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1 - Feb 2016 - Reflection: Archbishop Fisher’s homily at 2016 Chrism Mass, Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP
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Google the phrase Hand of God and you get photos of hand-shaped astronomical phenomena of Maradonas infamous goal against England in the quarter finals of the 1986 World Cup and Michelangelos Creation of Adam.
2 - Feb 2016 - Books: THE POWER OF HEALING PRAYER, by Richard McAlear OMI, Paul Simmons
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The author points out that when Jesus came to live among his people he performed two very specific missions: he preached the good news of the Kingdom of God and he healed those who were sick in body or in soul.
3 - Feb 2016 - Books: THE SHADOW OF HIS WINGS by Fr Gereon Goldmann, Chris Rule
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After basic training he chose to join the SS because unlike the Wehrmacht oath the SS oath still retained a reference to God and he was assured that he would be free to fulfil his religious obligations without harassment.
4 - Feb 2016 - Mary “treasured these things and pondered them in her heart”, Peter Westmore
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According to Luke the Angel told Mary that her cousin Elizabeth then an elderly woman was six months pregnant for nothing is impossible with God.
5 - Feb 2016 - Liturgy: Holy Thursday: Pope changes feet-washing ceremony, AD2000 Report
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I therefore decree that the section according to which those persons chosen for the Washing of the Feet must be men or boys so that from now on the Pastors of the Church may choose the participants in the rite from among all the members of the People of God.
6 - Feb 2016 - Anglican Communion: Anglican Primates suspend US Episcopal Church over same-sex marriage, AD2000 Report
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In 2009 the General Convention of the Episcopalians resolved that Gods call is open to all in other words approved openly gay ordinations.
7 - Feb 2016 - Nostra Aetate: Jewish rabbis’ historic reappraisal of Christianity, AD2000 Report
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Nostra Aetate represented a break with the past with the Catholic Church reaching out to the Jewish faith in recognition of its vital role in Gods plan for salvation and as the faith from which Christianity proceeded.
8 - Feb 2016 - Marriage: Pope Francis confirms no change to annulment rules, AD2000 Report
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He added that it is not unusual for newlyweds drawn to marriage by the instinctus naturae (natural instinct) at the moment of celebration have a limited awareness of the fullness of Gods plan and only later in family life discover all that God the Creator and Redeemer has established for them.
9 - Feb 2016 - Saints: Mother Teresa of Kolkata to be canonised in September, AD2000 Report
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The film and book were called Something Beautiful for God.
10 - Dec 2015 - Reflection: Christmas: a time of light, peace and joy, Archbishop Mark Coleridge
This is the way the real God is.
11 - Dec 2015 - Letters: Synod outcome "led by the Holy Spirit"
To this all we can say is thank God for the grace and humour and serenity and strength of the Holy Father His Holiness Pope Francis.
12 - Dec 2015 - St Clement's revealing Letter to the Corinthians, Peter Westmore
The letter is sent from The church of God which resides in Rome to the church of God that resides in Corinth and refers to the sudden and successive calamitous events which have happened to ourselves and which delayed a response to a letter from the Corinthians.
13 - Dec 2015 - Has the Messiah come or returned?, Andrew Sholl
Then having died on the cross for the sins of mankind gloriously rose from the dead on the third day and now sits at the right hand of God the Father Almighty.
14 - Dec 2015 - Religious freedom: Am I My Brother's Keeper? (Genesis 4:10), Anne Lastman
Under this legislation directed against the Helpers of Gods Precious Infants they are not permitted within 150 metres of designated abortion facilities.
15 - Dec 2015 - Germany: Pope Francis deplores decline of Catholicism in Germany, AD2000 Report
On the other hand our faith tells us that God is always the first doer.
16 - Dec 2015 - Apostolic voyage: Pope Francis supports Catholic church during Africa visit, AD2000 Report
In his homily during the Mass said at Nairobi University he said Today God tells us that we belong to him.
17 - Dec 2015 - Education: Religious education: parents' responsibility or school's?, Fr Pat Stratford
The Church believes and teaches: God is our creator.
18 - Nov 2015 - Reflection: We are all called to be saints, Archbishop Julian Porteous
There before the throne those in heaven are able to see the glory and splendour of God.
19 - Nov 2015 - Books: BEYOND LITERAL BELIEF, by David Tacey, Brian Coman
As Philip Rieff says (The Triumph of the Therapeutic): Jungs is a religious doctrine in which God is rendered completely interior.
20 - Nov 2015 - Unity and Beauty: The genius of Vladimir Soloviev, Fr Lawrence Cross
Many of these thinkers but particularly Soloviev saw that a sophianic aesthetic of beauty had the power to carry man upon its wings into the world of the Real and towards the embrace of union with the Beloved which is to say with God.
21 - Nov 2015 - Salvation: "All Israel will be saved": Romans 11:26, Andrew Sholl
Furthermore Jews were taught for eons that God cannot have a son despite Proverbs 30:4.
22 - Nov 2015 - Abortion grief: Life written In tears – the impact of abortion, Anne Lastman
Restoring a broken heart To a mother who pre abortion did not look to the internet for abortion images but now is drawn to them like a moth to a light to see the baby whole and well and beautiful and with God brings peace to her heart releasing the child willingly to God.
23 - Nov 2015 - Miracle: St Charbel cures Muslim toddler in Lebanon, From ASIANEWS
So we kind of reached a decision for her own peace of mind to take her out of hospital placing ourselves in Gods hands waiting to see what would happen.
24 - Nov 2015 - Marriage: Sydney Anglicans reaffirm church teaching on marriage, AD2000 Report
Canon Sandy Grant of Wollongong moved the resolution which affirms once again that marriage as a gift from God who made us male and female is the union of a man and a woman to the exclusion of all others voluntarily entered into for life and urged the Federal Parliament to uphold that definition.
25 - Nov 2015 - Marriage: SSM will threaten religious liberty in Australia: Archbishop Fisher, AD2000 Report
While on Tom Hollands view it was Christendom that first distinguished the spheres of God and Caesar pope and emperor to the great advantage of the development of the West we know it suited many Christian leaders through the centuries to blur those lines; the same is so for some believers today.
26 - Nov 2015 - Anglican Ordinariate: Radical ecumenism – the Ordinariate’s new Catholic Missal, Fr Ramsay Williams
God is addressed for instance as Thou rather than as You.
27 - Nov 2015 - Synod: Pope Francis confirms Synod guided by the Holy Spirit
It was about trying to view and interpret realities todays realities through Gods eyes so as to kindle the flame of faith and enlighten peoples hearts in times marked by discouragement social economic and moral crisis and growing pessimism.
28 - Nov 2015 - Synod: Synod reaffirms Church teaching on sexuality, marriage and the family, AD2000 Report
In the freedom of the Yes exchanged by man and woman for life we experience the love of God.
29 - Oct 2015 - Reflection: Fruit of the Garden, Anne Lastman
God gave the command You may freely eat of every tree of the garden but of the tree of knowledge of good and evil you must not eat for in the day that you eat of it you shall die (Gen 2:16-17).
30 - Oct 2015 - Books: ABORTION AND MARTYRDOM, edited by Aidan Nichols OP, Paul Simmons
These word emphasise the love and mercy of God and his desire that all mankind should share with Him the perfect beauty of Heaven.
31 - Oct 2015 - Letters: What is eternal life?, Francis Vrijmoed
After reading the correspondence about The nature of heaven here is an extract of what Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger wrote in his book God Is Near Us under What is eternal life?
32 - Oct 2015 - Letters: Audrey English responds to Dr Mobbs ..., Audrey English
In my answer to his letter I explained again as clearly as possible what it means by saying that we shall see God as He is.
33 - Oct 2015 - The Rosary: The Luminous Mysteries explained, Audrey English
Christ the second Person the Word of God is proclaimed to be the Son of God.
34 - 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?
35 - Oct 2015 - Russia: Church and State in contemporary Russia, Fr Lawrence Cross
A healthy symphonic relationship between God and Caesar Church and State has been asserted but rarely has it been observed in practice.
36 - Oct 2015 - APREL: Wake up the world - Religious Life back on the map, Anne Reeves
The Conferences have been run with a youth session highlighting how religious life can Wake Up a godless world.
37 - Oct 2015 - Pastoral visit: Positive outcome of Pope Francis’ visit to Cuba, AD2000 Report
Here I would mention especially the mission houses which given the shortage of churches and priests provide for many people a place for prayer for listening to the word of God for catechesis and for community life.
38 - Oct 2015 - Pastoral visit: Pope Francis’ subtle challenge to Barack Obama, AD2000 Report
He ended his short address with the words God bless America.
39 - Oct 2015 - Pastoral statement: Marriage Reinvented?, Bishop Michael Kennedy
The Catholic Church firmly believes and teaches that every human being is a unique and irreplaceable person created in the image of God and loved by God.
40 - Sep 2015 - Reflection: The proper celebration of the Mass, Cardinal Robert Sarah
The liturgy is essentially actio Christi: the work of Christ the Lord in redeeming mankind and giving perfect glory to God (No.
41 - Sep 2015 - Letters: The nature of Heaven, Frank Mobbs
We have no reason to believe there is any such thing as heaven unless God has revealed the fact.
42 - 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.
43 - Sep 2015 - Hebrew: The Sign of the Cross, Andrew Sholl
As a Hebrew Catholic I know that the following psalms were sung by the choir of Levites (who also played the instruments which accompanied the singing as per Psalm 150): (a) On Sunday Psalm 24 was sung: it being the first day of the week and thus of Creation by God.
44 - Sep 2015 - Apostolic Letter: Pope Francis proclaims Year of Mercy, AD2000 Report
His 28 page Apostolic Letter is a profound exposition on God as the embodiment of love and the role of the Church in explaining and dispensing Gods mercy on mankind.
45 - Sep 2015 - Preview: Mercy and compassion: focus of Synod of Bishops, Peter Westmore
It says Only a minority accepts the Catholic Churchs teaching on marriage and the family seeing in it the goodness of Gods creative plan.
46 - Sep 2015 - The Americas: Pope Francis’ challenge to American Catholics, AD2000 Report
Later he trekked into California following Spanish and Mexican colonists where he established a number of missions in places which are now major cities and which bear the names of his missions San Diego (Holy God) San Francisco (St Francis) Santa Clara (St Clare) and others.
47 - Aug 2015 - Reflection: The doctrine of the Assumption, Pope Pius XII
In his Apostolic Constitution Munificentissimus Deus (Most bountiful God) the Holy Father explained why the Church had proclaimed the Assumption.
48 - Aug 2015 - Africa: Nigerian bishops decry “propagation of the homosexual lifestyle”
We wish to state that this is a sad unjust and lamentable situation based largely upon a distorted perception of natural law the will of God and human nature.
49 - Aug 2015 - 5: Greek Orthodox Church’s Encyclical on marriage, AD2000 Report
In the first instance of course our reaction must be through prayer to God.
50 - Aug 2015 - Marriage: We must stand up for marriage and the family: Archbishop Fisher, Archbishop Anthony Fisher
It wordlessly bears witness to the Christian understanding of the human person and society of our God-given mission to love not just with a self-serving romantic heart-shaped Valentines Day sort of love but with a self-giving redemptive cross-shaped Easter Day sort of love.
51 - Aug 2015 - Confraternity of Christ the Priest’s Diamond Jubilee, Fr Thomas Casanova
Who knows where that consecration will lead God knows.
52 - Aug 2015 - Obituary: Fr Greg Jordan: an exemplary Jesuit, AD2000 Report
He is now in the hands of God.
53 - Aug 2015 - Pope Francis’ rallying call for the poor
Today God has granted that we meet again.
54 - Jul 2015 - Reflection: Benedict XVI acknowledges debt to St John Paul II, Pope Benedict XVI
Benedict then pointed the origins of music itself saying that it first of all stems from ones personal experience of love sadness and death and a true encounter with God.
55 - Jul 2015 - Books: Contemplative Prayer: a New Framework, by Dom David Foster, Patrick Nolan
According to the Catechism every Christian needs a vital and personal relationship with the living and true God.
56 - Jul 2015 - Books: THE CREED IN SCRIPTURE, by Stephen J. Binz, Paul Simmons
Most scholars accept that the epistles of Paul contain credal summaries of early Christian beliefs which possibly date as early as 35-40AD The general nature of these creeds includes assertions that Jesus Christ was God and that he died and rose on the third day.
57 - Jul 2015 - Letters: Sexual abuse of children: a response, Anne Lastmen
The Word of God for the Jewish people is holy and to be treated as holy with all the reverence which can be mastered.
58 - Jul 2015 - Letters: “Our homeland is in heaven”: a response, Audrey English
With regard to the intellectualist understanding of God let me explain again.
59 - Jul 2015 - Turin and Manoppello: “He has risen as he said ...”, Paul Badde
In other words the resurrection of the Son of God made man was in truth a resurrection in Christian preaching.
60 - Jul 2015 - Scripture: Ephphata! Be opened! (Mark 7:34), Andrew Sholl
We often hear Pope Francis speak of the need to be humble contrite and above all merciful especially if we are to ask God for something.
61 - Jul 2015 - Marriage: The slippery slope to same-sex “marriage”, Anne Lastman
We decided to take control of the act most like Gods creation and manipulate it to our own designs.
62 - Jul 2015 - Culture: Magna Carta and Christianity: the inseparable links, Dr Augusto Zimmermann
The king indeed ought to fear and love God above everything and preserve His commands throughout his realm.
63 - Jul 2015 - Laudato Si: Pope Francis’ call for “dialogue” on environmental challenges, Peter Westmore
He was particularly concerned for Gods creation and for the poor and outcast.
64 - Jun 2015 - Reflection: Faith: dialogue of mind and heart, Audrey English
Whenever troubles hit us and the Cross becomes heavier the reaction is either to rebel and say Why does God allow this?
65 - Jun 2015 - Books: THE UNICORN IN THE SANCTUARY: New Age and the Catholic Church, Br Barry Coldrey
The Gospel kerygma is based absolutely on Jesus Christ not a Jesus who was merely a heroic human being dedicated to service of the poor but on the contrary God-become-Man the Second Person of the eternal Trinity who lived and preached a whole way of conversion for salvation.
66 - Jun 2015 - Books: THE CHURCH AND CREATION, by Luis Colomer, Paul Simmons
If one goes beyond the title it is a useful discussion of the fact that all creation is part of Gods providence and is entitled to respect and honour.
67 - Jun 2015 - Books: THE ENVIRONMENT, by Pope Benedict XVI, Paul Simmons
In this book Pope Benedict repeatedly repeats those principles whether applied to the preservation of the Amazon region in South America a region so harshly tried and whose ecological balance is so threatened in their majestic beauty in rivers and forests speak to us of God of his grandiose work for humanity.
68 - Jun 2015 - Letters: "Our homeland in heaven": a rejoinder, Dr Frank Mobbs
These two features are aptly expressed by St Paul in the quotation which Ms English gives us from 1 Corinthians 2:9: heaven is that which eye has not seen nor ear heard nor has it entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for those who love him.
69 - Jun 2015 - Family: Pope Francis upholds Church teaching on the family, Fr Ken CLark OLSC
It is a time of change and a time of decision Let us be clear I stand for God His Church and the Magisterium the eternal truths as codified in the Catechism of the Catholic Church.
70 - Jun 2015 - Jesus: the extra-Biblical evidence, Andrew Sholl
They claim that the Israelites were merely a small Canaanite tribal group which always lives in the land of Canaan and rose to prominent through two means: fighting their neighbours successfully and most importantly having developed the idea of a single but still tribal Deity Yahweh: the Lord God of Israel.
71 - Jun 2015 - Life issues: Reflections on the death penalty, Anne Lastman
Let us remember the words of the late Pope St John Paul II: Not even a murderer loses his personal dignity and God makes Himself its guarantor.
72 - Jun 2015 - Canonisation: Pope Francis canonises four heroic nuns, AD2000 Report
A blessing that tells us that God guides the path of the Christian community in our country making it abundant and vivid through sainthood.
73 - May 2015 - Television: "Jesus: Rise to Power" - flawed account of early Christianity, AD2000 Report
He wrote: God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe.
74 - May 2015 - Translation: Understanding God’s word in the Scriptures, Andrew Sholl
Words do matter: what we say and how we say it especially if its God who says it in the Bible.
75 - May 2015 - Centenary: Armenian genocide must not be forgotten, Pope Francis
He gave voice to the cry which became a prayer of a sinful and sorrowful humanity oppressed by the anguish of its powerlessness but illuminated by the splendour of Gods love and open to the hope of his salvific intervention which is capable of transforming all things.
76 - May 2015 - Vocations: The Call of Young Men to the Priesthood, Bishop Robert McGuckin
In the text the Pope explains that at the root of every Christian vocation there is an exodus that starts from the renouncement of the comfort and inflexibility of the self in order to go forth trustfully like Abraham towards the new land that God indicates to us.
77 - Apr 2015 - Reflection: Good Friday Reflection, Fr Raniero Cantalamessa
The cross separates unbelievers from believers because for the ones it is scandal and madness for the others is the power and wisdom of God (cf 1 Cor 1:23-24); but in a deeper sense it unites all men believers and unbelievers.
78 - Apr 2015 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
95 Love that Made Mother Teresa David Scott Part biography and part spiritual reading these pages bring to light little-known stories from Mothers life that will help the reader grow in his/her love for God.
79 - Apr 2015 - Books: THE MASS OF THE EARLY CHRISTIANS, by Mike Aquilina, Paul Simmons
Quite clearly the Apostles teaching refers to the apostles teaching that Jesus was God and also the fulfilment of the Old Testament prophecies the fellowship is the early church the breaking of bread was an early term given to the Mass and the prayers are those which observant Jews performed both at home and in the Temple.
80 - Apr 2015 - Books: INSIGHTS FROM GRECO-ROMAN TIMES: A Christian Response, by Rex Dale, Peter Westmore
Can we be good without God?
81 - Apr 2015 - Letters: Mary in Scripture and history, Allan Choveaux
One of todays greatest problems within Christianity even including many Catholics is the deliberate down-grading of Mary the Immaculate Conception the Mother of God the Queen of Heaven etc.
82 - Apr 2015 - Letters: Put not your faith in electronic gadgets!, Anne Lastman
And the heading Smartphone apps to bring you closer to God.
83 - Apr 2015 - Palliative care protects human dignity, Pope Francis
In every situation the human person is good for themselves and for others and is loved by God.
84 - Apr 2015 - Our homeland is in Heaven, Audrey English
St Augustine God alone is the perfect good.
85 - Apr 2015 - Today's prophets: where are they?, Anne Lastman
My understanding is that a prophet is someone called by God to be His spokesman.
86 - Apr 2015 - Contemporary challenges facing Catholicism: Interview with Cardinal Robert Sarah, Élisabeth de Baudoüin
The interview was conducted in Paris where Cardinal Sarah who was born in Guinea launched his book God or Nothing written in collaboration with author Nicolas Diat.
87 - Apr 2015 - Tu es Petrus: From John XXIII to Pope Francis: Four recent stages of Catholicism, Patrick Morgan
The weaknesses of this form of Catholicism included too much emphasis on personal remorse and a misguided striving for premature transcendence the desire to connect immediately with God the Jansenist inheritance.
88 - Apr 2015 - Designer babies: Dolce&Gabbana versus Elton John, Fr Dwight Longenecker
When we play with the creation of life the doctors become God and then we must ask whether we trust the doctors with the decisions of life and death that ultimately affect us all.
89 - Apr 2015 - Vocations: Australia's seminaries flourishing in 2015, Br Barry Coldrey
In 2014 a former Missionary of Gods Love was ordained to serve in the diocese.
90 - Apr 2015 - Editorial: Welcome!
They had believed that he was the Messiah the anointed one of God who was going to set his people free but like the rest of the Jewish people they understood the Messiah as the liberator who would free his people from the yoke of Roman domination.
91 - Mar 2015 - Reflection: Hail Mary, Full of Grace, Anne Lastman
Others have interpreted the last phrase as O Gracious One Beloved of God Chaire (Greek meaning rejoice) O Favoured One and Shalom O Beautiful One (Hebrew).
92 - Mar 2015 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
00 ISBN 978-0-852448-784-0 In Contemplation of Life Paul Gionfriddo A book of poetry from a man who has lived with Parkinsons disease since 1978 and which speaks of God man the universe death and the meaning of life.
93 - Mar 2015 - Letters: Mary's knowledge, Carmel Ford
She did after all know that He was God as she had been told by the Angel Gabriel at the Annunciation by her cousin Elizabeth and by Jesus himself when he was found in the Temple.
94 - Mar 2015 - NACF: National Catholic Families Conference attracts 400 to Albury, Kathleen Horsfall and Marie-Louise Fowler
Paul Ninnes spoke on the challenges of pornography and encouraged youth to realise that they are made in the image and likeness of God and to never lose sight of this.
95 - Mar 2015 - Apps: Smartphone apps to bring you closer to God, Peter Westmore
With the increasing popularity of smartphones and tablets an increasing number of small applications have been written to help Christians come closer to God.
96 - Mar 2015 - Seventh iWitness Retreat: another youth ministry success, Br Barry Coldrey
Over recent years there has been an explosion of vital young adult Catholic life throughout Australia: Ignite Youth ACSA the Young Men of God Magis Reasons for Hope to name just a few.
97 - Mar 2015 - The person and mission of St Joseph, Pope St John Paul
It was to assure fatherly protection for Jesus that God chose Joseph to be Marys spouse.
98 - Mar 2015 - The linen cloth and the Second Coming, Andrew Sholl
These garments are hand-made from linen or muslin and are considered fitting for someone who is about to stand before God in judgment.
99 - Mar 2015 - The parish priest and parish school, Fr John O'Neill
Catholic schools are the chief means by which bishops and their priests fulfil their God-given obligation to bring the Gospel to children.
100 - Mar 2015 - Challenging radical Islam, John A. Azumah
Ted Haggard past president of the National Evangelical Association said The Christian God encourages freedom love forgiveness prosperity and health.
101 - Mar 2015 - Liturgy and mystery in the Mass, Audrey English
The wine represents Jesus Christ as God the water represents him as man.
102 - Mar 2015 - News: The Church Around the World
War cannot be made in the name of God!
103 - Feb 2015 - Reflection: Hail, Holy Queen, Mother of Mercy, Anne Lastman
Chapter VIII of Lumen Gentium is devoted to Mary the Mother of God.
104 - Feb 2015 - Books: AUSTRALIANS AND THE CHRISTIAN GOD: An historical study, by Hugh Jackson, Michael E. Daniel
Religious belief and practice in Australia AUSTRALIANS AND THE CHRISTIAN GOD: An historical study by Hugh Jackson (Mosaic Press 2013 214pp $46.
105 - Feb 2015 - Letters: A rejoinder to Anne Lastman, Charles M. Shann
Happily as one who loves music I am able to agree with Mrs Lastman God bless her regarding the standard of modern hymns and the even more pathetic tunes to which many are set especially as we have hundreds of old genuinely religious teaching hymns with great tunes available but no longer used.
106 - Feb 2015 - Letters: Catholic education, Allan Choveaux
adoration of Jesus Christ in the Holy Eucharist devotion to Mary Mother of God obedience to the Pope.
107 - Feb 2015 - What Pope Francis really said to the Roman Curia, AD2000 Report
Daily prayer assiduous reception of the sacraments particularly the Eucharist and Reconciliation daily contact with the word of God and a spirituality which translates into lived charity these are vital nourishment for each of us.
108 - Feb 2015 - The Eighteen Benedictions of Judaism ... and Christianity, Andrew Sholl
Basically the Eighteen Benedictions glorify God in all his manifold attributes: a truly wonderful prayer for both Jews and Christians.
109 - Feb 2015 - Brisbane: powerhouse of Catholic young adult ministry, Br Barry Coldrey
In addition the Young Men of God has reached Brisbane.
110 - Feb 2015 - The family and the Church in 2015, Archbishop Mark Coleridge
Where but in the family do we begin to learn who God is?
111 - Feb 2015 - Martyrdom: Would I have had their courage?, Cardinal George Pell
In my understated approach to such matters I used to urge the seminarians not to speak about their boring personal lives but to preach the gospel telling their people about Gods love and Jesus call to conversion.
112 - Feb 2015 - Vatican report lays bare problems in US religious life, AD2000 Report
The fact that the report called on all religious institutes to carefully review their spiritual practices and ministry to assure that these are in harmony with Catholic teaching about God creation the Incarnation and the Redemption implies that in a significant number of cases this is not happening.
113 - Feb 2015 - The survival of the Church, Fr John O'Neill PP
There are all sorts of proofs for the Catholic Churchs claim that she is the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church founded by God the Son when on earth Our Lord Jesus Christ.
114 - Feb 2015 - News: The Church Around the World
Pope: Church key to understanding Jesus To separate Jesus from the Church would introduce an absurd dichotomy Pope Francis told those were present in St Peters Basilica for his 1 January Mass celebrating the solemnity of Mary the Mother of God.
115 - Dec 2014 - Reflection: The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light, Pope Francis
God is light and in him there is no darkness at all (1 Jn 1:5).
116 - Dec 2014 - Books: AUSTRALIAN CATHOLIC YOUTH MINISTRY, by C. Fini and C. Ryan (Eds), Br Barry Coldrey
At last two prominent leaders of this ministry revival Fathers Christian Fini OMI and Chris Ryan of the Missionaries of Gods Love have commissioned and edited a magnificent range of essays which place in context explain document and explore these new points of light in a Church which has been facing so many challenges at the start of the Third Millennium.
117 - Dec 2014 - Books: IN THE HOUSEHOLD OF THE SPIRIT: Guide to the Sacraments in the Byzantine Church, Paul Simmons
Entering a Byzantine church the believer is surrounded by a crowd of saints (in their icons) and led towards God in the sanctuary.
118 - Dec 2014 - Letters: Last man standing!, Anne Lastman
To be able to proclaim beautifully the Word of God (except the Gospel) is a great privilege so why disdain this privilege?
119 - Dec 2014 - Letters: Synod of Bishops, Arnold Jago
In the Synods own words There is no reason to assimilate or establish analogies even remote ones between homosexual unions and Gods design for marriage and the family.
120 - Dec 2014 - Obituary: Fr Benedict Groeschel, aged 81, dies in New Jersey, Peter Westmore
Although he was deeply proud of his new community and always believed that its foundation was a work of God Father Groeschel often said that his separation from the Capuchins was the most difficult and painful day of his life.
121 - Dec 2014 - The after-life: Why pray for those who are no longer with us?, Audrey English
Now that the culture is mostly atheistic or at least indifferent to God not many think about the afterlife.
122 - Dec 2014 - The Long View: Catholicism today and the lessons of history, John Young
He was seen as a lesser god while his humanity lacked a human soul.
123 - Dec 2014 - Vocations: Young Men of God Retreat for 2014 another success, Br Barry Coldrey
This was the venue for the annual Young Men of God (YMG) Retreat held on the 10-12 October 2014 weekend.
124 - Dec 2014 - News: The Church Around the World
How can we continue to affirm what God has taught and told us about marriage without marginalising them?
125 - Dec 2014 - Family Synod: Synod reaffirms Church teaching on marriage and family, AD2000 Report
It is realised in the sacrament where God sets his seal his presence and grace.
126 - Nov 2014 - Reflection: The meaning of life and death, Archbishop Julian Porteous
There before the throne those in heaven are able to see the glory and splendour of God.
127 - Nov 2014 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
Gods Holy Fire: A Theology of the Icon Lawrence Cross An in-depth study of the icon tradition not only from a theologically interpretive viewpoint but also from an artistic perspective.
128 - Nov 2014 - Books: EASTERN CHRISTIANITY: The Byzantine Tradition, by Laurence Cross, Paul Simmons
In the West in the early centuries preoccupied with the barbarian invasions and the need to convert these people the faith took a form which was more legalistic and practical giving much of its attention to the state of man before God.
129 - Nov 2014 - Letters: Suicide prevention, Murray Cook
Many cannot believe that our merciful God would send someone to Hell for eternity and so they minimise it and are blinded to the risk.
130 - Nov 2014 - Letters: Eucharistic Prayers, Franklin J. Wood
Now thanks be to God and Pope Benedict XVI we have a more accurate more poetic translation of these Prayers.
131 - Nov 2014 - Scripture: Is the Hebrew Bible incomplete?, Andrew Sholl
Naturally the Jewish people greatly rejoiced as they had miraculously received visible proof that their sins had indeed be forgiven by God.
132 - Nov 2014 - Why we make the Sign of the Cross, Cedric Wright
As with any prayer it should never become mechanical it is important to make it a sincere gesture of love and supplication to God.
133 - Nov 2014 - Why be a priest?, Fr John O'Neill
What we discover is simply God.
134 - Nov 2014 - Youth: Ignite Conference fires up 1,200 young Catholics in Brisbane, Br Barry Coldrey
This theme highlights the truth that Christ is not only a light in the shaded times of our lives but that having received Gods light ourselves we are then all called to illuminate the world in which we move.
135 - Nov 2014 - Formation: 'I used to be a Catholic', Audrey English
Catholics knew that at baptism God puts an indelible seal a stamp on us.
136 - Nov 2014 - Family: The global attack on religious belief and moral values, Alejandra Fabris
Disheartened peoples robbed of their identities and their inalienable dignity in God are easy prey for financial exploitation.
137 - Nov 2014 - Human Life: Surrogacy: what the Biblical precedent tells us, Anne Lastman
Since Sarah had yet to bear Abraham a child and heir her idea to fulfil the promise that God had made to her husband to be the father of many nations was to offer her Egyptian slave girl Hagar to Abraham so that they could have a child by her and then the child would be raised by Sarah and Abraham as their own.
138 - Nov 2014 - Anglican: The Ordinariate in Gippsland: the first year
Perhaps the major difference that people see at our masses is the priest facing the tabernacle oriented towards God where the priest offers the Sacrifice of the Mass to the Father while the faithful unite themselves to that Sacrifice.
139 - Nov 2014 - News: The Church Around the World
Catholic News Agency Bishop Conley to Catholic medical professionals Catholic medical professionals can lead other people to God by dedicating themselves to holiness and following the examples of saintly doctors Bishop James D.
140 - Nov 2014 - Episcopacy: Bishop Anthony Fisher OP appointed Archbishop of Sydney, AD2000 Report
He will use his many gifts with generosity and faithfulness to serve God and to lead his people in the Sydney Archdiocese and beyond.
141 - Nov 2014 - Editorial: The Extraordinary Synod on the Family, Peter Westmore
The 2012 Synod discussed the New Evangelisation and was concerned with how to spread the Word of God to all mankind more effectively.
142 - Oct 2014 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
Gods Holy Fire: A Theology of the Icon Lawrence Cross An in-depth study of the icon tradition not only from a theologically interpretive viewpoint but also from an artistic perspective.
143 - Oct 2014 - Books: A POSTCARD FROM THE VOLCANO: A novel of pre-war Germany, by Lucy Beckett, Michael Daniel
Through the conversations the friends have with each other and other influential characters such as Maxs tutor and gymnasium teacher the characters explore questions such as whether God exists and what the purpose and meaning of human existence are.
144 - Oct 2014 - Books: PRAYER FOR BEGINNERS, Peter Kreeft - WAYS OF PRAYING, John Edwards SJ, Br Barry Coldrey
This short accessible book on prayer asserts that any Christian can and is in fact commanded to pray to God regularly.
145 - Oct 2014 - Books: INTRODUCTION TO CHRISTIANITY, by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, Pope Benedict XVI, Helena Pasztetnik
But I believe that I was not mistaken as to the fundamental approach in that I put the question of God and the question about Christ in the very centre which then leads to a narrative Christology and demonstrates that the place for faith is in the Church.
146 - Oct 2014 - 'The Mother of Jesus' in St John's Gospel, Anne Lastman
When Moses relayed to his people Gods instructions they answered Everything the Lord has said we will do (Ex 19:3-8).
147 - Oct 2014 - Dissent: Bishop Bill Morris: gone but not forgotten, Peter Westmore
Bishop Geoffrey Robinson who himself retired early following disagreements with the Holy See expressed it succinctly as follows: Before ordination as a bishop every candidate is required to take an oath of loyalty to the pope - not God not the Church but the pope.
148 - Oct 2014 - Art: Sacred art: window into eternity, Tommy Canning
An icon can be defined as an image created for religious veneration that provides a space for the mystical encounter between an individual and God.
149 - Oct 2014 - Hebrew Bible and the Septuagint: What's the difference?, Andrew Sholl
It is noteworthy that the Catholic Church from its beginning opted for the LXX version as it contained certain useful additions for example in the Book of Esther there were additions which contained the Name of God not found in the Hebrew Bible.
150 - Oct 2014 - Do we construct the Church in our own image?, Fr Ken Clark
I am constantly amazed by the number of people who are constructing or have constructed a God and a Church in their own image.
151 - Oct 2014 - News: The Church Around the World
In 2011 the doctrinal committee of the US bishops conference issued a critique of Sister Johnsons book Quest for the Living God saying that it contains misrepresentations ambiguities and errors that bear upon the faith of the Catholic Church as found in Sacred Scripture and as it is authentically taught by the Churchs universal magisterium.
152 - Sep 2014 - Reflection: The Christian life: more than Trivial Pursuit or Monopoly, Audrey English
The search for God is deeply anchored in the heart of every human being.
153 - Sep 2014 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
Gods Holy Fire: A Theology of the Icon Lawrence Cross An in-depth study of the icon tradition not only from a theologically interpretive viewpoint but also from an artistic perspective.
154 - Sep 2014 - Books: JOURNAL OF A SOUL (John XXIII) and POPE JOHN, BLESSED JOHN XXIII, Br Barry Coldrey
His love for God and concern for people are demonstrated in equal measure.
155 - Sep 2014 - Books: ON HEAVEN AND EARTH: Pope Francis on Faith, Family and the Church in the 21st C, Br Barry Coldrey
However the constant and pervasive theme is an honest evaluation of religious leaders and institutions in general with each author often revealing how those who speak in the name of God can be more of a hindrance than a help to true religion.
156 - Sep 2014 - Students: ACSA Conference: 'an inspiring experience', Br Barry Coldrey
The answer appears to be that they were formed in an underworld of influential Catholic families of the vital networks of strong religious orders (Dominicans Franciscans Capuchins Jesuits) in new congregations such as the Canberra-founded Missionaries of Gods Love in new religious movements such as the Fraternas the Verbum Dei Missionaries or the Disciples of Jesus Covenant Communities.
157 - Sep 2014 - Christian witness in a secular world, Fr Paul Rowse OP
Divine plan He who is God and man knows that human life ends in death but his death will have no sense of inevitability about it: Christ is free to make something of his death according to his Fathers will which he loves.
158 - Sep 2014 - Art: The new mural in Sacred Heart Church, Griffith, NSW, Tommy Canning
In the earthly liturgy by way of foretaste we share in that heavenly liturgy which is celebrated in the holy city of Jerusalem toward which we journey as pilgrims and in which Christ is sitting at the right hand of God.
159 - Sep 2014 - Association of Hebrew Catholics: its role and mission, Andrew Sholl
This monastery is remarkable for me because it lies at the western end of the beautiful Carmel Range (Carmel is Hebrew for Vineyard of God) with the Mediterranean Sea on three sides below and it was here that I first met Fr Elias Friedman OCD with whom I eventually founded the Association of Hebrew Catholics (AHC) in 1979.
160 - Sep 2014 - Euthanasia: Britain's euthanasia bill faces mounting opposition
The Institute aims to uphold human dignity based on the anthropological truth that man is born in the image and likeness of God and therefore has an innate human dignity of infinite worth to be upheld.
161 - Sep 2014 - News: The Church Around the World
Cardinal Yeom said his nations people were really impressed by the Popes decision to visit adding: I truly believe that God is working to show us a path and His will.
162 - Aug 2014 - Reflection: The Assumption: Mary leads us to Heaven, Bishop Anthony Fisher
Some alluded to Marys song the Magnificat with its talk of God looking upon His lowly handmaid and raising her up so that all generations would call her Blessed (Lk 1:46-55).
163 - Aug 2014 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
Gods Holy Fire: A Theology of the Icon Lawrence Cross An in-depth study of the icon tradition not only from a theologically interpretive viewpoint but also from an artistic perspective.
164 - Aug 2014 - Books: RICH IN YEARS: Finding Peace and Purpose in a Long Life, Johann Christoph Arnold, Michael E Daniel
A Protestant pastor Arnold recommends auricular confession arguing that confession of sins is not just for Catholics but is an important means for Christians to experience the power of Gods forgiveness and love.
165 - Aug 2014 - Books: IN SEARCH OF CARDINAL STEPINAC: A Complete Biography, by Fr Zvonimir Gavranovic, Fr Steven Ledinich
Indeed Blessed Aloysius lived according to this motto during his episcopacy placing his unshakable trust in Almighty God during the awful years of World War II and then during the time of the Communist government in Yugoslavia.
166 - Aug 2014 - Letters: School chaplains, Arnold Jago
The rules governing chaplains these days are restrictive no proselytising no encouraging personal commitment to God no teaching Christian moral values.
167 - Aug 2014 - Miracle on death row, Cedric Wright
During the night he awoke with a start at a light touch on his wrist and looking up he saw the most beautiful woman that God ever created as he said afterwards.
168 - Aug 2014 - Eyewitness to history: the canonisation of St John Paul II, Wanda Skowronska
They understood John Paul II as one of them the the poor ones who depend on God alone for everything.
169 - Aug 2014 - Pope Francis condemns 'Gender ideology' as 'demonic', Patrick Byrne
Thanks be to God that you write and speak about these things Pope Benedict said to her.
170 - Aug 2014 - Fatherhood: mirror of God's relationship with the Son, Anne Lastman
The Father (God) who engenders his own Son (Jesus) does so in order to show humanity an enfleshed love.
171 - Aug 2014 - Factors in the success of Australia's young adult ministry, Br Barry Coldrey
The speaker was Fr Chris Ryan (Missionaries of Gods Love) who addressed the topic Youth Ministry Phenomenon.
172 - Aug 2014 - News: The Church Around the World
Zenit News Service Miracle attributed to Fulton Sheen approved Bishop Daniel Jenky of Peoria Illinois president of the Archbishop Fulton Sheen Foundation has been informed that the seven-member theological commission that advises the Congregation of Saints unanimously agreed that a reported miracle should be attributed to the intercession of the Venerable Servant of God Archbishop Fulton Sheen.
173 - Jul 2014 - Reflection: The Pope meets ICEL: a bishop's reflection on Vatican II, Bishop Arthur Serratelli
They met from 1962 until 1965 first with the recently canonised Pope John XXIII and then with his successor the Servant of God Pope Paul VI.
174 - Jul 2014 - Books: HE LEADETH ME, by Fr Walter J Ciszek SJ, Michael Daniel
Written as a sequel to With God in Russia Fr Ciszek states in his prologue that He Leadeth Me complements his previous book.
175 - Jul 2014 - Books: RACE WITH THE DEVIL: My Journey Racial Hatred to Rational Love, by Joseph Pearce, Michael Daniel
This is a very engaging read that is very difficult to put down a powerful story of Gods transforming grace.
176 - Jul 2014 - Letters: Human rights priorities, Richard Congram
For example in the name of God fanatical Islamists are committing unspeakable atrocities such as the recent crucifixions of Christians in Syria and the abduction of hundreds of defenceless schoolgirls in Nigeria.
177 - Jul 2014 - Boko Haram: Christians and Muslims unite against Nigerian terrorists, CNA-EWTN REPORT
Returning to a discussion of the abducted schoolgirls Archbishop Kaigama said that at this stage what we need to do is to pray: only God can move the hearts of these people.
178 - Jul 2014 - Life: a gift of inestimable value, Anne Lastman
The Incarnation of Jesus Christ the Son of God into the human condition served to forever change the meaning and value of human life.
179 - Jul 2014 - Youth: Young adult ministry flourishing in Australia, Br Barry Coldrey
More recently the Missionaries of Gods Love ( AD2000 May 2014) developed a similar Australia-wide organisation which runs retreat days in Catholic secondary schools and parishes.
180 - Jul 2014 - Pauline Fathers: Opening of Mercy Valley in Mareeba, North Queensland, Garry O'Brien
The property was purchased in 2002 by Max David with the intention of it being dedicated to the Glory of God and for the spiritual benefit of people as a Shrine of the Divine Mercy.
181 - Jul 2014 - News: The Church Around the World
Cardinal Parolin told the marchers that the Pope assures them of his spiritual closeness as they give witness to the God-given dignity beauty and value of human life.
182 - Jun 2014 - Reflection: Eucharistic adoration: path to union with the Holy Trinity, Bishop James Conley
Looking at the Eucharistic Lord for an hour transforms the heart in a mysterious way as the face of Moses was transformed after his companionship with God on the mountain.
183 - Jun 2014 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
95 ISBN 978-1-78182-989-9 Love is His Meaning John Skinner Julian of Norwich Englands greatest mystic became the first woman to write in the English language when she recorded her Sixteen Showings revealing the intimate message of Gods love.
184 - Jun 2014 - Books: HANDING ON THE FAITH IN AN AGE OF DISBELIEF, by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, Br Barry Coldrey
Pope Francis has taken as his model the Poor Man of Assisi and St Francis God-given mission to rebuild My Church in a range of initiatives aimed at capturing the spirit of the new evangelisation.
185 - Jun 2014 - Sisters of St Paul of Chartres and their global impact, CNA REPORT
They did not know much about God some of them did not even read the Bible.
