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1 - Feb 2016 - Reflection: Archbishop Fisher’s homily at 2016 Chrism Mass, Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP
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Hands of course have great significance: friends shake hands lovers hold hands parents touch and tickle and wash children with their hands we write paint play sport make music do manual labour operate nurse drive and so much else with our hands.
2 - Feb 2016 - Books: THE SHADOW OF HIS WINGS by Fr Gereon Goldmann, Chris Rule
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His mother who died when Gereon was only eight bore seven children all boys.
3 - Feb 2016 - Letters: Joint party inquiry into porn, Andrew Ryan
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On 2 December 2015 the Senate passed without dissent a motion to set up an inquiry into the impact of pornography on Australian children.
4 - Feb 2016 - The roots of domestic violence, Anne Lastman
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Far too many children are being hurt.
5 - Feb 2016 - Liturgy: Holy Thursday: Pope changes feet-washing ceremony, AD2000 Report
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Archbishop Roche added It is for pastors to choose a small group of persons who are representative of the entire people of God lay ordained ministers married single religious healthy sick children young people and the elderly and not just one category or condition.
6 - Feb 2016 - Nostra Aetate: Jewish rabbis’ historic reappraisal of Christianity, AD2000 Report
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In the past relations between Christians and Jews were often seen through the adversarial relationship of Esau and Jacob yet Rabbi Naftali Zvi Berliner (Netziv) already understood at the end of the 19th century that Jews and Christians are destined by G-d to be loving partners: In the future when the children of Esau are moved by pure spirit to recognise the people of Israel and their virtues then we will also be moved to recognise that Esau is our brother.
7 - Feb 2016 - Saints: Mother Teresa of Kolkata to be canonised in September, AD2000 Report
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These included hospices and homes for people with HIV/AIDS leprosy and tuberculosis soup kitchens childrens and family counselling programs personal helpers orphanages and schools.
8 - Feb 2016 - Royal Commission: I accuse! A travesty of justice, Peter Westmore
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ROME: Over four long nights I sat through many hours of accusations by counsel assisting the Royal Commission into Child Sexual Abuse Gail Furness SC that Cardinal George Pell was complicit in or covered up the disgusting sexual abuse of children in Ballarat where he served for many years as a priest then as an auxiliary to Archbishop Frank Little in Melbourne from 1987.
9 - Dec 2015 - Reflection: Christmas: a time of light, peace and joy, Archbishop Mark Coleridge
Things get still worse as we look further north as a woman kills eight children seven of them her own.
10 - Dec 2015 - Apostolic voyage: Pope Francis supports Catholic church during Africa visit, AD2000 Report
The Lord tells us that in the desert he will pour forth water on the thirsty land; he will cause the children of his people to flourish like grass and luxuriant willows.
11 - Dec 2015 - Education: Religious education: parents' responsibility or school's?, Fr Pat Stratford
They focus on the small percentage of children from Catholic schools who attend Mass regularly on Sunday during their years at school and after they leave school.
12 - Dec 2015 - Religious freedom: Catholic bishops face more than prosecution over marriage leaflet, Pat Byrne
Their agenda aims to normalise gay lesbian transsexual bisexual and self-declared sexual identities by: recognising de facto homosexual relationships; registered civil unions; granting homosexuals access to IVF surrogacy fostering and adoption of children; removing from the birth certificates of these children the names of the biological parents and replacing them with the names of the homosexual custodial parents.
13 - Nov 2015 - Marriage: Sydney Anglicans reaffirm church teaching on marriage, AD2000 Report
The motion also recognises that marriage is a bedrock institution of society designed for its good order and the secure and loving care of children by their own mother and father and notes nonetheless that many children are lovingly cared for in other contexts and affirms that the welfare of such children must be paramount along with support for their parents and other carers.
14 - Nov 2015 - Marriage: SSM will threaten religious liberty in Australia: Archbishop Fisher, AD2000 Report
While provisions in the Marriage (Marriage Equality Amendment) Act exempting Registered Ministers of Religion and Registered Places of Worship from taking part in gay weddings have continued to stand in law the High Court has ruled that section 116 of the Constitution does not protect faith-based schools from having to teach a gay friendly state-imposed curriculum; continuing to teach that marriage is an opposite-sex union was held by a majority of the Justices to be motivated by outmoded and bigoted attitudes and to be harmful to children.
15 - Nov 2015 - Synod: Pope Francis confirms Synod guided by the Holy Spirit
It was about trying to open up broader horizons rising above conspiracy theories and blinkered viewpoints so as to defend and spread the freedom of the children of God and to transmit the beauty of Christian Newness at times encrusted in a language which is archaic or simply incomprehensible.
16 - Nov 2015 - Synod: Synod reaffirms Church teaching on sexuality, marriage and the family, AD2000 Report
It added Marriage is the community of all life by its nature ordered toward the good of the spouses and the procreation and education of children.
17 - Oct 2015 - Books: ABORTION AND MARTYRDOM, edited by Aidan Nichols OP, Paul Simmons
In light of the Catholic Churchs emphatic and repeated statements on the humanity of the unborn and the moral evil involved in abortion the question must be asked as to whether aborted babies are like the Holy Innocents the children killed by King Herod the Great.
18 - Oct 2015 - Letters: The rights of children, Robert Bom
The rights and needs of children will suffer if marriage is changed from being between man and woman only.
19 - Oct 2015 - The Rosary: The Luminous Mysteries explained, Audrey English
He wants to show us that it is through Baptism that we can become adopted children of God.
20 - Oct 2015 - Hebrew Catholics: “Salvation comes from the Jews” (John 4:22), Andrew Sholl
Interestingly enough at the beginning of his ministry Jesus saw his mission to establish the Kingdom of God first and foremost among the Children of Israel and nowhere else: for why else would he have said to the Syro-Phoenician Canaanite woman from the region of Tyre and Sidon in Matthew 15:2128: I was only sent to the lost sheep of the House of Israel?
21 - Oct 2015 - Russia: Church and State in contemporary Russia, Fr Lawrence Cross
They are the children of Soloviev Feodorov Abrikosov and Sheptytsky and they are the ever hopeful heirs of St Leonid Feodorov and St Tikhon of Moscow whose eirenic dialogue was smothered by Satan in their mutual martyrdom.
22 - Oct 2015 - Pastoral visit: Pope Francis’ subtle challenge to Barack Obama, AD2000 Report
Such change demands on our part a serious and responsible recognition not only of the kind of world we may be leaving to our children but also to the millions of people living under a system which has overlooked them.
23 - Oct 2015 - Call to action: Call for urgent action on Religious Education
The Archbishop of Sydney Anthony Fisher in an article in the Catholic Weekly (24 -31 May 2015) revealed the following very worrying statistics for the Sydney Archdiocese: bull; Only one in five children from Catholic schools attends Mass on Sunday; bull; Only one in four ever attends Mass held at school (Why isnt it compulsory?
24 - Oct 2015 - Pastoral statement: Marriage Reinvented?, Bishop Michael Kennedy
Those who wish to redefine marriage to include same-sex couples do so I suspect because they desire all the goods of marriage: delight in each other and delight in children.
25 - Sep 2015 - Reflection: The proper celebration of the Mass, Cardinal Robert Sarah
shows forth the Church to those who are outside as a sign lifted up among the nations under which the scattered children of God may be gathered together (No.
26 - Sep 2015 - Letters: Victoria stops class-time religious instruction, Arnold Jago
Children will hear how respect for others is desirable not because the others are our brothers and sisters children of the same Father (God) No thats out of fashion.
27 - Sep 2015 - Apostolic Letter: Pope Francis proclaims Year of Mercy, AD2000 Report
In his letter the Holy Father highlighted the words of St John XXIII at the opening of the Vatican Council: Now the Bride of Christ wishes to use the medicine of mercy rather than taking up arms of severity The Catholic Church as she holds high the torch of Catholic truth at this Ecumenical Council wants to show herself a loving mother to all; patient kind moved by compassion and goodness toward her separated children.
28 - Sep 2015 - Preview: Mercy and compassion: focus of Synod of Bishops, Peter Westmore
This fact is also one of the underlying causes of an increasing decline in the birth rate which in some places is related to poverty or the inability to care for children; and in others to the unwillingness to accept responsibility and to the idea that children might infringe on freely pursuing personal goals.
29 - Sep 2015 - The Americas: Pope Francis’ challenge to American Catholics, AD2000 Report
But the Pope is only too well aware that the intact family is also under threat from economic forces which tend to weaken the bonds between parents and a corrosive popular culture which divides children from parents.
30 - Aug 2015 - Letters: Helping children with gender identity issues, Gillian Gonzalez
Kate Legges article on children who suffer from gender dystopia (Making the switch Weekend Australian Magazine July 18/19) suggested that gender reassignment is the answer.
31 - Aug 2015 - Letters: Don’t watch the ABC News!, Dr Tim Coyle
While helping my wife peel potatoes two grandchildren were idly watching the ABC News waiting for me to start a DVD for them.
32 - Aug 2015 - Africa: Nigerian bishops decry “propagation of the homosexual lifestyle”
On our part we hereby re-emphasise that Marriage is the sacred union of one man and one woman for the begetting and care of children.
33 - Aug 2015 - Marriage: We must stand up for marriage and the family: Archbishop Fisher, Archbishop Anthony Fisher
Of Polish descent these childhood sweethearts married in 1940 and had five children.
34 - Aug 2015 - Pope Francis’ rallying call for the poor
Commitment true commitment is born of the love of men and women of children and the elderly of peoples and communities of names and faces which fill our hearts.
35 - Jul 2015 - Letters: Don’t create a new stolen generation, Robert Bom
If the Bill to change the Marriage Act passes children affected will lose more rights to have a father and a mother.
36 - Jul 2015 - Scripture: Ephphata! Be opened! (Mark 7:34), Andrew Sholl
Jesus replied It is not fair to throw the childrens i.
37 - Jul 2015 - Marriage: The slippery slope to same-sex “marriage”, Anne Lastman
It has been on the periphery of our vision since the 1930 Lambeth Conference strengthened by Margaret Sangers involvement with contraceptives and brought to birth in the pill in 1960 then strengthened by the rejection of Humane Vitae (1968) in the Catholic- Christian world and thus the devaluation of marriage and its raison detre that is a union of a man and woman for the delight and the welcome of children into their life.
38 - Jul 2015 - Religious freedom: Gay lobby targets Tasmania’s Archbishop Julian Porteous, AD2000 Report
Society has valued marriage above de-facto relationships and same-sex relationships not simply because it is a particular type of loving relationship but because of the unique contribution the marriage relationship makes to well-being of children and because of this more broadly the stability of society.
39 - Jul 2015 - Culture: Magna Carta and Christianity: the inseparable links, Dr Augusto Zimmermann
When Yahweh in the Old Testament narrative (1 Samuel 8 and 9) agreed to the children of Israel choosing Saul as their king therefore he allowed it only with severe reservations and misgivings.
40 - Jul 2015 - Laudato Si: Pope Francis’ call for “dialogue” on environmental challenges, Peter Westmore
The local population should have a special place at the table; they are concerned about their own future and that of their children and can consider goals transcending immediate economic interest.
41 - Jun 2015 - Reflection: Faith: dialogue of mind and heart, Audrey English
Visits to the Blessed Sacrament just coming in to say hello should be easy when we go past a church take children to school.
42 - Jun 2015 - Books: THE CHURCH AND CREATION, by Luis Colomer, Paul Simmons
It emphasises the importance of parents as the primary educators of children and the rights and responsibilities of parents to their children and the church for their development.
43 - Jun 2015 - Letters: Sexual abuse of children, Arnold Jago
Australias Royal Commission into institutional sex abuse of children probably doesnt have wide enough terms of reference.
44 - Jun 2015 - Family: Pope Francis upholds Church teaching on the family, Fr Ken CLark OLSC
We should look to the example of the Pope and our sermons should be on family husband wife and children that which is called Holy Matrimony what Pope Francis called a masterpiece of society .
45 - Jun 2015 - Cardinal Pell, Archbishop Fisher respond to Ballarat allegations, AD2000 Report
Responding promptly to allegations that he must have known about sexual abuse of Catholic school children in Ballarat given at the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse Cardinal George Pell issued a detailed statement to the Royal Commission.
46 - May 2015 - Today’s invisible Holocaust, Anne Lastman
The loosening meant that she no longer was to subject herself to the demands of home husband and children and family.
47 - May 2015 - Vocations: The Call of Young Men to the Priesthood, Bishop Robert McGuckin
This dynamic is relevant not only to a personal calling but also to the missionary and evangelical action of all the Church truly faithful to her Master to the extent that she is a Church which goes forth a Church which is less concerned about herself her structures and successes and more about her ability to go out and meet Gods children wherever they are to feel compassion (com-passio) for their hurt and pain.
48 - Apr 2015 - Reflection: Good Friday Reflection, Fr Raniero Cantalamessa
not for the nation only but to gather into one the dispersed children of God (cf Jn 11:51f).
49 - Apr 2015 - Letters: Children's rights, Arnold Jago
Her report on children in immigration detention describes human rights of children being breached assaults mental health disorders etc.
50 - Apr 2015 - Palliative care protects human dignity, Pope Francis
The precept reveals the fundamental pedagogical relationship between parents and children between the elderly and the young in reference to the custody and transmission of religious education and wisdom to future generations.
51 - Apr 2015 - Today's prophets: where are they?, Anne Lastman
Sexual abuse and exploitation of children pandemic and the demand for euthanasia.
52 - Apr 2015 - Designer babies: Dolce&Gabbana versus Elton John, Fr Dwight Longenecker
I call the children of chemistry synthetic children.
53 - Mar 2015 - Reflection: Hail Mary, Full of Grace, Anne Lastman
These words were spoken by the seers of Fatima and Medjugorje as well as by St Bernadette Soubirous and the children of Garabandal as they attempted to describe the beauty of the Blessed Virgin using words of an earthly language to describe someone from a heavenly reality.
54 - Mar 2015 - NACF: National Catholic Families Conference attracts 400 to Albury, Kathleen Horsfall and Marie-Louise Fowler
Sponsored by the Archdioceses of Melbourne and Sydney the Diocese of Wagga Wagga Catholic Super Saint Mary MacKillop College Albury and St Patricks parish Albury the conference had talks workshops and activities in streams for small children teenagers and young adults those discerning their vocation and parents.
55 - Mar 2015 - The parish priest and parish school, Fr John O'Neill
The parish priest is to have a special care for the Catholic education of children and young people (Canon 528/1).
56 - Mar 2015 - Challenging radical Islam, John A. Azumah
The same is true of the tactic of capturing women and children as war booty and keeping or disposing of them as slaves.
57 - Mar 2015 - Liturgy and mystery in the Mass, Audrey English
It is of prime importance that children be encouraged to better understand the Mass the greatest act of religion.
58 - Mar 2015 - News: The Church Around the World
Pope Francis later commented: Brutalities have been committed against Christians against children against churches.
59 - Mar 2015 - Synod: AFA calls for Synod to strengthen support for families, AD2000 Report
Basic unit of society It said The AFA holds that the family is the basic unit on which human societies are built and is the prime agency for the moral social and emotional development of children and therefore the fundamental social unit of society.
60 - Feb 2015 - Reflection: Hail, Holy Queen, Mother of Mercy, Anne Lastman
We cry to Mary because before Marys Fiat and the beginning of the work of our Redemption we were indeed poor banished children of Eve (the mother of all living) and in some ways we still are because we can no longer meet our creator face to face as Adam and Eve did in the Garden of Eden.
61 - Feb 2015 - Letters: Catholic education, Allan Choveaux
It is the opinion of many that the Catholic education systems religion programs do not fully teach children the truths of the Catholic faith and hence any improvement in this area would most likely result in more students embracing the teachings and practices of the Catholic Church.
62 - Feb 2015 - The Eighteen Benedictions of Judaism ... and Christianity, Andrew Sholl
So instead of quoting Jesus saying Father forgive them for they know not what they do (Luke 23:34) another text was used: His blood be upon us and on our children.
63 - Feb 2015 - The family and the Church in 2015, Archbishop Mark Coleridge
The family also provided a workforce particularly if you were farming as children could and did help with the work.
64 - Feb 2015 - News: The Church Around the World
Seven percent of those clients were children under the age of 15.
65 - Dec 2014 - Support: 2014 Fighting Fund Progress
Your assistance no matter whether large or small will make a significant difference to ensure that the country which we hand on to our children protects the values which we hold dear.
66 - Dec 2014 - Obituary: Fr Benedict Groeschel, aged 81, dies in New Jersey, Peter Westmore
The eldest of six children he entered the novitiate of the Capuchin Friars in Indiana shortly after graduating from high school.
67 - Dec 2014 - Separation of church and state: the position outside Australia, Frank Mobbs
Children whose parents do not want them to participate in religious education are obliged to attend an alternative class called ethics.
68 - Dec 2014 - Economic justice: The Catholic Church explains sexual mores - with economics, Emma Green
from the widespread practice of cohabitation which does not lead to marriage and sometimes even excludes the idea of it to same-sex unions between persons who are not infrequently permitted to adopt children.
69 - Dec 2014 - Family Synod: Synod reaffirms Church teaching on marriage and family, AD2000 Report
This love spreads through fertility and generativity which involves not only the procreation of children but also the gift of divine life in baptism their catechesis and their education.
70 - Nov 2014 - Books: HIDDEN PAIN: An Insight into Childhood Sexual Abuse, by Anne R. Lastman, Peter Westmore
I must confess that until 10 or 15 years ago I considered the sexual abuse of children to be a heinous crime in which some males exploited their power over children to satisfy their perverted sexual desires.
71 - Nov 2014 - Why we make the Sign of the Cross, Cedric Wright
There is also a tradition deriving from the pre-Christian era and still observed in some Latin countries of a father giving a blessing to his children on special occasions though this is more a sign of parental love and trust than a formal benediction.
72 - Nov 2014 - Formation: 'I used to be a Catholic', Audrey English
Take the references to Peter the rock on which the Church is built the statements about Purgatory (even though the word itself is not mentioned) the indissolubility of marriage the command to let the children come to Jesus and not to deny them baptism.
73 - Nov 2014 - Family: The global attack on religious belief and moral values, Alejandra Fabris
Two notable examples: first there is no research demonstrating that the abortion of abnormal children is necessary to protect against maternal mortality; this is a superstition manufactured by secularists with no biological basis.
74 - Nov 2014 - Human Life: Surrogacy: what the Biblical precedent tells us, Anne Lastman
Sarahs desire for a child at any cost using any means has cost her people and the children of both her children very dearly.
75 - Nov 2014 - News: The Church Around the World
He added that grandparents who have received the blessing to see the children of their children have been given a great task: to transmit the experience of life the history of a family of a community of a people to share with simplicity wisdom and the faith itself the most precious inheritance!
76 - Oct 2014 - Reflection: The Lord hears the cry of the poor, Fr Paul Glynn SM
His daughter Kimiko was one of the 230 children who had enrolled in our kindergarten the previous year.
77 - Oct 2014 - Support: Support the Fighting Fund!
Your support enables us to build on what has been done over many years to build a better future for our children.
78 - Oct 2014 - Letters: Evangelii Gaudium speaks to Victoria, Pat Shea
Paragraph 213 states in part Among the most vulnerable for whom the Church wishes to care with particular love and concern are unborn children the most defenceless and innocent among us.
79 - Oct 2014 - Letters: Use and misuse of language, Anne Lastman
This ploy is used because society has still not become acclimatised to the murder of children ex utero which is of course what post birth abortion means.
80 - Oct 2014 - 'The Mother of Jesus' in St John's Gospel, Anne Lastman
The crushing must be done by the offspring but the woman must experience pain at the birthing of the new children following the crushing.
81 - Oct 2014 - Art: Sacred art: window into eternity, Tommy Canning
The upper part of the mural in Sacred Heart Church Griffith portrays what Sister Lucia one of the three children to whom Our Lady appeared at Fatima described as her last vision of the Holy Trinity.
82 - Oct 2014 - News: The Church Around the World
The Cardinal addresses a variety of themes such as Church teaching on the indissolubility of marriage is dogma how children with separated or divorced parents are affected what happens if love dies the need for education and how pastors should respond to such difficulties.
83 - Sep 2014 - Reflection: The Christian life: more than Trivial Pursuit or Monopoly, Audrey English
As children of a loving Father who destines us to share in his kingdom we must consciously work towards establishing this kingdom here on earth.
84 - Sep 2014 - Letters: Sola Scriptura, Cedric Wright
For instance Our Lord honoured priests but scorned the theologians of his day - the Scribes and Pharisees - in the strongest terms while embracing sinners the suffering and young children.
85 - Sep 2014 - Transmission of the Catholic faith in crisis, Peter Finlayson
Without claiming to be particularly virtuous during the education of our four children in Ballarat diocesan schools in the 70s and 80s this writer became conscious that RE catechesis was below our expectations.
86 - Sep 2014 - Art: The new mural in Sacred Heart Church, Griffith, NSW, Tommy Canning
The inspiration for this mural was a vision of St Lucia one of the three children to whom Our Blessed Lady appeared at Fatima in 1917.
87 - Sep 2014 - Pope meets Meriam Ibrahim
The Vatican described the Popes meeting with Meriam Ibrahim 27 her husband and their two small children as very affectionate.
88 - Sep 2014 - Facing up to the problem of sexual abuse, Anne Lastman
The book is written in laymans language for all those with an interest in the topic including the care protection and well-being of children.
89 - Sep 2014 - Euthanasia: Britain's euthanasia bill faces mounting opposition
Furthermore while all euthanasia laws originally claim to be limited and restrictive a pattern of incrementalism quickly emerges to the point where in Holland a woman going blind is reason enough for death or in Belgium where disabled children are considered not worthy of life.
90 - Sep 2014 - Vatican: Cardinal Pell unveils Vatican financial reforms, Edward Pentin
A Frenchman married with four children he is also a member of the pro-life World Youth Alliance board.
91 - Aug 2014 - Reflection: The Assumption: Mary leads us to Heaven, Bishop Anthony Fisher
She witnessed to Gods fidelity to father Abraham and his spiritual children Jews Christians Muslims and all humanity blessed through His grace.
92 - Aug 2014 - Books: RICH IN YEARS: Finding Peace and Purpose in a Long Life, Johann Christoph Arnold, Michael E Daniel
Instead as is the case in many cultures the elderly live with their children or other relatives.
93 - Aug 2014 - Letters: Naming a lost baby, Robert Bom
In her case it took 20 years before the reality set in after aborting two children.
94 - Aug 2014 - Letters: School chaplains, Arnold Jago
In an alternative universe the government mightnt fund education at all with the churches providing schools and parents aware that children need absolute standards choosing faith-based schools rather than secular institutions.
95 - Aug 2014 - War of words: changing society through language, Audrey English
The grace of the Sacrament of Confirmation which we received as children will help us now as adults in our daily encounters.
96 - Aug 2014 - Pope Francis discusses the Church's moral teachings, LifeSiteNews
The children suffer greatly.
97 - Aug 2014 - Eyewitness to history: the canonisation of St John Paul II, Wanda Skowronska
Of course people had come from every country for the canonisation of the two popes - John XXIII and John Paul II - but there was a clear preponderance of Polish flags Solidarity flags Polish buses Polish-speaking nuns priests bishops children and tourists.
98 - Aug 2014 - Pope Francis condemns 'Gender ideology' as 'demonic', Patrick Byrne
Benedict XVI noted the philosophys harm on human dignity family and children.
99 - Aug 2014 - News: The Church Around the World
You will be a Church in which fathers mothers priests religious catechists children the elderly (and) young people walk together one alongside the other supporting one another helping one another loving one another as brothers especially in moments of difficulty.
100 - Jul 2014 - Letters: Human rights priorities, Richard Congram
Some who claim to be genuine refugees have left behind wives and children entirely vulnerable and unprotected.
101 - Jul 2014 - Boko Haram: Christians and Muslims unite against Nigerian terrorists, CNA-EWTN REPORT
Archbishop Kaigama said I think because they are innocent young girls and also because it touches directly the suffering of women the mothers of these children.
102 - Jul 2014 - Life: a gift of inestimable value, Anne Lastman
Pope Paul VI in his 1968 encyclical Humanae Vitae predicted that relationships between males and females and parents and children would be put at risk following the universal acceptance of contraception especially with the advent of the pill.
103 - Jul 2014 - Dubai: is this the largest parish in the world?, Patrick Byrne
It went on to say that every Friday close on 300 lay catechists come together to give religious instruction to around 6300 children and young people .
104 - Jul 2014 - Nigeria: Oka Obulu Uzo: leading by example, Madonna Brosnan
Mid-year 2013 after consultation with his parish council Fr Raphael began work on renovating the old parish church into a nursery school for children aged from 18 months to five years.
105 - Jul 2014 - News: The Church Around the World
Pope Francis gave his blessing to organizers and participants particularly those who help women in crisis pregnancies and their children.
106 - Jul 2014 - Middle East: Pope Francis cuts through divisions in the Holy Land, AD2000 Report
After this he was greeted by refugee children and then departed by helicopter for Israel.
107 - Jul 2014 - Editorial: NSW child sex abuse report released, Peter Westmore
The inquiry followed allegations by a senior NSW police officer Detective Chief Inspector Peter Fox that senior police had prevented him from investigating allegations of cover-up by church leaders of sexual abuse of children in the Hunter region.
108 - Jun 2014 - Reflection: Eucharistic adoration: path to union with the Holy Trinity, Bishop James Conley
We are also blessed by parishes where adoration is a long-standing custom and the practice of regular Eucharistic adoration is passed from grandparents to parents to children.
109 - Jun 2014 - Books: HANDING ON THE FAITH IN AN AGE OF DISBELIEF, by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, Br Barry Coldrey
What are the obstacles that hinder men women and children from hearing and embracing the Gospel?
110 - Jun 2014 - Sisters of St Paul of Chartres and their global impact, CNA REPORT
We want to help the people around us children men and women to improve their human and spiritual development.
111 - Jun 2014 - Religious freedom and same-sex 'marriage', Fr John FLynn LC
Further pressure from the Equality and Human Rights Commission came as they described as mistaken a decision to allow a Scottish Catholic adoption agency to place adopted children only with parents who are Catholics.
112 - Jun 2014 - US Catholic school embroiled in dispute over Church teaching, Kirsten Andersen
Fr Hoffman used this forum to belittle gays tell children of adoption and divorce; that their parents really do not love them and other abominations which are not part of Church teachings or the teachings of Jesus Christ.
113 - Jun 2014 - Missions: Salesians appeal for Solomon Islands emergency
Following two major cyclones in the Solomon Islands the Salesian Mission Office in Australia has launched an appeal to assist schools families and children who have lost their homes.
114 - Jun 2014 - Fr Des Byrne: priest and catechist extraordinary, Bishop Peter J. Elliott
He could break great truths down into simple terms for children and make the faith attractive.
115 - Jun 2014 - Societal violence and the murder of children, Anne Lastman
I have recently written for AD2000 about abortion and violence and here in a real life horror story brought to our screen and news services on Easter Sunday we were told of the murder of two innocent children.
116 - Jun 2014 - News: The Church Around the World
- because we must also take care of grandparents because children and grandparents are the hope of a people.
117 - May 2014 - Books: CULTURE AND ABORTION, by Edward Short
Short says he wrote the book to show how only a radically defective culture could give rise to the notion that killing children in the womb is not only morally permissible but a boon to women.
118 - May 2014 - Letters: Christianity persecuted, Robert Bom
It is up to Christians now to sort out what type of world they want for their children.
119 - May 2014 - Cardinal Burke: The Gospel of Life in the defence of freedom, Cardinal Raymond Burke
The fundamental locus of the proclamation of the truth of Christ is the family in which the children witness the living of the faith in the relationship of their parents with one another and in the relationship of the parents with them.
120 - May 2014 - After the turbulent years: the Church renewed, Fr John O'Neill
Children came out of our primary schools like little theologians: they had a clear and precise knowledge of the Faith and understood its technical words.
121 - May 2014 - A new cathedral in the Muslim world
Even their children have to leave the Gulf when its time for them to go to college.
122 - May 2014 - Sister empowers northern India's women with education
Many women expressed their desire to be educated as children but they had been kept away to look after siblings or see to the domestic work.
123 - May 2014 - News: The Church Around the World
During the vigil the names of over 800 victims 82 of whom were children were read.
124 - May 2014 - Slavery: Churches join forces to launch anti-slavery campaign, AD2000 Report
The campaign arose after Mr Forrests daughter travelled to Nepal where she found children being caught up in human trafficking for prostitution.
125 - Apr 2014 - Ukraine: Bishop Peter Stasiuk: Ukrainian people want peace and justice, Bishop Peter Stasiuk
That we never lose our respect for one another and realise that we in God are actually all children of the same God.
126 - Apr 2014 - News: The Church Around the World
Before we continue cooperation with Belgium allowing our children to be adopted by their citizens we should understand on what grounds a child can be killed in this country and if there is a danger for our kids to lose their lives in a foreign country he said.
127 - Mar 2014 - Books: TEN AFRICAN CARDINALS, by Sally Ninham, Michael Gilchrist
Differing world views Remarkably the author who is a mother of five children was not a Catholic at the time of writing having grown up in an environment hostile to religion with demonstrations of atheism fashionable in her teenage years.
128 - Mar 2014 - What Jesus teaches us about prayer, Audrey English
It is the prayer which links all of us believers as children of God.
129 - Mar 2014 - The McCabe affair in context, Lucy Sullivan
There were other to us obvious crimes in the same no-mans land - physical abuse of children by their parents and domestic violence.
130 - Mar 2014 - Whither religious education in Australian Catholic schools?, Peter Finlayson
Inadequate quality Mr McCormacks view is that many so-called Catholic schools fail to conform to these standards and practice and the reasons for this situation resonate with ours and other grandparents experiences as evidenced by the inadequate quality of the graduates (children and grandchildren) who have emerged from the Catholic school system over the past 30-40 years.
131 - Mar 2014 - Pope Francis puts indelible mark on College of Cardinals, Peter Westmore
I believe that every good theology has to do with the freedom and glory of the children of God.
132 - Mar 2014 - Holy See responds to unfounded UN Committee attack, Peter Westmore
The report by the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child attacking the Catholic Churchs actions in relation to sexual abuse of children repeatedly cites instances of child sexual abuse which occurred in Ireland decades ago without conceding that the Church had addressed these issues.
133 - Feb 2014 - Books: TO BONEGILLA FROM SOMEWHERE, by Wanda Skowronska, Michael Gilchrist
In a strange way I felt I was Bonegillian before I knew I was Australian for like most children who lived there the stories of our families seeped into our very being - as transmitted memories from a kind of European dreamtime a dreamtime which had turned into an abyss of loss on the one hand and of compelling curiosity on the other.
134 - Feb 2014 - Letters: Climate propaganda
Recently one of our grandchildren attending a local Catholic primary school showed me some of his Grade 3 project work.
135 - Feb 2014 - Letters: Religious instruction, Mrs Rowan Shann
In recent years Easter has been progressively dumbed down until in 2013 there was no Easter lesson in the first semester but children studied at length the problems caused by Absalom and Adonijah.
136 - Feb 2014 - Victorian Inquiry: First report into clerical sex abuse released, Peter Westmore
The Victorian inquiry is the first of three current inquiries involving the extremely distressing issue of the sexual abuse of children in the Catholic Churchs care and the Churchs response to it.
137 - Feb 2014 - Evangelii Gaudium: The Joy of the Gospel: Pope Francis' challenge, Peter Westmore
We know that God wants his children to be happy in this world too even though they are called to fulfilment in eternity for he has created all things for our enjoyment (1 Tim 6:17) the enjoyment of everyone.
138 - Dec 2013 - Reflection: Benedict XVI's Christmas homily: 'Make room for God', Benedict XVI
Let us ask that we may make room for him within ourselves that we may recognise him also in those through whom he speaks to us: children the suffering the abandoned those who are excluded and the poor of this world.
139 - Dec 2013 - Fighting Fund: Progress on 2013 Fighting Fund, Peter Westmore
Your assistance no matter whether large or small will make a significant difference to ensure that the country which we hand on to our children protects the values which we hold dear.
140 - Dec 2013 - Letters: Right of conscience, Marian Grima
No wonder the children and young adults in our Catholic schools and universities have no idea what the teachings of the Catholic Church actually are.
141 - Dec 2013 - Christifidelis Laici: vocation and mission of the lay faithful (2), Anne Lastman
The domestic church which mirrors in miniature the universal Church nurtures children parents and grandparents and when seen in its true image sanctifies its members and extends further to community.
142 - Dec 2013 - Christifidelis Laici: vocation and mission of the lay faithful (1), Anne Lastman
Vatican II proclaimed all offences against life itself such as every kind of murder genocide abortion euthanasia and wilful suicide all violations of the integrity of the human person such as mutilation physical and mental torture undue psychological pressures all offences against human dignity such as subhuman living conditions arbitrary imprisonment deportation slavery prostitution selling of women and children degrading working conditions where men are treated as mere tools for profit rather than free and responsible persons all these are certainly criminal for they poison society and do more harm to those who practise them than those who suffer from the injury; moreover they are a supreme dishonour to the Creator (CL 38).
