'monumental spiritual blindness', Fr John Walter PP
May Christs love urge the Sisters to do as he would do.
945 - Oct 1999 - Reflection: A Kolbe Quartet, Msgr Peter J. Elliott
Here he kneels and remembers you he who bears the keys the burden the suffering for love that will not suffer is not love but sentiment and suffering that cannot love is and must always be only pain.
946 - Oct 1999 - Bishop John Myers of Peoria on the meaning of teaching authority, Bishop John Myers
At all times and in whatever form preaching and teaching the Word of God is a labour of love.
947 - Oct 1999 - Catholic objections to the 'morning-after' pill, Maria Luisa Di Pietro
For the woman to accept this child growing in her womb the child of someone who did not love her can be extremely difficult: she must be given help and support she and her child must be cared for.
948 - Sep 1999 - Reflection: A spirit of poverty and the level of vocations: how they connect, Fr Fabian Duggan OSB
For this reason we speak of the gifts of the Holy Spirit and the Eucharist itself is the gift of divine love - God giving himself.
949 - Sep 1999 - Scripture: The call to conversion in the early Church: lessons for today, Rev Dr Peter Waters
818 Flannery) echoes the call to conversion in the early Church in these words: The mission of the Church is carried out by means of that activity through which in obedience to Christs command and moved by the grace and love of the Holy Spirit the Church makes itself fully present to all men and peoples in order to lead them to the faith freedom and peace of Christ by the example of its life and teaching by the sacraments and other means of grace.
950 - Sep 1999 - Spirituality: West Australian Rosary tapes: a growing international success story, Colleen McGuiness-Howard
There is a bigger concentration of Catholics on the Western coast of Scotland and their joy enthusiasm and strong love for their faith shared by their Bishop Canons and general clergy was a memory I cherish.
951 - Sep 1999 - News: The Church Around the World
In his note Archbishop Herranz recalled that the Eucharist is the centre and root of the life of the Church and referred to instances not only of deplorable disciplinary abuses but even of acts of contempt and profanation by individuals who almost diabolically inspired presume to thus oppose that which is most sacred for the Church and the faithful and what they most protect adore and love.
952 - Aug 1999 - Reflection: Hymn In honour of Our Lady's Assumption, Fr Ramsey Williams SSC
) May your Son the worlds true Light grant us grace to win the fight so with all the saints above praise the Fathers endless love.
953 - Aug 1999 - Archbishop Pell celebrates traditional Latin Mass in St Patrick's Cathedral, Gerard McManus
Vocations Increasingly however Latin Mass communities are seeing an influx of young people in their 20s and 30s who come to the traditional Mass out of curiosity and then fall in love with it.
954 - Jul 1999 - Reflection: John Paul II: how the arts and Christian faith nourish each other, Pope John Paul II
In song faith is experienced as vibrant joy love and confident expectation of the saving intervention of God.
955 - Jul 1999 - Jacques Maritain: modern philosophy in the tradition of St Thomas Aquinas, E. J. Borich
Divine love A philosopher who recognised the ultimate importance of love and above all of divine love he knew that only on the level of divine and human love can the personal endowments and the deepest secrets of the human person be revealed.
956 - Jul 1999 - News: The Church Around the World
De facto unions between homosexuals he added represent a deplorable distortion of what should be the communion of love and life between man and woman in a reciprocal giving (which is) open to life.
957 - Jun 1999 - Reflection: The spirit of poverty of Francis of Assisi, Fr Christopher Sharah FSF
Interestingly enough one of the most attractive things about St Francis of Assisi besides his love for all creatures and their love for him is his life of poverty.
958 - Jun 1999 - The challenge for religious educators in a secular culture, Archbishop Charles J. Chaput
All of us love Christmas.
959 - May 1999 - Association of Catholic Families: meeting challenges to today's family, Chris and Mary Clare Meney
the preference for the androgynous concept of parenthood the advent of homosexual rights (particularly concerning the adoption of children) the dissociation of the link between sex love and procreation and the rejection of the principle that the traditional family is a reflection of the Creators design for a complementary social unit.
960 - May 1999 - Vatican launch of book highlights Pius XII's World War II role in saving Jews, Zenit News Service
They were witnesses of evangelic love of the love Jesus Christ taught his disciples in very clear words: Love your neighbour as yourself and I give you a new commandment: that you love one another as I have loved you.
961 - May 1999 - News: The Church Around the World
Through the sacrament of confession we are empowered to live as He did to love as He loved to reconcile as He reconciled.