186 - Jun 2014 - Why England's churches are empty, Nick Hallett
And did those feet in ancient time walk upon Englands mountains green: And was the holy Lamb of God on Englands pleasant pastures seen!
187 - Jun 2014 - Societal violence and the murder of children, Anne Lastman
It is violence against God and human life.
188 - Jun 2014 - UK Bishop speaks out on secularism's debt to Christianity, CNA REPORT
New evangelisation Outlining the task of the new evangelisation Bishop Egan said the first task is to demonstrate that spirituality and religion will never go away since the question of God lies naturally within mans horizon and is raised spontaneously by human consciousness.
189 - Jun 2014 - News: The Church Around the World
Lift up your hearts in gratitude to God said Denver Archbishop Samuel Aquila.
190 - Jun 2014 - Saints John XXIII and John Paul II canonised, AD2000 Report
These were two men of courage filled with the gift of the Holy Spirit to speak out boldly and they bore witness before the Church and the world to Gods goodness and mercy.
191 - May 2014 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
90 ISBN 978-1-58617-852-9 The Dream of Gerontius John Henry Newman Cardinal Newmans renowned poem describes the death of an old man and the journey of his soul to the judgment seat of God.
192 - May 2014 - Books: HOW THE WEST WON: The Neglected Story of the Triumph of Modernity, Rodney Stark, Father John Flynn LC
We owe this belief partly to the ancient Greeks and partly to the unique Judeo-Christian conception of God as a rational creator he writes.
193 - May 2014 - Letters: Christianity persecuted, Robert Bom
In some countries it means deadly violence in others like Australia it ranges from persistent requests in parliaments for anti-Christian legislation down to daily press rants and ravings against God and the Bible.
194 - May 2014 - Cardinal Burke: The Gospel of Life in the defence of freedom, Cardinal Raymond Burke
The truth the goodness and the beauty of human life of marriage and the family the cradle of human life and of religious faith and practice as the font of stability and direction for marriage and the family have their only source in God who is all true all good and all beautiful.
195 - May 2014 - Poetry: KOKODA a poem, John O'Neill
So many left to die in mud from malaria or wounds But theyre not gone theyre just out there on Gods parading grounds Where they line up with the angels who saw them through the fight And heal their wounds and give them peace no horrid dreams at night For their nightmares are all over theyre all in endless day And missing those few mates who have been asked to stay.
196 - May 2014 - A new cathedral in the Muslim world
We can only witness to the bounty and love of God through our daily life.
197 - May 2014 - Sister empowers northern India's women with education
Seeing a girl whose potential is suppressed her freedom her desires are suppressed I say this is such disrespect to God who created in his image who created us as man and woman in his image who promised us to have life to its fullest lamented Sr Daphne at a Voices of Faith event on 9 March 2014.
198 - May 2014 - US bishop discusses his new pastoral letter on contraception, Kathleen Nabb
Coincidentally on the same day that contraception was making headlines because of the battles at the Supreme Court the Bishop of Lincoln Nebraska in the centre of the US was making his own statement on contraception in an attempt to promote the Churchs teaching that contraception is not in Gods plan for married love.
199 - May 2014 - Missionaries of God's Love: Vatican recognition lifts status, Br Barry Coldrey
The new vital charismatic Missionaries of Gods Love have become on 8 February 2014 Australias first community in many years to be formally recognised by the Vatican as a Religious Institute of Diocesan Right.
200 - May 2014 - News: The Church Around the World
The Catholics Come Home outreach website features a new promotion Heavy Burdens which depicts how reconciliation removes the weight of sin bringing renewed peace happiness and Gods sanctifying grace.
201 - Apr 2014 - Reflection: Lent: our preparation for Easter, Bishop Anthony Fisher OP
St Thomas Aquinas taught that if God is good anything He creates is good and that must include the world the body eating drinking and the rest.
202 - Apr 2014 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
00 ISBN 978-1-78182-990-5 Courage and Conviction Joanna Bogle The Servants of God Mother Riccarda Hambrough and Mother Katherine Flanagan were English women called to serve the Church as Brigittine nuns.
203 - Apr 2014 - Books: Jorge Mario Bergoglio: Francis, Pope of a New World, by Andrea Tornielli, Br Barry Coldrey
In shaping the words the ideas and the personal recollections of Pope Francis the writer Andrea Tornielli a highly regarded Vatican observer reveals the engaging personality of this man of God so gentle and so humble.
204 - Apr 2014 - Books: Pope Francis, Our Brother, Our Friend, by Alejandro Bermudez (Editor), Br Barry Coldrey
A marginal devotion in Germany became a major way of drawing people to God in distant South America.
205 - Apr 2014 - Passover: Jesus last words: 'It is finished', Anne Lastman
He is now the Lamb of God that takes away the sins of the world (Jn 1:29).
206 - Apr 2014 - Letters: Appreciation for Anne Lastman, Errol Duke
This extraordinary Catholic lady has gone through her own issues with this journey personally (and she has expressed this story publicly) and since then has worked tirelessly in counselling those who are in the same situation in an effort to preserve the sanctity of life and change our thinking about Gods gift of his creativeness for this and future generations.
207 - Apr 2014 - Conversion and confession, Cedric Wright
But I had inherited a steady belief in a living ever-present God so when I fell in with Catholic friends I was able to appreciate - and to be honest envy - the way they regularly practised their faith.
208 - Apr 2014 - Radicalism in Islam: the Christian response, Father Samir Khalil Samir SJ
Here is a proposal: We all believe in God.
209 - Apr 2014 - Depression: Charlotte Dawson: she died of a broken heart, Anne Lastman
In her book Charlotte also speaks about the sexual abuse when she was seven years old by a neighbour who was reputedly religious and which left her having difficulties with the idea of God who is supposed to be looking out for us all the time.
210 - Apr 2014 - Communicating the Faith with C.S. Lewis, Fr. D. Longenecker
In Catholicism Pure and Simple I set out to explain the existence of God and move through the story of Jesus Christ the Church and sacraments in a way that everyone can connect to.
211 - Apr 2014 - Vocations: Australia's flourishing seminaries 2014, Br Barry Coldrey
Bishop Brennan believed and the Encyclical Pastores Dabo Vobis confirmed that the priest is essentially a man of God concerned for people with their spiritual call and their eternal salvation at the forefront.
212 - Apr 2014 - Marriage: Don't trust media reporting of Synod on marriage, Philip F. Lawler
Rather he wants to make winsome arguments to appeal to a world that has lost its moral compass above all to drive home the message that everyone can enjoy the benefits of Gods unlimited mercy.
213 - Apr 2014 - Ukraine: Bishop Peter Stasiuk: Ukrainian people want peace and justice, Bishop Peter Stasiuk
The Maidan in Kyiv was strong and effective because it was one body united in the grace of God standing in prayer for peace justice unity and a compassion that the world cannot give.
214 - Apr 2014 - News: The Church Around the World
Catholic World News Archbishop Fulton Sheen miracle approved The Bishop of Peoria Illinois has welcomed a Vatican medical panels unanimous approval of a reported miracle attributed to the famous TV personality and evangelist Servant of God Archbishop Fulton Sheen.
215 - Mar 2014 - Reflection: Archbishop Chaput's homily on the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, Archbishop Charles J. Chaput
Optimism and pessimism are equally dangerous for Christians because both God and the devil are full of surprises.
216 - Mar 2014 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
95 Courage and Conviction Joanna Bogle The Servants of God Mother Riccarda Hambrough and Mother Katherine Flanagan were English women called to serve the Church as Brigittine nuns.
217 - Mar 2014 - None so blind: refusal to see the obvious, Fr John O'Neill
God makes things obvious to a world that has always been too busy to know Him and to embody His wisdom in its law-making.
218 - Mar 2014 - What Jesus teaches us about prayer, Audrey English
He who is the way the truth and the life teaches us to develop an intimate bond with God.
219 - Mar 2014 - Private revelations: Are they reliable?, John Young
How are private revelations related to Gods Revelation in the Bible and Sacred Tradition?
220 - Mar 2014 - Catholic Schools Youth Ministry Association: a new force for good, Br Barry Coldrey
Gospel imperatives Too many Catholic educators appear to have forgotten or rejected other even more vital Gospel imperatives as are proclaimed in John 3:16-17: God so loved the world that He gave His only-begotten Son that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life.
221 - Mar 2014 - Whither religious education in Australian Catholic schools?, Peter Finlayson
This involves training the next generation of coal-face warriors (activist evangelists) who can and are willing to explain and defend their faith in public and in the process increase their own worthiness to enter eternal life at the hands of He who is seated at the right hand of God the Father Almighty.
222 - Mar 2014 - Pope Francis puts indelible mark on College of Cardinals, Peter Westmore
In a striking comment the Holy Father wrote to the new cardinals saying that becoming a cardinal was not a promotion but rather an expansion of their vision in service to God.
223 - Feb 2014 - Reflections: Australia Day: A time for thanks and commitment, Cardinal George Pell
For Catholics and indeed all Christians Australia Day should be more than a holiday and rather be-come a day when we give thanks and ask for Gods continued blessings on our activities now and during the coming generations.
224 - Feb 2014 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
95 Courage and Conviction Joanna Bogle The Servants of God Mother Riccarda Hambrough and Mother Katherine Flanagan were English women called to serve the Church as Brigittine nuns.
225 - Feb 2014 - Letters: Religious instruction, Mrs Rowan Shann
The Upper Primary teachers manual for this particular lesson did include the words God sent the Holy Spirit but didnt elaborate further.
226 - Feb 2014 - The transforming power of Eucharistic Adoration, Fr Joel Wallace
God and neighbour Our learning to love God and neighbour is inescapably caught up with Christs Eucharistic Presence.
227 - Feb 2014 - The Holy Spirit: "Lord and Giver of Life", Anne Lastman
We first encounter the breath of God in Genesis 2:7 where until the breath is breathed into the shaped human person it had remained inanimate lifeless.
228 - Feb 2014 - Art: Interview with Tommy Canning: art in the service of truth
The fact that the Mother of God could have appeared on earth during my lifetime made my own faith come alive.
229 - Feb 2014 - iWitness 2013 retreat: another young Catholics success story, Br Barry Coldrey
In 2013 the topics and speakers included: Caritas in Veritate (Charity in Truth Papal Encyclical) by Dr Ryan Messmore President of Campion College; The New Evangelisation and You by Archbishop Julian Porteous; Pope Benedicts Biblical Scholarship and Prayer by Professor Tracey Rowland; Recent Popes and Beyond by Cardinal George Pell; The Spirit of the Liturgy by Archbishop Paul Gallagher the Papal Nuncio; Saved in Hope by Dr Robert Tilley; Deus Caritas Est (God is Love) by Sr Mary Helen OP; and Lumen Fidei (Light of Faith) by Father Greg Morgan who is working on his PhD at Cambridge University.
230 - Feb 2014 - Pope Francis repeats world peace plea
The biblical account of the beginning of the history of the world and of humanity speaks to us of a God who looks at creation in a sense contemplating it and declares: It is good.
231 - Feb 2014 - News: The Church Around the World
The dedication of 2015 to religious life was aimed at promoting and drawing attention to the challenges facing Gods call to consecrated persons.
232 - Feb 2014 - Evangelii Gaudium: The Joy of the Gospel: Pope Francis' challenge, Peter Westmore
Ordinary pastoral ministry seeks to help believers to grow spiritually so that they can respond to Gods love ever more fully in their lives.
233 - Dec 2013 - Reflection: Benedict XVI's Christmas homily: 'Make room for God', Benedict XVI
Again and again it astonishes us that God makes himself a child so that we may love him so that we may dare to love him and as a child trustingly lets himself be taken into our arms.
234 - Dec 2013 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
95 Courage and Conviction Joanna Bogle The Servants of God Mother Riccarda Hambrough and Mother Katherine Flanagan were English women called to serve the Church as Brigittine nuns.
235 - Dec 2013 - Letters: Errors, Peter D. Howard
Also questionable is his claim that among married contracepting Anglican prelates and Orthodox priests he finds it hard to believe they are defying God and that they do not love their wives and may be acting in harmony with the teaching of Humanae Vitae (October AD2000).
236 - Dec 2013 - Letters: Morality of contraception, John Ramsey
Because the very people to whom God gave the duty to defend life have not only not defended the teaching of Casti Connubii and Humanae Vitae but many of them have dissented from them believing that contraception is not a sin.
237 - Dec 2013 - Christifidelis Laici: vocation and mission of the lay faithful (2), Anne Lastman
It is not good for man to be alone: let us make him a helper fit for him (Gen 2:18) and so God entrusted the man life children society and culture into her care.
238 - Dec 2013 - Christifidelis Laici: vocation and mission of the lay faithful (1), Anne Lastman
Different mission Christifidelis Laici outlines the important character of the mission of the laity which is not to be seen as something of lesser value than the ordained priesthood but one entirely different though vital to the life health and spirituality of the people of God.
239 - Dec 2013 - Catechesis and liturgy: an unbreakable bond, Bishop Arthur Serratelli
In many ways todays culture is attempting to exclude God and ban religious belief and its expression from the public square.
240 - Dec 2013 - Inspirational Young Men of God retreat, Br Barry Coldrey
However within a few minutes I found the temporary chapel and already five young men were at Adoration before their Risen Lord their prayer led by Father Ken Barker author and well-known Founder of the Missionaries of Gods Love.
241 - Dec 2013 - Benedict XVI corresponds with an atheist mathematician, Joseph Trabbic
Commenting on the mathematicians personal creed Benedict notes its apparent failure to offer a clear concept of nature - which for Odifreddi takes the place of God - and to deal adequately with questions about love freedom and evil.
242 - Dec 2013 - Obituary: Cardinal Pell's tribute to Bishop William Brennan, Cardinal George Pell
When a priest from the Wagga diocese wondered why he had to be sent to some isolated God-forsaken parish Bishop Brennan retorted: I went from Sydney to the remote parishes of Wilcannia-Forbes diocese to serve as a priest precisely so they would not be God-forsaken parishes.
243 - Dec 2013 - News: The Church Around the World
That is why it is so important that we preserve this shrine to remind us of the dangers of religious intolerance and to recall men and women of faith to the primacy of love for God which leads to love of neighbour.
244 - Dec 2013 - Pope Francis to canonise John Paul II and John XXIII next April, Michael Gilchrist
Since the beginning of his pontificate in March Pope Francis has emphasised Gods mercy and readiness to forgive those who recognise their need for pardon.
245 - Nov 2013 - Reflection: Bishop Anthony Fisher: Do you want to be a saint?, Bishop Anthony Fisher
Sitting on clouds staring at God singing hymns is not going to attract moderns who treasure individuality variety and entertainment so highly.
246 - Nov 2013 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
95 Courage and Conviction Joanna Bogle The Servants of God Mother Riccarda Hambrough and Mother Katherine Flanagan were English women called to serve the Church as Brigittine nuns.
247 - Nov 2013 - Books: THE CRAFT OF CATECHESIS, by P. Wiley, P. de Cointet and B. Morgan, Br Barry Coldrey
The authors show how the Catechism is focussed upon four fundamental pillars: God the unity of three Divine Persons and His gracious plan of creation and salvation.
248 - Nov 2013 - Books: WHO NEEDS GOD?, by Barbara Stockl with Christoph Cardinal Schönborn, Br Barry Coldrey
WHO NEEDS GOD?
249 - Nov 2013 - Books: Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood, Prayer and Sex changed a Nation at War, Gabrielle Walsh
Assefa claims there are four dimensions in the path to true reconciliation: you must be reconciled with God with yourself with the environment and with the person you offended.
250 - Nov 2013 - Letters: Finding balance, Walter H. Kirk
If this teaching is true being based on Our Lords words What God has joined together let no man put asunder then claims as to the good or bad consequences of allowing divorce are again incidental although useful if one is arguing the case with a non-believer.
251 - Nov 2013 - Letters: Clutching at straws, Anne Lastman
Leaving aside his claims about post hoc ergo propter hoc Humanae Vitae is a document relating to the sexuality between a husband and wife and a warning to husband and wife not to follow the ways of the world (sexual revolution) but to honour each other and God especially in their sexuality and as life-giving instruments.
252 - Nov 2013 - Letters: Three to get married, Cedric Wright
) it was entitled Three To Get Married and was a thought-provoking (and uplifting) reminder of Gods presence - and participation- when we made our marriage vows at the altar.
253 - Nov 2013 - Letters: Pope misrepresented, C. O'Driscoll
He said Being Catholic entails greater responsibility: first of all to yourself for the effort to be consistent with the Christian vocation and then to contemporary culture to help recognise the transcendent dimension in human life the imprint of the creative work of God from the very first moment of conception.
254 - Nov 2013 - Marriage: English bishop warns on same-sex marriage law, Bishop Philip Egan
Despite the wrong turn of the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013 it remains my hope and prayer that in time by Gods grace and by our gentle love and witness we will recall society to the path of authentic humanism and thus help everyone hear the call of the Spirit within their hearts to true happiness.
255 - Nov 2013 - Marriage: Humanae Vitae: for an excellent love, Anne Lastman
It is the conjugal union or marriage act when pure and truthful in its entirety that is clearly illuminated by God and seen as the continuation of His own work and the ecstasy with which He created.
256 - Nov 2013 - Interview: G.K. Chesterton's cause for sainthood, Dale Ahlquist
Goodness says Chesterton only comes from God.
257 - Nov 2013 - Youth: Emmanuel Community: youth ministry powerhouse, Br Barry Coldrey
The Emmanuel Community believes that God loved the world so much that He gave His only Son who became one of us and lived among us.
258 - Nov 2013 - Schools: The future of Catholic education, Archbishop Timothy Costelloe
It is not in fact possible to separate religion from all the other dimensions of life: that education if it is to be complete and integral must be informed by and permeated by a world view an understanding of what it is to be human which in the case of the Catholic tradition places the relationship between a person and God at the heart of what life is all about.
259 - Nov 2013 - News: The Church Around the World
We need that trust and confidence in God that St Thrse had and showed us so magnificently.
260 - Nov 2013 - Human rights: Zoe's Law and the right to life, Eamonn Keane
He said: Destruction of the embryo in the mothers womb is a violation of the right to live which God bestowed upon this nascent life.
261 - Nov 2013 - Editorial: Pope Francis' call to holiness, Peter Westmore
What Pope Francis is urging is that the central focus of the Churchs mission must be to win the hearts and minds of men and women to Jesus Christ to a radical embrace of God-made-man who through his life and teaching showed us the true purpose of human existence.
262 - Oct 2013 - Reflection: Bishop Fisher: Young Catholics must be Christ in the world, Bishop Anthony Fisher
The whole of the Christian story is an answer to that question: Cur Deus homo (Why did God become man)?
263 - Oct 2013 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
95 ISBN 978-1-78182-995-0 Courage and Conviction Joanna Bogle The Servants of God Mother Riccarda Hambrough and Mother Katherine Flanagan were English women called to serve the Church as Brigittine nuns.
264 - Oct 2013 - Books: A Book of Saints and Heroes, Heroines, by Joanna Bogle, Val Prendergast
Although each biography is merely a thumbnail sketch of a particular person the lack of detail isnt an issue for in her usual engaging and erudite fashion Joanna not only provides the basic biographical facts but also manages to inspire the reader through these role models who trusted in God and let Him work through them to produce amazing results.
265 - Oct 2013 - Letters: Culture of life needed, Fr Bernard McGrath
God bless all those married couples who enjoy living and loving generously open to new life.
266 - Oct 2013 - Letters: Creator's plan, Clare Ryan
The act of sexual intercourse designed by God is both unitive and procreative.
267 - Oct 2013 - Letters: Moral failure, John Wynter
By rejecting contraception spouses honour each other in the awesome God-given power that is theirs to bring new life into the world and in that profound respect which they foster for each other as a woman and a man they also honour everyone else.
268 - Oct 2013 - Letters: Humanae Vitae, Ron Graham
Deployment of artificial contraception (deliberate preventing of conception by artificial means) is really negating the possibility of God in deciding to or not to on that particular occasion create new life with a soul He has chosen from before time began.
269 - Oct 2013 - Letters: Dr Mobbs replies ..., Frank Mobbs
the rejection of the encyclical lurched society into a condition of perhaps irretrievable morass; Humanae Vitae was a document emanating directly from the mind and heart of God (How does she know this?
270 - Oct 2013 - Blessed Jacinta Marto: heroine of Fatima, Cedric Wright
She often said to Lucia: The Lady said that her Immaculate Heart would be a refuge and the path to God.
271 - Oct 2013 - The priesthood and the Catholic faith, Fr John O'Neill PP
It is vital for Catholics to understand that their religion comes out of the nature and the action of God who is infinite and loving.
272 - Oct 2013 - The Catholic Church is holy, despite its members' sins, Audrey English
Only God is holy.
273 - Oct 2013 - OSCE Conference: The new face of religious intolerance, Bishop Mario Toso
The right to believe in God and to practise that belief is a fundamental human right.
274 - Oct 2013 - Frassati Australia and the New Evangelisation, Fr Paul Chandler
Verso LAlto: If you have God at the centre of all your action then you will reach your goal (Bl Pier Giorgio).
275 - Oct 2013 - News: The Church Around the World
In his message Francis calls faith Gods precious gift and says that it is not reserved for a few but offered with generosity.
276 - Oct 2013 - Pope Francis to consecrate world to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Peter Westmore
The Church has always understood that devotion and consecration to Mary are certain means of approaching Jesus the Son of God.
277 - Sep 2013 - Reflection: Put on Christ: Pope Francis' World Youth Day homily, Pope Francis
In the Gospel we have heard God the Father say: This is my Son my chosen one listen to him!
278 - Sep 2013 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
95 ISBN 978-1-78182-995-0 Courage and Conviction Joanna Bogle The Servants of God Mother Riccarda Hambrough and Mother Katherine Flanagan were English women called to serve the Church as Brigittine nuns.
279 - Sep 2013 - Books: MYSTICS IN THE MAKING: Laywomen in Today's Church, by Carolyn Humphreys, Br Barry Coldrey
The apparently ordinary can serve an extraordinary purpose when illuminated by Gods light and love.
280 - Sep 2013 - Books: A PILGRIM'S JOURNEY: Autobiography of Ignatius of Loyola, Joseph N. Tylenda SJ, Michael E Daniel
Ignatius was encouraged to compose or dictate such a text as these were often written by founders of orders to give insights to their members on how to grow in their relationship with God.
281 - Sep 2013 - Letters: Anti-life values, Andrew Foong
Pope Pius XI in Casti Connubii said that any use whatsoever of matrimony exercised in such a way that the act is deliberately frustrated in its natural power to generate life is an offence against the law of God and of nature and those who indulge in such are branded with the guilt of a grave sin .
282 - Sep 2013 - Letters: Contraception is harmful, Anne Lastman
Contraception is a sin because in its intent it says no to God.
283 - Sep 2013 - Letters: Year of Faith, John Frey
He assented to the call of God at the command of his will.
284 - Sep 2013 - Letters: Natural law, Fr Bernard McGrath
But there will be one law eternal and unchangeable binding at all times and upon all peoples and there will be as it were one common master and ruler of men namely God who is the author of this law its interpreter and its sponsor.
285 - Sep 2013 - Frassati: The Holy Terror: a model for young Catholic men, Br Barry Coldrey
I feel weve grown so quickly and I can see the Holy Spirit moving so now we want to see where God is going to lead us over the next few years.
286 - Sep 2013 - A covenant: essence of true marriage, Anne Lastman
The covenant idea is central to our knowledge of God and Scripture and while society uses the terms covenant and contract interchangeably the differences between them are profound.
287 - Sep 2013 - The Church's crises old and new, Bishop James D. Conley
The early Church was fractured over the Arian crisis - the question of how Christ relates to God the Father.
288 - Sep 2013 - Oasis: Finding rapprochement and peace among the Abrahamic religions, Patrick Byrne
The Council declared that those who have not yet received the Gospel are related in various ways to the people of God (LG 16) and this starts with those religions that declare their origins in Abraham.
289 - Sep 2013 - World Youth Day 2013: Pope Francis inspires Rio, Peter Westmore
He emphasised the ways that God acts to restore brokenness.
290 - Sep 2013 - Cardinal Burke: What is good liturgy?
Its the most important area of catechesis: to understand the worship accorded to God.
291 - Sep 2013 - News: The Church Around the World
What the Pope is saying is dont forget theres another element to Gods teaching namely that we treat everybody with dignity and respect that we dont judge their heart that we love and respect them said Cardinal Dolan.
292 - Sep 2013 - Hobart's new Archbishop ready for the challenges of leadership, Michael Gilchrist
He has also been actively involved for many years in evangelisation and with a number of ecclesial movements and has written extensively about these: The New Evangelisation Developing Evangelical Preaching (2008); After the Heart of God: the Life and Ministry of Priests at the Beginning of the Third Millennium (2009); A New Wine amp; Fresh Skins: Ecclesial Movements in the Church (2010); Streams of Grace: Spiritual Movements that Shaped the Church (2011); and Become What You Are: Growing in Christian Character (2012).
293 - Aug 2013 - Reflection: Benedict XVI's Assumption homily: 'In God there is space for man', Benedict XVI
In this way what was already celebrated in the worship and devotion of the People of God as the highest and most customary glorification of Mary was expressed in dogmatic form: the act of the proclamation of her Assumption was presented almost as a liturgy of faith.
294 - Aug 2013 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
95 ISBN 978-1-78182-995-0 In the Light of Christ Lucy Beckett Lucy Beckett illuminates some of the finest writings in the Western tradition leading us to discover in them the Christian vision of God.
295 - Aug 2013 - Books: ALIVE IN THE SPIRIT, by Fr Ken Barker MGL, Michael Gilchrist
Fr Barker will also be familiar to AD2000 readers as the the founder and Moderator of the Missionaries of Gods Love one of Australias most successful newer religious congregations.
296 - Aug 2013 - Books: CATHOLIC APOLOGETICS: a course in religion for Catholic high schools, Michael E. Daniel
Available from Freedom Publishing) A number of years ago a clergyman interviewed on TV said it was OK to have a fifth grade understanding of God provided one was still in fifth grade!
297 - Aug 2013 - Books: FRANCIS: POPE OF A NEW WORLD, by Andrea Tornielli, Br Barry Coldrey
The author then follows Jorge Bergoglio through his teenage years to the moment he responded to Gods call to the priesthood to the day he entered the Society of Jesus and their emphasis on obedience discipleship and missionary work.
298 - Aug 2013 - Sacra Liturgia 2013: Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith: interview on liturgy, Zenit News Service
Cardinal Ranjith: Aesthetics are also important because human life is also conditioned by aesthetics settings and symbols in aesthetics which help man lift his heart to God.
299 - Aug 2013 - Common good: St Basil the Great: outstanding doctor of the Church for our time, Jordan Grantham
In his vigour as an administrator he seemed to give his entire being to the service of God.
300 - Aug 2013 - Lumen Fidei: The great gift of Faith: Pope Francis' first encyclical, Damian Wyld
Deus Caritas Est ( God is Love on Charity) and Spe Salvi ( Saved in Hope on Hope) are now brought to fulfilment in the newly published Lumen Fidei ( The Light of Faith on Faith).
301 - Aug 2013 - News: The Church Around the World
We can at least make ourselves available to God as his agents.
302 - Aug 2013 - Holy See announces canonisation of Blessed John Paul II, Peter Westmore
He told them to be good not to compromise themselves to stick by one another to be fearless and that God is the only source of goodness the only standard of conduct.
303 - Jul 2013 - Reflection: Benedict XVI: Sts Peter and Paul, two pillars of the Church
In a passage from Saint Matthews Gospel Peter makes his own confession of faith in Jesus acknowledging him as Messiah and Son of God.
304 - Jul 2013 - Books: SAINTS WHO RAISED THE DEAD: True Stories of Four Hundred Resurrection Miracles, Br Barry Coldrey
Saints empowered by God to raise the dead to life SAINTS WHO RAISED THE DEAD: True Stories of Four Hundred Resurrection Miracles by Father Albert J.
305 - Jul 2013 - Letters: Vision of Heaven?, Peter Harris
You said Heaven is to know the truth and purity of Gods wisdom.
306 - Jul 2013 - Musicae Sacrae: The essential role of music in the Mass, Ronan Reilly
Rather it is inspired by God Himself.
307 - Jul 2013 - Cardinal Ouellet's Australian lecture: rediscover human nature, Owen Vyner
Individualism This exaggerated individualism has resulted in the severing of mans relationship from God and the closing of man in upon himself.
308 - Jul 2013 - Paul VI: Humanae Vitae: still prophetic after 45 years, Anne Lastman
Humanae Vitae was a document emanating directly from the mind and heart of God.
309 - Jul 2013 - News: The Church Around the World
Catholic World News New confessional attracts penitents A Connecticut priest says a new confessional installed at his parish stands as a visible sign of Gods grace and has increased churchgoers reception of the sacrament.
310 - Jul 2013 - Homily: Saints John Fisher and Thomas More: from Pope Pius XI's canonisation homily
A strong and courageous spirit like John Fisher when he saw that the doctrines of the Church were gravely endangered he knew how to despise resolutely the flattery of human respect how to resist in accordance with his duty the supreme head of the State when there was question of things commanded by God and the Church.
311 - Jun 2013 - Reflection: Marriage: a reflection of Christ's love for us, Fr Paul Chandler
When we see two beautiful young people move and act in the words and actions of the Marriage Rite we also behold with the eyes of faith the movement and action of God.
312 - Jun 2013 - Books: MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA: a Personal Portrait, by Msgr Leo Maasburg, Br Barry Coldrey
All accounts underline her limitless trust in Gods love of the power of faith to move mountains and of hope that can never die.
313 - Jun 2013 - Books: AGE OF MARTYRS: from Diocletian to Constantine, Abbot Joseph Ricciotti, Br Barry Coldrey
The ancient Romans were generally relatively liberal in theological matters making no attempt to interfere with the religious practices of their conquered territories while simply requiring that subjects include the worship of Rome and (later) the emperor as one of their gods.
314 - Jun 2013 - Books: SAINTS WHO SAW MARY, by Raphael Brown, Br Barry Coldrey
Available from Freedom Publishing) This is an accessible informative book of particular appeal to dedicated Catholics with a strong devotion to the Mother of God.
315 - Jun 2013 - Books: SEXUALITY EXPLAINED, by Louise Kirk, Peter Westmore
To address these problems Kirk has imaginatively created a series of conversations between mother and daughter and father and son in which parents are taught how to respond to their childrens natural inquisitiveness to explain to them not just the biological differences between men and women but more importantly how God has created these very differences to assist parents to share intimate love and to create new human life.
316 - Jun 2013 - Books: YOUCAT: Youth Prayer Book, by Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, Peter Westmore
Its introduction is headed You can pray and in it the authors explain how prayer opens up the world of communication with God.
317 - Jun 2013 - Letters: Year of Faith, Edward P. Evans
In this Year of Faith we will cast our nets into the deep and with Gods help they will be filled.
318 - Jun 2013 - Letters: Rights of children, Arnold Jago
Traditional societies always considered the marriage contract to also involve God making it something notto discard lightly.
319 - Jun 2013 - The elephant in the sanctuary, Paul MacLeod
The people after all have a right to a correct reverent liturgy whose purpose is plainly to offer worship to God and to sanctify His people not to entertain them.
320 - Jun 2013 - The Boston bombings: facing the reality of evil in the world, Bishop Arthur Serratelli
How can there be evil and of such a great magnitude in a world created by an all-loving God?
321 - Jun 2013 - Why we need the Rosary, Cedric Wright
Kneeling round a young English priest Father Thomas Byles Catholics were joined by those of other faiths and no faith in the beautiful supplication: Holy Mary Mother of God pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death!
322 - Jun 2013 - The strange story of Mr Douglas Hyde, Damian Wyld
Benefit of the doubt One is inclined however to give Mr Hyde the benefit of the doubt on reading the closing paragraphs of I Believed which would probably ring true for many converts not to mention a former Marxist: Six men who like me were once communists or fellow-travellers and who left the Movement disillusioned called their story The God That Failed.
323 - Jun 2013 - Farcical history: the 'Gospel of Jesus' wife', Frank Mobbs
Other notable features of Gnostic writings are: they posit (1) a god who is the origin of things but who is unknowable; (2) an inferior and demonic god who created the physical universe which explains why: (3) all matter including the body is evil (God is a man-eater Gospel of Philip 63.
324 - Jun 2013 - St Joseph the Worker: Pope Francis: Work is essential to the dignity of the person
Jesus comes into our history among us born of Mary by the power of God but with the presence of St Joseph the legal father who cares for Him and also teaches Him His work.
325 - Jun 2013 - News: The Church Around the World
He said it was a topic that concerns not only the individual believer but the whole Church because the life and mission of the Church are founded on the Word of God which is the soul of theology and at the same time the inspiration of all Christian existence.
326 - Jun 2013 - Homily: Benedict XVI's Corpus Christi homily, Pope Benedict XVI
To be all together in prolonged silence before the Lord present in his Sacrament is one of the most genuine experiences of our being Church which is complemented by the celebration of the Eucharist by listening to the word of God by singing and by approaching the table of the Bread of Life together.
327 - May 2013 - Reflection: Pentecost: opening our minds to truth and our hearts to love, Bishop Arthur Serratelli
The Church is a gift from God not a project of man.
328 - May 2013 - Letters: Letters of thanks to Michael Gilchrist, Various
All the best and God bless!
329 - May 2013 - Letters: What is Heaven?, Winsome De Jong
To experience Heaven is to know the truth and purity of Gods wisdom.
330 - May 2013 - The plight of Egypt's Christians, Youssef Sidhom
In school books marked expressions of political Islam are to be found for example the suggestion that Islam is the only religion accepted by God.
331 - May 2013 - Abortion: confused pain in a confused society, Anne Lastman
Anger can be manifested in many forms: against self significant others helping professionals (who suggested or referred for abortion) God parents boyfriends husband other friends.
332 - May 2013 - Church unity and the Anglican Ordinariate, Archbishop Gerhard Müller
The unity of the Church is an image of the eternal unity of God and according to that heavenly pattern unity is not achieved by an elimination of distinctiveness.
333 - May 2013 - Youth: Reasons for Hope retreat for young adult Catholics, Barry Coldrey
In view of this in eastern Australia the regular Conferences and Retreats (Reasons for Hope iWitness ACSA Young Men of God YPAT) enable participants to provide moral support for one another.
334 - May 2013 - News: The Church Around the World
Catholic News Agency Churches must be beautiful to reflect faith Church buildings have a responsibility to reflect Gods beauty says US architect and author Duncan Stroik because they help impart the Catholic faith to the world.
335 - Apr 2013 - Reflection: Easter: the centrality of faith in the risen Christ, Fr Dennis Byrnes
In the Apostolic letter Porta Fidei Pope Benedict XVI explained that faith is the lifelong companion that makes it possible to perceive ever anew the marvels that God works for us.
336 - Apr 2013 - Books: THE SEVEN BIG MYTHS ABOUT THE CATHOLIC CHURCH, by Christopher Kaczor, Father John Flynn LC
The Church he explains teaches that happiness comes about in the practice of love of God and neighbour.
337 - Apr 2013 - Books: REDEEMING GRIEF: Abortion and Its Pain (2nd and Revised ed.), by Anne R. Lastman, Fr Paul Crotty
With her commitment to Christ as a Catholic Anne Lastman describes the forgiveness of God which is life-giving for many of those she sees who had been living a destructive life of self-hatred.
338 - Apr 2013 - Correction
I refer to the article by Br Barry Coldrey Young Men of God 2012 Conference showcases Christian leadership in the December-January AD2000.
339 - Apr 2013 - Letters: Holy priest, M.A. Ross
He went to God on 29 January 2013.
340 - Apr 2013 - Letters: The Second Coming, Andrew Sholl
Whenever I read in the Scriptures that God said or did something of great significance I inevitably exclaim How great You are!
341 - Apr 2013 - Venerable Fulton J. Sheen's insights on the priesthood, Martin Tobin
I believe the answer to Sheens ability to present subject matter on topics such as Hell Purgatory birth prevention marriage problems sin and penance death and judgement the Mother of Jesus sanctifying grace original sin and angels can be found in his great holiness and the means by which he kept in touch with the will of God namely through the daily Holy Hour that he made for the duration of his priesthood.
342 - Apr 2013 - Child sexual abuse: looking beyond the institutions, Anne Lastman
During the act of sexual abuse the childs innocence dies and in its stead is imprinted a dread of God authority parents siblings family loss of trust loss of normal developmental mandate and a distortion of what should have been sequential growth and in its stead a skewed view of what life means.
343 - Apr 2013 - Returning beauty and sacredness to churches, Art Lohsen
Thus the beauty that is perceived by Mans senses is a means of physically experiencing the goodness of God.
344 - Apr 2013 - Pilgrimage: A Holy Land pilgrimage with Scott and Kimberly Hahn, Wanda Skowronska
Pointing out the connection between the Mass and the book of Revelation he said that its Holy Holy Holy prayer and 28 references to the Lamb of God are clear reflections of the heavenly liturgy.
345 - Apr 2013 - 'Jesus Abandoned' in Nigeria: Chiemera's new freedom, Madonna Brosnan
Onyinye (Gift from God) is employed at the retreat centre of Our Lady Queen of Peace Benedictine Monastery Ozubulu.
346 - Apr 2013 - Vocations: Australia's vocations springtime continues into 2013, Br Barry Coldrey
Religious orders The positive priestly vocations picture is also reflected in the increasing numbers of young men seeking admission to some religious orders and congregations including the Missionaries of Gods Love the Franciscan (Capuchins) the Priestly Fraternity of St Peter and the Dominicans.
347 - Apr 2013 - Obituary: Vale Dr Lyn Billings AM, DCSG, MBBS (Melb), DCH (Lond), Joan Clements
Based on their own deep love for each other and for the God they believed in with their whole hearts they radiated love in an often loveless world.
348 - Apr 2013 - News: The Church Around the World
When the Holy Father spoke to his own clergy the priests of the Diocese of Rome for the last time he said two very significant things about the liturgy: firstly he said that the Second Vatican Council was very right to treat of the liturgy first because it thereby showed that God has primacy said Msgr Wadsworth.
349 - Apr 2013 - POPE FRANCIS: 'REBUILD MY CHURCH', Michael Gilchrist
And by choosing the name of the founder of his Jesuit communitys traditional rivals Pope Francis has indicated three things: his desire to be a force of unity within the Church his concern for the worlds poor and his determination to repair Gods house which has fallen into ruin that is to rebuild the Church.
350 - Mar 2013 - Reflection: Icon for the Year of Grace: 'Sir, we wish to see Jesus', Anne Lastman
And not only His face as the human face of God enfleshed but the image of the true man of God Jesus the Icon which shows us the truth and reality of God.
351 - Mar 2013 - Books: HOLY MEN AND WOMEN OF THE MIDDLE AGES AND BEYOND, by Pope Benedict XVI, Michael Daniel
St Albert the Great a fellow Dominican viewed science as revealing the handiwork of God the creator and thus saw no dispute between faith and science.
352 - Mar 2013 - Books: BECOME WHAT YOU ARE: Growing in Christian Character, by Bishop Julian Porteous, Brother Barry Coldrey
Chapters include: Made in the Image of God The Question of Good and Evil In Need of Redemption and A Life in the Holy Spirit through to Life in God Prayer and Holiness of Life.
353 - Mar 2013 - Books: CONTEMPLATING CHRIST WITH LUKE by Cardinal George Pell, Brother Barry Coldrey
ISBN: 978-1-92216-805-4) Cardinal George Pell Archbishop of Sydney for the past twelve years has been a prolific writer and speaker with several recent book titles to his name notably God and Caesar and Test Everything both well worth reading.
354 - Mar 2013 - Priestly celibacy: being one with Christ and His mission, Father John O'Neill PP
Some elements in the widespread discussion of the celibacy of the Catholic priesthood clearly show a failure to relate this beautiful charism to the nature of God as Three Persons loving each other infinitely and to the nature and purpose of the Incarnation of God the Son in the person of our God and Saviour Our Lord Jesus Christ.
355 - Mar 2013 - Obituary: Creos Roman: may he rest in peace, Bishop Anthony Fisher OP
He lost contact with his family for nearly three decades but by Gods grace was restored to them before his death.
356 - Mar 2013 - Women priests and bishops: Anglicanism's crisis of identity, David Wetherell
In its unsophisticated understanding of Holy Orders a British Catholic commentator has called the Church of England Gods kindergarten.
357 - Mar 2013 - News: The Church Around The World
In the address to Cor Unum the Pope said Catholic charities must always operate with Gods point of view even though our time knows shadows that obscure Gods plan.
358 - Mar 2013 - STOP PRESS: Vale, Pope Benedict!, Peter Westmore
After having repeatedly examined my conscience before God I have come to the certainty that my strengths due to an advanced age are no longer suited to an adequate exercise of the Petrine ministry.
359 - Mar 2013 - Homily: Benedict XVI's 2012 Annunciation homily, Pope Benedict XVI
The Incarnation of the Son of God is the central mystery of the Christian faith and in it Mary occupies a central place.
360 - Feb 2013 - Reflection: The cathedral: symbol of Christ's authoritative teaching, Bishop Michael Kennedy
It is the continuation of that authority spoken of by Jesus: All the authority of heaven and earth that is his as the Son of God he gives to his Apostles and their successors so that the Church might make disciples of all the nations through baptism and right teaching right up until the end of time.