143 - Dec 2013 - Schools: Catholic school education: returning to our roots, Paul McCormack
In arguing that a Catholic school should be a Catholic school I am suggesting that it should be a place where the teachers are faithful to the Magisterium of the Catholic Church; the students are taught the doctrines of the Church and learn how to explain and defend them; the parents receive support in their role as the primary educators of their children and agree to undertake their obligations faithfully; where saints are invoked and icons are visible where prayer is a common and regular practice including Mass; and a place where the salvation of our soul and desire for eternal life (Heaven) are the underlying priority.
144 - Dec 2013 - Catechesis and liturgy: an unbreakable bond, Bishop Arthur Serratelli
Children were now being born into families already Christian.
145 - Nov 2013 - Reflection: Bishop Anthony Fisher: Do you want to be a saint?, Bishop Anthony Fisher
But for the rest of us it was more realistic to live a more second rate Christianity hoping to scrape into purgatory by dint of the occasional confession a brown scapular and a few good deeds; we might hope the children remember to get Masses said for our souls so that after a fair stay in purgatory we get into the back stalls of heaven just before closing time!
146 - Nov 2013 - Support: 2013 Fighting Fund Progress Report, Peter Westmore
Your assistance no matter whether large or small will make a significant difference to ensure that the country which we hand on to our children protects the values which we hold dear.
147 - Nov 2013 - Books: Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood, Prayer and Sex changed a Nation at War, Gabrielle Walsh
We are tired of our children being killed!
148 - Nov 2013 - Letters: Finding balance, Walter H. Kirk
Defenders of easy divorce will claim it is better for children that violent or abusive parents be separated.
149 - Nov 2013 - Letters: Clutching at straws, Anne Lastman
Are the abortions which sadly occur a sign of how much these people want children and are forcibly deprived of them?
150 - Nov 2013 - Marriage: English bishop warns on same-sex marriage law, Bishop Philip Egan
Sexual intercourse was seen as located exclusively within married family life and having a double end or purpose: the expression of love and the procreation of children.
151 - Nov 2013 - Marriage: Humanae Vitae: for an excellent love, Anne Lastman
When the minister asks at the covenant-making moment Do you come freely without reservation will you be faithful will you be fruitful (accept children) and the answer is Yes then there is a fulfilment of all the requirements: free fruitful faithful total - the promises and vows.
152 - Nov 2013 - Interview: G.K. Chesterton's cause for sainthood, Dale Ahlquist
There are also the little things in his life that contribute to the case for his holiness: his kindness to everyone his special respect for women his adoration of children.
153 - Nov 2013 - Culture: Cardinal Pell: defend religious freedom, Cardinal George Pell
It is no longer unusual in places such as the UK the US and Canada for people to be penalised or dismissed from their jobs excluded from providing services to children and counselling and dragged through human rights employment and anti-discrimination tribunals simply for holding to or merely expressing their religious and conscientious convictions about issues such as abortion marriage and sexuality.
154 - Oct 2013 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
95 ISBN 978-1-78182-991-2 Redeeming Grief Anne Lastman Redeeming Grief distils the results of 17 years of counselling and study of abortion grief including listening to the personal stories of over 1500 women who took the decision to abort the lives of their children.
155 - Oct 2013 - Blessed Jacinta Marto: heroine of Fatima, Cedric Wright
Together with her brother Francisco (9) and their cousin Lucia dos Santos (10) Jacinta was one of the three shepherd children who had visions of the Virgin Mary at Fatima in Portugal over a period six months in that year.
156 - Oct 2013 - Church of Divine Mercy in Singapore: an amazing discovery, Kazimierz Kozlowski
As we left the church after Mass we saw some children playing in the vestibule.
157 - Oct 2013 - Pope Francis to consecrate world to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Peter Westmore
On 13 October the feast of Our Lady of Fatima and the anniversary of the final apparition of Mary to the three peasant children at Fatima Portugal in 1917 Pope Francis will dedicate the world to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
158 - Sep 2013 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
95 ISBN 978-1-78182-991-2 978-1-78182-992-9 Redeeming Grief Anne Lastman Redeeming Grief distils the results of 17 years of counselling and study of abortion grief including listening to the personal stories of over 1500 women who took the decision to abort the lives of their children.
159 - Sep 2013 - Letters: Anti-life values, Andrew Foong
One-third of children born in Australia are now out of wedlock.
160 - Sep 2013 - A covenant: essence of true marriage, Anne Lastman
God blessed marriage with a special blessing which makes clear its goodness as proof of His blessing receive from God children who crowd about the family table (A.
161 - Sep 2013 - News: The Church Around the World
Parliaments Orwellian attempt to redefine marriage radically changes the social context and this presents a massive challenge to the Church in England and Wales: to those who wish to marry in our churches to Catholic parents bringing up children to teachers in our Catholic schools and to the clergy engaged in pastoral ministry.
162 - Aug 2013 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
95 ISBN 978-0-89870-880-6 Redeeming Grief Anne Lastman Redeeming Grief distils the results of 17 years of counselling and study of abortion grief including listening to the personal stories of over 1500 women who took the decision to abort the lives of their children.
163 - Aug 2013 - Books: CATHOLIC APOLOGETICS: a course in religion for Catholic high schools, Michael E. Daniel
Nevertheless this reprinted edition by TAN would be a useful reference book for a range of people from parents wishing to educate their children in the faith to adults wanting to refresh or acquire a solid understanding of Catholicism.
164 - Aug 2013 - Lumen Fidei: The great gift of Faith: Pope Francis' first encyclical, Damian Wyld
In a wonderful analogy the Church is likened to a family which like every family passes on to her children the whole store of her memories .
165 - Aug 2013 - News: The Church Around the World
One of the most important ways men can make sure theyre engaged in family life is by avoiding what Caulfield called the man cave or the act of closing himself off from his wife or children.
166 - Aug 2013 - Holy See announces canonisation of Blessed John Paul II, Peter Westmore
Born in 1920 in Wadowice Poland he was the youngest of three surviving children of Karol Wojtyla Snr a non-commissioned officer in the Polish Army and his wife Emilia a school teacher who died in childbirth in 1929.
167 - Jul 2013 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
95 ISBN 978-1-58617-701-0 Redeeming Grief Anne Lastman Redeeming Grief distils the results of 17 years of counselling and study of abortion grief including listening to the personal stories of over 1500 women who took the decision to abort the lives of their children.
168 - Jul 2013 - Letters: Christian civil rights, Name and Address Supplied
In the UK there is persecution already where a couple with an exemplary record as foster-parents were declared unfit guardians because they refused to teach children that homosexual acts were alright.
169 - Jul 2013 - Letters: Contact your candidates, Gerard Calilhanna
If we all act together we can have a decisive influence on this issue at the ballot box because children have a right to a mother and a father.
170 - Jul 2013 - Letters: Healthy families vital, Brendan Keogh
Healthy societies in all times and places are unanimous that the orderly procreation and upbringing of children is best in a natural family or as close as possible by relatives or by others in extreme necessity.
171 - Jul 2013 - Parody?: Anti-Catholic hate speech, Aussie Style (Move on, nothing to see here), R.J. Stove
The Catholic Church had ample opportunity when these people were at school to get them to believe whatever the Church wanted as children will do .
172 - Jul 2013 - Human dignity: Defence of marriage must be linked to defence of parenthood, Denise Hunnell
The push to redefine marriage to include same-sex couples is a movement to abolish the sociological connection between children and their biological parents.
173 - Jul 2013 - Obituary: Vale Fr Paul Duffy SJ (1931-2013), Anna Krohn
He was the youngest of the five children of Francis Warren Duffy a musical train driver and his mother Lucy a music teacher.
174 - Jul 2013 - Formation: Future priests learn about the RCIA process, Rev Dr Elio Capra SDB
Also needing exploration are the preparation of children of catechetical age and the difference between catechumens and (previously validly baptised) candidates.
175 - Jul 2013 - Paul VI: Humanae Vitae: still prophetic after 45 years, Anne Lastman
Having provided for His children however the disobedient children proudly refused the gift.
176 - Jul 2013 - Cardinal Pell's candid responses to Victorian Parliament grilling, Peter Westmore
Facing hostile questioning from members of the Victorian Parliaments Inquiry into the Handling of Child Abuse by Religious and other Organisations Cardinal Pell said repeatedly that he was fully apologetic and absolutely sorry for the abuse children suffered at the hands of clergy.
177 - Jun 2013 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
95 ISBN 978-1-58617-701-0 Redeeming Grief Anne Lastman Redeeming Grief distils the results of 17 years of counselling and study of abortion grief including listening to the personal stories of over 1500 women who took the decision to abort the lives of their children.
178 - Jun 2013 - Books: SEXUALITY EXPLAINED, by Louise Kirk, Peter Westmore
) Subtitled A guide for parents and children Sexuality Explained is designed to facilitate discussion between parents and their children on the range of issues associated with sexuality: sex love and reproduction.
179 - Jun 2013 - Letters: Truth about marriage, Name and Address Supplied
It requires one man and one woman to live together for mutual support to have marital relations only with each other and to jointly raise any children of their union.
180 - Jun 2013 - Letters: Rights of children, Arnold Jago
Children should ideally grow up securely in constant contact with their biological next-of-kin.
181 - Jun 2013 - The elephant in the sanctuary, Paul MacLeod
In the meantime until the would-be innovators have gone to find out what their eternal reward is faithful Catholics can either sit out the storm hoping their example will bear some fruit or especially those with children seek out a parish that will not endanger their childrens faith.
182 - Jun 2013 - Why we need the Rosary, Cedric Wright
At one stage he helped women and children into the few available lifeboats and refused invitations to join them.
183 - Jun 2013 - The strange story of Mr Douglas Hyde, Damian Wyld
It was the almost fantastic tale of a hardcore Marxist couple who having put their children to bed in post-war London one evening were having a chat about Christmas what their children should be raised to believe and what sort of life they should live.
184 - Jun 2013 - Redefining marriage: what of the rights of children?, Denise Hunnell
In France a bill to allow same-sex couples to wed and to allow them to adopt children has already passed the lower house of Parliament.
185 - Jun 2013 - Farcical history: the 'Gospel of Jesus' wife', Frank Mobbs
If a piece of paper is discovered 400 years from now containing the words Julia Gillards children would that be sufficient to prove she was a mother?
186 - Jun 2013 - St Joseph the Worker: Pope Francis: Work is essential to the dignity of the person
Ever since we were children our parents have accustomed us to start and end the day with a prayer to teach us to feel that the friendship and the love of God accompanies us.
187 - Jun 2013 - Homily: Benedict XVI's Corpus Christi homily, Pope Benedict XVI
Or let us think of a mother or father who in the name of a desacralised faith deprived their children of all religious rituals: in reality they would end by giving a free hand to the many substitutes that exist in the consumer society to other rites and other signs that could more easily become idols.
188 - May 2013 - Reflection: Pentecost: opening our minds to truth and our hearts to love, Bishop Arthur Serratelli
The qahal was the entire community of the children of Israel whom God chose.
189 - May 2013 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
95 ISBN 978-1-58617-701-0 Redeeming Grief Anne Lastman Redeeming Grief distils the results of 17 years of counselling and study of abortion grief including listening to the personal stories of over 1500 women who took the decision to abort the lives of their children.
190 - May 2013 - Letters: Hypocricy, Arnold Jago
Australia is much the same with emotive responses about violence against children while abortion is considered a right.
191 - Apr 2013 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
95 ISBN 978-1-58617-701-0 Come to Me My Children Christine McCarthy Come To Me My Children contains prayers and catechesis for primary level children between the ages of seven to twelve.
192 - Apr 2013 - Books: THE SEVEN BIG MYTHS ABOUT THE CATHOLIC CHURCH, by Christopher Kaczor, Father John Flynn LC
A cohabiting boyfriend or a stepfather is much more likely to abuse children than a Catholic priest.
193 - Apr 2013 - Correction
Br Coldrey said that Jonathon and Karen Doyle along with their three children were recently granted the Australian Capital Territory Family of the Year Award.
194 - Apr 2013 - Letters: Child abuse, Arnold Jago
The website of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse says it will investigate where systems have failed to protect children and make recommendations on how to improve laws policies and practices to prevent and better respond to child sexual abuse in institutions.
195 - Apr 2013 - Child sexual abuse: looking beyond the institutions, Anne Lastman
Defined sexual abuse is the forceful intrusion or violation into the sacred space of sexuality in the life of a person but in this instance a child in the context of one in whose trusting care the child or children were situated.
196 - Apr 2013 - Pilgrimage: A Holy Land pilgrimage with Scott and Kimberly Hahn, Wanda Skowronska
The Hahns have six children and eight grandchildren and continually give witness to their conversion.
197 - Apr 2013 - 'Jesus Abandoned' in Nigeria: Chiemera's new freedom, Madonna Brosnan
Onyinye Anaehe (baptised Evangeline) is 18 years of age and the eldest of eight children.
198 - Apr 2013 - Obituary: Vale Dr Lyn Billings AM, DCSG, MBBS (Melb), DCH (Lond), Joan Clements
She could be strong and tenacious when arguing a point of ethics - rarely bested in any such debate - but gentle and loving with disadvantaged women and children wherever she met them.
199 - Apr 2013 - POPE FRANCIS: 'REBUILD MY CHURCH', Michael Gilchrist
What happens is what happens to children on the beach when they make sandcastles: everything collapses; it is without consistency.
200 - Mar 2013 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
00 ISBN 978-0-89870-410-5 Come to Me My Children Christine McCarthy Come To Me My Children contains prayers and catechesis for primary level children between the ages of seven to twelve.
201 - Mar 2013 - New African-American pro-life movement
The Negro cannot win if he chooses to sacrifice the future of his children for immediate comfort and safety said Martin Luther King.
202 - Mar 2013 - Religious persecution occurs in democracies, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò
Darby City Council Queens Bench Division has essentially declared that an evangelical Christian couple is unfit to be legal guardians of foster children because of their faith which informs them that certain sexual expressions by consenting adults are sin.
203 - Mar 2013 - 1000 UK priests sign joint letter against same-sex 'marriage', AD2000 Report
This loving union - because of their physical complementarity - is open to bringing forth and nurturing children.
204 - Mar 2013 - The bitter harvest of induced abortion, Babette Francis
For the first 80 years of the 20th century China was known for having a very low breast cancer rate compared to Western countries because Chinese women often had more than two children did long term breastfeeding and often had a first full-term delivery at a young age.
205 - Mar 2013 - News: The Church Around The World
And 84 percent say laws can protect both mothers and unborn children.
206 - Feb 2013 - Reflection: The cathedral: symbol of Christ's authoritative teaching, Bishop Michael Kennedy
They are a tangible sign of the heartfelt love that the children of God have for his mother.
207 - Feb 2013 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
90 ISBN 978-1-58617-105-6 Come to Me My Children Christine McCarthy Come To Me My Children contains prayers and catechesis for primary level children between the ages of seven to twelve.
208 - Feb 2013 - Letters: Royal Commission, Arnold Jago
Most abused children in Australia have probably never met a priest or have any clear idea what a priest is.
209 - Feb 2013 - Pilgrimage: Christus Rex Pilgrimage 2012: from Ballarat to Bendigo, Patrick Doyle
There the pilgrims were treated to entertainment after dinner by the Childrens Chapter showing their talent and hard work over the preceding days.
210 - Feb 2013 - History: Parish life in the Middle Ages (Part 2): living under canon law, Frank Mobbs
In the parish church the layman had to attend Mass on Sundays and after 1215 receive Communion once a year confess to the parish priest and have his children baptised.
211 - Feb 2013 - Schools: Drawing pupils to God through the true, the good and the beautiful, Rosemary Anderson
Several home schooling parents enrolled their children as this type of education wasnt available before.
212 - Feb 2013 - Religious freedom: The widows of Kandmahal: anti-Christian violence in India, Babette Francis
Nobody though has a deeper resolve than the widows on behalf of their children - that they will live lives of freedom and security and honour the memory of their fathers.
213 - Feb 2013 - Marriage: UK Family Court judge: why marriage is worth fighting for, Madonna Brosnan (ed.)
However the impact can be devastating and long-lasting not just for the partners and children involved but for the wider family local community and society in general.
214 - Feb 2013 - Adoration: Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration embraced by Brisbane parish, Kate Hobbs
I have experienced the school leadership wanting to bring the children along.
215 - Feb 2013 - News: The Church Around the World
Speaking to fellow bishops at a meeting at the shrine of Lourdes in November Cardinal Vingt-Trois said When we defend the right of children to build their personality with reference to the man and the woman who gave them life we are not defending a particular position.
216 - Feb 2013 - Royal Commission: The Church in Australia faces moment of truth, Peter Westmore
The government wants to try to put in place measures which will protect children provide support for victims and at the same time bring justice where crimes have been committed or covered up.
217 - Dec 2012 - Reflection: Feast of the Holy Innocents: Rachel weeps for her children, Anne Lastman
A Voice was heard in Ramah wailing and loud lamentation; Rachel weeping for her children.
218 - Dec 2012 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
95 ISBN 978-1-61890-417-1 Come to Me My Children Christine McCarthy Come To Me My Children contains prayers and catechesis for primary level children between the ages of seven to twelve.
219 - Dec 2012 - Books: ADAM AND EVE AFTER THE PILL, by Mary Eberstadt, Brian Peachey
What Is the Sexual Revolution Doing to Children?
220 - Dec 2012 - Books: A BIBLICAL SEARCH FOR THE CHURCH CHRIST FOUNDED, by Linus F. Clovis, Michael Daniel
This work arose from a pamphlet written by the author who is parish priest of Laborie in Saint Lucia (a sovereign state in the Caribbean) in response to his pastoral experience of a significant proportion of children lapsing from the practice of the Catholic faith soon after confirmation.
221 - Dec 2012 - Letters: Abortion silence, Thomas M. Kalotas
However while we care about such international calamities we seem to be completely oblivious of the holocaust perpetrated on our own doorstep: the 100000 innocent children aborted annually in Australia.
222 - Dec 2012 - Catholicism: The Year of Faith: time to revisit the Catechism of the Catholic Church Church, Audrey English
Indeed God who has chosen us and adopted us as his children gives us his grace.
223 - Dec 2012 - Young Men of God 2012 Conference showcases Christian leadership, Br Barry Coldrey
The Doyles - with their three children - were recently granted the Australian Capital Territory Family of the Year Award.
224 - Dec 2012 - News: The Church Around the World
Catholic News Agency Brisbane Archbishop praises pro-life initiative Archbishop Mark Coleridge has described a new home established by Pregnancy Crisis Incorporated (PCI) on Brisbanes southside to protect women under pressure to abort their children as right at the heart of what we are and do as Church.
225 - Nov 2012 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
90 ISBN 978-0-89870-268-2 Come to Me My Children Christine McCarthy Come To Me My Children contains prayers and catechesis for primary level children between the ages of seven to twelve.
226 - Nov 2012 - Books: THE GIFT OF THE ROSARY: How to Make and How and Why to Pray, by Brian Peachey, Barry Morgan
Throughout the centuries it has been Mary who has continuously displayed maternal concern for her vain and rebellious children.
227 - Nov 2012 - Letters: Importance of marriage, Brendan Keogh
The natural foundation of a family is the marriage covenant between a man and a woman to live together exclusively for life for their mutual benefit and the nurture of any children of the marriage.
228 - Nov 2012 - The new evangelisation: restore a sense of the sacred, Andrew Kania
How can children be expected to pray believe revere and worship if adults fail to give good example often acting more like modern secularised pagans.
229 - Nov 2012 - Some good 'family' news from Russia, Babette Francis
Family support In September this year following the Ulyanovsk Demographic Summit which was also a World Congress of Families regional event WCF and the Ministry of Labor and Social Development of the Russian Region of Ulyanovsk signed a historic Protocol of Intent pledging to work together to support the natural family support children and provide solutions to Russias well-below replacement fertility rate.
230 - Nov 2012 - News: The Church Around the World
In the church schools which are also attended by Muslim children we must be very sensitive and cautious to avoid any undesirable incidents Bishop Mfumbusa explained.
231 - Nov 2012 - All Saints Day: the 'Feast of the Unknown Saint', Fr Munachi Ezeogu cssp
Beside the handful of saints whose feast days we celebrate on specific days in the year there are countless other saints and martyrs men women and children united with God in the heavenly glory whom we do not celebrate.
232 - Oct 2012 - Letters: Nuclear family, Leon Voesenek
The nucleus of the nuclear family consists of a mum and dad about whom the children are grouped.
233 - Oct 2012 - Schools: Saint Mary MacKillop Colleges, Wagga Wagga: progress report, Charles Morton
Bill and Jo Andrews had educated their four children in Catholic primary schools home schooled for years 7-10 and finally re-entered the Catholic system for Years 11 and 12.
234 - Oct 2012 - Missions: Father Raphael: dynamic Nigerian parish priest, Madonna Brosnan
With no clinic or hospital in the area mortality rates particularly for children were very high with Father presiding over funerals on a daily basis.
235 - Oct 2012 - News: The Church Around the World
I see it buying us streets devoid of the innocent chatter of children.
236 - Sep 2012 - Reflection: Fatima: Mary's appeal for penance and conversion, Bishop Arthur Serratelli
They gather in prayer to mark the apparitions of Mary to three shepherd children at Fatima on the 13th day of six consecutive months starting on 13 May 1917.
237 - Sep 2012 - Books: FATIMA FOR TODAY: The Urgent Marian Message of Hope, by Fr Andrew Apostoli CFR, Brother Barry Coldrey
In 1917 three young children were visited six times by Mary in Fatima Portugal.
238 - Sep 2012 - Letters: Media bias, Anne Lastman
And while there should be an open and unbiased inquiry which we as Catholics welcome it needs to be said that sexual abuse is by no means confined to the Catholic Church since it occurs in all religions and groups where children are involved not least in some family situations.
239 - Sep 2012 - Letters: Archbishop Chaput: how to meet the challenges to religious freedom, Archbishop Charles Chaput OFM
Its our birthright as children of God.
240 - Sep 2012 - Noted UK doctor slams BBC program's anti-Catholic bias, Robert Walley
The previous attempts to impose reproductive health (by means of abortion and contraception) was a coercion of women in sub-Saharan Africa and failed for many reasons cultural economic religious geographic but most of all because Africans favour children as they see them to be the best insurance on the future of their families villages clans and therefore countries.
241 - Sep 2012 - Survey confirms crisis of faith in Ireland, Michael Gilchrist
Instead of putting the interests of children first he declared the rape and torture of children were downplayed or managed to uphold instead the primacy of the institution its power standing and reputation.
242 - Sep 2012 - News: The Church Around the World
He predicted that a change in the law could result in employees being fired for opposing same-sex marriage ministers and priests being sued for refusing to allow wedding ceremonies to take place in their churches school children being forced to attend homosexual history lessons and couples being rejected as foster parents if they oppose the new legislation.
243 - Sep 2012 - Sainthood: Cardinal Van Thuân: process to beatification 'very advanced', Michael Gilchrist
Among the witnesses who want to talk about the work and the Cardinals virtues as part of the diocesan phase of the process assigned to the Vicariate of Rome there are also the Archbishop of Hu Archbishop Stephen Nguyen Nhu a professor who taught at the Seminary with the Cardinal five priests who are his spiritual children a priest who was the Cardinals childhood friend two nuns and three lay members of the Congregation of Hope founded by the Cardinal.
244 - Aug 2012 - Reflection: The Pietà: the love of our heavenly Mother, Anne Lastman
Was she remembering the little boy who played with the other children of the village?
245 - Aug 2012 - Books: HOPE SPRINGS ETERNAL IN THE PRIESTLY BREAST: Procedural Justice, Michael Thomas
Unjust accusations In an attempt to improve a system that allowed a small minority of the clergy to violate children and to address the gross negligence of some bishops who recycled these predators the American bishops instituted a Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People in 2002.
246 - Aug 2012 - Letters: Emily's List, Maureen Federico
This woman campaigned relentlessly to get the legalised killing of unborn children at any stage of gestation made into law and she finally succeeded.
247 - Aug 2012 - Letters: Old Testament God (2), Frank Mobbs
and that God ordered the slaughter of innocent children Ruth married Boaz Joash was buried in the city of David God spoke to Ahaz Paul and Barnabas fled to Lystra and the author of the Third Letter of John wrote with pen and ink.
248 - Aug 2012 - Parents' love for their children: finding the right balance, Andrew Kania
The clearest example of this form of love is that which exists between parents and their children.
249 - Aug 2012 - The Virgin Mary's key role in our salvation history, Cedric Wright
Among the most famous are her appearances to Juan Diego at Guadalupe Mexico in 1531 to Bernadette at Lourdes France in 1858 and to the three shepherd children at Fatima Portugal in 1917.
250 - Aug 2012 - Marriage: Archbishop Hickey: the Eucharist and the Christian family, Archbishop Barry Hickey
The gift we give to a world of broken relationships and unloved children is the beauty of Christian marriage and our desire to reach out to the victims of broken marriages.
251 - Aug 2012 - Vocations: Australian religious Sisters: 'In the true spirit of Vatican II', Kate Cleary MGL
We are children of the Second Vatican Council.
252 - Aug 2012 - Youth: Young adult Catholics peer ministry in WA and Queensland, Br Barry Coldrey
Meanwhile there are equivalent developments in Western Australia where Bruce Downes initiated The Catholic Guy in 1996 assisted by his wife Rosemary his five adult children and some Perth friends.
253 - Aug 2012 - News: The Church Around the World
Farooq Murad of the Muslim Council of Britain said: We have a duty to defend the meaning of marriage guard its sanctity and protect the welfare of children.
254 - Jul 2012 - Letters: Communion reception, Ken Bayliss
However I am pleased to record that at a Requiem Mass I attended last year for a young mother of six children and wife of a young friend many young people chose to receive Holy Communion on the tongue in a kneeling position at the altar rails.
255 - Jul 2012 - Letters: Anti-Catholicism, Fr. M. Shadbolt
Jon Faine of the ABC admitted that sexual abuse of children existed elsewhere even in some Jewish organisations.
256 - Jul 2012 - Update: 'Jesus Abandoned' aid reaches the needy in Nigeria, Madonna Brosnan
Father Anthony first visited all the severely disabled children in the centre blessing and giving them Rosary purses and Divine Mercy prayer cards.
257 - Jul 2012 - Obama and same-sex 'marriage': Shaking his fist at God, Babette Francis
That all children should ideally have a mother and father is another .
258 - Jun 2012 - American priest's work for the protection of life in Russia, Eva-Maria Kolman
Together they mourn their dead children give them names and ask for forgiveness.
259 - Jun 2012 - Australian student campaigns for US college's Catholic identity, David Walsh
David is the youngest of seven children.
260 - Jun 2012 - Faith and Reason: Cardinal Pell debates Richard Dawkins on Q&A: a commentary, Frank Mobbs
I am tempted to comment that the idea that the universe came from nothing is childish but this would be unfair to children.
261 - Jun 2012 - News: The Church Around the World
When we permit same-sex relationships to mimic marriage we also say that children gain no benefit from the knowledge that they were created through an intimate act of love between their parents Cardinal Pell said.
262 - Jun 2012 - Secularism: Same-sex 'marriage' is an attack on parents' rights and religious freedom, Patrick Byrne
Legalising same-sex marriage is pivotal to the militant secular attack on religious freedom parents right to determine their childrens education and state-aid for church-based agencies.
263 - May 2012 - Letters: Education costs, Arnold Jago
At least as important perhaps might be having teachers whose good lives inspire children to be disciplined and God-fearing.
264 - May 2012 - Letters: Tradition, Peter Hill
My children and grandchildren are descended from an original couple who married in Australia.
265 - May 2012 - Letters: Rights of children, Robert Bom
Good governments have strong interests in marriage between man and woman because of the children it produces and because children are entitled to have a biological mother and father.
266 - May 2012 - UK Catholic schools under fire for 'homophobia', Hilary White
In 2009 the Schools Minister said that as of September 2010 all schools would be legally required to report all hate incidents however small and to keep records on offending children.
267 - May 2012 - Obama imposes contraception document on UN, Babette Francis
The US version contained paragraphs calling for sexuality education for children and reproductive rights for both women and girls but removed key provisions recognising parental rights respect for national sovereignty and religious and cultural values.
268 - May 2012 - News: The Church Around the World
Children are best nurtured by a mother and father .
269 - Apr 2012 - Books: LIGHT OF THE WORLD: The Pope, the Church and Signs of the Times, Archbishop Charles J. Chaput
This Pope is not a leader who downplays the damage done to innocent children and families or evades responsibility or makes excuses for evil actions.
270 - Apr 2012 - Missions: Where the Church's growth is fastest, Bishop John Thomas Kattrukudiyil
He mentioned too that their children were welcome to study.
271 - Apr 2012 - Culture: Christianity's essential role in civilising our society, Bishop Julian Porteous
In the education sector 29% of all children in Australia are educated in our 1690 Catholic schools.
272 - Apr 2012 - Pro-Life: Albury hosts well-attended Family Life International conference, Wanda Skowronska
He noted that the Malthusian doom continues to permeate three groups in particular - the radical population controllers the radical environmental movement and the radical feminists who reject marriage and see children as a burden.
273 - Mar 2012 - Reflection: The wonder of the Incarnation: Pope Benedict's Nazareth homily, Pope Benedict XVI
For as Mary joyfully proclaimed in her Magnificat God is ever mindful of his mercy the mercy promised to our forefathers to Abraham and his children for ever (Lk 1:54-55).
274 - Mar 2012 - Missions: Bringing hope to Nigeria's abandoned children, Madonna Brosnan
This Centre houses 460 abandoned disabled children along with some adults who are mentally ill or elderly.
275 - Mar 2012 - John Henry Newman on the Immaculate Conception, John Henry Newman
We as the children of Adam are heirs to the consequences of his sin and have forfeited in him that spiritual robe of grace and holiness which he had given him by his Creator at the time that he was made.
276 - Mar 2012 - The Immaculate Conception and the development of doctrine, Bishop Peter J. Elliott
The accurate version we use today still contrasts the children of the second Eve with those of Satan.
277 - Mar 2012 - The global financial crisis and the West's fertility decline, Babette Francis
He said the decline in births from the 1970s to the present time is what has led to the present situation of economic crisis and illustrated the negative effects that come about when births are interrupted and the family and children are ignored in the Western world.
278 - Mar 2012 - News: The Church Around the World
The letter concluded: The promotion and protection of marriage - the union of one man and one woman as husband and wife - is a matter of the common good and serves the well-being of the couple of children of civil society and all people.
279 - Feb 2012 - Reflection: Pope's New Year Message for 2012 underlines the right use of freedom, Pope Benedict XVI
Working conditions often incompatible with family responsibilities worries about the future the frenetic pace of life the need to move frequently to ensure an adequate livelihood to say nothing of mere survival all make it hard to ensure that children receive one of the most precious of treasures: the presence of their parents.
280 - Feb 2012 - Letters: SSPX schools, Ken Bayliss
He also suggested that a sticking point deterring non-SSPX parents from enrolling their children was that the four SSPX bishops are not yet regularised in the Church although their excommunication was lifted in 2009.
281 - Feb 2012 - Letters: Same-sex 'marriage', Robert Bom
For instance our governments play a major role in educating our children both through mandatory curricula and through funding.
282 - Feb 2012 - Mission UK: Can pagan Britain recover its Christian identity?
There have been some really hard situations with some parents not accepting a vocation getting really angry and thinking: Where are my grandchildren coming from?
283 - Feb 2012 - Domus Australia: 'Roots and wings': a little corner of Australia in Rome, Fr Anthony Denton
In thriving health and with enthusiasm the Pope said that the Church like good parents should provide her children with roots and wings.
284 - Feb 2012 - Law: Catholic politicians and same-sex 'marriage', Michael Gilchrist
As experience has shown the absence of sexual complementarity in these unions creates obstacles in the normal development of children who would be placed in the care of such persons.
285 - Dec 2011 - Letters: Devotion to Mary, Cedric Wright
As you can imagine children easily identify with Mary as our Mother and through her are led to love her Divine Son and the Holy Trinity Many intelligent young people find the modern Church bland and unattractive.
286 - Dec 2011 - Letters: Homeschooling, Matthew Buckley
Fr Dillon comments that home-schooled children miss out on important social interaction.
287 - Dec 2011 - Religious education: Different worlds: being Catholic in Indonesia and Australia, Phillip Turnbull
Mass attendance Indonesian children tell me what happened at Mass on Sunday as First Communion in Indonesia is not Last Communion.
288 - Dec 2011 - Schools: St Philomena's school: a beacon of excellence, Alistair Barros
The group approached the SSPX to develop a Catholic school that returned to classical spiritual and academic foundations for their children.
289 - Dec 2011 - Ad Limina Visit: Australia's Bishops reaffirm their unity with Benedict XVI, Michael Gilchrist
He added: All the members of the Church need to be formed in their faith from a sound catechesis for children and religious education imparted in your Catholic schools to much-needed catechetical programs for adults.
290 - Nov 2011 - Letters: Same sex marriage, Brian Harris
Australias religious magazine AD2000 is right when it insists that marriage is between a man and a woman and that same sex marriage can have a disastrous moral effect on the children involved therein.
291 - Nov 2011 - Letters: Catholic schools, Don Gaffney
I have seven children and 27 nieces and nephews and also 38 cousins mostly with families.
292 - Nov 2011 - WYD Madrid: World Youth Day: Becoming sons and daughters of Christ, Sam Rebbechi
To all who received him who believed in his name he gave power to become children of God.
