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Search for in author OR full textWord matches: youth: 423 1 - May 2013 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au(Subscribers only - please login to view) 90 ISBN 978-1-58617-704-1 YOUCAT - Youth Prayer Book Cardinal Christoph Schnborn This is a follow-up to the Youth Catechism with modern and traditional prayers and the prayers of Scripture. 2 - May 2013 - Books: SIXTUS V: the Hermit of Villa Montalto, by W.T. Selley, Michael Daniel(Subscribers only - please login to view) As a youth he showed interest in religious life and joined the Fransiscans. 3 - May 2013 - Youth: Reasons for Hope retreat for young adult Catholics, Barry Coldrey(Subscribers only - please login to view) Foundation The Reasons for Hope format was initiated in 1996 by Matt Woodbury a youth leader in the Normanhurst Parish in Sydneys northern suburbs. 4 - May 2013 - Editorial: AD2000: looking towards the future, Damian Wyld(Subscribers only - please login to view) Indeed I was fortunate to have attended Mass as a boy in places largely untouched by the chaos sweeping through the Church of my youth. 5 - Apr 2013 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au 50 ISBN 978-0-64638-156-3 YOUCAT - Youth Prayer Book Cardinal Christoph Schnborn This is a follow-up to the Youth Catechism with modern and traditional prayers and the prayers of Scripture. 6 - Apr 2013 - 'Jesus Abandoned' in Nigeria: Chiemera's new freedom, Madonna Brosnan It was a momentous day for Chiemera his first ride in a car promise of help from doctors a wheelie walker of his own and a youth dance group performing traditional dance and music in Fr Anthonys front garden! 7 - Apr 2013 - Vocations: Australia's vocations springtime continues into 2013, Br Barry Coldrey In Sydney since World Youth Day 2008 Cardinal George Pell has ordained 25 men for the Archdiocese from his two seminaries: the Good Shepherd Seminary at Homebush and the Redemptoris Mater Seminary at Chester Hill. 8 - Apr 2013 - POPE FRANCIS: 'REBUILD MY CHURCH', Michael Gilchrist Bishop Anthony Fisher OP of Parramatta commented: In July this year I will lead a group of 250 young people from the Diocese of Parramatta to Rio de Janeiro where we will meet Pope Francis at World Youth Day. 9 - Mar 2013 - Obituary: Creos Roman: may he rest in peace, Bishop Anthony Fisher OP Reform of life Though ashamed of his substance abuse and lifestyle he remained passionate about justice for the marginalised and worked with youth the disabled the sick and reforming drug addicts. 10 - Feb 2013 - Events: iWitness Retreat: a celebration of young adult Catholic faith, Br Barry Coldrey The popular iWitness Retreat commenced in 2008 in the wake of World Youth Day Sydney 15-20 July and since then time has passed quickly. 11 - Feb 2013 - Marriage: UK Family Court judge: why marriage is worth fighting for, Madonna Brosnan (ed.) But examine the background of almost every child in care or the youth justice system and you will discover a broken home. 12 - Dec 2012 - Pilgrimage: Crossroads: young people spread the message of life and love, Angela Schumann Power of youth The young have a special power to attract peoples attention for the youth are the future and when they take action on an issue more people are likely to listen. 13 - Dec 2012 - Young Men of God 2012 Conference showcases Christian leadership, Br Barry Coldrey Among the youth leaders present were Tim Davis new Head of Evangelisation at John Paul College Coffs Harbour the Nicholls brothers Sam and Amos Anthony Niemann of Campion College Chris Eaton mgl and Jeremy Grear of the National Evangelisation Teams (NET). 14 - Dec 2012 - News: The Church Around the World Cardinal George said his predecessor Cardinal George Mundelein acted similarly in his 1937 criticisms of Adolf Hitler whose Nazi government had dissolved Catholic youth groups silenced the German bishops in the media and tried to discredit the Churchs work through putting on trial priests monks and sisters on trumped up charges of immorality. 15 - Nov 2012 - Books: A MIDLIFE JOURNEY, by Gerald O'Collins SJ, Frank Mobbs The author is grateful for his having spent his youth in Frankston outside Melbourne an almost rural area at the time. 16 - Nov 2012 - Ignite Conference unites young practising Catholics, Br Barry Coldrey Meanwhile the Emmanuel Community is the powerhouse of the Churchs ministry to Catholic youth and young adults in south-eastern Queensland and northern New South Wales. 17 - Oct 2012 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au 95 ISBN 978-0-85244-796-3 YouCat With a foreword from Pope Benedict XVI this Youth Catechism deals with the entire Catholic faith as presented in the Catechism of the Catholic Church. 18 - Oct 2012 - Books: AN AMAZING LOVE, by Father Ken Barker, Br Barry Coldrey Back in Australia in 1980 he was appointed an assistant priest at the Cathedral in Canberra and became Diocesan Youth Director later joining the Disciples of Jesus Covenant Community. 19 - Oct 2012 - Schools: Saint Mary MacKillop Colleges, Wagga Wagga: progress report, Charles Morton The Sisters were well aware of the statistics surrounding the retention of faith in the youth immediately after leaving secondary school and wanted to assist when they heard of the Andrews plan. 20 - Sep 2012 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au 95 ISBN 978-0-85244-796-3 YouCat With a foreword from Pope Benedict XVI this Youth Catechism deals with the entire Catholic faith as presented in the Catechism of the Catholic Church. 21 - 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. 22 - Sep 2012 - Letters: Archbishop Chaput: how to meet the challenges to religious freedom, Archbishop Charles Chaput OFM Notre Dame scholar Christian Smith and his colleagues whose research on emerging adults is so compelling wrote that most of the problems in the lives of youth have their origin in the larger adult world into which youth are being socialised . 23 - Aug 2012 - Vocations: Australian religious Sisters: 'In the true spirit of Vatican II', Kate Cleary MGL We train youth leaders and seek to encourage the evangelisation of young people through their peers. 24 - Aug 2012 - Youth: Young adult Catholics peer ministry in WA and Queensland, Br Barry Coldrey By 1996 Bruce already had twenty years of experience as a prominent Catholic youth leader. 25 - Jul 2012 - Books: ANSWERING THE ANTI-CATHOLIC CHALLENGE, by Robert M. Haddad, Angela Schumann Haddad shows that he has a clear vision for this book: it is a direct answer to Nothing in My Hand I Bring a book released around the time of the 2008 World Youth Day in Sydney. 26 - Jul 2012 - 'Born again': how to change from a nominal to a "living" Christian, Andrew Kania So often this phrase is blurred by images of starry-eyed youth waving their hands in the air and singing gospel music. 27 - Jul 2012 - Campus Life: A new model for Catholic university chaplaincy in Brisbane, Br Barry Coldrey In the June AD2000 my report concerned the new Catholic peer ministry of the National Evangelisation Teams (NET) in secondary schools parishes and youth groups. 28 - Jun 2012 - NET Ministries: Another Catholic youth ministry success story, Br Barry Coldrey Churchs mission The National Evangelisation Team is a Catholic peer-to-peer youth ministry which puts into practice the Churchs mission to reach out to young men and women. 29 - May 2012 - Young adult ministry 2012: more reasons for hope, Br Barry Coldrey The situation is similar with youth ministry and the team which developed the Reasons for Hope Retreat are pioneers in this development. 30 - Apr 2012 - Vocations: Australia's seminary numbers continue their growth, Br Barry Coldrey World Youth Days in Sydney 2008 and Madrid 2011 have helped. 31 - Apr 2012 - News: The Church Around the World Catholic News Agency India: youth ministry under review Catechists in India say that the richness and value of the liturgy has to be presented to youth with creativity and imagination but in line with Church teaching. 32 - Apr 2012 - Episcopacy: Perth's new Archbishop Timothy Costelloe ready for the challenges of leadership, Michael Gilchrist In the years following Bishop Costelloe took up a host of important responsibilities: Episcopal Vicar for Tertiary Education Chair of the Catholic Education Commission of Victoria Chair of the Mannix College Council Chair of the Advisory Board of the Archbishops Office for Evangelization and the Archbishops delegate for Youth Ministry in the Archdiocese of Melbourne. 33 - Mar 2012 - Extraordinary life of new Czech Cardinal, Dominik Duka, Peter Westmore He participated in the establishment of the Dominicans secret study centre and organised religious activities for youth across the entire country. 34 - Mar 2012 - Year of Grace: can Australian Catholicism recover its unity?, Michael Gilchrist Human resources There is no question that Australian Catholicism urgently needs another spiritual uplift to complement the positive impacts of World Youth Day 2008 and the canonisation of St Mary of the Cross MacKillop. 35 - Feb 2012 - Mission UK: Can pagan Britain recover its Christian identity? The first hints of her vocation came on a pilgrimage to Rome for World Youth Day in 2000. 36 - Feb 2012 - Youth: iWitness 2011: a celebration of young adult Catholic life, Br Barry Coldrey They were attending the Fourth Annual iWitness Conference an initiative of a range of young adult Catholics many of whom studied at Notre Dame University and commenced the weekend in the wake of World Youth Day (Sydney) in 2008. 37 - Feb 2012 - Census: Growth and decline in the churches: research findings, Frank Mobbs A similar church sends a youth minister to a high school who leads a service of song and prayer lasting from 6. 38 - Dec 2011 - Letters: Devotion to Mary, Cedric Wright We see the results in the disaffection of modern youth slack self-discipline among baptised Catholics falling Church attendances lack of religious vocations and even lack of reverence for the Blessed Sacrament as described by Bishop Arthur Serratelli in the September AD2000. 39 - Dec 2011 - Pilgrimage: Young disabled Catholics: new ministry initiative, Fr James McCarthy However until 2011 this pilgrimage tradition had not featured in mainstream youth ministry in the Church in Australia and never had there been a group of Australians with disabilities who travelled internationally to participate in World Youth Day. 40 - Dec 2011 - Vocations: Do not be afraid: successful Young Men of God retreat, Dr Barry Coldrey In fact most seminaries are now far from empty and the Young Men of God and other young adult retreats show that an impressive youthful lay leadership has been emerging in recent years. 41 - Nov 2011 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au 00 ISBN 978-1-58617-177-3 Youcat (English) With a foreword from Pope Benedict XVI this Youth Catechism deals with the entire Catholic faith as presented in the Catechism of the Catholic Church. 42 - Nov 2011 - Books: ST THOMAS BECKET, by Michael Green, Michael E. Daniel It is interesting to note that Green challenges the image of Becket popularised in the film version of Murder in the Cathedral that portrays him as a dissolute youth. 43 - Nov 2011 - Books: STRAINED RELATIONS: The Challenge of Homosexuality, by Bill Muehlenberg, Dr Joe Santamaria Akermanis had every right to say publicly what he did but the response from the management committees of the AFL was far from reassuring in the present climate of gay advocacy and the outrage against sexual abuse by youth leaders and chaplains. 44 - Nov 2011 - Letters: World Youth Day Madrid balance sheet, Fr Edward P. Evans Australian TV had little to say about the very successful World Youth Day (WYD) in Madrid. 45 - Nov 2011 - WYD Madrid: World Youth Day: Becoming sons and daughters of Christ, Sam Rebbechi During August of this year I was fortunate enough to attend the 2011 World Youth Day (WYD) in Madrid Spain. 46 - Nov 2011 - WYD Madrid: World Youth Day 2011: Experiencing Christ's presence, Dr Joe Santamaria Ben had just returned from Madrid where he shared in the celebrations of World Youth Day. 47 - Nov 2011 - Pastoral visit: Benedict XVI calls his visit to Germany 'a great feast of faith' He had made two earlier pastoral visits including for the 2005 World Youth Day in Cologne. 48 - Oct 2011 - Reflection: Benedict XVI's Final Mass homily for World Youth Day, Pope Benedict XVI In this celebration of the Eucharist we have reached the high point of this World Youth Day. 49 - Oct 2011 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au 00 ISBN 978-1-58617-177-3 Youcat (English) With a foreword from Pope Benedict XVI this Youth Catechism deals with the entire Catholic faith as presented in the Catechism of the Catholic Church. 50 - Oct 2011 - News: The Church Around the World Next World Youth Day theme Pope Benedict XVI has unveiled the theme for the next World Youth Day to be held in Rio de Janeiro Brazil in 2013. 51 - Oct 2011 - World Youth Day 2011, Madrid: Australia's participation, Br Barry Coldrey World Youth Day Madrid 15-21 August 2011 has not long concluded having proved to be another stunning success with one million young adults cramming the ancient stronghold of Catholicism for the weeks celebration of faith with youthful fervour. 52 - Oct 2011 - Episcopacy: Cardinal Pell: the responsibilities of Church leadership, Cardinal George Pell There also has to be a focus on youth. 53 - Sep 2011 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au 90 ISBN 978-0-89870-404-9 Youcat (English) With a foreword from Pope Benedict XVI this Youth Catechism deals with the entire Catholic faith as presented in the Catechism of the Catholic Church. 54 - Sep 2011 - Interview: Pope's brother sheds more light on Benedict's early years, Zenit News Agency The Ratzingers father who only had a meagre pension at that time refused all financial advantages of a membership in the Nazi party while the teenage Joseph Ratzinger managed to avoid participation in the Hitler Youth even when it was mandatory by German law to enter this organisation. 