962 - Apr 1999 - Bishop Heaps' book: a mistaken view of the Catholic Church, Stuart Rowland
The purpose of the recently published controversial book by Bishop John Heaps of Sydney (now retired) seems to be summarised in its title: A Love That Dares To Question: A Bishop Challenges His Church.
963 - Mar 1999 - Vocations: The Brothers of St Francis: a sign of renewal in religious life, Fr Christopher Sharah FSF
It opens so many doors to communication ministry and good old neighbourly love.
964 - Mar 1999 - Charles Chaput: a remarkable American Archbishop, Louis Power
He took as his episcopal motto: As Christ loved the Church based on Ephesians 5:25.
965 - Mar 1999 - News: The Church Around the World
Many attacks on Church teaching are committed in the name of justice to women and since we are women who love Jesus Christ and his Church we think it is essential that we continue our efforts to witness publicly to the Catholic faith .
966 - Feb 1999 - Reflection: Catholic identity and 'reading the signs of the times', John Kelly
Tradition Rather recognising and accepting what is true and good if incomplete in the secular sphere she places all within the full context of creation sin grace and faith elevating and completing nature including the world of humanistic thought and the cultures it generates and referring all explicitly to the liberating and salvific judgment and love of Christ.
967 - Feb 1999 - Liturgy: Cardinal Ratzinger on the old and the new Mass, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger
Through them many of the faithful have been confirmed in the joy of being able to live the liturgy and confirmed in their love for the Church or perhaps they have rediscovered both.
968 - Feb 1999 - John Paul II throws down the gauntlet to Australia's bishops, AD2000 Report
The not-infrequent public dissent on the part of prominent male and female religious was noted: Consecrated persons are called to be mindful of the ancient dictum: sentire cum ecclesia to live and think and love with the Church.
969 - Dec 1998 - Reflection: The mystery of Christmas confronts a sceptical world, Fr Robert J. Batule
It is hard to argue against technological advancement when a certain surgical procedure can add fifteen years to the life of a loved one.
970 - Dec 1998 - Pope John Paul II calls for more 'balance' in the reformed liturgy, AD2000 Report
And I pray the Lord Jesus that in the future we may avoid in our manner of dealing with this sacred mystery anything which could weaken or disorient in any way the sense of reverence and love that exists in our faithful people (n.
971 - Dec 1998 - Thomas More Centre's Sydney Spring School, Anthony English
Marriage and commitment While many young people today had succumbed to such selfishness in their relationships as evident through the widespread use of contraception there were still many who wanted genuine love with all its joys and responsibilities Mrs Woods said.
972 - Dec 1998 - News: The Church Around the World
The statement was prompted by the controversy surrounding the contents of a new book - The Love That Dares To Question - by retired Sydney auxiliary Bishop John Heaps.
973 - Oct 1998 - Teresa-Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein): new Carmelite Saint, Tracey Rowland
Stein also thought that women have a natural aptitude for self-sacrificial love.
974 - Oct 1998 - Pope John Paul II: the impact of his twenty-year pontificate, Peter Westmore
At this time he wrote one of his most important books Love and Responsibility which anticipated by some years the teaching of Pope Paul VI in his encyclical Humanae Vitae.
975 - Sep 1998 - Books: Why Christianity must Change or Die, by Bishop John Selby Spong, Frank Mobbs
It not he is the Ground of Being following Tillich a presence discovered in the very depths of my life in the capacity to live in the ability to love and in the courage to be (p.
976 - Sep 1998 - Archbishop Pell: 'Humanae Vitae' teachings 'are not an optional extra', Michael Gilchrist
In a pastoral letter titled On Life and Love to mark the 30th anniversary of Pope Paul VIs encyclical Humanae Vitae on 24 July 1998 Melbournes Archbishop George Pell re-stated the Catholic Churchs continuing opposition to contraception and called for society to take stock of the costs of the sexual revolution made possible by the pill.
977 - Aug 1998 - Cardinal John Henry Newman and the development of doctrine, Fr Peter Waters
As well can there be filial love without the fact of a Father as devotion without the fact of Supreme Being?
978 - Aug 1998 - Education: Catholic schools: Do they make enough difference?, Br John Moylan CFC
His article questions whether all the means available to schools have been used to help students love understand appreciate and practise their Baptismal faith.
979 - Jun 1998 - New Texts the key to reshaping religious education, Msgr Peter J. Elliott
Based on the 270 submissions and entitled To Know Worship and Love this Report raises possibilities and problems and makes some very useful suggestions.