293 - Nov 2011 - The Lion of Munster: Blessed Cardinal von Galen: a voice against tyranny, Babette Francis
Clemens August von Galen was born the eleventh of thirteen children of one of the most distinguished families of Westphalia.
294 - Nov 2011 - News: The Church Around the World
There is no question that normalising gay marriage means normalising homosexual behaviour for public school children.
295 - Oct 2011 - Letters: Bishop Morris, Michael Smith
Father had asked if the home schooler would consider sending her children to a Catholic school that was thoroughly orthodox.
296 - Oct 2011 - Catholic Schools: Saint Mary MacKillop Colleges, Wagga Wagga: progress report, Sr Mary Augustine OP
Parents in southern NSW and Victoria should consider these Colleges for their children given that they are prepared to provide weekday boarding opportunities (in Years 7-12) with good Catholic families.
297 - Oct 2011 - Pro-life: Signs of hope from the United States, Babette Francis
I was sickened by the sight of animals treated so inhumanely but what I will never understand is how people can so easily turn away from the even greater suffering we cause to our own children.
298 - Oct 2011 - Pastoral care: One of the Catholic Church's best kept secrets, Marie Mason
Gay agenda My husband and I have three grown-up children one of whom has lived with this condition for over twenty years with the same friend.
299 - Oct 2011 - Episcopacy: Cardinal Pell: the responsibilities of Church leadership, Cardinal George Pell
This is the experience in Australia where even the non-Catholic children in our schools will insist on going to confession.
300 - Oct 2011 - Angelus Message: Our Lady of the Rosary (October 7), Pope Benedict XVI
Presenting herself as Our Lady of the Rosary she insistently recommended the daily recitation of the Rosary to the three little shepherd children Lucia Jacinta and Francisco in order to obtain the end of the war.
301 - Sep 2011 - Letters: Catholic schools, Maria Plustwik
We built our house close to church and school as we were committed to raising our children in the Faith.
302 - Sep 2011 - Letters: Irish child abuse, Arnold Jago
The Premier of Ireland Enda Kenny condemns the Catholic Church about bishops failing to turn over to the police priests accused of child abuse: The rape and torture of children were downplayed or managed to uphold instead the primacy of the Institution its power standing and reputation.
303 - Sep 2011 - Glimpses of a new dawn in Russia, Babette Francis
5 million abortions reported in the country in 2007 - nearly the same as the number of children born in that year.
304 - Sep 2011 - Cloyne Report exposes Ireland's continuing sex abuse crisis, Michael Gilchrist
For Bishop Magee who resigned in 2010 after a tribunal found he had blatantly failed to implement church regulations on the abuse of children it was a spectacular fall from grace.
305 - Sep 2011 - Youth: Catholic young adult ministry: Sydney's formula for success, Br Barry Coldrey
Some of their children including those involved in the above retreat have been home-schooled others move in the networks of confident orthodox religious movements such as the Latin Mass Community Regnum Christi the Emmanuel Community the Neo-Catechumenate the Missionaries of Gods Love the Fraternas the Franciscan (Capuchins) the Dominican friars and the Young Men of God.
306 - Sep 2011 - News: The Church Around the World
Critics say that the curriculum promotes secularism and sexual immorality imposes an official view of gender ideology incites 12-year-olds to engage in sexual activity and violates the rights of parents and their children.
307 - Sep 2011 - Pope appoints Archbishop Chaput to troubled Philadelphia, Michael Gilchrist
Archbishop Chaputs appointment to Philadelphia came as that archdiocese was reeling from a scathing grand jury report released in February 2011 which accused the Archdiocese of failing to stop priests from sexually abusing children even after a previous report had called attention to problems.
308 - Aug 2011 - Books: STANDARD-BEARERS OF THE FAITH: Lives of the Saints for Young and Old, Terri Kelleher
The present series of little books are written for children but I was still keen to read them.
309 - Aug 2011 - Books: PRODIGAL DAUGHTERS: Catholic women come home to the Church, ed. Donna Steichen, Michael Daniel
She concludes by talking about the special vocation of parents to pray for such children.
310 - Aug 2011 - Letters: Rose-coloured glasses, Cathy Cleary
I have seven adult children and 24 grandchildren all thankfully still practising their faith and I love to see them at Mass praying by singing as well as by their responses and of course their silent prayer.
311 - Aug 2011 - Letters: Catholic schools, Fr Brendan Dillon PP
I did make a point later in the evening that home schooling had the disadvantage of depriving children of important social interaction and as John Morrissey records I stressed the fact that children from solid Catholic families can give good example to those who come from uncommitted families in a school environment: Baptism calls all of us to do just this.
312 - Aug 2011 - Obituary: John Wright (1923-2011): pillar of the Catholic faith, Michael Gilchrist
Born on 8 January 1923 he was the youngest of four children.
313 - Aug 2011 - Events: In defence of the authentic meaning of marriage - Canberra, 16 August 2011, Babette Francis
New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan warned it was a perilous presumption for the state to reinvent a God-given institution which has been the cornerstone of Western civilisation: It is an undeniable truth that marriage is one man one woman united in lifelong love and fidelity hoping for children .
314 - Aug 2011 - News: The Church Around the World
Made for Life features actual married couples reflecting on topics related to the gift of children the indispensable place of fathers and mothers and sexual difference.
315 - Jul 2011 - Books: STORIES OF KAROL: the Unknown Life of John Paul II, by G.F. Svidercoschi, Br Barry Coldrey
The testimonies range from little children to adults even seniors and include cardinals well-known lay people and many others.
316 - Jul 2011 - Letters: 'Homophobia', Arnold Jago
Before during and after puberty children must deal with unfamiliar feelings and new appetites.
317 - Jul 2011 - Whatever happened to the virtue of obedience?, Bishop Julian Porteous
Human nature has not changed as the ancient philosopher Socrates noted: The children now love luxury; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.
318 - Jul 2011 - Pro-Life: Hungary's new pro-life 'Easter' Constitution, Babette Francis
First there is a refreshing provision that would allow parents to vote on behalf of their underage children.
319 - Jun 2011 - Reflection: Pentecost, the feast of true hope for humanity, Bishop Arthur Serratelli
He sends his Holy Spirit who unites Gods children into a community where all are respected and all are loved.
320 - Jun 2011 - Books: MARRIAGE: The Rock on Which the Family is Built, by William E. May, Br Barry Coldrey
In keeping with the traditional papal teachings on marriage and the family since Pope Pius XII the author explains persuasively how Christian marriage creates not only a stable institution from which to raise children but also the embodiment of the call to sanctification and holiness which all faithful Catholics have as their primary vocation.
321 - Jun 2011 - Books: JESUS OF NAZARETH: Holy Week, by Pope Benedict XVI, Fr Glen Tattersall FSSP
Commenting on the famous passage in St Matthew when the whole people cry His blood be on us and on our children (27:25) Benedict comments that Jesus blood speaks a different language from the blood of Abel (Heb 12:24): it does not cry out for vengeance and punishment; it brings reconciliation.
322 - Jun 2011 - Moral values and the march of science, Archbishop Charles J. Chaput
We cant simultaneously serve the poor and accept the legal killing of unborn children.
323 - Jun 2011 - Letters: Catholic religious education: some grassroots views, John Morissey
Some parents attributed their childrens giving up practice of their religion to their experience in Catholic schools while others even reported that their younger children whom they had shifted to state or independent schools were retaining their Faith.
324 - Jun 2011 - Redefining gender: an assault on human dignity, Babette Francis
As an Observer not an official delegate I was not allowed to speak (the Australian Government does not appoint pro-life delegates to UN meetings) but I would like to have said: Does the honourable delegate from Greece know that Mother Teresa said there would never be world peace until abortions ceased; and that if mothers are allowed to kill their own children how can we stop other people from killing each other?
325 - May 2011 - Letters: A mixture, Arnold Jago
I am now responsible for the childrens liturgy at Easter she said.
326 - May 2011 - Literature: The 'impossible dream' of Don Quixote - Part 2 (Matthew 6:19), Andrew Kania
As a parent we wish our children to surpass us when they leave home.
327 - May 2011 - Liturgy: Welcome to the new translation of the Missal, Audrey English
The addition of the word Begotten makes clear the distinction between Jesus who is the only true Son and human beings who are made children of the Father by adoption.
328 - May 2011 - Interview: International Conference on Eucharistic Adoration in Rome, Father Florian Racine
We are convinced that Mary invites her children to come to adore Her Son present in the Eucharist.
329 - May 2011 - Oppression: Christians under fire worldwide, Cardinal Sean Brady
And here let us be clear Christians have every right to be here: - to gather in the public square; - to hand on their faith to their children; - to proclaim to the world the Christian truth about the dignity of every human being and the infinite love of our merciful God.
330 - May 2011 - Modern martytrs: Shahbaz Bhatti (1968-2011): Pakistan's contemporary martyr, Babette Francis
Born to Catholic parents in Lahore Bhatti was one of six children.
331 - May 2011 - Two million in Rome for beatification of John Paul II, Peter Westmore
In it he argued that this faculty is a God-given gift ordained towards the union of a man and woman in marriage to uplift them and provide the best environment for the love and care of children and for raising them to maturity.
332 - Apr 2011 - Books: THE LOSER LETTERS, by Mary Eberstadt, Terri Kelleher
abortion and euthanasia; the absence of women children and families from the writings and concerns of atheists; the lack of numbers of converts to atheism; and the slippery slope i.
333 - Apr 2011 - Catholic Church's pivotal role in South Korea's pro-life revival, Babette Francis
In November Kwak Seung-jun leader of the Presidential Council for Future and Vision announced proposals to expand benefits for single mothers and provide greater benefits to families with more than two children.
334 - Apr 2011 - Homosexual rights trump the rest, especially Christians', Fr John Flynn LC
Imbalance Another example of that imbalance came when a Christian pediatrician lost her claim of religious discrimination following her dismissal from an adoption panel for holding that children should not be placed with homosexual couples.
335 - Mar 2011 - Reflection: Mary's rosary: picture book of faith, hope and love, Bishop Robert Finn
And do you think that she whose loving response brought the Saviour into the world would now fail to come flying to her children when we call her - in the crush of the day or in the dark of our night?
336 - Mar 2011 - Letters: New 'morality', Fr Bernard McGrath
Every society in human history has considered marriage to be between two persons of the opposite sex for the union of spouses the procreating of children and the founding of families as the very basis of human society (public and private good).
337 - Mar 2011 - Letters: Beatification case for Bob Santamaria, Brian A. Peachey
You know his achievements: a united Christian family of eight magnificent children joyfully imbued with the spirit of Christ an unsurpassed record of loyalty to his Archbishop who expectably in his turn nominated Mr Santamaria as his own special representative to the second World Congress of the Lay Apostolate a long list of published writings reaching from the magazine article to the full length book each manifesting an almost unique grasp of the import and moment of contemporary issues.
338 - Mar 2011 - Netherlands: Migrants keep Church alive in Holland, Fr Cornelius van der Geest
The best thing to do for these people would be to come and live with us in the Schilderswijk for a few months and observe the fathers mothers and children.
339 - Mar 2011 - New Divine Mercy parish and school for Perth, Fr Paul Fox
There is already a good deal of local support with many families committed to enrolling their children.
340 - Mar 2011 - Faith and reason at Notre Dame, Sydney, Fr Richard Umbers
Jesus counsels his disciples I tell you solemnly unless you change and become like little children you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.
341 - Mar 2011 - Personal Ordinariates for former Anglicans: worldwide progress, Michael Gilchrist
Liverpool-born and married with three children Father Newton responding to his appointment said: I do not see my reception into the Catholic Church as a radical break but part of the ongoing pilgrimage of faith which began at my baptism.
342 - Feb 2011 - Reflection: The great but neglected harvest of inactive Catholics, Joseph Agius
The priests who minister to us in our parish in the Archdiocese of Melbourne ceaselessly encourage parents of children who are being baptised or receiving First Communion to bring them to Mass every Sunday.
343 - Feb 2011 - Books: Isabel of Spain: The Catholic Queen, by Warren Carroll, Terri M. Kelleher
Along with these successes Isabel saw to the royal future of her children and in the final years of her life experienced great sorrow at the harsh blows life dealt them.
344 - Feb 2011 - Letters: Euthanasia, Leon Voesenek
The report also noted that to these totals should be added unspecified numbers of handicapped babies sick children psychiatric patients and patients with AIDS whose lives were also terminated by doctors but for all of whom there was no reliable data.
345 - Feb 2011 - Young children: never too early to love God, Bishop Arthur Serratelli
We should never underestimate the abilities of children.
346 - Feb 2011 - That ubiquitous F word: don't demean the sacred, Fr Max Barrett CSsR
Children - whether their age be nine or ninety - are influenced by the high-fliers of the here-and-now.
347 - 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.
348 - Feb 2011 - Marriage: US bishops signal a tougher stance in the culture wars, Michael Gilchrist
Archbishop Kurtz added that 4500 copies of a DVD Made for Each Other and its accompanying education materials had been distributed around the country and other materials were in development aimed at teaching children.
349 - Feb 2011 - News: The Church Around the World
Can we be happy to celebrate first communion services which put people into debt for thousands of Euro he asked while neither the children nor their parents have been led to a true understanding of the Eucharist and the Church?
350 - Dec 2010 - Books: FIVE SMOOTH STONES: A 40 Day WYD08 Journal, by Stephen Lawrence, Bishop Joseph Grech
This book also shows clearly Steves love and deep connection with his wife Annie and their six children.
351 - Dec 2010 - Letters: Marriage, Arnold Jago
Our children - raised in broken homes molested by Mummys boy-friends - pay the price.
352 - Dec 2010 - Poetry: Euthanasia, the insidious escalator, Bruce Dawe
And as for terminally ill children if we really cared Shouldnt they also be included and wouldnt they Be better out of it altogether?
353 - Dec 2010 - Homily: Christus Rex Pilgrimage: Building God's Kingdom on earth, Bishop Peter J. Elliott
That was the vision of Saint Mary of the Cross MacKillop and she put it into action reaching out with her Sisters of Saint Joseph to the children to the poor to Indigenous Australians to women to the most vulnerable.
354 - Dec 2010 - News: The Church Around the World
Between 70 and 80 people were seriously wounded many of them women and children.
355 - Nov 2010 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
90 ISBN 978-1-93530-236-0 The 13th Day A Film by Ian amp; Dominic Higgins Shot on location in Portugal The 13th Day dramatises the true story of the three shepherd children of Fatima who witnessed six apparitions of the Virgin Mary between May and October 1917.
356 - Nov 2010 - Books: BLESSED JOHN  HENRY NEWMAN: A Richly Illustrated Portrait, by K.D. and D. Fso, Br Barry Coldrey
John Henry Newman was born in 1801 into a family of Anglican bankers the eldest of six children.
357 - Nov 2010 - Letters: Vatican II: infallibility, John Young
12:20) in inviting her straying children back into the fold.
358 - Nov 2010 - Liturgy: Catholic funerals: Bishop Elliott explains Melbourne's guidelines, Bishop Peter J. Eliott
Without comment the media reported another sensitive matter in the Guidelines: At the funerals of children pastoral care needs to be taken in the choice of music.
359 - Nov 2010 - Homosexuality: Courage and EnCourage Chicago Conference: holiness the key, Marie Mason
Among the noted speakers were Drs Janet Smith and Timothy Lock as well as workshops on differing topics on women or men with SSA parents of SSA children psychology etc.
360 - Nov 2010 - News: The Church Around the World
the scope of the law can be widened so that it includes not just those with terminal illness and unrelievable suffering but also people who suffer from depression those who cannot make their own decisions and even children.
361 - Nov 2010 - Canonisation: St Mary of the Cross MacKillop: let the truth be told, Peter Westmore
Nevertheless she persevered in establishing schools throughout Australia particularly in rural areas where none previously existed so as to provide a sound Catholic education for thousands of children.
362 - Oct 2010 - Books: WEDNESDAY WARRIORS: The St Pat's Ballarat Tradition, by James Gilchrist, Cardinal George Pell
Clark should be able to speak for himself: I want to produce outstanding citizens men with a sense of justice for others a sense of service to others good males good partners for their wives role models for their children.
363 - Oct 2010 - Letters: Little Angels, Fr M. Shadbolt
Firstly we priests there seldom took children for rides in our vehicles unless they were part of a family group.
364 - Oct 2010 - Good priests: the Church's essential foot soldiers, Cardinal George Pell
Much remains to be done among the young married and their children but our good priests are the essential foot soldiers in our age-old struggle.
365 - Oct 2010 - Celebrating National Marriage Day 2010, David Walsh
Dr Carlson then alluded to thousands of research projects in the fields of sociology psychology anthropology and medicine which all testify to one truth: children do best when they are born into a married-couple home and raised by their two natural parents.
366 - Oct 2010 - Foundations of Faith: Archbishop Hickey: Time to stand up for Christian marriage, Archbishop Hickey
National Marriage Day is supported by a number of like-minded community groups that have joined together to support and promote the uniqueness of marriage and its benefits for husband and wife for the children of the marriage and for society itself.
367 - Oct 2010 - Real Presence: Nigerian priest brings Eucharistic Adoration to a Brisbane parish, Bob Denahy
Bob Denahy taught Japanese at Geelong Grammar and Girton College Bendigo before buying a farm in northeast Victoria where he educated his own children in the 1980s and 1990s.
368 - Oct 2010 - News: The Church Around the World
The latest example of this was the loss by Leeds-based Catholic Care in a High Court appeal on the issue of whether they could continue to deny placing adopted children with same-sex couples.
369 - Oct 2010 - Culture of Death: Euthanasia: latest frontier for legalised death in Australia, Babette Francis
In the Netherlands children of 12 can be euthanased with the consent of their parents as can severely disabled infants.
370 - Sep 2010 - Formation: MacKillop College: Wagga's educational showcase, Joanne Andrews
I have found the question of what to do about our childrens future education to be quite a popular topic of conversation.
371 - Sep 2010 - Vocations: The story of a grandmother and her love of the priesthood, Andrew Kania
The children of their union five in all were either baptised in the Roman Rite or Byzantine Rite with my father being baptised as his father before him in the Ukrainian Catholic Church of the Holy Transfiguration in Jaroslaw.
372 - Sep 2010 - Natural Family Planning: Kyrgyzstan leads the way, Paula Flynn
We know of many couples who have experienced the joy of having children after many years of disappointment.
373 - Sep 2010 - Ecclesial movements in the life of the Church, Bishop Julian Porteous
He said Dear friends we want to be these children of God for whom creation is waiting and we can become them because the Lord has made us such in Baptism.
374 - Sep 2010 - News: The Church Around the World
The documented relationship of religious practice to other goods includes: childrens positive social development the quality of parent-child relationships levels of happiness including marital happiness participation in charitable services and pride in work.
375 - Aug 2010 - Reflection: Why the true meaning of marriage must be enshrined in law, Archbishop John C. Nienstedt
High rates of fatherlessness and family fragmentation impoverish children and leave women with the unfair burden of solo parenting.
376 - Aug 2010 - Books: THE GUILLOTINE AND THE CROSS, by Warren H. Carroll, Michael Daniel
Most of the Vendee was subdued by the end of 1793 and what followed was a systematic destruction of Vendean farmlands and the indiscriminate killing of men women and children.
377 - Aug 2010 - Foundations of Faith: The angel who died on Christmas Day, Arthur N. Ballingall
Upon arrival he set out to meet his parish community and being in a jeep was an instant magnet for the local children whom he obliged with many happy rides around the villages.
378 - Aug 2010 - Troubled future of the Church in Ireland, Archbishop Diarmuid Martin
Many people send their children to what is today a Catholic school not primarily because it is a Catholic school but because it is a good school.
379 - Jul 2010 - Books: HANDING ON THE FAITH IN AN AGE OF DISBELIEF, by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Br Barry Coldrey
What are the obstacles that hinder men women and children from hearing and embracing the Gospel?
380 - Jul 2010 - Books: CONVINCED BY THE TRUTH: Embracing the Fullness of Catholic Faith, John Fleming, John McCarthy
In concise and accessible prose he tells through a series of letters to his three daughters (who were small children at the time and are now in their twenties) the background and circumstances in which their parents (John and Alison) were received into the Catholic Church in 1987 after 16 years of service by Father Fleming as an Anglican priest.
381 - Jul 2010 - FOUNDATIONS OF FAITH: What we can know about heaven from Scripture and the Church, John Young
Jesus says that the childrens angels always see his Fathers face (Matt 18:10).
382 - Jul 2010 - Book launch: Cardinal Pell's new book 'Test Everything' launched, Michael Gilchrist
Over twenty years earlier the then Father Pell told graduating student teachers at Aquinas College Ballarat in 1984: Teachers must not take refuge in the platitude the false and misleading platitude that schools can do nothing for the religious development of children from irreligious homes .
383 - Jul 2010 - News: The Church Around the World
In November 2009 the court ruled in favour of local mother Soile Lautsis case to remove religious symbols including crucifixes from public schools in Italy to ensure her childrens right to a secular education.
384 - Jun 2010 - Christians and political action: euthanasia, Babette Francis
A woman in Western Australia an academic was 80 years of age and single with no children.
385 - Jun 2010 - FOUNDATIONS OF FAITH: The Eucharist: the background to Vatican II's liturgical reforms, Br Barry Coldrey
He encouraged early First Communion for children and frequent communion by the adult laity He encouraged research into reform of the Breviary.
386 - May 2010 - Conversion: 'Strangely and suspiciously tall': an Evangelical meets the Mother of God, Terri Kelleher
He said there is no evidence that she had any other children and that the claim from Scripture that some of the disciples were referred to as Jesus brothers is not conclusive as in Jewish culture at the time brother had a fairly loose meaning.
387 - May 2010 - Obama Health Bill: how liberal nuns undermined US bishops' opposition, Babette Francis
The Catholic Health Association has advocated aborting children with anencephaly.
388 - May 2010 - Parish life: A youth apostolate that works, Fr John O'Neill
The children of the parish have a future of wholesome companionship waiting for them.
389 - May 2010 - Culture: The vocation of Christians in public life, Archbishop Charles J. Chaput
One could cite abortion; immigration; our obligations to the poor the elderly and the disabled; questions of war and peace; our national confusion about sexual identity and human nature and the attacks on marriage and family life that flow from this confusion; the growing disconnection of our science and technology from real moral reflection; the erosion of freedom of conscience in our national health-care debates; the content and quality of the schools that form our children.
390 - May 2010 - Culture Wars: Christians uniting to take a stand: the Manhattan Declaration, Bishop Julian Porteous
Such a reshaping of the meaning of marriage will seriously subvert not only the environment for nurturing of children but will seriously weaken society.
391 - May 2010 - News: The Church Around the World
To set the record straight with regard to the efforts made by the Church to heal the wounds caused by clergy sexual misconduct; and the fact that the Catholic Church is probably the safest place for children at this point in history.
392 - Apr 2010 - Books: WEDNESDAY WARRIORS: Doing it for the Jumper, by James Gilchrist, David Perrin
Howard Clark sums up his philosophy as follows: I want to produce outstanding citizens men with a sense of justice for others a sense of service to others good males good partners to their wives role models for their own children .
393 - Apr 2010 - Books: CREED OR CHAOS: Why Christians Must Choose Either Dogma or Disaster, Sayers, Terri Kelleher
Our Lord said Unless ye become as little children ye shall not enter the Kingdom of Heaven (Matthew Ch 18) but children as Sayers points out have one thing in common - they want to grow up.
394 - Apr 2010 - Letters: Why not adoption?, Tom King
In Queensland 57 children were available for transfer to awaiting suitable adoptive parents during the period 2005 to 2009.
395 - Apr 2010 - Letters: Family, Arnold Jago
Marriage provides a more stable family environment for children than does living with unmarried parents.
396 - Apr 2010 - Real Presence: Eucharistic Adoration: ultimate weapon of spiritual warfare, Fr Martin Durham
The Cardinal encouraged parish priests to introduce the practice of Eucharistic Adoration with everyone to be involved beginning with the children preparing for First Communion.
397 - Apr 2010 - Religious freedom: UK Catholic schools forced to teach homosexuality in the classrooms, Babette Francis
com reported in February that Britains Labour Government has clarified that an amendment to the Children Schools and Families Bill which says faith schools may teach the mandatory Personal Social and Health Education (PSHE) program in a way that reflects the schools religious character does not in fact give the schools freedom to oppose abortion contraception and homosexual activity on moral grounds.
398 - Apr 2010 - Bishop Kevin Rhoades: Tribute to an outstanding American Church leader, Fr John Trigilio
Just like parents should not seek to be friends to their children bishops do not need to be friends - they need to be pastors.
399 - Apr 2010 - Irish child abuse scandal and cover-ups: bishops meet with Pope, Michael Gilchrist
They added that while there is no doubt that errors of judgment and omissions stand at the heart of the crisis significant measures have now been taken to ensure the safety of children and young people.
400 - Apr 2010 - News: The Church Around the World
The Catholic Charities affiliate had transitioned its foster and adoption program to the National Center for Children and Families (NCCF) on 1 February.
401 - Mar 2010 - Events: AD2000 - Passover Meal - 30 March 2010
00 children under 14 $15.
402 - Mar 2010 - Netherlands: Remnants of faith in Europe's most secularised nation, Marina Corradi
Skating rinks were crowded with laughing children Santa Clauses and the strains of Jingle Bells coming from the big crowded stores.
403 - Mar 2010 - Secularism: Benedict to UK bishops: resist secularist threat, Michael Gilchrist
The rights to life to marriage to family; the recognition of the family based on marriage as the fundamental unit of society; the rights of parents to determine the moral and religious education of their children; and the rights to freedom of religion belief and conscience are all recognised by the major international human rights agreements.
404 - Feb 2010 - Letters: Green religion, Deric Davidson
As the Canadian born author Mark Steyn says of the green religion We are the pollution and sterilisation is the solution The best way to bequeath a more sustainable environment to our children is not to have any.
405 - Feb 2010 - Letters: New priests for the Sydney Archdiocese, Fr Michael De Stoop
Gerard Woo Ling age 39 from Surry Hills is one of eight children born in Trinidad to Catholic parents especially a mother whose love for the gift of the faith she imparted to her children by example.
406 - Feb 2010 - News: The Church Around the World
But the investigation also found that even when senior police officers did receive complaints from parents of abused children they treated the Church as above the law - and sometimes handed reports of child-molesting priests straight back to bishops for them to handle meaning nothing was done.
407 - Feb 2010 - Editorial: A new decade but the same challenges remain, Michael Gilchrist
Many of todays Catholic families on which the Faiths continued survival largely depends are struggling to function effectively and while the Church rightly regards parents as the primary educators of their children few in practice are up to the task.
408 - Dec 2009 - Reflection: The sacrament of Christian marriage: a nuptial Mass homily, Fr Glen Tattersall
In marriage this means that the spouses help each other to grow in intimacy with God and that in return they desire to co-operate lovingly with Him and each other in accepting and nurturing the gift of children.
409 - Dec 2009 - Books: This month's selection from AD Books
00 ISBN 978-0-85244-686-7 Children of the Second Spring John Furnival Here is an inspiring account of one of Englands most famous priests Father James Nugent who pioneered Catholic charitable work in the streets of Liverpool and founded many institutions for the poor and needy.
410 - Dec 2009 - Letters: Greens and Church, Kevin Cains
The site advertises books such as Sparks of the Cosmos: Rituals for Seasonal Use; Sparks of Life Rituals for Children and Celebrating the Great Mother: A Handbook of Earth Honoring Activities for Parents and Children.
411 - Dec 2009 - Episcopacy: Church leadership responsibilities: an American case study, Phil Lawler
How many children have daydreamed their way through religious education programs that offer no real introduction to the Catholic faith?
412 - Dec 2009 - Editorial: Benedict XVI: When God entered human history, Pope Benedict XVI
Let us think especially of those children who are denied the love of their parents.
413 - Nov 2009 - Reflection: The Feast of All Souls and the Communion of Saints, Fr Dennis Byrnes
This responsibility continues after death until we are all part of the new generation of the children of God.
414 - Nov 2009 - Missionaries: Mary Glowrey (1887-1957): Australian witness to hope in India, Robyn Fahy And Fr Dan Strickland MGL
Of Irish descent she was the third of nine children born into a loving and prayerful family.
415 - Nov 2009 - Schools: How to rebuild Catholic education from the grass-roots, Sr Mary Augustine OP
At our most recent parent function Father Thomas Casanova CCS conducted an excellent set of talks and discussions on the pluses and minuses of communications technology and the parental role in preventing children from becoming addicted or otherwise dehumanised by it all.
416 - Nov 2009 - The work of Courage and EnCourage supported by Melbourne priests, Marie Mason
With the parents and their desire to support each other as they desperately long to remain close to their children I see another level of anguish and struggle which needs Gods graced touch.
417 - Oct 2009 - Books: THE QUEST FOR SHAKESPEARE, by Joseph Pearce, Michael Daniel
References to him in parish baptism marriage and burial registers in Anglican parish churches cannot be taken as evidence of his Anglicanism: they were as Pearce argues necessary legal steps that were taken by Catholics of the period to ensure that children were legitimate and that bodies were buried.
418 - Oct 2009 - Letters: Marriage and divorce, Arnold Jago
Whose job is it to warn young people that non-marriage relationships ruin both ones own life and that of ones partner - and especially that of any poor children who have turned up?
419 - Oct 2009 - Letters: Healthy families, John Carty
There are volumes of research demonstrating beyond doubt that intact stable marriages are by far the best ways of retaining a good birthrate and for the best conditions for childrens nurture and societys well-being.
420 - Oct 2009 - Community Life: 'Progressive' leadership and the demise of religious life, Br Paul Macrossan
Excessive pushing of eco-theology (tree hugging) Celtic spirituality (much of it pre-Christian) assorted relaxation techniques spiritual dancing and the rest do not seem in general to have made their devotees any more contented with their lot as children of God.
421 - Oct 2009 - News: The Church Around the World
As Catholics we must not stand by in silence in the face of the many challenges that threaten marriage and in turn children and the public good.
422 - Sep 2009 - Letters: Ultrasound, Anne Lastman
For example ultrasound is being used to gender select children so my suspicion is that ultrasound will contribute to an escalation of abortion rather than a lessening.
423 - Sep 2009 - Christian Life: Courage and EnCourage: a chaste lifestyle for the same-sex attracted, Marie Mason
We met other Catholic parents and talked with them about our shared struggle to let go and let Jesus bring our SSA children back to Him.
424 - Sep 2009 - News: The Church Around the World
My fellow civil rights workers and I will be on Capitol Hill to say that if President Obama Speaker Pelosi or anyone else truly wants to reduce the number of abortions they will not coerce Americans to pay for them and they will not subsidise Planned Parenthood the billion-dollar business that has killed more black children than the Ku Klux Klan.
425 - Aug 2009 - Reflection: Mary in God's plan of salvation, Bishop Arthur J. Serratelli
The mother clings to her children like ivy to the castle wall.
426 - Aug 2009 - God's Messengers: Angels: what Scripture and Tradition reveal, Susan McKinley
Similarly Saint Padre Pio often sought the aid of his guardian angel in carrying out his good works and was known to invite his spiritual children to send me your guardian angel if they ever needed his help and prayers of intercession.
427 - Aug 2009 - Priesthood: Benedict XVI's Letter to priests: follow example of the Curé of Ars
He regularly visited the sick and families organised popular missions and patronal feasts collected and managed funds for his charitable and missionary works embellished and furnished his parish church cared for the orphans and teachers of the Providence (an institute he founded) provided for the education of children founded confraternities and enlisted lay persons to work at his side.
428 - Aug 2009 - Human rights: Small victories for pro-lifers at the UN, Babette Francis
However due to the valiant efforts of the Holy See Egypt and Pakistan who opposed adoption of this report and the lobbying of pro-life groups such as the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute (CAFHRI) and Patrick Buckley of the UK Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) the report was dropped from the final Resolution.
429 - Aug 2009 - News: The Church Around the World
And propagandising young children about a value-neutral approach to sex and telling them that theyll be safe if they use condoms is exactly how you get them to start practising sex before marriage.
430 - Jul 2009 - Letters: Priestly celibacy, Brian Bibby
Parishes would have to raise enough funding for the priest his wife and children plus a vehicle for his wife and later for their teenage children plus the cost of a university education.
431 - Jul 2009 - Ryan Commission: Irish report: child abuse in Church institutions, Br Barry Coldrey
Moreover government inspectors failed to intervene to stop the pervasive severity sexual abuse and sparse standard of living to which the children were subjected.
432 - Jul 2009 - New Evangelisation: Catholics Come Home: a fresh approach to re-evangelising, Bob Denahy
Bob Denahy taught Japanese at Geelong Grammar and Girton College Bendigo before buying a farm in north-east Victoria where he educated his own children in the 1980s and 90s.
433 - Jul 2009 - News: The Church Around the World
This was because pro-life Christians are attempting to protect real unborn children by the thousands and fighting for the right to exercise a rightly formed conscientious difference with public policy.
434 - Jun 2009 - Books: AD2000 Books for June
95 Children and Parents Fulton J.
435 - Jun 2009 - Books: Catholic Christianity: A Complete Catechism of Catholic Beliefs, by Peter Kreeft, Michael Daniel
Although it is designed primarily as a reference book rather than one that a reader would read from cover to cover Catholic Christianity would be an excellent resource for those involved in Catholic education parents who wish to supplement their childrens religious education or anyone who simply wants to clarify what the Catholic Church actually teaches on a particular doctrinal matter.