55 - Sep 2011 - Youth: Catholic young adult ministry: Sydney's formula for success, Br Barry Coldrey Over fifty students and youthful chaplaincy leaders attended a mid-year universities retreat at Wedderburn Sydney in early July prior to the 16-21 August World Youth Day in Madrid. 56 - Sep 2011 - News: The Church Around the World World Youth Day and secularised Spain In August Benedict XVI visited a Spain that faces aggressive secularism and controversies concerning abortion sexual ethics and marriage. 57 - Aug 2011 - Reflection: The new evangelisation: 'missionary spirit' needed, Fr Dennis W. Byrnes To the youth he presented a light in this dark world with his World Youth Days. 58 - Aug 2011 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au 95 ISBN 978-0-86012-305-7 Youcat (English) With a foreword from Pope Benedict XVI this Youth Catechism deals with the entire Catholic faith as presented in the Catechism of the Catholic Church. 59 - Aug 2011 - Young adult Catholic ministry: further progress, Br Barry Coldrey In 2000 after World Youth Day a number of returning Catholic pilgrims approached (then) Archbishop George Pell to establish a weekly hour of adoration for young Catholics in St Patricks Cathedral Melbourne. 60 - Jul 2011 - Reflection: Christ's priestly promise: 'I am with you always', Fr John O'Neill The priest indeed any believer is never too old to enjoy the spiritual youth of greater understanding of the goodness of Gods nature for the soul should never age. 61 - Jul 2011 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au 95 ISBN 978-1-58617-198-8 Youcat (English) With a foreword from Pope Benedict XVI this Youth Catechism deals with the entire Catholic faith as presented in the Catechism of the Catholic Church. 62 - Jul 2011 - Books: A MEMORY FOR WONDERS: a true story, by Mother Veronica Namoyo Le Goulard PCC, Michael Daniel She joined the Catholic youth association ironically also being simultaneously a member of a Marxist youth organisation. 63 - Jul 2011 - Books: STORIES OF KAROL: the Unknown Life of John Paul II, by G.F. Svidercoschi, Br Barry Coldrey Available from Freedom Publishing) MIRACLES OF JOHN PAUL II by Pawel Zuchniewicz (Catholic Youth Studio Toronto Canada 2006 194pp $39. 64 - Jul 2011 - Lübeck martyrs of the Nazis beatified on 25 June, Frank Mobbs Fr Muller also 32 and a priest for just three years when he was executed was a quiet man popular among local youth. 65 - Jul 2011 - Steubenville: How a university's Catholic identity was recovered, AD2000 Report He had conferences for priests deacons religious sisters and the big one was for high-school-age youth. 66 - Jul 2011 - News: The Church Around the World Meanwhile he pointed out that an orthodox approach has been reaping apostolic benefits in many parts of Australia including Sydney with an increased number of priestly and religious vocations vibrant university chaplaincies and the legacy of World Youth Day in 2008. 67 - Jun 2011 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au 00 ISBN 978-0-85244-368-2 Youcat (English) With a foreword from Pope Benedict XVI this Youth Catechism deals with the entire Catholic faith as presented in the Catechism of the Catholic Church. 68 - Jun 2011 - Australia's seminary numbers continue to increase, Br Barry Coldrey World Youth Day in Sydney 2008 helped. 69 - May 2011 - University Life: Australian Catholic Students' Conference 2011 a success, Br Barry Coldrey In the following months there are further avenues of consolidation for orthodox young Catholics: YPAT (Youth Political Action Training) 1-7 July 2011 at Mannix College Monash University Clayton 3168. 70 - May 2011 - Two million in Rome for beatification of John Paul II, Peter Westmore He had a particular affection for the Orthodox Churches and established World Youth Day as an occasion to bring together young Catholics in an affirmation of faith. 71 - Apr 2011 - Books: TOWARDS A THEOLOGY OF THE ENVIRONMENT, by Paul Haffner, Barry Coldrey Since then Benedict XVI has addressed the topic in three notable instances: the World Youth Day Sydney 2008 the Encyclical Caritas in Veritate and his 2010 message for the World Day of Peace. 72 - Apr 2011 - Catholic Church's pivotal role in South Korea's pro-life revival, Babette Francis The initiative also includes setting up sex education for youth in Catholic schools and Sunday schools on preventing unwanted pregnancy. 73 - Mar 2011 - iWitness 2010: an unforgettable retreat for young Catholics, Br Barry Coldrey World Youth Day In 2008 World Youth Day in Sydney energised young Australian Catholics and in the wake of Pope Benedict XVIs visit the President of the Thomas More Society at Notre Dame University Pat Langrell and his executive initiated Theology-on-Tap at P. 74 - Feb 2011 - Reflection: The great but neglected harvest of inactive Catholics, Joseph Agius Like St Augustine Fr Corapi returned to God after a misspent youth. 75 - Feb 2011 - Vocations: Following in the footsteps of St Francis of Assisi, Kay Cozad Each brother shares his deep devotion to God through participation in Bible study door-to-door evangelisation walks parish missions confirmation and youth retreats catechesis with the neighbourhood children Saturday devotions and Mass and serving area parishes in any way they can. 76 - Feb 2011 - Marriage: US bishops signal a tougher stance in the culture wars, Michael Gilchrist His comments were made as chairman of the Ad Hoc Committee for the Defence of Marriage which was later upgraded to a subcommittee of the Bishops Committee on Laity Marriage Family Life and Youth. 77 - Feb 2011 - News: The Church Around the World In addition to this initiative several dioceses and religious orders are running discernment groups for young men and women while vocation seminar participants also noted World Youth Day Madrid in 2011 as an opportunity for young people to enrich their knowledge of Catholicism and increase their individual vocation discernment. 78 - Dec 2010 - Books: FIVE SMOOTH STONES: A 40 Day WYD08 Journal, by Stephen Lawrence, Bishop Joseph Grech Available from Freedom Publishing) Reading this book I could not help recalling the marvellous time that I and many others experienced during the World Youth Day 2008 celebrations. 79 - Dec 2010 - Youth: Another successful Australian Catholic youth initiative, Br Barry Coldrey - Among those present were the Melbourne youth leader Tim Davis three members of the Nichols family from Ballarat Jake Luke and Amos the Campion College representatives the Victorian and Sydney YMG leaders. 80 - Nov 2010 - Saints: Blessed John Henry Newman: why he is worthy of canonisation, Frank Mobbs I can pay tribute to his writing skills for since my youth I have been captivated by his style. 81 - Nov 2010 - News: The Church Around the World This was one of the points underlined by its delegation to the 2010 UN World Youth Conference in Leon which took place from 23-26 August. 82 - Oct 2010 - Good priests: the Church's essential foot soldiers, Cardinal George Pell We have only a limited capacity to battle the relentless external pressures on our communities and especially on our youth but our internal life is another matter. 83 - Oct 2010 - Youth: Young adult Catholic ministry: hopeful signs continue, Br Barry Coldrey World Youth Day In the perspective of Melbourne it appears that in the wake of World Youth Day Rome 2000 some enthusiastic young Catholics returning from overseas and associated with Archbishop George Pell established a weekly Holy Hour (SIX30) for young adults at 6. 84 - Sep 2010 - Ecclesial movements in the life of the Church, Bishop Julian Porteous Couples for Christ from the Philippines and Jesus Youth from India are other examples. 85 - Sep 2010 - Britain prepares for Benedict XVI's visit, Joanna Bogle They ignore his personal charm and gentleness his academic brilliance his books his ecumenical outreach and his rapport with the young this last a fruit of his many years working with students at universities and much in evidence at gatherings in Rome and at World Youth Days in Sydney and Cologne. 86 - Aug 2010 - Books: JESUS CHRIST, YESTERDAY, TODAY, FOREVER, by Fr Anthony Percy, Micheal Daniel Mark was the constant companion of St Peter on his missionary journey and Marks Gospel reflects Peters straight-from-the-shoulder style and theology Peters occupation as a fisherman being not conducive to abstruse theological meanderings; nor indeed is Father Percys youthful personality. 87 - Jul 2010 - Trends: The Church in 50 years: John Allen's predictions, Frank Mobbs The Northern Church is rapidly declining in strength while the Southern is booming and vibrant youthful and optimistic. 88 - Jun 2010 - American survey of young Catholics confirms Benedict's agenda, Carl Anderson Among the many things Pope John Paul II will certainly be remembered for is his outreach to youth. 89 - Jun 2010 - News: The Church Around the World Participants will learn ways to form our youth for responsible sexuality better prepare couples for sacramental marriage enrich and strengthen those who are married provide marriage care for those in need and heal the pain of divorce for both the spouses and the kids said Lorrie Gramer conference chair of the National Association of Catholic Family Life Ministers. 90 - May 2010 - Foundations of Faith: The Mass: early centuries to Vatican II, Br Barry Coldrey Dr Barry Coldrey is a former secondary school teacher now active in youth ministry. 91 - May 2010 - Parish life: A youth apostolate that works, Fr John O'Neill Over 47 years of priesthood I have seen various attempts made to bring our youth to Christ and Christ to them. 92 - Apr 2010 - Books: CREED OR CHAOS: Why Christians Must Choose Either Dogma or Disaster, Sayers, Terri Kelleher No flight into sentimental fantasies of childhood or youth will alter that fact. 93 - Apr 2010 - Formation: Young Australian Catholics commit to promoting Judeo-Christian values, Richard Lyons It was astonishing to see the intellectual development of all the YPAT participants and one can clearly hope for the future with youth such as this now present in the world; hungry to do well for the world and others. 94 - Apr 2010 - News: The Church Around the World Bishop Fisher who has served as auxiliary bishop of Sydney for seven years and organised World Youth Day 2008 is Australias youngest Catholic bishop. 95 - Mar 2010 - Youth: Summer School of Evangelisation: helping young people's faith, Johanna Banks Each year the Disciples of Jesus Covenant Community provides for this need with their annual Summer School of Evangelisation a week-long gathering of Catholic youth from all over Australia to develop and celebrate their faith. 96 - Mar 2010 - News: The Church Around the World Before the amendment critics of the proposed Equality Bill said it treated the rights of religious believers as secondary and could have forced churches to hire youth ministers who do not support Christian ethics. 97 - Feb 2010 - Foundations of Faith: Celebrating the Eucharist during the early Christian centuries, Br Barry Coldrey Dr Barry Coldrey is a former teacher in Christian Brothers secondary schools and is now active in youth ministry in Melbourne. 98 - Feb 2010 - Climate change: which Catholic response?, William Kininmonth He would have been better served to give more credence to his quotation from Bishop Tooheys 2008 World Youth Day address (p 30) . 99 - Feb 2010 - Letters: New priests for the Sydney Archdiocese, Fr Michael De Stoop He said World Youth Day 2008 helped him to be aware of his vocation. 100 - Dec 2009 - Books: IMAGES OF HOPE, EUROPE TODAY AND TOMORROW, by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Br Barry Coldrey Dr Barry Coldrey formerly taught in Christian Brothers secondary schools and today is active in youth ministry. 101 - Dec 2009 - Vatican II: Yves Congar, Vatican II, ecumenism: finding the right balance, Andrew Kania In his youth he attended a local church shared between Catholics and Protestants on alternate weeks; and during World War II while a prisoner of war he rubbed shoulders with believers and non-believers alike. 102 - Dec 2009 - Foundations of Faith: The Eucharist: what the Old and New Testaments tell us, Br Barry Coldrey Dr Barry Coldrey is a former teacher in Catholic secondary schools a prolific writer and lecturer and presently active in youth ministry. 103 - Nov 2009 - Books: CHRISTIANITY AND THE CRISIS OF CULTURES, by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Br Barry Coldrey Dr Barry Coldrey is a former teacher in Christian Brothers colleges and is active in youth ministry. 104 - Nov 2009 - Climate change alarmism: a new 'religion' for Christians?, John Morrissey Incidental references to the environment in the encyclicals of John Paul II were freely invoked together with a number of references to care for the earth in Benedict XVIs homilies during World Youth Day in Sydney in 2008. 105 - Oct 2009 - Books: This month's selection from AD Books 95 ISBN 0-85244-658-6 WYD Sydney 2008 Highlights Package This single DVD provides a convenient overview of all the major events of World Youth Day in Sydney last year and a chance to relive that inspirational week. 106 - Oct 2009 - FOUNDATIONS OF FAITH: Cutting edge moral issues for the third millennium, Br Barry Coldrey The fact is that Catholic youth have had ghastly witness and wretched example from a minority of priests members of religious orders and full-time lay workers whose sexual activities have made a mockery of the Churchs teaching on sexual matters such as the highly publicised sexual abuse of minors by some and lapses from the standards of committed celibacy by others. 107 - Oct 2009 - Youth: RISE: restoring integrity and sexual ethics to Australia's secular culture, Br Barry Coldrey Patrick headed the team who initiated the popular monthly Theology-on-Tap and the impressive iWitness Conference in the wake of World Youth Day at the Collaroy Centre in November last year. 108 - Oct 2009 - Community Life: 'Progressive' leadership and the demise of religious life, Br Paul Macrossan Vocations will dry up as youth and others seeking to enter the religious life after an interview or two detect the discord and decide that the institute will not satisfy their desire to give themselves to God. 109 - Oct 2009 - Priestly Identity: Renewing the priesthood in the Year for Priests, Fr Anthony Denton A particularly hopeful aspect of Pope John Paul IIs pontificate was his outreach to youth. 