361 - Feb 2013 - Books: TAI CHI, REIKI: A Guide for all Christians, by Br Max Sculley FSC, Br Barry Coldrey
95 ISBN: 978-1-92142-171-6 Available from Freedom Publishing) Cardinal Godfried Danneels former Archbishop of Mechelen-Brussels recently wrote: Modern Belgians are often interested in a range of spiritualities but allergic to the sacraments of the Church.
362 - Feb 2013 - Letters: Shared faith?, John Frey
For our Muslim brothers and sisters that by the bodily discipline of fasting and the spiritual devotion of their hearts they find grace and favour in Gods eyes ( Catholic Weekly 16 December 2012).
363 - Feb 2013 - History: Parish life in the Middle Ages (Part 2): living under canon law, Frank Mobbs
Most wills were made orally so proof of a will involved taking an oath that is calling on God as a witness hence a matter for the Church.
364 - Feb 2013 - Grace: Indulgences: relics of the past or still Church teaching?, John Young
Paul VI recalls that sin is a real and never adequately measured offence against God an ungrateful rejection of Gods love offered to us in Christ ( Indulgentiarum doctrina n.
365 - Feb 2013 - Schools: Drawing pupils to God through the true, the good and the beautiful, Rosemary Anderson
Lourdes classical education is meant to help the students realise their full potential spiritually intellectually and socially and help draw them to God through the true the good and the beautiful.
366 - Feb 2013 - Religious freedom: The widows of Kandmahal: anti-Christian violence in India, Babette Francis
The big thing Ive learned is to trust in God because He will provide Rita says.
367 - Feb 2013 - Events: iWitness Retreat: a celebration of young adult Catholic faith, Br Barry Coldrey
Sacraments theme This fifth iWitness Retreat took as its central theme the Sacraments the great channels of Gods Grace for Christians.
368 - Feb 2013 - Parish Renewal: New springtime for Catholic faith at St Mary's, South Brisbane, Jenny Davies
The badly leaking roof became number one priority and thanks be to God a benefactor kick-started the new roof project with a substantial donation and various parishes have covered the remaining costs.
369 - Feb 2013 - Adoration: Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration embraced by Brisbane parish, Kate Hobbs
There was never an overwhelming moment at this conference just a steady flow of truth proclaimed and a deepened awareness and awe that all we do for God comes from adoring Our Lord.
370 - Feb 2013 - News: The Church Around the World
However the study said that many of this category had some religious beliefs including belief in God or participation in religious observances.
371 - Feb 2013 - Editorial: AD2000 25 years on: the challenges remain, Michael Gilchrist
AD2000 will continue to report on positive endeavours such as those of Catholic university student groups the Missionaries of Gods Love Campion College the new generation of Catholic priests and many others all indicative that a growing number of Catholics remain serious about their faith and are not prepared to throw in the towel in the face of growing religious scepticism and militant secularism.
372 - Dec 2012 - Reflection: Feast of the Holy Innocents: Rachel weeps for her children, Anne Lastman
Perhaps in her vision she saw his entry into the world marked with the slaughter of innocent lives and perhaps much more Rachel saw another mother and matriarch of matriarchs (Mary) weep for the loss of all the babies offered in sacrifice to gods kings pharaohs of every era every nation and every time and place and in the immediate future fear for the loss of her own son.
373 - Dec 2012 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
A Year with the Angels reveals our unique relationship with the Angels our protectors and intercessors before the Face of God.
374 - Dec 2012 - Books: A BIBLICAL SEARCH FOR THE CHURCH CHRIST FOUNDED, by Linus F. Clovis, Michael Daniel
After commencing with arguments for the existence of God and the foretelling of the Church in the Old Testament Clovis demonstrates that Christ established a visible Church.
375 - Dec 2012 - Letters: Old Testament, Fr Brian Harrison
Dr Mobbs also caricatures my position (which I insist is simply the Churchs position) by ascribing to me the view that God chooses to act arbitrarily disregarding all moral requirements.
376 - Dec 2012 - Letters: Bob Santamaria, Brian A. Peachey
On 12 December 2007 I made a formal submission to Archbishop Denis Hart of Melbourne as required by the Apostolic Constitution Divinus Perfectionis Magister to inquire about the life virtues and reputation of sanctity of the late Bartholomew Augustine Santamaria who in my humble opinion was a true Servant of God who displayed heroic virtue and whose canonisation should be sought.
377 - Dec 2012 - Letters: Abortion silence, Thomas M. Kalotas
Yet despite this undisputed fact one almost never hears any petitions in our churches asking God to rid us of this horror nor are we often encouraged to do so by many of our priests from the pulpit for reasons that are not at all clear.
378 - Dec 2012 - Advent and the Second Coming: a forgotten article of faith, Br Christian Moe FSC
Pope Paul VI wrote in The Credo of the People of God(12): Christ the Lord will come again this time in glory to judge the living and the dead.
379 - Dec 2012 - A different fire: Vatican II and the new evangelisation, Archbishop Mark Coleridge
We live at a time when there is an eclipse of God under the pressure of a secularist ideology; even if they believe in God in some sense people often live as if there were no God.
380 - Dec 2012 - Catholicism: The Year of Faith: time to revisit the Catechism of the Catholic Church Church, Audrey English
He refers to the Credo of the People of God by Pope Paul VI as a significant document written at the close of Vatican II in the wake of the various misunderstandings which began to invade the Church.
381 - Dec 2012 - Pilgrimage: Crossroads: young people spread the message of life and love, Angela Schumann
It is you who must go out into the byroads (Mt 22:9) and invite everyone you meet to the banquet which God has prepared for his people.
382 - Dec 2012 - Young Men of God 2012 Conference showcases Christian leadership, Br Barry Coldrey
The theme of the eighth annual Young Men of God (YMG) Conference held at The Tops Conference Centre Stanwell Park on the weekend of 12-14 October was The Lord is my strength (Ps.
383 - Dec 2012 - Sectarianism: Dignitatis Humanae Institute: Christian values in public life, Babette Francis
The Institutes Universal Declaration of Human Dignity consists of three main principles: that man is made in the image and likeness of God; that this image and likeness exist in every single human being without exception from conception until natural death; and that the most effective means of safeguarding this recognition is through the active participation of the Christian faith in the public square.
384 - Dec 2012 - News: The Church Around the World
I can only thank God for extraordinary sacrifices made to enable this to happen.
385 - Dec 2012 - Culture: Western crisis is spiritual: Russian Orthodox leader, Metropolitan Hilarion
May I address you on behalf of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia and the Russian Orthodox Church with apostolic greeting: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ (2 Thess 1:2).
386 - Dec 2012 - Homily: Benedict XVI: the new consoling certainty of Christmas, Pope Benedict XVI
God has appeared.
387 - Nov 2012 - Reflection: Father forgive them ...: God's infinite mercy for the repentant, Anne Lastman
A child is entrusted to us by God for whatever His reason.
388 - Nov 2012 - Books: THE GIFT OF THE ROSARY: How to Make and How and Why to Pray, by Brian Peachey, Barry Morgan
Throughout history the mysterious reality of the Blessed Virgins submission to the demands of incarnate love bringing the God man into the world has captured the imagination and loyalty of legions of Catholics and other Christians.
389 - Nov 2012 - Books: A MIDLIFE JOURNEY, by Gerald O'Collins SJ, Frank Mobbs
He was one topping the school in classics (Greek and Latin) and decided to give himself to God as a Jesuit.
390 - Nov 2012 - Books: CATHOLICISM: A Journey to the Heart of the Faith, by Fr Robert Barron, Michael Gilchrist
The books ten chapters mirror each episode of the documentary dealing with the Incarnation Jesus Teachings the Mystery of God Mary Saints Peter and Paul Christ and the Church Sacraments and Worship the Communion of Saints Prayer and the Life of the Spirit and Last Things.
391 - Nov 2012 - Letters: Religious rebellion, Kevin McManus
Dom David Knowles wrote in 1974 in his definitive work Bare Ruined Choirs that when once a religious order or house ceases to have its members abandon all things that are not of God and ceases to show them the narrow way that leads to an imitation of Christ it sinks to the level of a human institution.
392 - Nov 2012 - Letters: People of God, John Frey
The idea that the Church is the People of God surfaced recently in our Parish Bulletin.
393 - Nov 2012 - The new evangelisation: restore a sense of the sacred, Andrew Kania
He then said: Now we shall begin to sing again and this time with a heart believing we are professing the Word of God.
394 - Nov 2012 - Significance of the Higgs boson 'God particle' for believers, David Forster
Recently the Higgs bosun or so-called God Particle made front page news.
395 - Nov 2012 - Worldwide religious persecution continues, Cardinal Timothy Dolan
This situation is unacceptable since it represents an insult to God and to human dignity.
396 - Nov 2012 - Hong Kong's Catholic Bishop interviewed
Mark Riedemann for Where God Weeps in cooperation with Aid the Church in Need recently interviewed Bishop John Tong Hon of Hong Kong.
397 - Nov 2012 - Ignite Conference unites young practising Catholics, Br Barry Coldrey
God wants to do something exciting in His Church and in Australia and we invite everyone in the Church of Brisbane to come be a part of it.
398 - Nov 2012 - Some good 'family' news from Russia, Babette Francis
Late last year in a report headed Gods presence in Russia is a miracle Marco Tosatti then the Vatican expert writing for the newspaper La Stampa reported from Rome the comments of then Russian President Dmitry Medvedev who believes the revival of Orthodoxy in Russia in the last twenty years is a miracle.
399 - Nov 2012 - News: The Church Around the World
Benedict XVI: Liturgy is Gods action not ours Benedict XVI has reminded Catholics that the liturgy belongs to Jesus Christ and his Church and should not be changed according to individual whims.
400 - Nov 2012 - Pope's Lebanon visit sends a message of peace to Middle East, Michael Gilchrist
As if to underline this prior to Pope Benedict XVIs arrival Christians and Muslims came together for a prayer vigil on 12 September to invoke the protection of God and the Virgin Mary over the Popes upcoming visit.
401 - 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.
402 - Oct 2012 - Reflection: The Year of Faith and the Church's missionary role, Fr Dennis W. Byrnes
In the historical context the wedding feast symbolises the New Covenant to which the Israelites Gods elect people had first been called.
403 - Oct 2012 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
00 ISBN 978-0-85244-761-1 Blessed John Henry Newman Kathleen Dietz FSO amp; Mary-Birgit Dechant FSO Editors This profusely illustrated book examines the reasons why John Henry Newman was beatified namely by living up to the virtues of faith hope and love and in accepting and obeying Gods will in the ordinary everyday circumstances.
404 - Oct 2012 - Books: Manual of Minor Exorcisms, Prayers for those in Spiritual Affliction, Porteous, Fr Nicholas Dillon
In the various prayers and litanies for protection and deliverance which Bishop Porteous has compiled the faithful will find a sure source of spiritual comfort and a means for obtaining Gods grace and protection.
405 - Oct 2012 - Books: AN AMAZING LOVE, by Father Ken Barker, Br Barry Coldrey
Available from Freedom Publishing) Father Ken Barker Founder and Moderator of the new Australian Religious Order the Missionaries of Gods Love is the author of four well-read books His Name is Mercy Becoming Fire A Radical Way of Love and Young Men Rise Up.
406 - Oct 2012 - Letters: Biblical assertions, Frank Mobbs
It follows that if a Catholic is presented with the text of the Book of Ruth and he reads that Ruth married Boaz but refuses to believe it then he is disbelieving God so is a heretic and liable to eternal punishment.
407 - Oct 2012 - Letters: Real Presence, Cedric Wright
The Host is the true God come down to us every day in the Holy Mass and living with us in a hundred thousand tabernacles in Catholic churches the world over.
408 - Oct 2012 - Letters: Christian unity, Andrew Sholl
Worst of all was the hideous blood-letting Thirty Years War in the 17th century when vast numbers of Christians whether Catholics or Protestants murdered each other all professing to do it in the the name of God a monstrous blasphemy!
409 - Oct 2012 - Letters: Harm-minimisation, Arnold Jago
One can turn to God and find the needed strength.
410 - Oct 2012 - Schools: Saint Mary MacKillop Colleges, Wagga Wagga: progress report, Charles Morton
By the providence of God the location of the current school has been a vacated two-story club with an attached sports oval.
411 - Oct 2012 - G.K. Chesterton on the decay of Western Christianity, Donald Boland
Now there is nothing wrong in enjoying ones God-given wealth provided it is being used for what it is created for namely to satisfy our desires for material goods within reason or in accordance with nature.
412 - Oct 2012 - Liturgical Music: Vatican II: Singing nourishes faith ... raises minds to God, Bishop Arthur Serratelli
Perhaps this is one of the reasons why song is so important to our worship of God.
413 - Oct 2012 - The new evangelisation and the culture of life, Anne Lastman
The evangelical nature of the Church is its raison detre and it could be said that this impetus finds its genesis in God Himself Who reveals and speaks about Himself through all of creation and definitively through His beloved Son Jesus.
414 - Oct 2012 - Missions: Father Raphael: dynamic Nigerian parish priest, Madonna Brosnan
The grace of God.
415 - Oct 2012 - Universities: Cardinal Pell's tertiary ministry at Sydney's universities, Br Barry Coldrey
As well six young women are in formation with the Fraternas (a new Religious Movement) the Dominican Sisters of Nashville Tennessee and the Missionaries of Gods Love Sisters.
416 - Oct 2012 - News: The Church Around the World
Catholic News Agency Evolutionary biology and belief in God compatible Evolutionary biology and faith in God are not incompatible two professors asserted at the international Rimini Meeting an event that brings hundreds of thousands of people to Italy.
417 - Oct 2012 - Anglican Ordinariate: Melbourne ordinations: historic day for Church in Australia, Peter Westmore
Part of the Holy Fathers vision in his quest for unity is that the priests of the Ordinariate and the local diocese should work alongside each other to grow Gods Kingdom and bring others to salvation.
418 - Sep 2012 - Reflection: Fatima: Mary's appeal for penance and conversion, Bishop Arthur Serratelli
She came as an ambassador of the mercy of God.
419 - Sep 2012 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
A Year with the Angels reveals our unique relationship with the Angels our protectors and intercessors before the Face of God.
420 - Sep 2012 - Books: FATIMA FOR TODAY: The Urgent Marian Message of Hope, by Fr Andrew Apostoli CFR, Brother Barry Coldrey
What does God have to do to get our attention?
421 - Sep 2012 - Letters: Old Testament, Fr Brian Harrison OS
For he has conceded the correctness of Dawkins assumption - just as theologically untenable as the one rebutted above - that whatever is morally wrong for a human being must also be morally wrong for God.
422 - Sep 2012 - Letters: Power of the Rosary, Gabrielle Gannon
God sent His Mother to Fatima to tell us we ought recite the Rosary every day.
423 - Sep 2012 - Letters: Article of faith?, Jean-Leon Shanks
The Catechism says in number 1376: The Council of Trent summarizes the Catholic faith by declaring: Because Christ our redeemer said that it was truly his body that he was offering under the species of bread it has always been the conviction of the Church of God and this holy Council now declares again that by the consecration of the bread and wine there takes place a change of the whole substance of the bread into the substance of the body of Christ our Lord and of the whole substance of the wine into the substance of his blood.
424 - Sep 2012 - Letters: Appreciation, Frank O'Connor
One can only say it is Gods will.
425 - Sep 2012 - The Church's mission priority: to search for its 'lost sheep', Andrew Kania
St Matthews Gospel begins with the beautiful story of Joseph receiving from an angel words of comfort that his betrothed has conceived not through natural means but by the will of God: Now all this took place to fulfil what the Lord had spoken through the prophet: Look!
426 - Sep 2012 - Australian Catholic Students Association Conference 2012, Br Barry Coldrey
iWitness Young Men of God and Reasons for Hope to name just three.
427 - Sep 2012 - Time for women's "true genius" to reassert itself, Anne Lastman
Not as an after-thought of God but as the final most creative and mysterious act.
428 - Sep 2012 - Letters: Archbishop Chaput: how to meet the challenges to religious freedom, Archbishop Charles Chaput OFM
We need to realise that Americas founding documents assume an implicitly religious anthropology - an idea of human nature natures God and natural rights - that many of our leaders no longer really share.
429 - Sep 2012 - Film: 'For Greater Glory': an inspiring message for today's Christians, Babette Francis
Gorostieta responds: There is no compromise of liberty it comes not from the state but from God.
430 - Sep 2012 - News: The Church Around the World
I could see myself going to jail possibly at some point over the next 15 years if God spares me if I speak out Archbishop Tartaglia said in an interview with STV News on 24 July.
431 - Sep 2012 - Sainthood: Cardinal Van Thuân: process to beatification 'very advanced', Michael Gilchrist
Saint of hope Dr Hilgeman said that to speak of the Servant of God Cardinal van Thun was to consider a life tested in suffering in injustice and in the three theological virtues: faith hope and charity.
432 - Aug 2012 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
A Year with the Angels reveals our unique relationship with the Angels our protectors and intercessors before the Face of God.
433 - Aug 2012 - Books: THE NEW EVANGELISATION: Issues and Challenges for Catholic Schools, Br Barry Coldrey
The new evangelisation particularly in Catholic schools needs to centre on Jesus Christ the God-Man his person his claims his life and his teachings.
434 - Aug 2012 - Books: LESSONS IN A ROSE-GARDEN: Reviving the Doctrinal Rosary, by Aidan Nichols O.P., Peter Westmore
While much of it reflects the role of Mary during Jesus life it is also infused by the Catholic belief that Mary was assumed body and soul into Heaven and that as the Mother of God she is Queen of Heaven and Earth.
435 - Aug 2012 - Letters: Transubstantiation, John Young
In that case should we relegate the dogma of the Blessed Trinity to a scarcely comprehensible doctrine that wont help our appreciation of God?
436 - Aug 2012 - Letters: Old Testament God (2), Frank Mobbs
Is God of the Old Testament a moral monster as arch atheist Richard Dawkins claims?
437 - Aug 2012 - Letters: Old Testament God (1), Fr Brian Harrison OS
According to Dr Mobbs no one has ever believed in the God depicted in Numbers 31:7 who ordered massacres and who had a man put to death for gathering wood on the sabbath (Numbers 15:35).
438 - Aug 2012 - Letters: Fact-filled article, Thomas and Patricia Watkin
Obama and same-sex marriage: Shaking his fist at God (July AD2000) by Babette Francis with an eye-catching photograph of Rev Franklin Graham introduced an uplifting and instructive experience to our family!
439 - Aug 2012 - The Virgin Mary's key role in our salvation history, Cedric Wright
The Queen of all mothers is Mary chosen and made holy by God Himself to be the Mother of His Son.
440 - Aug 2012 - Marriage: Archbishop Hickey: the Eucharist and the Christian family, Archbishop Barry Hickey
Basically it says that the love of God is such that God draws us through our Baptism and the power of the Holy Spirit into a deep communion with himself.
441 - Aug 2012 - Vocations: Australian religious Sisters: 'In the true spirit of Vatican II', Kate Cleary MGL
They heard the call to start a charismatic brotherhood later known as the Missionaries of Gods Love.
442 - Aug 2012 - Youth: Young adult Catholics peer ministry in WA and Queensland, Br Barry Coldrey
Bruce felt prompted by God to reach out to young adults who were disconnected from the Church and in addition to strengthen those already committed to their faith.
443 - Aug 2012 - News: The Church Around the World
How proud we felt to be Sisters of Mercy how humbled to be part of this historic holy event acknowledging the sacredness and intrinsic glory of all Gods creation.
444 - Aug 2012 - Assumption homily: Mary: The true Ark of the Covenant, Pope Benedict XVI
For the Old Testament the Ark of the Covenant is the symbol of Gods presence in the midst of his people.
445 - Jul 2012 - Letters: The Year of Grace and the New Evangelisation, Fr Dennis Byrnes
Sanctifying Grace The Compendium of the Catechism (423) reminds us: Grace is the gratuitous gift that God gives us to make us participants in his Trinitarian life and be able to act by his love.
446 - Jul 2012 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
A Year with the Angels reveals our unique relationship with the Angels our protectors and intercessors before the Face of God.
447 - Jul 2012 - Books: THE FACE OF GOD and THE TRUE ICON, by Paul Badde, Paul MacLeod
THE FACE OF GOD by Paul Badde (Ignatius Press 2010 378pp $29.
448 - Jul 2012 - Books: FR ALEXANDER MEN: Martyr of Atheism, by Michel Evdokimov, Michael Daniel
This subject particularly interested him since he saw the marvel of creation as being the handiwork of God its creator.
449 - Jul 2012 - Books: ANSWERING THE ANTI-CATHOLIC CHALLENGE, by Robert M. Haddad, Angela Schumann
Collits also explains the meaning of the Eucharist as the most intimate form of contact with God.
450 - Jul 2012 - Letters: Transubstantiation, Frank Mobbs
It is not a truth revealed by God.
451 - Jul 2012 - Benedict XVI: Grave threats to the Church's moral witness, Donald R. McClarey
In this regard I would mention with appreciation your efforts to maintain contacts with Catholics involved in political life and to help them understand their personal responsibility to offer public witness to their faith especially with regard to the great moral issues of our time: respect for Gods gift of life the protection of human dignity and the promotion of authentic human rights .
452 - Jul 2012 - 'Born again': how to change from a nominal to a "living" Christian, Andrew Kania
Based on the 1996 kidnapping and murder of seven Trappist monks in Tibhirine Algeria the 2010 multi-award winning French motion picture Des hommes et des dieux ( Of Men and Gods) is in truth a piece of religious artwork painted on film.
453 - Jul 2012 - Austrian Chancellor's son: How faith helped to survive the Nazis, Michelle Baumann
Kurt von Schuschnigg believes that Gods providence was helping him during that difficult time sometimes manifest through the kind and daring gestures of other people.
454 - Jul 2012 - Obama and same-sex 'marriage': Shaking his fist at God, Babette Francis
Evangelist Franklin Graham son of famous preacher Rev Billy Graham said President Obama has shaken his fist at God by voicing support for gay marriage.
455 - Jul 2012 - Homily: Benedict XVI: Sts Peter and Paul and the priesthood, Pope Benedict XVI
The Lord challenges us as priests to move beyond the boundaries of our own world and to bring the Gospel to the world of others so that it pervades everything and opens up the world for Gods kingdom.
456 - Jun 2012 - Reflection: Benedict XVI: Pentecost and the Church's universality, Pope Benedict XVI
The Church has prepared us in recent days for Pentecost with her prayers with the repeated and intense plea to God for a renewed outpouring of the Holy Spirit upon us.
457 - Jun 2012 - Poetry: Simon of Cyrene, Bruce Dawe
) I lugged that splintery timber All the way to that God-awful place Called the Hill of Skulls without having a rest Or anyone to wipe my face So I dumped my wooden burden there On the bloody ground and said: Is that the lot?
458 - Jun 2012 - Books: ABOUT BIOETHICS: Philosophical and Theological Approaches, Angela Schumann
He explains that this is the basis for what is meant by a culture of life adding that for a believer human dignity is not so much anthropocentric (coming from man) as theocentric (coming from God).
459 - Jun 2012 - Remembering the Catholic priests on board the 'Titanic', AD2000 Report
The priests led passengers in recitation of the Rosary and aroused those condemned to die to say acts of contrition and prepare themselves to meet the face of God.
460 - Jun 2012 - Faith and Reason: Cardinal Pell debates Richard Dawkins on Q&A: a commentary, Frank Mobbs
I shall restrict consideration to questions about the existence of God.
461 - Jun 2012 - Christendom: Hungary's new constitution a rebuke to secular Europe, Edward Pentin
The preamble of the new Constitution or Fundamental Law which came into force on 1 January 2012 contains references to God Christianity and traditional family values.
462 - Jun 2012 - Women Religious: Vatican takes action against dissenting US nuns, Babette Francis
leadership of women religious in this country has gone so far off the deep end of theological speculation that they are entertaining the possibility that Jesus isnt God He didnt die for us .
463 - Jun 2012 - NET Ministries: Another Catholic youth ministry success story, Br Barry Coldrey
There are many stories of the working of Gods grace in the receptive souls of ardent young Catholics as a result of their year with the National Evangelisation Teams.
464 - Jun 2012 - News: The Church Around the World
Committing to another person is not something to be feared they said for fatherhood and motherhood are a gift of God.
465 - Jun 2012 - Society: Cardinal George Pell: Science and religion can coexist, Cardinal George Pell
He now claims that of all the great discoveries of modern science the greatest was God.
466 - May 2012 - Reflection: Nicene Creed's "consubstantial":What does this mean?, Bishop Arthur Serratelli
With the term Trinity he set the standard for speaking about the three divine persons while holding to belief in one God.
467 - May 2012 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
00 ISBN 978-0-85244-750-5 Techniques of Icon and Wall Painting Aidan Hart An icon is a visual theology the Word of God.
468 - May 2012 - Books: A COMPANION TO CATHOLIC EDUCATION, by Leonardo Franchi and Stephen McKinney (ed), Angela Schumann
This singular vocation can be an incredibly rewarding one as the teacher has the privilege of doing Gods work and mirroring Christ whose Apostles addressed him as Rabbi which means teacher.
469 - 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.
470 - May 2012 - UK Catholic schools under fire for 'homophobia', Hilary White
At issue is the booklet titled Pure Manhood: How to become the man God wants you to be by American chastity speaker Jason Evert.
471 - May 2012 - The Church's dogma of transubstantiation, John Young
He thought we are all spirits (we have no bodies) and God puts images into our minds which people have wrongly assumed to be external things.
472 - May 2012 - Religious Freedom: Catholics in Iraq: a struggle for survival, Archbishop Bashar Matti Warda
The following interview with the Chaldean Archbishop of Erbil in northern Iraq Bashar Matti Warda about the situation of Catholics in Iraq was conducted by Mark Riedemann for Where God Weeps a weekly television and radio show produced by Catholic Radio and Television Network in conjunction with the international Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need.
473 - May 2012 - Young adult ministry 2012: more reasons for hope, Br Barry Coldrey
The vibrant flourishing Catholic life around Theology-on-Tap the SIX30 Holy Hour and the many retreats and conferences (ACSA Young Men of God iWitness YPAT and MAGIS) did not exist.
474 - May 2012 - The culture wars: Archbishop Chaput's call to Christians, Ben Johnson
Its true that God was left out of the Constitution - but not because he was unwelcome.
475 - May 2012 - Benedict XVI builds on John Paul II's historic Cuba visit, Michael Gilchrist
I have entrusted to the Mother of God the future of your country advancing along the ways of renewal and hope for the greater good of all Cubans he said.
476 - May 2012 - News: The Church Around the World
Daswas case was sent to the Vaticans Congregation for the Causes of Saints after he was declared Servant of God and diocesan-level inquiries were completed.
477 - May 2012 - Mexico: Benedict XVI's reflection on Our Lady of Guadalupe, Pope Benedict XVI
As we now pray the Angelus and remember the Annunciation of the Lord our eyes too turn spiritually towards the hill of Tepeyac to the place where the Mother of God under the title of the Ever-Virgin Mary Our Lady of Guadalupe has been fervently honoured for centuries as a sign of reconciliation and of Gods infinite goodness towards the world.
478 - Apr 2012 - Reflection: Christ's Resurrection: the central truth of our faith, Fr Dennis Byrnes
Peter says this in Acts: God raised him from the dead on the third day and caused him to be seen.
479 - Apr 2012 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
00 ISBN 978-0-85244-450-8 Techniques of Icon and Wall Painting Aidan Hart An icon is a visual theology the Word of God.
480 - Apr 2012 - Books: LIGHT OF THE WORLD: The Pope, the Church and Signs of the Times, Archbishop Charles J. Chaput
Rather In todays world radical secularism stands on one side and the question of God in its various forms stands on the other.
481 - Apr 2012 - Art: Icons: linking the spiritual and material, Aidan Hart
I honour it but not as God ( The Holy Icons i.
482 - Apr 2012 - Missions: Where the Church's growth is fastest, Bishop John Thomas Kattrukudiyil
Mark Riedemann for Where God Weeps in co-operation with Aid to the Church in Need interviewed a bishop from the region John Thomas Kattrukudiyil of Itanagar the capital of Arunachal Pradesh.
483 - Apr 2012 - The mystery of human suffering: a Christian understanding, Julian McGauren
In our attempt to explain or understand our own or our neighbours suffering in this life we probably should start and end with the words of God to the Prophet Isaiah: For my thoughts are not your thoughts my ways not your ways - it is Yahweh who speaks (Isaiah 55:18).
484 - Apr 2012 - Culture: Christianity's essential role in civilising our society, Bishop Julian Porteous
The Sisters of Mercy Sisters of Charity the Little Company of Mary and St John of God Healthcare are the largest players in this field.
485 - Apr 2012 - eVangelisation: The Catholic Church and the digital media revolution - cradio.org.au, Jason Rushton
In his message for World Communications Day in January Pope Benedict wrote: Attention should be paid to the various types of websites applications and social networks which can help people today to find time for reflection and authentic questioning as well as making space for silence and occasions for prayer meditation or sharing of the word of God.
486 - Apr 2012 - Vocations: Australia's seminary numbers continue their growth, Br Barry Coldrey
The encouraging seminary growth is also reflected in the increased numbers of young men seeking admission to religious orders and congregations such as the Missionaries of Gods Love the Franciscan (Capuchins) the Priestly Fraternity of St Peter and the Dominicans.
487 - Apr 2012 - Culture: US Churches unite against Obama over religious liberty, Babette Francis
we are not going to sit by and allow our God-given rights - which are acknowledged recognised and protected by the Constitution - to be atrophied to be neutered and confined and restricted by the Obama administration.
488 - Apr 2012 - News: The Church Around the World
This is very important because the faith is not a mere sentiment or religious emotion but is rather the personal adherence of the intellect and the will to God and to what God has revealed to us in Christ which is that which the Church transmits to us for belief he said.
489 - Apr 2012 - Homily: Holy Thursday: 'With the Eucharist the Church is born', Pope Benedict XVI
All of us need the conversion which enables us to accept Jesus in his reality as God and man.
490 - Mar 2012 - Reflection: The wonder of the Incarnation: Pope Benedict's Nazareth homily, Pope Benedict XVI
It is profoundly moving for me to be present in the very place where the Word of God was made flesh and came to dwell among us.
491 - Mar 2012 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
00 ISBN 978-0-85244-450-8 Techniques of Icon and Wall Painting Aidan Hart An icon is a visual theology the Word of God.
492 - Mar 2012 - Books: LEAD, KINDLY LIGHT, by Thomas Howard, Michael Daniel
While each conversion is a unique testament to the workings of Gods grace the reasons as to why he entered the Church reflect those of many converts including this reviewer.
493 - Mar 2012 - Books: Streams of Grace, by Bishop Julian Porteous, Fr Ken Barker MGL
The focus is on the grace of a deep love for the word of God and the gift of celibacy for the Kingdom.
494 - Mar 2012 - Letters: Defending marriage, Mark Szymczak
Marriage is a Sacrament and through marriage we share in the creative power of Almighty God.
495 - Mar 2012 - Letters: Atheism, John Gallagher
We call it God (December-January AD2000).
496 - Mar 2012 - Letters: Abortion silence, Frank Mobbs
I went to her house and told her that she was planning to commit a grievous mortal sin for which she would certainly answer to God.
497 - Mar 2012 - Missions: Bringing hope to Nigeria's abandoned children, Madonna Brosnan
So the Centre she says is obedience to God.
498 - Mar 2012 - John Henry Newman on the Immaculate Conception, John Henry Newman
But Mary never was in this state; she was by the eternal decree of God exempted from it.
499 - Mar 2012 - The Immaculate Conception and the development of doctrine, Bishop Peter J. Elliott
It is part of the defined faith of the Catholic Church that God created Mary without original sin so that she would worthily and truly be the mother of his sinless Son.
500 - Mar 2012 - Fulton Sheen Cause: progress report, Msgr Stanley Deptula
I could never have known what excitement God had in store for 2011.
501 - Mar 2012 - News: The Church Around the World
Benedict hopes the Year of Faith which will run from 11 October 2012 to 24 November 2013 will contribute to restoring Gods presence in this world.
502 - Mar 2012 - Homily: Benedict XVI: the Annunciation and Mary's virginity, Pope Benedict XVI
This age-old promise has found superabundant fulfillment in the Incarnation of the Son of God.
503 - Feb 2012 - Reflection: Pope's New Year Message for 2012 underlines the right use of freedom, Pope Benedict XVI
May they encourage children by the example of their lives to put their hope before all else in God the one source of authentic justice and peace.
504 - Feb 2012 - Books: THE RETURN OF MODERNISM:The Second Wave Revisited, by Dr J.N. Santamaria, David Perrin
It denies the existence of God and a divine revelation that externally directs human activities and is promoted by scholars and theologians of a liberal mindset.
505 - Feb 2012 - Books: HOW TO GET EXPELLED FROM SCHOOL, by Ian Plimer, Michael Gilchrist
This is hardly surprising when climate change alarmism as distinct from a balanced Christian care for Gods creation which Pope Benedict regularly emphasises is deeply entrenched in some Church bureaucracies.
506 - Feb 2012 - Letters: SSPX schools, Ken Bayliss
The Te Deum is the traditional hymn of thanksgiving to God for His blessing us with three teaching nuns at Tynong and for the beginning of a high school in Brisbane.
507 - Feb 2012 - Letters: Abortion laws, Terry and Rosemary McDonnell
So its God help us if we are in the womb and are not perfect have some undesirable characteristic or defect happen to be the wrong sex or are simply unwanted.
508 - Feb 2012 - Mission UK: Can pagan Britain recover its Christian identity?
All I know is that God has asked me to live this life and I have said yes.
509 - Feb 2012 - Census: Growth and decline in the churches: research findings, Frank Mobbs
Hispanic Catholics have been converted in considerable numbers with 90% reporting that they wanted a more personal relationship with God not because they rejected the Churchs teachings.
510 - Feb 2012 - Culture Wars: Catholic universities and secularism, Achbishop Charles Chaput
We only defeat ourselves - and we certainly dont serve God - if we allow ourselves to ever think otherwise.
511 - Feb 2012 - Law: Catholic politicians and same-sex 'marriage', Michael Gilchrist
There are absolutely no grounds for considering homosexual unions to be in any way similar or even remotely analogous to Gods plan for marriage and family.
512 - Feb 2012 - Religious Freedom: Freedom of religion American style, Babette Francis
Its not so much to do with them as its to do with me and my walk with God and what I will answer to Him for.
513 - Dec 2011 - Reflection: Advent faith, Christmas and the Pope's call to evangelise, Fr Dennis Byrnes
As Fr Yves Congar put it the Church is the sacrament of the return of the world to God in Christ.
514 - Dec 2011 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
God Sent His Son Cardinal Christoph Schonborn World-renowned theologian Cardinal Schonborn begins with the conviction of faith that Jesus of Nazareth is the Messiah of Israel the Son of the Living God.
515 - Dec 2011 - Books: WHY WE SHOULD CALL OURSELVES CHRISTIANS, by Marcello Pera, Elizabeth Lev
In fact its very identity rests on the event of God-made-Man.
516 - Dec 2011 - Letters: Devotion to Mary, Cedric Wright
As a young man I was a convert to the Catholic Church in the years before Vatican II and I rejoiced in the Latin liturgy and the overwhelming majesty of the Churchs traditions - not least devotion to the Most Holy Mother of God and the Communion of Saints.
517 - Dec 2011 - Letters: Natural law, Thomas A. Watkin
Father Bernard McGrath (November AD2000) exposes the many tricks of atheism when it is presented under the cloak of feminism materialism naturalism secularism etc; which means: Forget God.
518 - Dec 2011 - Letters: Atheism, Paul Fitzgerald
An atheist does not believe in God.
519 - Dec 2011 - Catholic Literature: Robert Hugh Benson and Christ's Second Coming, Br Christian Moe FSC
The supreme religious deception is that of the Anti-christ a pseudo-messianism by which man glorifies himself in place of God and of his Messiah in the flesh.
520 - Dec 2011 - Tyburn world tour: A visually compelling new documentary on the monastic life, AD2000 Report
The film features a young girl receiving the habit of a Novice and that extraordinary moment in the life of a young nun as she vows her life irrevocably into the hands of God making her final monastic vows and becoming a Spiritual Mother.
521 - Dec 2011 - Schools: St Philomena's school: a beacon of excellence, Alistair Barros
Its about developing the individual personalities of children so that they make full use of the various gifts God has given them for the love of God and learning and ultimately for bringing these talents to the betterment of society.
522 - Dec 2011 - Religious freedom: The plight of Christians in Islamic countries, Babette Francis
The Catholic Church has found such a path inspired by Jesus injunction to render unto Caesar what is owed to Caesar and render to God what is owed to God (Mt.
523 - Dec 2011 - Vocations: Do not be afraid: successful Young Men of God retreat, Dr Barry Coldrey
Overall 160 men attended this Young Men of God retreat which has been the annual high point of the YMG activities since 2004 when their first conference was held on the NSW South Coast.
524 - Dec 2011 - Ad Limina Visit: Australia's Bishops reaffirm their unity with Benedict XVI, Michael Gilchrist
The new translation of the Roman Missal which is the fruit of a remarkable co-operation of the Holy See the Bishops and experts from all over the world is intended to enrich and deepen the sacrifice of praise offered to God by his people.
525 - Dec 2011 - Homily: Benedict XVI: From his Christmas homily, Pope Benedict XVI
God has not only bent down for as we read in the Psalms he has truly come down he has come into the world he has become one of us in order to draw all of us to himself.
526 - Nov 2011 - Reflection: The Church's architecture: faith translated into vision, Bishop Arthur Serratelli
Vatican II instructed bishops to carefully remove from the house of God and from other sacred places those works of artists which are repugnant to faith morals and Christian piety and which offend true religious sense either by depraved forms or by lack of artistic worth mediocrity and pretense ( Sacrosanctum Concilium 124).
527 - Nov 2011 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
God Sent His Son Cardinal Christoph Schonborn World-renowned theologian Cardinal Schonborn begins with the conviction of faith that Jesus of Nazareth is the Messiah of Israel the Son of the Living God.
528 - Nov 2011 - Books: SAINT FRANCIS OF ASSISI, by Ivan Gobry, Br Barry Coldrey
While St Francis rejoiced in nature and Gods creatures he also fought spiritual battles against temptation and vice.
529 - Nov 2011 - Letters: New parish in India, Fr S. John Joseph PP
From now on please forward your renowned journal to this address and please continue your valuable prayers for me so that I may serve faithfully God and His people in my new parish.
530 - Nov 2011 - Letters: Atheism, Fr Bernard McGrath
The driving force behind atheist thinking is not rational argument but the wilfulness to believe there is no God or any transcendent law.
531 - Nov 2011 - Letters: Vatican II, Kathleen Donelly
Instead his response was: God loves everyone.
532 - Nov 2011 - Letters: Planetary Spirituality, Grahame Fallon
2:14-15) - except God.
533 - Nov 2011 - Letters: First Parents, Fr Brian Harrison OS
For he considers legitimate the hypothesis that Adam and Eve were identical twins and God intervened at the chromosomal level to make Eve female.
534 - Nov 2011 - Saints: G.K. Chesterton: Is there a case for his canonisation?, Karl Schmude
And yet this book has challenged my preconceptions about sainthood and made me wonder whether they are limiting my understanding of Gods grace at work in the lives of each of us.
535 - Nov 2011 - Society: Finding hope in the midst of secularism, Cardinal Raymond Burke
Blessed Pope John Paul II practising as Pope Benedict XVI declared the beatitude of faith with the Mother of God as his example and intercessor has taught us all to have faith in Christ to believe that what the Lord has promised to us will be fulfilled and thus to live courageously the truth which has its highest expression in pure and selfless love.
536 - 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.
537 - Nov 2011 - WYD Madrid: World Youth Day 2011: Experiencing Christ's presence, Dr Joe Santamaria
I wrote in my dairy of that time the following: The Pope commented on the secularisation of society and the separation of faith from daily living an error that can be seen not only in the decrease in the practice of religion but also in the fundamental deformation of consciences which are plainly and simply violations of the law of God.
538 - Nov 2011 - Pastoral visit: Benedict XVI calls his visit to Germany 'a great feast of faith'
Referring during his General Audience to the ecumenical events at Erfert on 23 September Benedict remarked: We saw once again how important our common witness of faith in Jesus Christ is in todays world which often ignores God and takes no interest in him.
539 - Nov 2011 - Homily: Benedict XVI: From his All Saints Day homily, Pope Benedict XVI
We are unacquainted with the faces and even the names of many of them but with the eyes of faith we see them shine in Gods firmament like glorious stars.
540 - Oct 2011 - Reflection: Benedict XVI's Final Mass homily for World Youth Day, Pope Benedict XVI
Peter responds with what is the first confession of faith: You are the Messiah the Son of the living God.
541 - Oct 2011 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
God Sent His Son Cardinal Christoph Schonborn World-renowned theologian Cardinal Schonborn begins with the conviction of faith that Jesus of Nazareth is the Messiah of Israel the Son of the Living God.
542 - Oct 2011 - Books: BENEDICT XVI: A Guide for the Perplexed, by Tracey Rowland, Michael Daniel
In many respects the greatest denial has been of the virtue of hope - that is the hope for union with God in heaven - with a vague optimism which believes that the task of Christianity is simply to make the world a better place.