980 - Apr 1998 - Obituary: Archbishop Pell's tribute to B.A. Santamaria, Archbishop George Pell
It was his Aeolian background he claimed which gave him his values; the sense of family the necessity of religious belief the importance of accumulating some modest property for a degree of independence and the love of Italy and the Italian way of life.
981 - Mar 1998 - Reflection: Young Catholics: why 'updating' the Church will not bring them back, Rocco Loiacono
masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other.
982 - Feb 1998 - Reflection: The Mass: the symbolism of 'facing East', Fr Fabian Duggan OSB
Is it surprising they have little if any love respect or reverence for the eucharistic presence of Jesus?
983 - Dec 1997 - Cardinal John O'Connor: what Catholics believe, Cardinal John O'Connor
It is the truth that sets us free not merely to tolerate but to love one another.
984 - Nov 1997 - A young Catholic woman's defence of Church teachings, Anna Silvas
Our Pope himself encourages further enquiry but on the basis of faith sound doctrine and unquenchable love of Christ and his Church.
985 - Nov 1997 - Books: 'Tomorrow's Creed' as drafted by Fr Michael Morwood, Frank Mobbs
103) he is not in heaven he does not love one person more than another (p.
986 - Oct 1997 - Reflection: St Therese of Lisieux: only half the story, Msgr Peter J. Elliott
The melody of her life was focussed around the offering to Merciful Love that she made to God.
987 - Oct 1997 - Editorial: Church authority: where do religious orders stand?
To attack or deny this institutional mould of the Church and this apostolic authority whether of sanctifying teaching or governing is to go against the word of Christ the plan of Christ and the love of Christ.
988 - Jul 1997 - Reflection: Catholic youth: facing the challenges to faith (Pastoral Letter), Archbishop George Pell
Search out genuine love and service.
989 - Jul 1997 - Books: 'Banished Camelots: Recollections of a Catholic Childhood', by John Redrup, Br Christian Moe FSC
The unifying themes of his book are the constant love which enveloped his immigrant Anglo-Irish family and his mothers deep if undemonstrative Catholic faith: a faith that looked for and found support in the ordinary Catholic institutions of the time: the parish school - then staffed almost exclusively by Sisters or Brothers of the great teaching Institutes - and the parish church - served by good simple zealous priests who seemed blessedly untouched by the identity crises and the like which seem so often to plague our own liberated generation.
990 - Apr 1997 - Brisbane Archdiocese booklets: how to make parishes 'zoom along', Michael Gilchrist
People are encouraged to recognise Gods presence and abiding love in key moments of their life even those where God may seem absent.
991 - Oct 1996 - How the new Catechism can impact on the secular culture, Archbishop Barry J. Hickey
Decisions are to be based on asking key questions such as: How can our actions in this situation best reflect the love faithfulness and grace of God that comes in Jesus Christ?
992 - May 1996 - Reflection: Holy Communion and the Real Presence: whatever happened to reverence?, Christine McCarthy
My parish priest loves the Blessed Sacrament.
993 - Apr 1996 - Emperor Charles I: World War I peace campaigner, James Bogle
Their marriage had been a love match from the start fortified by a mutually strong Catholic faith Austria-Hungary was a polyglot empire consisting of many little nations.
994 - Mar 1996 - New Vatican document vindicates concerns about classroom sex education
Parents it says are particularly well equipped in this sensitive area: In a unique way they know their own children; they know them in their unrepeatable identity and by experience they possess the secrets and the resources of true love (7).
995 - Feb 1996 - An agnostic medical student on euthanasia: 'Why taking a life is unacceptable', Matthew Bailey
I love Nana dearly and thats why I might be prepared to do it.
996 - Nov 1995 - Post-conciliar renewal? Some Queensland snapshots, Michael Gilchrist
In the eucharist we remember Jesus self-giving love.
997 - Nov 1995 - Evangelium Vitae - Catholicism, the media and the 'culture of death', Bishop George Pell
It is one of the Holy Fathers most important writings an eloquent and passionate appeal to respect protect love and serve life every human life!
998 - Aug 1995 - Reflection: A Catholic undergraduate faces the future with confidence, Lucy O'Connell
I can love the Novus Ordo but fight inclusive language in it.
999 - Aug 1995 - Blessed Edith Stein (1891-1942): The most significant German woman this century, Mary O'Neill
The family loved literature and poetry and her sister Else recalled: I can still see her as she used to sit beside the large table at which her sisters and their friends used to hold poetry competitions.