110 - Sep 2009 - Books: This month's selection from AD Books 00 ISBN 0-89870-888-5 WYD Sydney 2008 Complete Set of Events This package of eight DVDs is remarkable value containing all the major events of World Youth Day including the Journey of the Cross and Icon Opening Mass Papal Arrival Stations of the Cross Evening Vigil and much more. 111 - Sep 2009 - Books: THE BOOK OF ALL SAINTS, by Adrienne von Speyr, Br Barry Coldrey Dr Barry Coldrey taught in Christian Brothers colleges for many years and is currently a writer and lecturer and active in youth ministry. 112 - Sep 2009 - Books: DOVE DESCENDING: A Journey into T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets, by Thomas Howard, Br Barry Coldrey Dr Barry Coldrey taught in Christian Brothers colleges for many years and is currently a writer and lecturer and active in youth ministry. 113 - Sep 2009 - Campus Life: Brisbane hosts 2009 Australian Catholic Student Association Conference, Br Barry Coldrey The 150 delegates who attended the Australian Catholic Student Association (ACSA) Conference at Duchesne College University of Queensland from 10-12 July represented the cream of the Churchs youthful contemporary leadership in Australia. 114 - Aug 2009 - Books: This month's selection from AD Books 00 WYD Sydney 2008 Complete Set of Events This package of eight DVDs is remarkable value containing all the major events of World Youth Day including the Journey of the Cross and Icon Opening Mass Papal Arrival Stations of the Cross Evening Vigil and much more. 115 - Aug 2009 - Books: ... AND YOU ARE CHRIST'S':The Charism of Virginity and the Celibate Life, Dubay, Br Barry Coldrey Dr Barry Coldrey taught in Christian Brothers colleges for many years is now actively involved in youth ministry and has written and lectured extensively. 116 - Aug 2009 - God's Messengers: Angels: what Scripture and Tradition reveal, Susan McKinley Sometimes in the Bible they appear in the form of an ordinary human or a shining youth. 117 - Jul 2009 - Books: Books available from AD Books and Freedom Publishing 00 WYD Sydney 2008 Complete Set of Events This package of eight DVDs is remarkable value containing all the major events of World Youth Day including the Journey of the Cross and Icon Opening Mass Papal Arrival Stations of the Cross Evening Vigil and much more. 118 - Jul 2009 - Books: The Catholic Church and the Bible, by Peter Stravinskas, Br Barry Coldrey Dr Barry Coldrey CFC formerly taught in Christian Brothers colleges for many years is actively involved in youth ministry and has written and lectured extensively. 119 - Jul 2009 - India: Christians in India rejoice at election results, Babette Francis The analysis within the BJP has shown they are losing popularity among the youth as well as the urban middle class two segments where it had been strong earlier and which represent the emerging India of the 21st century. 120 - Jun 2009 - Books: AD2000 Books for June 00 A Family Retreat Preached before a church congregation in the 1970s this retreat consists of twelve half-hour talks directed at all age groups: Youth and Sex The Devil Confession The Meaning of the Mass Our Cross and others. 121 - Jun 2009 - Events - July: Australian Catholic Students Association: continuing spiritual impact, Br Barry Coldrey Other members of the Leadership Team are: David Collits a Law/Arts student at Sydney University Matt Restall Adrian Simmonds Mirian Russell and Siobhan Horsfall Meanwhile the success of World Youth Day 08 has energised many young Catholics to proclaim their faith more vigorously and the approaching ACSA Conference in Brisbane in July will reflect this new awareness and focus the energy. 122 - Jun 2009 - FOUNDATIONS OF FAITH: The Last Things: death, judgment, Heaven, Purgatory, Hell, Br Barry Coldrey Dr Barry Coldrey is a former secondary school teacher in Christian Brothers colleges the author of books and articles and is active in Catholic youth ministry. 123 - Jun 2009 - Vocations: Brisbane's Holy Spirit Seminary: promising signs of growth, Anthony Barich I remember Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament fondly from my youth but I was amazed with the eagerness of todays youth when we started it several years ago. 124 - Jun 2009 - Cardinal Pell's UK interview: Liturgy, Missal translation, World Youth Day, Luke Coppen You hosted World Youth Day in Sydney last July. 125 - May 2009 - Books: AD2000 Books for May 00 A Family Retreat Preached before a church congregation in the 1970s this retreat consists of twelve half-hour talks directed at all age groups: Youth and Sex The Devil Confession The Meaning of the Mass Our Cross and others. 126 - May 2009 - Letters: Fundamentals, J. Loring The ever-present and distressing attitudes to personal morality you highlighted in December/January and again in February among American Catholic youth and reflected in the West generally including Australia show the harmful effects when spiritual blindness denial and/or malevolently devious agenda-related brain-washing replace logic and truth and are vigorously defended with outrage and ridicule when questioned. 127 - May 2009 - Conversion: A Catholic convert's story (Part 2): Are there any regrets?, Michael Daniel Interest in religion Nevertheless as World Youth Day demonstrated it is not that there is a lack of interest in religion among young people; nor do they fail to respond to authentic presentations of the faith. 128 - May 2009 - US Catholics leaving the Church in droves: what can be done?, Fr Joseph A. Sirba They were attracted to these congregations because of clear and strong homilies Bible studies youth programs for their children and good music. 129 - Mar 2009 - Books: Books available now from AD2000 Books 95 Dear Young People Here is a valuable record of the unforgettable World Youth Day 2008 held in Sydney. 130 - Mar 2009 - Marian Valley, spiritual oasis for young Brisbane Catholics, Br Barry Coldrey However the tremendous crowds which attended World Youth Day in Sydney last July proved that while these practising young Catholic adults may be scattered they are out there in numbers waiting to be reached. 131 - Feb 2009 - Vibrant retreat: Young adult ministry builds on WYD: iWitness Conference in Sydney, Br Barry Coldrey Young practising Catholics can feel very isolated; at World Youth Day Sydney 15-20 July they came together in vast numbers; they were no longer alone. 132 - Feb 2009 - The Statement of Conclusions: any signs of progress after ten years?, Michael Gilchrist After five more years apart from the beneficial after-effects of World Youth Day his words could have been repeated. 133 - Dec 2008 - Pub life: Young adult Catholic ministry: ingredients for success, Br Barry Coldrey Organisation is provided by the Archdiocesan Office for Youth and the Victorian Catholic Students and Young Workers led by its dynamic President Matt Restall. 134 - Nov 2008 - Reflection: Purgatory: hope, mercy, love, Bishop Peter J. Elliott Looking back at World Youth day someone remarked I think heaven will be like that! 135 - Nov 2008 - Foundations of Faith: God's gift of sex: building a civilisation of life and love, Catherine Sheehan As a result many are dealing with sexually transmitted diseases unwanted pregnancies and abortions and the resulting psychological trauma when they should be enjoying their youth. 136 - 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. 137 - Oct 2008 - WYDSYD08: Thomas More Centre Youth follow up World Youth Day, Bridget Spinks The Thomas More Centre (TMC) Youth is a group of young Australians with a Christian belief and pro-life ethos who receive formation to be instruments of change in Victoria Queensland and NSW. 138 - Oct 2008 - Foundations of Faith: Recent Marian apparitions and the life of the Church, Br Barry Coldrey Pope John Paul II expressed the significance of Our Ladys appear- ances in his personal religious life: It has been my custom to make pilgrimages to the shrine of Our Lady starting with my earliest youth. 139 - Oct 2008 - Timor L'Este: Fly Away to Heaven: East Timor and World Youth Day, Sister Terezinha This is the address given on 31 July by Sister Terezinha of the Canossian Sisters of East Timor at the time of their visit to the Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish Thurgoona (Albury) Diocese of Wagga Wagga NSW following World Youth Day. 140 - Sep 2008 - Letters: Sex abuse apology (letter), M.J. Gonzalez The demands of some that the Pope and Catholic Church apologise for the scandalous misdeeds of a very small percentage of Catholic priests and religious in recent decades are open to question - notwithstanding Benedict XVIs generous sincere apology during World Youth Day. 141 - Sep 2008 - Letters: World Youth day (letter), M. & L. MORRISSEY Some sections of the secular press branded World Youth Day in Sydney as merely a Catholic jamboree for the young visiting pilgrims and tried to blame the Church for the failings of its clergy. 142 - Sep 2008 - WYD08: Theology on Tap: young Catholics' response to relativism, Patrick Langrell Religion and Politics two topics usually regarded as inappropriate for polite dinner conversation became the focus of discussions over steak and drinks at PJ Gallaghers Irish Pub during World Youth Day on the evening of Wednesday 16 July. 143 - Sep 2008 - News: The Church Around the World The new curriculum for spreading awareness on HIV/AIDS among school students and youth comes after sex-education manuals in several states - drafted by the state AIDS-control societies - were wide- ly criticised as encouraging promiscuity among young people by advocating the condom as a safeguard against AIDS. 144 - Sep 2008 - WYD08: Memories of homestay hosts, Emidio and Phyllis Restall Our memories of World Youth Day have been both exciting and challenging because it has been an experience in our lives that we have never had before. 145 - Sep 2008 - WYD08: A reflection on WYD, Tim Cannon THOMAS MORE CENTRE PILGRIM EXPERIENCES It is difficult to write about World Youth Day and still sound sane. 146 - Sep 2008 - WYD08: Faith: alive and well! - A pilgrim's progress, Catherine Sheehan THOMAS MORE CENTRE PILGRIM EXPERIENCES World Youth Day 2008 in Sydney was an inspiring joyful and overwhelming event. 147 - Sep 2008 - WYD08: Impressions of youth, Bridget Pati and Berni Sullivan My most treasured memory of World Youth Day 08 was the Saturday night vigil with our Holy Father. 148 - Sep 2008 - WYD08: World Youth Day 2008: what the media missed, Deborah Baker Never have I seen a major Australian city come so alive and show her human side as Sydney did during World Youth Day! 149 - Sep 2008 - Editorial: World Youth Day 2008: the challenge ahead, Michael Gilchrist It is now some weeks since Sydneys World Youth Day 2008 concluded but due to the vagaries of monthly journal deadlines this is the first opportunity AD2000 has had to reflect on what actually happened between 15-20 July. 150 - Aug 2008 - Reflection: World Youth Day: bringing a message of hope to the secular culture, Fr Dennis Byrnes The theme of the World Youth Day in Sydney has been You will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you will be my witnesses (Acts 1: 8). 151 - Aug 2008 - Books: Books available from AD2000 Books 00 Gods Revolution Pope Benedict XVI This book contains the texts of Benedict XVs talks during World Youth Day 2005 in Cologne. 152 - Jul 2008 - WORLD YOUTH DAY: Turin Shroud display in Melbourne to coincide with World Youth Day, Max Crockett Both exhibitions free of charge will be a Melbourne contribution to the World Youth Day celebrations. 153 - Jul 2008 - WORLD YOUTH DAY 2008: Authentic Catholicism: a fertile ground for vocations to flourish, Fr Anthony Denton In Sydney as in Cologne during World Youth Day in 2005 Pope Benedict wants to meet with young seminarians from all over the world. 154 - Jul 2008 - WORLD YOUTH DAY 2008: Juventutem Australia: young people devoted to the traditional liturgy, Alice Woolven At World Youth Day 2008 there will be many groups of pilgrims contributing to and reflecting the varied facets of our rich church life. 155 - Jul 2008 - Selective tolerance: Queensland University Student Union censures Catholic student group, Allison Atkins The students have continued to campaign since the sanction was imposed moving their attentions to promoting the upcoming World Youth Day and vocations. 156 - Jul 2008 - Editorial: Significance of World Youth Day 2008, Michael Gilchrist There is no doubt the upcoming World Youth Day in Sydney from 15-20 July will go down in Church history as one of a handful of religious events in Australia of international significance. 157 - Jun 2008 - Reflection: Benedict XVI on the mystery of the Body and Blood of Christ, Pope Benedict XVI With this gesture we place before his eyes the sufferings of the sick the loneliness of youth and the elderly temptations fears our whole life. 158 - Jun 2008 - Christianity 'lite' with all the hard parts unmentioned: a spiritual dead-end, Alan Roebuck Childrens programs that entertain (albeit in a quasi-Christian mode) rather than push the youth to learn challenging doctrines. 159 - Jun 2008 - News: The Church Around the World Wendy Wright President of Concerned Women for America concluded Refraining from sexual initiation is the healthiest decision for youth. 160 - May 2008 - Youth: Eucharistic devotions: revival in Melbourne, Br Barry Coldrey Many of the young Australian pilgrims at World Youth Day in Montreal 2000 were energised by the intense devotion to Christ in the Eucharist which they observed among the vast crowds in Canada. 161 - May 2008 - Editorial: Re-evangelising young unchurched Catholics, Michael Gilchrist Priests religious and youth leaders might use them as the basis for discussions on different aspects of the Faith and secondary school teachers might find them useful as additional teaching resources. 