543 - Oct 2011 - Letters: Genesis debate, Anne Lastman
These three chapters are the complete story of God and his doings with creation and our very slow understanding of these.
544 - Oct 2011 - Letters: Cart before horse, John Young
Or does he think we must reject human evolution as incompatible with the Word of God?
545 - Oct 2011 - Letters: World Youth Day, Arnold Jago
Will WYD returnees find their home churches filled with a great thirst for the sacraments and great zeal for the spread of Gods Kingdom?
546 - Oct 2011 - Catholic Schools: Saint Mary MacKillop Colleges, Wagga Wagga: progress report, Sr Mary Augustine OP
The Colleges exist by reason of Gods grace and the ongoing signs of His Providence are such that there seems little doubt this school is indeed in line with His will.
547 - Oct 2011 - Planetary spirituality: what next!, Frank Mobbs
is a gift given by a generous and bountiful God.
548 - Oct 2011 - Pastoral care: One of the Catholic Church's best kept secrets, Marie Mason
They have swallowed whole the gay agenda and given up their old-fashioned Catholic faith say there is no God and want us to affirm them in this lifestyle.
549 - Oct 2011 - News: The Church Around the World
Its really been humbling and amazing to see Carney said adding that the group is trying to keep up with what God is doing and what he has done through this simple effort.
550 - Oct 2011 - Episcopacy: Cardinal Pell: the responsibilities of Church leadership, Cardinal George Pell
Two things are probably at work: within all the Christian communities and certainly the Catholic Church there is a fundamental tension between the people on one side - who we might call Gospel Christians - who give priority to the New Testament to Christ and to the Word of God and what you might call liberal or radical Christians who give the priority to the contemporary understandings.
551 - Sep 2011 - Reflection: Proper church etiquette: a public witness of faith, Bishop Arthur Serratelli
The 15th century Council of Basel drew the comparison between the way we are expected to behave in the presence of our civil rulers and the way we should behave in presence of God.
552 - Sep 2011 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
90 ISBN 978-1-58617-412-5 Citadel of God Louis de Wohl Here as in all his novels about great saints of the Church Louis de Wohl weaves an intricate and colourful tapestry of violence love and piety to tell with historical accuracy the story of St Benedict and the tempestuous era in which he lived.
553 - Sep 2011 - Books: THE COUNCIL IN QUESTION: a Dialogue with Catholic Traditionalism, Fr Glen Tattersall
De Lubac asserted that rationalist strains of Neo-Scholasticism had obscured the nature-grace relationship: in seeking to defend the gratuity of the supernatural order (as a free gift of God) some Neo-Scholastics had (unintentionally) provided the basis for an autonomous natural order that is one divorced from the actual historical order of mans supernatural destiny.
554 - Sep 2011 - Events: Ignatian Spiritual Exercises for busy people
The Exercises present the central truths of the Catholic faith: the existence and providence of God the meaning of life on earth and the eternity to which it leads the Saviour of the human race Jesus Christ and how to follow Him in the form of meditations examination of conscience and prayers to find peace of heart rid oneself of worldly attachments and discover the will of God for the salvation of ones soul.
555 - Sep 2011 - Letters: Book of Genesis, Frank Mobbs
These are punishments imposed by God on the first man and woman.
556 - Sep 2011 - Letters: Where is Jesus?, Michael Apthorp
In the current Mass translation just after the priests This is the Lamb of God .
557 - Sep 2011 - Letters: Irish child abuse, Arnold Jago
Pray to God for the gift of personal purity.
558 - Sep 2011 - Interview: Pope's brother sheds more light on Benedict's early years, Zenit News Agency
Their secret was to be a family under God to turn their family into a basic cell of the Church itself.
559 - Sep 2011 - Abortion grief: mother love, mercy love and God's compassion, Anne R. Lastman
This is because her body knows it has cooperated with God to bring to birth a new creation: Motherhood involves a special communion with the mystery of life as it develops in the womans womb (John Paul II On the Dignity amp; Vocation of Women).
560 - 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.
561 - Sep 2011 - News: The Church Around the World
Benedict XVI during his two-day November 2010 pilgrimage to Spain drew on the countrys Christian roots and noted the need to hear God once again under the skies of Europe.
562 - Sep 2011 - Pope appoints Archbishop Chaput to troubled Philadelphia, Michael Gilchrist
Before he left Denver the Archbishop told an interviewer: The biggest challenge not just in Philadelphia but everywhere is to preach the Gospel in a way that captures the imagination of Gods people.
563 - Aug 2011 - Reflection: The new evangelisation: 'missionary spirit' needed, Fr Dennis W. Byrnes
This sharing of faith leads people to a sense of the sacred which allows them to be open to the Holy Spirit and leads to a desire to transform the world according to Gods plan.
564 - Aug 2011 - Books: STANDARD-BEARERS OF THE FAITH: Lives of the Saints for Young and Old, Terri Kelleher
But they convey the essential essence of the character of each saint the raw material God had to work with; the obstacles of character that each saint had to overcome to conform to Gods will; and the shining goodness of character that resulted earning them the title of Saint.
565 - Aug 2011 - Books: PRODIGAL DAUGHTERS: Catholic women come home to the Church, ed. Donna Steichen, Michael Daniel
Given what were often negative experiences in the Church and the problems within the Church that in some cases were the catalyst for lapsing away it is a testament to the power of Gods grace that these women not only returned to the faith but have themselves become staunch defenders and champions of it.
566 - Aug 2011 - Letters: Christian heritage, Fr Bernard McGrath
These are ennobling rules and are hard to account for without a revelation of God as a loving creator law-giver and saviour giving us the necessary reason and strength to be self-sacrificing when required for the sake of others and the truth.
567 - Aug 2011 - Letters: Unseen kindness, Anne Lastman
God Bless.
568 - Aug 2011 - Young adult Catholic ministry: further progress, Br Barry Coldrey
This Theology-in-the-Pub commenced in Melbourne in 2008 and over the following three years a similar event under a slightly different name has taken off in most capital cities: Pub Theology (Adelaide) Guinness and God (Canberra) Faith-on-Tap (Brisbane) Theology-on-Tap (Parramatta) and Urban Theology (Sydney).
569 - Aug 2011 - Exegesis: Genesis account of creation and fall: what does the Church teach?, John Young
God is like a workman constructing the universe over a period of six days then resting on the Sabbath.
570 - Aug 2011 - Books: MARY: VIRGIN, MOTHER AND QUEEN: A Bible Study Guide for Catholics, Paul Simmons
This begins with the role of Eve in the fall of Man and Gods promise to Adam that a woman would exactly reverse the negative role of Eve in the Garden of Eden.
571 - Aug 2011 - Bishop Conley on the new Missal translation: 'The very words of God', Bishop James Conley
For instance our current translation almost always favours abstract nouns to translate physical metaphors for God.
572 - Aug 2011 - Events: In defence of the authentic meaning of marriage - Canberra, 16 August 2011, Babette Francis
CWA has warned that these Republicans will be targeted in the next elections and that the battle is far from over to defend marriage as instituted by God.
573 - Aug 2011 - News: The Church Around the World
Your task will be to teach and explain that Jesus is the Son of God as well as Son of Mary possessing a divine as well as a human nature which enables him to redeem us.
574 - Aug 2011 - Homily: Benedict XVI: Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Pope Benedict XVI
At the end of her earthly life Mary was taken up body and soul into Heaven that is into the glory of eternal life into full and perfect communion with God.
575 - Jul 2011 - Reflection: Christ's priestly promise: 'I am with you always', Fr John O'Neill
what God has in store and on the other the unsaid and logical conclusion of the modern mind: we have only the frustrations of our few short years.
576 - Jul 2011 - Books: A MEMORY FOR WONDERS: a true story, by Mother Veronica Namoyo Le Goulard PCC, Michael Daniel
In reflecting on her baptism in the context of her conversion she argues that Gods grace which she received then was integral to her conversion.
577 - Jul 2011 - Books: STORIES OF KAROL: the Unknown Life of John Paul II, by G.F. Svidercoschi, Br Barry Coldrey
There are dramatic descriptions of young Karols Nazi-era experiences with the Rhapsodic Theatre an underground cultural resistance movement; his wartime employment in a quarry which left him with a profound respect for the dignity of manual labour; his kayaking trips with young people as a young Krakow priest; and his dramatic confrontations with the Marxist authorities especially over the controversial church at Nova Huta the new city without God.
578 - Jul 2011 - Books: A TOUR OF THE CATECHISM - Volume One: The Creed, by John Flader, John Young
Gods existence Dealing with the definitive teaching of the Church that Gods existence can be proved from reason he offers simple explanations of classic arguments drawn from reason.
579 - Jul 2011 - Letters: Conscience, John Mulholland
The Catechism also deals with the formation of conscience (1783-1785): Conscience must be informed and moral judgement enlightened (1783); and In the formation of conscience the Word of God is the light for our path; we must assimilate it in faith and prayer and put it into practice.
580 - Jul 2011 - Letters: Letter to Toowoomba Chronicle, Zelda Richardson
St Mary McKillop was accused unjustly but she obeyed placing her trust in God.
581 - Jul 2011 - Letters: Disunity, Kara Ward
While I am sure all Catholics would prefer to have seen Bishop Morris have a change of heart involving a public demonstration of his fidelity to the truth we cannot but be grateful to God that this shepherd is no longer leading souls astray.
582 - Jul 2011 - What attracts converts to the Catholic Church?, Fr F.E. Burns
But history does reveal any number of failed attempts to discover or create a painless path to God: a type of Christianity without a Cross.
583 - Jul 2011 - Lübeck martyrs of the Nazis beatified on 25 June, Frank Mobbs
On the day of the courts judgment he wrote: God be praised today I was sentenced to death.
584 - Jul 2011 - Hugh O'Flaherty: The priest who converted his former Nazi enemy, Stephen Walker
Had Kappler turned to God simply because he was facing a life sentence and it was convenient to pretend he was remorseful and wanted to seek public sympathy?
585 - Jul 2011 - Whatever happened to the virtue of obedience?, Bishop Julian Porteous
258) stated No one can have God as Father who does not have the Church as Mother (De unit.
586 - Jul 2011 - Poetry: A Prayer for Mothers, Cardinal Mindszenty
They cannot share in Gods creative miracle to bring new saints to Heaven.
587 - Jul 2011 - Pro-Life: Hungary's new pro-life 'Easter' Constitution, Babette Francis
It is also very interesting to see how this Constitution ends: We Members of Parliament elected on 25 April 2010 being aware of our responsibility before Man and God and availing ourselves of our power to adopt a Constitution have hereby determined the first unified Fundamental Law of Hungary as above.
588 - Jul 2011 - Steubenville: How a university's Catholic identity was recovered, AD2000 Report
But one day at some point he went out into the woods for a day - just to pray and ask God to reveal his will Schreck recalled.
589 - Jul 2011 - News: The Church Around the World
Their first duty he continued was to proclaim Christ: Today as in every age the apostolic mandate finds its source and its central focus in the proclamation of the Incarnate Son of God who is the fullness of divine revelation and the way the truth and the life (Jn.
590 - Jul 2011 - Homily: Benedict XVI: Sts Peter and Paul and the role of bishops, Pope Benedict XVI
Most essentially the Petrine ministry is a guarantee of freedom in the sense of full adherence to truth and authentic tradition so that the People of God may be preserved from mistakes concerning faith and morals.
591 - Jun 2011 - Reflection: Pentecost, the feast of true hope for humanity, Bishop Arthur Serratelli
What we cannot do on our own power God does for us on Pentecost.
592 - Jun 2011 - Books: HEART OF THE CHRISTIAN LIFE: Thoughts on Holy Mass, by Pope Benedict XVI, Michael Daniel
Benedict thus reflects on the importance of keeping Sunday as the Day of the Lord and is highly critical of secularism which seeks to treat Sunday as any other day of the week and which ultimately ends up depriving people of the leisure not only to worship God but to take time out with their family from work and other commitments.
593 - Jun 2011 - Books: JESUS OF NAZARETH: Holy Week, by Pope Benedict XVI, Fr Glen Tattersall FSSP
Bearing witness to the truth Benedict insists means giving priority to God and to his will over against the interests of the world and its powers.
594 - Jun 2011 - Letters: North Africa, Andrew Sholl
Of course this is looking with human eyes for God has the last say!
595 - Jun 2011 - Moral values and the march of science, Archbishop Charles J. Chaput
What we believe about God shapes what we think about the nature of men and women the structure of good human relationships and our idea of a just society.
596 - Jun 2011 - Events: St Thomas More: still A Man for all Seasons, Emma O'Shea
Following this St Thomas Mores final words on the scaffold I am the Kings Good Servant but Gods first have since become an inspiration to anyone who has ever had to choose between loyalty to country and law and loyalty to faith.
597 - Jun 2011 - Cardinal Pell: 'liberalism has no young Catholic progeny', Cardinal George Pell
Fundamental issues Father Hodgens sees himself now as a presbyter called and ordained by the Church - the People of God rather than as a priest called and consecrated by God.
598 - Jun 2011 - Australia's seminary numbers continue to increase, Br Barry Coldrey
This positive diocesan seminary situation is reflected in the increased numbers of young men seeking admission to religious orders and congregations such as the Missionaries of Gods Love the Franciscans (Capuchins) the Priestly Fraternity of St Peter and the Dominicans.
599 - Jun 2011 - Archbishop Hickey: tribute to an outstanding Church leader, Brian Peachey
He then showed great boldness and faith in the Mother of God when he made the decision to complete St Marys Cathedral which had languished starkly unfinished since 1930.
600 - Jun 2011 - News: The Church Around the World
The book Quest for the Living God: Mapping the Frontiers of the Theology of God by Sister Elizabeth A.
601 - Jun 2011 - Homily: The Meaning of Jesus' Ascension, Benedict XVI
Above all ascending on high he unequivocally reveals his divinity: He returns to where he came from that is to God after having fulfilled his mission on earth.
602 - May 2011 - Reflection: The Resurrection: ultimate meaning of our existence, Fr Dennis Byrnes
In the epistle to the Colossians St Paul states that in baptism we were buried and raised to life with Christ because we believe in the power of God who raised him from the dead (Col.
603 - May 2011 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
00 ISBN 978-0-85244-368-2 God is Near Us Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger This book consists of the previously unpublished texts of homilies pastoral letters and lectures by the then Cardinal Ratzinger mostly written or delivered when he was Archbishop of Munich and Friesing.
604 - May 2011 - Books: DAUGHTER OF MAN, MOTHER OF GOD, by Barry M. Coldrey, Michael Gilchrist
DAUGHTER OF MAN MOTHER OF GOD: Marys Role in the Contemporary Catholic Church by Barry M.
605 - May 2011 - Books: SIMON, CALLED PETER, by Dom Mauro-Guissepe Lepori, O.Cist., Michael Daniel
SIMON CALLED PETER: In the Footsteps of a Man in Search of God by Dom Mauro-Guissepe Lepori O.
606 - May 2011 - Letters: A mixture, Arnold Jago
God loves alcoholics.
607 - May 2011 - Literature: The 'impossible dream' of Don Quixote - Part 2 (Matthew 6:19), Andrew Kania
These two men may be fools but there is so much wisdom in their foolishness: First of all my son you are to fear God for therein lies wisdom and being wise you cannot go astray in anything.
608 - May 2011 - Liturgy: Welcome to the new translation of the Missal, Audrey English
It has a spiritual dimension and we ask God to be in the very mind and soul of the priest who acts on our behalf throughout the Mass.
609 - May 2011 - University Life: Australian Catholic Students' Conference 2011 a success, Br Barry Coldrey
Not a few are members of Latin Mass communities or the networks surrounding the Franciscan Capuchin friars the Dominicans and the Missionaries of Gods Love.
610 - May 2011 - Interview: International Conference on Eucharistic Adoration in Rome, Father Florian Racine
The Eucharist is the Sacrament which brings about this communion between God and us.
611 - May 2011 - Oppression: Christians under fire worldwide, Cardinal Sean Brady
Not the old style heavy-handed militant atheism and tyranny such as was evident in the former Soviet Union but by a more recently-fashioned nihilism which insistently denies the existence of any God-given truth.
612 - May 2011 - Culture: The decline of the Christian West, Cardinal Raymond Burke
Agenda One necessarily thinks too of the ever advancing agenda of those who want to redefine marriage and family life to include the unnatural sexual union of two persons of the same sex which is justified as tolerance of the so-called alternative forms of human sexuality as if there were a true form of human sexuality other than that intended by God our Creator and Redeemer as He has written it in our body and soul.
613 - May 2011 - News: The Church Around the World
Christians from all denominations therefore see in the cross the symbol of Gods comprehensive love for all mankind.
614 - 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.
615 - May 2011 - Benedict XVI: The true meaning of mature faith, Pope Benedict XVI
Thomas reacts with the most splendid profession of faith in the whole of the New Testament: My Lord and my God!
616 - Apr 2011 - Reflection: Benedict XVI: Palm Sunday means following Jesus Christ, Pope Benedict XVI
Ascent to God But what direction are we talking about?
617 - Apr 2011 - Books: TOWARDS A THEOLOGY OF THE ENVIRONMENT, by Paul Haffner, Barry Coldrey
Bedrock teachings These latter-day authoritative treatments in turn derive from a bedrock Judeo-Christian world view that goes back to Genesis where the one true God freely willed into existence from no pre-existent matter a world that is good.
618 - Apr 2011 - Books: HANDBOOK OF CATHOLIC APOLOGETICS: Reasoned Answers to Questions of Faith, Br Barry Coldrey
In this Handbook there are for example chapters on proofs for the existence of God Jesus claim to be divine and the problem of evil and other challenging subjects.
619 - Apr 2011 - Books: THE LOSER LETTERS, by Mary Eberstadt, Terri Kelleher
The Loser of the title is God: God that Loser is everything You say he is: the biggest fraud of all time cosmic zero ultimate no-show - and after all those centuries and promises too.
620 - Apr 2011 - Letters: God's presence, Noel Nugent
When I was in hospital at deaths door God was most elusive.
621 - Apr 2011 - Letters: Easter shopping, Arnold Jago
Easter Sunday commemorates the Resurrection of Jesus the Son of God from the dead an historical event that is the key point in Gods revealing himself to the human race.
622 - Apr 2011 - Music that elevates faith and worship of God, Metropolitan Hilarion Alfeyev
Even Bachs secular music is permeated by a sense of love for God of standing in Gods presence of awe before Him.
623 - Apr 2011 - Homily: Pope Benedict XVI's Holy Thursday homily, Pope Benedict XVI
He himself was the awaited Lamb the true Lamb just as John the Baptist had foretold at the beginning of Jesus public ministry: Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world!
624 - Mar 2011 - Reflection: Mary's rosary: picture book of faith, hope and love, Bishop Robert Finn
We persevere in trusting prayer - through the rhythms of the rosary - because she is Mother of God and our Mother.
625 - Mar 2011 - Books: THE AUSTRALIAN BOOK OF ATHEISM, Edited by Warren Bonett, Frank Mobbs
Indeed none of the major arguments for the existence of God is given serious consideration.
626 - Mar 2011 - Letters: Gender selection, John Royal
Divine Authority the controller of all life God has been taken out of the equation and His attributes usurped by man.
627 - Mar 2011 - Letters: Understanding Islam, John Frey
However in the last chapter on Islamic Law we read: Muslims must strive or struggle (jihad) in the path (sharia) of God in order to implement Gods will on earth expand and defend the Muslim community and establish a just society.
628 - Mar 2011 - Letters: Missionaries of God's Love a welcome initiative, Tom King
Thank you AD2000 and Br Barry Coldrey for informing us as to the successful enterprise Missionaries of Gods Love founded in 1986 by Father Ken Barker and obviously the type of initiative that is needed more than ever in our Church.
629 - Mar 2011 - Letters: New 'morality', Fr Bernard McGrath
(Google) People of faith regarded sodomy as one of the deadliest sins (Leviticus 18:22 an abomination and St Paul 1 Cor 6:9 will not inherit the Kingdom of God).
630 - Mar 2011 - Netherlands: Migrants keep Church alive in Holland, Fr Cornelius van der Geest
One strong African woman shouts at the top of her voice: God can make money out of stones.
631 - Mar 2011 - A bishop and his priests: united in truth with Christ, Fr John O'Neill
It struck me as odd that there are all these opinions about him and his teaching and his actions as if it was up to us to decide about Jesus and his claims to decide about Gods very nature and the kind of relationships he has with us.
632 - Mar 2011 - What are the marks of an authentically Catholic university?, Cardinal Raymond Burke
They become places in which Gods active presence in human affairs is recognised and in which every young person discovers the joy of entering into Christs being for others (cf.
633 - Mar 2011 - New Divine Mercy parish and school for Perth, Fr Paul Fox
It will truly be a place for people to encounter the Mercy of God.
634 - Mar 2011 - Faith and reason at Notre Dame, Sydney, Fr Richard Umbers
The God who is Love is the God who is Wisdom who is Reasonable who reveals Himself to our minds as much as to our hearts.
635 - Mar 2011 - iWitness 2010: an unforgettable retreat for young Catholics, Br Barry Coldrey
Among the many highlights of iWitness 2010: - daily Mass along with all-night Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament on the Friday and Saturday nights; - the well-prepared booklets for daily Masses and the morning Divine Office in the Conference Chapel; - the supportive presence of Cardinal George Pell Bishop Anthony Fisher OP Bishop Julian Porteous and Bishop Tim Costelloe; - the priests who celebrated Masses and heard confessions: Fathers Vincent Magat OP Simon Ckuj (Ukrainian rite) Bill Millstead and Robert Stewart OFM Cap; - the inspiration provided by young seminarians from the Good Shepherd Seminary at Homebush; - the prominent lay speakers who included Robert Haddad Peter Holmes Anna Krohn and Katrina Lee; - the presence of the Young Men of God leader Nick Morgan Michael and Laura from the National Evangelisation Team in Brisbane and the Catholic Youth Services team from the Sydney Archdiocese; - the presence also of two young Franciscan Capuchin Brothers three Sisters from the Dominican Sisters of St Cecilia Nashville and two from Mount Schoenstatt Western Sydney.
636 - Mar 2011 - News: The Church Around the World
These areas included our united faith in a God of love compassion morality and peace rather than a God of will power and Jihad.
637 - Mar 2011 - Nazareth: Patriarch Fouad of Jerusalem: Annunciation homily, His Beatitude Fouad Twal, Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem
As I carry in the Latin Patriarchate the responsibility of the mother of all churches I am reminded of the memory of the Annunciation when God sent the angel Gabriel to a town in Galilee called Nazareth to a virgin betrothed to a man named Joseph from the House of David and the name of the Virgin was Mary.
638 - Feb 2011 - Reflection: The great but neglected harvest of inactive Catholics, Joseph Agius
Do we recall ever being moved by impassioned pleas to pray and work for the return of these Catholics to the love of God and to the practice of the Catholic Faith?
639 - Feb 2011 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
90 ISBN 978-0-85244-734-5 God and the World Pope Benedict XVI This was the third in a series of three book-length interviews with Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger before he was elected Pope.
640 - Feb 2011 - Books: Isabel of Spain: The Catholic Queen, by Warren Carroll, Terri M. Kelleher
At age 11 she made her public debut standing as godmother to her half-brothers daughter by his second wife Juana of Portugal who was to become her main rival to the throne of Castile and the cause of the war of succession with Portugal that raged for the first years of her reign and devastated the countryside.
641 - Feb 2011 - Young children: never too early to love God, Bishop Arthur Serratelli
That is the area of their relationship with God.
642 - Feb 2011 - That ubiquitous F word: don't demean the sacred, Fr Max Barrett CSsR
Basically it is an insult to the God who made them male and female and fertile; an insult to the God who lifted generativity to the status of a sacrament.
643 - Feb 2011 - Science and Christian faith: the case for intelligent design, Babette Francis
and God said Let there be light and there was light.
644 - Feb 2011 - Vocations: Following in the footsteps of St Francis of Assisi, Kay Cozad
Each of the Franciscan Brothers has chosen to shed his own form of earth-bound wealth in the present-day consumer-driven culture to bring the Word of God to his neighbourhood.
645 - Feb 2011 - Liturgical rights of Catholics must be upheld, Fr Martin Durham
) bull; It is the right of the Christian people themselves that their diocesan Bishop should take care to prevent the occurrence of abuses in ecclesiastical discipline especially as regards the ministry of the word the celebration of the sacraments and sacramentals the worship of God and devotion to the Saints (24).
646 - Feb 2011 - News: The Church Around the World
The blows came at a time when many Irish Catholics were already drifting away from the Church to live as if God did not exist.
647 - Feb 2011 - Book Review: Cardinal Pell and Pope Benedict XVI's interview, Cardinal George Pell
I remember being lectured by an employee of a European Catholic development agency on the futility indeed impossibility of believing in God as we visited a refugee asylum in Sri Lanka.
648 - Dec 2010 - Reflection: Messiah: the one anointed by God to reconcile sinners, Fr Dennis W. Byrnes
(Council of Lateran) The early Church Fathers saw in the virginal conception the sign that it was truly the Son of God who came in humanity like our own.
649 - Dec 2010 - Books: FIVE SMOOTH STONES: A 40 Day WYD08 Journal, by Stephen Lawrence, Bishop Joseph Grech
A person who is capable of using the qualities that God has given to him.
650 - Dec 2010 - Books: EDMUND CAMPION, by Richard Simpson, revised by Peter Joseph, Fr Anthony Robbie
He was a formidable creation of God for the mission.
651 - Dec 2010 - Letters: Euthanasia, Brian Coman
We can advance all the secular arguments in the world either for or against euthanasia but none of them can possibly be conclusive unless we first recognise the primacy of the law of the One True God so unambiguously expressed in the Fifth Commandment.
652 - Dec 2010 - Letters: Marriage, Arnold Jago
If Australians wanted real honest-to-God marriage they would have it.
653 - Dec 2010 - Homily: Christus Rex Pilgrimage: Building God's Kingdom on earth, Bishop Peter J. Elliott
The Kingdom or Reign of God is at the heart of the good news in the Gospels in the liberating message of Our Lord.
654 - Dec 2010 - Congress for Life: Catholic orthodoxy: key to promoting the culture of life, Cardinal Raymond Burke
Now more than ever the world needs the consistent witness to the truth expressed in the Sacred Scriptures and in Tradition the basis for a culture which respects fully the gift of human life and its origin in procreation that is in the cooperation of man and woman with God through the conjugal union and through education in the home which they have formed by marriage.
655 - Dec 2010 - Youth: Another successful Australian Catholic youth initiative, Br Barry Coldrey
The Missionaries of Gods Love (MGL) is a new Religious Congregation founded by Fr Ken Barker in the Archdiocese of Canberra-Goulburn in 1986.
656 - Dec 2010 - News: The Church Around the World
Catholic News Agency Christian massacre in Baghdad Nowhere is safe anymore not even the House of God said auxiliary Bishop of Baghdad of the Chaldeans Shlemon Warduni the day after an unprecedented attack on the Christian community on 31 October.
657 - Dec 2010 - Euthanasia: Australia's Christian churches unite in opposition, MIchael Gilchrist
The Synod of the Melbourne Anglican Diocese passed a similar motion reaffirming the resolution of the General Synod of Australia (1995) concerning Euthanasia that life is a gift from God not to be taken and is therefore not subject to matters such as freedom of individual choice.
658 - Dec 2010 - Homily: Christmas, Pope Benedict XVI
From this moment God is truly God with us.
659 - Nov 2010 - Books: HIS NAME IS MERCY, by Fr Ken Barker MGL, Archbishop Denis Hart
In the Jewish understanding God does not have a name but demonstrates through action who he is and that is why his name is mercy.
660 - Nov 2010 - Letters: Vatican II: infallibility, John Young
This would mean that an Ecumenical Council had not merely taught error but had told the Catholic faithful (and indeed the whole world) that something was good and right which was actually against God s law!
661 - Nov 2010 - Letters: Future Church, Tom King
Thanking God for our 83-year-old Vicar of Christ.
662 - Nov 2010 - Letters: Benedict XVI in the UK, Arnold Jago
Those of us who are Australian Catholics should pray hard for Gods Kingdom to come on earth - especially in Australia.
663 - Nov 2010 - Letters: Catholic funerals, George Simpson
Only God knows if and to what extent a life is worthy of celebration.
664 - Nov 2010 - Saints: Blessed John Henry Newman: why he is worthy of canonisation, Frank Mobbs
With Gods abundant help Newman made himself a saint by a life of unremitting searching for the will of God and doing it even at great cost to himself.
665 - Nov 2010 - Vocations: Priestly and religious vocations upsurge in the US, Tim Drake
Our strong enrolment reflects the growing number of men who are answering Gods call to the priesthood said Monsignor Aloysius Callaghan Rector of the St Paul Seminary School of Divinity.
666 - Nov 2010 - Liturgy: Catholic funerals: Bishop Elliott explains Melbourne's guidelines, Bishop Peter J. Eliott
What the media missed was the section of the Guidelines on planning a Catholic funeral taking us beyond a dull rite with a few hymns or canned music with the beautiful Saints of God recited not sung.
667 - Nov 2010 - Homosexuality: Courage and EnCourage Chicago Conference: holiness the key, Marie Mason
Each morning afternoon and evening session centred us in the Heart of God with a recitation of this Litany.
668 - Nov 2010 - News: The Church Around the World
If we continue like that God will find a way to overcome all the difficulties that remain.
669 - Nov 2010 - Homily: Feast of All Saints: Benedict XVI's homily, Pope Benedict XVI
These same sentiments come to us when we consider the spectacle of hol-iness: the world appears to us as a garden where the Spirit of God has sustained with remarkable wonder a multitude of saints male and female from every age and social condition of every tongue people and culture.
670 - Oct 2010 - Reflection: The faith through symbols and stories, Andrew Kania
Once the gossip is said it spreads and where it rests only God knows.
671 - Oct 2010 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
95 ISBN 978-0-85244-729-1 The Boundless God Adrienne von Speyr A 20th century Swiss convert Adrienne von Speyr has written around 70 books on spirituality and theology under the influence of Hans Urs von Balthasar.
672 - Oct 2010 - Books: THE PATH TO ROME: Modern Journeys to the Catholic Church, Bishop David Robarts
It is a response to the call of God and the insistent prompting and goading of the Holy Spirit.
673 - Oct 2010 - Letters: Little Angels, Fr M. Shadbolt
When working there in the seventies I had the impression that the poor loved their traditional Catholic Faith and were suspicious of liberation theology priests who hardly ever spoke of God.
674 - Oct 2010 - Good priests: the Church's essential foot soldiers, Cardinal George Pell
The Holy Father writes that what is new about the New Testament is not strictly speaking ideas the novelty is a person: God who becomes man and draws man to himself.
675 - Oct 2010 - Foundations of Faith: Archbishop Hickey: Time to stand up for Christian marriage, Archbishop Hickey
Gods plan Let us reflect at this time on the vision of marriage that comes to us from Jesus Christ upheld over the centuries by the Catholic Church.
676 - Oct 2010 - New Missal: Why we need the new translation of the Mass, Bishop Peter J. Elliott
Worship of God But do we need a new translation of the Mass in English?
677 - Oct 2010 - Real Presence: Nigerian priest brings Eucharistic Adoration to a Brisbane parish, Bob Denahy
Fr Francis took this opportunity to teach his parishioners how to pray reminding them in the parish bulletin that prayer is simply communicating with God who is a loving Father interested in every detail of their lives.
678 - Oct 2010 - Youth: Young adult Catholic ministry: hopeful signs continue, Br Barry Coldrey
Other positive developments in recent years have included the National Evangelisation Teams (from Brisbane) which focus on ministry with parish youth groups and secondary school students while a five person NET Freedom Group has been inserted into Queensland University of Technology as the Catholic Chaplaincy One should also mention the vigorous efforts of the Missionaries of Gods Love and their Young Men of God Movement which is having its Annual Conference at the Collaroy Centre (Collaroy) on 15-17 October.
679 - Oct 2010 - News: The Church Around the World
Like Communism he explained todays secularist ideology envisions a society apart from God where men and women might live wholly sufficient unto themselves sharing no higher guiding principle than satisfying their needs and desires.
680 - Sep 2010 - Reflection: Accepting the reality of sin: a cornerstone of Christian faith, Fr Dennis Byrnes
In the Catechism of the Catholic Church (1849) we are told Sin is an offence against reason truth and right conscience; it is a failure in genuine love for God and neighbour caused by perverse attachment to certain goods.
681 - Sep 2010 - Books: MEETING JESUS AND FOLLOWING HIM: A Retreat, by Cardinal Francis Arinze, Br Barry Coldrey
After the Lenten Retreat Pope Benedict wrote to Cardinal Arinze that you have dispensed Gods word with wisdom and fidelity .
682 - Sep 2010 - Books: LETTERS TO A NON-BELIEVER, by Thomas Crean, Michael Daniel
Crean begins with general topics about religion such as whether God exists and what type of being God is before moving into more Christian topics such as whether the Gospels are reliable.
683 - Sep 2010 - Books: Edith Stein Discovered / Edith Stein and Companions, Terri Kelleher
And this is the second thing that stood out about her childhood - that her mother prayed that she really believed in God.
684 - Sep 2010 - Letters: A rejoinder to John Young, James Bogle
The Churchs Magisterium is a papal monarchy bound by a God-given constitution not an episcopal democracy.
685 - Sep 2010 - Letters: Infallible teaching, Fr Brian Harrison OS
These are truths proposed as divinely revealed - spoken by God himself - and so require the assent of theological faith.
686 - Sep 2010 - Vocations: The story of a grandmother and her love of the priesthood, Andrew Kania
Such priests gave me joy comfort and a love of God.
687 - Sep 2010 - Foundations of Faith: Do people of faith lack reason?, Frank Mobbs
Theists believers in the existence of God these days are called faith heads.
688 - Sep 2010 - Ecclesial movements in the life of the Church, Bishop Julian Porteous
In his encyclical letter Redemptoris Missio 1990 the Pope saw the movements as a true gift of God both for the new evangelisation and for missionary activity properly so-called (n.
689 - Sep 2010 - University: Another successful Australian Catholic Students Conference, Br Barry Coldrey
The addresses included: Catholics working for God in a secular society (Joe de Bruyn) Natural Law and Positivism (Sophie York) Religious Liberty and Australia (Rocky Mimmo) Heaven Hell the Diabolic and the Occult (Fr P.
690 - Sep 2010 - News: The Church Around the World
Catholic World News Benedict XVI: role of theologians The people of God precede theology thanks to the Holy Spirits gift that brings them to embrace the faith and which can leave theologians struggling to explain what the faithful already know.
691 - Aug 2010 - Reflection: Why the true meaning of marriage must be enshrined in law, Archbishop John C. Nienstedt
Every son or daughter is a child of God who deserves our concern.
692 - Aug 2010 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
Among the host of topics covered are Gods existence the problem of evil life after death the Eucharist and the divinity of Christ.
693 - Aug 2010 - Letters: Liturgy
Liturgical worship is primarily and essentially an act of adoration - we come to adore God and to admit our complete dependence on Him.
694 - Aug 2010 - Foundations of Faith: The Sacrament of Penance: whatever happened to confession?, Br Barry Coldrey
This poses a serious problem since we cannot enter intimate communion with God in the Eucharist until we have first repented of any mortal sins and been absolved in the Sacrament of Penance.
695 - Aug 2010 - The Mass: why we should focus on its essence, Fr John O'Neill PP
Thank God for our Holy Fathers wisdom in setting out the Roman Rite as having two forms Ordinary and Extraordinary.
696 - Aug 2010 - News: The Church Around the World
However properly understood he said sacrifice is and remains fundamental because it reveals to us with what love God loves us in Christ.
697 - Aug 2010 - Feast of the Assumption: Benedict XVI's homily
She had made room for the Lord in her soul and thus really became the true temple where God made himself incarnate where he became present on this earth.
698 - Jul 2010 - Reflection: The challenge: how to spread God's word in a secular culture, Bishop Arthur Serratelli
In any age the Church grows when people can hear the Word of God and respond with their lives.
699 - Jul 2010 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
Among the host of topics covered are Gods existence the problem of evil life after death the Eucharist and the divinity of Christ.
700 - Jul 2010 - Books: THE ABBESS OF ANDALUSIA: Flannery O'Connor's Spiritual Journey, Lorraine Murray, Terri Kelleher
She took the development of her gifts as a writer very seriously as Gods will for her and worked hard at it as the quality and amount of her output despite her short life attest.
701 - Jul 2010 - New apologetics for the new evangelisation
The proposal for a new apologetics is tied intimately with the call to a new evangelisation which the Servant of God Pope John Paul II set before the Church as the principal task of her mission at the beginning of the third millennium of Christianity.
702 - Jul 2010 - Two views: Vatican II, infallibility and the Church today, James Bogle and John Young
God assigns roles to the sexes the one maternal the other paternal and the priestly role is indubitably paternal and not maternal.
703 - Jul 2010 - FOUNDATIONS OF FAITH: What we can know about heaven from Scripture and the Church, John Young
Some people say we know practically nothing about heaven and they quote St Paul as affirming that no eye has seen nor ear heard nor the heart of man conceived what God has prepared for those who love him.
704 - Jul 2010 - Trends: The Church in 50 years: John Allen's predictions, Frank Mobbs
It comes in many forms but can be characterised as belief that either God does not exist (atheism) or that if God exists that fact does not matter so belief in God does not deserve respect and it can play no part in public policy.
705 - Jul 2010 - Book launch: Cardinal Pell's new book 'Test Everything' launched, Michael Gilchrist
Test Everything reminds those of us who know Cardinal Pell and have followed his long and distinguished career that besides being a man of God a solid pillar of the universal Church and its Papacy that he is an impressive communicator and educator able to connect easily with all manner of audiences young and not so young Catholic and non-Catholic.
706 - Jun 2010 - Reflection: Benedict XVI on the Church's birth and universality at Pentecost, Pope Benedict XVI
This community was gathered in the same place the Upper Room on the morning of the Jewish Feast of Pentecost the feast of the Covenant which commemorated the Sinai event when God through Moses proposed that Israel be his own possession among all peoples to be a sign of his holiness (cf.
707 - Jun 2010 - Letters: Wake-up call, Fr Bernard McGrath
The Australian Constitution like nearly all those of Western nations acknowledges God and presumes all laws will be based on the Judeo-Christian heritage of natural law (e.
708 - Jun 2010 - Passover: Understanding the Jewish traditions behind the Catholic Mass, Gabrielle Walsh
He explained that the four parts of the Passover in Exodus were represented by the four parts of the Seder Meal while the four cups of wine recall the four stages of Gods promise to the Jewish people of their transformation from slavery to freedom.
709 - Jun 2010 - Pysanky: Paschal traditions: symbolism in popular Ukrainian Christianity, Andrew Kania
Third another aspect of the pysanky is that the egg represents the cosmos - all that is encompassed in Gods embrace - and this embrace is symbolised by the shell - on which is written Christian symbols.
710 - Jun 2010 - American survey of young Catholics confirms Benedict's agenda, Carl Anderson
Encouraging is that the survey found that among Millennials who identify themselves as Catholic - not just practising Catholics - 85% believe in God.
711 - Jun 2010 - Christians and political action: euthanasia, Babette Francis
My starting point on preserving and defending the dignity of the human person is Chapter l verse 27 of Genesis: So God created man in His own image in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them (Imago Dei - the principle which inspires us).
712 - Jun 2010 - FOUNDATIONS OF FAITH: The Eucharist: the background to Vatican II's liturgical reforms, Br Barry Coldrey
They should be instructed in Gods word be nourished at the Lords table and give thanks to God.
713 - Jun 2010 - Ecumenism: Christians and Muslims: peaceful co-existence?, Mohammad Al-Sammak
Extremism is an attempt to monopolise the truth and an attempt to monopolise God and to monopolise the sacred; it is also an attempt to interpret religion according to the interests and concepts of certain movements and so the way of relating to Muslims is determined by these interpretations that are a threat to Islam for Muslims and for Christians.
714 - Jun 2010 - Missal: New Mass translation: Archbishop Hart interview, Archbishop Denis Hart
This resulted in a basic English which was rather a paraphrase than a translation in particular as Archbishop Coleridge has pointed out there is a dumbing down of God for example Almighty everlasting God is often rendered simply as Lord.
715 - May 2010 - Reflection: Our prayers and God's silence: what Scripture says, Arthur Ballingall
But this sanguine approach is of small consequence when the just cause or pious request is met with Gods silence.
716 - May 2010 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
2): Heart of the Word Erasmo Leiva-Merikakis In Volume II Dr Leiva-Merikakis continues his penetrating meditations on the Gospel of St Matthew drawing on the early Church Fathers and the Liturgy to show how Tradition has understood the Word of God.
717 - May 2010 - Books: NINETEEN EIGHTY FOUR, by George Orwell, Michael Daniel
Citizens are taught to adore Big Brother as if he were a god reflective of the cult of personality that dictators such as Stalin enjoyed and the citizens were controlled through their actions being constantly observed.
718 - May 2010 - Letters: Non-Christians, Fr Brian Harrison OS
That is they often include certain naturally knowable truths (about God the soul and morality).
719 - May 2010 - Poetry: BALLAD OF AN IRISH WHEAT FIELD
For here is the food that God gave us to eat .
720 - May 2010 - Conversion: 'Strangely and suspiciously tall': an Evangelical meets the Mother of God, Terri Kelleher
Pictures of God putting a crown on Our Ladys head - Our Lady must be important!