1000 - Jul 1995 - Understanding the terms of the euthanasia debate, Peter Coghlan
Civil libertarian But now this means that the civil libertarian is committed to legalising voluntary euthanasia not just for the terminally ill who are suffering but for those who seriously wish to die because say they are suffering from a curable but distressing medical condition or from loneliness or from a failed love affair or from feelings (justified or not) of shame or guilt or worthlessness or from feelings of anger or despair or from world-weariness or from boredom - or from a thousand other conditions or states of mind that can lead individuals to want to die.
1001 - Apr 1995 - Catholicism: 'revealed by God, not devised by man', Fr Graham Leonard (former Anglican Bishop of London)
It is very difficult and therefore rare to be rigorous without being uncharitable and to speak the truth in love.
1002 - Mar 1995 - Leonid Federov (1879-1935): Russian Catholicism - a brave vision unfulfilled, Fr Peter Knowles OP
) was freed for a time in 1926 but in October of that year he was again imprisoned via Moscows infamous Lyubyanka and thence to Solovetski Island well within the Arctic Circle.
1003 - Mar 1995 - Aboriginal religion and Christianity: 'fundamentally incompatible', Max Champion
Nothing in aboriginal religion compares to the magnitude of divine love for the world exemplified in Jesus Christ.
1004 - Feb 1995 - Education: How to keep Catholic schools 'Catholic', Tom Kendell
Additionally many dedicated teachers provide the pastoral care and love that student victims of broken homes need so much.
1005 - Oct 1994 - An Anglican Bishop responds to Bishop Spong - defending Christian revelation, Bishop David Silk (Anglican Bishop of Ballarat)
How curious for a bishop for one who is to be the focus of unity and love to be the guardian of the faith the teacher and pastor of the people to find that he must so radically depart from the traditional position of the Church in her understanding of Scripture that he is saying one of two things: either that God has kept the truth hidden and has now revealed it to an intellectual elite or that humanity is discovering a whole new way of understanding the source of the documents.
1006 - May 1994 - Reflection: Our Lady: the family context, Bishop George Pell
What is important is how we cope with our situations however imperfect we might be; how we struggle with difficulty and expand upon our opportunities so that the love of God can flourish in our families.
1007 - Apr 1994 - Making sense of 'Veritatis Splendor', Bishop Kevin Manning
Some of the traditional moral doctrines called into question are: in certain currents of theology the natural law and the universality and permanent validity of its precepts have been rejected; it is questioned whether the magisterium is competent to intervene in matters of morality and to teach authoritatively the binding requirements of Gods commandments which we hold are a reflection of the goodness of God himself it is maintained that one can love God and neighbour without being obliged always and everywhere in all situations by the commandments taught by the Church; doubt is raised about the intrinsic and unbreakable bond between faith and morality i.
1008 - Nov 1993 - Brompton Oratory, London: Keeping Catholic tradition alive, Simon Matthews
We dont so much love Our Lord .
1009 - Nov 1993 - Thomas More Centre Lecture: Janet Smith champions Church's moral teaching, Dr Janet Smith
John Paul II also suggests that the body speaks in the sex act saying in effect: I love you I want to make you happy I am willing to have babies with you.
1010 - Oct 1993 - Eucharistic adoration - are we keeping up with the rest of the world?, Christine McCarthy
From that time our love for Jesus became more intimate our love for each other more understanding our love for the poor more compassionate and we have doubled the number of vocations.
1011 - Sep 1993 - Archbishop Hickey's Pastoral Letter - 'Humanae Vitae' 25th anniversary, Archbishop Barry J. Hickey
In his letter he reminded married couples that God was calling them to a fully human conjugal love through a free and total commitment to each other which was to be faithful and exclusive until death and open to the creation of new life.
1012 - Jul 1993 - Reflection: Eucharistic reverence: 'How our actions reflect our belief', Christine McCarthy
The faithful can only be edified by the devotion of others and in being edified strengthened in belief and love for Our Lord really and bodily present in the Blessed Sacrament.
1013 - Jul 1993 - U.S. Bishop solves vocations crisis, Michael Gilchrist
We expect them to be chaste we expect them to love the Church and we have built the program around love for- a personal relationship with - Jesus Christ especially in the sacraments love for the Blessed Mother and devotion to the Blessed Mother and love for the Church especially the Holy Father and bishops.