162 - Apr 2008 - Fly Away to Heaven project: responding to Christ's call to charity, Fr John Fowles CCS With the proceeds of sales this will bring a dream into reality for ten East Timorese youths joining in the World Youth Day celebrations in Sydney this July. 163 - Apr 2008 - Adult education: Sydney's Centre for Thomistic Studies, Donald G. Boland Pope John Paul II in an address to Catholic youth endorsed the value for our own day of St Thomas thought. 164 - Apr 2008 - Apostolic journey: Pope's Washington visit will address key issues, Peter Westmore The social challenge presented by such issues as birth control the right to life for the unborn euthanasia and the role of Catholics in public life are all critical topics of discussion for the re-evangelisation of parts of an increasingly secularised Church and to bolster deeper convictions among Catholic youth. 165 - Apr 2008 - Timor L'Este: Salesians continue to offer more hope in East Timor, Br Michael Lynch SDB Overall it was clear to me that the ordinary day-to-day work for youth of the Salesians and the Salesian Sisters while not the stuff that makes headlines in Australias daily papers is truly making a significant contribution to the building of the nation. 166 - Apr 2008 - WYDSYD08: World Youth Day Sydney: look for the wider trend, Joanna Bogle No this today and young people from our local deanery were gathering for their regular get-together as part of the preparations for World Youth Day. 167 - Mar 2008 - Books: JOURNEY OF A FAITH COMMUNITY, compiled by Tom Johnstone, James E. Scarlett Above all it is a refreshingly frank and detailed portrait of a parish in which the blemishes of youth have not yet become warts. 168 - Mar 2008 - Tribute: B.A. Santamaria: ten years on, Cardinal George Pell I believe I could have persuaded him not to be too sceptical publicly about the fruits of World Youth Day but he would have wanted evidence of these fruits. 169 - Dec 2007 - Schools: The state of Catholic education: teacher and student experiences, Br Barry Coldrey Over the previous year since the (associated) Victorian Catholic Students and Young Adults Conference there has been considerable activity in youthful Catholic circles with many young practising Catholics coming out of the woodwork and associating themselves with various prayer groups and social life. 170 - Nov 2007 - Architecture: How a Sydney parish church was restored, John O'Brien The parish will also be playing a significant role for World Youth Day in 2008. 171 - Nov 2007 - World Youth Day: Wagga Wagga priest's 'fly-a-thon' project to aid East Timor The Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish Thurgoona near Albury in the Wagga Wagga Diocese has embarked on an ambitious fundraising campaign to assist the people of East Timor including helping young East Timorese attend World Youth Day. 172 - Nov 2007 - Latin is still the universal language of Liturgy, Bishop Arthur Serratelli In recent times millions of young people from different countries gathered together for World Youth Day in Rome in 2000 in Toronto in 2002 and in Cologne in 2005. 173 - Nov 2007 - Australia's Missionaries of God's Love congregation continues to grow, Mary Pidcock The following are some facets of the MGLs ministry: conducting parishes at Narrabundah (Canberra) East Burwood (Melbourne) and Manila (Philippines) which are developing as centres of renewal and evangelisation and drawing the young back into the life of the Church; involvement in evangelising young people through Summer Schools of Evangelisation conducted by the Disciples of Jesus Community in four different locations each January; partners in the Asia-Pacific School of Evangelisation which trains young people as evangelists and sends them on cross-cultural missions in the Asia- Pacific region; a key role in the biennial Light to the Nations pilgrimage held at the Redemptorist Monastery Galong with this year during the Easter Triduum nearly 1000 young people gathered for the event and hundreds of them returning to the faith through the Sacrament of Reconciliation; active in preparations for World Youth Day with Fr Chris Ryan MGL presently accompanying the WYD Cross and Icon through every diocese in Australia as we head towards the Sydney celebration with the Pope in July 2008. 174 - Nov 2007 - Editorial: East Timorese to attend World Youth Day, Michael Gilchrist Last March AD2000 proposed that its readers should help young Catholics from East Timor to attend World Youth Day 2008. 175 - Oct 2007 - News: The Church Around the World World Youth Day Timorese benefit concert A benefit concert jointly sponsored by AD2000 and the Timorese Australian Community of Victoria has raised about $20000 to bring young Timorese people to Australia in July 2008 for World Youth Day. 176 - Sep 2007 - Catholic education must be 'unashamedly Catholic', Bishop Robert Finn While they are certainly not the only means to teach and form youth they are without a doubt one of the primary means to do so. 177 - Sep 2007 - Rediscovering the real history of Australian Catholic education, Eamonn Keane Likewise the distinct imprint of Jesuit educators on generations of Australian youth defies ownership by any one cultural or national group. 178 - Sep 2007 - New Age: Centering Prayer and other spiritualities: are they Catholic?, Wanda Skowronska World Youth Day A letter from the executive director of PALMS Roger OHalloran has been circulated to young people involved in World Youth Day asking them to come along and be part of it all at the Fair Trade Cafeacute;. 179 - Sep 2007 - A successful quest for vocations in Melbourne, Br Barry Coldrey In Australias largest Archdiocese these are the four pillars of a vocation ministry which is faith-based prayer-rich and God- centred: SIX30 is a weekly youth hour of Eucharistic adoration in St Patricks Cathedral. 180 - Aug 2007 - Catholics and the pornography epidemic, Bishop Robert Finn Well beyond magazines it is widespread on the internet television movies and videos and now on cell phones and other handheld devices many of which are marketed to children and youth. 181 - Aug 2007 - University: Australian Catholic students' conference: 'an inspiring experience', Br Barry Coldrey Camillus has a broad vision for his Presidency focussed on World Youth Day and the chances WYD opens for the Church in Australia. 182 - Aug 2007 - Lex orandi: Benedict XVI's liturgical armistice: 'Summorum Pontificum', Fr Glen Tattersall The emergence at World Youth Day 2005 of Juventutem a chapter of youth committed to the traditional liturgical usages is but one example of this - and Juventutem will again have a presence at WYD 2008 in Australia. 183 - Aug 2007 - Editorial: Census 2006: 'No religion' up, Christians down This is the challenge that faces Catholicism in the lead-up to World Youth Day 2008. 184 - Jul 2007 - Events: Canberra 6-8 July - Australian Catholic Students' Association 2007 Conference, Patrick Giam This years national event looks likely to draw upwards of 400 students and young adults as excitement builds over the upcoming Sydney World Youth Day. 185 - Jul 2007 - Interview: He could no longer explain why he wasn't Catholic, Tim Drake and Francis Beckwith That was until he made the announcement on the Right Reason blog of his return to the Catholic faith of his youth. 186 - Jul 2007 - Pastoral Plan: Cardinal Pell's blueprint for the future in the Sydney Archdiocese, Michael Gilchrist education liturgy priesthood and religious life healthcare youth ministry and social justice. 187 - Jun 2007 - Youth ministry active in the Melbourne archdiocese, Barry Coldrey Father Denton doubles as Chaplain to Catholic Youth Ministry. 188 - May 2007 - Letters: Debating euthanasia with facts, Rebecca Soares Legalised euthanasia says in effect to society that suicide is all right if you are in pain yet this is the exact opposite message to that which governments educators therapists and youth workers are trying to reinforce in society. 189 - May 2007 - Catechesis: Sydney RCIA conference in June on forming new adult Catholics, Joanne Zwaans Along with working with RCIA for 17 years Fr Cash has worked with Cursillo Teens Encounter Christ (TEC) various youth retreats and speaks at several conferences. 190 - May 2007 - Education: How to fix Australia's Catholic schools and colleges, Br Barry Coldrey Try to obtain the services of at least a part-time chaplain to offer class Masses or leadership to sodalities such as a Legion of Mary conference or a St Vincent de Paul youth branch. 191 - Apr 2007 - National Church Life Survey clarification, Bob Dixon In the questionnaires designed to be answered by Catholics only there were questions dealing with topics such as the following: peoples level of involvement in the parish; the extent to which the homily is helpful; sense of identity as a Catholic; acceptance of the authority of the Church; the importance of going to Mass on Sundays; frequency of saying the Rosary; frequency of participation in the sacrament of Penance; attitude to changes in the language of the Mass; the role of the Church in Australian society; youth ministry - and many other questions of vital interest and importance to the bishops and the Church as a whole. 192 - Apr 2007 - St Faustina: The Divine Mercy apostolate: a spirituality to transform the world, Eva Kimnes For the past two years various communities have gathered together on the first Sunday afternoon of each month at the Divine Mercy Shrine in Keysborough to pray for healing for individuals families youth Australia the Church and the world. 193 - Apr 2007 - Catholicism and secularism in Britain: a test of strength on same-sex adoption, Joanna Bogle Think about schools which do teach the Churchs message and which have invited in speakers - for example from Catholic youth mission teams - which specifically tackle issues concerning love sexuality marriage relationships. 194 - Mar 2007 - Books: Order Books from freedompublishing.com.au The topics covered include the Mass confession suffering youth and sex and Our Lady. 195 - Mar 2007 - Media: The Rosary of the Virgin Mary - 4 DVD or 4 CD set, Michael Gilchrist A CCS (Confraternity of Christ the Priest) Media Production the Rosary of the Virgin Mary DVD/CD set was produced over the past three years by Fr Joel Wallace CCS with the youth and children of the Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish Thurgoona (NSW) and with priests of the Albury parishes. 196 - Mar 2007 - 'Professional', a lá carte Catholicism and its papier màché schools, Andrew T. Kania Is it reasonable to expect a non-believer or an angry alienated Catholic teacher to listen to the religious questions of youth and respond to them sensitively? 197 - Mar 2007 - Leadership: The scandal of Australia's anti-life Catholic politicians, Marcel White Malcolm Turnbull visited the Vatican as part of an official delegation on Palm Sunday 2006 while his website proudly beamed his association with World Youth Day (including hosting three prominent international archbishops at his family home). 198 - Mar 2007 - Formation: Continuing growth of Sydney's Catholic Adult Education Centre, AD2000 Report Youth ministry The Certificate in Youth Ministry for people who work with youth can be completed over one year. 199 - Mar 2007 - WYDSYD08: Salesian provincial urges parishes to sponsor Timorese to World Youth Day 2008, Peter Westmore Fr Andres Calleja SDB the Provincial of the Salesian missions in Indonesia and East Timor has urged Australian parishes to each sponsor one young person from East Timor to attend World Youth Day in Sydney in 2008. 200 - Mar 2007 - Editorial: How we can help young East Timorese, Peter Westmore The request to Australian parishes by the Provincial of the Salesians in East Timor and Indonesia Fr Andres Calleja to sponsor the attendance of young East Timorese at World Youth Day 2008 in Sydney to be held in the presence of Benedict XVI gives Australians a unique opportunity to help the young people of this overwhelmingly Catholic country. 201 - Feb 2007 - Books: New Titles from AD Books The topics covered include the Mass confession suffering youth and sex and Our Lady. 202 - Feb 2007 - Books: SPIRITUAL DIRECTION: Who Is It For and What Are Its Benefits?, Michael Gilchrist Available from Freedom Publishing) Under Cardinal George Pells leadership the Sydney Archdiocese has developed some of the most active and effective youth evangelisation programs in Australia. 203 - Feb 2007 - Why we need holy days of obligation, Joanna Bogle These are the young people who are part of prayer groups and/or have attended a World Youth Day or belong to some pro-life organisation or have found their own way into the Church despite everything. 204 - Dec 2006 - Books: New Titles from AD Books The topics covered include the Mass confession suffering youth and sex and Our Lady. 205 - Dec 2006 - Sydney RCIA conference for 2007 on authentic formation of new Catholics, Paula Flynn As parishes prepare for World Youth Day 2008 part of their long-term planning must involve consideration of how to provide the welcome and support required when many people young and old touched by the events of World Youth Day decide to explore the possibility of becoming Catholics. 206 - Nov 2006 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au The topics covered include the Mass confession suffering youth and sex and Our Lady. 207 - Nov 2006 - DVD: A Family Retreat, by Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, Daniel Tobin The topics he covers such as lsquo;Three Kinds of Loversquo; lsquo;Choicersquo; lsquo;Wasting Your Lifersquo; lsquo;Youth and Sexrsquo; and lsquo;Old Potsrsquo; are full of helpful suggestions for making life more meaningful and useful. 208 - Nov 2006 - Books: St John Bosco, St Dominic and the Rosary, St Thérèe of Lisieux, Siobhan B. Reeves The first title a fascinating story of St John Bosco the apostle of youth will appeal to young audiences with his humour wit courage and skill. 