721 - May 2010 - Foundations of Faith: The Mass: early centuries to Vatican II, Br Barry Coldrey
In fact within a short time the developing Eucharistic liturgy was deeply influenced by the Jewish synagogue service and had two parts: The proclamation of Gods word which comprised prayers readings from Scripture and a homily and was attended by the baptised and those preparing for baptism.
722 - May 2010 - Parish life: A youth apostolate that works, Fr John O'Neill
Failures have been due to a lack of faith in the reality of the action of God: Without me you can do nothing.
723 - May 2010 - Culture: The vocation of Christians in public life, Archbishop Charles J. Chaput
But no nation not even the one I love has a right to my allegiance or my silence in matters that belong to God or that undermine the dignity of the human persons He created.
724 - May 2010 - Liturgy: Reform of the reform: a 'shift in liturgical culture', Archbishop Mark Coleridge
We need texts that strengthen rather than weaken the sense of God incarnate.
725 - May 2010 - Culture Wars: Christians uniting to take a stand: the Manhattan Declaration, Bishop Julian Porteous
But under no circumstances will we render to Caesar what is Gods.
726 - May 2010 - News: The Church Around the World
The crux of these two issues Cardinal Levada observed was the question of authority particularly in two points: Does the revelation of God in Jesus Christ and in Scripture intend to let us know Gods will in a way that requires our obedience?
727 - Apr 2010 - Reflection: The Resurrection: cornerstone of the Christian faith, Fr Dennis Byrnes
To the Sadducees who deny it he answers Is not this why you are wrong that you know neither the Scriptures nor the power of God?
728 - Apr 2010 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
00 ISBN 978-0-85244-686-7 Maria: Pope Benedict XVI on the Mother of God Pope Benedict XVIs words about Mary the Mother of God are accompanied by photos of beautiful Marian artworks and the Pope at famous Marian shrines like Czestochowa and as he celebrates Marys feast days.
729 - Apr 2010 - Poetry: Jerusalem, Town of Contrasts, John O'Brien
Its chosen people sprung from Abrahams seed Whose forebears God had once from bondage freed A temple built to honour Him their own.
730 - Apr 2010 - Books: CREED OR CHAOS: Why Christians Must Choose Either Dogma or Disaster, Sayers, Terri Kelleher
the tale of the time when God was the underdog and got beaten when He submitted to the conditions He had laid down and became a man like the men He had made and the men He had made broke Him and killed Him.
731 - Apr 2010 - Letters: No citadels, Arthur N. Ballingall
One wit was to say God Himself only had ten!
732 - Apr 2010 - Real Presence: Eucharistic Adoration: ultimate weapon of spiritual warfare, Fr Martin Durham
St Paul lists them in Eph 6:10ff: Put on the whole armour of God: the whole truth the breastplate of righteousness (sanctifying grace) the shield of faith the helmet of salvation (hope) and the sword of the Spirit which is the word of God.
733 - Apr 2010 - Foundations of Faith: How do Catholics relate to non-Christians?, Fr Dudley Perera OMI
The People of God in the Hebrew Bible believed their God was the only living and true God and ridiculed the other so-called pagan religions which worshipped their own gods - gods that were made of stone (referring to statues) with no eyes to see nor ears to hear.
734 - Apr 2010 - Bishop Kevin Rhoades: Tribute to an outstanding American Church leader, Fr John Trigilio
What the People of God want and what the priests deacons religious and laity deserve is a man of God loyal to the Roman Pontiff; strong enough to do what has to be done and say what has to be said (especially to his clergy and to Catholic politicians); and humble enough to know he makes mistakes like the rest of us but can also learn from them and do better again and again.
735 - Apr 2010 - Formation: Young Australian Catholics commit to promoting Judeo-Christian values, Richard Lyons
This was certainly an experience of a lifetime one that inspired a mission in all of us by helping us to understand what Gods particular plan is for each of us.
736 - Apr 2010 - Irish child abuse scandal and cover-ups: bishops meet with Pope, Michael Gilchrist
In his address to the bishops Benedict said that the sexual abuse of children and young people was not only a heinous crime but also a grave sin which offends God and wounds the dignity of the human person created in His image.
737 - Apr 2010 - Homily: Easter - from death to eternal life, Pope Benedict XVI
In his passion and death Jesus reveals himself as the Lamb of God sacrificed on the Cross to take away the sins of the world.
738 - Mar 2010 - Reflection: Mary in medieval art: an expression of the Church's faith, Bishop Arthur Serratelli
Because Mary said yes to God when asked to bear his Son God was able to use her as the Ark of the Covenant.
739 - Mar 2010 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
95 ISBN 978-0-89870-053-1 Fire of Mercy: Heart of the Word Erasmo Leiva-Merikakis In Volume II Dr Leiva-Merikakis continues his penetrating meditations on the Gospel of St Matthew drawing on the early Church Fathers and the Liturgy to show how Tradition has understood the Word of God.
740 - Mar 2010 - Books: LORETO IN AUSTRALIA, by Mary Ryllis Clark, Katharine Munro
As an educated woman Mary Ward believed that young girls needed a thorough Catholic education similar to that of boys and decided to dedicate her life to God and the education of young women with the watchword women in time to come will do great things!
741 - Mar 2010 - Books: THE GOD WHO LOVES YOU, by Peter Kreeft, Br Barry Coldrey
THE GOD WHO LOVES YOU by Peter Kreeft (Ignatius Press 2004 226pp $25.
742 - Mar 2010 - Books: Adrienne von Speyr: THE BOUNDLESS GOD and CONFESSION, Br Barry Coldrey
THE BOUNDLESS GOD by Adrienne von Speyr (Ignatius Press 152pp $25.
743 - Mar 2010 - Letters: Women priests, Robert Prinzen-Wood
God has established reality in this way.
744 - Mar 2010 - Letters: Faith alone, Frank Mobbs (Dr)
Luther is so muddled that he does not recognise the fact that he has incorporated in faith the doing of works in obedience to God.
745 - Mar 2010 - Youth: Summer School of Evangelisation: helping young people's faith, Johanna Banks
The theme for 2010 I am the Bread of Life he who comes to Me shall never be hungry (Jn 5:35) was addressed by speakers including Fr Mark Freeman Vicar General of the Archdiocese of Hobart Fr Chris Ryan MGL Rector of the Missionaries of Gods Love Seminary and the Youth Mission Team Australia.
746 - Mar 2010 - Conversion: Paul Fitzgerald: my spiritual journey, Paul Fitzgerald
These arguments came from three main sources: atheism which denies the existence of God; agnosticism which states that God might or might not exist (there is no proof one way or the other); and on the other side of the scale Christian Scientists who believe that humanity and the universe as a whole are spiritual not material.
747 - Mar 2010 - Foundations of Faith: What the Second Vatican Council really said, John Young
Regarding sacred art and similar matters: Ordinaries must be very careful to see that sacred furnishings and works of value are not disposed of or dispersed for they are the ornaments of the house of God (n.
748 - Mar 2010 - Archbishop Saldanha reports from Pakistan, Archbishop Lawrence Saldanha
This is a special milestone for me a time to look back and thank God for the inestimable blessings of being his priest serving his church for 50 years.
749 - Mar 2010 - Courage: A Catholic psychologist exposes 'gay' myths, Marie Mason
This is false: before modern times no culture has ever elevated homosexuality to the same dignity or level as heterosexuality as is happening today (one hesitates even to use the term heterosexuality which might imply that this is just one option or variation in sexuality when it is in fact the God-given norm).
750 - Mar 2010 - Year for the Priest: English-speaking clergy: first ever international conference, Fr Glen Tattersall
Likewise for an increase in vocations and the sanctification of Priests we pray with the holy Cur dArs: Blessed be the most holy and immaculate conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary Mother of God.
751 - Mar 2010 - Netherlands: Remnants of faith in Europe's most secularised nation, Marina Corradi
Desire for God It takes trust to believe this in this city where from the bell towers of churches that are no longer churches the bells play cheerful Christmas melodies.
752 - Mar 2010 - Annunciation: Benedict XVI: Mary's acceptance of the Divine Word
In the Incarnation of the Son of God we recognise the origins of the Church.
753 - Feb 2010 - Reflection: Accepting the reality of death: Christ's message of hope and consolation, Andrew Kania
God the Son longs to live yet chooses death ahead of a life devoid of its essential meaning and purpose.
754 - Feb 2010 - Books: SECULAR SABOTAGE, by Bill Donahue, Fr Martin Durham
Spiritual weapons Using apt military terms Paul goes on to list a number of spiritual weapons: Take the whole armour of God .
755 - Feb 2010 - Letters: Greetings from India, Fr S. John Joseph PP, VF
Thank you and God bless.
756 - Feb 2010 - Letters: Faith alone, Rex Dale
There are those like St Augustine and Luther who in a very painful way discover their spiritual bankruptcy and can only cast themselves on the mercy of God.
757 - Feb 2010 - Letters: Vale Brian Mullins, Ken Bayliss
I quickly learned that Brian was a quiet devout Catholic who put his complete trust in God as his magnificent family attested at his funeral last November.
758 - Feb 2010 - Foundations of Faith: Celebrating the Eucharist during the early Christian centuries, Br Barry Coldrey
There was the Proclamation of Gods word comprising prayers readings from Scripture and a homily.
759 - Feb 2010 - Catholic Culture: 'A small brave initiative': Campion College's second graduation, Br Barry Coldrey
It reads in part: To the Right Honourable the Lords of Her Majestys Privy Council: Whereas I have come out of Germany and Bohemia being sent by my superiors and adventured myself into this noble realm my dear country for the glory of God and benefit of souls I thought it like enough that in this busy watchful and suspicious world I should either sooner or later be intercepted and stopped of my course.
760 - Feb 2010 - Climate change: which Catholic response?, William Kininmonth
climate change is the paramount issue that the human family must act on now to secure its future in Gods creation (p.
761 - Feb 2010 - Letters: New priests for the Sydney Archdiocese, Fr Michael De Stoop
He has shown me that as a priest you can give your entire self to do Gods work and that that work can be extremely fulfilling and satisfying.
762 - Feb 2010 - News: The Church Around the World
We will investigate the future role of religious in this work and we will plan concrete actions we might take in building the reign of God throughout creation.
763 - Feb 2010 - St Mary Mackillop: Canonisation: about holiness, not miracles, Fr Paul Gardiner SJ
When Stephen was stoned and other Christians were thrown to wild beasts it was natural for their friends to lament their passing but grief did not silence the triumphant psalm To God be glory and praise forever!
764 - Dec 2009 - Reflection: The sacrament of Christian marriage: a nuptial Mass homily, Fr Glen Tattersall
In Gods Providence you have met and you have fallen in love with each other.
765 - Dec 2009 - Books: 111 QUESTIONS ON ISLAM: Samir Khalil Samir SJ on Islam and the West, Michael E Daniel
Word of God The interviews commence with a discussion of the life of the prophet Muhammud who lived in the sixth and seventh centuries.
766 - Dec 2009 - Letters: Stewardship, Peter Finlayson
Thus God willed that mankind be king of creation (Compendium 460) and .
767 - Dec 2009 - Vatican II: Yves Congar, Vatican II, ecumenism: finding the right balance, Andrew Kania
Those people who walk in the way of salvation through an encounter with God of which the Catholic Church was not corporeally the minister those who are at any rate related to the mystical Body such are not strangers to her .
768 - Dec 2009 - Foundations of Faith: The Eucharist: what the Old and New Testaments tell us, Br Barry Coldrey
The miracles themselves signalled to them that He possessed - as Almighty God made man - a power superior to and independent of the laws of nature.
769 - Dec 2009 - Marriage: A Biblical defence of marriage: Africans take the lead, Babette Francis
The Ugandan women were comforted that God understands the oppression and abuse of polygamy and were encouraged to hear marriage clearly defined as a covenant relationship between one man and one woman as in Genesis.
770 - Dec 2009 - Editorial: Benedict XVI: When God entered human history, Pope Benedict XVI
God dwells on high yet He becomes a child and puts Himself in the state of complete dependence typical of a newborn child.
771 - Nov 2009 - Reflection: The Feast of All Souls and the Communion of Saints, Fr Dennis Byrnes
In the Compendium of the Catechism of the Catholic Church (205) we are told: After death which is the separation of the body and the soul the body becomes corrupt while the soul which is immortal goes to meet the judgment of God and awaits its reunion with the body when it will rise transformed at the time of the return of the Lord.
772 - Nov 2009 - Books: CHRISTIANITY AND THE CRISIS OF CULTURES, by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Br Barry Coldrey
The principal focus is the crisis of culture evident in contemporary Western Europe where a majority of the European Parliament would vote to exclude all reference to God or the Christian roots of European civilisation from the Preamble to the European Constitution.
773 - Nov 2009 - Letters: Women priests, Robert Prinzen-Wood
To take on the role of presbyter a woman would be usurping authority; she would be taking on a role God did not intend for her.
774 - Nov 2009 - Missionaries: Mary Glowrey (1887-1957): Australian witness to hope in India, Robyn Fahy And Fr Dan Strickland MGL
Gods call A chance reading in 1915 of a pamphlet about the appalling death rate amongst babies in India fundamentally changed the direction of her life.
775 - Nov 2009 - Holocaust: English nun who saved Jews from the Nazis put forward as saint, AD2000 Report
Mother Riccarda was full of the spirit of God and was a very humble woman she sang beautifully from the heart and she was devoted to God and she left a mark on all of us.
776 - Nov 2009 - Foundations of Faith: 'O happy fault': the Christian doctrine of original sin, Noel Roberts
Of course in a secular culture like ours any number of Christian doctrines will be disputed by outsiders from the existence of God to the resurrection of Jesus.
777 - Nov 2009 - The work of Courage and EnCourage supported by Melbourne priests, Marie Mason
Fr Laurie Leonard SJ: Since being invited by Archbishop Hart to be chaplain to the same sex attracted (SSA) people and their families they and I together search to find Gods will and our Churchs guidance for them.
778 - Nov 2009 - News: The Church Around the World
Essay subjects include the state of Catholic higher education how to find God on a Catholic campus and how to afford a Catholic education.
779 - Nov 2009 - Climate change alarmism: a new 'religion' for Christians?, John Morrissey
In fact he said the science is part of the theology of Creation and the (IPCC) scientists are messengers of God.
780 - Oct 2009 - Reflection: The Mass: priest and people offer sacrifice, Bishop Edward Slattery
Secondly it can give the appearance that the priest and the people were engaged in a conversation about God rather than the worship of God.
781 - Oct 2009 - Books: AFTER THE HEART OF GOD, by Bishop Julian Porteous, Br Michael McMurray CCS
AFTER THE HEART OF GOD by Bishop Julian Porteous (ConnorCourt 2009 170pp $29.
782 - Oct 2009 - Books: THE CASE FOR CHRISTIANITY: St Justin Martyr on Religious Liberty, Robert Haddad, Br Michael McMurray CCS
There were serious errors and problems then as there are today and God sent men and women of great holiness to address them just as he has in the past 20 or 30 years.
783 - Oct 2009 - Priesthood: Why the Catholic Church cannot ordain women, Kathleen Wood OAM
Moreover to question and object to the gender of the Child of the Incarnation of the Word in Jesus (as some feminists do) is to place the limits of human thinking upon God.
784 - Oct 2009 - FOUNDATIONS OF FAITH: Cutting edge moral issues for the third millennium, Br Barry Coldrey
With a whimsical flourish Cardinal Pell reminded the interviewer and the vast TV audience that he (Pell) was not God; he was not appointed as the womens judge; he would not be reviewing their lives at either the judgment at the point of their deaths or at the Last Judgment of the human race.
785 - Oct 2009 - Seminary Life: Spiritual direction at Sydney's Good Shepherd Seminary, Fr Paul Glynn SM
I was giving talks at the beautiful retreat centre called Gods Farm which is situated in light bushland about 40 minutes from Margaret River WA.
786 - Oct 2009 - Youth: RISE: restoring integrity and sexual ethics to Australia's secular culture, Br Barry Coldrey
What saved him he said was discovering God and his decision to become a Catholic.
787 - Oct 2009 - Community Life: 'Progressive' leadership and the demise of religious life, Br Paul Macrossan
Vocations will dry up as youth and others seeking to enter the religious life after an interview or two detect the discord and decide that the institute will not satisfy their desire to give themselves to God.
788 - Oct 2009 - News: The Church Around the World
People come to Mass not for recreation but to adore God to praise and thank him to ask pardon for their sins and to request other spiritual and temporal needs.
789 - Oct 2009 - Priestly Identity: Renewing the priesthood in the Year for Priests, Fr Anthony Denton
His indomitable faith in God and in young people has been continued in the pontificate of his long-time collaborator and friend Joseph Ratzinger as Pope Benedict XVI.
790 - Sep 2009 - Reflection: The centrality of the tabernacle, Bishop John M. D'Arcy
Sacramental dimension The church which is both the house of God on earth (domus Dei) and a house fit for the prayers of the saints (domus ecclesiae) itself possesses a sacramental dimension - by its very structure it should aid worshippers to enter into an encounter with Christ.
791 - Sep 2009 - Poetry: 11 September, 2001: The Towers, Will Elsin
Great God sweet Lord out there please hear us And never more let such dread and horror near us.
792 - Sep 2009 - Books: THE BOOK OF ALL SAINTS, by Adrienne von Speyr, Br Barry Coldrey
On another level Adrienne the mystic received intimate portraits of men and women in conversation with God.
793 - Sep 2009 - The Reformation and England's changing Coronation Oath, Tom Johnstone
That the Church of God and all the Christian people preserve true peace at all times.
794 - Sep 2009 - FOUNDATIONS OF FAITH: Sola Fide (by Faith Alone): is this sufficient for salvation?, Frank Mobbs
The simple answer is that one is saved or made worthy in Gods sight by faith and by nothing more; that is by faith alone.
795 - Sep 2009 - Priesthood: Reflections of a newly ordained Sydney priest, Fr James Mccarthy
It was in the context of a secular public university that I heard the call to serve God the Church and our world as a priest.
796 - Sep 2009 - Liturgical Books: The case for a new Missal translation, Bishop Arthur J. Serratelli
Our words asking God that we may be what we receive play on Saint Augustines dictum: If you have received worthily you are what you have received (Sermons 227; cf.
797 - Sep 2009 - Christian Life: Courage and EnCourage: a chaste lifestyle for the same-sex attracted, Marie Mason
By the grace of God and the financial help of a good friend I was recently able to attend the US National and International Courage and EnCourage Conference held in Philadelphia from 9-12 July.
798 - Sep 2009 - News: The Church Around the World
From our awakening to the end of the day it is the day Christians remember that Jesus Christ suffered and died for us so that we might know and enjoy the love of God for all eternity.
799 - Sep 2009 - USA: Anglicans fragmenting over homosexuality, Babette Francis
In a sermon on the Sunday before the Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans launch Bishop Nazir Ali said If we continue in Gods way then we will flourish as persons.
800 - Aug 2009 - Reflection: Mary in God's plan of salvation, Bishop Arthur J. Serratelli
He reveals Marys new role in Gods plan of salvation.
801 - Aug 2009 - Books: This month's selection from AD Books
The book provides an introduction to contemplative living and how to transform our humanity in union with God.
802 - Aug 2009 - Books: BECAUSE GOD IS REAL: Sixteen Questions, One Answer, by Peter Kreeft, Br Barry Coldrey
BECAUSE GOD IS REAL: Sixteen Questions One Answer by Peter Kreeft (Ignatius Press 2008 236pp $29.
803 - Aug 2009 - Books: THE WINE OF CERTITUDE: a Literary Biography of Ronald Knox, by David Rooney, Michael Daniel
His numerous apologetics works written during the course of his priestly ministry were in response to the issues of the age particularly those that caused many to doubt either the existence of God or Church teachings.
804 - Aug 2009 - Letters: Content of faith, Chris Hilder
It also includes worshipping God in Spirit and in truth as God has revealed and loving others truly through service.
805 - Aug 2009 - God's Messengers: Angels: what Scripture and Tradition reveal, Susan McKinley
Helen is convinced that God sent this stranger to save her life and even considers the possibility that he could have been an angel.
806 - Aug 2009 - Foundations of Faith: Sola Scriptura (Scripture Alone): a recipe for doctrinal chaos, Dr Frank Mobbs
When I used to lecture in a Catholic tertiary institution the answer to my question How do we know what God has revealed?
807 - Aug 2009 - Magisterium: Authentic Catholicism: neither progressive nor conservative, Fr Martin Durham
Magisterium The authentic Catholic position is based on the solemn and emphatic declaration of the God-man Jesus Christ: I am the way the truth and the life (John 14:6).
808 - Aug 2009 - Is this where 'progressive' religious life is heading?, AD2000 REPORT
Actually before the Religious present read the six closely typed pages they were invited to sing a song around a new view of God - not the one they may have been used to.
809 - Aug 2009 - Priesthood: Benedict XVI's Letter to priests: follow example of the Curé of Ars
What is most helpful to the Church in such cases is not only a frank and complete acknowledgment of the weaknesses of her ministers but also a joyful and renewed realisation of the greatness of Gods gift embodied in the splendid example of generous pastors religious afire with love for God and for souls and insightful patient spiritual guides.
810 - Aug 2009 - News: The Church Around the World
Sullivan says that he has experienced a very deep sense of the reality of Gods love for each one of us especially during times of immense difficulties and suffering.
811 - Aug 2009 - Caritas in Veritate: Benedict XVI's social encyclical: public life needs Christian principles, Michael Gilchrist
Benedicts unifying theme is that without God no amount of advanced technology complex structures or creative programs will work.
812 - Aug 2009 - Editorial: Feast of Our Lady's Assumption, 15 August, Michael Gilchrist
It is regarded by the Church as her principal feast day and a further reminder of her central role in Gods plan of salvation.
813 - Jul 2009 - Reflection: The full meaning of love: Christ and St Peter in St John's Gospel, Andrew Kania
Peter can only reciprocate fully the love that Christ offers by giving up his life for he is a man and his friend is God.
814 - Jul 2009 - Books: Books available from AD Books and Freedom Publishing
95 Paul: Contending for the Faith This DVD from Ignatius Press is one of The Footprints of God series that traces the story of salvation from Abraham to Augustine.
815 - Jul 2009 - Books: LIKE A SAMURAI: The Tony Glynn Story, by Fr Paul Glynn SM, Tim Cannon
This is a rollicking tale and a wonderfully vivid example of just what can happen when Christians place their lives in Gods hands and unabashedly seek out His will.
816 - Jul 2009 - Books: The Catholic Church and the Bible, by Peter Stravinskas, Br Barry Coldrey
Gods Word and its purpose in the Church.
817 - Jul 2009 - Books: GOD'S WORD: Scripture, Tradition, Office, by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Br Barry Coldrey
Profound insights into Benedict XVIs efforts to renew the Church GODS WORD: Scripture Tradition Office by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (Ignatius Press 2008 hardback 126pp $29.
818 - Jul 2009 - Letters: The unborn, Brian Harris
It will encourage abortions a great imbalance of the sexes around the world offend Gods love greatly morally speaking and destroy mankind.
819 - Jul 2009 - Foundations of Faith: Galileo: heretic or hero? What are the facts?, Noel Roberts
When astronomers began speculating about the universe - its age whether it was eternal or had a beginning whether other universes existed that needed Gods saving help and the place of the earth in the cosmos - theologians became concerned because many of the ideas appeared to be in conflict with sacred Scripture.
820 - Jul 2009 - India: Christians in India rejoice at election results, Babette Francis
Each Member of Parliament has a God- given duty to work for the common man.
821 - Jul 2009 - New Evangelisation: Catholics Come Home: a fresh approach to re-evangelising, Bob Denahy
He felt called by God to downsize and simplify his lifestyle.
822 - Jul 2009 - St Marys Cathedral: Sydney ordinations and a new beginning for Australian Catholicism, Fr Gregory Jordan SJ
This very considerable number of young people thirst to know more and to do more: to know about the Church its history its teaching; they thirst for Christ Himself in a word for God.
823 - Jul 2009 - Editorial: The Feast of Saints Peter and Paul (29 June), Michael Gilchrist
And this is Peters ongoing mission: to ensure that the Church is never identified with a single nation with a single culture or with a single State but is always the Church of all; to ensure that she reunites humanity over and above every boundary and in the midst of the divisions of this world makes Gods peace present the reconciling power of His love.
824 - Jun 2009 - Reflection: Pentecost and the power of the Holy Spirit for today, Fr Dennis W Byrnes
As the Statement of Conclusions put it: This common labour is before all else a co-operation with the Grace of the Holy Spirit each one praying for the wisdom always to give first consideration to the honour of God and the salvation of souls and by begging for the strength needed for the task of building up the Body of Christ so that all efforts may bear abundant fruit for the mission of the Church in Australia and beyond (Statement of Conclusions Synod of Bishops and Roman Curia November 1998).
825 - Jun 2009 - Books: AD2000 Books for June
95 Paul: Contending for the Faith This DVD from Ignatius Press is one of The Footprints of God series that traces the story of salvation from Abraham to Augustine.
826 - Jun 2009 - Letters: Pontius Pilate, Grahame Fallon
Moved from within by the Holy Spirit Simon exclaimed You are the Christ the Son of the living God!
827 - Jun 2009 - Letters: Ecumenism, Gary Crothers
As an ordinary lay Catholic I believe in the one holy catholic and apostolic Church as founded by Jesus Christ second person of the Trinity who is God Himself.
828 - Jun 2009 - Letters: Superior design, John H. Cooney
For while God gave Moses the Ten Commandments by the time of Jesus these had been blown out to more than 600 rules.
829 - Jun 2009 - FOUNDATIONS OF FAITH: The Last Things: death, judgment, Heaven, Purgatory, Hell, Br Barry Coldrey
One second John was alive and skylarking and a second later he faced his judgment before a merciful but just God.
830 - Jun 2009 - News: The Church Around the World
Indeed however different the books it contains may be Sacred Scripture is one by virtue of the unity of Gods plan of which Jesus Christ is the centre and the heart.
831 - Jun 2009 - Vocations: Brisbane's Holy Spirit Seminary: promising signs of growth, Anthony Barich
The increase in vocations and in awareness of God shows that some of todays youth are fed up with the secular nature of the world and are turning to the richness of the tradition that we have.
832 - Jun 2009 - Cardinal Pell's UK interview: Liturgy, Missal translation, World Youth Day, Luke Coppen
Then there are the clarifications of the nature of God the Trinity the Councils.
833 - Jun 2009 - Editorial: Pentecost Sunday: birthday of the Church, Michael Gilchrist
Peters leadership is evident as he addresses the crowd on behalf of the other Apostles: Men of Israel hear these words: Jesus of Nazareth a man attested to you by God with mighty wonders and signs which God did through him in your midst .
834 - May 2009 - Reflection: 'What is truth?' (John 18:38) - The tunnel vision of Pontius Pilate, Andrew Kania
Perhaps he did turn toward the God that he had had executed.
835 - May 2009 - Books: Hilaire Belloc and G.K. Chesterton, by Karl Schmude, Br Christian Moe
Similarly Chesterton perceived that we were entering a period of history when Western people would not only reject God but man; not only the supernatural but the natural (p.
836 - May 2009 - Books: Golden Years: Grounds for Hope: Fr Golden and the Newman Society 1950-1966, David Kehoe
In Golden Years contributors look back fondly on this development and thank God that they were formed this way and freed from the alleged ossified teaching of the Church on so many religious and secular matters.
837 - May 2009 - Letters: Women in the Church, Brian Bibby
If we were to go back a step further if God the Father had wished it Mary could have conceived a daughter or even twins a son and a daughter.
838 - May 2009 - Letters: One Shepherd, Peter D. Howard
St Paul maintains that the Church is the pillar and ground of the truth (1Tim 3:16) and through the Church the manifold wisdom of God might now be made known to the principalities and powers in the heavenly places (Eph 3:10).
839 - May 2009 - Letters: Simple faith, Alan Barron
God is not interested in the outward show of religion nor of observing traditions.
840 - May 2009 - FOUNDATIONS OF FAITH: The Crusades: the truth behind the myths, Frank Mobbs
Richard Dawkins writes in his best-seller The God Delusion: Imagine with John Lennon a world with no religion.
841 - May 2009 - US Catholics leaving the Church in droves: what can be done?, Fr Joseph A. Sirba
With God all things are possible.
842 - May 2009 - Dissent: Rebel South Brisbane priest: new cafeteria church launched, Michael Gilchrist
Regarding the divinity of Jesus Fr Kennedy observed Jesus was a Jew and it would have been the utmost blasphemy for a Jew to say that he or she was God .
843 - May 2009 - Editorial: The Virgin Mary's key role in our redemption, Michael Gilchrist
When Mary responded to Gods invitation with the obedience of faith let it be done to me according to your word she became the mother of Jesus Christ the second person of the Holy Trinity hence the Church has always proclaimed that Mary is truly Mother of God.
844 - Apr 2009 - Reflection: The Resurrection: confirmed by faith and reason, Bishop Arthur J. Serratelli
This most profound truth transforms our world and lifts us up to God.
845 - Apr 2009 - Books: LIVING BIBLICALLY, by Archbishop Barry Hickey, Michael Gilchrist
Written over a millennium or more as far as can be known and read and pondered continuously for two millennia since the Gospels and the various other works of the New Testament were completed the Bible is accepted by Christians as the inspired word of God containing the essential facts history and beliefs necessary for every Christian life.
846 - Apr 2009 - Books: RENDER UNTO CAESAR:Living Our Catholic Beliefs in Political Life, Charles Chaput, Tim Cannon
But Jesus pulls the rug from beneath his detractors feet: Render to Caesar the things that are Caesars and to God the things that are Gods.
847 - Apr 2009 - Letters: Bush fires, Maureen Federico
I have decided to pen a few lines in response to Barney Zwartzs An Understanding God (The Age 12 February) regarding his personal outrage which was neither balanced nor effectual in challenging a Pentecostal Minister Danny Nalliah regarding the latters comments on the recent devastating bushfires as a form of divine retribution for the rcently passed Abortion Law Reform Bill.
848 - Apr 2009 - Letters: Love and truth, Frank Mobbs
Neither taught that being loving is all that matters to God.
849 - Apr 2009 - Letters: Church unity, Alan Baron
This is how the world knows that God is love because those calling themselves Christian love one another.
850 - Apr 2009 - Letters: Hippies, Stephen Hemingway
These people are not in church to worship God but rather to worship themselves They set themselves up as supreme authority and reject the leadership of the wider church and having pushed God aside they put themselves in His place.
851 - Apr 2009 - Letters: Active Catholics?, Rev Edward P. Evans
In Scripture we find that God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah on account of the sin of homosexuality.
852 - Apr 2009 - Foundations of Faith: The Mass and private devotions in Catholic life, Br Barry Coldrey
Among the Churchs more conspicuously promoted devotions are Eucharistic devotions the Divine Mercy devotion and veneration of Mary as the Mother of God.
853 - Apr 2009 - Anti-life platform: Archbishop Chaput: President Obama and the challenge for US Catholics, Archbishop Charles Chaput
First all political leaders draw their authority from God.
854 - Apr 2009 - News: The Church Around the World
Archbishop Ranjith writes that implementation of the Councils suggested reforms often veered away from the actual intent of the Council Fathers: Some practices which Sacrosanctum Concilium had never even contemplated were allowed into the Liturgy like Mass versus populum facing the people Holy Communion in the hand altogether giving up on the Latin and Gregorian Chant in favour of the vernacular songs and hymns without much space for God and extension beyond any reasonable limits of the faculty to concelebrate at Holy Mass.
855 - Apr 2009 - Benedict XVI addresses a Vatican conference on evolution and Christianity, Michael Gilchrist
Although he has never professed a belief in God Hawking has never denied the existence of God either.
856 - Mar 2009 - Reflection: Benedict XVI: why kneeling is central to Christian worship, Benedict XVI
Its not right for a grown man to do this - he should face God on his feet.
857 - Mar 2009 - Books: Books available now from AD2000 Books
95 Mary Most Holy This is one of the Holy Imitation series of colouring books that includes such titles as Eucharistic Adoration Mother of God and Holy Name of Jesus.
858 - Mar 2009 - Books: THE BIBLE AND THE QUR'AN, by Jacques Jomier OP, Tim Cannon
We are united by so much faith in the One True God as indeed by our common spiritual ancestry.
859 - Mar 2009 - Books: Labour and Justice, by Gavan Duffy, Peter Westmore
He starts with the earliest books of the Old Testament which give remarkable insights into the relevance of the creative work of God and human labour.
860 - Mar 2009 - Poetry: Collages
As the past was so wrong I end with a song: Is our new god Osama?
861 - Mar 2009 - Letters: Generosity, Fr A. Joseph
May God bless you all for your acts of charity.
862 - Mar 2009 - Marian Valley, spiritual oasis for young Brisbane Catholics, Br Barry Coldrey
Marian Valley is a sacred space in an idyllic setting a shrine to honour Mary as Mother of God.
863 - Mar 2009 - The family and the culture of death: a challenge for Christians, Fr Dennis Byrnes
The Vatican II document on the Church in the Modern World (Gaudium et Spes) reminds us that our dignity rests above all on the fact that we are called to communion with God.
864 - Mar 2009 - The recession and Catholic social teaching, Mark and Louise Zwick
God brought Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin together to form the Catholic Worker movement at a time when the world was facing an economic crash similar to todays.
865 - Mar 2009 - Obituary: Fr Richard Neuhaus (1936-2009): bringing the Gospel to public life, Fr Raymond J. De Souza
He lived his life according to the principles of his journals title namely that the first things were the things of God.
866 - Mar 2009 - Foundations of Faith: Protestant Churches: origins and beliefs (2), Frank Mobbs
For example Oneness Pentecostals hold that God is one person others that God is three persons (Trinity).
867 - Mar 2009 - Pope welcomes election of new Russian Patriarch Kirill, Michael Gilchrist
Benedicts telegram At a general audience following Patriarch Kirills election Benedict said I invoke upon him the light of the Holy Spirit for a generous service to the Russian Orthodox Church entrusting him to the special protection of the Mother of God.
868 - Mar 2009 - News: The Church Around the World
In a 2005 notification the CDF cited serious doctrinal errors in Father Haights 2000 book Jesus: Symbol of God.
869 - Mar 2009 - Editorial: Lent: preparing for the risen Christ, Peter Westmore
This is itself an echo of various Old Testament references: the book of Genesis tells us that God punished mankind by sending a flood over the earth that lasted forty days and forty nights; the people of Ninevah repented with forty days of fasting when Jonah preached the destruction of their city (Jonah 3:4); Moses and the Hebrew people wandered in the desert for forty years (Num 14:34); the Prophet Ezekiel had to lie on his right side for forty days as a figure of the siege that was to bring Jerusalem to destruction (Ez 4:6); the Prophet Elijah fasted and prayed on Mount Horeb for forty days (1 Kings 19:8); and Moses fasted forty days and nights while on Mt Sinai (Ex 34:28).
870 - Feb 2009 - Reflection: Pope St Gregory the Great's advice to bishops and priests, Pope St Gregory the Great
The word of God accuses them of having false visions because they flatter sinners with empty promises of safety but are afraid to correct their faults.
871 - Feb 2009 - Books: Books available now from AD2000 Books
95 Mary Most Holy This is one of the Holy Imitation series of colouring books that includes such titles as Eucharistic Adoration Mother of God and Holy Name of Jesus.
872 - Feb 2009 - Books: QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS: Pope Benedict XVI, Siobhan Reeves
What should we do to bring God to others in the world?
873 - Feb 2009 - Letters: Thanks from India, Fr S. John Joseph
John Joseph wishing all Gods blessings upon you.
874 - Feb 2009 - Letters: Teilhard, Grahame Fallon
For that I am truly grateful and I never cease thanking our dear God for your kindness.
875 - Feb 2009 - Letters: Christ's divinity, Tom O'Keefe
Fr Peter Dresser (December/ January AD2000) denies Christs divinity by saying No human being can ever be God and Jesus was a human being.
876 - Feb 2009 - Fundamental flaws in Bishop Robinson's book, Andrew Kania
True man true God But if we take a sola Scriptura approach it is quite evident from Sacred Scripture that Christ was not only true man but true God and therefore had the capacity to see into the future.
877 - Feb 2009 - Flying into the Wind for the new evangelisation, Fr John Fowles CCS & Fr Joel Wallace CCS
This beautiful complex is now a sign of Gods blessing on those who dare to accept St James challenge Show me your faith apart from your works and I by my works will show you my faith.
878 - Feb 2009 - Foundations of Faith: Protestant Reformation: origins and beliefs, Frank Mobbs
By it God does not forgive sins - he ignores them.
879 - Feb 2009 - Christian-Muslim dialogue: glimmerings of hope, Babette Francis
The Catholic Churchs dialogue with Islam is based on the Second Vatican Councils Declaration on the Relationship of the Church to Non- Christian Religions Nostra Aetate which urged esteem for Muslims because they adore the one God strive to follow his will recognise Jesus as a prophet honor his mother Mary value the moral life and worship God especially through prayer almsgiving and fasting.
880 - Feb 2009 - Vibrant retreat: Young adult ministry builds on WYD: iWitness Conference in Sydney, Br Barry Coldrey
Bishop Julian Porteous gave the keynote address an inspirational assertion of the relevance of Jesus Christ in a secularised age which attempts to ignore God and marginalise religious people.
881 - Feb 2009 - News: The Church Around the World
Responding to a question about a possible compatibility between faith and reason in Islam Allam contended that unlike Christianity the religion of God incarnate in man Islam is made concrete in a sacred text that being one with God is not interpretable.
882 - Dec 2008 - Reflection: Benedict XVI's Christmas homily: how God became a child for us, Pope Benedict XVI
Gods sign is simplicity.
883 - Dec 2008 - Books: Books available now from AD2000 Books
95 Mary Most Holy This is one of the Holy Imitation series of colouring books that includes such titles as Eucharistic Adoration Mother of God and Holy Name of Jesus.
884 - Dec 2008 - Books: The Scope of Philosophy, by John Young, John Whitty
(Analogy is most important in understanding the proofs of Gods existence and for a correct understanding of Gods perfections as they can be known by the human intellect.
885 - Dec 2008 - Poetry: Genealogy, Bruce Dawe
So too with God the hope was born That in Jesus birth wed see The ultimate pledge of parenthood: One holy family Which would in time reach out beyond The Bethlehem of His birth Until its genealogy Circumscribed the earth.
886 - Dec 2008 - Books: Down in Adoration Falling, by Gareth Grainger, Br Christian Moe, FSC
May we all learn to know and value the gift of God which is our Catholic faith.
887 - Dec 2008 - Books: The Life of Saint Joseph, by Maria Cecilia Baij, OSB, Tim Cannon
Little is revealed of the life of St Joseph in the Gospels and not a single word uttered by him is recorded perhaps a reflection of his deep humility an abundance of which would be required throughout the life of the man whom God Himself would deign to call father.
888 - Dec 2008 - Letters: Evolution conference, Grahame Fallon
As I have said in letters to AD2000 and elsewhere over the last 40 years it dawned on French Jesuit Pierre Teilhard (1881-1955) that an evolving universe does not have to be godless or atheistic!
889 - Dec 2008 - 'Catholic literature': what does this mean?, David Birch
Catholic literature has played an immensely important role in the conversion of many to Catholicism and can certainly help to lead us towards the insight given to us by St Thomas Aquinas and picked up by so many poets and writers since that the world is as Fr Gerard Manley Hopkins said charged with the grandeur of God.
890 - Dec 2008 - FOUNDATIONS OF FAITH: Which Church did Jesus establish with his authority?, Frank Mobbs
Suppose that the previous articles in this series give you assurance that God exists that God cares for the welfare of humans and has revealed something of himself and his plans for us by becoming human in the person of Jesus Christ.
891 - Dec 2008 - The decline of British Catholicism: the future?, John Haldane
Second they serve to encourage the view of some other Christians that Catholicism is more concerned with its social position than with Gods word and work.
892 - Dec 2008 - Bishops' Synod on Bible concludes: Pope working on Apostolic Exhortation, AD2000 Report
At the conclusion of the three week World Synod of Bishops on the Word of God on 25 October Benedict XVI spoke to the crowd gathered in St Peters Square for the midday Angelus on the relationship between Gods Word and the Scripture that expresses it.
893 - Dec 2008 - Pub life: Young adult Catholic ministry: ingredients for success, Br Barry Coldrey
The young adult activities sponsored by dynamic religious orders at central venues such as those of the Missionaries of Gods Love and the Disciples of Jesus Covenant Communities (Burwood Victoria) the Franciscans (Capuchins) and the Domini- cans (Frassati Circle Camberwell Victoria).
894 - Dec 2008 - News: The Church Around the World
Christians and Muslims he said despite their different beliefs can find common ground in the understanding that human life and human dignity are gifts from God recognised as sacred by both faiths.
895 - Dec 2008 - Novus Ordo: Vatican approves new Missal translation, Michael Gilchrist
Accuracy returns to the Lamb of God with you take away the sins of the world instead of sin of the world (the Latin peccata is plural not singular).
896 - Nov 2008 - Reflection: Purgatory: hope, mercy, love, Bishop Peter J. Elliott
Purification Recently in his Encyclical Letter on Hope Spe Salvi 45- 47 Pope Benedict XVI focused on the judgement of God even the possibility of damnation.