1014 - May 1993 - 'The Catechism of the Catholic Church': Confronting the post-Christian world, B.A. Santamaria
The scheme of that Catechism writes Eamon Duffy in his recent monumental work The Stripping of the Altars (Yale 1992) was structured round the Creed; the Ten Commandments and Christs summary of these in the dual precept to love God and neighbour; the seven works of mercy; the seven virtues; the seven vices; and the seven sacraments and was intended to provide a comprehensive guide to Christian belief and practice.
1015 - Mar 1993 - What the secular humanists are up to, David Quinn
Values on the other hand (by values I mean such concepts as beauty good and evil justice love etc) belong to the world of the immaterial the metaphysical.
1016 - Mar 1993 - Religious Order Leaders challenge Catholic structures
May we all gathered around Christ encounter in our actions and in our worship the God Jesus portrayed - God who is compassion and love.
1017 - Feb 1993 - The dimming of the 'vision splendid': religious life in distress, Sr Mary Augustine Lane OP
It sees an incomparably beautiful supernatural treasure which it guards with the jealousy of Divine Love.
1018 - Feb 1993 - Marriage destabilised by contraception, Archbishop Barry J. Hickey
But one element - contraception - perhaps goes deeper than all these other factors since it attacks the fundamental sign and symbol of loving unity - I mean the sexual union that symbolises the mutual love and that deepens it.
1019 - Nov 1992 - From a 'workshop' for Pastoral Associates
Whatever we suggested Ellie held as precious and responded with great love and encouragement allowing us to experiment with our roles recognising our giftedness always trusting the God within .
1020 - Aug 1992 - The problem of suffering, Fr Campion Murray OFM
The fullness of Gods love was revealed in an act of murder.
1021 - Jun 1992 - Did 'the Enlightenment' K.O. Christianity?, David Quinn
True love is sacrificial.
1022 - Jun 1992 - Monika Hellwig visits Australia, Michael Gilchrist
The life of Christ the constant struggle to live a life of love and trust the celebration of life in this liturgy .
1023 - May 1992 - Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy: has ecumenism lost its way?, Fr Peter Knowles OP
It was a broadside aimed at Rome whose language was in complete contrast to the hitherto conciliatory diplomatic statements that have passed between Constantinople and Rome during the slow paced years of the Dialogue of Love and Truth.
1024 - Mar 1992 - Sin: Shakespeare got it right, Susan Moore
In Measure for Measure there are no lovers who go to hell as Dantes Paolo and Franscesca do.
1025 - Feb 1992 - Authority - Yes, Authoritarianism - No, David Quinn
For the Church at least instead of the rule of fear we will have the rule of love.
1026 - Dec 1991 - 'Follow your conscience': but what does that mean?, Frank Mobbs
For example Father Norman Ford SDB writes The first principle we can state is that we must always obey a certain conscience and A conscience is said to be certain when the individual believes his judgment to be true without any reasonable fear of error (Live Out the Truth in Love p.
1027 - Oct 1991 - 'Faith of Our Fathers' - still valid for the 1990s, Bishop George Pell
Sense of the sacred Now our liturgies are in the vernacular intelligible even to outsiders while the challenge is to preserve and develop that sense of the sacred to insist that the Mass is an act of worship of reverence for the numinous the powerful invisible presence of Gods love revealed to us through Gods redeeming Son Jesus Christ Our Lord.
1028 - Aug 1991 - New Zealand Catholicism to put on Maori clothing?, John Kennedy OBE
The talk today is of the spirit of aroha (love and giving) which characterised the culture of the Maori before the white man came.
1029 - Jun 1991 - Encyclical: John Paul II's Memorial to 'Rerum Novarum': a summary of 'Centesimus Annus', B.A. Santamaria
The first and fundamental structure for human ecology is the family in which Man receives his first formative ideas about truth and goodness and learns what it means to love and to be loved and thus what it actually means to be a person.
1030 - May 1991 - Why the 'new' catechetics is flawed, Sr Mary Augustine Lane OP
that God is Love and love is never having to say youre sorry.
1031 - Feb 1991 - How religion fares in the U.S.A. - Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches, Michael Gilchrist
The Economist interpreted Greeleys findings as follows (October 20 1990): For practising Catholics the Church is their local parish church usually a lively place where God is love and where the priest is much keener to get people involved in good works than to tell them what they cant do in bed.