436 - Jun 2009 - FOUNDATIONS OF FAITH: The Last Things: death, judgment, Heaven, Purgatory, Hell, Br Barry Coldrey
John can tell that the judgment is on track at last and in quick succession mentions that he has been on a number of camps for underprivileged children helped some young Aborigines with their homework and given a few dollars to the Salvos annual doorknock.
437 - Jun 2009 - Interview: American Catholics and abortion: the Church at the crossroads, Mariangela Sullivan
Many Catholics believe that unborn children are persons with rights and yet do not oppose their legal termination.
438 - Jun 2009 - News: The Church Around the World
These are the extended Mass for the Vigil of Pentecost the additional dismissals at the end of Mass the deletion of the Eucharistic Prayers for Masses with Children from being printed in the altar Missal (as instructed by the Holy Father) a Prayer over the gifts for September 8 and Common of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Ordinary time and the more recent feasts of St Pio of Pietrelcina (23 September) St Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin (9 December) and Our Lady of Guadalupe (12 December).
439 - May 2009 - Books: AD2000 Books for May
95 Children and Parents Fulton J.
440 - May 2009 - Letters: One Shepherd, Peter D. Howard
For there will come a time when far from being content with sound teaching people are avid for the latest novelty and collect themselves a whole series of teachers according to their own tastes (2Tim 4:3); and That we should no longer be children tossed to and fro and carried about by every wind of doctrine by the trickery of men in the cunning craftiness by which they lie in wait to deceive (Eph 4:14).
441 - May 2009 - Letters: Simple faith, Alan Barron
God requires from each one of His children a simple faith and trust in the propitiatory sacrifice of His dear Son.
442 - May 2009 - Staying together: Stable families: the best defence against violence
In addition the modern fashion for cohabitation instead of marriage did not help the adults or the children involved.
443 - May 2009 - US Catholics leaving the Church in droves: what can be done?, Fr Joseph A. Sirba
1% of the adult population which is more than double the number of adults who say that they were unaffiliated as children (7.
444 - May 2009 - Inter-faith dialogue: Jewish leader defends Pope over Bishop Williamson controversy, AD2000 Report
The most important issue he said is the work the Church is doing to save babies from abortion and to save childrens and young peoples minds helping them to know right and wrong on the life and family issues.
445 - May 2009 - Dissent: Rebel South Brisbane priest: new cafeteria church launched, Michael Gilchrist
So many women who have six seven eight nine children and then dont think they can possibly support another child have an abortion in a backyard abortion clinic.
446 - Apr 2009 - Books: AD2000 Books for April
95 Children and Parents Fulton J.
447 - Apr 2009 - Letters: Bush fires, Maureen Federico
I am not sure what message the Bible says to Mr Zwartz but both the Old and the New Testament have a number of retribution passages: Noahs Ark is a famous one the Plagues of Egypt the Psalms Jesus throwing out the sellers in the Temple the whitened sepulchres and the scandalising of children punished by a millstone around his neck and cast into the depths of the sea.
448 - Apr 2009 - Foundations of Faith: The Mass and private devotions in Catholic life, Br Barry Coldrey
She was born in 1905 the third of ten children to a Polish peasant family making a meagre living on a small property near Lodz in centre of the country.
449 - Apr 2009 - Anti-life platform: Archbishop Chaput: President Obama and the challenge for US Catholics, Archbishop Charles Chaput
We cant build a just society with the blood of unborn children.
450 - Apr 2009 - Red Mass Homily: Catholics as 'bearers of light' in a secular culture, Bishop Peter J. Elliott
Families and individuals are free to practise their religion to live according to its moral laws to teach its precepts to their children to worship in conscience according to customs.
451 - Apr 2009 - Editorial: Confronting the long march of secularism, Michael Gilchrist
The provision of abortion will do nothing for the health of mothers and children in the developing world.
452 - Mar 2009 - Books: Books available now from AD2000 Books
They would make ideal Christmas gifts for children or grandchildren which introduce or reinforce different aspects of the Catholic faith.
453 - Mar 2009 - Books: THE BIBLE AND THE QUR'AN, by Jacques Jomier OP, Tim Cannon
Although I cannot guarantee this chapter will induce in all readers the goose bumps I felt it surely fills one with great hope: Our Lady says Sheen always turns her beloved children to Christ.
454 - Mar 2009 - Books: Labour and Justice, by Gavan Duffy, Peter Westmore
He seems to have had a particularly soft spot for them as well as for children and widows.
455 - Mar 2009 - Letters: Generosity, Fr A. Joseph
You are welcome to help such unfortunate children in their studies.
456 - Mar 2009 - Vocations: Indian priests: still plentiful but fewer available for overseas, AD2000 Report
Some of the forces contributing to a lack of priests in Western countries have begun to be felt in India with parents having fewer children.
457 - Mar 2009 - News: The Church Around the World
4 children per family is now complete.
458 - Feb 2009 - Books: Books available now from AD2000 Books
They would make ideal Christmas gifts for children or grandchildren which introduce or reinforce different aspects of the Catholic faith.
459 - Feb 2009 - Books: QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS: Pope Benedict XVI, Siobhan Reeves
Children young adults and priests gain unprecedented access to the Pope QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS: Pope Benedict XVI (Our Sunday Visitor 2008 hardback 175pp $33.
460 - Feb 2009 - Letters: Thanks from India, Fr S. John Joseph
I am happy to take this occasion to render my thanks to you for publishing my request for school items for our poor children Thanks a lot for your kindness and generosity.
461 - Feb 2009 - Letters: Jewish conversions, Andrew Sholl
That the Two Covenant theory is a nonsense nay heresy has been highlighted very recently in Paris when a prominent Orthodox Rabbi a widower with six children was instantaneously converted to Catholicism in front of a crucifix in the Church of St Augustine.
462 - Feb 2009 - Foundations of Faith: Protestant Reformation: origins and beliefs, Frank Mobbs
No gambling no dancing were permitted and styles of clothing and shoes and womens hair styles were regulated with childrens names restricted to those in the Bible.
463 - Feb 2009 - News: The Church Around the World
More recently he encouraged Catholic parents to use all legitimate means in your power to defend your right to determine the moral education of your children.
464 - Dec 2008 - Reflection: Benedict XVI's Christmas homily: how God became a child for us, Pope Benedict XVI
In this way he teaches us respect for children.
465 - Dec 2008 - Books: Books available now from AD2000 Books
50 Advent Christmas and Epiphany Catherine amp; Peter Fournier This spiral bound book provides numerous activities for children and families to help them better understand and celebrate the Advent Christmas and Epiphany seasons.
466 - Dec 2008 - News: The Church Around the World
In his book Fr Dresser claims Mary had as many as six children Joseph was the father of Jesus and the bodily Resurrection is not to be taken literally.
467 - Nov 2008 - Letters: From India, Fr S. John Joseph
Would some good-hearted people among your readers be prepared to lend a helping hand to these poor children and so have a share in their education?
468 - Nov 2008 - Letters: Turnaround needed, John Schmid
But when will we hear of action taken on behalf of parents who see their children give up the faith within a year or so of leaving Catholic schools?
469 - Nov 2008 - What happened then: what matters now - Swithun Wells, martyr of England, Rosemary Lucadou-Wells
Swithuns final words to Topcliffe are of forgiveness and hope for his executioners conversion: I pray God make of you a Saul a Paul of a bloody persecutor one of the Catholic Churchs children.
470 - Nov 2008 - Foundations of Faith: God's gift of sex: building a civilisation of life and love, Catherine Sheehan
As a society we are also facing increasing problems with broken families and marriages sexually transmitted diseases widespread abortion infertility low birth rates the proliferation of pornography and the sexual abuse of children.
471 - Nov 2008 - Anima Women's Network: giving 'heart' to women of faith, Anna Krohn
Anima Conferences have addressed issues such as the relationship of women and children St Theacute;rse and her experience of depression the theology of the body the destructive reality of trafficking and prostitution positive strategies for stress the vital role of women in building a Culture of Life Mary and the Eucharist the healing touch of Christ and women and the question of authentic feminine beauty.
472 - Nov 2008 - Victorian abortion law threatens Catholic hospitals, AD2000 Report
There is no right to the destruction of innocent persons and our community should be offering vulnerable pregnant women much more than simply an increasing number of ever more accessible ways in which their unborn children can be killed.
473 - Oct 2008 - Reflecton: Benedict XVI: the natural family, cornerstone of world peace, Pope Benedict XVI
In the inflation of its speech society cannot cease to refer to that grammar which all children learn from the looks and the actions of their mothers and fathers even before they learn from their words.
474 - Oct 2008 - Books: WHAT MOTHER TERESA TAUGHT ME, by Maryanne Raphael, Catherine Sheehan
Acknowledging that we are Gods children she insists that as such we should place ourselves entirely in His hands and not worry too much about anything - easier said than done.
475 - Oct 2008 - WYDSYD08: Thomas More Centre Youth follow up World Youth Day, Bridget Spinks
to give a public lecture in southern NSW in mid-September to explain how advertising sparks the early sexualisation of children.
476 - Oct 2008 - Foundations of Faith: Recent Marian apparitions and the life of the Church, Br Barry Coldrey
When Mary appears it is often in isolated places - LIle Bouchard (France) Naju (Korea) Kibeho (Rwanda) - and to children teenagers or other marginalised individuals such as women in Third World countries.
477 - Oct 2008 - Timor L'Este: Fly Away to Heaven: East Timor and World Youth Day, Sister Terezinha
We do not want to miss anybody therefore we would like to summarise by thanking all our benefactors wherever they may be the school children and their teachers the pilots journalists and photographers the musicians and each one of you who have contributed in one way or another to value a difference in the life of another.
478 - Oct 2008 - News: The Church Around the World
A controversy last year over British government requirements to adopt children to homosexual couples revealed that many Catholic agencies had a policy of allowing children to be adopted to single homosexuals sometimes with the tacit blessing of the local bishop.
479 - Sep 2008 - Books: SAINT BENEDICT'S RULE: A New Translation for today, by Patrick Barry OSB, Michael Daniel
However remedies such as fasting and sharp strokes of the rod for errant young children are best considered as discipline strategies from another era.
480 - Sep 2008 - Books: THE WISDOM OF NAZARETH: Stories of Catholic Family Life, Siobhan Reeves
Spouses struggle with stubbornness unforgiveness frustration pride self-pity impatience and physical trials such as abortion separation miscarriages adoption accidents financial difficulties handicapped children the demands of NFP illness sterilisation and poor living conditions.
481 - Sep 2008 - Books: Saving Those Damned Catholics, by Judie Brown, Catherine Sheehan
Brown however brings to light what many of the clergy and the media are loath to discuss namely the number of homosexual priests responsible for these crimes against children.
482 - Sep 2008 - The physical and mental scars of abortion, Charles Francis
It not only violates the Commandment Thou shalt not kill but there is particular evil in killing ones own children because in doing so we desecrate Gods plan for the future.
483 - Sep 2008 - News: The Church Around the World
In one case Catholic Charities in Massachusetts had been forced to shut down its adoption program because it refused to place children with same-sex couples as required by state law.
484 - Aug 2008 - Letters: Human rights, Maureen Federico
Whether fanatical murderers who use religion as a catchcry; corporate raiders who jeopardise the living of workers in an industry; the programmers of early TV where children are not spared from scary images (even in advertising) which can upset a childs equilibrium; artists who use child pornography under the guise of their profession but with the compliance of a like-minded peer group.
485 - Aug 2008 - Education: Progress continues with the new Wagga Wagga independent schools, Barbara Chigwidden
The planning of two independent high schools Our Lady of the Rosary Girls School and Christ the King Boys School began in 2006 as a response to a need amongst many Catholic families looking for a different approach which would ensure their children leave school not only knowing their faith but practising it.
486 - Aug 2008 - Interview: Denise Mountenay on post-abortive women: from silence to lawsuits, Luke McCormack
At the retreat I totally accepted the whole truth I was responsible for killing my own children and a deep grief emerged as I wept and accepted the truth of abortion.
487 - Aug 2008 - The tragic dilemmas of China's one-child policy, Babette Francis
Mothers screamed as rescue teams dug through the quake school rubble and brought out bodies of dead children the only child for many of these mothers.
488 - Aug 2008 - Holy Land: Middle East Christians face a precarious future, Robin Harris
Not just the murder of the 65- year-old Chaldean Archbishop of Mosul in March but the shooting of other priests and deacons the burning of 40 churches the unspeakable torture and slaughter of children.
489 - Aug 2008 - Benedict XVI reaffirms Humanae Vitae on its 40th anniversary, Pope Benedict XVI
Natural law which is at the root of the recognition of true equality between persons and peoples deserves to be recognised as the source that inspires the relationship between the spouses in their responsibility for begetting new children.
490 - Aug 2008 - News: The Church Around the World
Mr Porritt who has been involved with Friends of the Earth and Greenpeace and heads the Governments Sustainable Development Commission argued that the only way to save the Earth was to have fewer children.
491 - Jul 2008 - Abortion: A false concept of moral equivalence, Babette Francis
The VLRC focus on womens autonomy being of greater value than the life of their unborn children almost suggests that pregnant women are imprisoned in dungeons and deprived of freedom food and fresh air for nine months duration.
492 - Jun 2008 - Letters: FEMINISM V. MANKIND: Selected Essays, Catherine Sheehan
Even before Simone de Beauvoir had written The Second Sex in 1949 and Betty Friedan The Feminine Mystique in 1963 the communist Friedrich Engels had written in 1884 that the reintegration of the whole female sex into the public industrial sector with children being raised by the state was a necessary condition for the liberation of women.
493 - Jun 2008 - Letters: Priests needed in Ballarat, Jenny Bruty
We are in desperate need of priests - for ourselves our children and our grandchildren - as only a priest can celebrate Mass.
494 - 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.
495 - Jun 2008 - News: The Church Around the World
John Barich AFA British Catholic schools: no late baptisms Catholic schools in Britain are now rebuffing parents who desperate to enrol their children in high-quality Catholic schools baptise their children for pragmatic reasons according to the London Telegraph.
496 - May 2008 - Ballarat: Children's Spirituality Conference at ACU: not to be confused with religion!, Michael Gilchrist
Dr de Souza was one the speakers at a recent Childrens Spirituality Conference held at the Ballarat Campus of Australian Catholic University from 20-24 January 2008.
497 - May 2008 - Editorial: Re-evangelising young unchurched Catholics, Michael Gilchrist
Parents and grandparents might share them with their children or grandchildren or church-going younger Catholics could offer them to their non-practising friends.
498 - Apr 2008 - Books: REDEEMING GRIEF: Abortion and Its Pain, by Anne Lastman, Charles Francis
Deadlier because nations are killing their children their future their citizens.
499 - Apr 2008 - Letters: Student generosity, Name and Address Supplied
These young men work with reaching the unreached (RTU) a project established by Br James Kimpton an 82-year-old English De La Salle Brother committed to looking after abandoned children in the Theni district of Tamil Nadu India.
500 - Apr 2008 - Fly Away to Heaven project: responding to Christ's call to charity, Fr John Fowles CCS
If we encounter them we ought come to their aid in a positive way whether they are aged people abandoned by all foreign workers despised without reason refugees illegitimate children wrongly suffering for sin they did not commit or starving human beings who awaken our conscience by calling to mind the words of Christ as you did it to one of the least of these my brethren you did it to me (Gaudium et Spes 27).
501 - Apr 2008 - Human rights: Cardinal Joseph Zen: conscience of China, Peter Westmore
It operates about 317 schools and kindergartens enrolling more than 264000 children as well as six hospitals 15 medical clinics 12 social centres 19 hostels 13 homes for the aged and 19 rehabilitation centres.
502 - Apr 2008 - News: The Church Around the World
Members of the Children Schools and Families Committee plan to call senior bishops to give evidence in an inquiry into the approach schools are adopting towards a range of issues - including abortion sex education and PSHE (personal and social health education) classes.
503 - Mar 2008 - Books: GOD AND CAESAR: Religion, Politics, and Society, by Cardinal George Pell, Catherine Sheehan
A Christian faith gives hope to believers with committed Christians generally having more children than non-believers.
504 - Mar 2008 - Letters: Homosexual 'marriage', Arnold Jago
Yes giving homosexual adults the right to raise children sounds nice - until you realise it extinguishes the childs right to have a mother and a father.
505 - Mar 2008 - News: The Church Around the World
These proposals he said were emphatically opposed by the Church since the inevitable consequence of legal recognition of same sex unions would be the redefinition of marriage which would become in its legal status an institution devoid of essential reference to factors linked to heterosexuality; for example procreation and raising children.
506 - Feb 2008 - Books: A YEARBOOK OF SEASONS AND CELEBRATIONS, by Joanna Bogle, Eric Hester
It would be worth buying just for some of its appendices - Christmas and Lenten quizzes with answers and a superb list of recommended books for children.
507 - Feb 2008 - Books: WHEN MIGHT BECOMES HUMAN RIGHT:Essays on Democracy and the Crisis of Rationality, Tim Cannon
For example advocates of the right of gay men and women to raise children argue that since the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights states that all men and women have the right to marry and found a family laws which restrict marriage and child-rearing to heterosexual couples contravene the rights of gay men and women.
508 - Feb 2008 - The need for solitude and reflection amid today's cacophony, Andrew Kania
Decades later scientists would research extensively into the effects of a lack of time for silence reflection and contemplation on the life of children and young adults.
509 - Feb 2008 - How to reform Catholic education: get the world view right, Chris Hilder
Thus it is argued children dont need to learn to calculate so much as they need a process for thinking about math; they dont need historical facts so much as they need ways of thinking critically about the historical process.
510 - Feb 2008 - A remarkable father remembered, Maria Rankin
At his funeral there was a full guard of honour consisting of the school children from Our Lady Help of Christians School at Epping Sydney where during life he had attended the church connected to the school.
511 - Feb 2008 - Technical school: Salesians continue to help post-tsunami Sri Lanka, Michael Lynch SDB
(Parents feel almost compelled to send their children to private after-school coaching to prepare for examinations - a very expensive undertaking for poor families.
512 - Feb 2008 - Grace under fire: ordinations, and first Holy Communion in Iraq, Babette Francis
First Communion With new ordinations to the priesthood and children receiving their first Holy Communion the Christian community in Iraq refuses to give in to the systematic persecution it is subjected to.
513 - Feb 2008 - Editorial: Can Catholic schools recover their 'salt', Michael Gilchrist
At a time when secularism increasingly shapes the mind-sets of the Churchs membership and fewer families are able to fulfil their domestic church role as the primary educators of children more responsibility than ever falls on Catholic schools to equip the new generations spiritually in the face of formidable challenges to their faith.
514 - Dec 2007 - Letters: Homosexual 'marriage', Arnold Jago
Yes giving homosexual adults the right to raise children sounds nice - until you realise it extinguishes the childs right to have a mother and father.
515 - Dec 2007 - Letters: Dissent, Brian Bibby
The formation of a new organisation Protect Our Children to tackle the doctrinal and moral abuse of Catholic children.
516 - Dec 2007 - News: The Church Around the World
Warning on atheism for kids movie A new movie starring Nicole Kidman will belittle Catholicism and promote atheism to children warned the US Catholic League President Bill Donohue in October.
517 - Nov 2007 - Reflection: Benedict XVI on Sunday Mass: 'not a command, but an inner necessity', Pope Benedict XVI
We know that God has adopted us as his children he has truly welcomed us into communion with himself.
518 - Nov 2007 - Books: ONE MAN, ONE WOMAN by Dale O'Leary, Bill Muehlenberg
Together these various activist groups and social engineers have been causing great harm not just to marriage and family but to children and religious freedom as well.
519 - Nov 2007 - World Youth Day: Wagga Wagga priest's 'fly-a-thon' project to aid East Timor
Australians today are fighting their own battle against another enemy materialism which erodes an appreciation of basic values that families once were able to instil in their children.
520 - Oct 2007 - Reflection: Archbishop Hickey on the Christian concept of marriage, Archbishop Barry Hickey
Its openness to children is part of the vocation of marriage where spouses trust God implicitly.
521 - Oct 2007 - Letters: Nonsense, Frank Bellet
She was commenting with horror on the case of a woman who murdered two of her very young children.
522 - Oct 2007 - Letters: Catholic education, June See
Many poor Catholic people who came to Australia in the 19th and 20th centuries at great expense to themselves sent their children to Catholic schools for a sound education and for the faith of their fathers.
523 - Oct 2007 - Protect Our Children: New organisation to tackle doctrinal and moral child abuse, Fr John O'Neill PP
This one is called Protect Our Children Agency having been set up in order to protect Catholic children from doctrinal and moral child abuse arising from the content or the method of teaching in Catholic schools or in any church organisation responsible for teaching the Faith.
524 - Oct 2007 - More of the same: Retired Sydney bishop calls for a radical overhaul of the Catholic faith, Michael Gilchrist
He then warns others will not stop asking How many abused children is celibacy worth?
525 - Oct 2007 - News: The Church Around the World
Catholic News Agency Worldwide Childrens Holy Hour Benedict XVI has granted an Apostolic Blessing on the upcoming annual worldwide Childrens Holy Hour to take place on the First Friday 5 October 2007.
526 - Sep 2007 - Poem: A poem for Mary's Birthday, Brian Joseph Mulligan
A mother who has experienced Every pain And for the sake of your children You will do it all again.
527 - Sep 2007 - Laity: How the Legion of Mary can benefit parishes, Fr Hugh Thwaites SJ
Most of Our Ladys children are now away from the narrow path that leads to salvation.
528 - Sep 2007 - Catholic education must be 'unashamedly Catholic', Bishop Robert Finn
The Declaration on Christian Education Gravissimum Educationis from the Second Vatican Council affirms the priority of this call to parents who are the first teachers of their children (No.
529 - Sep 2007 - Rediscovering the real history of Australian Catholic education, Eamonn Keane
After stating that the Catholic bishops of Australia in the 1880s established Catholic schools in order to serve as the primary socialising influence to make children into Catholics and to form a particular kind of Catholic community based on the model set up by Cardinal Cullen in Ireland Dr English went on to add: By using religious sisters and brothers they were able to do this for about eighty years because they were working with a Catholic population that was mainly Irish-descended and in many ways socially homogenous.
530 - Sep 2007 - News: The Church Around the World
They want to send their children to a Catholic school with the highest standards in academics and discipline and a more traditional approach rather than the modern view many Catholic schools teach now Mike was quoted as saying.
531 - Sep 2007 - Pastoral Letter: NSW and ACT Bishops call for a shake-up in Catholic education, Michael Gilchrist
Furthermore many other-than-Catholic families now entrust their children to Catholic schools.
532 - Aug 2007 - Letters: Fixing the schools, G. Brian Bibby
My childrens generation who went to Catholic schools did not receive a Catholic education.
533 - Aug 2007 - Letters: Study leave, Eamonn Keane
In 2003 another CDF document approved by Pope John Paul II titled Considerations Regarding Proposals to Give Legal Recognition to Unions Between Homosexual Persons stated that allowing children to be adopted into same-sex unions is gravely immoral and would actually mean doing violence to those children (n.
534 - Aug 2007 - Letters: Breath of hope, Terry and Rosemary McDonnell
He and wife Lucinda have four young children Arthur George Nancy and Edward.
535 - Aug 2007 - Obituary: Death of distinguished Australian philosopher John Ziegler, John Young
A devoted family man with five children John nursed his wife Pam in her last illness until she died about four years ago.
536 - Aug 2007 - Why Catholic parents choose home-schooling, Leslie Sammut
Over time more vendors speakers and childrens activities have been added.
537 - 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.
538 - Aug 2007 - News: The Church Around the World
The action of the executive council he said undermines Amnestys longstanding moral credibility diverts its mission divides its own members - many of whom are Catholic or defend the rights of unborn children.
539 - Jul 2007 - Books: AD2000 Books
00 An Illustrated Catechism Inos Biffi This beautifully illustrated book introduces the basics of Catholicm to young children following the structure of the Catechism of the Catholic Church: The Creed Sacraments Commandments and Prayer.
540 - Jul 2007 - Books: A Catholic Replies to Professor Dawkins, by Thomas Crean OP, Tim Cannon
He shows how any moral duty which we might consider to be binding on all mankind (such as the duty to care for children and to not boil them in oil) cannot originate from anything but a super-natural source.
541 - Jul 2007 - Education: New Wagga Wagga schools take their 'leap of faith', Bill Andrews
The acceptance of families to the colleges is dependent on the parents commitment to ensuring their children are supported by Catholic values; their readiness to attend Key Parent Function evenings during the year; and their promise to see that their children attend Sunday Mass each and every week without fail.
542 - Jul 2007 - News: The Church Around the World
What is important he said is to announce and bear witness to Jesus Christ to those peoples who are opening to the faith for the first time to the children of the peoples who now live and work in Italy and to our own people who at times have abandoned the faith and who are anyway subject to the pressure of the secularising tendencies that seek to dominate the society and culture of this country.
543 - Jul 2007 - Interview: He could no longer explain why he wasn't Catholic, Tim Drake and Francis Beckwith
Im the eldest of their four children.
544 - Jul 2007 - Pastoral Plan: Cardinal Pell's blueprint for the future in the Sydney Archdiocese, Michael Gilchrist
Support will be provided for Catholic children attending non- Catholic schools.
545 - Jun 2007 - Books: AD2000 Books
00 An Illustrated Catechism Inos Biffi This beautifully illustrated book introduces the basics of Catholicm to young children following the structure of the Catechism of the Catholic Church: The Creed Sacraments Commandments and Prayer.
546 - Jun 2007 - Obituary: A tribute to natural family planning pioneer, Dr John Billings, RIP, Msgr Peter J. Elliott
During a break I walked out onto the lawn and there was Dr John Billings surrounded by little children.
547 - May 2007 - Reflection: Teaching children about the Eucharist, Audrey English
To teach children this appreciation much time is spent in practice before a school Mass with great emphasis given to the celebration.
548 - May 2007 - The importance of 'holy things' for one's Christian faith, Andrew Kania
Bending down to pick up the pieces of parchment all covered in Hebrew script the Ukrainian slowly collected the fragments and returned to his house his wife and children stunned by his reckless action.
549 - May 2007 - Cinema: New movie offers an authentic representation of monastic life, Rosina Gordon
Rosina Gordon is a full-time mother with two children under two.
550 - May 2007 - Catechesis: Sydney RCIA conference in June on forming new adult Catholics, Joanne Zwaans
He and his wife Heather have three children.
551 - May 2007 - News: The Church Around the World
Earlier Polands Minister of Education together with the Polish League of Families proposed a law protecting school children from aggressive and obscene homosexual propaganda presenting the gay lifestyle as normal and acceptable.
552 - May 2007 - Documents: Benedict XVI's new document on the Eucharist - Sacramentum Caritatis, Michael Gilchrist
This is especially incumbent upon those who by virtue of their social or political position must make decisions regarding fundamental values such as respect for human life its defence from conception to natural death the family built upon marriage between a man and a woman the freedom to educate ones children and the promotion of the common good in all its forms.
553 - Apr 2007 - Letters: Scourge of the West, Kevin McManus
At an international scientific conference in Perth in 1983 I remember a Middle Eastern delegate asking for ten free souvenirs for his ten children.
554 - Apr 2007 - Letters: Catholic schools
Admittedly the Catholic school system and the people driving it have done parents a great disservice through the teaching of nonsense in the name of religious instruction nevertheless parents are ultimately responsible for their children.
555 - Apr 2007 - Letters: Church leadership, P.W. English
The solution to the shortage of priests that concerns Bishop Morris is to start teaching our children the real faith and not the watered down version that occurs in many schools at present.
556 - Apr 2007 - Belief: Christian-Muslim dialogue: major stumbling blocks, Fr Richard Umbers
Anyway Im not sure what legacy we would be entrusting to our childrens children when 2000 years from now we enter into the age of Capricorn the Goat.
557 - Apr 2007 - Catholicism and secularism in Britain: a test of strength on same-sex adoption, Joanna Bogle
At present all that the Catholic agencies are seeking is the right to send children to families where the Catholic understanding of marriage and family (i.
558 - Apr 2007 - 'Equal opportunity' legislation threatens Christian teachings, Babette Francis
British experience In Britain where the Blair Government has refused to exempt the Catholic Church from the requirement to arrange adoptions of children by homosexuals Catholic bishops supported by Anglicans Muslims and the Orange Lodge say Britain is poised to overturn centuries of legal development in human rights.
559 - Apr 2007 - Book Launch: B.A. Santamaria and Australian Catholicism: Cardinal Pell's tribute, Cardinal George Pell
The increase in absolute numbers through migration obscured the percentage declines most never recognised too clearly what was happening until they realised their children were not worshipping regularly (and sometimes their grandchildren were not even baptised) but there was also a feeling that it was an implied criticism of the Council disloyalty to point out the disappointing realities.
560 - Mar 2007 - Reflection: The Holy Trinity - source of true Christian unity, Fr John O'Neill
Lord increase our faith that your oneness in us will show all your searching children the way to their true home.
561 - Mar 2007 - Books: Order Books from freedompublishing.com.au
Sheen This colour DVD contains twelve half hour talks given by Archbishop Sheen during a retreat in the 1970s for childrenteenagers and parents.
562 - 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.
563 - Mar 2007 - Books: LISTEN MY SON: St Benedict for Fathers, by Dwight Longenecker, Michael E. Daniel
We are now into the second generation in which a significant number of children are being raised by their mothers in single parent families (800000 in Britain alone) with many young fathers lacking a role model as a frame of reference particularly when seeking to balance the demands of marriage parenting and work.
564 - Mar 2007 - Letters: Leadership needed, Anne Lastman
We will continue to have abortion in holocaust proportions marriage breakdown at an alarming rate de facto relationships replacing marriage a drug culture unabated abandonment of children and a street culture until we take seriously the words of Humanae Vitae Donum Vitae Evangelium Vitae Casti Conubii and Veritatis Splendor.
565 - Mar 2007 - Letters: Catholic schools, Kevin McBride
Parents were then acutely aware indeed enthused that their children should attend Catholic schools to foster and cultivate the on- going growth of their Catholic faith.
566 - Mar 2007 - Letters: Reform needed, T. Kalotas
Parents who wish their children to know and practise the faith will be reinforced while those who are neutral about religion will nevertheless find their children in a better position to make serious faith commitments.
567 - Mar 2007 - Catholic religion courses and the challenge of relativism, Audrey English
After all the children of Generation Y are the children of parents who themselves often have little religious allegiance other than a cultural attachment.
568 - Mar 2007 - 'Professional', a lá carte Catholicism and its papier màché schools, Andrew T. Kania
This point is particularly interesting given that the parents who choose to send their children to Catholic schools are part of a Catholic population of which only about 15 percent attend Mass with any degree of regularity.
569 - Mar 2007 - News: The Church Around the World
Cardinal Murphy-OConnor observed that the governments policy was based on an assumption that homosexual couples can serve as well as heterosexual married couples in raising children.
570 - Feb 2007 - Reflection: Why the Church must continue to uphold priestly celibacy, Fr Pat Stratford
It expresses solidarity with those who are fated despite their desires never to marry or have children.
571 - Feb 2007 - Books: New Titles from AD Books
Sheen This colour DVD contains twelve half hour talks given by Archbishop Sheen during a retreat in the 1970s for childrenteenagers and parents.
572 - Feb 2007 - Books: TREASURE IN CLAY: The Autobiography of Fulton J. Sheen, Michael Gilchrist
Sheens parents had little education and ran the local hardware store but they were determined their children should have a solid education.
573 - Feb 2007 - Letters: Catholic dolls, Anne Cramer
In a world of Bratz dolls and the like (dolls with bad attitude) these lovely saints dolls provide our children with the saintly alternative.
574 - Feb 2007 - Letters: Limbo?, Lawrence R. Hurley
It has been the constant belief and teaching of the Church that these pronouncements were infallible (like all teachings of Ecumenical Councils) until the Catechism of the Catholic Church which states that we are allowed to hope that there is a way of salvation for children who have died without baptism.
575 - Feb 2007 - Music: Johann Sebastian Bach and the heavenly choir, Fr Finbarr Flanagan
He was a good husband and father who was generous in the time he devoted to his wife and many children as well as being an extraordinarily hospitable person with his home always full of visitors.
576 - Feb 2007 - Why we need holy days of obligation, Joanna Bogle
There is material here for minds that can feed on history for families seeking a reason to celebrate for children with inquiring questions.
577 - Feb 2007 - Salesians help rebuild post-tsunami Sri Lanka, Br Michael Lynch
The four classrooms near the entrance to the property were occupied by children participating in tuition or coaching classes.
578 - Feb 2007 - The Church and the environment: address the moral pollution first, Wanda Skowronska
Father Cantalamessa brings home this point when he remarks We are indignant on seeing marine birds emerging from waters contaminated with petroleum stains covered with tar and unable to fly but we do not show the same concern for our children vitiated and spent at an early age because of the mantle of wickedness that already extends to every aspect of life.
579 - Feb 2007 - Priesthood: Orthodox priests in a divided Church, Fr John Trigilio
Collaboration and cooperation occur in the diverse apostolates of the parish like teaching the faith to children and adults keeping the church clean or planning and celebrating reverent liturgies that conform to the traditions of our church.