209 - Sep 2006 - Chavagnes: Catholic education in a secular culture, Alexander Morrison Pope Benedict XVI reminded us of this in his message at the start of World Youth Day 2005. 210 - Sep 2006 - Editorial: 2006 Fighting Fund launched, Peter Westmore The wars in Iraq Afghanistan and Lebanon Iranian fundamentalism the Bali bombings and the recent failed attempts to blow British and American aircraft out of the skies have contributed to the radicalisation of Islamic opinion and the recruitment of Muslim youth to terrorist cells in many countries. 211 - Aug 2006 - Letters: Tasmania, Justin Kearney However it was encouraging to see that our Church leadership was taking active steps to promote the priesthood as a vocation choice for our youth. 212 - Aug 2006 - Teen STAR: Sex education for young adults: a pro-life approach, Jacinta Cummins We need to ensure that Teen STAR and similar programs are more widely used with youth groups at church levels and ultimately in every school. 213 - Aug 2006 - Victoria-Tasmania: Continued growth in vocations at Melbourne's Corpus Christi seminary, Joan Clements Fr Denton also serves as Chaplain for Catholic Youth Ministry assisting with retreats talks theological input and help with the weekly Holy Hour SIX30 in the Cathedral. 214 - Aug 2006 - Priesthood: Promoting vocations in the Melbourne Archdiocese, Fr Anthony Denton I speak to many schools youth and parish groups and run reflection evenings and retreats. 215 - Jul 2006 - Salesian Missions: Church protects the victims of Timor violence, Br Michael Lynch The descent into anarchy was largely the result of conflicts between gangs of unemployed bored youth often fuelled by alcohol. 216 - Jun 2006 - News: The Church Around the World He pointed to youth programs which were drawing people to the faith and encouraging men to discern a possible vocation to the priesthood. 217 - May 2006 - Foreign priests - a tale of two Brisbane parishes, Bob Osmak At the Mass for youth that I attended he directly challenged the young people in the congregation to consider vocations to the priesthood and religious life. 218 - May 2006 - Benedict's first twelve months: 'We Are Church' delivers its verdict, Michael Gilchrist While finding Benedicts style of leadership more consultative and collegial than that of his predecessor she thought the continuing fixation on office and person of the Pope as well as on the Church hierarchy did not reflect the teaching of Jesus and cannot be a model for the youth. 219 - May 2006 - Events: Carnivale Christi 2006 scheduled for Melbourne and Sydney in May, AD2000 Report Also included are premieres of films on World Youth Day Cologne and St Theacute;regrave;se of Lisieux the visual arts program Works of Praise forums on the soon to be released Da Vinci Code movie and an entire YouthFest program including talks bands and Praise by Night. 220 - Apr 2006 - Reflection: The redeeming Cross: at the centre of Christian faith, Cardinal George Pell Last year my group of World Youth Day pilgrims visited Auschwitz en route to Cologne. 221 - Apr 2006 - Books: Stimulating reading from AD Books 95 Saint John Bosco and Saint Dominic Savio Catherine Beebe Aimed at readers aged nine to fifteen this is the inspiring story of the great apostle of youth St John Bosco and his best-loved pupil who became a saint Dominic Savio. 222 - Apr 2006 - Letters: Religious education, Saskia Ebejer Our young people (thanks in part to John Paul II and World Youth Day) dont want to swallow this nonsense any more. 223 - Apr 2006 - Music and Culture: Benedict XVI, Mozart and the quest for beauty, Mark Freer And the largest and most important and best parts of my youth I spent in Traunstein which very much reflects the influence of Salzburg. 224 - Mar 2006 - Letters: Gender neutral, P.F. Gill During his homily the Archbishop made reference to his recent visit to Cologne and its beautiful cathedral whilst attending the World Youth Day there. 225 - Mar 2006 - Letters: Adore 2006 in Brisbane, Tim Wallace I recently attended the Adore 2006 Eucharistic Youth Congress in Brisbane my local diocese. 226 - Mar 2006 - News: The Church Around the World The annual congress gathers more than 30000 parish and diocesan leaders in faith education liturgy and youth ministry. 227 - Feb 2006 - Letters: Ars priests retreat, Fr Robert Markey It was held over six days in the Underground Basilica in Ars a few hundred metres from St John Vianneys parish church where he preached his great sermons catechised the youth heard confessions up to 16 hours a day strove to celebrate the Liturgy in its full beauty and lived a life of penance. 228 - Feb 2006 - Priestly vocations: the key role of bishops, John Mallon No todays youthful instinct to be countercultural takes the form of orthodoxy and sees the mission of the Church as an uphill battle in a hostile world. 229 - Feb 2006 - Education: Catholic Church and her schools face a 'wake-up call', Bishop Geoffrey Jarrett The experience of the World Youth Days and the growing impact of the new movements in engaging with young Catholics is ample proof our young people respond to a strong and honest and complete presentation of Christ and the Church. 230 - Feb 2006 - Cardinal Arinze on the Liturgy: the Mass is not entertainment, Cardinal Francis Arinze The local church should be conscious that church worship is not really the same as what we sing in a bar or what we sing in a convention for youth. 231 - Dec 2005 - Reflection: Journey of the Magi and the search for truth, Cardinal George Pell We have seen his star in the East and come to worship him (Mt 2:1-12) - provided not only the theme for World Youth Day but an interesting example of the development of tradition; of how a kernel of truth comes to be enriched over the years. 232 - Dec 2005 - Books: The Cube and the Cathedral, by George Weigel, John Ballantyne He also rejoices in the success of recent World Youth Days and the evidence that many younger people are turning to Christianity out of despair at the empty atheistic humanism of their parents generation. 233 - Dec 2005 - Letters: Evangelisation, Michael Dunlea John Paul II did for he learned it from Campus Crusade evangelists as a young priest and adapted those techniques to a movement he called Oasis to evangelise Polish youth. 234 - Dec 2005 - Formation: St John Vianney's blueprint for the priesthood back in favour, Fr John Cihak Along with beautifying the liturgy and working hard in preaching he set about developing an organised approach to catechise the youth. 235 - Dec 2005 - PRAYER: Melbourne initiative: a spiritual approach can defeat drug addiction, Anh Nguyen Statistics based on other illicit drugs also show a worrying trend with increasingly high percentages of drug use among Australias youth. 236 - Dec 2005 - News: The Church Around the World Benedict invited the Austrian bishops to intensify their pastoral care of youth and in their catechesis to use both the Catechism of the Catholic Church and the recently published Compendium of the Catechism. 237 - Nov 2005 - Letters: SSPX response, Timothy Hungerford Youth calls for heroism all or nothing and children are not fooled. 238 - Nov 2005 - Call to Holiness: Contemplating the Eucharistic Face of Christ, Christine McCarthy In particular our attention is drawn to Benedicts addresses on the Eucharist this year in Cologne at World Youth Day which John Paul II had planned as the culmination of the Eucharistic Year. 239 - Nov 2005 - Sister Miriam Duggan: the Church's response to AIDS, Anh Nguyen Along with Sr Kay Lawlor Sr Miriam has been largely credited with reducing the rate of HIV/AIDS in Uganda through the program Youth Alive. 240 - Nov 2005 - National Press Club: Cardinal George Pell on the dictatorship of relativism, Cardinal George Pell This could be one reason why Pope Benedict nominated Sydney to host the World Youth Day in 2008. 241 - Oct 2005 - Youth: The lasting impact of World Youth Day, Sannon Donahoo Shannon Donahoo who teaches Religion Ethics and Politics at a Catholic secondary school in the Melbourne Archdiocese attended the recent World Youth Day in Cologne. 242 - Oct 2005 - Juventutem: Young Latin Mass Catholics attend World Youth Day, Fr Glen Tattersall He attended World Youth Day in Cologne with the Juventutem youth group. 243 - Oct 2005 - News: The Church Around the World Benedict XV on problems in the Church in Germany On 21 August Benedict XVI addressed the bishops of Germany at the Cologne seminary following World Youth Day which he called a sign of hope to the Church in this country. 244 - Sep 2005 - News: The Chuch Around the World Benedict added: He returned to this theme on the occasion of World Youth Day 1989 held at Santiago de Compostela expressing his hope for a Europe without frontiers a Europe that does not deny the Christian roots from which it grew and that does not renounce the true humanism of Christs Gospel. 245 - Sep 2005 - Events: Sydney to host World Youth Day 2008, AD2000 REPORT Sydney is to hold the next World Youth Day celebration in 2008. 246 - Aug 2005 - Campus Life: Cardinal Pell's program for a Catholic culture at Sydney's universities, Stephen Lawrence In 2004 following the International Youth Forum Witnessing to Christ in the University run by the Pontifical Council for the Laity which placed high emphasis on the need of human formation for young people while at university the University of Sydney chaplaincy has been running formation days for both men and women on such topics as living in the world as a Christian and the call to holiness. 247 - Aug 2005 - News: The Church Around the World Sydneys World Youth Day bid for 2008 An article in the Sydney Morning Herald (4 July) reported that Cardinal George Pell was leading a high-level delegation to Rome to present the Sydney Archdioceses claim to stage the Churchs 11th World Youth Day. 248 - Jul 2005 - Books: Letters To a Young Catholic, by George Weigel, David Birch Available from AD Books) With the Twentieth World Youth Day in Cologne on 16-21 August this year scheduled to be the first overseas visit of Pope Benedict XVI it is timely to consider the latest book from George Weigel (perhaps best known for his Witness to Hope: The Biography of John Paul II) in which he composes 14 letters specifically aimed at young Catholics who like many of their older counterparts may well be wondering what it means to be a Catholic today. 249 - Jul 2005 - Letters: Silent apostasy, Fr. G.H. Duggan SM One may therefore be inclined to wonder whether the enthusiasm manifested by those who participate in World Youth Days springs from an informed faith or largely from sentimental religiosity. 250 - Jul 2005 - News: The Church Around the World I hope to work a lot with the youth visit the sick and teach in RCIA. 251 - Jun 2005 - Events: Juventutem WYD 2005 Cologne Pilgrimage, FSP Juventutem an international chapter of young people attached to the classical Latin liturgy is making the pilgrimage to Cologne for World Youth Day 2005 and is seeking Australian pilgrims. 252 - Jun 2005 - Letters: Catholic schools, Kevin McBride I refer to an interesting article (May AD2000) by Shannon Donahoo Religious Education: Catholic youth have their say . 253 - Jun 2005 - Letters: Sanity?, Tom King The congregation was comprised of children youth and seniors. 254 - 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. 255 - Jun 2005 - Habemus Papam: Benedict XVI charts course as successor to John Paul II, Michael Gilchrist The Eucharist he said would be at the centre in August of World Youth Day in Cologne and in October of the ordinary Assembly of the Synod of Bishops which would take place on the theme The Eucharist Source and Summit of the Life and Mission of the Church. 256 - May 2005 - Reflection: Pope John Paul II and the redemptive power of suffering, Fr Paul Stuart One legacy of John Pauls I have seen and will see again are the millions of young people a percentage of whom make the World Youth Day pilgrimages every two years who share the Popes vision and values and as tomorrows parents priests and religious will live by his vision and values in order to be true to Christ and make Him known and loved by many more. 257 - May 2005 - Letters: Catholic education, Geoff Storey Chavagnes International College in France by forming our youth in the manner in which the article describes should be complimented and supported. 258 - May 2005 - Letters: Appeal to the young, Justin Lynch In an increasingly materialistic and sceptical world the Pope was a great sign of counter-cultural hope and encouragement to youth. 259 - May 2005 - Year of Eucharist: Religious education: Catholic youth have their say, Shannon Donahoo In 1997 Archbishop Pell met with young people from the Archdiocese of Melbourne to discuss youth issues. 260 - May 2005 - 'Santo Subito': the impact of John Paul II, Peter Westmore Another Cardinal Wilfred Napier from South Africa said: We need another John Paul a peoples Pope one whos especially got an appeal and a challenge for the youth. 261 - Apr 2005 - Adore 05: Sydney's successful Eucharistic Youth Congress, Nicole Osmak A Eucharistic Youth Congress which I attended at St Marys Cathedral Sydney from 20-23 January 2005 was called Adore 05 and attracted more than 700 young people keen to learn more about their faith and in particular about the core truth that Jesus Christ is truly present - Body Blood Soul and Divinity - in Holy Communion. 262 - Apr 2005 - Australia prepares for World Youth Day 2005 in Cologne, AD2000 Report It is expected about 2000 young Australians will be participating in the forthcoming World Youth Day in Cologne Germany from 16-21 August 2005. 263 - Mar 2005 - Books: DOLLFUSS: An Austrian Patriot, by Fr Johannes Messner, Alice von Hildebrand Dostoyevskys biting humour had this in mind when he wrote in A Raw Youth: . 264 - Mar 2005 - A young Catholic's encounter with Latin at Chavagnes International College, Alexander Morrison All of the senior boys at Chavagnes decided recently in a discussion that incorporating street culture into the liturgy (through dancing pop hymns Youth Masses or Childrens Liturgy) is not beneficial to todays Catholic youth; it will give them nothing solid to fall back on and when their tastes change they will lose interest. 