897 - Nov 2008 - Books: Books available from AD Books
au In the Light of Christ Lucy Beckett Lucy Beckett illuminates some of the finest writings in the Western tradition helping us identify in them the Christian vision of God.
898 - Nov 2008 - Letters: From India, Fr S. John Joseph
They are economically very poor and added to that they belong to the scheduled or low caste - God forbid this caste system in India!
899 - Nov 2008 - Letters: Rebel church in South Brisbane, Bob Osmak
In one of them he used the words: Name we baptise you in the name of God the Creator the Redeemer the Son and the Holy Spirit the God of Love the Creator Redeemer and Sustainer of life.
900 - Nov 2008 - What happened then: what matters now - Swithun Wells, martyr of England, Rosemary Lucadou-Wells
On the scaffold Swithun complains to the hangman Roger Topcliffe of keeping an old man waiting in his shirt on a cold day and Topcliffe replies: See what your priests have brought you to Mr Wells and is answered by Swithun: I am happy to thank God to have so many and such saint-like priests under my roof.
901 - Nov 2008 - Foundations of Faith: God's gift of sex: building a civilisation of life and love, Catherine Sheehan
God is the author of life and the whole of creation.
902 - Nov 2008 - Anima Women's Network: giving 'heart' to women of faith, Anna Krohn
Anima reminds each woman of her God-given dignity and mystery and challenges her to develop her true vocation and fulfilment by hosting what we hope are both graceful and Grace-filled encounters with other women.
903 - Nov 2008 - News: The Church Around the World
While the Catholic Church has said Darwins theory of natural selection is the most probable cause of biological development Catholic teach- ing has also emphasised Gods role in creation.
904 - Oct 2008 - Reflecton: Benedict XVI: the natural family, cornerstone of world peace, Pope Benedict XVI
We need to say our own yes to this vocation which God has inscribed in our very nature.
905 - Oct 2008 - Books: Books available from AD2000 Books
au In the Light of Christ Lucy Beckett Lucy Beckett illuminates some of the finest writings in the Western tradition helping us identify in them the Christian vision of God.
906 - Oct 2008 - Books: MARY: A CATHOLIC-EVANGELICAL DEBATE, Dwight Longenecker, David Gustafson, Michael E. Daniel
This work examines frankly the various beliefs about Mary that separate Catholics from Protestants particularly Mary as the Mother of God the perpetual Virginity of Mary the Immaculate Conception and the Assumption.
907 - Oct 2008 - Books: WHAT MOTHER TERESA TAUGHT ME, by Maryanne Raphael, Catherine Sheehan
Not simple in terms of a blind faith but simple in being focussed solely on that which is most important: love of God and love of neighbour.
908 - Oct 2008 - WYDSYD08: Thomas More Centre Youth follow up World Youth Day, Bridget Spinks
TMC Youth provides opportunities for formation in the Catholic faith and instruction in Catholic social teachings through retreats and public lectures that better prepare young people to help shape society in line with Gods plan.
909 - Oct 2008 - Eugenio Pacelli: The enduring legacy of Pope Pius XII: a 50th anniversary tribute, Fr John Walshe
It was the culmination of and response to decades of theological research and debate concerning the nature of the Church of God and the document is crucial to understanding the Church.
910 - Oct 2008 - Foundations of Faith: Recent Marian apparitions and the life of the Church, Br Barry Coldrey
We await no new revelation from God.
911 - Oct 2008 - Timor L'Este: Fly Away to Heaven: East Timor and World Youth Day, Sister Terezinha
Rest assured that each one of us has fond memories of you and when we remember and share these memories we will pray for you that you may continue to grow in faith hope and charity/love and become true witnesses of God here in Albury Australia in the Pacific in the whole world.
912 - Oct 2008 - In the Public Square: US presidential campaign: Catholic bishops speak out on the evil of abortion, Archbishop Charles Chaput and Bishop James Conley
Or to put it in the blunter words of the great Lutheran pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Destruction of the embryo in the mothers womb is a violation of the right to live which God has bestowed on this nascent life.
913 - Oct 2008 - News: The Church Around the World
Benedict noted that in his dialogue with Peter Christ mentions the Church for the first time whose mission is the actuation of the great design of God to gather the whole of humanity into one family in Christ.
914 - Oct 2008 - Response: Archbishop Bathersby's concerns over rebel Brisbane parish, Michael Gilchrist
Archbishop Bathersbys above-mentioned letter lists the following reasons why St Marys has placed itself outside the Catholic Church: At St Marys is Jesus Christ accepted as Lord and Saviour Son of God or is Jesus regarded as just another Holy person like Buddha or Mohammed?
915 - Sep 2008 - Reflection: Archbishop Burke of St Louis: the responsibilities of a bishop, Archbishop Raymond Burke
As we thank God for the gift of a new bishop let us not fail to pray for Pope Benedict XVI successor of Saint Peter the perpetual and visible source and foundation of the unity both of the bishops and of the whole company of the faithful (Lumen Gentium).
916 - Sep 2008 - Books: Books available from AD2000 Books
Its one basic question is: How can we pray and praise God as we should?
917 - Sep 2008 - Books: FAITH AND FIDELITY, by Anthony Meredith SJ, Michael Daniel
Fr Meredith cites Augustine who in The City of God argues that one of the Gods greatest strengths is his ability to bring good (Thomas belief in the resurrection) out of evil.
918 - Sep 2008 - Books: THE WISDOM OF NAZARETH: Stories of Catholic Family Life, Siobhan Reeves
Yet the authors speak humbly of their absolute trust in God which sees them though unimaginably hard times.
919 - Sep 2008 - Books: Saving Those Damned Catholics, by Judie Brown, Catherine Sheehan
In her typically witty no-holes- barred style Brown writes: If failure to point out grave sin is viewed as tolerant then God must be the most intolerant Father anyone ever had for it is He who gave us the Ten Commandments.
920 - Sep 2008 - Letters: Buddha in church (letter), E. Makaus
Buddhist literature asserts that there is a fundamental incompatibility between the notion of God and the basic Buddha principles and that the existence of God is incompatible with Buddhas teachings.
921 - Sep 2008 - Letters: Invaluable work of Anne Lastman (letter), Errol Duke
Via email counselling from Melbourne to Adelaide Anne solved my problems with constructive advice and now I am completely at peace with my life - and with God.
922 - Sep 2008 - Letters: World Youth day (letter), M. & L. MORRISSEY
We will see untold good fruits for the future of the Church in the end - thanks be to God.
923 - Sep 2008 - Liturgy: No smoke without fire: Benedict XVI and true liturgical reform, David Birch
Thank God that the silence is being replaced with a strong Papal voice now.
924 - Sep 2008 - Foundations of Faith: Priesthood and the sacraments: Divine help for eternal salvation, Br Barry Coldrey
If the priest represents Christ he is able to present to God the prayers of the Church when he celebrates the Eucharist.
925 - 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.
926 - Sep 2008 - WYD08: Theology on Tap: young Catholics' response to relativism, Patrick Langrell
With the activities of over 250000 young people and the explosion of pure joy that immersed the city of Sydney from 15-20 July the media seem to have discovered that God is not dead in matters of interest to the public.
927 - Sep 2008 - News: The Church Around the World
Upon knowing God she continued I realise that my case which legalised abortion on demand was the biggest mistake of my life.
928 - Sep 2008 - WYD08: Memories of homestay hosts, Emidio and Phyllis Restall
When you witness such energy and love you start to realise that God really excelled himself when he decided to create the human race.
929 - Sep 2008 - WYD08: A reflection on WYD, Tim Cannon
But the difference between this gathering and so many others is that this festival this celebration of a shared faith was not centred around mere ideals or the desire for a better world and a better future but was centred around Jesus Christ: a real man and really God alive and present among us no less than he was alive and present in Jerusalem some 2000 years ago.
930 - Sep 2008 - WYD08: Faith: alive and well! - A pilgrim's progress, Catherine Sheehan
In response to the mystery of suffering in the world he argued that the Cross is the key to Gods plan and Resurrection the meaning of evolution.
931 - Sep 2008 - WYD08: World Youth Day 2008: what the media missed, Deborah Baker
It was a time to contemplate God and ones faith and share that journey with others.
932 - Aug 2008 - Reflection: World Youth Day: bringing a message of hope to the secular culture, Fr Dennis Byrnes
I read somewhere the following explanation of hope: The theological virtue defined as the desire and search for future good difficult but not impossible to attain without Gods help.
933 - Aug 2008 - Books: Books available from AD2000 Books
Its one basic question is: How can we pray and praise God as we should?
934 - Aug 2008 - Books: QUESTION TIME by Fr John Flader, Fr Anthony Robbie
Most however are practical explanations of questions that many people (not just Catholics) might ask or find themselves asked and wonder how to reply: Did Jesus know He was God or What will happen at the end of time?
935 - Aug 2008 - Books: MYSTERY OF CREATION by Paul Haffner, Michael Daniel
Indeed one of the clearest proofs from reason for Gods existence is the design to be found in creation.
936 - Aug 2008 - Letters: Body and soul, Elsie Cunningham
Removed from control by law abortion becomes just a medical procedure within the health system but it is ever the ultimate offence against human nature which was shared with us by the Son of God as Christ over two thousand years ago.
937 - Aug 2008 - Letters: Timeless truths?, John Frey
On our way homeward to God Mother Church nourishes us by her sacraments and guides us by her teachings which provide doctrinal content for Christian living.
938 - Aug 2008 - Education: Progress continues with the new Wagga Wagga independent schools, Barbara Chigwidden
At Blessed Mary Mackillop College we see the teaching of religion as a twofold duty to God and to His children.
939 - Aug 2008 - Interview: Denise Mountenay on post-abortive women: from silence to lawsuits, Luke McCormack
God called me to be a voice for the voiceless and it is through the Holy Spirit that I gained the courage and boldness to speak out despite harsh ridicule.
940 - Aug 2008 - Foundations of Faith: How much history do the Scriptures contain?, Frank Mobbs
I suppose that most people want to know whether the Bible is reliable as a source of Gods revelation of himself and of any plans he may have for humans.
941 - Aug 2008 - Benedict XVI reaffirms Humanae Vitae on its 40th anniversary, Pope Benedict XVI
Life is always a precious gift; every time we witness its beginnings we see the power of the creative action of God who trusts man and thus calls him to build the future with the strength of hope.
942 - Aug 2008 - News: The Church Around the World
Catholic Herald (London) Synod to focus on proper use of Scripture At a Vatican press conference on 12 June Archbishop Nikola Eterovic the secretary-general of the Synod of Bishops introduced the instrumentum laboris the working document for the October meeting of the Synod Bishops which is dedicated to a discussion of the Word of God.
943 - Jul 2008 - Reflection: The Real Presence: 'an essential element of the deposit of faith', Bishop Arthur Serratelli
As Benedict XVI recently put it Then as now the Eucharist remains a sign of contradiction and can only be so because a God who makes himself flesh and sacrifices himself for the life of the world throws human wisdom into crisis (Homily at St John Lateran 7 June 2007).
944 - Jul 2008 - Books: SERMONS PREACHED ON VARIOUS OCCASIONS, by John Henry Newman, Michael E. Daniel
The second sermon follows on logically with Newman exploring the danger of self-sufficiency that is the belief that one can live his or her life without God.
945 - Jul 2008 - Letters: Culture of life, Fr Bernard McGrath
May God save us from a headlong rush to selfish greed and lust - the culture of death.
946 - Jul 2008 - WORLD YOUTH DAY: Turin Shroud display in Melbourne to coincide with World Youth Day, Max Crockett
In his address the Pope took note of the steps taken in the Turin archdiocese during the past decade to foster Eucharistic devotion and a new pastoral initiative for the coming year will emphasise the Word of God.
947 - Jul 2008 - Religious faith and the power of music and song, Andrw Kania
The Old Testament sets the foundation - with its Psalms and Song of Songs - of a tradition of putting into poetry and music the highest and innermost stirrings of the human spirits thirst for God.
948 - Jul 2008 - FOUNDATIONS OF FAITH: Jesus: how do we know he was God?, Br Barry Coldrey CFC
At the centre of salvation history is the person of Jesus of Nazareth the eternal Son of God who became truly and completely human in the womb of Mary while remaining truly and completely divine.
949 - Jul 2008 - WORLD YOUTH DAY 2008: Authentic Catholicism: a fertile ground for vocations to flourish, Fr Anthony Denton
All will discover that God is calling them to conversion; many will discover that He is calling them to lead others as priests and religious.
950 - Jul 2008 - WORLD YOUTH DAY 2008: Juventutem Australia: young people devoted to the traditional liturgy, Alice Woolven
(I will go in unto the altar of God.
951 - Jul 2008 - Liturgy: Archbishop Coleridge calls for an end to liturgical experimentation, Michael Gilchrist
This report can touch only lightly on the content of this wide-ranging document titled Preparing the Feast A Pentecost Letter on the Liturgy To the People of God of the Archdiocese of Canberra and Goulburn.
952 - Jun 2008 - Reflection: Benedict XVI on the mystery of the Body and Blood of Christ, Pope Benedict XVI
Jesus goes before us to the Father he ascends to God in the highest and invites us to follow him.
953 - Jun 2008 - Books: Books available from AD2000 Books
00 In the Light of Christ Lucy Beckett Lucy Beckett illuminates some of the finest writings in the Western tradition guiding us in discovering in them the Christian vision of God.
954 - Jun 2008 - Books: RATZINGER'S FAITH: The Theology of Pope Benedict XVI, by Tracey Rowland, Michael E. Daniel
Available from Freedom Publishing) Panzer Cardinal Gods rottweiler the Grand Inquisitor.
955 - Jun 2008 - FOUNDATIONS OF FAITH: Reasons for believing in God, Frank Mobbs
Theology (study of God) begins with wondering - wondering why there is a universe of physical things why its parts behave regularly why there exists one tiny speck of the universe on which humans can live and flourish and even wonder why there is a universe and why throughout the centuries humans have had the apparent experience of being in touch with and guided by God (religious experience) and many other things.
956 - Jun 2008 - Christianity 'lite' with all the hard parts unmentioned: a spiritual dead-end, Alan Roebuck
Not only will non-Christian seekers probably not want to hear that God regards them as sinners but they will have no interest in what Warren (and theological liberals) dismissively call doctrine that is the actual content of the religion preached by Christ and the Apostles.
957 - Jun 2008 - Human Rights: China: Olympic rings - or shackles?, Babette Francis
Cardinal Shan who is suffering from lung cancer but devotes his time to giving talks to a wide range of groups including university students doctors prisoners and non-Christian religious groups was in Rome in March to attend a meeting of the Popes Commission for the Church in China expressed optimism about the future of the Church in the mainland because we are in the hands of God and from history we know that no dictatorial regime will last forever.
958 - Jun 2008 - Education: Pope: Catholic education must uphold Church teachings, Pope Benedict XVI
First and foremost every Catholic educational institution is a place to encounter the living God who in Jesus Christ reveals his transforming love and truth (cf.
959 - May 2008 - Reflection: How to recover a sense of the sacred at Mass, Bishop Arthur Serratelli
And all the while the awareness of entering into something sacred that has been given to us from above and draws us out of ourselves and into the mystery of God was gone.
960 - May 2008 - Books: Books available from AD2000 Books
95 Crossing the Threshold of Hope John Paul II Available again this best-seller goes to the heart of the late John Paul IIs personal beliefs on the existence of God the dignity of man pain suffering and evil eternal life and relations between Catholicism and other faiths.
961 - May 2008 - Books: THE REALM: An Unfashionable Essay on Converting England, Aidan Nichols OP, Tim Cannon
The God of eternity is also the God of reality; our Christian mission consists in meeting the real challenges of the day according to His will faithfully hopefully and lovingly.
962 - May 2008 - Books: NEWMAN'S APPROACH TO KNOWLEDGE by Laurence Richardson, Philip Trower
For the general public faith usually means either some kind of belief in a God or gods coupled with elements of a code of conduct and religious practice or it is a way of referring to any of the religious systems great or small occupying different parts of the five continents or becoming increasingly intermingled as air travel and modern means of intercommunication work their inevitable effects.
963 - May 2008 - Letters: Cosmic Liturgy, Grahame Fallon
Shortly before he died in New York on Easter Sunday 1955 Father Teilhard reminded us that there is more in the Total Christ than man and God.
964 - May 2008 - Youth: Eucharistic devotions: revival in Melbourne, Br Barry Coldrey
Christ in the Eucharist is the daily food of Gods pilgrim people.
965 - May 2008 - Magisterium: When is it infallible?, John Young
For instance if it were suggested that the first of the General Councils Nicaea might have been wrong in the creed it issued (declaring among other things that Jesus Christ is God from God Light from Light true God from true God) the universal acceptance of the Nicene Creed by the worlds bishops at least after the controversy settled down is an infallible guarantee of its truth.
966 - May 2008 - FOUNDATIONS OF FAITH: What are the basics of Catholic belief and practice?, Lucy Tucker
For as Catholics we contend that full acceptance and understanding of the fact that Jesus is God the Son must lead to acknowledgment of the Catholic Church as the true Church established by Jesus and infallible in her teaching in faith and morals.
967 - May 2008 - Summorum Pontificum: Benedict XVI's Latin Mass document: a parish priest's response, Fr Andrew Wise
This is for us the Mystery of God in Christ giving Himself completely to us and for us as the Word made flesh; at the same time He always remains utterly beyond our reach as the Divine Son within the mystery of the Holy Trinity.
968 - May 2008 - Two changes: Bishop Jarrett explains upcoming Mass changes, Bishop Geoffrey Jarrett
You will now be asked to stand at the moment the priest returns to the centre of the altar after washing his hands and invites you to pray: Pray brethren that our sacrifice may be acceptable to God the Almighty Father.
969 - May 2008 - Editorial: Re-evangelising young unchurched Catholics, Michael Gilchrist
It is hoped the centre pages will contain articles on key topics like Gods existence the reliability of Scriptures Jesus divinity and papal infallibility as well as other subjects where the Churchs teachings are often rejected or ridiculed in the media e.
970 - Apr 2008 - Reflection: Original Sin, the 'madness' of the Cross and the 'foolishness' of God's love, Fr Dennis Byrnes
In the Book of Genesis (2:7-9 3:1-7) we are told that God created man.
971 - Apr 2008 - Books: Books available from AD2000 Books
00 No Place for God Moyra Doorly This book examines how desacralising trends in modern architecture have led to some new or renovated Catholic churches being emptied of the majesty and beauty that can inspire reverence in believers and unbelievers alike.
972 - Apr 2008 - Books: THE ENEMY WITHIN: Radical Feminism in the Christian Churches, Catherine Sheehan
In Womens Rites: Feminist Liturgies and the Catholic Tradition Josephine Robinson describes some of these feminist liturgies in which human beings not God hold centre stage.
973 - Apr 2008 - Letters: Church interiors, Marija Sestan
It requires a journey to a very few select churches such as St Marys Cathedral Sydney to be in surroundings where the awesomeness of our God can be immediately detected.
974 - Apr 2008 - Letters: Binding document - On Ordinatio Sacerdotalis responsum ad dubium (1995), George Simpson
This is proof that Gods guiding hand is preserving his Church and that Our Lord is keeping the promise He made prior to his Ascension Behold!
975 - Apr 2008 - Fly Away to Heaven project: responding to Christ's call to charity, Fr John Fowles CCS
Charity that pleases God is that which gives without counting the cost.
976 - Apr 2008 - Legal Year homily: Truth and the law: legal should also mean moral, Bishop Peter Elliott
Some call it Theophobia fear of God or christophobia fear of Christians.
977 - Apr 2008 - Progress report: AD2000's worldwide outreach via the Internet, Francis Young
These rank among the marvellous things - inter mirifica - which God has placed at our disposal he wrote.
978 - Apr 2008 - News: The Church Around the World
He exhorted the Jesuits to seek that harmony with the magisterium that avoids causing confusion and uncertainty among the People of God.
979 - Apr 2008 - Christ's commandment: Church's 'primary task' is evangelisation: Benedict XVI, Michael Gilchrist
It is even stated that the claim to have received the gift of the fullness of Gods revelation masks an attitude of intolerance and a danger to peace.
980 - Mar 2008 - Reflection: Benedict XVI on Lent: 'authentic conversion to the love of Christ', Pope Benedict XVI
With a more fervent participation let us direct our gaze therefore in this time of penance and prayer at Christ crucified who dying on Calvary revealed fully for us the love of God.
981 - Mar 2008 - Books: Books available from AD2000 Books
95 The Kings Good Servant but Gods First James Monti The author examines Mores writings including his letters from prison the testimony of early biographers and the recent findings of Tudor and Reformation era scholars to reconstruct the events of Mores life and death.
982 - Mar 2008 - DVD: NO TURNING BACK: Confessions of a Catholic priest, by Fr D. Calloway, Fr Martin Durham
Both of you are kindred souls - the stories of your conversions by the grace of God are so much alike.
983 - Mar 2008 - Books: SEARCHING FOR AND MAINTAINING PEACE, by Father Jacques Philippe, Tim Cannon
The central thesis of this book can be found in its preface where the author writes it is essential for us to come to understand that the way to God and the perfection that is demanded of us is shorter and more efficacious markedly easier too when one has learned little by little how to conserve in all circumstances a profound peace of heart.
984 - Mar 2008 - Books: GOD AND CAESAR: Religion, Politics, and Society, by Cardinal George Pell, Catherine Sheehan
Cardinal Pell on the role of religion in a secular culture: a message of hope GOD AND CAESAR: Selected Essays on Religion Politics and Society by Cardinal George Pell (Edited by M.
985 - Mar 2008 - Poetry: Time-Warp, Bruce Dawe
Ive seen a lot of fellows hanging up there on that God-forsaken hill but that Jesus he was the only one who seemed to have a special reason for being there (one too big I suppose to be spoken about these days .
986 - Mar 2008 - Letters: From India, Fr. A. Joseph
I thank God for this and also Fr Patrick who helped me to stay there.
987 - Mar 2008 - Letters: 'Re-ordered' churches, Brian Tooley
It is integral to our faith and must be addressed - this for the glory of God.
988 - Mar 2008 - Letters: Altar rails, Corinne O'Loughlin
With the removal of the altar rails they have not come closer to God as suggested by their behaviour of talking loudly and discussing the latest news with each other while others are trying to pray.
989 - Mar 2008 - Letters: Homosexual 'marriage', Arnold Jago
Traditional societies always considered the marriage contract also to involve God - making it something not lightly to be discarded.
990 - Mar 2008 - Letters: Response, Richard Stokes
Lamb of God becomes bread of life and Pray brethren .
991 - Mar 2008 - Letters: Canadian Lectionary, Matt Walton
To call the Canadian Lectionary modified is a genteel term for a massive deconstruction of the Holy Scripture for it sets out to change the mind nature and constitution of the Church primarily by desacralising and emasculating the Word of God.
992 - Mar 2008 - Letters: Christ's Church, Frank Mobbs
has been granted by God supreme full and immediate and universal power over the care of souls (Art.
993 - Mar 2008 - La Sapienza: Benedict XVI: the papacy and the university, Pope Benedict XVI
The bishop - the shepherd - is the man who takes care of this community the one who keeps it united by keeping it on the path toward God which Jesus points out through the Christian faith - and he does not only point this out: he himself is the way for us.
994 - Mar 2008 - Crescat amor: What is the nature and purpose of theology?, Fr John O'Neill PP
Such proposals come from minds that have proved themselves unfruitful believing that truth in religion is a product of the mind of man or of some sort of consensus of human opinion and so they all make a very fundamental mistake they forget that theology is the study of God: it does not construct Him.
995 - Mar 2008 - 40 Years On: Vatican II at its mid-life crisis, Br Barry Coldrey
Strong Catholic devotions such as Eucharistic Adoration and to Mary Mother of God declined in many places and were rarely referred to.
996 - Mar 2008 - Recovering the sacred in modern church architecture, Moyra Doorly
Journalist and architect Moyra Doorly is the author of No Place For God: The Denial of the Transcendent in Modern Church Architecture (Ignatius Press 2007) a critique and examination of the banality and ugliness that is evident in many modern churches and cathedrals.
997 - Mar 2008 - Man-made climate change: another great hoax?, Peter Finlayson
In the past pagans sacrificed animals and even humans in vain attempts to placate capricious and cruel gods.
998 - Mar 2008 - Tribute: B.A. Santamaria: ten years on, Cardinal George Pell
Certainly I thank God for being Archbishop of Melbourne when Bob Santamaria died so I could do my part to ensure that he was sent off to eternity in a manner befitting his achievements.
999 - Feb 2008 - Reflection: Devotion to Our Lady: eclipse and revival, Br Barry Coldrey
However in the wake of Vatican II (1962-65) public devotion to Mary Mother of God declined - or at the very least became less conspicuous in the life of the Western Church for the next thirty years.
1000 - Feb 2008 - Books: Books available from AD2000 and Freedom Publishing
Here he provides an overview of the spiritual life for those seeking to grow in the love of God and neighbour.
1001 - Feb 2008 - Books: NO PLACE FOR GOD: The Denial of the Transcendent in Modern Church Architecture, Tony Evans
Modernist architecture: stripping churches of the sacred NO PLACE FOR GOD: The Denial of the Transcendent in Modern Church Architecture by Moyra Doorly (Ignatius Press 2006 148pp $29.
1002 - Feb 2008 - Letters: Virgin Birth, Eamonn and Pat Keane
St Ignatius of Antioch a contemporary of St John the evangelist stated: You Christians are firmly convinced about our Lord who is truly of the race of David according to the flesh Son of God according to the will and power of God truly born of a virgin .
1003 - Feb 2008 - Letters: New look Mass, Jessie Roger
For example Blessed are you Lord God of all creation becomes We bless you Lord.
1004 - Feb 2008 - What the social reign of Christ means today, Bishop Peter Elliott
This is the mandate for the royal People of God: we are called to do the will of God here and now to seek to know that will to fulfil it and so extend the Kingdom.
1005 - Feb 2008 - The need for solitude and reflection amid today's cacophony, Andrew Kania
As Dawe writes: Anyway pretty soon he was old enough to be realistic like every other godless money-hungry back-stabbing miserable so-and-so and then it was goodbye stars and the soft cry in the corner when no-one was looking because Im telling you straight Jim its Number One every time for this chicken hit wherever you see a head and kick whoevers down well thanks for a lovely evening Clare its good to get away from it all once in a while I mean its a real battle all the way and a man cant help but feel a little soiled himself at times you know what I mean?
1006 - Feb 2008 - A remarkable father remembered, Maria Rankin
For Dad God always came first and he would be later knighted for this work by Pope Pius XII.
1007 - Feb 2008 - Paganism: 'New Age' activities continue in Brisbane Archdiocese, Tim Pemble-Smith
They include Carol Christs Rebirth of the Goddess Berry and Clarkes Befriending the Earth Riane Eislers Sacred Pleasure Molyneaux and Vitebskys Sacred Earth Sacred Stones Spiritual Sites and Landscapes RJ Stewarts Celtic Gods and Goddesses The Earth Path: Grounding Your Spirit in the Rhythms of Nature by self-proclaimed witch Starhawk and Marija Gimbutas The Language of the Goddess: Mythologies of Old Europe.
1008 - Feb 2008 - Grace under fire: ordinations, and first Holy Communion in Iraq, Babette Francis
He did not expect to live more than two years but God gave him three.
1009 - Feb 2008 - Spe salvi: Benedict's second encyclical calls for a rediscovery of hope in Christ, Michael Gilchrist
It followed his first encyclical Deus Caritatis Est God is love.
1010 - Dec 2007 - Reflection: May we deepen our longing for the Lord's coming, Bishop Arthur Serratelli
He said I want to be with God.
1011 - Dec 2007 - Books: THE CATHOLIC PRIESTHOOD AND WOMEN by Sara Butler MSBT, Paul Woodbury
While the author notes the obvious fact that women should not be repressed nor denied equal rights as human beings this she says is a separate issue as it relates to their innate dignity as individuals created in the image and likeness of God.
1012 - Dec 2007 - Books: JESUS, THE APOSTLES AND THE EARLY CHURCH by Pope Benedict XVI, Tim Cannon
This affirmative response to Gods will is the one factor which bound the motley crew of Apostles into an indivisible ecclesial community in Christ.
1013 - Dec 2007 - Letters: Unbaptised infants, Lawrence R. Hurley
The Commissions document is said to have sparked a lot of controversy but is trying to say what the Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC 1260 1261 1283) has already said: that we have a right to hope that God will find a way to offer the grace of Christ to such infants and trying to provide a theological rationale for what has already been proposed in several magisterial documents since the Council.
1014 - Dec 2007 - Letters: Homosexual 'marriage', Arnold Jago
Traditional societies always considered the marriage contract also to involve God - making it something not lightly to be discarded.
1015 - Dec 2007 - Letters: Narrow way, F. Thims
Their old sayings still stay with me: The straight and narrow way would be much easier if more people used it; You start the day well when you start it on your knees; Say good morning to all but make sure Gods at the head of the list; Dont end your life in arrears with your Sunday Masses; Dont try to go to heaven alone.
1016 - Dec 2007 - Architecture: Did Vatican II recommend the removal of altar rails?, M. Cassey
According to Cardinal Ratzinger there is only one action in the liturgy the action of God and we should be clearly aware that external actions are quite secondary here.
1017 - Dec 2007 - 1962 Missal: Australian bishops support Benedict XV's liberalising of the Latin Mass, AD2000 Report
With the frenetic pace of modern life and the somewhat dangerous times in which we live we are fulfilling the explicit desire of the Church by coming together this morning for this Holy Mass in honour of the Mother of God.
1018 - Dec 2007 - Schools: The state of Catholic education: teacher and student experiences, Br Barry Coldrey
The following would be a few examples in the Melbourne Archdiocese: SIX30 Thursday Holy Hours in St Patricks Cathedral; Emmanuel Youth Suppers and other associated youth activities at the Hermits Retreat St Anthonys Shrine a Franciscan (Capuchin) Ministry; the ministries of the Disciples of Jesus Covenant Community and the Missionaries of Gods Love in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne; the NET (National Evangelisation Teams) Ministry in senior secondary Catholic colleges directed from 260 Queens Parade Clifton Hill Vic; the Apologetics Evenings arranged at the Thomas More Centre 582 Queensberry Street North Melbourne.
1019 - Dec 2007 - News: The Church Around the World
But the model of the Church as the people of God produces a more liberal and egalitarian vision of the Eucharist as a simple sharing of bread and wine by brothers and sisters in which Jesus is in our midst as a table which is open also for people from different religious traditions.
1020 - Nov 2007 - Reflection: Benedict XVI on Sunday Mass: 'not a command, but an inner necessity', Pope Benedict XVI
We need this encounter which brings us together which gives us space for freedom which lets us see beyond the bustle of everyday life to Gods creative love from which we come and towards which we are travelling.
1021 - Nov 2007 - Books: Books available from AD Books
00 God Is Near Us Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger This book consists of a collection of homilies pastoral letters and lectures that date mostly from Benedict XVIs period as Archbishop of Munich and Friesing.
1022 - Nov 2007 - Music: Cherished Hymns of the Forefathers - 2DVD and CD set, Peter Donald
Amazing Grace Abide With Me How Great Thou Art O God Our Help In Ages Past and Nearer My God To Thee are included in the selection - all genuine classics of English Christianity.
1023 - Nov 2007 - Architecture: How a Sydney parish church was restored, John O'Brien
Upgraded pews new candlesticks processional cross book stands credence tables altar crosses celebrants chair and altar servers pews and kneelers completed the refurbishment works and have ensured that St Peters is a worthy House of God in the Archdiocese of Sydney.
1024 - Nov 2007 - Latin is still the universal language of Liturgy, Bishop Arthur Serratelli
The use of the vernacular in the Liturgy especially in the proclamation of the Scriptures helps us receive Gods Word more readily.
1025 - Nov 2007 - Liturgical Abuse: Trinitarian language lost in Brisbane Scriptures, Michael Apthorp
Secondly not only are these altered versions completely illicit but they are of staggeringly poor quality: they distort the word of God tamper with key doctrines and plumb the depths of absurdity.
1026 - Nov 2007 - Australia's Missionaries of God's Love congregation continues to grow, Mary Pidcock
The story of the Missionaries of Gods Love (MGL) is one of real hope for the Church in Australia.
1027 - Nov 2007 - Democracy: Religious leaders must have freedom to speak, Cardinal George Pell
The phrase consequences for their place in the life of the Church refers to the effect a seriously wrong decision has on the personal relationship between that individual and God and that individual and the Church community to which he or she belongs.
1028 - 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.
1029 - Oct 2007 - Books: Books available from AD Books
Its one basic question is: How can we pray and praise God as we should?
1030 - Oct 2007 - Letters: Mass attendance, John Schmid
Top of the list would be love of God and His Son Jesus Christ not so much whether those in the pews like the priest how Mass is celebrated or the level of community acceptance etc.
1031 - Oct 2007 - Letters: Moral standards, Don Gaffney
Under Gods providence humanly speaking it was held together by the efforts of John Wesley who didnt give a brass farthing about the progress of the Empire.
1032 - Oct 2007 - Truth: And the Light shines in the darkness: the meaning of true ecumenism, Andrew Kania
Those people who walk in the way of salvation through an encounter with God of which the Catholic Church was not corporeally the minister those who are at any rate related to the mystical Body such are not strangers to her Eacute; The Spirit of grace and salvation is not confined within one religious history nor is it a sullen recluse in periods of time before or after Bethlehem.
1033 - Oct 2007 - Sacred language: New US liturgy head endorses revised Missal translation
It envisages and seeks to prepare for a new era of liturgical renewal which is consonant with the qualities and the traditions of the particular Churches but which safeguards also the faith and the unity of the whole Church of God (Liturgiam Authenticam 7).
1034 - Oct 2007 - A Christian sceptic's challenge: why atheism has no answers, Babette Francis
I ask because the evidence for the existence of God defined as the First Cause the Prime Mover and Shaker is so much stronger than for the existence of these writers.
1035 - Oct 2007 - Sacred space: Sydney seminar promotes improved church architecture and art, John O'Brien
It was felt that there is a great need to educate the Catholic community in the rich cultural traditions of the Catholic faith as a means of discovering Gods beauty which is the essence of all beauty and the companion of truth.
1036 - Oct 2007 - Queensland: Liturgy in Brisbane and the rights of the laity, Michael Apthorp
the worship of God.
1037 - Oct 2007 - More of the same: Retired Sydney bishop calls for a radical overhaul of the Catholic faith, Michael Gilchrist
Nor are the Christian creeds - such as the Apostles Creed and Nicene Creed - exempt from critical scrutiny: How could mere human beings claim such certainty concerning the inner life of God or the exact manner in which Jesus was both human and divine?
1038 - Sep 2007 - Reflection: An informed conscience: what the Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches, Bishop Luc Matthys
There he is alone with God whose voice echoes in his depths (Gaudium et Spes 16 Vat II document).
1039 - Sep 2007 - Books: Books available from AD2000
95 God Is Near Us Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger This book consists of a collection of homilies pastoral letters and lectures that date mostly from Benedict XVIs period as Archbishop of Munich and Friesing.
1040 - Sep 2007 - Events: Silent Retreat 9-12 November 2007
Don (Father) Serafino Tognetti the Superior General of the Community of the Sons and Daughters of God will be directing a Silent Retreat.
1041 - Sep 2007 - Books: FAITH AND CERTITUDE, by Thomas Dubay SM, Tim Cannon
A thoroughly convincing case for belief in the God of the Bible FAITH AND CERTITUDE by Thomas Dubay SM (Ignatius Press 1985 266pp softcover $24.
1042 - Sep 2007 - Books: THE BEAUTY OF THY HOUSE, by Mark Alessio, Tim Cannon
Serious Catholics strive throughout their lives to deepen their understandings of the truths of faith filling them out with detail and colour according to their abilities; for we are called to love God with all our heart soul and mind and we cannot love what we do not know.
1043 - Sep 2007 - Letters: Lapsed Catholics, Robert Garratt
Morality comes not from law but from the nature of the human person which ultimately flows from the nature of God.
1044 - Sep 2007 - Laity: How the Legion of Mary can benefit parishes, Fr Hugh Thwaites SJ
To give pleasure to the Mother of God is worth every effort.
1045 - Sep 2007 - Catholic education must be 'unashamedly Catholic', Bishop Robert Finn
From all Scripture it is clear that God reveals himself and therefore he wants to be known.
1046 - Sep 2007 - Rediscovering the real history of Australian Catholic education, Eamonn Keane
Of course the ultimate objective of conversion and the pursuit of virtue is that they lead to a loving embrace of God and neighbour.
1047 - Sep 2007 - 'Thought that has been thought out', John Haldane
In his book The Unknown God: Agnostic Essays (2004) the former priest and ex-Master of Balliol College Oxford Sir Anthony Kenny discusses the attitudes of several 19th and 20th century greats to the question of religion which often took the form of choosing and sometimes oscillating between atheism agnosticism and Catholicism.
1048 - Sep 2007 - New Age: Centering Prayer and other spiritualities: are they Catholic?, Wanda Skowronska
It ignores the fact that at its core centering prayer is fundamentally opposed to the Christian idea of prayer which is relational - involving communication with God as a person - and ignores the radically different under- standing of God the distinction between creature and creator the nature of being and mans ultimate end.
1049 - Sep 2007 - Rome reaffirms Vatican II's teaching on 'one true Church', Frank Mobbs
has been granted by God supreme full and immediate and universal power over the care of souls.
1050 - Sep 2007 - A successful quest for vocations in Melbourne, Br Barry Coldrey
In Australias largest Archdiocese these are the four pillars of a vocation ministry which is faith-based prayer-rich and God- centred: SIX30 is a weekly youth hour of Eucharistic adoration in St Patricks Cathedral.
1051 - Aug 2007 - Reflection: The Assumption: how the Christian arts honour the Virgin Mary
In the Gardens of God in the daylight divine Find me a place by thee Mother of mine.
1052 - Aug 2007 - Books: Mother Angelica's Little Book of Life Lessons and Everyday Spirituality, Michael E. Daniel
The topics covered range from Gods Will and Providence to Sin and Temptation Overcoming faults and Motherly advice for the family.
1053 - Aug 2007 - Books: The World's First Love, by Fulton J. Sheen, Michael Daniel
The Worlds First Love begins with the proposition that all of us carry within an image of the one that we love and that Mary is Gods blueprint of a human being because she unlike us was not tainted by sin.
1054 - Aug 2007 - Books: Jesus of Nazareth: Baptism to Transfiguration, by Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI, Tim Cannon
Benedict XVIs new book on Jesus Christ: true God and true man JESUS OF NAZARETH: From the Baptism in the Jordan to the Transfiguration Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI (Bloomsbury 2007 374pp hardback $39.
1055 - Aug 2007 - Poetry: Shrapnel, Bruce Dawe
Wherever you look theres Bethlehem and Golgotha; Crowds deafen many Jerusalems with their cries; Mary the Mother of God and Mary of Magdala Are passing along the street before our eyes.
1056 - Aug 2007 - Letters: Study leave, Eamonn Keane
The sense of God is being blurred.
1057 - Aug 2007 - Letters: Catholic politicians, Patricia Halligan
The far-sightedness and wisdom of John Paul IIs long reign is beginning to bear fruit in abundance and we thank God for it.
1058 - Aug 2007 - Letters: Breath of hope, Terry and Rosemary McDonnell
He was in the habit of always putting God first and intent on living a good Christian life.
1059 - Aug 2007 - Catholic students' joyful encounter with the Church's sacred music treasury, Gabrielle Walsh
Thirty-four Catholic colleges and over one thousand Catholic secondary school students assembled in Hamer Hall Melbourne on 21 May to praise God through sacred music and art.
1060 - Aug 2007 - Catholics and the pornography epidemic, Bishop Robert Finn
It robs us of sanctifying grace separates us from the vision of God and from the goodness of others and leaves us spiritually empty.
1061 - Aug 2007 - Society: Defending faith and reason in public life, Eamonn Keane
Parliaments which approve and promulgate such laws must be aware that they are exceeding their proper competence and placing themselves in open conflict with Gods law and the law of nature (p.
1062 - Aug 2007 - News: The Church Around the World
Vatican re-states centrality of Catholic Church In July the Vatican issued a new doctrinal statement titled Responses to Some Questions Regarding Certain Aspects of the Doctrine on the Church with Benedict XVIs approval which confirms the essential role of the Catholic Church in Gods plan for salvation.
1063 - Aug 2007 - University: Australian Catholic students' conference: 'an inspiring experience', Br Barry Coldrey
Some are associated with the Disciples of Jesus Covenant Communities and the Missionaries of Gods Love; others with the Franciscan Capuchin Youth Ministry.
1064 - Jul 2007 - Reflection: Bishop Robert Finn on what it means to be a Catholic priest, Bishop Robert Finn
Impart to everyone the Word of God which you have received with joy.
1065 - Jul 2007 - Books: The Seven Capital Sins, by Fulton J. Sheen, Tim Cannon
This is unfortunate because in spite of its title this is a remarkable book of considerable value in todays Godless world.
1066 - Jul 2007 - Books: A Catholic Replies to Professor Dawkins, by Thomas Crean OP, Tim Cannon
A convincing response to Richard Dawkins The God Delusion A CATHOLIC REPLIES TO PROFESSOR DAWKINS by Thomas Crean OP (Family Publications 2007 160pp soft cover $25.