580 - Feb 2007 - Education: Australia's Catholic school systems: the case for radical surgery, Michael Gilchrist
These days not a few Catholic parents serious about the faith of their children see Catholic schools as more of a hindrance than a help and send their sons and daughters to other independent schools or the better state schools while providing some religious input at home.
581 - Dec 2006 - Reflection: Jesus' law of love and the Ten Commandments, Fr Dennis Byrnes
We live in the age of rights: human rights womens rights childrens rights social rights.
582 - Dec 2006 - Books: New Titles from AD Books
Sheen This colour DVD contains twelve half hour talks given by Archbishop Sheen during a retreat in the 1970s for childrenteenagers and parents.
583 - Dec 2006 - Letters: Infant Baptism
He also thinks (why I dont know) that I was talking about unbaptised adults as well as children!
584 - Dec 2006 - Letters: Church teaching, Mark Moriarty
I still maintain as the Church teaches that children who die unbaptised will be cared for by the great mercy of God.
585 - Dec 2006 - Modest dress: Suitable attire for Mass: the moral dimension, Bishop John W. Yanta
To live our daily Faith as children of God (baptism) disciples of Jesus and temples of the Holy Spirit we are faced with moral choices constantly many times a day.
586 - Dec 2006 - Catechesis of the Good Shepherd: the Montessori method for RE, Anne Delsorte
The Catechesis of the Good Shepherd began when the late Maria Montessori in response to the call of Pius X in 1909 for the education of the faithful to enable them to participate more fully in the liturgy sought to find a way to make the liturgy accessible to children so that they might be admitted to the most intimate and sublime act of religious life - communion with Christ (The Child in the Church M.
587 - Dec 2006 - News: The Church Around the World
Dr Raez added: In-vitro fertilisation IVF breaks natural law: there are no more rules because you are manipulating the process according to your own whims and you are eliminating the natural relationships of motherhood and fatherhood of parents and children because the principle that is held up is that of everything goes.
588 - Nov 2006 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
Sheen This colour DVD contains twelve half hour talks given by Archbishop Sheen during a retreat in the 1970s for childrenteenagers and parents.
589 - Nov 2006 - DVD: A Family Retreat, by Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, Daniel Tobin
The 12 talks that he gives on this one DVD are a splendid example of his efforts to teach the truthful realities of life to an audience comprising children adolescents parents teachers priests and religious displaying all of the unique gifts and knowledge gained from his many experiences as a teacher and priest.
590 - Nov 2006 - Books: St John Bosco, St Dominic and the Rosary, St Thérèe of Lisieux, Siobhan B. Reeves
Beebe also tells the story of St Dominic Savio one of Don Boscos pupils often referred to as the classroom or childrens saint with his courageous pledge lsquo;Death but not sin.
591 - Nov 2006 - Letters: Common sense and married clergy, Errol Duke
The whole evening has been carefully planned with the two children being looked after by relatives overnight.
592 - Nov 2006 - Letters: Early baptism, John Schmid
Part of the quote is lsquo;allow us to hope there is a way of salvation for children who have died without Baptismrsquo;.
593 - Nov 2006 - Letters: Education needed, Judy O'Reilly
It may well be that parents in heaven will know their children who go there.
594 - Nov 2006 - Letters: Infallible teaching, Don Ford
Mark Moriarty (September AD2000) protests against John Youngs criticism of Catholic parents who delay having their children baptised because they do not consider it important.
595 - Nov 2006 - Letters: Narrow, Norm Yodgee
I think its symptomatic of a larger problem: why would God exclude his children from heaven through no fault of their own and so prevent them from achieving the ultimate purpose He Himself bestowed on their existence?
596 - Nov 2006 - Television: EWTN: now affordable and accessible in Australia, Moira Kirkwood
Scripture studies talk shows humour news and current affairs travel documentaries social problem forum discussion art literature music challenging shows for young adults childrens programs and much more.
597 - Nov 2006 - Brisbane Archdiocese: inclusive language in the liturgy continues, Michael Apthorp
Furthermore verse 13 of this psalm lsquo;As a father has compassion on his sons the Lord has pity on those who fear himrsquo; was changed to lsquo;As parents have compassion on their children .
598 - Nov 2006 - News: The Church Around the World
For example lsquo;in the name of tolerance your country has had to endure the folly of the redefinition of spouse and in the name of freedom of choice it is confronted with the daily destruction of unborn children.
599 - Nov 2006 - Living the Faith: What distinguishes a practising Catholic?, Bishop Luc Matthys
Catholics present their children for Baptism and hand on the Faith to them.
600 - Nov 2006 - Education: The Spirit of Generation Y: the challenge for Catholic schools, Cardinal George Pell
Parents remain the most powerful influence on their children as this survey found little difference in belief and practice between continuing Generation Y Christians and their baby-boom Christian parents but there are two particularly important developments.
601 - Oct 2006 - Reflection: Philosophy and theology: avoiding the pitfall of human pride, Fr John O'Neill
What makes them prohibit God from His world and from His children?
602 - Oct 2006 - Letters: Church teaching on baptism, C.V. Phillips
It was simply presenting information regarding the importance of having children baptised as early as possible.
603 - Oct 2006 - Letters: Early baptism, Frances McEniery
Such children would surely fall into the category of those who would have explicitly desired Baptism had they been capable of knowing its necessity.
604 - Oct 2006 - Educating young Catholics: a bold initiative in Wagga Wagga, Michael Gilchrist
The Board will also require that parents of children attending the schools undertake to attend weekly Sunday Mass.
605 - Oct 2006 - Generation Y: New survey confirms low belief and practice levels of young Catholics, Michael Gilchrist
Since mothers have long been known to have great influence in the religious socialisation of children and this remained true in the present study the researchers concluded that it is hard to overestimate the importance of this finding and its likely consequences.
606 - Sep 2006 - Letters: Stolen faith, Marie Adamo
Demers on how the Faith was stolen from countless numbers of children in so-called Catholic schools can be accessed via the Internet.
607 - Sep 2006 - Letters: Baptism, Mark Moriarty
John Young also ignores the recent Catechism of the Catholic Church paragraph 1261 which deals directly with children who have died without Baptism.
608 - Sep 2006 - Family in Society: Asian and Australian families face similar challenges, Leslie Sammut
In China because of the one-child policy the family as we know it is disappearing from society with the result that most children have no uncles brothers sisters or cousins.
609 - Sep 2006 - News: The Church Around the World
According to the study the number of late baptisms of children aged one to 14 also increased.
610 - Sep 2006 - USA: Liberal Christianity goes into meltdown, Charlotte Allen
Some of the precipitous decline is due to lower birthrates among the generally blue-state mainliners but it also is clear that millions of mainline adherents (and especially their children) have simply walked out of the pews never to return.
611 - Aug 2006 - Reflection: The importance of early baptism, John Young
The Catechism of the Council of Trent in the 16th century said: Since infant children have no other means of salvation except baptism we may easily understand how grievously those persons sin who permit them to remain without the grace of the sacrament longer than necessity may require (Catechism of the Council of Trent translated by McHugh and Callan p.
612 - Aug 2006 - Letters: What Is The Eucharist?, Rosanna Sherman
When questioned on the doctrine of the Eucharist taught at school we were given this explanation by our childrens teacher: I believe that Christ is present under the form of the consecrated bread and wine.
613 - Aug 2006 - Letters: Tasmania, Justin Kearney
Unfortunately one wonders what the point of this is in light of the menu delivered to our children in some Catholic schools in what could loosely be described as religion in their classrooms.
614 - Aug 2006 - Liturgy: The new Missal translation: Archbishop Hart's progress report, Michael Gilchrist
Likely completion date The remaining unchangeable prayers (the Prefaces the additional Eucharistic Prayers for Reconciliation for Children and for Special Occasions the Solemn Blessings and Prayers over the people) together with the whole first half of the Missal (the Sundays and Weekdays) have been sent to the bishops of the world for preliminary comment and will be returned to ICEL for amendment if necessary and a final vote in January 2007.
615 - Jul 2006 - Reflection: US bishop: making saints should be the goal of Catholic schools, Bishop Robert Finn
Schools are obliged to do this because parents are obliged to do this for their children.
616 - Jul 2006 - Books: Theology of the Body for Beginners, by Christopher West, Jacinta Cummins
Available from Freedom Publishing) Reviewed by Jacinta Cummins Four decades after the sexual liberation of the 1960s rather than having the sexual Utopia the baby boomers were promised their children and grandchildren have inherited a world in which sexual deviation and assorted perversions are normalised and accepted.
617 - Jul 2006 - Re-mythologising: Narnia - faith and fiction: The parallel world of C.S.Lewis, Msgr Peter J. Elliott
The drama of fall and redemption of death and resurrection of mortality and immortal life is fought out in both worlds and participation in the struggles of Narnia has direct bearing on how the central characters the children are meant to live when they return to our world.
618 - Jul 2006 - Internet pornography: raising the alarm, Fr Stephen J. Rossetti
There is a denigrating and abusive industry that promotes the sexual victimisation of individuals for financial profit including children.
619 - Jul 2006 - New Vatican document emphasises centrality of marriage and family, AD2000 Report
God would help married couples in their task of bringing up their children he said.
620 - Jun 2006 - Books: Dear Son, Dear Daughter: God's Plan for Catholic Marriage and the Family, Michael Gilchrist
com) Two small booklets produced by a Catholic mother in Perth will prove a godsend for the many parents who find it awkward to introduce the facts of life to their growing curious children especially in todays in your face culture.
621 - Jun 2006 - Letters: Priestly celibacy, Tim Coyle
For instance how is a young priest going to provide for his family and childrens education?
622 - May 2006 - Reflection: Oneness in Christ: the heart of the priesthood, Fr John W. O'Neill PP
He would stay among His children through them.
623 - May 2006 - Letters: Actions and attitudes, S. Chaston
Children especially get most of their primary education including their religious education not directly from texts but from the actions and attitudes of their parents and teachers.
624 - May 2006 - Letters: Adoption - our experience, Bella and Leon Voesenek
There are many married couples out there who cannot have children and would love to adopt.
625 - May 2006 - Vocations: Can religious life be rebuilt in Australia?, Sr Mary Augustine OP
For us this now involves work with Home-Schooling families through our English through Literature course for secondary-school as well as through regular seminar-days and camps in which we reach around two hundred children from K to 12 each year.
626 - May 2006 - Catholicism-lite's Church of convenience, Paul A. Wagner
Once at a charismatic Catholic church I rarely attend I watched as children ran up and down the aisles playing during Mass one falling into a very large baptismal font.
627 - May 2006 - News: The Church Around the World
Spanish law now allows for same-sex unions including the adoption of children.
628 - May 2006 - Papacy: Benedict completes his first twelve months as Pope, Fr Ephraem Chifley
This proportion will increase year by year since Latin Mass Catholics tend to have many more children.
629 - Apr 2006 - Books: Swear To God: The Promise and Powers of the Sacraments, by Scott Hahn, Jacinta Cummins
Regarding the sacrament of marriage Hahn recalls his early married years when he and his wife ceased using contraception and allowed their love for each other to be demonstrated in the selfless act of accepting children whenever God saw fit to bestow them.
630 - Apr 2006 - Letters: Action needed, Kevin McBride
Its the parents duty to teach and supervise their children.
631 - Apr 2006 - Letters: Religious education, Saskia Ebejer
The conclusions I have reached upon reading this article are: The loss of two to three generations of children from our faith is a tragedy that urgently needs addressing.
632 - Apr 2006 - Has just punishment had its day?, Fr Matthew Kirby
Or children caught writing on the desks must clean up that mess.
633 - Apr 2006 - The Domestic Church: The Christian Family Movement: re-evangelising through families, Leslie Sammut
Parents felt disheartened bewildered and discouraged at their childrens lack of interest in their faith even while attending Catholic schools not to mention the high rate of divorce abortion and general decline of moral values among Catholics.
634 - Apr 2006 - Creation: Intelligent Design and the war against God, Stephen Hitchings
Supreme Court ruling The judges decision was based on a 1987 Supreme Court ruling: Families entrust public schools with the education of their children but condition their trust on the understanding that the classroom will not purposely be used to advance religious views that may conflict with the private beliefs of the student and his or her family.
635 - Apr 2006 - Salesian Missions: Cardinal Pell visits East Timor, Michael Lynch SDB
Dili has many cars children on bicycles many neat in school uniforms while there are 19 tertiary institutes in the capital.
636 - Apr 2006 - EarthSong: Green Christianity or a new paganism?, Michael Gilchrist
Other recommended resources include: Earth Prayers from around the World: 365 Prayers Poems and Invocations for Honouring The Earth Edited by Elizabeth Roberts and Elias Amidon The Star In My Heart: Experiencing Sophia Inner Wisdom by Joyce Rupp Prayers for a Planetary Pilgrim: A Personal Manual for Prayer and Ritual by Edward Hays Sparks of The Cosmos: Rituals for Seasonal Use by Margie Abbott RSM Sparks of Life: Rituals for Children by Margaret Abbott RSM and Jennifer Callanan and Celebrating The Great Mother: A Handbook of Earth- Honoring Activities for Parents and Children by Cait Johnson and Maura D.
637 - Mar 2006 - Reflection: Bringing Christ's love to the bereaved: a ministry for Catholic parishes, Fr Dennis Byrnes
Faith is contagious especially faith in the God of compassion and love who understands the needs of His children and who accepts them in spite of their human frailties.
638 - Mar 2006 - Books: 'The Case For Marriage' by Linda J. Waite and Maggie Gallagher, Kerrie Allen
Available from AD Books) The Case for Marriage provides the solid research facts about why marriage is a social good more than just sex - and why sex is better in marriage - and why marriage is good for men and women as it is for children.
639 - Mar 2006 - Letters: Vaccines and abortion, Judy Law
Vinnedge Executive Director Children of God for Life and endorsed with editorial contributions from Bishop Robert F.
640 - Mar 2006 - Vocations: Dominican Sisters: religious vocations continue to rise in Nashville, Tracey Rowland
As a consequence the sweeping green lawns of the campus are dotted with small children in tartan pinafores as well as nuns in the trade-mark Dominican black and white habits.
641 - Mar 2006 - Archbishop Hickey: how to address the crisis of faith, Archbishop Barry Hickey
Gospel guidance It must be acknowledged that the implementation of these human values without the guidance of the Gospel can lead to totally unacceptable consequences like the right to abortion the conditional rights of unborn children (especially those diagnosed with a disability) the acceptance of a variety of actively sexual lifestyles outside and within marriage and the unqualified right to choose.
642 - Mar 2006 - News: The Church Around the World
Nevertheless Analisis Digital reports that these proposals have been contested by Polish EU representative Jan Tadeusz Masiel who called the adoption of children by homosexual couples repulsive and shocking.
643 - Feb 2006 - Cardinal Arinze on the Liturgy: the Mass is not entertainment, Cardinal Francis Arinze
However some of the problems were not caused by Vatican II but they were caused by children of the Church after Vatican II.
644 - Dec 2005 - Books: In Memory of Me / Come to Me, My Children, by Christine McCarthy, Michael Gilchrist
Can be ordered through AD Books) COME TO ME MY CHILDREN: A Book of Prayers by Christine McCarthy (Sydney 2004 48pp $6.
645 - Dec 2005 - Books: Good News About Sex And Marriage, by Christopher West, Kerrie Allen
West paraphrases from Canon Law and Vatican II: Marriage is the intimate exclusive indissoluble communion of life and love entered by man and woman at the design of the Creator for the purposes of their own good and the procreation and education of children; this covenant between baptised persons has been raised by Christ the Lord to the dignity of a sacrament.
646 - Dec 2005 - Books: The Cube and the Cathedral, by George Weigel, John Ballantyne
1 children per woman.
647 - Dec 2005 - Formation: St John Vianney's blueprint for the priesthood back in favour, Fr John Cihak
Religious ignorance was rampant in both children and adults although remnants of faith and morals were still found scattered about among some of the families.
648 - Nov 2005 - Letters: SSPX response, Timothy Hungerford
There is not one school in New Zealand under a Catholic bishop to which we would send one of our ten children.
649 - Nov 2005 - Call to Holiness: Contemplating the Eucharistic Face of Christ, Christine McCarthy
Our seminarian son studying in Rome attended World Youth Day as did three of our other children with 2500 other Australians.
650 - Nov 2005 - News: The Church Around the World
Eduardo Hertfelder the president of the Family Policy Institute welcomed the appeal of a laws that he characterised as regressive and unjust toward the family and children.
651 - Nov 2005 - National Press Club: Cardinal George Pell on the dictatorship of relativism, Cardinal George Pell
While parents wonder why their children have never heard of the Romantic poets Yeats or the Great War poets and never ploughed through a Bronte Orwell or Dickens novel their children in many cases are engaged in analysing a variety of texts including films magazines advertisements and even road signs as part of critical literacy.
652 - Nov 2005 - Editorial: A remarkable Catholic parish
The same occurred later at a school Mass with the children kneeling for Communion well-trained altar boys assisting and including some Latin hymns sung to the accompaniment of a magnificent pipe organ.
653 - Oct 2005 - Letters: Anti-Christian media, Frank Bellet
Many of the faithful are despondent over the de-Christianisation of society and fear for the welfare of their children and grandchildren.
654 - Oct 2005 - Letters: Watered-down faith, Paula Gartland
As for exorcism in the baptismal rite this has no application to small children (but what about original sin?
655 - Oct 2005 - Priesthood: Christ's call to priestly celibacy, Fr Thaddeus Doyle
It lays down that clerics are forbidden to have relations with their wives or procreate children.
656 - Oct 2005 - Culture: How the Catholic Church built Western civilisation, Thomas E. Woods Jr
The Church which calls on her children to be generous in the transmission of life finds even this most fundamental message falling on deaf ears in Western Europe which is not having enough children even to reproduce itself.
657 - Oct 2005 - Conference: C.S. Lewis: defender of objective truth, Adam Glyn Cooper
Those who know the Tao can hold that to call children delightful or old men venerable is not simply a record of a psychological fact about our own parental or filial emotions at the moment but to recognise a quality which demands a certain response from us whether we make it or not .
658 - Oct 2005 - Society: The latest marriage statistics: implications, Zenit News Agency
044 children per woman.
659 - Oct 2005 - News: The Church Around the World
In their Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People adopted in June 2002 in the wake of the clerical sex-abuse scandals the US bishops pledged their complete co-operation with the apostolic visitation of our diocesan/eparchial seminaries and religious houses of formation recommended in the interdicasterial meeting with the cardinals of the United States and the conference officers in April 2002.
660 - Oct 2005 - Editorial: Health of Church and health of family connect, Michael Gilchrist
The steep decline in Mass attendances the low level of observance of the Churchs moral teachings the relative few entering the priesthood and religious life all connect with the parlous state of the family - including the decline in numbers of children.
661 - Sep 2005 - Reflection: Benedict XVI: how to make the new evangelisation more effective, Fr Dennis Byrnes PP
We are dear to God as precious children: we need to hear that the tears and the sorrows of this age will be wiped clean in the next through the life death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ; that the individualism materialism and rela- tivism of the Western world are symptoms not causes.
662 - Sep 2005 - Books: THE ART OF GIVING by Francine Black, Kerrie Allen
Francine Black offers suggestions about what we might give as gifts for Christmas Easter going away wedding anniversaries by year for hostesses invalids sick children people who have everything children by age.
663 - Sep 2005 - Letters: Simple Catechisms, Rosanna Sherman
I make no apologies for my defence of the use of simple catechisms from the early half of the 20th century to pass on the faith to our children.
664 - Sep 2005 - BOOKS: The Myth of Hitler's Pope: How Pope Pius XII Rescued Jews from the Nazis, Thomas E. Woods Jr
Jewish children were even born in the Popes private apartments.
665 - Sep 2005 - Education: Catholic schools of the future, Br John Moylan CFC
Is it possible in todays climate to set up Catholic upper primary and secondary schools which educate and form their students in the Catholic faith in a way that their parents believe is best for their children?
666 - Sep 2005 - Can reverence at Mass make a comeback?, Michael Ryan
In our experience behaviour in church is at its worst when children are making their First Holy Communion or being Confirmed.
667 - Sep 2005 - Events: Sydney to host World Youth Day 2008, AD2000 REPORT
The projects included excursions with people with disabilities organising a soccer tournament with young asylum seekers gardening for welfare institutions making wooden toys with children and singing at senior citizens residences.
668 - Aug 2005 - Reflection: How we will overcome the shortage of priests, Fr John O'Neill PP
The priest celebrates Mass to continue the Lords saving Sacrifice he absolves from sin to keep alive the reason for Christs Incarnation; he preaches Christ to the world because Christs is its essential need; he begets spiritual children for God and matures them in the Holy Spirit; he sanctifies their life-giving love and he builds them into the Lords embrace when they are suffering.
669 - Aug 2005 - Letters: Brisbane Archbishop bans weekday Latin Mass (letter), Tom King
The most visible signs of distress at the announcement came from dozens of mothers who not only attend Sunday Mass with their children but also flock to the First Friday Mass.
670 - Aug 2005 - Letters: Government review of RE in State Schools (letter), Maureen Federico
As a CRE teacher it is my observation that the energetic and enquiring minds of children are keen to explore their lives for meaning and purpose.
671 - Aug 2005 - London's Balham parish, 'an icon of liturgical hope', Joanna Bogle
Father Stephen Langridge parish priest at Balham makes no secret of wanting the best for God - a church that is a true place of prayer a devout and enthusiastic congregation a parish where the children are well instructed and the Faith is taught and honoured.
672 - Aug 2005 - Feminist translation: Inclusive language and the Trinity: the latest from Brisbane, Michael Apthorp
Archbishop Bathersby condemned this invalid formula and demanded that the correct one be used henceforth while encouraging parents whose children have been victims of the invalid ceremony to have them properly baptised.
673 - Aug 2005 - News: The Church Around the World
Papal instruction for First Communicants Pope Benedict XVI plans to meet with young Italian children who are preparing for their First Communion next October to give them some personal instruction on the Eucharist.
674 - Aug 2005 - What the Church can teach the secular world, Archbishp Barry Hickey
With respect for the heroic efforts of many sole parents and for the pain of many unjustly forced out of their own families it remains a fact that the number of children forced to live apart from one or other parent because of broken marriages is appalling.
675 - Jul 2005 - Letters: Need help with home education?
For example home-educators might need someone to correct their childrens written expression; a parish or business might like secretarial help if a full-time secretary is out of reach - including the production of modest newsletters; or recent arrivals in Australia might benefit from help in correct English written expression.
676 - Jul 2005 - Letters: Silent apostasy, Fr. G.H. Duggan SM
In 1529 he produced a small catechism to be used in teaching children and in 1530 a large catechism to be used by adults.
677 - Jul 2005 - Letters: Courageous example, Raymond De Souza
It would be much better for all concerned if bishops were to inform parents that their children are enrolled in a private school but no longer a Catholic one.
678 - Jul 2005 - Society: Catholics must play an active role in public life, Archbishop Charles J. Chaput OFM Cap
Are we angry enough about what is wrong with the world - the killing of millions of unborn children through abortion; the neglect of the poor and the elderly; the mistreatment of immigrants in our midst; the abuse of science in embryonic stem cell research?
679 - Jun 2005 - Letters: Catholic schools, Kevin McBride
Until all the Australian bishops address the inadequacies of our childrens religious education in Catholic schools they and they alone must bear a major share of responsibility for the statistics which continue to inform us that 90 per cent or more of young Catholics attending Catholic schools abandon their Faith upon leaving these schools.
680 - Jun 2005 - Letters: Sanity?, Tom King
The congregation was comprised of children youth and seniors.
681 - Jun 2005 - Letters: Chavagnes College, Pascale Cotterill
The hardest part for any parent is sending their children off to such far away destinations but with good research and plenty of contact with other parents of children at these schools you will be reassured and gratified to know that such schools do exist.
682 - Jun 2005 - Letters: Another Parish, Peter Gilet
Perhaps that is what the liberal agenda is all about: certain people who did not receive enough attention when they were children and who are now making us all suffer for it.
683 - Jun 2005 - Papal awards for WA Catholic politicians, Hugh Ryan
Bill McNees first direct link with John Paul II came during the Popes visit to Perth in November 1986 when he his wife Lesley and their four children were chosen as the representative family to receive Communion from the Pope at the Mass at Belmont Park.
684 - Jun 2005 - News: The Church Around the World
Bishop Martnez said that the equivalence to marriage that Spain had conferred to gay unions was a consequence of the ruling relativism which affirmed that absolute and universal values do not exist meaning that each one is free to do his or her will without ever considering the involvement of a third party as with children adopted by same-sex couples.
685 - May 2005 - Books: A GENTLE JESUIT: Philip Caraman SJ, by June Rockett, George Russo
Born in London in 1911 Philip George Caraman was the middle son of nine children - two boys and seven girls - of devoutly Catholic Armenian parents who immigrated to Britain after brutal civil war in their own country and settled in Hampstead.
686 - May 2005 - Letters: Private revelations, Anne Boyce
Perhaps Our Lady took the initiative of coming to her children because she foresaw the terrible difficulties that were coming and wanted to provide instruction that they werent going to receive elsewhere.
687 - May 2005 - Letters: Catholic education, Geoff Storey
I would not be surprised if more than a few Australian families turn their gaze to France as they think of their childrens future.
688 - May 2005 - Letters: Appeal to the young, Justin Lynch
I am a young Catholic (aged 28 and married with two children) who readily accepts the Churchs teachings (even if I struggle to live them out).
689 - May 2005 - Bioethics: IVF and embryonic stem cell research: the social and ethical issues, Kerrie Allen
The destruction of embryos can be arguably not good for society when many couples are childless and desiring children.
690 - May 2005 - St Patrick's Church, Soho Square, a spiritual oasis in London, Tess Livingstone
Exorbitant West End rents have priced all but a few local residents out of the market and most of the buildings around Soho Square these days are offices including that of Bloomsbury Publishing the company with the wit and foresight a few years ago to take on an unknown childrens book character named Harry Potter after larger publishers had turned him down.
691 - May 2005 - The Da Vinci Code and the itching ears syndrome, John Young
Although a novel Brown claims it has a factual basis and that there is real evidence Jesus Christ had children by Mary Magdalene and that he intended her (not Peter) to be the leader of the Apostles.
692 - May 2005 - Catholic beliefs and practices: the challenge ahead for Australia, Michael Gilchrist
A likely consequence of the low attendance rate of Catholics in their twenties says Dixon is that there will probably be further large falls in the number of children attending Mass in the next few years since almost all children who attend Mass go with at least one of their parents.
693 - May 2005 - Year of Eucharist: Religious education: Catholic youth have their say, Shannon Donahoo
teachers) misunderstand Eucharistic doctrine why should we expect children below ten to grasp it?
694 - Apr 2005 - Books: Religious resources for 2005
95 The Jabez Prayer Collection Stephen Elkins This book and CD include 30 inspiring prayers from the Bible adapted for children.
695 - Apr 2005 - Books: The Path to Rome: Modern Journeys to the Catholic Church, Michael Casanova
The books editor quotes Chesterton: No parents lie awake at night worrying that their children might become Methodists.
696 - Apr 2005 - Letters: Pregnancy Assistance, Brian A. Peachey
For the past nine years trained counsellors have provided support to women contemplating abortion saving the lives of many unborn children.
697 - Apr 2005 - Letters: Teaching the faith, Rosanna Sherman
To quote Sr Mary Augustine: So we can often find serious-minded Catholics today trying to recreate the 50s - reacting to aberrations and deficiencies they see all about them by teaching their children merely formula-type doctrines using simple catechisms from the early half of the 20th century reverting to prayers and practices of a sentimental type multiplying pious devotions applying the Gospel morality with a kind of fundamentalist rigour.
698 - Apr 2005 - Letters: Chavagnes International College, Raymond De Souza
To be practical if we cannot save Australias Catholic school system at least we must save our own children.
699 - Apr 2005 - Letters: ACU, Sabina Sannen
I teach catechetics at a state school and we are able to teach the children Catholicism because we are a group of five strong-minded catechists who refuse to teach general religion.
700 - Apr 2005 - Scripture: So, what else did Jesus say?, Gavan O'Farrell
In Mark 10:13-16 Jesus blesses some children and observes that a certain childlike quality will improve our eternal prospects.
701 - Apr 2005 - Exploding myths about the 'pre-Vatican II' Church, John Young
This was a textbook for children in Catholic schools and was very widely used.
702 - Apr 2005 - News: The Church Around the World
He took the opportunity to call for a stronger promotion of priestly vocations: I have to ask: do Catholics really want more vocations; do they pray insistently for vocations; how ready are Catholic families to encourage their children to enter the priesthood or religious life; is inherent selfishness which regulates the number of children in the family and seeks the good life the principal goal of families?
703 - Mar 2005 - Books: Books to read in 2005
95 Lent and Easter in the Domestic Church Catherine amp; Peter Fournier This is an illustrated book full of activities for children and families to help better understand and celebrate the Lent and Easter seasons.
704 - Mar 2005 - Letters: Latin Mass (letter), Alan Freckelton
I have also noticed the number of large families in the congregation - at the Novus Ordo Mass my wife and I were often made to feel silly about having a family of six children (the youngest to be born in March).
705 - Mar 2005 - Letters: Convert (letter), Jeff Harvie
I now pray the Rosary daily with my wife and children as the Pope says we should.
706 - 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.
707 - Mar 2005 - Culture: Secularism, not religion, is threatened with extinction, David Quinn
Couples who practise religion tend to have more children than couples who do not.
708 - Mar 2005 - Dissent: Notes from a theology unit at Australian Catholic University
The Pope allowed documents to be hidden regarding sexual misconduct by priests toward children.
709 - Mar 2005 - Cinema: Hollywood's Kinsey whitewash, Bill Muehlenberg
Many of the lies of the sexual revolution are based on Kinseys flawed conclusions such as that children are sexual from birth that sexual promiscuity is the norm and that 10 percent of the population is homosexual.
710 - Feb 2005 - Books: Books to read in 2005
It includes readings and blessings for Advent Christmas Lent and Easter as well as table graces for children and a set of blessings for special foods.
711 - Feb 2005 - Books: A Christian Apocalypse:The Sexual Abuse crisis in the Catholic Church, 1884-2004, David Williams
When priests or vowed members of religious congregations molest children their behaviour confronts every expectation the public has of Catholic clergy.
712 - Feb 2005 - Letters: School leavers (letter), Mrs M.A. Ross
We hardly even see it in the faces of children of daily Mass-goers unless they are in a home schooling class.
713 - Feb 2005 - Letters: Catholic youth (letter), Jim Brown
Lets have a look at children in their early years.
714 - Feb 2005 - Letters: Fiji example (letter), Tom King
The reverence and prayerful demeanour during Mass Benediction and a Childrens Liturgy re-energised this outsider.
715 - Feb 2005 - Marriage: Why gay marriage is a self-contradiction, Peter Reynolds
It provides a structure for raising children.
716 - Feb 2005 - Events: Thomas More Centre to host US publisher dedicated to Catholic social teachings, Anthony Cappello
John Sharpe will also give a public address in Ballarat as well as a Justice in the Pub lecture at Ballan with teachers and parents on the topic Teaching Social Justice to Children.
717 - Feb 2005 - Religious Life: Faith and Reason: for a true renewal in religious life and the Church, Sr Mary Augustine OP
So we often find serious-minded Catholics today trying to re-create the 50s - reacting to the aberrations and deficiencies they see all about them by teaching their children merely formula-type doctrines using simple catechisms from the early half of the 20th century reverting to prayers and practices of a sentimental type multiplying pious devotions applying the Gospel morality with a kind of fundamentalist rigour.
718 - Feb 2005 - Education: State Aid: answering the critics' arguments, Fr Matthew Kirby
Since public funds are designed to ensure access for all children to education any school which does not guarantee access to any prospective student should not receive such funding.
719 - Feb 2005 - News: The Church Around the World
Likewise they promote preventative programs urging parents to assume their responsibility in passing on values and expectations related to the sexual behaviour of their children.
720 - Feb 2005 - Appeal: Missionaries' vital role in helping tsunami victims, Peter Westmore
Brother Lynch added that in Sri Lanka a major concern is for the children who have lost their parents and parents who have lost their children.
721 - Dec 2004 - Reflection: Today is born to us a Saviour of the world, Pope John Paul II
Among all the children of men all the children born into the world down the centuries you alone are the Son of God: in an ineffable way your birth has changed the course of human events.
722 - Dec 2004 - Books: Inspiring Christmas Gifts
95 Celebrating the Liturgical Seasons Catherine amp; Peter Fournier An illustrated book full of wonderful activities for children and families to help them celebrate Advent Christmas and Epiphany.
723 - Dec 2004 - Letters: Abortion (letter), Maryse Usher
An entire primary school (400 children) is killed by surgical abortion every day in Australia.
724 - Dec 2004 - Letters: Misunderstanding over 'Come As You Are' (letter), Peter Hannigan
Hence there was never any intention on my part to comment on the Cleary family within which there surely is clear admirable parental witness to Christ and His Church on behalf of the children and grandchildren.
725 - Dec 2004 - Letters: Election result (letter), Maureen Federico
Hopefully now we can be spared the endless effusions of the major media pundits about the children overboard or military personnel in Iraq along with their insulting comments on John Howard.
726 - Dec 2004 - Society: American surveys show advantages of sexual abstinence education
Another advantage is the reduction in children born outside marriage.