265 - Mar 2005 - Church's future lies with orthodoxy, not dissent, Fr Paul Stuart Big money is being spent on Papal World Youth Days. 266 - Mar 2005 - News: The Church Around the World Bishop Cornelius Korir the President of the Kenyan Bishops Conference said on 21 January that the Church could not compromise on essential moral principles: Condom use would promote immorality and sexual promiscuity particularly among youth. 267 - Feb 2005 - Letters: Catholic youth (letter), Jim Brown Each month as AD2000 comes in I read it with despair for it is full of lamentations for the loss of our youth from the Church. 268 - 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. 269 - Feb 2005 - The Church in Australia 2005: can the tide be turned?, Michael Gilchrist This journal has devoted much space in recent years to strong episcopal leadership upturns in seminary numbers new religion texts and renewal programs based on the Catechism of the Catholic Church outstanding parish initiatives flourishing religious communities promotion of Catholic culture and university youth ministry endeavours. 270 - Dec 2004 - Letters: Catholic youth (letter), Robert Denahy The nine answers that Father Frank Brennan gives to our searching Catholic youth will not solve the problem of the approximate 95 percent failure rate in Catholic education. 271 - Nov 2004 - Letters: Young Catholics (letter), Nola Viney The debate on why young people have left the Church and are not returning has been an ongoing one in which I have participated with researchers youth and parents experiencing the pain of loss of Christian community with their children. 272 - Nov 2004 - Letters: Crisis of faith (letter), Errol P. Duke Rather the youth exit comes from the absence of black and white in forming religious commitment. 273 - Nov 2004 - Letters: Pastoral problems (letter), Fr Frank Brennan SJ In neither my Sandhurst address nor in my ABC Compass interview did I say that conservatives are driving out youth. 274 - Oct 2004 - University: International Movement of Catholic Students Australia, Aaron Russell Judging by the people attending the conference the issues that concerned them were starkly at odds with what most of the clergy imagine when they talk about youth ministry. 275 - Oct 2004 - Today's non-practising young Catholics: are Church conservatives to blame?, Michael Gilchrist Pope John Paul II with his uncompromising approach to doctrines and morals has had an obvious appeal for many young people evident in particular during World Youth Days. 276 - Sep 2004 - Letters: Maronite Church, L.L. Booth That mass is popularly known as the youth mass because it is said in English whereas the other masses on Sunday are said in Arabic. 277 - Sep 2004 - Mission: Sydney seminary's evangelisation program revitalises parish, Bishop Julian Porteous Joseph Guinea a Lismore seminarian said The Bossley Park mission was a chance for me to work with various youth groups in the Archdiocese while allowing me to bring the Good News of Jesus Christ to everyday people in their ordinary life in an intimate personal and individual way. 278 - Sep 2004 - Sydney Catholic Adult Education Centre courses prove popular, Peter Holmes Among these people are teachers students catechists youth workers and leaders counsellors managers and workers in secular companies members of five different religious orders and all manner of lay people. 279 - Aug 2004 - Books: A Guide To The Passion Of The Christ : 100 Questions, Fr Scot Armstrong STL The books conversational style and simple direct presentation make it an extremely useful evangelising tool most especially for youth and unevangelised or fallen away Catholics. 280 - Aug 2004 - Letters: Hymn parody, Peter Hannigan Perhaps it is just as likely that so many of the youth do not go to Mass because the dress statement of their elders clearly tells them that it is no big deal. 281 - Aug 2004 - Carnivale Christi: Whatever happened to beauty in art?, Paul Fitzgerald Ronald Conway cogently points out: The great leaders and wise men of all communities have found the secret of combining the innovating impatience of youth with the need to preserve traditions having beauty and meaning channelling innovating energy into life-preserving and life-enhancing activity. 282 - May 2004 - Education: The religious character of Catholic schools: how can it be enhanced?, Br Paul Macrossan CFC Parents primarily but teachers also are in a pre-eminent position to be rocks of stability for troubled youth if they radiate the balance that the Christian faith can provide The effects of First World living whose ethic is often based on instant satisfaction doing it my way or worshipping the wealthy or the beautiful give rise to much malaise and discontent often seen even in the young. 283 - May 2004 - Priesthood: Pope's World Day of Prayer for Vocations, Fr Paul Stuart The challenge is to help youth and young adults make Christ the centre and the Church the vehicle once again for the living out of their vocation. 284 - May 2004 - News: The Church Around the World Zenit News Service The Church and the universities Popes message to Youth Forum Pope John Paul sent a Message to the participants in the Eighth International Youth Forum whose meeting started on 31 March in Rocca di Papa near Rome on the theme Young People and the University: Witnessing to Christ in the University World. 285 - Apr 2004 - Events: Adore 2004 Youth Eucharistic Congress, Nicole Osmak The Adore 2004 Youth Gathering held at Melbournes Telstra Dome on 22-25 January 2004 incorporated daily Mass and rosary many well-qualified speakers stirring testimonies amazing performances on stage and heart-warming Christian fellowship. 286 - Apr 2004 - Books: Archbishop Hart launches new book on Dr Mannix - Daniel Mannix: Wit and Wisdom, Archbishop Dennis Hart The remarkable work of Pope John Paul II with youth and the flowering of young people deeply loyal to the faith and conscious of the role of the Church in their lives will find Mannixs story fascinating inspiring and a tremendous encouragement. 287 - Apr 2004 - News: The Church Around the World This was the first presentation for 2004 to Year 12 students of the book Pope John Paul II Speaks to Youth published by Archbishop Hickey and exclusive to students in the Perth Archdiocese. 288 - Apr 2004 - National Church Life Survey: church-going declines further, Michael Gilchrist In a follow-up study Catholic Schools 2000 he observed: There is little evidence at present that the drift of youth away from active participation in the life of the Church is about to be arrested . 289 - Mar 2004 - Reflection: Scholarship, truth and Divine Revelation, Fr John O'Neill I drove it one night in that year and arrived safely at the campsite of the parish youth club. 290 - Mar 2004 - HIV/AIDS: A Catholic approach to AIDS: value-based behaviour change, Sr Miriam Duggan At another ICASA conference held in Zambia in 1999 the Youth Forum made the following recommendation: You tell us that because 20% of the youth are having sex you provide us all with safe sex education and a supply of condoms. 291 - Feb 2004 - Books: AD Books - Fresh book titles for the New Year 95 John Paul II Speaks to Youth This official commemorative volume tells the story in words and photos of World Youth Day 1993 as well as previous World Youth Day celebrations in Spain Poland and Argentina. 292 - Feb 2004 - Melbourne and Sydney initiatives to educate adults in the Catholic faith, Peter Holmes Take the story of Amy (not her real name) a parish youth leader who started her tertiary studies in Melbourne in 2003. 293 - Dec 2003 - Letters: Perth homeschooling conference, Lorraine Haydon This year Father Timothy Deeter will speak on how parents can prepare youth to take their place in a secular world. 294 - Dec 2003 - EVENTS: Adore 2004: a Eucharistic Congress for youth Adore 2004 is organised by the Youth Sector of the Alliance of the Holy Family International located at Deer Park in the Melbourne Archdiocese. 295 - Dec 2003 - VOCATIONS: Melbourne's 'Hearts on Fire' vocations congress a success, Fr Paul Stuart There was also a good representation of Catholic groups and agencies that provide services to families youth the destitute aboriginals education the sick and dying as well as sacred art and music. 296 - Nov 2003 - Tattoos and body-piercing: the moral dimension, Fr Peter Joseph Theres many a man or woman who has been tattooed gladly in youth but regretted it not so many years later when they came to regard it as an embarrassing disfigurement. 297 - Nov 2003 - Vocations: Missionaries of God's Love congregation flourishes in Canberra, Mary Pidcock It is also a gathering place for three youth ministries geared towards different ages which the MGL conduct together with the Disciples of Jesus community. 298 - Nov 2003 - Melbourne on course despite brain drain, Fr Paul Stuart The Archbishop initiated the writing of new religious education texts and revitalised Catholic Youth Ministry - the latter paying spiritual dividends with young prodigal Catholics returning to the Church and the nurturing of vocations. 299 - Oct 2003 - Youth: Thomas More Winter School in Sale Diocese has Eucharistic focus, Michael Casanova Social action Another young speaker Marc Florio with years of Catholic Youth Ministry experience referred to the Eucharist as the incredible gift of Jesus on the Cross. 300 - Sep 2003 - Events: Hearts On Fire Vocations Congress for Melbourne Archdiocese, Joanne Grainger Pier Giorgio Frassati has been the Patron chosen by Pope John Paul II for the last two World Youth Days and has become a popular role model for thousands of young Australians who have made their pilgrimage to these international youth events. 301 - Sep 2003 - Culture: Second 'Carnivale Christi' Catholic arts festival scheduled for Melbourne, Michael Gilchrist Carnivale Christi is a Catholic arts festival inspired by a similar event in Sydney which has been organised by university societies drama groups and other Catholic youth organisations for the past three years. 302 - Sep 2003 - Catholic summer conferences in the United States: signs of hope, Richard Egan It also reaches over 30000 other Catholics through its 22 annual adult and youth conferences. 303 - Sep 2003 - New auxiliary bishops appointed to the Sydney Archdiocese, Michael Gilchrist He has served as assistant and parish priest in several Sydney parishes while working in youth evangelisation for many years and developing programs of formation of youth for the New Evangelisation. 304 - Aug 2003 - Catalyst for Renewal Address: The legacy of Vatican II, Archbishop George Pell The new lay movements which flourish in some countries overseas have not had equal growth here but we have some vigorous youth groups and increasing numbers have gone to the World Youth Day and experienced either genuine conversions or a strengthening of existing faith. 305 - Jul 2003 - TMC: Adelaide Thomas More Centre Autumn School a success, Emma Benz The Thomas More Centre in Adelaide recently held its annual Autumn School for youth and the young at heart. 306 - Jul 2003 - Events: Seeking the face of Christ through the arts: Carnivale Christi goes national, Nicholas Rynne His Graces support of Carnivale Christi Brisbane and of the youth groups which hosted the festival - Thomas More Centre and the Newman Catholic Society - was most generous and greatly appreciated. 307 - Jun 2003 - Books: Our books are the cheapest! 95 Growing Teen Disciples Frank Mercadante Growing Teen Disciples is one of the most comprehensive resources for youth ministry development available. 308 - Jun 2003 - Laity: The role of lay Catholics in a time of crisis, Mary Ann Glendon The die-hards who still cling to those ideas have seized on the recent sex abuse crisis as their last opportunity to transform American Catholicism into something more compatible with the spirit of the age of their youth. 309 - May 2003 - Review: The Mysteries of Light: Rosary for Children and Youth on cassette, Colleen McGuinness-Howard THE MYSTERIES OF LIGHT Rosary for Children and Rosary for Youth versions on cassette (Available from Perth Catholic Productions PO Box 1779 Canning Vale WA 6970 tel 08 9259-0797 email: infoperthcatholicproductions. 310 - May 2003 - Why priestly vocations are up in Perth Archdiocese, Debra Warrier Primarily their role is to go out into the archdiocese and promote vocations among the youth. 311 - 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. 312 - Apr 2003 - Books: A Long Way From Rome, edited by Chris McGillion, John Barich However anyone attending the enormous displays of faith in Saint Peters Square - canonisations congresses World Youth Days etc would dispute this view. 313 - Apr 2003 - News: The Church Around the World The Hope That is in You will develop the themes of the Holy Fathers address to youth at the beginning of International Youth Year in 1985. 314 - Mar 2003 - Letters: Government proposals (letter), Dr Arnold Jago A two-year taskforce has recommended: government-funded anti-homophobia and anti-transphobia campaigns; local councils running same-sex attracted youth support groups; homosexual access to IVF; a $1 million homosexual health centre. 315 - Mar 2003 - The media and evangelisation, Moira Kirkwood There are programs for children and youth and important topics such as Reclaiming your children and grandchildren for the Faith an explanation of the Vatican II documents (as opposed to the so-called spirit of Vatican II) and the Catechism of the Catholic Church. 316 - Feb 2003 - Books: New year reading from AD Books 00 Blessed Gianna Beretta Molla Giuliana Pelucchi The official role model for World Youth Day 2002. 317 - Feb 2003 - Perth Rosary Tape authors' successful US visit, Colleen McGuiness-Howard They had been invited to attend the United Catholic Music and Video Associations annual Unity Awards on 26 October 2002 because their production The Rosary for Youth was a finalist in one of the categories and they themselves were presenters of an Award. 