1032 - Dec 1990 - Books: Australian bishops tell Catholic teachers what to teach, Msgr John P. Kelly
Scattered among its pages one will find statements albeit in just a few words at times affirming that sacred Tradition is a vehicle for revelation; that interpretation of the Scriptures (and Tradition) must be subject to its authentic interpretation by the Magisterium; that the Pope is infallible; the truth of Jesus resurrection; that the risen Jesus offers Himself to the Father today (particularly) through the Sacrament of the Eucharist also called the Mass; that Eucharistic (school or class) liturgies are not purely affective experiences; genuflection as adoration and reverence; the meaning of Transubstantiation; the obligation to attend Sunday and Holy Day Mass; that first Confession precedes first Communion; the necessity after grave sin of sacramental Absolution before receiving Communion; the distinction between venial and grave (or mortal) sin; the reality of Original Sin; the Ten Commandments; that abortion is wrong that artificial contraception is inconsistent with a Christian understanding of human sexuality; that homosexual actions are not Christian love; the existence of judgement Heaven Hell Purgatory angels and devils.
1033 - Oct 1990 - Newman belongs to us all, Fr Peter J. Elliott
Nor did the Cardinals purple change that love for souls in the last eleven years of his life.
1034 - Jun 1990 - Books: 'Iota Unum: A Study of Changes in the Catholic Church in the Twentieth Century', Fr John Parsons
Love men slay error was St Augustines teaching and Amerio too points out that it is precisely as part of ones charity towards those in error that one attempts to understand and refute their errors.
1035 - Apr 1990 - Editorial: 'Everything is connected with everything else', B.A. Santamaria
December with its overtones of Christmas the birth of Christ the Holy Family the Shepherds the Ox and the Ass the Three Kings with their gifts of gold frankincense and myrrh epitomises the miracle of love and all of the softness of Christianity.
1036 - Mar 1990 - New Zealand: tensions between Rome and the Bishops, John Kennedy OBE
It is surely a situation where the aspiring priest is taken and formed so as to mature him spiritually deepen and strengthen his personal character and to nurture in him an abiding love for the Church he hopes to serve.
1037 - Mar 1990 - 'Being church': manipulating language to change meaning, Fr Peter J. Elliott
We have a long way to go in developing a stronger awareness of the Church in the home as the basic community of life and love within the communion of the baptised.
1038 - 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.
1039 - Nov 1989 - Thomas More and today's crisis in faith and morals, John Finnis
But if one is going to recall that truth one had better recall its companion: if one reaches such a judgement one has made a serious moral error is entangled in ethical incoherence and corruption has wandered away from Gods law and therefore from Gods wisdom and from the terms of the divine offer of friendship and adoptive sonship and if one has heard the Gospel preached in its integrity such an error is scarcely possible without a sinful failure of faith hope and love threatening salvation at its root.
1040 - Nov 1989 - Teaching Christian doctrine in Catholic primary schools, Gerard Gaskin
In Grade Two this has developed into three further statements one of which is: Baptism is a sign of love from God who calls us into His family.
1041 - Sep 1989 - Christianity: new threats in the aftermath of the fall of Communism, Paul Johnson
Abortion strikes at the centre of Christian values not only because it involves a form of murder but because it severs the sexual - designed to express human love in its most powerful form - from its physiological consequences and in the most brutal manner.
1042 - Nov 1988 - The issues facing Australian Catholicism, Bishop George Pell
Children in our Catholic schools should be told regularly that Catholics should attend Sunday Mass and that the Ten Commandments are part of Divine Revelation essential guidelines for the manifestation of Christian love rather than the sociologically-conditioned inadequate efforts of an ancient Middle Eastern tribe or as Bertrand Russell claimed like a set of exam requirements where only six out of ten questions need be attempted.
1043 - Sep 1988 - 'Putting the essence of the Faith in doubt' (Jean Guitton), B.A. Santamaria
Ask a wife whether she would willingly receive the embraces of a husband who protests his love for her when she knows that he has come from the arms of another woman?
1044 - Jul 1988 - Growth of a 'new church': the Dutch experiment, Michael Gilchrist
Published in 1966 it exuded the confident humanist optimism of a newly prosperous and questioning Dutch Church: the human race was essentially good; a rosy accommodating stance towards the world was advocated; love replaced law; meal and community replaced sacrifice in the Mass; and feelings and experience replaced truth and doctrine.
1045 - May 1988 - John Paul II's new social encyclical, Sollicitudo rei socialis, B.A. Santamaria
John Paul II leaves no doubt that for the Catholic the central objective of social action is not to be found merely in its political dimension but in our manner of living which should reflect the love of and preference for the poor.
1046 - Apr 2009 - Letters: Love and truth, Frank Mobbs
1047 - Dec 2003 - Books: AD Books - Top Ten Sellers in 2003