727 - Dec 2004 - New Evangelisation: Rebuilding a lost Faith, Fr John Walter
My host then referred to the local archdiocesan synod meeting where one of the younger clergy dropped the following clanger: that when the bishop came to confirm the children he was effectively confirming them out of the Church as the majority never turned up at Sunday Mass again.
728 - Dec 2004 - Liturgy: Redemptionis Sacramentum on the liturgical rights of the faithful, CDF
Let each one of the sacred ministers ask himself even with severity whether he has respected the rights of the lay members of Christs faithful who confidently entrust themselves and their children to him relying on him to fulfil for the faithful those sacred functions that the Church intends to carry out in celebrating the sacred Liturgy at Christs command.
729 - Dec 2004 - Administration: Cardinal Pell: Church administrators must put Christ's mission first, Cardinal George Pell
In other words we must be able to demonstrate that through savings and efficiency at least some of the following effects are occurring: Mass attendance and prayer are increasing marriages and families are growing in numbers and in stability more adults are converting to the faith more children and students are accepting the truths of the faith the poor and suffering are being helped effectively.
730 - Nov 2004 - Books: More new titles from AD Books
95 Celebrating the Liturgical Seasons Catherine amp; Peter Fournier An illustrated book full of wonderful activities for children and families to help them celebrate Advent Christmas and Epiphany.
731 - Nov 2004 - Books: From East to West You Gather a People, by Fr Russell Hardiman, Brian Peachey
Charlotte Simpson has five children to Maginnis which is the beginning of eight generations of an Australian (mainly Catholic) dynasty numbering in the thousands.
732 - Nov 2004 - Books: MARRIAGE UNDER FIRE, by James Dobson, Bill Muehlenberg
The first is the protection of marriage and family: once a nation forgets the reason why these are important it will soon recognise and bless all manner of sexual relationships regardless of how harmful they may be to individuals to children and society.
733 - Nov 2004 - Letters: State Aid (letter), George Caruana JP
When State Aid was being debated within the ALP Dr Cairns said that if all private schools were closed down there would not be enough public schools to accommodate the extra students and further that many of those attending private schools were children of working class people and were entitled to State Aid.
734 - 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.
735 - Nov 2004 - Letters: Pastoral problems (letter), Fr Frank Brennan SJ
While affirming the primacy of truth I prefer the approach of Cardinal Murphy OConnor who says that the children entrusted to our care in Catholic education are embarked on a journey that is intended to lead them ultimately to a fuller life in God.
736 - Nov 2004 - Obituary: RIP Michael Davies - The passing of a true defender of the Faith, Michael Foley
Michael leaves behind a dedicated wife and four grown up children and their families.
737 - Nov 2004 - Morning Mass: Finding some 'head space': an alternative approach, David Birch
He then follows this three times a week with a vigorous work out in the gym and the other two he takes his children to school.
738 - Nov 2004 - Education: Where secular humanism is triumphing over the Gospel, Fr John Walter
No wonder the children grow up also to be unbelievers.
739 - Nov 2004 - Deer Park: Transforming our secular culture: the role of women, Marcia Riordan
Our culture has lost respect for women men and children: it sets men against women in the wars of the sexes and women against children through abortion - a certain sign that as a society we are failing women.
740 - Nov 2004 - News: The Church Around the World
It had caused much noise in the media as among those being beatified was Emperor Charles the last Habsburg ruler an idealistic and devout young man who died in 1922 leaving a young widow and eight children.
741 - Oct 2004 - Reflection: Our Lady, Fatima and the 'annihilation of nations', Anne Lastman
Where human mothers take their children to be aborted (in the proportions of whole national populations annually) the heavenly visitor Queen and Mother comes and gathers the unwanted children and gives birth to them in Her heavenly realm.
742 - Oct 2004 - Letters: Ghana: help needed (letter), Name and address supplied
He went on to add that the rosaries that I sent were given to the people who attend adoration and to the children in the orphanage there.
743 - Oct 2004 - Letters: Come As You Are? (letter), Brigid P. McKenna
In taking issue with Cathy Cleary (July AD2000) regarding the parody of Come As You Are Peter Hannigan (August AD2000) seems to misunderstand the concerns of this Catholic mother viz keeping children within the fold of our Catholic faith and its promise of eternal salvation.
744 - Oct 2004 - Letters: Graham Greene (letter), Thomas A. Watkin
In the same work Sherry points out that Greenes intensely romantic love for his wife Vivien died under the weight of children (two) and domestic tedium and was followed by many affairs.
745 - Oct 2004 - Society: Why marriage should receive greater government support, Michael Casanova
Further this relationship sets up a uniquely beneficial environment for children.
746 - Oct 2004 - Books: Be Not Afraid: Cardinal George Pell's new book to be launched in November
) Sermon preached to primary school children at St Marys Cathedral Sydney 24 May 2002 Feast Day of Our Lady Help of Christians Patroness of Australia.
747 - Oct 2004 - News: The Church around the World
The Cardinal said: Parents are rightly appalled at the idea of pre-pubescent far less pre-school children being provided with graphic and intimate sexual instruction.
748 - Sep 2004 - Books: Interrupted Journeys: Young Refugees from Hitler's Reich, by Alan Gill, Michael Gilchrist
Alan Gill a former longtime religious columnist with the Sydney Morning Herald and author of the well-received Orphans of the Empire focuses in his latest book on the experiences of children teenagers and young adults who somehow escaped the clutches of the Nazis in Europe.
749 - Sep 2004 - Letters: 'King Arthur' an anti-Catholic movie, Fr Brian Harrison
An ostentatiously Catholic landowner of Roman nationality (his teenage son is earmarked to become a bishop) proves to be an enslaver torturer and murderer of innocent pagan British villagers - old men women and children.
750 - Sep 2004 - Letters: Thank you from East Timor (letter), Fr Marcos de Oliviera SDB
A great proportion of the children have nothing to eat in the morning and many walk for more than an hour to get to school.
751 - Sep 2004 - Iraqi bishop: positive developments despite the violence and bloodshed, Bishop Rabban Al-Qas
For example although children born to a Christian mother were automatically considered Muslim we said nothing.
752 - Sep 2004 - Pulp Fiction: Religious illiteracy and 'The Da Vinci Code', Fr Martin Tierney
These thoughts can be about plants animals children or the ozone layer or cosmic energy personified.
753 - Sep 2004 - News: The Church Around the World
The 11th Circuits earlier opinion which remains in effect as a result of this decision holds that the Florida legislature properly made a policy judgment that it is not in the best interests of its displaced children to be adopted by individuals engaged in homosexual activity.
754 - Aug 2004 - Reflection: Why teaching in a Catholic school is far more than a profession, Fr Dennis Byrnes
In Catholic primary schools teachers are called on to develop childrens capacity for faith and understanding which one hopes will blossom fully in later years.
755 - Aug 2004 - Letters: Threats to family, Gordon Southern
In February the ACT Legislative Assembly passed legislation despite vigorous Opposition resistance permitting the adoption of children by homosexual couples.
756 - Aug 2004 - History: Catholic education: triumph over adversity, Cardinal George Pell
Many children did not get to school regularly and the teachers were often poorly paid and equally poorly educated.
757 - Aug 2004 - The morning after pill, Bishop Anthony Fisher
But they are not having children.
758 - Aug 2004 - Bioethics: Embryo stem-cell research: time for a moral benchmark, Christopher Pyne MP
To a regime which had long practised eugenics-based murder on the physically or intellectually handicapped among its own people using Jewish children in bizarre experiments ending in their death was simply using expendable laboratory supplies.
759 - Aug 2004 - Getting serious about orthodoxy: an American bishop shows how, Michael Gilchrist
Explaining his initiative Bishop Vasa said he connected the scandal of clerical child abuse with the widespread legitimisation of dissent from Catholic teaching: I have become increasing convinced that there may be another much more subtle form of episcopal negligence which also has the potential to harm children not only emotionally and physically but primarily spiritually.
760 - Aug 2004 - News: The Church Around the World
Virginia already has laws that prohibit homosexual partners from adopting children and the General Assembly resisted attempts to rewrite the laws against sodomy after the US Supreme Court decision that struck down a similar ban in Texas.
761 - Aug 2004 - Editorial: New challenges for Catholic education, Peter Westmore
It is easy to forget the vital role of the Catholic education system which alone for almost a century upheld the right of parents to a faith-based education for their children.
762 - Jul 2004 - Reflection: No time to pray? Try contemplation, Fr Leo J. Trese
To make more graphic the nature of mental prayer let us imagine a father standing at a window watching his children playing in the yard.
763 - Jul 2004 - Letters: Parish concerns (letter), Peter Gilet
Few young people attend with only two families with children present at our Mass.
764 - Jul 2004 - Letters: Disappointment (letter), Cathy Cleary
I have passed this same advice to my seven children now grown up and still church-going Catholics.
765 - Jul 2004 - Letters: Abusive letters, Maureen Federico
In regard to the refugee question two interstate Catholic schools were shown to have encouraged children to write discourteous and downright abusive letters to Senator Vanstone to whom an unreserved apology is now warranted.
766 - Jul 2004 - Letters: Gay lobby (letter), Alan A. Hoysted
Christian values are under attack everywhere - from the Gay and Lesbian lobby wanting same-sex marriages to lesbians appearing on the traditional childrens ABC program Play School.
767 - Jul 2004 - Letters: Ineffective system (letter), John Mulholland
The children of those parents who dont follow the party line in sending their children to a Catholic school are unlikely to fare any differently from those who do.
768 - Jul 2004 - Eucharistic Adoration: heart of evangelisation, Fr Sebastian Camilleri OFM
School children did not even know how to make the sign of the cross let alone how to say the act of contrition.
769 - Jul 2004 - Pastoral Letter: The secular challenges to our faith: how to respond, Bishop Geoffrey Jarrett
The context for the Popes concern about the impact of the secular concept upon Catholic practice in Australia so often comes home to me as I listen to many parents grandparents priests and teachers in our schools who tell me of the pain they feel when their children grandchildren friends and parishioners drift away seeming not to know the reason nor feel the privilege of being part of the Mass.
770 - Jul 2004 - News: The Church Around the World
The commitment of men and women in the institution of marriage and their openness to children is the basis of every society said Bishop Hurley.
771 - Jun 2004 - Books: More new titles for 2004 from AD Books
00 Follow Me Zak Zreikat Follow Me contains 16 songs written by Zak Zreikat featuring children from St Bernards Primary School Bacchus Marsh Victoria.
772 - Jun 2004 - Letters: Options (letter), Maryse Usher
I share Matthew Greenes distress and have been pondering options as to what I can do: Decide Jesus is happy with his children chattering away to one another and join in.
773 - Jun 2004 - Society: Why Chesterton is needed now more than ever, Dale Ahlquist
Public education and day care pull children out of the home.
774 - Jun 2004 - Marriage: Statistics highlight the precarious state of marriage and family, AD2000 REPORT
The percentage of children in households with married parents showed a marginal increase from 68 to 69 percent.
775 - May 2004 - Books: Marriage and Family in the Biblical World, edited by Ken Campbell, Bill Muehlenberg
Family life and marriage patterns are expertly covered in detail as are all the related questions: divorce sexual ethics adoption parenting abortion celibacy children homosexuality and gender roles.
776 - May 2004 - Letters: Catholic schools (letter), Elizabeth Alderton
Instead of sensationalising and bandwagonning about the supposed crisis in Catholic education and playing God in your judgement of parents motive in their sending of their children to Catholic schools how about you pause for one moment and look at the power of the Holy Spirit at work in these microcosms of faith.
777 - May 2004 - Letters: Timely article on reverence (letter), Name and Address Supplied
Even small children could be taught what a notice like this says.
778 - May 2004 - Letters: God's house (letter), Melanie Costabile
As a young Catholic I wonder what kind of religious instruction the children of today are receiving.
779 - May 2004 - Education: The religious character of Catholic schools: how can it be enhanced?, Br Paul Macrossan CFC
A new perspective on the matter is provided by the emerging fact that a big majority of parents now choose to send their children to a Catholic school not primarily for a religious motive but for secular ones including examination results discipline interest by teachers or social advancement.
780 - May 2004 - Ethics: Denial of food and water to patients is 'genuine euthanasia': John Paul II, Michael Casanova
God the Father continues to look upon them lovingly recognising them as his children especially in need of assistance.
781 - May 2004 - News: The Church Around the World
Zenit News Service Manila Archbishop recommends The Passion But cautions on its suitability for children Manilas Archbishop Guadencio Rosales has urged Christians to see The Passion of the Christ calling the film a serious labour of love painstakingly made of genuine artistic and religious value.
782 - May 2004 - New liturgy document: Rome affirms right of laity to complain about abuses, Michael Gilchrist
The Instruction also repeats the rule that children are to make their first Confession before first Communion.
783 - Apr 2004 - Letters: Taking a stand in the culture war, Robert and Carmel Garrett
Today television stations continue to promote violence and violence is what we are getting on our streets and in our cities murders and muggings with the worst type of violence occurring in our abortion clinics where 100000 unborn Australian children are disposed of each year.
784 - Apr 2004 - Letters: Catholic schools
Undisputed statistics published regularly by Church authorities declare that 90 percent or more of children attending Catholic schools abandon their faith upon graduation.
785 - Apr 2004 - The Salesians in East Timor: progress report, Br Michael Lynch
Many children including very young ones walk for more than 45 minutes to get to school.
786 - Apr 2004 - Whatever happened to reverence at Mass?, Matthew Greene
Children were running on and around the sanctuary and in and out of pews their parents too busy socialising to whisper a gentle admonition - and give the reason.
787 - Apr 2004 - News: The Church Around the World
The link between marital love and human reproduction must be carefully maintained he argued so that children know they are the product of a complete mutual gift of self in which mothers and fathers become partners with the Creator to produce new human life.
788 - Mar 2004 - CD Review: FOLLOW ME : The life of Jesus for children, by Zak Zreikat, Joe Padero
Firstly the CD heavily features children singing and telling stories.
789 - Mar 2004 - Letters: Missal (letter), John Rayner
Meanwhile the feminists amongst us have caused the word men to be deleted from this part of the Creed because they say it excludes women and children.
790 - Mar 2004 - Letters: Tabernacle (letter), Rosemary Chandler
We are like undisciplined children who must blurt out whatever comes into our heads.
791 - Mar 2004 - HIV/AIDS: A Catholic approach to AIDS: value-based behaviour change, Sr Miriam Duggan
Africa has been the worst affected area where the consequences for families for children left orphaned and for the social and economic well-being of countries at large have been devastating.
792 - Mar 2004 - Ad limina 2004: The 'Statement of Conclusions' five years on, Michael Gilchrist
Most parents of children attending Catholic schools - even their teachers - no longer practise the faith and show little commitment to the Catholic identity of the schools.
793 - Mar 2004 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000
He also reminded parents to regulate use of the mass media within their own families so that their children are preserved from harmful programming and develop a healthy attitude regarding the prudent use of modern communications.
794 - Mar 2004 - Red Mass Homily: Can Lawyers Be Saints?, Bishop Anthony Fisher
St Thomas More for instance was no simpering plaster cast saint social misfit or would-be martyr: he was a man who loved his wives and children and parties his legal practice and his life at court.
795 - Feb 2004 - Letters: Fertility rates, Brian Harris
To prevent this happening the Govemment has given generous subsidies to the nations families who have three or more children.
796 - Feb 2004 - Letters: Christ's gift, Wendy Francis
His children may not be so fortunate.
797 - Feb 2004 - News: The Church Around the World
Vatican Information Service The legal status of unborn Question debated in several countries Parliaments and courts in several countries continue to deliberate over what legal status unborn children may possess.
798 - Feb 2004 - Editorial: What is the purpose of Catholic schools?, Michael Gilchrist
The report referred to a survey commissioned by the Toowoomba Catholic Education Board which revealed most Catholic parents did not see the religious education of their children as important in their choice of school.
799 - Dec 2003 - Reflection: 'Jesus Christ: the door of our salvation' : the meaning of Christmas, Pope John Paul II
The Evangelist John writes: The Word became flesh and dwelt among us (Jn 1:14); and he adds: To all who received him who believed in his name he gave power to become children of God (1:12).
800 - Dec 2003 - Letters: Men at church, Rosanne Turne
Men usually think religion is for women and children.
801 - Dec 2003 - Letters: Unwarranted school closure, Maurice McGrath
After years of paying it off we are now faced with an empty college in a rural setting and nowhere for our children to receive a Catholic education within 70 km in any direction.
802 - Dec 2003 - Social Justice Statement 2003: a response from Bishop Saunders
The account given of the distress associated with the separation of Aboriginal children from their families is well documented and does not amount to emotionally laden terminology.
803 - Dec 2003 - INTERVIEW: New Melbourne and Sydney Religious Education texts, Msgr Peter Elliott
Children tell me that they enjoy them.
804 - Dec 2003 - John Paul II's 25th anniversary: the impact of his teachings, Cardinal George Pell
We thank God for his presence and witness his teaching and courage and pray yet again as we did as children that the Lord preserve him and give him life and deliver him not into the hands of his enemies.
805 - Nov 2003 - Books: A Grief Unveiled, by Gregory Floyd, Bill Muehlenberg
While my son was out of his cast and crutches in around six weeks some children do not have the opportunity to recover.
806 - Nov 2003 - Letters: Hypocrisy (letter), Frank Bellet
Pat Robertson the CEO of Christian Television revealed how he recently asked one of the Episcopalian bishops who supported the ordination of the gay bishop what he would think of a clergyman who deserted his wife and children and went to live with another woman; would he be scandalised?
807 - Nov 2003 - Education: The Catholic Church's one Founder, Fr John O'Neill
In my own parish I have taken steps to counteract for the children of our school any subtle white-anting of their faith in the Church and to forewarn them of what they might meet in future in our secondary schools.
808 - Nov 2003 - Letters: The Footy Show (letter), Patricia Kelly
We can bleat all we like about child pornography but when a top-rating sports show on mainstream television can sneak in an image such as the above in the name of comedy and cause not a ripple then God help Australias children.
809 - Nov 2003 - Social Justice Statements: in whose name should they be published?, Richard Egan
The powerful white settlers removed children from their distressed families - seemingly oblivious to the contested nature of these stolen generation claims.
810 - Oct 2003 - Books: Crisis In Religious Education, by Eamonn Keane, Damien Tudehope
Do you know the type of religious education your children are being exposed to?
811 - Oct 2003 - Liturgical Time Bombs In Vatican II, by Michael Davies, Michael Gilchrist
He commented: At home it is not only women and children but also fathers of families and young men who come regularly to Mass.
812 - Oct 2003 - Books: I The Lord Am With You Always: Prayers and Meditations for Eucharistic Adoration, Msgr Peter J. Elliott
There is a sixth chapter for children useful for those making their First Communion and Confirmation.
813 - Oct 2003 - Letters: Footy Show (letter), Alan A. Hoysted
In response Newman launched a vicious tirade against the Church citing the activities of paedophiles against children.
814 - Oct 2003 - Letters: Inspiring hymn (letter), Kevin O'Hagan
How sweet would be their childrens fate If they like them could die for thee.
815 - Oct 2003 - Orthodox US Catholic colleges and universities continue to flourish, Julia Duin
Americas 222 Catholic universities and colleges have come a long way since beginning as schools for poor immigrant children in the 19th century.
816 - Oct 2003 - AD2000 readers' generous response to Queensland Lourdes appeal, Jenny Davies and Nicole King
A donation came from a Rosary Prayer Group in Mordialloc Victoria with assurance of prayers while a Queensland man wrote: Please ask whoever accompanies Susan to pray for my five children all of whom have left the faith.
817 - Oct 2003 - Why Catholic teaching on marriage is 'good news' for all humanity, Eamonn Keane
The eclipse of moral consciousness is most evident in the multi-dimensional undermining of the meaning of marriage as an indissoluble union between one man and one woman that is ordered towards the generation and education of children.
818 - Oct 2003 - How fatherhood is crucial to children's faith, Fr Robbie Low
Recent Swiss research on church attendance has highlighted the vital role played by fathers in their childrens practice rates.
819 - Oct 2003 - Melbourne Archdiocese responds to John Paul II's Year of the Rosary, AD2000 Report
In his letter to Catholic teachers on 1 May 2003 accompanying the program Archbishop Denis Hart lent his support to the promotion of the Rosary: The Marian months of May and October and the months between them offer us a central time-frame for educating children and young people on the value of the Rosary in our lives.
820 - Oct 2003 - Saints: The Beatification of Mother Teresa of Calcutta
Mother Teresa also opened schools and homes for the poor and abandoned children.
821 - Oct 2003 - Editorial: The role of the Catholic in public life, Peter Westmore
The Congregations statement was simply a reaffirmation of the Catholic Churchs traditional position on marriage: that it is a natural institution ordered by God for the good of society - including fathers mothers and their children - and that it is intended to be both exclusive and permanent.
822 - Sep 2003 - Books: Some Fell On Rock, by Fr John O'Neill, Fr Peter Joseph
Each person has the right to his views but no person has the right to remove those supports which uphold a workable society: among others the individuals right to life (from conception to natural death) the family as the basic unit of formation of sound citizens (family being a male father a female mother and their children and including its extensions) (p.
823 - Sep 2003 - Letters: Liturgical choices (letter), Marguerite Fennell
Would that our Catholic children be given exposure to both liturgies so they (and their families) may know the existence of these choices.
824 - Sep 2003 - Letters: Hidden agenda (letter), Dr Arthur Hartwig
288) writes: Gays used the anti-AIDS campaign as a wedge to help indoctrinate our school children with their views about same-sex as a legitimate alternative lifestyle .
825 - Sep 2003 - Pope John Paul II calls for greater use of Latin, Denis Murphy
These schools didnt dream of trying to teach children everything they would have to know in life but rather sought to train minds so that students could adapt to whatever situation they encountered.
826 - Sep 2003 - Understanding the Catholic Liturgy since Vatican II, Dom Alcuin Reid OSB
At the beginning of the 20th century activist participation - having as many people as possible doing as much as possible in the liturgical rites so that they are involved or included - such as one so often sees at Masses for children or school groups - was unknown and unimaginable.
827 - Sep 2003 - Dissident US group establishing a foothold in Australian parishes, Mary-Ruth Monsour
Mary-Ruth Monsour is a Sydney Catholic writer who is active in her childrens faith development and in local parish life.
828 - Sep 2003 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000
The document takes a particularly dim view of government policies that allow homosexual couples to adopt children.
829 - Sep 2003 - New auxiliary bishops appointed to the Sydney Archdiocese, Michael Gilchrist
News of his appointment was warmly welcomed in London by the chairman of the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) Robin Haig who congratulated Fr Fisher (himself a former president of SPUC): Bishop-elect Anthony Fisher is undisputedly one of the worlds leading bioethicists .
830 - Aug 2003 - Books: Great books at the best prices!
00 Bernadette: Our Ladys Little Servant Hertha Pauli An ideal book for children and young teenagers about the girl to whom the Blessed Virgin appeared as a little young lady revealing herself as the Immaculate Conception.
831 - Aug 2003 - Letters: Lourdes appeal (letter), Jenny Davies
In May 1996 Susan Gunderson wife and mother of two young children suffered a major brain haemorrhage in the kitchen of her family home.
832 - Aug 2003 - Letters: Martyrdom ignored, Tom King
However I am yet to be convinced that our Lord and Saviour would be impressed with the efforts of his present day followers when in addition to the 165000 Christians slaughtered annually he tries to reconcile the 80000 unborn babies killed in Australia each year with his suffer the little children instruction.
833 - Aug 2003 - Letters: Sex education in SA (letter), Kevin McBride
Are South Australian parents happy about the new State sex education program - even with a friendly caring teacher instructing our children in this very private moral area?
834 - Aug 2003 - Priesthood: Clerical celibacy 'for the sake of God's Kingdom': the Church's teaching, John Young
He sees the goodness of marriage and loves the thought of having a wife and children.
835 - Aug 2003 - Catalyst for Renewal Address: The legacy of Vatican II, Archbishop George Pell
But bishops and religious superiors must continue to be vigilant against all misdemeanours especially with children but also with adults.
836 - Aug 2003 - Bioethics: End-of-life decisions: the moral issues at stake, David Perrin
This intention is aimed at decisions as much for unborn and born babies as it is for children with terminal illnesses and older people.
837 - Jul 2003 - Letters: Research help, Dolores Lightbody
It was for children who had just made their First Holy Communion.
838 - Jul 2003 - Letters: Pell biography feedback (letter), Mary Lou Corboy
I am the mother of a Catholic family who chose 13 years ago to rescue our children from the Catholic education system and educate them in the faith around the kitchen table at home - a choice we have never regretted.
839 - Jul 2003 - School sacramental programs: evangelise Catholic families first, Fr John Speekman
The following are some challenging thoughts about current sacramental programs which prepare children for First Confession First Communion and Confirmation.
840 - Jul 2003 - Orthodox Anglicans close ranks to preserve faith, Nigel Zimmermann
The aim of Forward in Faith is to forge a Guaranteed Ecclesial Structure in which we can pass the Faith on to our children and grandchildren.
841 - Jul 2003 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000
After recalling the words of the Venerable Mother Teresa of Calcutta Abortion is a practice that endangers peace in the world the Pope emphasised that there can be no authentic peace without respect for life especially for the innocent and defenceless as are unborn children.
842 - Jun 2003 - Reflection: Church scandals: focus on the message, not just the messengers, Fr Kevin Brannelly
How many Christian spouses betray each other; or Christian parents abuse and neglect their children?
843 - Jun 2003 - Books: Family in the Bible, edited by Richard H. Hess and M. Danial Carroll, Bill Muehlenberg
The parent-child relationship is often highlighted either by referring to God as father or by referring to Israel as son or daughter or people or children.
844 - Jun 2003 - Those dreadful old Catholic hymns?, Fr Fabian Duggan OSB
It doesnt mean of course that all the old hymns we learnt as children were bad but we have to admit that many of them were too awful to contemplate.
845 - Jun 2003 - Laity: The role of lay Catholics in a time of crisis, Mary Ann Glendon
Parents began sending their children to public schools and to non-Catholic colleges.
846 - Jun 2003 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000
They had eight children.
847 - 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.
848 - May 2003 - Books: Life-Giving Love: Embracing God's beautiful design for marriage, Kimberley Hahn, Leanne and Michael Casanova
Kimberly states that according to God children are always and only a blessing - no Scripture or Church document declares a downside of openness to life.
849 - May 2003 - Architecture: 'Re-ordered' and 'new' churches - symptoms of a wider spiritual malaise, Marie Cassey
But what of our children and our childrens children who lack a background to their Faith of a deep sense of reverence and the sacred atmosphere fostered by the traditional-style church with its rich legacy of religious art and revered objects?
850 - Apr 2003 - Books: A Long Way From Rome, edited by Chris McGillion, John Barich
Most contributors seem to have a phobia about Humanae Vitae the Statement of Conclusions and clergy sex abuse but not about the scourges of abortion (100000 a year) or divorce (almost one million children out of touch with their fathers) sexually transmitted diseases AIDS a sex crazy media and the pornography industry.
851 - Apr 2003 - Film Review: Why 'Gangs of New York' misses the boat as history, William J. Stern
A life devoted to the Ten Commandments Hughes recognised would lead people to be responsible in their sexual conduct to care for their children to respect the elderly to minister to the sick to be financially responsible and to live disciplined lives - a recipe for individual and communal success.
852 - Apr 2003 - Archbishop Hickey's pastoral letter on marriage, Archbishop Barry Hickey
The Churchs teaching is an affirmation of human relationships human sexuality and the joy of children.
853 - Mar 2003 - Reflection: Lenten self-denial - at the very heart of our lives with Christ, Fr F.E. Burns
I believe it is important not just to practise this but also to teach its two-dimensional nature to children.
854 - Mar 2003 - Letters: Accountability (letter), John Leach
What is certain is the deep concern parents have for their childrens faith no better justified than from the terrible statistics exposed recently by Professor McLaughlin showing how ineffective current faith education is.
855 - 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.
856 - Mar 2003 - New Age ideas: how Catholics should respond, Fr Peter Joseph
Parents name their children not vice versa.
857 - Mar 2003 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000
Bishop Weigand said he was inspired by a confrontation before Christmas between Davis and a priest who runs a home for disadvantaged children who told the Governor that he wasnt welcome.
858 - Mar 2003 - Sydney Archdiocese RE test: behind one school's success story, Michael Gilchrist
In June 2002 over 5000 sat for the test including for the first time children from five Armidale Diocese schools.
859 - Feb 2003 - Books: The Catholic School In An Age Of Dissent, by Leonard A. Kennedy CSB, Michael Gilchrist
An AIDS program in Ontario Catholic schools was called unadulterated homosexual propaganda and straight social-engineering for introducing children to language and behaviour which a child in his or her wildest dreams could not conjure up.
860 - Feb 2003 - Letters: Media distortions (letter), Nell & Rinion Aslikar
Nazareth House Wynnum a former orphanage operated by the Sisters was the focus of 60 Minutes attentions with Sister Bernard Mary identified as an allegedly sadistic nun who should be in prison for horrific cruelties inflicted upon the children.
861 - Feb 2003 - Letters: Threat to schools (letter), Richard Congram
The new law effectively prevents the Church from protecting its children in its own institutions from the influence of people whose beliefs or lifestyles it condemns.
862 - Feb 2003 - Letters: Teaching the truth (letter), Dennis MacDonald
The question that has to be put to those in charge of religious education is: How can anyone in justice to parents and children promote Groome as a religious education luminary when the essence of his method is to plant doubt in the minds of students regarding the reliability of the Church in teaching the truth of the Gospel?
863 - Feb 2003 - Perth Rosary Tape authors' successful US visit, Colleen McGuiness-Howard
Although they did not win their category on this occasion it was an important opportunity to reach a wider audience through numerous media interviews and speaking to a large group of school children.
864 - Feb 2003 - 'Healing the family tree': New Age under the guise of religion (Part One), Fr Peter Joseph
God says What do you mean by repeating this proverb concerning the land of Israel The fathers have eaten sour grapes and the childrens teeth are set on edge?
865 - Feb 2003 - Events: Europe's most influential Catholic lay association coming to Melbourne, Anthony Cappello
Therefore in prayer the fact of being children of the Father who is in heaven comes before the words we may say.
866 - Feb 2003 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000
Today the family institution is disqualified in favour of other pseudo-family models which even find legal expression in some states including homosexual unions that ask for the right to adopt children.
867 - Feb 2003 - Confronting today's persecution of the Catholic Church, Bishop Luc Matthys
She knows that not all her children are saintly.
868 - Feb 2003 - Vocations: Sydney seminary growth based on orthodoxy, fidelity, Fr Julian Porteous
Seminarians of that era generally came to the seminary directly after completing high school and vocations were often fostered in Catholic families where there were a greater number of children.
869 - Dec 2002 - Reflection: John Paul II on Christmas: 'the mystery of humanity redeemed by Christ', Pope John Paul II
Children subjected to violence humiliated and abandoned women raped and exploited young people adults and the elderly marginalised endless streams of exiles and refugees violence and conflict in so many parts of the world.
870 - Dec 2002 - Letters: Visionary (letter), Tom King
Contemplate for just a moment the effect the on-going sensationalised media reports and vague allegations directed towards the living or the dead (both are considered fair game) is having on young impressionable Catholic children who are developing in trendy educational environments.
871 - Dec 2002 - Letters: Forgiveness (letter), John Schmid
Also infinite therefore and inexhaustible is the Fathers readiness to receive prodigal children who return to His home.
872 - Dec 2002 - The sound of thunder and laughter: Hilaire Belloc re-consideredA.G. Evans, Joseph Pearce, biography, Catholic literature, G.K. Chesterton
These have long delighted children up to and beyond the age of seventy.
873 - Dec 2002 - Archbishop Chaput: what makes a good leader?, Archbishop Charles J. Chaput
If a father really loves his children they will know it and forgive him almost anything.
874 - Dec 2002 - Books: Biography of Archbishop Pell launched in Melbourne: author interviewed
I think the Church has vitally important points to make on many important social issues that confront us all - the ageing population and the reluctance of younger people to have children; Australias astounding rate of taxpayer-subsidised abortion at about 100000 a year.
875 - Dec 2002 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000
Catholic World News Re-evangelisation proposals to bishops Forming parents and children in Catholic faith and morals Eleven proposals under the heading of Forming Parents And Children in Catholic Faith and Morals for a comprehensive re-evangelisation have been submitted to the Australian Conference of Catholic Bishops by twenty groups of Brisbane Catholics.
876 - Nov 2002 - Books: Ideal Christmas Gifts from AD Books
95 Happy Birthday Jesus Zak Zreikat Happy Birthday Jesus is a collection of new songs and stories especially for children.
877 - Nov 2002 - Books: The New Faithful: Why Young Adults are Embracing Christian Orthodoxy, Michael Gilchrist
raised before Vatican II who marvel that their children are embracing devotions like eucharistic adoration and the rosary the very traditions that they happily shed in the 1960s and 1970s.
878 - Nov 2002 - Letters: EWTN (letter), Jacqueline Donohue
EWTN also provides attractive programs for teens and young children.
879 - Nov 2002 - Letters: Tough teachings (letter), Mrs Maureen Federico
There is a marked difference between committing a sin between two consenting adults (adultery) - to which Jesus was referring when He made that famous remark - and references to leading others astray (one in Matthew and one in Luke) which were about children in particular.
880 - 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.
881 - Nov 2002 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000
While there should be no discrimination against homosexuals this did not imply they should be entrusted with the formation of children.