318 - Dec 2002 - Books: Ideal Christmas Gifts from AD Books 00 Blessed Gianna Beretta Molla Giuliana Pelucchi The official role model for World Youth Day 2002. 319 - Dec 2002 - Letters: St Maria Goretti (letter), Anne Buchan She is patroness of youth and her image is of modesty and purity. 320 - Nov 2002 - Books: The New Faithful: Why Young Adults are Embracing Christian Orthodoxy, Michael Gilchrist The successful World Youth Days inspired by John Paul II certainly confirm this conclusion. 321 - Nov 2002 - Letters: EWTN (letter), Jacqueline Donohue Special programming provides state-of-the-art coverage of the big events from Rome and elsewhere such as canonisations World Youth Days and the Holy Fathers overseas visits. 322 - Nov 2002 - Catholic schools: restoring a sense of sin, Br John Moylan CFC Certainly it seems that those charged with the education of Australian Catholic children and youth should be steeped in these proposals and understand clearly the direction for the mission of the Church in Australia as seen by the Churchs leaders. 323 - Nov 2002 - Independent inquiry exonerates Archbishop George Pell, Peter Westmore Dr Pell stepped aside in August after the Melbourne Age telephoned him to question him about anonymous allegations of misconduct at a youth camp in 1961. 324 - Oct 2002 - Power without responsibility: the vendetta against Dr Pell, Peter Westmore The most recent of these followed comments Dr Pell made at the World Youth Day in Toronto when at the end of a 40 minute talk he was asked a question about what young Catholics should say when they are asked about sexual abuse in the Church. 325 - Sep 2002 - John Paul II and World Youth Day in Toronto: an Anglican perspective, David Warren It is hard for most of my generation to imagine what could possibly possess a person to put on a kerchief and join the papal youth. 326 - Sep 2002 - Australian Rosary CD wins international recognition, Colleen McGuiness-Howard Brenda and Jenny next produced The Rosary for Youth which was consecrated to Our Lady Help of Christians on 24 May 1999. 327 - Sep 2002 - The 1960s 'cultural revolution': from self-sacrifice to self-fulfillment, Fr Gregory Jordan The causes for this striking change are multiple from the growth of a youth culture through the all-pervasive media to changes in Catholic education which almost all of our students have received. 328 - Sep 2002 - Promoting Catholic vocations in the Melbourne Archdiocese, Joanne Grainger A vocation newsletter titled God Knox Knocks is another initiative aimed at promoting vocations amongst youth and young adults. 329 - Aug 2002 - Helping Catholic school students to love the Church, Br John Moylan CFC Are Catholic youth developing a love for the Church? 330 - Aug 2002 - Sexual abuse, celibacy and vocations: a response to the Church's critics, Fr Paul Stuart The two million youth from around the world who turned up to be with the Pope at Tor Vergada for World Youth Day in 2000 cant be wrong! 331 - Aug 2002 - New program to apply Papal teachings in Melbourne Archdiocese, Michael Gilchrist A new two-year program or pastoral focus for the Melbourne Archdiocese based on Pope John Paul IIs Apostolic Letter Novo Millennio Ineunte (2001) was launched on 24 May with the release of a pastoral letter by Archbishop Denis Hart and his celebration of Mass in St Patricks Cathedral preceded by a 24 hour prayer vigil organised by Catholic Youth Ministry. 332 - Aug 2002 - Education: Beliefs and practices of Catholic students: the decline continues, Michael Gilchrist 321): There is little evidence at present that the drift of youth away from active participation in the life of the Church is about to be arrested . 333 - Jun 2002 - A post-1968 Catholic's view of R.E.: 'My generation was shortchanged', Mark Power For nearly 2000 years in fact men and women of all ages including youth had been willing even to die rather than be untrue to the Catholic faith. 334 - Jun 2002 - Sydney initiative to strengthen Catholic influence at university, Robert Haddad 2002 also sees the Chaplaincy Team promoting a pilgrimage of students to World Youth Day (WYD) in Canada in July. 335 - Jun 2002 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000 In his letter the Pope says: The Lord continues to call numerous youths to this ministry but his voice is often asphyxiated by other calls that unfortunately distract the spirit of youth with ideas of the priesthood and priestly ministry that are not in keeping with faith and the ecclesial tradition. 336 - May 2002 - Letters: Farewell Mass for Fr Des Byrne (letter), Barry O'Brien The Confraternity has now become allied with and to the Melbourne Archdioceses Catholic Youth Ministry. 337 - May 2002 - 'The Resurrection in the university' - IMCSA National Conference in Sydney, Nicholas Rynne The IMCSA is already planning its next conference in Melbourne for 2003 as well as a meeting with His Eminence Cardinal Francis Stafford President of the Pontifical Council for the Laity which administers not only the international IMCS but also World Youth Day. 338 - May 2002 - US research puts clerical sex-abuse in perspective, Philip Jenkins To take a specific example when newspapers review recent cases of pedophile priests they commonly cite a case that occurred in Californias Orange County when a priest was charged with having consensual sex with a 17-year-old youth. 339 - Apr 2002 - Books: For Youth and the Poor - De La Salle Brothers in Australia, PNG and NZ 1906-2000, Michael Bohan FOR YOUTH AND THE POOR: The De La Salle Brothers in Australia Papua New Guinea and New Zealand 1906-2000 by Peter Donovan (Available from Lasallian National Centre PO Box 77 East Bentleigh Vic 3165. 340 - Apr 2002 - Melbourne TMC: The rights and responsibilities of laity in the Catholic Church, Archbishop Denis Hart He describes youth as the hope of the Church. 341 - Apr 2002 - Events: Carnivale Christi 2002 - Young Catholics restoring Sydney's Christian culture, Helen Ransom Inspired by the success of last years inaugural 3-week event - which attracted over 4000 spectators and 200 performers (and media interest as far as Rome) - Carnivale Christi 2002 organisers are aiming to again light up Sydneys often grimy cultural atmosphere using two vital ingredients: the Church and her (very enthusiastic) youth. 342 - Apr 2002 - News: The Church Around the World Catholic World News New courses on the Faith in Melbourne Equipping Catholic youth for their role in new evangelisation A new series of lectures on the Catholic Faith has been launched in Melbourne under the title of The Faith and Reason Studium. 343 - 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. 344 - Feb 2002 - Catholic schools and 'youth spirituality', John Kelly When I see some Catholic educators urging youth spirituality as a substitute or alternative to formal religious teaching and practice I wonder whether such people really appreciate the extraordinary provision God has already made for us in the revelation and self-giving of Christ; and because of Christ in the Church. 345 - Feb 2002 - Books: 'Meaninglessness' and today's Western culture, Archbishop George Pell The rate of youth suicide especially among our young men drug abuse the abortion epidemic the reluctance to have babies are all examples of pessimism consequences of the attempt to reject God along with His moral demands (demands not of our making) and to eliminate the guilt which accompanies all humans together with the dread of suffering and death. 346 - Feb 2002 - Into the Deep Forum: young Catholics meet Australian bishops, Helen Ransom Into the Deep was held to explore discuss and respond to issues arising from the recently released letter Catholic Bishops speak to the Young People of Australia and to further strengthen the relationship forged by bishops and young people at World Youth Day 2000. 347 - Feb 2002 - Melbourne Archdiocese: positive trend in priestly vocations continues, Fr Paul Stuart Fr Paul Stuart is Dean of Studies and Students at Corpus Christi College Seminary Director of Vocations for the Archdiocese of Melbourne and Chaplain to Catholic Youth Ministry for the Archdiocese. 348 - Dec 2001 - News: The Church Around the World Bishop Tanu Daiji of Urawa explained that the program is directed primarily at youth to promote friendly relations between Japan and the Asian countries that suffered military occupation during the 1930s. 349 - Nov 2001 - Books: My Dear Young Friends: Pope John Paul II Speaks to Teens on Life, Love, Courage, Mary-Jane Donnellan Available from AD Books) Dilecti Amici (Dear Friends) is the title of Pope John Paul IIs Apostolic Letter issued on the occasion of the International Youth Year in 1985. 350 - Nov 2001 - Tenth Synod of Bishops: Bishops called to courageous witness to the Faith, AD2000 in diocesan and parish programs for children youth and adults and for professors of theology on the university level. 351 - Oct 2001 - Education: Mass attendance: a key measure of Catholic schools' effectiveness, Br John Moylan CFC In a 1971 study of 7050 high school youth the renowned Strommens Search Institute in the USA found that a sense of moral responsibility strongly correlates with both a consciousness of Gods presence and participation in the life of a congregation. 352 - Sep 2001 - Books: 'Teens and Relationships', 'Teen Life and Christ', by Jerry Shepherd, Mary-Jane Donnellan We can easily forget that Jesus as a youth lived in a family home worked alongside his father a carpenter helped His mother around the house and even went missing. 353 - Sep 2001 - Letters: Fatima Family Apostolate (letter), Margaret Grace Father was involved in youth apostolates prior to establishing this apostolate in 1986 with Vatican encouragement. 354 - Sep 2001 - Successful Thomas More Centre Winter School in Brisbane, Sidney Rofe He reminded the group of Pope John Paul IIs words to the World Youth Day crowds as he headed towards the Holy Door that we must make a radical choice for faith and life and accept the stupendous task of becoming morning watch-men at the dawn of the new millennium. 355 - Sep 2001 - The John Paul II Cultural Centre opens in Washington DC, Alex Sidhu Fr Ken is a friend to many in the Melbourne Archdiocese providing help and assistance to some of the young people who journeyed to Rome for World Youth Day last year. 356 - Sep 2001 - News: The Church Around the World Nearly 400 religion teachers parish directors of religious education youth ministers and RCIA instructors gathered for the conference titled Christ the Teacher. 357 - Aug 2001 - Denver Archdiocese: the future of Catholicism, David Scott St Vincents is a lively symbol of the new kind of Catholic Church that is emerging in Denver eight years after Pope John Paul II celebrated World Youth Day here and predicted a new springtime of faith. 358 - Aug 2001 - After 14 years: why does AD2000 continue?, Michael Gilchrist We see this spirit living and active in the words and deeds of the popes in new movements in the Church World Youth Days the Catechism of the Catholic Church and the guidance and teaching of the Magisterium. 359 - Jul 2001 - Music: From the Great South Land of the Holy Spirit:, John Miles A couple of tracks also feature members of the Logan City Youth Chorale. 360 - Jul 2001 - Books: Testimonies to the Glory of God: World Youth Day Pilgrimage AD2000, Catherine Sheehan Testimonies to the Glory of God: World Youth Day Pilgrimage AD2000 edited by Helen Hedigan (Buxton Printers Melbourne 2000 122pp RRP $10. 361 - Jul 2001 - Carnivale Christi: an inspiring display of Christian culture, Angela Smith Another important aspect of the afternoon was the presentation of more than a thousand names petitioning for Sydney to be named the host of the World Youth Day in 2004. 362 - 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. 363 - Jun 2001 - Letters: Archbishop Pell (letter), Godwin Brown Although his term was brief his efforts and the results in many areas of Church life including the seminary liturgy religious education clergy protocols youth ministry drug rehabilitation etc have been monumental. 364 - Jun 2001 - Light to the Nations 2001 - Young Australian Catholics celebrate their faith, Mary-Jane Donnellan After the Holy Thursday Mass we had the opportunity to reflect on areas in need of our prayers: the Church herself respect for life youth vocations missions and evangelisation. 365 - May 2001 - Books: Stations Of The Cross (CD), Perth Catholic Productions, Colleen McGuiness-Howard Following on from the global success of the acclaimed recordings of The Rosary for Children and The Rosary for Youth their producers have introduced this latest venture - The Stations of the Cross. 366 - May 2001 - Letters: Different Church (letter), Frank Smith 1 million young people at World Youth Day in Rome last year in full and passionate communion with the Pope witnessed to a radically different story. 367 - May 2001 - 'Systematic instruction in the faith' program to be launched in July, Bishop Luc Matthys It is my wish and I direct that over a period of four years (each year on 14 Ordinary Sundays of the Year) the whole of the Catholic faith and practice be presented in Sunday homilies in religious instruction in Catholic schools in parish CCD programs to children youth parents RCIA and prayer groups. 368 - Apr 2001 - News: The Church Around the World The womens group was joined in the protest by the Christian Association of Nigerias youth division. 369 - Mar 2001 - The surprise Cardinal: Fr Avery Dulles SJ, Zenit News Service In his youth Avery Dulles was party to much of the intrigue connected with members of his family. 370 - Mar 2001 - New Catholic radio program to start in WA On the first Sunday of the month the Cathedral Youth Forum will be broadcast live. 371 - Feb 2001 - Letters: 'Creating Our Future' (letter), Mrs Jeanette Joseph As a parishioner of the Toowoomba Diocese I have very grave doubts that the Diocesan Pastoral Plan will motivate our youth or anybody else to great spiritual renewal. 