1067 - Jul 2007 - Priesthood: Praying for priests: The Society of Christ Priest and Victim, Barry O'Brien
The late Father John Whiting founder of the Confraternity of Christ the Priest in the later years of his life encouraged many others to pray this prayer in his petitions to God for more priests and to pray for all priests who are suffering in their vocations as did Our Divine Lord Christ Priest and Victim.
1068 - Jul 2007 - Poetry: A legacy of virtue: the remarkable Craig sisters, Fr John Lea McDaniels FSSP
But I bent down and kissed the sod The mark of hooves that bore my God.
1069 - Jul 2007 - Why truth and charity are inseparable, Alice von Hildebrand
This assertion can only be validly pronounced by God himself.
1070 - Jul 2007 - Events: Canberra 6-8 July - Australian Catholic Students' Association 2007 Conference, Patrick Giam
Other speakers tackled the erroneous efforts to separate faith from reason most apparent in recent attempts to prove the mutual exclusivity of belief in both God and science.
1071 - Jul 2007 - News: The Church Around the World
A constant commitment was needed to place God always at the centre of the lives of our communities giving primacy to prayer to personal friendship with Jesus and hence to the call to sanctity.
1072 - Jul 2007 - Interview: He could no longer explain why he wasn't Catholic, Tim Drake and Francis Beckwith
Catholics would do well to plumb these works since in them Protestant evangelicals often provide the biblical and philosophical scaffolding that influenced the Church Fathers that developed the Catholic creeds as well as the Churchs understanding of the Bible as Gods Word.
1073 - Jun 2007 - Reflection: Pentecost, the Holy Spirit and the Eucharist, Fr Dennis Byrnes
It was through the power of God and the coming of the Holy Spirit that the apostles on the day of Pentecost left the secrecy of their room to confront the world with Christs message.
1074 - Jun 2007 - Books: AD2000 Books
He directs the reader to the more humble safer path which discerns Gods presence in prayer Scripture sacraments and love of neighbour.
1075 - Jun 2007 - Books: THE SONG OF BERNADETTE, by Franz Werfel, Michael E. Daniel
Whereas Bernadette now a nun was able to offer up her sufferings and was sustained by her hope in God Lafitte who had regarded the apparitions as mere superstition is overcome by despair.
1076 - Jun 2007 - Books: EDITH STEIN, WOMAN OF PRAYER: Her Life and Ideals, by Joanne Mosley, Tim Cannon
And yet in all of this she maintains and cultivates a steadfast and loving commitment to the will of God.
1077 - Jun 2007 - Books: IN THE LIGHT OF CHRIST: Writings in the Western Tradition, by Lucy Beckett, Francis Phillips
Beginning with Plato and Greek tragedy - For Aeschylus and Sophocles as for us the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom - she traces how writers down the centuries have anticipated or responded to the coming of God into the world; in this enterprise she is constantly alert to the either/or that Christs incarnation poses: either the Christian story is true and therefore the whole of life is charged with the mystery and grandeur of God; or man is merely a biological accident in a random universe.
1078 - Jun 2007 - The Caroline Chisholm Library: Melbourne's hidden treasure, John Young
Take the Confessions of St Augustine: the saint here describes his early life his struggles to find the truth his immoral living and how he finally conquered it his meditations on God and his soul.
1079 - Jun 2007 - Verbicide: 'Happy' or 'Blessed'? How faith can be drained of meaning, Arthur Ballingall
St Paul (1:Tim 1:11; 6:15) uses the word makarios to describe the blessed transcendence of God.
1080 - Jun 2007 - New Zealand Catholic college's intellectually challenging RE program, Bernard Moran
This leads to the study of Thomas Aquinas with his five arguments for the existence of God.
1081 - Jun 2007 - Obituary: A tribute to natural family planning pioneer, Dr John Billings, RIP, Msgr Peter J. Elliott
That instant bathed in Australian sunlight was for me a foretaste of Gods great day when this man would be welcomed into the Kingdom of Heaven by multitudes of the Holy Innocents of our human race those little ones to whom the Kingdom belongs.
1082 - Jun 2007 - New Missal translation: light at the end of the tunnel, Michael Gilchrist
Changes The following will be the most obvious changes to the lay peoples responses when the revised Missal finally becomes available: And with your spirit instead of And also with you; through my fault through my fault through my most grievous fault as well as and you my brothers and sisters instead of and you here present in the Confiteor; peace on earth to people of good will instead of peace to his people on earth and Only-begotten Son for Only Son of the Father in the Gloria; In the Nicene Creed I believe instead of We believe all things visible and invisible for seen and unseen by the Holy Spirit was incarnate of the Virgin Mary instead of born of and for us and our salvation with men deleted; Pray brothers and sisters that the sacrifice which is mine and yours not our may be acceptable; We proclaim your death O Lord and profess your resurrection until you come in glory instead of Christ has died Christ is risen Christ will come again; Behold the Lamb of God .
1083 - Jun 2007 - Editorial: Sacred music: an integral part of worship, Michael Gilchrist
Whether in English or Latin (Greek) the primary need is for congregations to learn to sing the Kyrie Holy Holy Lamb of God Our Father and other unchanging parts of the Mass.
1084 - May 2007 - Reflection: Teaching children about the Eucharist, Audrey English
At the Lamb of God the Host is again presented to us this time as an invitation to partake of the sacred meal.
1085 - May 2007 - Books: AD2000 Books
He directs the reader to the more humble safer path which discerns Gods presence in prayer Scripture sacraments and love of neighbour.
1086 - May 2007 - Books: Liturgy, Life of the Church; The Modern Rite; Pope and Council on Sacred Liturgy, Michael Daniel
It is through this liturgy that Christians should have their most intimate communing with God and nurturing of their faith.
1087 - May 2007 - Books: The Heresy Of Formlessness: The Roman Liturgy and Its Enemy, by Martin Mosebach, Tim Cannon
Mosebachs account is compelling although not without misgivings and a tempered reading will undoubtedly inspire readers to commit themselves to a more devout participation in the Mass through a better understanding of a liturgy which draws deeply from the well of Jewish tradition and bears the marks of some two thousand years of faithful Christian devotion since Christ renewed Gods covenant with his people at the Last Supper.
1088 - May 2007 - Books: The Catholic Church and the Counter-Faith, by Philip Trower, John Morrissey
And what is more important for general readers he clarifies how the Churchs teaching differs from the secular view which has put man in place of God while providing the intellectual tools to articulate a response.
1089 - May 2007 - Letters: Capital Punishment - with Apology, John Gallagher
We may not characterise as obscene a practice sanctioned and even mandated by God Himself.
1090 - May 2007 - Letters: Thank you from India, Fr. A. Joseph
I wish to sing along with Our Lady - My soul glorifies the Lord My spirit rejoices in God my Saviour.
1091 - May 2007 - Letters: Scourge of euthanasia, Brian Harris
This is because in the end it will come after us while it bears remembering that God said Thou shalt not kill and to do so could send us to hell.
1092 - May 2007 - The importance of 'holy things' for one's Christian faith, Andrew Kania
There in the sanctuary of his dwelling he quietly lit a fire in his stove and turned to his family saying to them I do not know what is written on these pages but I do know that this is the Word of God and Holy Things are for the holy.
1093 - May 2007 - Culture survey shows moral divisions in the US
The major dividing line is not belief in God as 87 percent of Americans say they believe in God while only 8 percent describe themselves as atheists or agnostics.
1094 - May 2007 - Vocations: New religious communities flourishing in the United States, Fr James Lloyd
She declared energetically that she too was a nun just as sincerely dedicated to God and good works as these habited collectors.
1095 - May 2007 - Cinema: New movie offers an authentic representation of monastic life, Rosina Gordon
We are drawn into our own meditation questioning the monks relationship with God the purpose of their vocation and consequently our own spiritual life.
1096 - May 2007 - News: The Church Around the World
The emergence of human life cannot be thought of as a purely random sequence of events but understood as the work of a Creator God.
1097 - May 2007 - Documents: Benedict XVI's new document on the Eucharist - Sacramentum Caritatis, Michael Gilchrist
The words of Saint Cyril of Jerusalem are quoted from his Catecheses in which he states that we call upon God in his mercy to send his Holy Spirit upon the offerings before us to transform the bread into the body of Christ and the wine into the blood of Christ.
1098 - Apr 2007 - Reflection: Benedict XVI on the transforming power of the Resurrection, Pope Benedict XVI
He was one single reality with the living God so closely united with him as to form one person with him.
1099 - Apr 2007 - Books: Aspects of Authentic Church Teaching, by Fr Sebastian Camilleri OFM, Michael Gilchrist
Those who have had the good fortune to come in contact with Fr Camilleri will know that he is a holy dedicated and zealous man of God.
1100 - Apr 2007 - Books: Catholic Thought Since the Enlightenment, by Aidan Nichols OP, Michael Daniel
Available from Freedom Publishing) Australia is not unique amongst Western nations in having a significant proportion of its population who are atheists along with a large number of agnostics those who are either uncertain as to whether God exists or who may believe in a higher force but deny or question the concept of divine revelation that a revealed religion such as Christianity proclaims.
1101 - Apr 2007 - Books: The Way of Love: Reflections on Deus Caritas Est, Livio Melina and Carl Anderson, Tim Cannon
The encyclical itself explores the nature of Christian love commenting in turn on: the unity of Christian love through which self-interested eros leads to and finds its fulfilment in the self-giving of agape; the implications for Christians of the divine nature of loves ultimate source God the Father; and the practical means by which the universal call to love should be answered by both individuals and the Church as a community.
1102 - Apr 2007 - Letters: Scourge of the West, Kevin McManus
He was called the scourge of God - a scourge allowed by God to chastise a decadent Europe.
1103 - Apr 2007 - Belief: Christian-Muslim dialogue: major stumbling blocks, Fr Richard Umbers
As for the crucifixion the Death of God theology and its theologians of the existentially authentic Jesus have themselves all long since died.
1104 - Apr 2007 - St Faustina: The Divine Mercy apostolate: a spirituality to transform the world, Eva Kimnes
The procession through Lodz with Faustinas relic on her Feast Day 5 October to St Stanislaw Kostkas Cathedral where she had decided to follow Gods will to become a nun attracted hundreds of clergy and local supporters.
1105 - Apr 2007 - Rockhampton Lenten program: 'whatever that might mean', AD2000 Report
And The Good News for us is the non-demanding love of God.
1106 - Apr 2007 - History: How much do Catholics know about ecumenical councils?, Frank Mobbs
The foundational idea of councils is that the bishops are successors to the apostles and so are endowed by God with the authority to teach and govern as were the apostles.
1107 - Apr 2007 - News: The Church Around the World
Archbishop Sebastian stressed that Lent is an invitation to repentance of our sins and to obtaining Gods forgiveness through the Sacrament of Penance.
1108 - Mar 2007 - Reflection: The Holy Trinity - source of true Christian unity, Fr John O'Neill
If one is fortunate enough to live in a parish in which handing over the direction of ones life to Christ through his Mother is dominant in the lives of many who still worship God then one is able to experience the unity Our Lord had in mind.
1109 - Mar 2007 - Media: The Rosary of the Virgin Mary - 4 DVD or 4 CD set, Michael Gilchrist
Confraternity of Christ the Priest Thurgoona NSW) In the introduction to Pope John Paul IIs Rosarium Virginis Mariae we read: The Rosary of the Virgin Mary which gradually took form in the second millenium under the guidance of the Spirit of God is a prayer loved by countless Saints and encouraged by the Magisterium.
1110 - Mar 2007 - Books: SEEKING THE ABSOLUTE: The Founders of Christian Monasticism, Michael E. Daniel
Available from Freedom Publishing) Reviewed by Michael Daniel If any institution stands in stark contrast to contemporary material culture it would have to be that of monasticism: too many people in the modern world simply cannot conceptualise how any individuals would forego marriage a family and a career to dedicate themselves entirely to God through the monastic vocation.
1111 - Mar 2007 - Books: LISTEN MY SON: St Benedict for Fathers, by Dwight Longenecker, Michael E. Daniel
Inherent in the ethos of St Benedict is the belief that God is to be found in the circumstances of our lives and thus these circumstances in the case of a husband marriage and raising children are an integral aspect of our redemption.
1112 - Mar 2007 - Books: The Glory of These Forty Days, by Fr James Tolhurst, Michael Gilchrist
Fr Tolhurst then provides a brief pen picture of St Basil and concludes with a quote from St Bede (673-735): Faith in the resurrection of Christ never misleads us and hope in our own resurrection never deceives us because God the Father both restored our Lord to life and will restore us to life too by virtue of his power.
1113 - Mar 2007 - Letters: Ten Commandments, Arthur Hartwig
One difficulty is with the English word love which covers everything from the perfect eternal love shown by God for His creation to the inane I love fairy floss.
1114 - Mar 2007 - Catholic religion courses and the challenge of relativism, Audrey English
Relativism is a philosophy that sees no absolutes and which ignoring God sees ideas values and attitudes to be conditioned by time place and ultimately by the individual.
1115 - Mar 2007 - Leadership: The scandal of Australia's anti-life Catholic politicians, Marcel White
Status of embryo Happy to play World Youth Day liaison and gracious host Turnbull concludes an article with this prayerful reflection on the 2008 Catholic event Let us pray that World Youth Day 2008 in Sydney will fill the world with Christs love and that all of us who are engaged in this great endeavour shall share in and be inspired by Gods passionate love for the human adventure.
1116 - Mar 2007 - Formation: Continuing growth of Sydney's Catholic Adult Education Centre, AD2000 Report
Given over a weekend they emphasise the spirituality and sacramentality of marriage openness to life and the importance of love in its two dimensions of eros and agape as mentioned by Benedict XVI in his encyclical God is love.
1117 - Mar 2007 - News: The Church Around the World
More remarkable only half of the self- identified Catholics say that they believe in God.
1118 - Feb 2007 - Reflection: Why the Church must continue to uphold priestly celibacy, Fr Pat Stratford
He is in a general way representative of God to people and of people to God.
1119 - Feb 2007 - Books: New Titles from AD Books
Here he provides an overview of the spiritual life for those seeking to grow in the love of God and neighbour.
1120 - Feb 2007 - Books: BEGINNING AT JERUSALEM: Five Reflections on the History of the Church, Sr Mariana Handley
Writers such as Alasdair MacIntyre Hans Urs von Balthasar and John Paul II form the basis of a text which uses the Catechism of the Catholic Church and the typology of Irenaeus to renew in our times the story of salvation and our role in manifesting God to the world.
1121 - Feb 2007 - Books: TREASURE IN CLAY: The Autobiography of Fulton J. Sheen, Michael Gilchrist
The first stage in vocation is a sense of the holiness of God.
1122 - Feb 2007 - Letters: Manipulating language, Carol V. Phillips
The Church has the duty to ensure that the Word of God is transmitted to the people of God accurately.
1123 - Feb 2007 - Poetry: Gender-Bender Autos, Bruce Dawe
The God the Father models clearly past its use-by date And as ready for the junkyard As a clunky Ford V8 So trade it in with us for some More stylized kind of car More stream-lined gender-neutral - One less particular.
1124 - Feb 2007 - Letters: Truth and love, Chris Hilder
God is truth and love to lose one cannot but lead to the loss of the other and therefore also to the loss of God.
1125 - Feb 2007 - Letters: Lost!, Moya and Leo Morrissey
which sums up the grave decline in the Catholic Church in most clear detail will not be lost to the Hierarchy - please God.
1126 - Feb 2007 - Letters: Shared guilt, Errol Duke
Until all archbishops bishops priests religious and lay people collectively accept their share of the blame for accommodating the whims and fancies of a secular culture gone mad only then can we get on with the task of rebuilding the Kingdom of God here on earth.
1127 - Feb 2007 - Music: Johann Sebastian Bach and the heavenly choir, Fr Finbarr Flanagan
According to Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) The aim and final reason of all music should be none else but the glory of God and the recreation of the mind.
1128 - Feb 2007 - Why we need holy days of obligation, Joanna Bogle
Of greater significance are all the positive arguments in favour of having Holy Days during the week: attending Mass midweek to observe a specific feast gives us an identity marks us as members of the Church brings God into the reality of our lives and gives Him priority offers an opportunity to share the Faith with a friend or someone who has lapsed and may be waiting for some encouragement.
1129 - Feb 2007 - The Church and the environment: address the moral pollution first, Wanda Skowronska
But says US Monsignor Reilly founder of the Helpers of Gods Precious Infants of his silent prayer vigils outside abortion clinics there is a time and place to shine the spotlight on the new Calvaries where the dying is occurring.
1130 - Feb 2007 - Priesthood: Orthodox priests in a divided Church, Fr John Trigilio
Liturgical aberrations and abuses promoted the dissident theology and adulterated morality by glorifying man over God.
1131 - Dec 2006 - Reflection: Jesus' law of love and the Ten Commandments, Fr Dennis Byrnes
Gods revelation This is what the Ten Commandments are all about.
1132 - Dec 2006 - Letters: Liturgical language, Ted Hayhoe
To Carol Phillips I would say that Gods people would of necessity be people of goodwill.
1133 - Dec 2006 - Letters: Linguistics, Matt Bruekers
Let me close with a quote from a medieval Anglo-Saxon legend about the martyrdom of St Agatha which relates that her final prayer included the sentence: I thank you God for having created me a man.
1134 - Dec 2006 - Letters: True Church, E. Makaus
Mr Alan Barron states that God is no respecter of persons nor favours one denomination over another (October AD2000).
1135 - Dec 2006 - Letters: Christian differences, Alan Barron
In my view God permits diversity of worship thus allowing each person to worship Him according to the dictates of conscience (or religious tradition).
1136 - Dec 2006 - Letters: Community?, Peter Gilet
Hopefully the new English translation will bring a generous amount of healing to our condition and we can get back to actually worshipping God in our Mass.
1137 - Dec 2006 - Letters: Infant Baptism
The key problem people have is that they cant see how God could allow children to miss heaven through no personal fault.
1138 - 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.
1139 - Dec 2006 - Letters: News from India, Fr Francis Pinto CSsR
May God bless you and your families.
1140 - Dec 2006 - Letters: Liberal Catholicism, Paula Gartland
I think not for I am not postulating a conscious revolutionary agenda but rather something informed by our universal Western yearning for utopias for a God without the long haul without the Cross a belief which underlies our whole system now.
1141 - Dec 2006 - Shrines: Marian Valley: Queensland's centre of pilgrimage, Peter Westmore
Nestled in the Glasshouse Mountains inland from the Gold Coast south of Brisbane lies the Shrine of Our Lady Help of Christians at Marian Valley a beautiful centre of retreat and pilgrimage which lifts the soul to God through his Son and his blessed Mother Mary.
1142 - Dec 2006 - 2006 National Church Life Survey: important questions overlooked, Michael Gilchrist
the Assemblies of God by 20 percent the Baptists by eight percent and the Churches of Christ by seven percent between 1996-2001.
1143 - Dec 2006 - Religious Life: Tyburn Sisters' communities spread around the world, Tess Livingstone
These chalices all bear the Papal Coat-of-Arms of our present Holy Fathers predecessor the Servant of God Pope John Paul II.
1144 - Dec 2006 - Modest dress: Suitable attire for Mass: the moral dimension, Bishop John W. Yanta
This time of the year I (and am sure many of you also) hear complaints about a lack of respect and reverence for the house of God the sacredness of the Lords presence in the liturgy and lack of respect for others and the lack of consciousness of the battle for purity in which the opposite sex finds itself even while attending Sunday Mass.
1145 - Dec 2006 - A 'best practice' guide to priestly vocations
Priests should not help the trend towards taking God off the streets by adopting secular modes of dress and behaviour and Eucharistic Adoration should be encouraged with prayers for vocations incorporated.
1146 - Dec 2006 - Catechesis of the Good Shepherd: the Montessori method for RE, Anne Delsorte
This work of making a way for our youngest children to discover for themselves their special relationship to God through the primary image of Jesus the Good Shepherd takes place in a specially prepared environment known as an atrium.
1147 - Dec 2006 - 'Lost!' controversy: Archbishop Bathersby's reply, AD2000 Report
It is one thing he said to judge local churches by the number of young men seeking priesthood it is another thing to examine the vitality vision and involvement of the people of God at a local level.
1148 - Dec 2006 - News: The Church Around the World
He reminded his French audience that priests are ordained to proclaim the Word of God rather than to offer their insights on matters that lay people can study equally well.
1149 - Dec 2006 - Benedict XVI challenges 'de-Christianisation' of society, Michael Gilchrist
After highlighting the fact that many people live as if God does not exist Benedict called on the Swiss bishops to ensure that the Word of God and the Christian message are understood and insisted they should adopt unanimous positions on theological and moral questions.
1150 - Dec 2006 - Editorial: The first Christmas, Peter Westmore
But for Christians the feast day which commemorates the birth of Jesus Christ is the literal fulfilment of the Old Testament prophecy in Isaiah: Behold a virgin shall conceive and bear a son and shall call his name Emmanuel - a name that means God is with us.
1151 - Nov 2006 - Reflection: Catholic schools must proclaim the total love of Christ, Fr Sebastian Camilleri OFM
Proclaiming the total love of Christ is not always a feel-good message; for this love involves honesty chastity and sobriety; it is a commitment to a continuing conversion in combating temptations that lurk everywhere alluring and alienating the indifferent and immature young from God and the Church.
1152 - Nov 2006 - Books: St John Bosco, St Dominic and the Rosary, St Thérèe of Lisieux, Siobhan B. Reeves
On the day of Dominics baptism his godmother was amazed to see a star shining on his forehead.
1153 - Nov 2006 - Poetry: Sometimes Gladness: Collected Poems 1954 to 2005, by Bruce Dawe, Michael Gilchrist
In lsquo;Pigeons Also Are a Way of Lifersquo; a city councillor is mocked for his petty-mindedness while the quasi-religious status of scientists and medical specialists who play God in regard to human reproduction are sent up in lsquo;Mary and the Angelrsquo;.
1154 - Nov 2006 - Letters: Conversion by violence, Gregory F.J. O'Regan
Imams muftis and preachers of Islam feel exposed by the Popes reference to its history of conversion by violence which the Pope illustrates is not in accordance with reason and is contrary to Gods nature.
1155 - Nov 2006 - Letters: Declining practice, Gerard J. Keane
When St Paul preached to the Greeks he realised that they had little understanding of the Creator God so what did he do?
1156 - Nov 2006 - Letters: Early baptism, John Schmid
Here I understand salvation to mean the beatific vision seeing God face to face in heaven.
1157 - Nov 2006 - Letters: Education needed, Judy O'Reilly
We know from Gods revelation that a heavenly destiny is a free gift to which no one has any entitlement so that God is doing no injustice to any baby that dies unbaptised.
1158 - 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?
1159 - Nov 2006 - Letters: Faith and reason, Peter D. Howard
The unfortunate implication that other truths are unnecessary or unknowable (one denomination is as good as another) ignores the Masters examples on how we fail to love God or neighbour in His warnings of sins which defile or befoul (Mk 7:21) in addition to ignoring His guarantees against error in transmitting His truths.
1160 - Nov 2006 - Letters: Accuracy needed, Carol V. Phillips
Even if all men of goodwill can be said to be automatically or fundamentally Gods people the Liturgy translators had no right to do such violence to the original Latin.
1161 - Nov 2006 - Letters: Translation hang-up, Fran Swindale
We Catholics are so blessed; even after twenty-seven years as a convert I still thank God for calling me to the faith and celebrate the day on which I was received.
1162 - Nov 2006 - Television: EWTN: now affordable and accessible in Australia, Moira Kirkwood
In her own words Mother Angelica dared lsquo;to do the ridiculous in order that God may do the miraculousrsquo;.
1163 - Nov 2006 - Liturgy: US bishop sets out clear guidelines on celebrations of the Mass, AD2000 REPORT
Chant he explained lsquo;allows us a certain sacred space within which that Word which God spoke in ancient times can be heard today with greater clarity and fidelity.
1164 - Nov 2006 - Brisbane Archdiocese: inclusive language in the liturgy continues, Michael Apthorp
They were designed to remove masculine pronouns referring to God in spite of their abundance in the Hebrew originals.
1165 - Nov 2006 - News: The Church Around the World
Welcome with an open heart those who knock at your door advise them console them and support them on the way of God.
1166 - Nov 2006 - Living the Faith: What distinguishes a practising Catholic?, Bishop Luc Matthys
Catholics throughout their lives aspire to listen to Gods Word as they find it in the Sacred Scriptures and Tradition as proclaimed in the Church and live accordingly.
1167 - Nov 2006 - Education: The Spirit of Generation Y: the challenge for Catholic schools, Cardinal George Pell
Three-quarters believe in God variously defined but only about half identify with a religion considerably below the national average.
1168 - Oct 2006 - Reflection: Philosophy and theology: avoiding the pitfall of human pride, Fr John O'Neill
Saint Paul condemned the Greeks - who loved to philosophise - for not discovering the true God.
1169 - Oct 2006 - Books: Towards A People's Liturgy: The Importance of Language, by Mark Twinham Elvins, Michael E. Daniel
Both these texts not only profoundly influenced the development of the English language but remain examples of dignified English composition that direct the worshipper to God who is transcendent.
1170 - Oct 2006 - Books: ARMS OF LOVE by Carmen Marcoux, Jacinta Cummins
Told from the alternating perspectives of both Brandon and the object of his desire Joanie Collins the book details how acceptance of Gods will and reliance on God is not like living to a set of rules designed to keep you from having fun but rather is actually a way to a fuller experience of life.
1171 - Oct 2006 - Letters: Evolution hoax, Fr G.H. Duggan SM
Peter Barnes has written that there is a considerable body of evidence supporting the view that evolution was the mode of Gods action in creating the universe and the living bodies within it.
1172 - Oct 2006 - Letters: Intelligent Design, Michael Griffiths
For instance Saint Paul writes in Romans 1:19-21 For what can be known about God is perfectly plain to them since God has made it plain to them; ever since the creation of the world the invisible existence of God and His everlasting power have been clearly seen by the minds understanding of created things.
1173 - Oct 2006 - Letters: Church teaching on baptism, C.V. Phillips
In other words if there is another way for these little ones to reach heaven then God has not revealed it.
1174 - Oct 2006 - Letters: Pessimistic view, Francis Vrijmoed
In his article An unbaptised baby may never see God face to face in heaven (August AD2000) John Young gives a rather pessimistic view of the Catholic Churchs teaching with regard to the fate of those infants who die before having been baptised.
1175 - Oct 2006 - Letters: Early baptism, Frances McEniery
I commend John Young for his article endorsing early baptism however I do not believe a loving God would ever condemn a perfectly innocent baby to the pain of loss limbo or any other denial of Heaven.
1176 - Oct 2006 - Letters: Counter Reformation, Alan Barron
I have come to the conclusion that God is no respecter of persons nor favours one denomination over another.
1177 - Oct 2006 - University: Campion College: a pioneer in Australian higher education, Stephen McInerny
The Colleges motto Educare ad Aeternitatem (educating for eternity) beautifully encapsulates the relationship between what is taught in lectures and seminars and the origins and end of human life: the eternal Word of God.
1178 - Oct 2006 - Benedict XVI interviewed by German journalists
Benedict XVI: The basic theme is that we have to rediscover God not just any God but the God that has a human face because when we see Jesus Christ we see God.
1179 - Oct 2006 - Spanish bishops attack false theologies, AD2000 Report
There is also the application of methods that systematically exclude the possibility of revelation miracles and intervention of God.
1180 - Oct 2006 - News: The Church Around The World
It is God and God alone who is all-powerful while the ancestors are created by him.
1181 - Oct 2006 - Generation Y: New survey confirms low belief and practice levels of young Catholics, Michael Gilchrist
Eclectic represented a collage of themes from disparate sources such as neo-paganism goddess worship astrology various superstitions or elements of Eastern or esoteric religious practices.
1182 - Sep 2006 - Reflection: Cardinal Arinze on the need for Eucharistic reverence, Cardinal Francis Arinze
He offers Christ to God the Father.
1183 - Sep 2006 - Books: Why Must I Suffer? by Fr F.J. Remler CM, Jacinta Cummins
The human understanding of suffering is broad encompassing the Old Testament view of it as a kind of wrath or revenge from God in retribution for ones own or ancestors sins or the inexplicable workings of fate or bad luck.
1184 - Sep 2006 - Books: Advancing the Culture of Death, by Peter Hung Manh Tran, Peter Westmore
All this changed with the emergence of Christianity which viewed human life itself as precious and having intrinsic value and followed the Jewish conception of man being made in the image and likeness of God.
1185 - Sep 2006 - Letters: African pen-friend, Fr Vincent Kajoba
I promise to pray for any family that God willing makes contact with me.
1186 - Sep 2006 - Letters: Correction to last month's reflection on Baptism, John Young
there is no good reason to think the child will ever see God face to face in heaven.
1187 - Sep 2006 - Letters: Baptism, Mark Moriarty
I believe that God who has entrusted this child to them through love would have known that their desire would have been baptism for their child therefore I believe that child would enter heaven.
1188 - Sep 2006 - Letters: Thomas Groome (letter), C. Hungerford-Morgan
Do the CEO and/or clergy aim to raise souls to God or send them into a fog of confusion and ignorance?
1189 - Sep 2006 - Family in Society: Asian and Australian families face similar challenges, Leslie Sammut
The gap between the haves and the have-nots is a grave injustice and a failure in our duty of Christian stewardship of our talents resources and goods all of them gifts of God.
1190 - Sep 2006 - History: The Counter Reformation and the Jesuits, John Morrissey
A formula for Justification or salvation which asserted the primacy of faith and Gods grace but included the role of good works was decreed in 1547 followed by an uncompromising assertion on the Eucharist in 1551 of transubstantiation and the sufficiency of one species.
1191 - Sep 2006 - Chavagnes: Catholic education in a secular culture, Alexander Morrison
There was no room for tuneless meaningless mediocre hymns that try to be up-beat while taking away the sense of the sacred that the worship of God demands.
1192 - Sep 2006 - News: The Church Around the World
This is just one of many authentic ways of worshipping God.
1193 - Sep 2006 - USA: Liberal Christianity goes into meltdown, Charlotte Allen
The Presbyterian Church USA is famous for its 1993 conference co-sponsored with the United Methodist Church the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and other mainline churches in which participants reimagined God as Our Maker Sophia and held a feminist-inspired milk and honey ritual designed to replace traditional bread-and-wine Communion.
1194 - Aug 2006 - Reflection: The importance of early baptism, John Young
While it is a child of God in a natural sense (because created and loved by Him) it is not a child of God in the supernatural sense of having been raised to a share in His own life.
1195 - Aug 2006 - Books: SEEDS OF LIFE: Early Christian Martyrs, Julia Bakowski
In his 252 AD letter he wrote: What true glory and what great joy to come into the sight of God!
1196 - Aug 2006 - Books: Land of Carmel, by Elizabeth Ruth Obbard, Jacinta Cummins
This should engender in us a basic humility; a realization that Gods covenant does not depend on our worthiness.
1197 - Aug 2006 - Letters: Intelligent design?, Peter Barnes
I must first reiterate that I do not consider that in the evolution vs intelligent design debate Gods creation or sovereignty is in question.
1198 - Aug 2006 - Letters: Tasmania, Justin Kearney
It was inspiring to hear the faith journey of a man who had committed himself to God and the priesthood in such difficult times for the Church and laity.
1199 - Aug 2006 - Scripture and Tradition: sources of divine revelation, Fr G.H. Duggan SM
It is a commonplace of Catholic theology that there are two sources (fontes) of divine revelation from which we receive the truths which we have to believe and the moral laws which we have to obey if our conduct is to be pleasing to God.
1200 - Aug 2006 - Does Wollongong's Catholic Education Office endorse dissent?, AD2000 Report
What we are certain of is that he preached the reign of God and gathered a community of disciples to announce the good news of salvation (p.
1201 - Aug 2006 - Teen STAR: Sex education for young adults: a pro-life approach, Jacinta Cummins
The Teen STAR program has enjoyed considerable success in the United States since it was introduced but it is still struggling to receive funding for presentations in schools as a positive alternative to the liberal and immoral sex education courses which treat sex as a hobby or recreation rather than as a sacred gift from God to be enjoyed in the context of marriage.
1202 - Aug 2006 - Victoria-Tasmania: Continued growth in vocations at Melbourne's Corpus Christi seminary, Joan Clements
This is one of the ways that Fr Denton makes contact with young men who may recognise that God is calling them to the priesthood.
1203 - Aug 2006 - Priesthood: Promoting vocations in the Melbourne Archdiocese, Fr Anthony Denton
Much vocation work is the providing of opportunities for young people to be able to listen to God speaking in their hearts.
1204 - Aug 2006 - Canberra-Goulburn: Archbishop Coleridge: Benedict's first Australian appointment, Anh Nguyen
Biblical scholar Archbishop Coleridge is well known in Melbourne and recognised as an intelligent articulate servant of God.
1205 - Aug 2006 - News: The Church Around the World
Vatican official calls for a recovery of the sacred The new secretary of the Congregation for Divine Worship Sri Lankan-born Archbishop Albert Malcom Ranjith Patabendige Don told I Media in June that Vatican II had hoped to reinvigorate the sense of an active encounter with God through the liturgy.
1206 - Jul 2006 - Books: Good News About Sex and Marriage, by Christopher West, Jacinta Cummins
West sets out the Churchs teachings demonstrating what an extraordinary gift from God sex is when it involves two people within the context of marriage.
1207 - Jul 2006 - Books: Theology of the Body for Beginners, by Christopher West, Jacinta Cummins
God always bestows special and unique graces in times of great chaos and it seems no mere coincidence that John Paul II was installed after the advent of the sexual liberation and the widescale acceptance of the Pill.
1208 - Jul 2006 - Books: Hell and Other Destinations, by Piers Paul Read, Francis Phillips
) Apostasy Read thinks that Gaudium et Spes bears some responsibility for the disappearance of final damnation for it suggested that this world was no longer a vale of tears through which we pilgrimage carrying our cross; God had looked at his creation and found it very good.
1209 - Jul 2006 - Letters: Degrees of Homosexuality, Vincent Bemowski
They also frequently attack the Catholic Church because members of the Church often quote Romans (1:26-27) which reveals why God condemns homosexuality as a great evil: For this cause God delivered them up to shameful affections.
1210 - Jul 2006 - Letters: Contraception, Richard Congram
If any Pope or Council should ever do so then plainly Jesus Christ would not be God but a liar Christianity would be a monstrous fraud and heaven a cruel deception.
1211 - Jul 2006 - Letters: Abortion and the Annunciation, Greg Dunne
Such being the case it is more correct to say that God became incarnate in the person of Jesus Christ at the moment of Marys Fiat.
1212 - Jul 2006 - Letters: The Da Vinci Code, Denis Dominguez
History proves the God-man Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ died on the cross (blood and water flowing from His side) rose from the dead on the first Easter Sunday and ascended to heaven as He will return.
1213 - Jul 2006 - Re-mythologising: Narnia - faith and fiction: The parallel world of C.S.Lewis, Msgr Peter J. Elliott
That Aslan is a Christ figure may not seem obvious to Christians accustomed to the great New Testament metaphor of the Lamb of God.
1214 - Jul 2006 - New Vatican document emphasises centrality of marriage and family, AD2000 Report
The state he continued needed to recognise the importance of the family and to help it carry out its functions and he called upon families to place God at the centre of their lives.
1215 - Jul 2006 - Evangelisation: Strong leadership: US bishop Robert Finn shows how, AD2000 Report
Bishop Finns oft-stated message is that his principal job is to help Catholics respond to their baptismal call to holiness grow in the sacramental life and be closer to God in short to help everyone become saints.
1216 - Jul 2006 - News: The Church Around the World
Above all he said they should spread the Word of God carrying the light of Christ into all the social and cultural environments in which you live and illuminating the darkness of a world confused by the contradictory messages of ideologies.
1217 - Jun 2006 - Reflection: Pentecost, launching of the Church, Cardinal Francis Arinze
This is a clear sweeping and demanding assignment especially when we consider that it was given by the Son of God a short time before he left this world and to a small band of his followers.
1218 - Jun 2006 - Books: Dear Son, Dear Daughter: God's Plan for Catholic Marriage and the Family, Michael Gilchrist
DEAR SON DEAR DAUGHTER: Gods Plan for Catholic Marriage and the Family by Carol Phillips (St Philomena Catechetics Perth 2006 16pp $4.
1219 - Jun 2006 - Letters: Meditation, Rosemary Chandler
This is where O God come to my assistance O Lord make haste to help me originated.
1220 - Jun 2006 - Letters: Disturbing exhibit, Veronica Sidhu
I always thought that a cathedral or indeed any church was a house of God exclusively reserved for divine worship to the exclusion of any and all profane uses.
1221 - Jun 2006 - Letters: The new barbarism, Fr. B. McGrath
Our Judeo-Christian belief that we are creatures made in Gods image and destined to share Gods life for ever is the basis of the sanctity of human life.
1222 - Jun 2006 - Liturgy: Catholics at prayer: why we stand and kneel, Fr Sebastian Camilleri OFM
The author of De Ecclesiatica Hierarchia (500AD) commenting on the ordination of priests wrote in terms familiar to our Rite of Ordination that the approach to the holy altar and their prostrating themselves makes clear to all who are admitted to holy orders that they must submit their personal lives entirely to God from whom they receive their consecration as priests.
1223 - Jun 2006 - Is dialogue possible between Christians and Muslims?, Cardinal George Pell
It is difficult to recognise the God of the New Testament in the God of the Koran and two very different concepts of the human person have emerged from the Christian and Muslim understandings of God.
1224 - Jun 2006 - Education: Why do CEOs use Groome's RE method?, AD2000 Report
Otherwise wherever the Holy Trinity is referred to it is always as God: Communion of Love Source of all Being Eternal Word and Holy Spirit.
1225 - Jun 2006 - The Da Vinci Code: did the Church vilify Mary Magdalene?, Frank Mobbs
Remember that Jesus taught that his Father (God) would condemn any who denied faith in Jesus.
1226 - Jun 2006 - Vocations: Sydney seminary's growth continues, Michael Gilchrist
This he believes will produce seminarians who are soaked in the Word of God as a living word who have formed a Catholic mind and who have a heightened moral conscience and a firm grasp of Catholic moral teaching.
1227 - Jun 2006 - News: The Church Around the World
The moment his death was announced she said God spoke to me and told me thats where I belonged.
1228 - May 2006 - Reflection: Oneness in Christ: the heart of the priesthood, Fr John W. O'Neill PP
So this poor priest is having a go at writing about something much more than a game which he has tried to play God alone knows with what success.
1229 - May 2006 - Books: Stimulating reading from AD Books
00 God and the Ways of Knowing Jean Danieacute;lou SJ One of the foremost 20th century theologians Fr Danieacute;lou explores the ways through which mankind has come to know God - through Scripture religion philosophy and mysticism.
1230 - May 2006 - Books: Young Faces of Holiness: Modern Saints in Photos and Words, by Ann Ball, Jacinta Cummins
These stories of courageous and devoted Catholics will win over any reader but especially younger people as they depict not only lives lived with great spirit and for God but they also highlight how many of these holy people struggled with temptations similar to our own.
1231 - May 2006 - Books: On The Way To Jesus Christ, by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI), Jacinta Cummins
Much can be learned not only about the Catholic Church and faith and God from these publications but also about the current Vicar of Christ on earth.
1232 - May 2006 - Letters: Creationism?, Fr G.H. Duggan SM
It has been the view of many great thinkers including Aristotle and St Thomas Aquinas that the visible universe provides us with abundant evidence of intelligent design and points to the existence of an Intelligent Designer whom Aristotle named Nous and St Thomas God.
1233 - May 2006 - Letters: Intelligent Design, Michael Griffiths
Finally may I say that since scientists generally are very shy of identifying the one and only candidate for the position of Intelligent Designer I think it is Almighty God.
1234 - May 2006 - Letters: Modernism, Don Gaffney
Do you believe that Christ is truly God and therefore cannot contradict Himself?
1235 - May 2006 - Letters: Liturgical abuses, Rosanna Sherman
He must therefore learn to unite himself intimately to the offering placing his entire life upon the altar of sacrifice as a revealing sign of the gratuitous and anticipatory love of God.
1236 - May 2006 - Letters: Lay led liturgies in Rockhampton diocese, Jessie Roger
Dont judge things; theres no need to fear God or carry a cross - have optimism and joy.
1237 - May 2006 - Letters: Religious dissent, Kevin McManus
Whatever form this may take it is certain that the Church will eventually renovate the religious orders and they will give glory to God as they always have.
1238 - May 2006 - Vocations: Can religious life be rebuilt in Australia?, Sr Mary Augustine OP
Tracey Rowlands lovely article about the extraordinary success story of the Dominicans of St Cecilia Nashville Tennessee is an important reminder that all is not lost and that Gods call to serve Him in the Religious Life is still being heard by significant numbers of young women in some parts of the world.
1239 - May 2006 - Catholicism-lite's Church of convenience, Paul A. Wagner
A few times I have been so indelicate as to ask what it means to feel positive and I am usually told things like I feel positive about myself or I feel positive because I know that regardless of what I have done God still loves me.
1240 - May 2006 - Benedict's first twelve months: 'We Are Church' delivers its verdict, Michael Gilchrist
These were spelled out in its letter to each cardinal: The Universal Pastor we envision would be collaborative in style inviting the worlds bishops to share leadership with him and with other members of the People of God.