882 - Nov 2002 - Editorial: The essential role of saints in the Church, Michael Gilchrist
Their examples of heroic sanctity have been of incalculable help over the centuries in motivating and inspiring countless men women and children to lead holier lives in line with their Christian Baptism.
883 - Oct 2002 - Letters: New Zealand (letter), Kevin E. Fennessy
Although I reached only Grade Six Standard Proficiency (age 13 years) - most children leaving school to work at that age - yet it enabled me to reach senior rank in our Air Force retiring as a Wing Commander.
884 - Oct 2002 - Letters: Celibate priesthood (letter), Cyril Drew
We have been blessed with nine children and twenty-four grandchildren.
885 - Oct 2002 - Letters: Catholic education (letter), Dr Garrick Small
On that basis their dismal performance is not due to the aberrant views of many teachers but parents - salt in the wounds of many ordinary parents whose children have lost the faith and who feel the deep failure of seeing those most precious go astray.
886 - Oct 2002 - Letters: Letters to the Bishops (letter), Mavis Power
To let the bishops know the reason so many families have withdrawn their children from Catholic schools and why they are home schooling them.
887 - Oct 2002 - Letters: Zero tolerance (letter), Alan A. Hoysted
What I am saying is that in the past bishops and others in authority have shown too much forgiveness and mercy and not enough common sense and concern for the welfare of their victims and protection of children from becoming future victims.
888 - Oct 2002 - US billionaire promotes orthodox teaching, Zenit News Service
Now under the name Ave Maria Singles I look forward to seeing it grow in great numbers all around the world with many marriages children and holy Catholic families established.
889 - Sep 2002 - Marilen Studios: a Christian approach to business, Joe Padero
I created Happy Birthday Jesus because I wanted children to know the true meaning of Christmas: a celebration of the birth of Jesus.
890 - Sep 2002 - Books: Think Piece: Religious, Ethical and Moral Values, by Sebastian Camilleri OFM, Mark Posa
Think Piece also gives valuable advice on the way children should be taught the Faith in the family home.
891 - Sep 2002 - Books: Open Embrace: A Protestant Couple Rethinks Contraception, Bill Muehlenberg
The Bible obviously has a high view of both sexuality and children.
892 - Sep 2002 - Letters: Teaching the faith (letter), Kevin McBride
I was very heartened to read the letters from Fr James Brasier and Mrs Coral Phillips (July AD2000) both pertaining to our school children being short-changed as regards learning the Catholic faith.
893 - Sep 2002 - Australian Rosary CD wins international recognition, Colleen McGuiness-Howard
A Rosary tape/CD (The Rosary for Children) produced by two Perth mothers Brenda Croft and Jenny Knight with no expertise and on borrowed money has achieved international recognition via the United Catholic Music and Video Association (UCMVA) based in Iowa USA.
894 - Sep 2002 - The strange case of Father Damien and Robert Louis Stevenson, Fr F.E. Burns PE
Stevenson became very friendly with the nuns and - to their despair - mixed freely with the lepers and played with the children.
895 - Sep 2002 - CHURCH ATTENDANCE: The family, feminism and the declining role of fatherhood, Richard Egan
A 1994 survey of Swiss religious practice asked key questions about the impact of parents church attendance on the subsequent church attendance of their adult children.
896 - Sep 2002 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000
He added that Today through sonograms and other technology we can see clearly that unborn children are members of the human family as well.
897 - Aug 2002 - Books: New Titles from AD Books
Hahn sees the relations among the Father Son and Holy Spirit as a model for the relations within every family composed of father mother and children.
898 - Aug 2002 - Books: Abortion And Martyrdom, edited by Aidan Nichols, Tracey Rowland
They address the issue of whether the Magisterium of the Church should acknowledge children killed by abortion as martyr companions of the Holy Innocents.
899 - Aug 2002 - Letters: Value for money? (letter), L.L. Booth
There have been letters in your correspondence columns on the subject of adults being short-changed when as children they were taught religion at their Catholic schools.
900 - Aug 2002 - Sexual abuse, celibacy and vocations: a response to the Church's critics, Fr Paul Stuart
Joanne McGearys article from Time magazine (1 April 2002) is an unpleasant one to read but it does provide true stories and information showing the terrible injury caused to children by some Catholic clergy who should have known better and by bishops with the power to deal more effectively with the perpetrators.
901 - Aug 2002 - Education: Beliefs and practices of Catholic students: the decline continues, Michael Gilchrist
A telling statistic is that with Australias Catholic population at about 27 percent of the national total and about 20 percent of the total school population attending Catholic schools roughly 75 percent of Catholic parents are currently sending their children to Catholic schools.
902 - Jul 2002 - Books: New Titles from AD Books
Hahn sees the relations among the Father Son and Holy Spirit as a model for the relations within every family composed of father mother and children.
903 - Jul 2002 - Letters: Fr Des Jenkins Golden Jubilee (letter), Gordon R. Coomber
Father has answered many calls on Feast Days to hear hundreds of confessions and says the Latin Mass at St Josephs Black Rock as well as giving retreats in Queensland to home-schooling parents and children.
904 - Jul 2002 - Letters: Short-changed (letter), Mrs Carol V. Phillips
I am now home-schooling my own children and hoping and praying they will neither lack in knowledge nor commitment to the Catholic Faith.
905 - Jul 2002 - Letters: Zero tolerance (letter), Alan A. Hoysted
To think that priests and brothers would do such filthy and vile things to children defies belief.
906 - Jul 2002 - Chavagnes International College for boys, Paul Russell
The expense of airfares to and from France is an obvious additional impost on the parents of these children.
907 - Jun 2002 - Books: New Titles from AD Books
Daddyhood celebrates the joy of raising children.
908 - Jun 2002 - Letters: An exemplary priest (letter), John Monaghan
My brother Peter taught at St Francis de Sales and my children have attended the school.
909 - Jun 2002 - Letters: IVF expansion (letter), Brian A. Coman
As has been noted by others our High Court judges were not asked to adjudicate on the rights of children but only on an apparent contradiction in the laws as written.
910 - Jun 2002 - How John Paul II's 'new springtime' came to an American parish, Elizabeth A. Wittman
A concerted effort was made to recruit and train catechists to educate the children enrolled.
911 - Jun 2002 - Following our baptismal calling takes courage - Chrism Mass homily, Bishop Geoffrey Jarrett
It was a valiant faith which made martyrs of many ordinary Christian men women and children and bishops priests and popes as well.
912 - Jun 2002 - Moral leadership of American hierarchy under scrutiny at Rome meeting, Philip Lawler
One scandal involved the sexual abuse of children by Catholic priests.
913 - Jun 2002 - A post-1968 Catholic's view of R.E.: 'My generation was shortchanged', Mark Power
Catholic children were no longer taught the tenets of the faith in any adequate or systematic way.
914 - May 2002 - Books: Pedophiles and Priests: Anatomy of a Contemporary Crisis, by Philip Jenkins, David Ross
We have certainly seen many well-publicised cases with front-page photos of priests led off to jail and television interviews of parents afraid to let their children associate with clergy.
915 - May 2002 - US research puts clerical sex-abuse in perspective, Philip Jenkins
Though his superiors had known for years of Geoghans pedophile activities he kept being transferred from parish to parish regardless of the safety of the children in his care.
916 - May 2002 - Catholicism in Australia: facing the challenges of Western secularism, Archbishop George Pell
So too the abandonment of demanding Christian teachings on sexuality marriage and children might provoke a few favourable editorials but would gain no converts and increase the suffering in society.
917 - May 2002 - News: The Church Around the World
Two of the texts most commonly used - Fully Alive and Growing in Love - have come under intense criticism by many Catholic parents for their controversial presentation of human sexuality even to very young children.
918 - May 2002 - Editorial: A moral challenge for society, Peter Westmore
However these human embryos were created for the purpose of helping childless couples have children.
919 - Apr 2002 - Reflection: Father forgive them ...: Our Lord's example for Christian living, Fr Dennis W. Byrnes PP
The divorced the bereaved parents hurt and rejected by children children neglected and mistreated by their parents the elderly who are overlooked - all who suffer hurts misunderstandings and the insensitivities of daily living - can forgive but forgetting will take time.
920 - Apr 2002 - Books: Engaged to be Married - A Giftbook for Engaged Couples, Michael Daniel
A range of clergy and lay authors present chapters on topics such as marriage as a sacrament creating a Christian home as a couple natural family planning the ends of marriage and raising children.
921 - Apr 2002 - Letters: Harry Potter (letter), Christine Slagter
No matter how well written or entertaining the books are they can lead children into the occult.
922 - Apr 2002 - Letters: Evangelisation (letter), Mavis Power
Why have the parents been so unable to teach their children why has the Church been so unsuccessful in its role of passing on the Faith?
923 - Apr 2002 - A fresh way for children to learn the faith - Catechesis of the Good Shepherd, Anne Delsorte
An innovative approach to teaching young children the essentials of the Catholic faith based on the methods of acclaimed educationalist Maria Montessori is catching on in Australia.
924 - Apr 2002 - The Lord of The Rings, Harry Potter and Star Wars, Hal G.P. Colebatch
One cannot speak for freaks psychopaths and the worst products of the contemporary culture war but normal children who experiment with spells soon grow out of them with any sort of ordinarily good parenting and education.
925 - Apr 2002 - News: The Church Around the World
The special set of readings used at Masses to complement the Catechism had proved very successful and provided excellent opportunities to develop wonderful Masses for children in Catholic schools.
926 - Apr 2002 - Melbourne 'Sexuality Directives' put parents first, Anthony Cappello
In his preface Archbishop Hart reaffirms the Churchs teaching on matters of education in the area of sexuality stating that assisting children to understand and appreciate themselves as emerging men and women loved and capable of loving is in accordance with Gods plan and teachings of Jesus.
927 - Mar 2002 - Books: Living The Catholic Faith, by Archbishop Charles Chaput, Anthony Cappello
After reading Chapter One a reader may well feel transformed; an uninterested teenager may possibly start to ask questions; and non- practising parents whose children attend a Catholic parish school may even become interested in that building next to their childrens school.
928 - Mar 2002 - Letters: Forgotten teachings, Mrs Hiske Deschepper
As a housewife and mother of five children and their families I am sad about the watering down of the Ten Commandments including the Third - to keep holy the Lords Day - which requires attending Mass on Sundays.
929 - Mar 2002 - Letters: Courage Needed (letter), Frank Bellet
Although I agree with Fr John Speekman and Br Con Moloneys sentiments concerning the problem of children no longer genuinely connected with the Church attending school Masses (AD2000 November and February) I do not agree that the substitution of a Liturgy of the Word is the answer.
930 - Mar 2002 - Letters: Testimonies, Raymond de Souza
She has encapsulated in a few words what most Catholic parents who care about their childrens salvation believe.
931 - Mar 2002 - Thoughts of a recent convert to Catholicism, Rett Peaden
Just because the US Supreme Court okays killing unborn children does not make it alright.
932 - Mar 2002 - 'Liturgiam Authenticam', ICEL and the need for improved Mass translations, Anna Silvas
And then they had the temerity to invent childrens liturgies!
933 - Mar 2002 - St Thérèse's relics make Australian pilgrimage, Mother Teresa OCDM
Pope John Paul II said Of St Theacute;regrave;se of Lisieux it can be said with conviction that God chose her to reveal directly to the men and women of our time the central reality of the Gospel that God is our Father and we are His children.
934 - Feb 2002 - Books: Hogwarts or Hogwash? by Peter Furst and Craig Heilmann, Bill Muehlenberg
Should they allow their children exposure to these works?
935 - Feb 2002 - Letters: Crisis of faith, Mavis Power
I am a mother and grandmother concerned about the crisis of faith of some of my children and grandchildren.
936 - Feb 2002 - Letters: School Masses, Br Con Moloney CFC
I wholeheartedly endorse the final remarks of Father John when he writes: Given the large proportion of non-Catholics and non-practising children I think it is more appropriate for our secondary schools to celebrate a Liturgy of the Word where now they celebrate the Eucharist.
937 - Feb 2002 - Homily: Most Rev Geoffrey Jarrett installed as new Bishop of Lismore, Bishop Geoffrey Jarrett
In the face of those who complain that the Church lacks contemporary relevance or that her teachings are behind the times we must show our own delight and thankfulness that the Church does stand firm on critical modern issues like strong and wise parents who know what is good and true and do not give in to their childrens every demand.
938 - Feb 2002 - News: The Church Around the World
Zenit News Service Abortion of unwanted twins Newspaper poll shows strong opposition A news item in the Herald Sun (28 November) reported that a Melbourne woman had aborted one of her unborn twins conceived using IVF because she feared she could not cope with both children.
939 - Feb 2002 - Archbishop Philip Wilson sets out his agenda for Adelaide, Michael Gilchrist
On the role of Catholic schools in the diocese he said they should exist to support the work being done in families in the education of faith in the children.
940 - Dec 2001 - Reflection: St Thérèse's 'little way', Kate Cleary
The one thing that the heavenly Father wants from us His children is our love.
941 - Dec 2001 - Letters: 'Familiaris Consortio' 20th anniversary, John Barich
One of the key messages of the document is simple: The greatest gift a father can give his children is to love their mother.
942 - Dec 2001 - St Vitus Cathedral, Prague, and Europe's Christian heritage, Stephen W. Carson
The author works as a software engineer studies political economy at the graduate level at Washington University and works with inner-city children in St Louis through a ministry of his church.
943 - Dec 2001 - Obituary: Thomas Kendell (1929-2001) R.I.P. - The passing of a great Catholic educator, Nicholas Kendell
He was also very proud of his children - Ruth a mother of three and the present writer who followed in his fathers footsteps and is now teaching at an International School in Hong Kong.
944 - Dec 2001 - East Timor: how the Church is rebuilding a shattered nation, Peter Westmore
Yet despite this and the obvious poverty which afflicts so many the people of East Timor remain a friendly compassionate people with a deep love of life and particularly children who are everywhere.
945 - Dec 2001 - Church leaders say 'No human cloning', AD2000 Report
Much worse than cloning human beings to reproduce children would be the creation or use of human embryos for the purpose of destructive experimentation.
946 - Nov 2001 - Bookstore: New Titles from AD Books
This is a wonderful way for children and parents to surf the Net.
947 - Nov 2001 - Books: 'STICKY THE DOG', by Robert Wheeler, Catherine Sheehan
Available from AD Books) Sticky the Dog is a collection of childrens stories written by Uniting Church Minister Robert Wheeler.
948 - Nov 2001 - Letters: Classification Guidelines, Mrs Carol V. Phillips
At the same time it is acknowledged that audio recordings which advocate suicide violence sexual violence necrophilia and other abhorrent or criminal activities should not be available to children.
949 - Nov 2001 - Letters: Immigration policy, George F. Simpson
I do feel sorry for the women and children who have no say in family decisions.
950 - Nov 2001 - Letters: Forgotten teachings, Fr John Speekman
Given the large proportion of non-Catholic and non-practising children I think it is more appropriate for our secondary schools to celebrate a Liturgy of the Word where now they celebrate the Eucharist.
951 - Nov 2001 - Pastoral letter: Taking up John Paul II's concerns about the Sacrament of Penance, Archbishop Barry J. Hickey
In this the priest has a major role although it is shared by others particularly by parents and teachers in regard to children.
952 - Nov 2001 - News: The Church Around the World
Vatican Information Service South Africas Bishops reject gay adoption High Court ruling not in interests of child A South African High Court ruling that same-sex couples be allowed to adopt children has been denounced by several religious bodies including the Catholic Church in South Africa.
953 - 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.
954 - Oct 2001 - Books: 'Apologetics and Catholic Doctrine', Archbishop Sheehan, Fr Peter Joseph, Br Christian Moe FSC
In the case of home-schooling parents who are wondering how they can advance the religious knowledge of their teen-age children again this book would be a goldmine.
955 - Oct 2001 - Letters: Church leadership (letter), Mary Daly
The Churches need to encourage their members not to vote for a party which imprisons innocent men women and children without trial for indeterminate periods.
956 - Oct 2001 - Education: Mass attendance: a key measure of Catholic schools' effectiveness, Br John Moylan CFC
A document of the Australian National Catholic Education Commission issued in 2000 to clarify the purpose of Catholic schools stated that in part Catholic schools are for Catholic children who through baptism have a right to an education in the Catholic faith in a Catholic school.
957 - Oct 2001 - Events: Gerry Matatics Visit / Catholic Homeschooling Conference, Parramatta, AD2000
Finally convinced by his studies that Catholicism is the original and authentic form of Christianity Gerry together with his wife and children entered the Catholic Church in 1986.
958 - Oct 2001 - News: The Church Around the World
Confronting the problem of priests who have sex with children the Cardinal warned the Church against apathy and negligence.
959 - Oct 2001 - Archbishop George Pell: 'The strong family is a religious family', Archbishop George Pell
True and effective love of ones children requires sacrifice making a gift of oneself to others and it is this sacrificial love that maximises the chance of an encounter with the transcendent.
960 - Sep 2001 - Books: 'Lamentations Of The Father', by Ian Frazier, Mary-Jane Donnellan
Adapting the language of Deuteronomy tongue-in-cheek it sets out a fathers code of conduct for young children.
961 - Sep 2001 - Books: 'Teens and Relationships', 'Teen Life and Christ', by Jerry Shepherd, Mary-Jane Donnellan
The above three titles provide helpful ideas for achieving these sometimes elusive goals and are recommended reading for both parents and their teenage children.
962 - Sep 2001 - Commission for Australian Catholic Women: Executive members' feminist views, Richard Egan
All: I see a new day dawning with clean water virgin forests and fields and fields of grain; trees are doing a ring dance in praise of God in praise of Gaia; we are like children and all of us are walking in the rain.
963 - Sep 2001 - Editorial: A letter from the Publisher, Peter Westmore
I am acutely aware that the financial demands on families today are heavier than ever in many cases being additional to commitments to running a family farm a business holding down a job (for many families unfortunately a second job) and educating children.
964 - Aug 2001 - Books: Learning to Pray, by Julie Keleman, Anthony Cappello
Available from AD Books) Julie Keleman several years ago wrote a booklet entitled Lent is for Children.
965 - Aug 2001 - Books: Hail, Holy Queen: The Mother of God in the Word of God, by Scott Hahn, Catherine Sheehan
Mary was the instrument through which God made a covenant of salvation enabling those who followed Him to become His children.
966 - Aug 2001 - Australian scholarship for African priest
It is also thanks to the Legion of Mary that many families approach the sacraments and receive the sacrament of Christian initiation for their children.
967 - Aug 2001 - Appreciating the Mass: a successful new publication, Fr Robert Egar PP
Even though the Mass in those days was celebrated in Latin school children were led to understand the centrality of the Mass in our Catholic Christian life.
968 - Aug 2001 - Denver Archdiocese: the future of Catholicism, David Scott
The parents know their children are the future of the Church and were working with them to try to make them good Catholics.
969 - Aug 2001 - News: The Church Around the World
Bishop Mazzolari said he was afraid many of the people heading north out of Raga including many children could die of hunger and thirst in the largely desert area.
970 - Jul 2001 - Books: The Gift of the Rosary: How to make and How and Why to Pray, by Brian Peachey, Barry Morgan
Throughout the centuries Mary has continuously displayed maternal care for her vain and rebellious children.
971 - Jul 2001 - Letters: Church land (letter), Charles Haber
But the Anglican-Uniting church occupies a very small block of land on the very busy dangerous (for children) and noisy Great Ocean Road next to a Caravan Park.
972 - Jul 2001 - Letters: De facto relationships (letter), Deirdre Lyra
Has anyone considered the offspring of the changing partners and the ensuing complications of the unstable family life to which these children will be subjected?
973 - Jul 2001 - News: The Church Around the World
After praising her commitment to peace and justice he added: Ive always been puzzled by political leaders who exclude unborn children from the protection of the justice they publicly claim to champion.
974 - Jun 2001 - Books: 'As One Struggling Christian to Another: Augustine's Christian Ideal for Today', Bill Muehlenberg
Consider his words on love: Love is the only real distinction between the children of God and the children of the devil.
975 - 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.
976 - Jun 2001 - Light to the Nations 2001 - Young Australian Catholics celebrate their faith, Mary-Jane Donnellan
The atmosphere during the liturgy was at times electric the silence almost eerie - with only the crying of children to be heard in the background.
977 - Jun 2001 - How a small rural parish survived against the odds, Paul Newton
This was the case in the 1870s when Mary McKillop and her sisters suffered extraordinary hardships for the sake of poor children.
978 - Jun 2001 - Denver document addresses challenges to Catholic marriage teachings, AD2000 Report
Special attention it said should be given to parents who play a critical role in preventing cohabitation and premarital sex in the lives of their children.
979 - Jun 2001 - News: The Church Around the World
Mothers today give birth to children and abandon them.
980 - 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.
981 - May 2001 - Letters: Elizabeth Anscombe (letter), Edward Clarke
Not only was she an intellectual defender of Catholic morality but was also to be found praying outside abortion clinics with some of her children risking arrest and harassment from our over-zealous police force.
982 - May 2001 - Letters: Eucharistic Congress (letter), Basil Lane
I have a medal from it being honoured to be chief altar boy at a childrens Mass celebrated by the late Bishop Barry of Goulburn.
983 - May 2001 - New WA Catholic schools document stresses orthodoxy
This was necessary since as the new Mandate acknowledges there are considerable difficulties in catechising children through families and parishes given the declining participation rate in parish life and widespread family breakdown.
984 - May 2001 - The Church in Germany: John Paul II expresses serious concerns, Catholic World News
He says that Catholic families should be faithful to the spirit of Christian marriage and must educate their children in the faith.
985 - 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.
986 - Apr 2001 - Reflection: Giving witness to the Gospel of Life, Rebecca van Rensburg
As a mother I found this passage in Evangelium Vitae particularly encouraging and inspiring: Part of this daily heroism is also the silent but effective and eloquent witness of all those brave mothers who devote themselves to their own families without reserve who suffer in giving birth to their children and who are ready to make any sacrifice in order to pass on to them the best of themselves.
987 - Apr 2001 - Books: 'Contraception: The Hidden Truth' by Christine de Stoop, Katie Forster
In a following chapter on the social consequences of contraception statistics show how a contraceptive society harms everyone - men women and children.
988 - Apr 2001 - Letters: Stations of the Cross (letter), Charles Bignold
By dropping those stations four beautiful and deeply moving stories are lost to future generations because by what other means are children going to hear about them?
989 - Apr 2001 - Tanzania's Father Winfried makes return visit to Australia, Martin Sheehan
Another of Fr Winfrieds ambitions is to set up a Dress Making Co- operative Workshop for the local women - The women are very keen to make clothes for themselves and their children.
990 - Apr 2001 - Rights of unborn are inalienable, Archbishop Barry J. Hickey
One would have thought that those very factors which have led to an acceptance of the rights of people with disabilities that have produced medical miracles for premature babies and children with severe handicaps would also lead to the valuing and protecting of babies in the womb.
991 - Apr 2001 - Archbishop Curtiss on implementing the theology 'mandatum', Archbishop Elden Curtiss
At the graduate level there has to be an understanding of the difference between exposure to a lot of speculative ideas and the kind of undergraduate religious base that needs to be provided for students - and the expectation of Catholics if they send their children to a Catholic college or university that that grounding is going to take place.
992 - Apr 2001 - News: The Church Around the World
Among the new documents published by Gaspari is a letter of Pius XII sent to Sister Ferdinanda (Maria Corsetti) awarded by the Israeli Government with the title Righteous Among the Nations in which Jews are referred to as beloved children.
993 - Mar 2001 - Letters: Poem to Our Lady, Marion Craig
With mother-mantle sheltering your children Who cling and creep confiding in your care; Your lovely womans face alight with pleading The Almighty Deity Who heeds your prayer.
994 - Mar 2001 - Letters: Supernatural order (letter), Fr G.H. Duggan SM
God the Heavenly Father is our Creator and all human beings in the natural order are His children related to Him as children to the father in a human family.
995 - Mar 2001 - Letters: Church doctrine? (letter), Frank Mobbs
It seems rather that the Church is agnostic about the fate of unbaptised infants for the Catechism of the Catholic Church (1261) says: As regards children who have died without baptism the Church can only entrust them to the mercy of God .
996 - Mar 2001 - What we must teach our children: Archbishop Chaput, Archbishop Charles J. Chaput
The formation which parents give their children is critical to the childs development and if it is done with love will prepare them for their place in the world.
997 - Mar 2001 - Cardinal Ratzinger on 'Third Secret' of Fatima
Included in the document is an introduction by Archbishop Bertone the original texts of the first second and third parts of the secret Pope John Paul IIs letter dated 9 April 2000 to Sister Lucia - the sole survivor of the three children who witnessed the Fatima apparitions in 1917 - and a theological commentary by Cardinal Ratzinger (summarised on this page).
998 - Mar 2001 - Elizabeth Anscombe, R.I.P., Robert P. George
Like so many of the greatest Catholic philosophers of her century - Michael Dummett John Finnis Jacques Maritain Peter Geach (Anscombes husband with whom she had seven children) and Edith Stein - Elizabeth Anscombe was a convert.
999 - Mar 2001 - News: The Church Around the World
They affect everyone including unborn children.
1000 - Feb 2001 - Books: 'The Essence Of Feminism' by Kirsten Birkett, Catherine Sheehan
She argues that these two factors have made life worse for women and hence for children and men also.
1001 - Feb 2001 - Letters: 'Creating Our Future' (letter), Mrs Jeanette Joseph
At the recent Jubilee celebrations in Toowoomba bus-loads of children came from all corners of the Diocese to attend a Saturday night concert and Sunday morning ecumenical service led by Bishop Morris.
1002 - Feb 2001 - Letters: Limbo (letter), John Young
In 1980 the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith issued an Instruction on Infant Baptism which having reviewed the Churchs teaching and practice through the ages stated: The Church has thus shown by her teaching and practice that she knows no other way apart from baptism for assuring childrens entry into eternal happiness.
1003 - Feb 2001 - The finest RE texts produced to date, Anthony Cappello
This would be a challenge for a number of families whose children receive instruction at Catholic schools but who do not ususally attend church themselves.
1004 - Feb 2001 - New RE texts launched in Melbourne's Catholic schools, Michael Gilchrist
The series To Know Worship and Love is thus in line with the 1997 General Directory for Catechesis from the Congregation of the Clergy which sought to keep these different approaches in harmony as long as the accurate content of the Catholic Faith is transmitted to the children and young people.
1005 - Feb 2001 - News: The Church Around the World
In fact a number of times the same validity for unions of coexistence between two persons of the same sex has been requested even with the possibility of being able to adopt children.
1006 - Dec 2000 - Books: 200 Years of Faith: A Multimedia Tour of the Holy Land, Catherine Sheehan
A reference section of corresponding Biblical passages and articles outlining the history of each location are valuable educational sources presented at a level suitable for older children while being at the same time interesting for adults.
1007 - Dec 2000 - Letters: Remembrance services (letter), Richard Grant
I strongly endorse Ron Edmonds suggestion that the Catholic Church introduce liturgical funeral and remembrance services for children lost through miscarriage abortion or stillbirth (October AD2000).
1008 - Dec 2000 - Letters: Rainbow Serpent (letter), Hans Klaver
I was amazed to read in the Church Around the World (October AD2000) about the Jubilee celebration liturgy in St Stephens Cathedral Brisbane on 2 August for primary school students of the Brisbane Archdiocese during which the children were read a story after the Gospel about the aboriginal Rainbow Serpent.
1009 - Dec 2000 - Letters: Serious duties (letter), Myles M. Kehoe
Recent issues have included an account of a pagan ceremony for children in one of our cathedrals and how in another diocese lay people are to perform funerals preach and broaden the range of worship opportunities.
1010 - Dec 2000 - The 'new breed' of orthodox seminarians, Carter H. Griffin
Some of our older brothers are widowed with children; others have been in religious orders for some years.
1011 - Dec 2000 - C.S. Lewis: Christian apologist, Sarah Macdonald
Lewis is renowned for his many books and writings on Christian apologetics such as Mere Christianity The Problem of Pain The Abolition of Man and classics like The Screwtape Letters and the series of childrens books The Narnian Chronicles.
1012 - Dec 2000 - Jubilee Congress of Families: Rome report, Anthony Cappello
His family - including his wife Brigid and children Liam and Clare - was one of two families representing the Archdiocese of Melbourne.
1013 - Nov 2000 - The right to work: central to the Catholic Church's social teaching, Patrick Byrne
When Adam and Eve were driven from the garden of Eden Eve had to bear children and nurture the family.
1014 - Nov 2000 - News: The Church Around the World
Zenit News Service Jubilee for Families celebration in Rome Children the springtime of the family and for society The Jubilee for Families celebration in Rome on 14-15 October drew about 200000 people from around the world.
1015 - Oct 2000 - How language transforms a Christian society into a secular society, Audrey English
In a mistaken idea of reaching children at their own level religious education often reduces religious concepts to the extent that the supernatural becomes nonexistent.
1016 - Oct 2000 - Archbishop Pell: social justice for today's family, Archbishop George Pell
Families with children under 15 and no parent working increased from 280000 in 1986 to 390000 in 1997 the last figure approaching one family in five.
1017 - Oct 2000 - News: The Church Around the World
A reader first informed the school children that an important story to the indigenous people of Australia is the story of the Rainbow Serpent.
1018 - Sep 2000 - Ensuring our schools are truly Catholic, Br John Moylan CFC
From the younger group there are few vocations to the priesthood and religious life and those who with their children benefit from a stable marriage are becoming a minority.
1019 - Sep 2000 - The 'Statement of Conclusions' and liturgy: what needs to be done, Msgr Peter J. Elliott
This must begin with the smallest children at home and in school.
1020 - Sep 2000 - Why singles should not have access to IVF, Peter Westmore
The recent judgment of the Federal Court giving an unmarried single woman Lisa Meldrum in Victoria access to IVF treatment - to enable her to conceive a child without her being married - raises important questions about the rights of children to have a father and mother and to be raised in a stable and loving family.
1021 - Sep 2000 - Rome's International Eucharistic Congress: 'an unforgettable week', Christine McCarthy
50 Cardinals 250 Bishops more than 1000 priests about 100000 faithful - including 10000 children who had made their First Communion during the Jubilee Year - were present.
1022 - Aug 2000 - Reflection: Re-discovering holiness will lead to more priestly vocations: Cardinal Daly, Cardinal Cahal Daly
A great need for all followers of Christ nowadays is to work and to pray for a society more conducive to and more appreciative of chastity and therefore more conducive to and more appreciative of celibacy for priests Training in chastity is an essential part of Christian education for children and young people in todays world.
1023 - Aug 2000 - Cardinal Ratzinger on 'Third Secret' of Fatima
Included in the document is an introduction by Archbishop Bertone the original texts of the first second and third parts of the secret Pope John Paul IIs letter dated 9 April 2000 to Sister Lucia - the sole survivor of the three children who witnessed the Fatima apparitions in 1917 - and a theological commentary by Cardinal Ratzinger (summarised on this page).
1024 - Aug 2000 - Eucharistic Congress in Wollongong: 'a time of blessing', Fr Mark De Battista
On 16 June thousands of primary and secondary school children from across the diocese took part in a the Great Jubilee function for students while that evening representatives from each community in the diocese participated in a ceremony displaying diocesan church unity with around three thousand in attendance.
1025 - Aug 2000 - News: The Church Around the World
It pits the Court and the Constitution itself against the legal protection of children who are not wanted said Cardinal Francis George Archbishop of Chicago in a public statement on 28 June.
1026 - Aug 2000 - Divorce and remarriage: Vatican reaffirms Church teaching
The Pontifical Council allows that some divorced and remarried couples for serious reasons such as the welfare of their children might continue to live together as brother and sister.
1027 - Jul 2000 - Reflection: St John the Baptist, the Precursor (Feast Day, 24 June), Br Christian Moe FSC
Most of us would be familiar with some of those beautiful early Renaissance paintings depicting the - extended - Holy Family where St Elizabeth and the Blessed Virgin Mary watch their children at play.
1028 - Jul 2000 - Family Mission Novena: Australian response to Jubilee 2000
Small children in night attire students in school uniforms mothers fathers families we all celebrated Jubilee and Redemption.
1029 - Jul 2000 - New Zealand bishops endorse register of same sex couples, Richard Egan
In August 1999 the New Zealand Ministry of Justice issued a discussion paper on Same-Sex Couples and the Law seeking submissions from the public on various questions such as whether same-sex couples should be able to marry or be otherwise able to register their relationships and on related matters such as children entitlements relationship breakdown and death.
1030 - Jul 2000 - News: The Church Around the World
Respect the inalienable rights of parents to impart sexual education to their children.
1031 - Jun 2000 - How Catholics can help rebuild Christian culture, Archbishop Charles J. Chaput
Today in the United States only one in four families can be described as intact and traditional - in other words two parents single income with children living at home.
1032 - Jun 2000 - News: The Church Around the World
EWTN News Update Pope beatifies Fatima children Third secret made public by Cardinal Sodano On 14 May for the first time in the history of the Church a Pope has beatified children who were not martyrs.
1033 - May 2000 - Letters: Reply to Fr Frank Brennan (letter), Richard Egan
The declaration (par 23) supports a constitutional amendment to extend the right to life to all unborn children.