372 - Feb 2001 - Successful Thomas More Spring School in Wagga, Paul Sheehan The weekend closed with a panel discussion on the recent World Youth Day in Rome. 373 - Feb 2001 - Bishop Wilson of Wollongong to be the future Archbishop of Adelaide, AD2000 Report In 1997 he was asked to lead the Australian delegation to the 12th World Youth Day in Paris. 374 - Dec 2000 - The 'new breed' of orthodox seminarians, Carter H. Griffin Even our cherished heroes of youth are systematically exposed to the mockery of an unrestrained media thirsty for scandal and gossip. 375 - Dec 2000 - News: The Church Around the World Particularly memorable in this regard have been the Jubilee celebrations for youth the sick for consecrated life for artists for bishops and for the family. 376 - Nov 2000 - Irish missionary sisters combat AIDS in Africa Sr Miriam Duggan and Sr Kay Lawlor are running a major abstinence-based program in Uganda called Youth Alive. 377 - Oct 2000 - News: The Church Around the World Neo-Catechumenate Way Thousands consecrate their lives to God At least 3000 young men have expressed their desire to enter the seminary and another 2000 young women to give themselves to God in the religious life following World Youth Day last August. 378 - Sep 2000 - News: The Church Around the World Rome International Youth Forum Following in the footsteps of Christ Coinciding with World Youth Day the 7th International Youth Forum was held from August 12 to 15 in Rome. 379 - Sep 2000 - Editorial: East Timor: a privilege and an opportunity, Peter Westmore The hope of the country is the Church with hundreds of missionaries running schools (primary secondary technical and agricultural) churches community health centres orphanages parishes and youth centres. 380 - Aug 2000 - Archbishop Hickey on Perth's priestly vocations success story, Archbishop Barry J. Hickey It seems to me that todays youth is drawn by this clarity of purpose. 381 - Jul 2000 - Family Mission Novena: Australian response to Jubilee 2000 Each evening in our East Granville church the children had a special story for themselves the youth had an illustration to fire their idealism parents and the unmarried were encouraged in a way that could only be described as inspired. 382 - Apr 2000 - News: The Church Around the World He will be keynote speaker at Dare to Dream the family conference sponsored by Australias Catholic bishops on Saturday 29 April and will also speak later that day on Pope John Paul IIs Call to Youth at a rally for youth which will be part of the conference. 383 - Apr 2000 - Editorial: For what should the Church apologise?, Michael Gilchrist or The Church has not been sufficiently alert to the needs of particular groups such as women youth and migrants. 384 - Mar 2000 - Education: Religious education: putting the emphasis back on God, Br John Moylan CFC Citing one of these studies Strommen wrote in Five Cries of Parents (San Francisco: Harper amp Row 1985 chapter 5): In a 1971 study of 7050 high school youth we found that a sense of moral responsibility strongly correlates with both a consciousness of Gods presence and participation in the life of a congregation. 385 - Mar 2000 - News: The Church Around the World In a memorandum dated 22 December 1999 and headed Curia Staff - Areas of Responsibility Bishop Walker advises that Sister Phil Tiernan rscj already due to begin work as diocesan Chancellor in February would also take particular responsibility for such areas as sacramental programs liturgy ecumenism youth social justice and hospital chaplaincy. 386 - Feb 2000 - Tom Monaghan: the tycoon who sold his assets to serve the Church, Patrick Ward His father died when he was four and much of his youth after that was spent with foster families and working on farms. 387 - Nov 1999 - Religious Education: 'Gospel of life' in Melbourne's new RE curriculum, Msgr Peter J. Elliott They face the challenges of youth in despair the abuse of drugs teenage suicide reckless life threatening behavior violence. 388 - Nov 1999 - Piers Paul Read on the future of the Church, Piers Paul Read I think that the problem - again to judge from my children and their contemporaries - is not atheism or communism which were the other great things in my youth but a kind of neo-pelagianism. 389 - Nov 1999 - News: The Church Around the World Mr de Souza is to be guest speaker at an apologetics seminar organised by the Melbourne Archdioceses Catholic Youth Ministry for Saturday 6 November at The Cardinal Knox Centre 383 Albert Street East Melbourne. 390 - Oct 1999 - Reflection: A Kolbe Quartet, Msgr Peter J. Elliott Maximilian Kolbe: anniversary of his canonisation (October) THE PACT The Childhood Vision of Raymond Kolbe It is said and written that she who is fair came to you offering a choice two crowns; here flowers for virgins there thorns for martyrs and you chose them both with all the holy greed of youth impetuous that storms a kingdom child-like faith whose choice totality. 391 - Sep 1999 - Spirituality: West Australian Rosary tapes: a growing international success story, Colleen McGuiness-Howard The newly released Rosary for Youth also created by Jenny and Brenda with its solid Catholic teaching will also help to bring back God into the lives of many more thousands. 392 - Jul 1999 - Editorial: An appeal that deserves our support While Bishop Carlos Belo is the best known Salesian in East Timor there are another 53 Salesian priests and brothers on the island running schools orphanages parishes and youth centres. 393 - Jun 1999 - The Rosary for Youth PERTH (WA) MOTHERS Brenda Croft and Jenny Knight have followed their remarkable success with The Rosary for Children audio cassette which they produced last year with The Rosary for Youth consecrated to Our Lady Help of Christians Patroness of Australia and launched on her Feast Day of 24 May 1999. 394 - May 1999 - Vocations: Confronting today's vocations crisis, Fr Paul Stuart Bishops priests religious communities and men and women who take this path and call others to it inevitably attract high-spirited enthusiastic and idealistic youth. 395 - Mar 1999 - A Polish priest's story: how I survived the Nazi occupation, Fr Marcel Pasiecznik But I found a totally different attitude in the young guards educated in the Hitler Youth schools. 396 - Mar 1999 - Charles Chaput: a remarkable American Archbishop, Louis Power His commitment to youth led him to challenge young people wherever he went to have joy and hope in a radical commitment to Jesus Christ. 397 - Mar 1999 - News: The Church Around the World Irish youth are the most religious in Europe Results of recent surveys According to a recent report in The Irish Catholic Irish young people are the most religious in Western Europe. 398 - Mar 1999 - John Paul II's successful fourth visit to Mexico, AD2000 Report Youth The hope of Mexico lies in its youth who constitute the majority of the population. 399 - Dec 1998 - The right to work: what does the Catholic Church teach?, Bishop Kevin Manning The release of the Australian Catholic Bishops Report on youth has again thrown into focus the matter of work and unemployment. 400 - Oct 1998 - Pope John Paul II: the impact of his twenty-year pontificate, Peter Westmore Fr Wojtyla made such an impression in Poland - as a teacher of youth philosopher writer and confessor - that he was appointed Bishop in 1958 and Archbishop of Krakow in 1962. 401 - Aug 1998 - Education: Catholic schools: Do they make enough difference?, Br John Moylan CFC In the whole Western world there has been a decline of religious practice accompanied by a general increase in adolescent crime and as Australian youth suicide rates indicate an increase in despair. 402 - Dec 1997 - Cardinal John O'Connor: what Catholics believe, Cardinal John O'Connor We believe that this same Christ the Son of God is here with us in his eucharistic presence that in this holy sacrifice of the Mass a piece of bread will actually become his sacred body a cup of wine his precious blood fountain of life and of eternal youth and renewal. 403 - Dec 1997 - Adelaide Cathedral administrator calls for Church blessing of homosexual unions, Peter Westmore Speaking on the ABC youth radio station JJJ on October 17 1997 Fr Shinnick - who is the Adelaide Chaplain to the homosexual group Acceptance - said that the churches were moving towards recognition of homosexual relationships and one of the purposes of his recent book on homosexuality This Remarkable Gift: Being Gay and Catholic was to facilitate that process. 404 - Jul 1997 - Reflection: Catholic youth: facing the challenges to faith (Pastoral Letter), Archbishop George Pell Increasing family breakdown homelessness and abortion; youth suicide growing environmental damage and easy access to soft and hard drugs are also grim realities for many. 405 - May 1997 - Brisbane pastoral ministers guidelines: 'Zooming along' to priestless parishes?, Michael Gilchrist Pecking order As far as pecking order goes on the bottom rung of the pastoral ministry ladder comes the pastoral ministry co-ordinator defined as: a person employed by a parish or pastoral area under the direction of a pastor or pastoral director to co-ordinate one or more particular pastoral activities such as liturgy youth ministry catechetics sacramental programs liturgical music etc. 406 - Apr 1997 - Brisbane Archdiocese booklets: how to make parishes 'zoom along', Michael Gilchrist (These would include: Institute of Faith Education Institute of Pastoral Liturgy Adult Education Christian Leadership Resource Centre Leadership in Pastoral Ministry Pastoral Council Secretariat Commission on Ecumenism Catholic Youth Support Services etc. 407 - Feb 1997 - Euthanasia and the religion of self, Audrey English What of the influence of the culture of death on our youth? 408 - Apr 1995 - How a Catholic scientist stood up for her principles, Marcia Riordan The Thomas More Centre continues to expand its work with book distribution production of pamphlets on the Faith and parish youth groups. 409 - Mar 1995 - A young Catholic's view of Youth Liturgies, Bernard Finnigan A common view among Catholic educators and liturgists appears to be that entertainment-oriented youth Masses are needed to attract (or retain) the allegiance of young Catholics. 410 - Mar 1994 - The new Catechism and Cardinal Newman, Archbishop Eric D'Arcy The prose style that Newman commands is not a mere supervenient bonus like the bloom on the cheek of the youth in Aristotles account of pleasure. 411 - Feb 1994 - The state of Catholicism after 'Veritatis Splendor', B.A. Santamaria Among their most perverse achievements is the catechetical catastrophe which has been the major factor in creating the advanced degree of religious illiteracy which now uniformly pervades the minds of 90 percent of Catholic youth. 412 - Jun 1993 - US opposition to ICEL changes intensifies, AD2000 Report CCC then added: We ask our bishops to consider the pastoral chaos which will ensue in our common Catholic life of prayer among children youth and adults as well as between conservative and more progressive elements already in conflict. 413 - Oct 1991 - France and the revival of traditional Catholicism, Dr Geoffrey Hull Apart from large centres of liturgical life like the Society of St Pius Xs church of St-Nicolas du Chardonnet in Paris the Catholic Counter Revolution in France can boast flourishing youth and student organisations (MJCF and Groupe Albert le Grand) social action groups like Action Familiale et Scholaire two huge annual pilgrimages from Paris to Chartres catechetical initiatives like Chireacute;-en-Montreuil Ictus and the Centre Montauriol the Association Catholique des Infirmiegrave;res et Meacute;decins the publishing companies Difralivre Editions Fideliter Nouvelles Editions Latines and Dominique Martin Morin learned reviews like Itindraires and Penseacute;e Catholique didactic popular magazines like Quark and Savoir et Servir and even a daily Preacute;sent. 414 - Oct 1991 - 'Faith of Our Fathers' - still valid for the 1990s, Bishop George Pell The transmission of the Catholic culture even within our best families is no longer semi-automatic; youth remain the most important challenge and too much emphasis on adult education for the middle-aged can be an escape from the hurly-burly the opposition experienced when preaching the full gospel to questioning or hostile teenagers. 415 - May 1991 - Why the 'new' catechetics is flawed, Sr Mary Augustine Lane OP The youth group in the parish in which this school is situated was one of the largest most long-lived and most active in the diocese. 416 - Mar 1990 - Parish assemblies - pluralism or brainwashing?, Michael Gilchrist The material included a report on our last two pastoral planning events namely meetings held in October and November of all parish representatives and of Councils of Priests and Religious Pastoral Associates representatives Youth Ministry Religious Education Centre representatives and Diocesan Pastoral Planning representatives along with information on the Parish Assembly Process. 417 - Feb 1990 - A Tale of Two Universities, Dr Ralph McInerny, Dr Alan Schreck The anti-papist Watchtower of my youth would have hesitated to speak of the Pope as these theologians do. 418 - Jul 1988 - 'Humanae Vitae' twenty years after, B.A. Santamaria its most visible part was what was called the student or the youth revolt. 419 - Apr 1988 - A kingdom divided in itself, B.A. Santamaria It lives in the midst of the great church community and also in countless youth groups within the territorial parishes which often of course have their own priorities and manners their own styles and actions different from the high-level official Church (quoted in The Wanderer December 1987). 420 - Dec 1987 - index: AD2000 - a journal of religious opinion World Youth Day Rio 23-28 July 2013 Xt3 - for Australian pilgrims Support our Fighting Fund! 421 - Dec 2011 - Youth Events: iWitness Retreat and Campion Summer Program 422 - Oct 2011 - Letters: World Youth Day, Arnold Jago 423 - Jun 2009 - Youth: Forming a new generation of pro-life leaders, Patrick Langrell