1034 - May 2000 - How the future John Paul II saved a Jewish girl's life, Zenit News Service
When they finally arrived at the convoy that would take the prisoners to the West Edith met a Jewish family who alerted her: Be careful priests try to convert Jewish children.
1035 - May 2000 - Books: Francis Thompson: author of 'The Hound of Heaven', Michael Daniel
The reader encounters Thompsons experience of the love and power of God; a God who seeks out his wandering children and will never abandon them regardless of what they have done or how far they have fallen; a God whose power is such that with divine assistance Thompson is able to overcome his opium addiction.
1036 - May 2000 - What are the foundations of a good Catholic education?, Dr. John J. Haldane
It once was the case that Catholic children had developed in them a reverence for the sacraments and the liturgy.
1037 - May 2000 - Australian Catholic University student survey, Michael Gilchrist
47 percent indicated that Catholic schools should aim to bring children to a knowledge of the Catholic faith but only 12 percent cited commitment and 16 percent practice of the faith.
1038 - Apr 2000 - Coming Home Network: a Catholic apostolate for converts, Marcus Grodi
Since a Jewish priest was generally married conversion would also mean the loss of his means of supporting wife and children because he had no guarantee he could continue in a paid leadership capacity once he converted.
1039 - Apr 2000 - Father Winfried's progress report from Tanzania, Fr Winfried Ngonyani
The clothes were spread out and people were invited to select what they liked; they were free of charge for the elderly and children; others were given the option of (i) doing a little work in the parish community centre; (ii) paying a little money; or as most did (iii) paying with chickens or eggs.
1040 - Apr 2000 - Impressive gathering of young people attend TMC Summer School, Michael Daniel
Some of the ways in which women who have had abortions grieve are: inhibitions in relating to future spouses and children anger depression and suicide.
1041 - Apr 2000 - News: The Church Around the World
In a column published in the Denver Rocky Mountain News Archbishop Chaput affirmed that if the last few decades have shown us anything its this: When traditional marriages dissolve the children of these marriages suffer.
1042 - Apr 2000 - Should the Church apologise?, Fr Colin Barker
An article in The Catholic Times in the UK on 1 January 2000 said: The family has been declared obsolete and many children are condemned to a life of poverty without a father.
1043 - Mar 2000 - Books: 'Building Family Prayer and Traditions' by Steve Givens, Catherine Sheehan
Primarily this book is for families with younger children because as the author cautions asking an older teenager to join in nightly prayer sessions when they have never done so before may be a little ambitious (leading by example may be best in these situations).
1044 - Mar 2000 - How the Salesians are helping to rebuild East Timor, Br Michael Lynch
Some people hid in sewers to avoid the militia; a countless number of mothers neglected their own health and safety to protect young children; many fled the militia for refuge in the mountains living there for weeks without proper food and shelter.
1045 - Mar 2000 - News: The Church Around the World
I am concerned that children might be converted by some of the literature.
1046 - Feb 2000 - Letters: God’s love (letter), Louise Howell (Dr)
He loves each of His children absolutely and unconditionally.
1047 - Feb 2000 - Letters: Rockhampton (letter), Franklin J. Wood
At the same time 50 percent of Catholic primary school children in the Rockhampton Diocese attend State schools.
1048 - Feb 2000 - Letters: Missing ‘glue’ (letter), Joseph Taylor
Australia urgently needs parents schools and governments all co-operating to teach children these facts of life.
1049 - Feb 2000 - Defending the faith against secularism and relativism, Bishop Kevin Manning
parents prohibited from punishing their children children allowed to divorce their parents educational programs allowed to present pre-marital sex homosexuality and masturbation as valid life-style options.
1050 - Feb 2000 - News: The Church Around the World
Only 19 percent of children under 15 now attend church a decline from 25 percent a decade ago.
1051 - Dec 1999 - On the Highway to Heaven: Wagga priest's trucking apostolate, Fr Thomas Casanova
About 62 percent of interstate drivers spend 20 or fewer hours at home which is not good for marriages or the formation of children.
1052 - Dec 1999 - News: The Church Around the World
He further stated that the Churchs teaching the teaching of Jesus Christ from Divine Revelation is that the gift of human sexuality is oriented toward uniting a man and woman in marriage for life for their own unity in Christ and for the giving of new life to children.
1053 - Dec 1999 - Stress Christianity's uniqueness says Pope, Father Bernardo Cerveller
his nearness to poor people to sinners the unclean children the dead.
1054 - Nov 1999 - Reflection: How unconditional is God's love?, Fr G.H. Duggan SM
However it did ensure that Lutheran children became familiar with the essentials of Christian morality.
1055 - Nov 1999 - Religious Education: 'Gospel of life' in Melbourne's new RE curriculum, Msgr Peter J. Elliott
In themselves those challenging words can launch us on a positive approach to teaching children and young people the good news of the Christian struggle for human life on the edge of a new millennium.
1056 - Nov 1999 - Piers Paul Read on the future of the Church, Piers Paul Read
To judge from my children and some of their friends the problem today is not atheism but people not being interested in religious questions at all a lack of curiosity about whether there is any religious truth.
1057 - Oct 1999 - Reflection: A Kolbe Quartet, Msgr Peter J. Elliott
The steps of the step accomplished so swiftly quietly without display you take his place the other man whose name is Francis a father of children yearning for the sound and touch of family.
1058 - Oct 1999 - Bishop John Myers of Peoria on the meaning of teaching authority, Bishop John Myers
We must respect their genuine dignity as children of God.
1059 - Oct 1999 - The UN's war on population confronts religious principles, Stephen Hitchings
The 1998 commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Human Rights rejoiced at the advances in human rights while denouncing racial violence political oppression torture and violence against women and children.
1060 - Oct 1999 - News: The Church Around the World
She was alone because her widowed mother who had four very young children at home was sick and could not pick her up.
1061 - Sep 1999 - Education: Teaching the right values: a challenge for Catholic schools, Greg Craven
A failure to assert the values in which we believe tells our children absolutely that those values are not worth believing in.
1062 - Sep 1999 - Spirituality: West Australian Rosary tapes: a growing international success story, Colleen McGuiness-Howard
The Rosary for Children audio tape (now available in CD form) was consecrated to Our Lady of Fatima in Perth on 13 May 1998 by two young Western Australian housewives and mothers Brenda Croft and Jenny Knight (see AD2000 August 1998 p.
1063 - Sep 1999 - News: The Church Around the World
He continued: In a culture that believes unwanted children should not be conceived in the first place and have no right to life if they are conceived abortion is necessary as a back-up when contraception fails as it inevitably does at some time .
1064 - Aug 1999 - The pipe organ and Catholic liturgy: an expression of Church teaching, Jeremy Fletcher
The historic Nicholson pipe organ which has been recently installed in St Patricks Church Mentone (in the Melbourne Archdiocese) will be the core of a whole range of musical activities centred around the liturgy: the training of childrens voices for the future of our Church music heritage; the training of young organists; and the performance of works for solo organ choir and organ - part of our treasury of Sacred Music as defined by Church documents.
1065 - Aug 1999 - Archbishop Pell celebrates traditional Latin Mass in St Patrick's Cathedral, Gerard McManus
The congregation at the Melbourne Mass was noteworthy for the large number of families with children.
1066 - Aug 1999 - Order of Australia for pregnancy counselling centre's founder, AD2000 Report
Yet Jenny Kearney has spent 15 years working in this area in an unpaid capacity at the same time raising four children.
1067 - Aug 1999 - News: The Church Around the World
This indicates that only about half of Catholic parents are having their children baptised in a Catholic Church.
1068 - Jul 1999 - Liturgy: An American parish's formula for success, Judy Trajanyi
St Josephs attracts people who like the traditions of the past but its not stuck in the past says Chris Scarlett a 39-year-old mother of seven who belongs to the parish and drives there each week from Maumee with her husband Bob and their children.
1069 - Jul 1999 - Religious education reform in the Melbourne Archdiocese under attack, John S. Webster
However Sr Brigid argues that much of the course material is unsuitable for small children for example the Trinity and the Papacy as it requires abstract thought of which these children are incapable; any attempts to teach such concepts to small children would trivialise the concepts.
1070 - Jun 1999 - Reflection: The spirit of poverty of Francis of Assisi, Fr Christopher Sharah FSF
Married couples have a duty to provide for themselves and their children.
1071 - 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.
1072 - Jun 1999 - The challenge for religious educators in a secular culture, Archbishop Charles J. Chaput
We find it in the families who send their children to our religious education programs and schools.
1073 - Jun 1999 - Fr. Frank Andersen's new book on the Eucharist: how Catholic is it?, Des O'Hagan
Council of Trent It is admittedly easier to speak to children about Jesus being in the bread and wine than to state that the bread and wine have been transformed into the Body and Blood of Jesus.
1074 - Jun 1999 - Archbishop Weakland finds defects in the post-Vatican II liturgy, Michael Daniel
Children learn no consistent repertoire of liturgical music that belongs to the Catholic tradition and that will serve them for their whole lives.
1075 - Jun 1999 - News: The Church Around the World
Teachers he said should bring the law of Christ to perfection in the hearts of children and young people.
1076 - May 1999 - Association of Catholic Families: meeting challenges to today's family, Chris and Mary Clare Meney
the preference for the androgynous concept of parenthood the advent of homosexual rights (particularly concerning the adoption of children) the dissociation of the link between sex love and procreation and the rejection of the principle that the traditional family is a reflection of the Creators design for a complementary social unit.
1077 - May 1999 - US Dominican nun brings the 'New Cosmology' to New Zealand, Bernard Moran
Catholic schools needed to be reshaped so that children could be educated in the the new way of thinking - the new story of creation.
1078 - May 1999 - The 'Statement of Conclusions': how can religious education be reformed?, Michael Daniel
Many children come from families in which the parents themselves are products of now-discredited innovative RE teaching theories that allowed for little doctrinal content.
1079 - May 1999 - News: The Church Around the World
The bishops reiterated their position that the responsibility for the sex education of children belongs first and foremost to their parents in line with the Popes teaching in Familiaris Consortio (36 37).
1080 - Apr 1999 - No living together before marriage: new research supports Church teaching, Mary Kenny
Or that a son involved with an unsuitable woman older than him with two children by a previous union will lose his infatuation after a disenchanting period of cohabitation.
1081 - Apr 1999 - A new R.E. consultancy service for the Church
His photography graces the full-colour covers of these fine childrens texts.
1082 - Apr 1999 - Bringing the Faith to life for children, Matthew Greenrod BSJ
For school children the summer holidays are normally a time to relax to go to the movies have a swim or just enjoy playing their favourite sport.
1083 - Apr 1999 - News: The Church Around the World
Critics accuse organisers of excluding any voice opposed to the ideology of increased contraception abortion and explicit sex education for children.
1084 - Mar 1999 - Reflection: Being a disciple of Christ: no soft option, Archbishop George Pell
59% wanted to own their home but only 45% said they wanted to have children.
1085 - Mar 1999 - How a parish priest reinforces the Church's moral teaching, Fr Michael Butler
They now have two young children.
1086 - Mar 1999 - Pilgrim Statue Of Mary Help Of Christians welcomed in Brisbane, Patrick Quirk
These things are also an educational tool and can be especially useful with children.
1087 - Mar 1999 - News: The Church Around the World
Third worldwide encounter of families Children to be the theme says Pope During his Angelus audience last January on the feast of the Holy Family Pope John Paul II pointed toward the next worldwide encounter with families which is scheduled to take place in Rome on October 14 to 15 2000 as part of the citys Jubilee celebration.
1088 - Feb 1999 - Brompton Oratory: London's liturgical oasis, Joanna Bogle
On the Sunday morning another childrens choir sings at 10am: this is the Oratory Church Junior Choir made up of girls and boys who volunteer their services committing themselves to a rigorous program of lessons rehearsals and Mass week by week throughout the year.
1089 - Dec 1998 - Reflection: The mystery of Christmas confronts a sceptical world, Fr Robert J. Batule
We are children of the manger and the Cross.
1090 - Dec 1998 - The right to work: what does the Catholic Church teach?, Bishop Kevin Manning
The most obvious example here is the vast quantity of unpaid work done primarily by women nurturing children and fostering relationships both within households and in the community more generally in voluntary work.
1091 - Dec 1998 - John Paul II's new encyclical 'Faith and Reason' analysed, Hayden Ramsay
Lofty though it sounds those who struggle to educate their children to maintain independence of thought in our media-culture to continue to read and study when pulp entertainment would be so much easier are committed to discovering the truth.
1092 - Dec 1998 - Missionary Brother's heroism in PNG tidal wave disaster, Eric Carman
This team has been visiting Vanimo for years operating in the hospital and operating on children the mission sent to Monash.
1093 - Dec 1998 - News: The Church Around the World
Concern about government school program Bishop William Brennan of Wagga Wagga (NSW) issued a decree last October stating that only Catholics approved by himself may teach religion to Catholic children in government schools in his diocese.
1094 - Sep 1998 - Pope John Paul II's new Apostolic Letter on Bishops' Conferences, Apostolos Suos, Michael Gilchrist
Bureaucracy This phenomenon was typified by the recent release of the document Always Our Children: A Pastoral Message to Parents of Homosexual Children by the Committee on Marriage and Family of the US Bishops Conference.
1095 - Sep 1998 - Archbishop Pell: 'Humanae Vitae' teachings 'are not an optional extra', Michael Gilchrist
The encyclical he said promoted responsible parenthood teaching that couples must decide how many children they should have and how they should be spaced taking into account their own physical economic psychological and social circumstances and their duties to God themselves their family and society.
1096 - Aug 1998 - Australian Rosary tape's success story, Colleen McGuiness-Howard
The story began with the concern of a young Catholic mother - Brenda Croft of Perth - that her children were being given reflective music incorporating meditation and activities with New Age overtones at their Catholic school.
1097 - Aug 1998 - Education: Catholic schools: Do they make enough difference?, Br John Moylan CFC
So strongly did the Australian Bishops hold this that for many decades it was well-known that failure to send Catholic children to Catholic schools incurred excommunication.
1098 - Jun 1998 - New Texts the key to reshaping religious education, Msgr Peter J. Elliott
The religious formation of children and young people is of interest to all Christians and people of good-will for it is through commitment to the transcendent that sound values are held and transmitted so that the family and society can flourish in freedom and truth.
1099 - Apr 1998 - Obituary: Archbishop Pell's tribute to B.A. Santamaria, Archbishop George Pell
Bartholomew Augustine Santamaria was born in 1915 in the Melbourne suburb of Brunswick the first of six children of Joe Santamaria and Maria Terzita who had migrated here from the Aeolian island of Salina to escape poverty just before the First World War.
1100 - Feb 1998 - Reflection: The Mass: the symbolism of 'facing East', Fr Fabian Duggan OSB
Eucharistic presence With so many attempts to downgrade the importance of the Blessed Sacrament is it any wonder that children growing up in this spiritual environment have hardly any knowledge at all of what the Blessed Sacrament is?
1101 - Dec 1997 - Cardinal John O'Connor: what Catholics believe, Cardinal John O'Connor
Surely someone here is a widow or widower who has known the suffering of loneliness; someone here almost certainly is afflicted with cancer or another dread disease; perhaps some live in lonely or difficult or empty marriages; some bear the scars of a divorce; some have lost their children to drugs or suicide; someone has a daughter who has gone through the tragedy of an abortion; someone feels alienated and rejected even by the Church; someone struggles with a tremendously difficult moral temptation that seems overpowering.
1102 - Dec 1997 - Education: Tom Kendell of Sacred Heart College: 'an exceptional Catholic educator', Richard Rymarz
Parents want their children to grow up to display a whole raft of virtues.
1103 - Nov 1997 - A young Catholic woman's defence of Church teachings, Anna Silvas
Why is that I hear a mature married woman once a daily Mass-goer patronisingly dismiss the Pope in a way she would have abhorred years before or a senior priest at Mass sneer at the Popes letter for the year of the family and proceed to defend every form of family except that of husband wife and children?
1104 - Nov 1997 - Books: 'Tomorrow's Creed' as drafted by Fr Michael Morwood, Frank Mobbs
Given the rest of his book the reader will be struck by these words If we cannot educate both children and adults into the basis of our Christian/ Catholic tradition we can hardly call ourselves Christian/Catholic educators (p.
1105 - Nov 1997 - Editorial: Can the tide of religious illiteracy be reversed?
In theory the availability of such texts for each grade level would not only ease the task for teachers in planning their lessons but also provide a convenient reference point for parents anxious to help in their childrens religious education.
1106 - Oct 1997 - Editorial: Church authority: where do religious orders stand?
During an interview published in Sydneys Catholic Weekly at the time of the Assembly Sr Fiand as if confirming the necessity for the Arch-bishops remarks declared that The people of God are not children run by or supervised by some adults.
1107 - Jul 1997 - Reflection: Catholic youth: facing the challenges to faith (Pastoral Letter), Archbishop George Pell
They are a certainly a poor preparation for a good marriage and for bringing up good children.
1108 - Jul 1997 - Books: 'Banished Camelots: Recollections of a Catholic Childhood', by John Redrup, Br Christian Moe FSC
Obtainable from the author 16/4 Henrietta St Double Bay NSW 2028) A recurring feature of the magazine features of our state and national dailies are articles written by Catholics whether still practising or ostentatiously ex- which attribute the perceived unhappiness of their childhood (and often enough of their subsequent lives) to the manifest shortcomings of the Catholic educational institutions they attended as children.
1109 - May 1997 - Education: Catholic schools problems can be solved, Tom Kendell
but hard administrative decisions are needed The Catholic education system in Australia educates 700000 children in 1350 primary and 350 secondary schools.
1110 - Feb 1997 - Euthanasia and the religion of self, Audrey English
He has made us in his image and called us to be his children.
1111 - Feb 1997 - The Catholic Church in Singapore: why is it strong and healthy?, Michael Barr
This suggests that there are about 80000 practising Catholics including children.
1112 - Jul 1996 - Vendée Catholics during the French Revolution, James Bogle
What will become of us cried his wife surrounded by his five children.
1113 - Jun 1996 - Michael Davies' Australia / NZ tour - The Catholic liturgy: where is it headed?, Michael Gilchrist
The new Mass particularly in its almost universal vernacular forms has fostered a mentality of endless change which has seen the introduction of practices never contemplated during Vatican II: the priest facing the people; standing not kneeling for Communion; reception of Communion on the hand; removal of altar rails and even high altars; lay Extraordinary ministers; childrens liturgies; increasing numbers of alternative Eucharistic Prayers; and now pressures for inclusive language.
1114 - Apr 1996 - Emperor Charles I: World War I peace campaigner, James Bogle
Ultimately after two unsuccessful attempts at regaining the throne of Hungary Charles was taken in 1921 to the island of Madeira where he would live in great poverty with Zita and their eight children.
1115 - Mar 1996 - New Vatican document vindicates concerns about classroom sex education
Only information proportionate to each phase of their individual life should be presented to children and young people (124).
1116 - Mar 1996 - Editorial: The problem is belief, B.A. Santamaria
Which perhaps helps to explain why increasing numbers of parents have been withdrawing their children.
1117 - Feb 1996 - An agnostic medical student on euthanasia: 'Why taking a life is unacceptable', Matthew Bailey
It is not hard to imagine the situation where someone sick old or an economic strain on the newly wed children might feel compelled to request death.
1118 - Dec 1995 - Beijing UN Conference on Women - How Holy See took on the feminist agenda, Rita Joseph
The European Union/Canadian/Australian coalition was pushing for the deletion of parental rights so that children and adolescents could access sexual health services and programs in confidentiality and privacy.
1119 - Nov 1995 - Evangelium Vitae - Catholicism, the media and the 'culture of death', Bishop George Pell
These conflicts focus upon the sanctity of life (euthanasia infanticide) gender (feminism) race (multiculturalism) the definition of the family children (blessing or burden?
1120 - Aug 1995 - Blessed Edith Stein (1891-1942): The most significant German woman this century, Mary O'Neill
The Catholic theology of marriage was a safeguard of womans intrinsic value as a helpmate for man in an enduring indissoluble union to rear children as citizens of Gods kingdom: To win children for heaven - to awaken divine sparks in a childs heart.
1121 - Jul 1995 - Edel Quinn (1907-1944): Ireland's 20th century apostle to Africa, Michael Gilchrist
Turning point By 1927 Edel was active in a Loreto Convent Sodality social club for poor children where her skills in music and acting were put to good use.
1122 - Jul 1995 - Understanding the terms of the euthanasia debate, Peter Coghlan
(The requests of children and those who are deranged would not count here.
1123 - Apr 1995 - How a Catholic scientist stood up for her principles, Marcia Riordan
to seek the opinion of one of the leading pathologists: would he use fetal organs from aborted children or would he prefer to use parental or sibling bone marrow?
1124 - Mar 1995 - Leonid Federov (1879-1935): Russian Catholicism - a brave vision unfulfilled, Fr Peter Knowles OP
They had three children and the six of them had to live in the one room that made up the home.
1125 - Feb 1995 - Reflection: Receiving Communion: why the Church's rule should be followed, Christine McCarthy
Effectively these children have been offered no option but to follow the practice laid down by those instructing them.
1126 - Feb 1995 - Education: How to keep Catholic schools 'Catholic', Tom Kendell
It is reasonable to state that the higher the proportion of non-Catholic children in a Catholic school the harder it is to emphasise Catholic philosophy and teaching.
1127 - Dec 1994 - RE syllabus based on new Catechism: Wagga Wagga diocese sets pace for Australia, Bishop George Pell
) has just produced We Belong to the Lord a new religious education syllabus for primary children.
1128 - Oct 1994 - Canberra-Goulburn diocese's 'Gender Inclusive Guidelines', Colin Jory
Catholic parents have a right to Catholic schooling for their children; and Catholic schools have a corresponding duty not only to teach the Catholic faith to those children - a task which in large measure they perform abysmally - but to exclude from their curricula any teachings which informed reasonable Catholic parents might find morally offensive.
1129 - May 1994 - Reflection: Our Lady: the family context, Bishop George Pell
We know this we understand its consequences but it needs to be restated for those outside the Christian family and especially for the young people of today who are smothered by neo-pagan propaganda against children against motherhood and against the irreplaceable importance of family life and women in the family.
1130 - Mar 1994 - The new Catechism and Cardinal Newman, Archbishop Eric D'Arcy
His argument against this whole current of thought is summarised at the start of his celebrated book: Believing that a few direct experiences would suffice to develop the skills that children require Dewey assumed that early education need not be tied to specific content.
1131 - Mar 1994 - Townsville Mass attendance document - 'Where have all the parishioners gone?'
It is in these Small Christian Communities that the real issues (our emphasis) often come to light - the violence in the family unemployment abuse of children poverty marriage unhappiness .
1132 - Feb 1994 - The state of Catholicism after 'Veritatis Splendor', B.A. Santamaria
Although a considerably higher proportion of country children would still attend Mass regularly after leaving school nevertheless on a nation-wide basis it would be very surprising if more than a minute percentage of those who leave school are still practising regularly 12 months later.
1133 - Nov 1993 - Thomas More Centre Lecture: Janet Smith champions Church's moral teaching, Dr Janet Smith
According to Professor Michaels this arises since people using contraception have fewer children and statistically marriages last longer which have more children and earlier babies - at least one in first two years and another in the next two years.
1134 - Nov 1993 - In the aftermath of 'Veritatis Splendor', B.A. Santamaria
Why should they if the Church to which they belong seemed to adopt the position that it had nothing to say on that aspect of life which is so powerfully linked with marriage the family and children?
1135 - Oct 1993 - Eucharistic adoration - are we keeping up with the rest of the world?, Christine McCarthy
Immense graces will be poured on parishes which undertake perpetual Eucharistic adoration: Christ will be more deeply centred in the hearts of the families of the parish the children will grow in their friendship with Our Blessed Lord teenagers will have a focus for their faith which will give them a greater devotion to the Mass and to their duties and their intimacy with Our Lord and Our Lady will grow.
1136 - Aug 1993 - Reflection: Feast of the Assumption and the Japanese connection, Robert Denahy
For two hundred and fifty years the Faith went underground and was passed on family by family from parents to children.
1137 - Jul 1993 - Reflection: Eucharistic reverence: 'How our actions reflect our belief', Christine McCarthy
Many children made a short visit to the Blessed Sacrament on the way to and from school.
1138 - Jul 1993 - Why 'inclusive' language adds up to bad English, David Frost
There are some inconveniences for a poet trying to build an economic and rhythmic line; and some of the charming Hebraisms which are a feature of the Liturgical Psalter such as children of men and sons of Adam would have to go.
1139 - Jul 1993 - Brother Andrew speaks out on the Catholic crisis, Brother Andrew
We are at the point of a last gasp for sexual health and morality with the pitiful condom for safe sex - while wounded insecure cast-off women children and men suffer as victims everywhere.
1140 - 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.
1141 - Feb 1993 - Marriage destabilised by contraception, Archbishop Barry J. Hickey
Randall Terry the founder of Operation Rescue in the United States listed reasons given why Christian couples use birth control: Weve just got married and were not ready for kids; we want to give quality time to the children we already have; we simply cant afford another child; Id go mad if we had more kids.
1142 - Nov 1992 - From a 'workshop' for Pastoral Associates
For example she shared that there is evidence to suggest that Joseph and Mary had other children brothers and sisters for Jesus.
1143 - Oct 1992 - Reflection: Fatima - after seventy-five years, Bishop George Pell
The local administrator was a violent atheist who imprisoned the children for a night on August 13th threatening to fry them in boiling oil!
1144 - Oct 1992 - Why is Archbishop Weakland invited to Australia?, AD2000 Report
Bishops (London Tablet 1 August 1992) issued in the context of gay political pressures to gain full recognition for such things as homosexual marriages and the adoption of children.
1145 - Sep 1992 - Crises in the Church: Fr Hubert Jedin's warning to Rome
I fear that in the not too distant future in some places it will be impossible even to find a Latin missal and that our children will no longer know what a Gloria or a Credo is and that we will have to go to a concert hall to hear the immortal creations of our sacred music.
1146 - Aug 1992 - The problem of suffering, Fr Campion Murray OFM
He had received much good from God - family children possessions esteem good name - but he also received bad.
1147 - Aug 1992 - Editorial: The graph points downwards, B.A. Santamaria
Despite all the alternative methods for primary school children at least there has never been a more effective catechetical text than the Penny Catechism.
1148 - Jun 1992 - Did 'the Enlightenment' K.O. Christianity?, David Quinn
What will happen if our children are making us unhappy?
1149 - Jun 1992 - Monika Hellwig visits Australia, Michael Gilchrist
: A university is not simply in the business of teaching catechism as it would to young children.
1150 - Mar 1992 - Sin: Shakespeare got it right, Susan Moore
They bring up illegitimate children under conditions of extreme privation.
1151 - Feb 1992 - Authority - Yes, Authoritarianism - No, David Quinn
Many religious teachers today seem to view their role as being to help children do precisely this.
1152 - Dec 1991 - 'Follow your conscience': but what does that mean?, Frank Mobbs
I must say that I have not heard of consciences being invoked in cases where someone wants to know whether he ought to engage in sexual relations with children or practise rape or racial discrimination or pay his workers sub-standard wages or advocate the use of nuclear weapons.
1153 - Oct 1991 - 'Faith of Our Fathers' - still valid for the 1990s, Bishop George Pell
We should remember who we are hold fast to what we have received so that Catholic faith and Catholic culture become as much a part of Australian life as the gums and the wattle with thousands of communities like Gardenvale parish worshipping and serving and worrying about their children long into the future when names like Hawke and Menzies are only half-forgotten memories.
1154 - Oct 1991 - The priesthood: one layman's view, B.A. Santamaria
It would be the priest who would be with him - even before he was conscious of his presence - when he was baptised; when over six or seven years he went to his parish school; when he married; when his children followed in his train; when he needed help and advice with many family problems; when he was sick; when he died.
1155 - Aug 1991 - New Zealand Catholicism to put on Maori clothing?, John Kennedy OBE
To all these must be added a host of demons and evil spirits including atua kahu (spirits of still-born children).
1156 - Jun 1991 - Richard John Neuhaus interviewed, Mary Arnold
One of eight children and the son of a Lutheran pastor Dr Neuhaus followed his father into the ministry.
1157 - Jun 1991 - Encyclical: John Paul II's Memorial to 'Rerum Novarum': a summary of 'Centesimus Annus', B.A. Santamaria
Here we mean the family founded on marriage in which the mutual gift of self by husband and wife creates an environment in which children can be born and develop their potentialities become aware of their dignity and prepare to face their unique and individual destinies.
1158 - May 1991 - Why the 'new' catechetics is flawed, Sr Mary Augustine Lane OP
The reason many teachers present the Faith in such an attenuated and sometimes distorted fashion is either that they are more comfortable with these concepts themselves or they think the children will be.
1159 - Dec 1990 - Books: Australian bishops tell Catholic teachers what to teach, Msgr John P. Kelly
Such affirmations by the bishops will empower parents who wish to exercise their right to oversee what is being taught to their children will support and encourage priests in their pastoral work and will help deliver dedicated teachers from the confusion uncertainty and fads which experts have imposed on them.
1160 - Oct 1990 - Newman belongs to us all, Fr Peter J. Elliott
He was close to people at all levels the poor and the wealthy old folk children and young people no easy achievement in the stratified society of his time.
1161 - Aug 1990 - 'The Wisdom of Guilford Young' by W.T. Southerwood, Fr Geoffrey Jarrett (now Bishop Jarrett of Lismore)
Mixed with the measured oratory of the panegyric at the funeral of Archbishop McGuire or the fiery utterances aimed at politicians at school openings are the talks to children at a country confirmation and the tender words at the burial of a religious sister.
1162 - Jun 1990 - Being a Catholic in 1990: Rev James Murray interviews Bob Santamaria, James S. Murray
Speaking with an intimate joy of his own family deriving himself from his parents family of six children having eight of his own and now thirty-odd grandchildren bound with as much affection to his sons and daughters-in-law as to his own children he urges that unless you are determined to cultivate what is called the extended family metropolitan life will drag you apart.
1163 - Mar 1990 - New Zealand: tensions between Rome and the Bishops, John Kennedy OBE
The further consequence is that we have a falling Catholic birthrate and such absurdities as a diocese spending a million on a school for 70 children if that when it opens.
1164 - Feb 1990 - Books: Archbishop Oscar Romero: a modern martyr - 'Romero: a Life', by James Brockman, Paul Gray
Nearly all were civilian victims many of them women or children.
1165 - Dec 1989 - Can Catholic integrity be recovered?, Colin Jory
That message is fine as far as it goes; however nowhere do the Guidelines give any hint to children that they should believe anything because it is authoritatively guaranteed - by Christ by the Bible by the Church - to be true.
1166 - Nov 1989 - Teaching Christian doctrine in Catholic primary schools, Gerard Gaskin
The Pope attacks the either or argument that the doctrinal formation of children will in some way be done at the expense of teaching them to lead good lives: firm and well-thought-out convictions lead to courageous and upright action (n.
1167 - Sep 1989 - Christianity: new threats in the aftermath of the fall of Communism, Paul Johnson
His behaviour towards the people with whom he had dealings was often infamous but his greatest cruelty was towards his own children.
1168 - Sep 1989 - Three problems for Catholic schools, Michael Gilchrist
It would seem from this that if the Church won its long battle for State Aid in the 1960s as a result of the initiative of the Democratic Labor Party and other bodies it is in real danger of losing the longer term war for the hearts and minds of Catholic children.
1169 - Jun 1989 - Australian Catholicism's one million "lost": a sociological analysis, B.A. Santamaria
It is to be found in the field of Catholic education in which not a few Catholic parents have Judged - rightly or wrongly is not the question - that it makes little or no difference as far as religious teaching is concerned whether they send their children to Catholic or Protestant schools.
1170 - Apr 1989 - The Catholic Church in Britain: Piers Paul Read interviewed by 'AD2000', Paul Gray
Im amazed that any of my children if they believe in it do believe in it because even though they have mostly been to Catholic schools the kind of thing they are taught is so bland and banal.
1171 - Feb 1989 - The condition of Catholic teacher training in Australia, Michael Gilchrist
Recent research incidentally has shown that most parents prime motives for patronising Catholic schools and colleges are not specifically Catholic; rather they involve more general considerations of morals discipline sporting and academic achievement childrens job prospects or a more dedicated caring staff.
1172 - Dec 1988 - At a Catholic teachers' college, 'A Parent'
I subscribe to a similar sentiment in respect of those responsible for this dubious program; but point out to those ultimately responsible for Catholic education that surely they cannot be unaware of the first effects that is on the faith of the student teachers; then progressively on innocent unformed minds of children who become victims of misleading and/or equivocal catechesis and so on into the general Catholic community to replace certainty with doubt and/or confusion.
1173 - Nov 1988 - The issues facing Australian Catholicism, Bishop George Pell
Children in our Catholic schools should be told regularly that Catholics should attend Sunday Mass and that the Ten Commandments are part of Divine Revelation essential guidelines for the manifestation of Christian love rather than the sociologically-conditioned inadequate efforts of an ancient Middle Eastern tribe or as Bertrand Russell claimed like a set of exam requirements where only six out of ten questions need be attempted.
1174 - Jul 1988 - Home education: a viable alternative, Robert Denahy
What is the remedy for parents who in addition want their children both to know and practise their faith?
1175 - Jul 2015 - Letters: Sexual abuse of children: a response, Anne Lastmen