1241 - May 2006 - Events: Carnivale Christi 2006 scheduled for Melbourne and Sydney in May, AD2000 Report
Works exhibited use video projections light and sound installations paintings sculptures and drawings to explore faith and share their experience of God.
1242 - May 2006 - News: The Church Around the World
At that time said Bishop Skylstad the Church will have the opportunity once again to stand publicly in support of marriage as the God-given union of a man and a woman.
1243 - May 2006 - Papacy: Benedict completes his first twelve months as Pope, Fr Ephraem Chifley
The Jesus of modern theology who was a good-natured if unlucky hippy with not much to say about the details of our lives does not threaten as much as the Son of God Incarnate who spoke with authority died for our sins and rose in the flesh.
1244 - May 2006 - Editorial: Benedict XVI: love and truth are inseparable
The source of the communion of the disciples both with one another and with God is the Spirit that pours the love of God into our hearts the Pope began.
1245 - Apr 2006 - Reflection: The redeeming Cross: at the centre of Christian faith, Cardinal George Pell
In some ways we have moved even beyond Richard Niebuhrs verdict on The Kingdom of God in America - We want a God without wrath/who took a man without sin/into a kingdom without justice/through the ministrations of a Christ without a cross - because the United States still remains one of the most religious societies in history; far more religious than Australia and most of Europe.
1246 - Apr 2006 - Books: Mother Angelica, by Raymond Arroyo, Stephen Hitchings
He presents her as an inspired very determined but humble fallible and frequently confused woman who is willing to endure anything in order to do what she perceives as Gods will.
1247 - Apr 2006 - Books: Swear To God: The Promise and Powers of the Sacraments, by Scott Hahn, Jacinta Cummins
SWEAR TO GOD: The Promise and Powers of the Sacraments by Scott Hahn (Darton Longman amp; Todd 2004 232pp $34.
1248 - Apr 2006 - Letters: Religious life, Barbara Chigwidden
These heroic women completely trusting in the Providence of God have founded a community in our tiny town.
1249 - Apr 2006 - Letters: Church of England, Jim Turley
The rise of the so-called New Theology in the 1960s referred to by Mullen was essentially I believe an outcome of Nietzsches condemnation of Christian love as the result of mans fear of God.
1250 - Apr 2006 - Letters: Inclusive language, Ottavio Kos
During the Gospel reading Dr Gill will hear about the judge who feared neither God nor humanity and who on his own admission feared neither God nor human beings.
1251 - Apr 2006 - Letters: Courageous example, Arnold Jago
When Lejeune died on Easter Sunday 1994 Pope John Paul II commented: If God called him from this earth on the very day of Christs Resurrection it is difficult not to see a coincidence in this sign.
1252 - Apr 2006 - Letters: Translations, George Simpson
The grammatical gender of God pagan deities and angels according to the original texts must not be changed in so far as this is possible in the receptor language.
1253 - Apr 2006 - Letters: Action needed, Kevin McBride
Nevertheless we confidently believe that God knows best and His will will finally prevail.
1254 - Apr 2006 - Letters: Religious education, Saskia Ebejer
Thanks be to God my family was strong in the faith and I have received this legacy the pearl of great price.
1255 - Apr 2006 - Music and Culture: Benedict XVI, Mozart and the quest for beauty, Mark Freer
And this astonishing passage from his Tribute to Mozart: Do we not come from God and return to him passing through the waters and fires of time suffering and death?
1256 - Apr 2006 - 1973 Decree: A Fourth Rite of Reconciliation for Queensland?, AD2000
In fact par 31 states quite clearly: Individual integral confession and absolution remain the only ordinary way for the faithful to reconcile themselves with God and the Church.
1257 - Apr 2006 - Creation: Intelligent Design and the war against God, Stephen Hitchings
They make little attempt to assess the arguments for ID - in fact most show no evidence of even having read them - insisting that ID means God and is therefore unscientific.
1258 - Apr 2006 - EarthSong: Green Christianity or a new paganism?, Michael Gilchrist
Christians of course ought respect conserve and utilise wisely Gods creation but it is another matter to be worshipping creation as if it were God Himself.
1259 - Apr 2006 - Conscience: Dissenters' appeal to Rome 'a real hoot' says Cardinal Pell, Michael Gilchrist
What is in dispute is not the importance of conscience but whether conscience must be oriented to truth to the word of God.
1260 - Mar 2006 - Reflection: Bringing Christ's love to the bereaved: a ministry for Catholic parishes, Fr Dennis Byrnes
We should avoid the following expressions: Youve got to hold up; Dont cry; Everything will be all right; Its Gods will; I know just how you feel; Hes better off now; At least she is not suffering anymore; Youll get over it; Time will take care of everything; Be brave and strong.
1261 - Mar 2006 - Books: Golden Priest, Wooden Chalice, by Fr Tim Norris, Michael Gilchrist
Xavier McMonagle writes in her foreword: Thank God for Father Norris.
1262 - 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.
1263 - Mar 2006 - Letters: Elitism, Jeff Harvie
We should have compassion for those who are earnestly trying to be close to God but have not had the education that existed pre-Vatican II (or through good priests post-Vatican II).
1264 - Mar 2006 - Letters: St John Vianney, Maureen Wright
St John Vianney was driven by living for the glory of God the salvation of his soul and of the souls for whom he was responsible.
1265 - Mar 2006 - Letters: Canadian Lectionary, Matt Walton
In the beginning was the word and the word was with God and the word was God (Jn 1:1).
1266 - Mar 2006 - Letters: Intelligent Design, Peter Barnes
It is true many Darwinian evolutionists are atheists who seek to eliminate God in favour of blind chance but Intelligent Design wants to ignore the possibility of the evolution of complex biological systems because they are complex.
1267 - Mar 2006 - Letters: Adore 2006 in Brisbane, Tim Wallace
In addition through professional skits and short movie presentations it was demonstrated that we can and must live our faith amid all adversity and distraction; that Mary and the saints are always with us as guides and helpers; and that the sacramental life with frequent confession Communion and Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament are the ultimate gifts from God to help us achieve our destiny - eternal life in Heaven.
1268 - Mar 2006 - Letters: The Fortified School, Chris Hilder
What we must ask God is that in this little castle where there are already good Christians not one of us will go over to the enemy and that God will make the captains of this castle or city the preachers and the theologians very advanced in the way of the Lord - that they advance very far in the perfection of the religious life and their vocation.
1269 - Mar 2006 - Modernism: 'New Church' not true Church: what modernists believe, Pastor Remotus
Can any message be revealed by God and transmitted through human words?
1270 - Mar 2006 - Liturgy: Eucharistic faith: why the Mass needs re-enchanting, Alvin F. Kimel Jr
The people of God will not be spiritually and theologically transformed by impoverished language.
1271 - Mar 2006 - Mass: How can differences over the Liturgy be resolved?, Fr John O'Neill
In its fullness - the Solemn High Sung Mass - it is inspiring and awesome in the true sense of producing awe of God but also fostering an awareness through faith of the intimacy and presence of His love.
1272 - Mar 2006 - Archbishop Hickey: how to address the crisis of faith, Archbishop Barry Hickey
It is the Christian view that all human dignity comes from God the Creator enhanced immeasurably by the fact of the Incarnation.
1273 - Mar 2006 - News: The Church Around the World
Ten Commandments and a just society At his regular weekly audience on 25 January Pope Benedict XVI said that Gods law offered a blueprint for peace and harmony in the world.
1274 - Mar 2006 - Documents: Benedict's first encyclical 'Deus Caritas Est' speaks to the heart of the Faith, Michael Gilchrist
Benedict XVIs first encyclical Deus Caritas Est (God is Love) was released at the Vatican on 25 January.
1275 - Feb 2006 - Reflection: The hidden treasure of the Holy Mass, St Leonard of Port Maurice
The Holy Mass is the sum of Christianity the soul of faith and the summary of all that is good and beautiful in the Church of God.
1276 - Feb 2006 - Books: Stimulating reading from AD Books
Word Shepherd and Lamb of God.
1277 - Feb 2006 - Books: The Pope Benedict Code, by Joanna Bogle, Michael Gilchrist
The overview in addition deals with the Popes thinking on liturgy: Liturgy can only attract people when it looks not at itself but at God when it allows Him to enter and act.
1278 - Feb 2006 - Books: Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church, Peter Westmore
The informed and informative text is organised into specific sections dedicated to revealing Gods plan for humanity and how it is enhanced in the good order of society.
1279 - Feb 2006 - Letters: EWTN tapes available, Harry and Antoinette Zwaans
au We thank God for Mother Angelica and her EWTN but also for AD2000.
1280 - Feb 2006 - Letters: Homilies (letter), Robert Prinzen-Wood
But they seem to forget to remind us that God through His grace is the source of all goodness.
1281 - Feb 2006 - Letters: Intelligent design (letter), Paul MacLeod
Faith is the acceptance as certain of what God has revealed.
1282 - Feb 2006 - Letters: Wrong chord? (letter), John Daly
It is true as Chris points out that God has given different people different talents but that is no argument for insisting on the right to employ whatever subset of our talents we choose at Mass.
1283 - Feb 2006 - Letters: All Saints Day (letter), M & L Morrissey
How many Christians have died in grace who are known to God and are themselves only known in Heaven yet we forget to think about them.
1284 - Feb 2006 - The Church of England: beyond satire?, Rev Peter Mullen
The biblical criticism of 19th century theologians such as Strauss and Bauer and the more sensational demythologising method of Rudolf Bultmann were widely disseminated through the popular paperbacks Honest to God Soundings Objections to Christian Belief and The Secular Meaning of the Gospel.
1285 - Feb 2006 - Blessed Charles de Foucauld: seeking nothing but God's will, Dr Frank Mobbs
As for the Arab and Berber Muslims he was struck by their consciousness of God and fearless piety.
1286 - Feb 2006 - New Age paganism's creeping influence within the Church, Wanda Skowronska
Some poses are salutations to honour the Hindu sun god and in one form of yoga sitting upright aims at the Kundalini Awakening - the release of the serpent coiled at the base of the spine inviting real possession by alien spirits.
1287 - Feb 2006 - Education: Catholic Church and her schools face a 'wake-up call', Bishop Geoffrey Jarrett
Mass attendance This is a diocese in which I thank God the parochial schools including our secondary colleges still remain in a commonality of life with the parish which they serve.
1288 - Feb 2006 - News: The Church Around the World
This said Benedict is the great challenge facing Catholic universities: to practise science within the horizon of a rationality different from that which dominates today in keeping with a form of reason open to the transcendent to God.
1289 - Feb 2006 - Cardinal Arinze on the Liturgy: the Mass is not entertainment, Cardinal Francis Arinze
They come to Mass to adore God to thank him to ask pardon for sins and to ask for other things that they need.
1290 - Dec 2005 - Reflection: Journey of the Magi and the search for truth, Cardinal George Pell
As Augustine said our hearts are always restless until they rest in God.
1291 - Dec 2005 - Books: Christmas reading from AD Books
God Is Near Us Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger In this collection of unpublished texts of lectures pastoral letters and homilies Cardinal Ratzinger outlines the biblical historical and theological dimensions of the Eucharist and leads the reader into the heart of the Christian faith and its central mystery.
1292 - Dec 2005 - Books: Good News About Sex And Marriage, by Christopher West, Kerrie Allen
As male and female in marriage we become a life- giving communion of persons as God (the Trinity) is a life-giving communion of persons.
1293 - Dec 2005 - Books: The Cube and the Cathedral, by George Weigel, John Ballantyne
A compelling diagnosis of Europes long-term civilisational crisis THE CUBE AND THE CATHEDRAL: Europe America and Politics without God by George Weigel (Freedom Publishing 2005 softcover 202pp $24.
1294 - Dec 2005 - Letters: Catholic journal
May God bless all who are responsible for this magazine.
1295 - Dec 2005 - Letters: Evangelisation, Michael Dunlea
By that I mean they are challenged - usually as a result of effective preaching and hearing testimonies of Gods action in individual lives - as to the reality of inviting Jesus Christ into their lives and of committing their lives to Him.
1296 - Dec 2005 - Letters: Vatican II myths, Peter D. Howard
Does Vatican IIs Gaudium et Spes really put man above God as SSPX propagandists assert?
1297 - Dec 2005 - Cinema: New movie's balanced presentation of exorcism: The Exorcism of Emily Rose, Shannon Donahoo
If Jesus believed in demons but none existed then Jesus cannot be the Son of God because he would have been deluded.
1298 - Dec 2005 - The Eucharist: gift of an interventionist God, Chris Hilder
The first line in the Nick Cave song Into My Arms states: I dont believe in an interventionist God.
1299 - Dec 2005 - Formation: St John Vianney's blueprint for the priesthood back in favour, Fr John Cihak
God and the Church were relegated more and more to the margins of French life.
1300 - Dec 2005 - Episcopacy: Archbishop Chaput of Denver: America's plain-speaking Pope's man, Peter J. Boyer
It would not surprise any of these critics of the late Pope that on the day Cardinal Ratzinger was elected John Pauls successor Charles Chaput gave thanks to God.
1301 - Dec 2005 - News: The Church Around the World
The Pope continued: People no longer identify themselves with the teachings of the Church and this is accompanied by a decline in the certainty of the faith and in reverence for the law of God .
1302 - Dec 2005 - Synod on the Eucharist sets agenda for Benedict's pontificate, Michael Gilchrist
If such Catholics cannot obtain an annulment and objective conditions exist why their new marriage cannot be dissolved they are to be encouraged to live their new marriage according to the exigencies of the law of God transforming it into a loyal and trustworthy friend-ship.
1303 - Nov 2005 - Reflection: The concrete character of Christianity, John Young
God treats us as we really are a truth shown most strikingly in the Incarnation: he became man to save us and spent most of his short life on earth working as a carpenter.
1304 - Nov 2005 - Books: More good reading from AD Books
God Is Near Us Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger In this collection of previously unpublished texts of lectures pastoral letters and homilies Cardinal Ratzinger outlines the biblical historical and theological dimensions of the Eucharist and leads the reader into the heart of the Christian faith and its central mystery.
1305 - Nov 2005 - Books: Stem Cells, by Norman M. Ford and Michael Herbert, Kerrie Allen
During an IVF debate on the ABC religion program Compass (Family Matters August 2001) he said: The way God made our nature male and female the child is to arise from the context of the intimacy of love in a sexual union.
1306 - Nov 2005 - Books: Philosophy 101 Meets Socrates, by Peter Kreeft, Bill Muehlenberg
It differs from mere knowledge and God is its source.
1307 - Nov 2005 - Letters: Basic differences to overcome, Dr Arnold Jago
But the centre and summit of all things is God.
1308 - Nov 2005 - Letters: Church Music, Chris Wilson
God has given different people different talents all of which are designed to be used for His glory therefore those who have a musical talent should be encouraged to use it within their parish even if they are guitarists.
1309 - Nov 2005 - Call to Holiness: Contemplating the Eucharistic Face of Christ, Christine McCarthy
As at that time so now He is mysteriously veiled in a sacred silence; as at that time it is here that the true face of God is revealed.
1310 - Nov 2005 - Sister Miriam Duggan: the Church's response to AIDS, Anh Nguyen
Young people need a different message that makes them want to treasure and protect the gift of procreation given to them by God.
1311 - Nov 2005 - News: The Church Around the World
He said he believed God created the things of the world but did not explain how a divine will to bring about mankind would have influenced its actual evolution.
1312 - Nov 2005 - National Press Club: Cardinal George Pell on the dictatorship of relativism, Cardinal George Pell
In an essay in his book Truth and Tolerance the then Cardinal Ratzinger refers to the work of Egyptologist Jan Assmann who claims that it was Moses who introduced the notion of truth into religion and insisted on rejecting false gods.
1313 - Oct 2005 - Books: More good reading from AD Books
The Cube and the Cathedral George Weigel Can there be any true politics - any true deliberation about the common good any robust defence of freedom - without God?
1314 - Oct 2005 - Books: Your Life is Worth Living: The Christian Philosophy of Life, by Fulton J. Sheen, Michael Gilchrist
Hallingstad has divided the transcribed material into five parts: (1) God and Man (2) Christ and His Church (3) Sin (4) Sacraments and (5) World Soul and Things.
1315 - Oct 2005 - Letters: Watered-down faith, Paula Gartland
I thought it showed the power of God.
1316 - Oct 2005 - Letters: Blasphemy, Alan Onraet
Simply say reverently and aloud Have mercy on us at the same time giving praise and thanks to God for having been refocused and reminded unwittingly on who and what is important in our life.
1317 - Oct 2005 - Priesthood: Christ's call to priestly celibacy, Fr Thaddeus Doyle
When I was ordained I didnt believe that celibacy was Gods will.
1318 - Oct 2005 - Culture: How the Catholic Church built Western civilisation, Thomas E. Woods Jr
Frederick Copleston the great historian of philosophy summed up the Nietzschean point of view: The rejection of the idea that the world has been created by God for a purpose or that it is the self- manifestation of the absolute Idea or Spirit sets man free to give to life the meaning which he wills to give it.
1319 - Oct 2005 - Conference: C.S. Lewis: defender of objective truth, Adam Glyn Cooper
There is no God.
1320 - Oct 2005 - Dies Domini: Armidale Diocese promotes Sunday observance, Bishop Luc Matthys
The weekend culture needs to be re-Christianised with its God-given prominence restored.
1321 - Oct 2005 - News: The Church Around the World
Intelligent design while it does not demand belief in a creator sits very comfortably with Catholics who believe that whatever came first came from God who has a clear design for the universe and for each human being in it.
1322 - Oct 2005 - Benedict XVI speaks out on the crisis of faith in Australia, Michael Gilchrist
The bishops responsibility was spelled out: The People of God look to their shepherds for guidance and leadership now more than ever in these confusing and increasingly secularised times.
1323 - Sep 2005 - Reflection: Benedict XVI: how to make the new evangelisation more effective, Fr Dennis Byrnes PP
From the outset we need to preach the Good News that each one of us is dear to God.
1324 - Sep 2005 - Books: More good reading from AD Books
The Cube and the Cathedral George Weigel Can there be any true politics - any true deliberation about the common good any robust defence of freedom - without God?
1325 - Sep 2005 - Books: THE PATH OF LIFE: Benedictine Spirituality for Monks and Lay People, Gabrielle Walsh
This provides the key to the spiritual life of the monastic: to listen to God in prayer and scripture.
1326 - Sep 2005 - Letters: Latin Mass, Richard Congram
Those detractors care not about denying us spiritual comfort and solace in glorifying God through a sublimely reverent liturgy in a dead language immune to distortion and aberration.
1327 - Sep 2005 - Letters: Liberal manifesto, Dr Peter Gilet
Baptism brings us into communion with God and each other.
1328 - Sep 2005 - A religious response to evil ideologies, John Rego
Pope John Paul II pointed to St Faustina and the message of Gods Divine Mercy as having the capability of counteracting evil ideologies.
1329 - Sep 2005 - BOOKS: The Myth of Hitler's Pope: How Pope Pius XII Rescued Jews from the Nazis, Thomas E. Woods Jr
God wills it and the Church wills it.
1330 - Sep 2005 - Education: Catholic schools of the future, Br John Moylan CFC
Chavagnes International College is a monument to what the grace of God and a small number of determined parents supported by self- sacrificing devoutly Catholic and talented educators can do.
1331 - Sep 2005 - Interview: Benedict XVI and the power of the Eucharist, Fr John Corapi
You cant outdo God in generosity.
1332 - Sep 2005 - Can reverence at Mass make a comeback?, Michael Ryan
It is much easier for a child to believe that God is present on the altar if the setting is physically special if the demeanour of older children and adults is reverential and if the priest takes evident care to clean the vessels and consume the residue of the body and blood of Christ .
1333 - Sep 2005 - Priesthood: America's 'vocation rich' dioceses: latest success stories analysed, AD2000 Report
Bishop Bruskewitz adds that in the Diocese of Lincoln as in most other dioceses there are priests assigned to do vocational work but for many years all of the priests of the Lincoln diocese have been required to consider themselves vocation directors and to promote the discovery and encouragement of those young people called by God.
1334 - Sep 2005 - News: The Chuch Around the World
Jesus then responds that the man is blind so that Gods work might be revealed in him spits in the dust to make mud and rubs it in the mans eyes telling him to wash himself in the Pool of Siloam.
1335 - Aug 2005 - Reflection: How we will overcome the shortage of priests, Fr John O'Neill PP
While there were always families who loved and kept Gods law there were many more it would seem who not accepting the teaching of Humanae Vitae of Pope Paul VI and falling generally into a secular lifestyle got away from sacraments and prayer.
1336 - Aug 2005 - Books: More Good Reading from AD Books
The Mystery of Reason Paul Haffner Father Haffner investigates the enterprise of human thought searching for God.
1337 - Aug 2005 - Letters: The Mass (letter)
This sacrifice is the offering of a gift by the creature to its Creator in recognition that he or she has received life as a totally free gift from God on whom one is totally dependent for every breath.
1338 - Aug 2005 - Letters: Sacrifice (letter), M.A. Ross
However recently at daily Mass we heard again the story of Abraham willing to sacrifice Isaac in obedience to Gods call so for a priest not to give up simply a little time each day in obedience to the directive that priests are to celebrate the Eucharistic Sacrifice frequently indeed daily as their principal role (ibid) is really a shameful example of the loss of the sense of sacrifice.
1339 - Aug 2005 - Letters: Lay-led liturgies (letters), M.T. Kennedy
Catholics are obliged to worship God at Mass if it is reasonably possible to attend.
1340 - Aug 2005 - Letters: Origins of the Bible (letter), George Simpson
In his excellent article Why many Catholics join fundamentalist sects (July AD2000) Dr Frank Mobbs mentions the belief of some that the Bible stands alone as the revelation of Gods word.
1341 - Aug 2005 - John Paul II: a Jewish appreciation
To our Christian brothers it is with emotion mixed with infinite sadness that the Jews of France learnt that God has recalled to Himself Pope John Paul II.
1342 - 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.
1343 - Aug 2005 - Benedict XVI's pontificate: the possibilities, Damian Thompson
Orthodoxy he argues in his masterpiece The Spirit of the Liturgy should recover its older meaning of the right way to glorify God the right form of adoration.
1344 - Aug 2005 - Feminist translation: Inclusive language and the Trinity: the latest from Brisbane, Michael Apthorp
This translation sought to apply an extreme version of the principles of so-called inclusive language to God himself.
1345 - Aug 2005 - International poll underlines growing secularist challenge, Michael Gilchrist
Which of the following statements comes closest to expressing what you believe about God?
1346 - Aug 2005 - Campus Life: Cardinal Pell's program for a Catholic culture at Sydney's universities, Stephen Lawrence
With the aid of study guides they progress chapter by chapter seeking to understand the Word of God to put it into practice in daily living as well as to apply it to the task of their studies.
1347 - Aug 2005 - News: The Church Around the World
According to excerpts published by an Italian newspaper the Pope maintains that the extreme attempt to shape things without considering the presence of God leads us more and more to the edge of the abyss.
1348 - Aug 2005 - What the Church can teach the secular world, Archbishp Barry Hickey
On behalf of the Catholic Church my reply is that we offer the truth about our relationship with God the truth that there is a life after death the truth that the only way to interior peace and happiness is a moral life and a life of love and that all of this is found in a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.
1349 - Jul 2005 - Reflecton: The soul: what reason and revelation tell us, John Young
The intellect transcends the whole material order when it knows spiritual realities and establishes the existence of God and something of His nature.
1350 - Jul 2005 - Books: More Good Reading from AD Books
The Cube and the Cathedral George Weigel Can there be any true politics - any true deliberation about the common good any robust defence of freedom - without God?
1351 - Jul 2005 - Books: Letters To a Young Catholic, by George Weigel, David Birch
The Catholic world is the world that God in the person of his Son redeemed - the world that God had created which in turn is a world of freedom in which our decisions have real consequences for good and for evil (p.
1352 - Jul 2005 - Letters: Reverent silence, Rosemary Chandler
Why is it that these very people the grey brigade (of which I am one) so often show by irreverence that we really do not believe that Christ the eternal Son of God is truly present?
1353 - Jul 2005 - Letters: Courageous example, Raymond De Souza
Let us pray for our bishops our universities and high schools so that they may always endeavour to do Gods will.
1354 - Jul 2005 - Science: God, physics and Stephen Hawking, Fr Matthew Kirby
Fortunately he also makes one excellent and insightful statement that gets to the crux of the God-question.
1355 - Jul 2005 - Living Stones: Church architecture: can a sense of the sacred be recovered?, Christian Xavier
We should always ask those involved with the construction or renovation of a church building: Why do you seek to build a House of God?
1356 - Jul 2005 - Man of the Year: How John Paul II converted a 'Time' journalist, NewsMax.com
That person is created in Gods image and therefore has infinite value Wynn says adding that he left the dinner a changed man.
1357 - Jul 2005 - Vocations: John Paul Il's Milwaukee connection, Fr John Walter
Under God he owes his priestly vocation to the late Holy Father.
1358 - Jul 2005 - Evangelisation: Why many Catholics join fundamentalist sects, Frank Mobbs
The liturgy of the Mass was revised so as to make clear that the readings from the Bible are above all other readings because they are indeed the word of God.
1359 - Jul 2005 - Rockhampton: Year of the Eucharist: a time for clear thinking, AD2000 REPORT
The worshippers if they have a proper disposition are mystically united to God by grace.
1360 - Jul 2005 - Society: Catholics must play an active role in public life, Archbishop Charles J. Chaput OFM Cap
And one of the most important duties we have is to use our gifts in every way possible for the glory of God and for the common good.
1361 - Jul 2005 - Year of Eucharist: The Eucharist: heart of our faith, Cardinal George Pell
It is an act of worship of prayer to the one true God through Jesus Christ His Son.
1362 - Jul 2005 - News: The Church Around the World
The stamp was issued 18 May which would have been John Pauls 85th birthday and it bears the late Popes prayer for peace in the Holy Land: May peace be Gods gift to the land He chose as His own.
1363 - Jul 2005 - Christianity: Church challenges secular culture of Europe, Peter Westmore
The new Pope also lambasted the foundations of the Union describing European integration as an exclusively economic project which aimed to exclude God from the public conscience reducing Him to a cultural residue of the past.
1364 - Jun 2005 - Reflection: Cardinal Nguyen van Thuan: witness to the priesthood and Eucharist, Fr Dennis Byrnes
Cardinal Thuan has been widely venerated as a martyr of the Catholic faith his life a living testimony to the call of God.
1365 - Jun 2005 - Books: More Good Reading from AD Books
The Cube and the Cathedral George Weigel Can there be any true politics - any true deliberation about the common good any robust defence of freedom - without God?
1366 - Jun 2005 - Poetry: Sonnet on the Election of Pope Benedict XVI, Bruce Dawe
Let the fog of incomprehension close around you who have nailed your victimhood to the cross and called it God.
1367 - Jun 2005 - Books: John Paul the Great, edited by William Oddie, John R. Barich
She concludes that the Pope tells us that while the relationship with God of those who devote their lives to Him in virginity or celibacy is a more transparent sign of our future union with God in Heaven no human relationship better reflects divine love than that founded on love between husband and wife.
1368 - Jun 2005 - Letters: Sponsorship request from Uganda, Joise Nasuna
The headmaster of my school Fr Henry Kalinzi has described me as a hard working student in the academics as well as discipline and recommended sponsorship by well wishers and the people of God to assist me with school fees in order that my studies can continue.
1369 - Jun 2005 - Letters: Pre-Vatican II myths, Douglas V. Boyle
Critics outside the Church accuse us of ignoring the Bible as the one and only source of Gods word to man regarding the Churchs Tradition as anti-God and apocryphal.
1370 - Jun 2005 - The previous Pope Benedict and his quest for world peace, R.J. Stove
No lavender-water sentimentalist he laid specific blame for the conflicts eruption and continuation: on a humanitarianism severed from the Gospel and turned into race hatreds (by which Benedict meant chauvinism rather than biological determinism); on contempt for legitimate authority; on class war; and on simple greed inflamed by godless schools and an unscrupulous press continually playing upon the inexperienced minds of the multitude.
1371 - Jun 2005 - Mother Teresa's legacy continued at Georgetown University, Peter Reynolds
We are ambitious and with Gods grace we hope to do great things.
1372 - Jun 2005 - Benedict XVI and liturgical reform, Dom Alcuin Reid OSB
And he has stated categorically in God in the World and elsewhere that proscriptions against the traditional Mass should be lifted.
1373 - Jun 2005 - News: The Church Around the World
Catholic News Agency Hong Kong bishop applauds papal election In a message to the faithful published on his dioceses Web page on 28 April Bishop Joseph Zen Ze-kiun of Hong Kong expressed his joy over the papal election: We prayed with great confidence that the Holy Spirit would inspire the cardinals to choose a Pope according to the will of God.
1374 - Jun 2005 - He was my Pope, too: a Lutheran's appreciation of John Paul II, Uwe Siemon-Netto
What other clergyman played any comparable role in bringing down communism a godless system?
1375 - Jun 2005 - Habemus Papam: Benedict XVI charts course as successor to John Paul II, Michael Gilchrist
New paganism He further deplored a state of affairs where a Christianity which has grown weary of faith has abandoned the Lord allowing the growth of false ideologies and the emergence of the banal existence of those who no longer believing in anything simply drift through life have built a new and worse paganism which in its attempt to do away with God once and for all has ended up doing away with man.
1376 - Jun 2005 - Editorial: Corpus Christi - the Body of Christ
Truly this is the mystery of faith which is accomplished in the Eucharist: the world which came forth from the hands of God the Creator now returns to him redeemed by Christ.
1377 - May 2005 - Reflection: Pope John Paul II and the redemptive power of suffering, Fr Paul Stuart
The very first human and original sin can also been seen as a happy fault because it also brought about Gods loving and redeeming plan of salvation in Jesus Christ.
1378 - May 2005 - Books: Remembering Pope John Paul II
00 Fatima Russia and Pope John Paul II Timothy Tindal-Robertson This is the first full-length account of how the end of the former Soviet Union revealed the hand of God through the intercession of Mary.
1379 - May 2005 - Letters: Ecclesial unity, Meg Fennell
The Eternal God does not need us to lobby His cause!
1380 - May 2005 - Letters: God's Champion, Robert Garrett
It is with sadness but also with joy that we say farewell to Gods champion Pope John Paul II the visible head of the Catholic Church the church founded by Jesus Christ.
1381 - May 2005 - St Patrick's Church, Soho Square, a spiritual oasis in London, Tess Livingstone
Most striking in all of this is the close comfortable relationship Father Alexander has with his God.
1382 - May 2005 - UK survey: why church pews are emptying
The survey which was carried out by the interdenominational Ecumenical Research Committee addressed questions about why church attendance was falling so dramatically in the UK but growing elsewhere even though two-thirds of the British population believe in God.
1383 - May 2005 - The Da Vinci Code and the itching ears syndrome, John Young
Jesus was merely a good man and was proclaimed as God 300 years later by the Emperor Constantine.
1384 - May 2005 - Catholic beliefs and practices: the challenge ahead for Australia, Michael Gilchrist
The three belief items dealt with views about the virgin birth the Eucharist and the nature of God while the morality items concerned abortion and pre-marital sex.
1385 - May 2005 - 'Santo Subito': the impact of John Paul II, Peter Westmore
Eulogy In his eulogy the principal celebrant Cardinal Ratzinger said: The Holy Father was a priest to the last for he offered his life to God for his flock and for the entire human family in a daily self-oblation for the service of the Church especially amid the sufferings of his final months.
1386 - Apr 2005 - Reflection: Pope John Paul II: 'In the risen Christ all creation rises to new life', Pope John Paul II
The amazed surprise of the Apostles and the women who rushed to the tomb at sunrise becomes the shared experience of the whole People of God which hands on to the younger generation the certitude that is basic to our lives: Christ is risen and in him all creation rises to new life.
1387 - Apr 2005 - Poetry: A Centurion Reflects, Bruce Dawe
Here was obedience matched with righteousness and held aloft for all mankind to see - and Glory be to God that I was present as a Roman witness to this mystery!
1388 - Apr 2005 - Books: Mass Without a Congregation: A Sign of Unity or Division?, Michael Gilchrist
Even before Vatican II the 1960 Codex Rubricarum had contained the following statement: The most sacred Sacrifice of the Mass celebrated according to the rites and regulations is an act of public worship offered to God in the name of Christ and the Church.
1389 - Apr 2005 - Books: Love Alone Is Credible, by Hans urs von Balthasar, Kerrie Allen
In it he delves deeply into the exploration he began in his masterpiece The Glory of the Lord of what love means and what makes the divine love of God.
1390 - Apr 2005 - Books: The Path to Rome: Modern Journeys to the Catholic Church, Michael Casanova
One convert is led by the Bible itself to discover that the Church of the living God is the pillar and bulwark of the truth (1 Timothy 3:15).
1391 - Apr 2005 - Letters: Christ the Creator, Gerard J. Keane
No doubt all three divine Persons were involved in Creation but few Catholics seem to understand that the work of Creation was carried out by the Second Person and it should not be attributed entirely to God the Father.
1392 - Apr 2005 - Letters: Talking in Church, Judith McRae
The church is the place we enter to pray before the tabernacle the home of our God.
1393 - Apr 2005 - Letters: Practice of faith, Br Con Moloney CFC
How regularly do you thank God for the good things you have?
1394 - Apr 2005 - Letters: Religious habit, Fr G.H. Duggan SM
If a female religious is wearing the habit she is immediately recognisable as someome who is consecrated to God and one who has not had the expense of putting together a wardrobe of gowns and frocks.
1395 - Apr 2005 - Letters: Chavagnes International College, Raymond De Souza
Volunteers who are prepared to give a year to God by helping a heroic Catholic education project will learn (or improve) French meet British and French Catholics visit Paris Chartres London and other places in Europe work with children in a rewarding environment gain valuable teaching experience benefit from inspiring daily liturgy and a rich Catholic culture and be part of an international Catholic community.
1396 - Apr 2005 - Letters: ACU, Sabina Sannen
God help our children in those schools where they are allowed to teach that sort of thing.
1397 - Apr 2005 - Adore 05: Sydney's successful Eucharistic Youth Congress, Nicole Osmak
With Gods help we can do seemingly difficult or impossible things.
1398 - Apr 2005 - Scripture: So, what else did Jesus say?, Gavan O'Farrell
Here we find a God who more than tactile is willing to roll his sleeves up and get in a mess.
1399 - Apr 2005 - Cardinal Ratzinger: Liturgy should be God-centred, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger
During his analysis of the recently published book The Organic Development of the Liturgy (St Michaels Abbey Press) by Dom Alcuin Reid OSB Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger commented on the current state of the Liturgy emphasising the need to keep its primary focus on God.
1400 - Apr 2005 - Events: Carnivale Christi returning to Sydney with an Easter theme, Liz Arblaster and Anthony McCarthy
Creative impulse Carnivale Christi is a unique opportunity to recognise and celebrate the creative impulse in each of us born of our design in the image of God the Creator.
1401 - Apr 2005 - Vocations: Why some new religious orders are attracting recruits, Fr John Hogan
Speaking with Fr Glenn Sodano Community Servant (Superior) of the CFRs he points out that the young are looking for a way of life which is counter-cultural a way of life which is both challenging and human and centred on God; an unworldly but not unearthly way of life: these new communities provide that.
1402 - Apr 2005 - Exploding myths about the 'pre-Vatican II' Church, John Young
People were driven by fear of hell and purgatory more than by love of God.
1403 - Mar 2005 - Reflection: The Holy Trinity and the Church: the truth will set you free, Fr John O'Neill
Unity is more than mere agreement and in God we see it in perfection so much so that we have one nature shared by Three Persons.
1404 - Mar 2005 - Books: Books to read in 2005
95 The God who loves you Peter Kreeft In his latest book Peter Kreeft tells why Scripture is Gods love story and why divine love is the answer to our deepest problems.
1405 - Mar 2005 - Books: DOLLFUSS: An Austrian Patriot, by Fr Johannes Messner, Alice von Hildebrand
Dollfuss the modern David knew that he was fighting a Goliath but like the man who was to become a great king to his people he put all his confidence in God and used all the means at his disposal to save his country from the severe crises which confronted it during his brief Chancellorship.
1406 - Mar 2005 - Obituary: The passing of a holy, many-talented Jesuit - Fr Victor Ian Falconer SJ, Michael O'Callaghan
The eulogy at Fr Falconers Requiem Mass was delivered by Fr Tom Lake-Smith SJ who referred to a quote from the late Superior-General of the Jesuits Fr Pedro Arrupe: Nothing is more practical than finding God that is falling in love in a quite absolute final way.
1407 - Mar 2005 - Letters: Mangled hymns (letter), Michael Apthorp
How can we love God above and not our brother?
1408 - Mar 2005 - Adult Education: Sydney Centre for Thomistic Studies continues a great teacher's legacy, Audrey English
His commitment is evidenced in the words he wrote to a friend: I still consider the doctrine which God has given me the vocation to teach to be worth working for living for and dying for.
1409 - Mar 2005 - A young Catholic's encounter with Latin at Chavagnes International College, Alexander Morrison
The elevation of the words of the Mass above everyday speech is appropriate seeing as the Mass is the supreme prayer of the Church to Almighty God.
1410 - Mar 2005 - Culture: Secularism, not religion, is threatened with extinction, David Quinn
Science led to secularism causing more and more people to substitute for their religious viewpoint one that made little or no reference to God.
1411 - Mar 2005 - Dissent: Notes from a theology unit at Australian Catholic University
Lecture 12 January 2005 Suggested reading: Gods Call Girl by Carla Van Raay a story about the authors life as a nun and then later as a prostitute.
1412 - Mar 2005 - Moral divisions among the Christian Churches threaten ecumenism, Archbishop Barry Hickey
Choice is the exercise of the gift of God called free will.
1413 - Mar 2005 - Vocations: Australian diocesan seminary numbers continue to increase, Michael Gilchrist
Religious priests Not to be overlooked in considering the likely number of available priests in the future are those in formation for Australias around 40 religious orders such as the Dominicans Oblates and Missionaries of Gods Love.
1414 - Feb 2005 - Reflection: Archbishop Hart: Pope John Paul II and the Year of the Eucharist, Archbishop Denis Hart
He says Amid our questions and difficulties and even our bitter disappointments the Divine Wayfarer continues to walk at our side opening to us the Scriptures and leading us to a deeper understanding of the mysteries of God.
1415 - Feb 2005 - Books: Turning Towards the Lord: Orientation in Liturgical Prayer, Michael Gilchrist
In this writers view this radical change has had mixed results with the turning of some priests into individual performers rather than Gods instruments and the blurring of distinctions between the Liturgy of the Word and the Liturgy of the Eucharist.
1416 - Feb 2005 - Books: Rise, Let Us Be On Our Way, by John Paul II, Richard Egan
This coming together of faith reason and the heart is strongly influenced by our sense of wonder at the miracle of a human person - at mans likeness to the Triune God at the immensely profound bond between love and truth at the mystery of mutual self-giving and the life that it generates at our reflections on the succession of human generations.
1417 - Feb 2005 - Letters: Books wanted (letter), Edwin McGrath
Id like to buy it too); Prof Fred Schonell The Psychology of Reading (about 1948); Correspondence Notes for Trained Infant Teachers Certificate Parts 1 2 Education Department Vic (about 1948); The Four Volumes of City of God by Venerable Mary of Agreda (unabridged copies) 1903.
1418 - Feb 2005 - Letters: Ten Commandments (letter), Arthur Negus
By inference Fr Frank Brennan SJ has a public difference with God because of the form of the Ten Commandments as delivered to Moses (Exodus 20:1-17).
1419 - Feb 2005 - Letters: School leavers (letter), Mrs M.A. Ross
At least with the latter they still believe in the Triune God.
1420 - Feb 2005 - Letters: Eternal destiny (letter), G. Mahoney
In his aura of holiness with simplicity and humility St Francis imparts a practical lesson of self-fulfilment in God to all of us especially to those who unfortunately concentrate solely on material gain and false joy at the expense of spiritual values that comply with our main purpose in life: eternal salvation.
1421 - Feb 2005 - Letters: Catholic youth (letter), Jim Brown
What this all adds up to is that on the whole young Catholic people do not believe in God.
1422 - Feb 2005 - Letters: Fiji example (letter), Tom King
Fijis Catholics may not have wealth a compass or a map but they have something God-given: priests and religious who are proud of their calling churches that have not abandoned history tradition and an atmosphere that distinguishes a house of God from a theatre.
1423 - Feb 2005 - Letters: Missal translation (letter), Norman Wilkinson
Since in the days when the people would believe that God was with the celebrant necessarily such a petition would be superfluous.
1424 - Feb 2005 - Marriage: Why gay marriage is a self-contradiction, Peter Reynolds
In the beginning God created them male and female male and female he created them.
1425 - Feb 2005 - Religious Life: Faith and Reason: for a true renewal in religious life and the Church, Sr Mary Augustine OP
It reminds us that our quest is for God who is Truth Itself but also that He Himself is the way to Truth.
1426 - Feb 2005 - News: The Church Around the World
The poll reveals that 93 percent of Americans believe Jesus Christ actually lived and 82 percent that he was God or the Son of God.
1427 - Dec 2004 - Reflection: Today is born to us a Saviour of the world, Pope John Paul II
At this hour the word today rings out with a unique sound: we are spiritually linked to that unique moment of history when God became man taking to himself our flesh.
1428 - Dec 2004 - Books: Inspiring Christmas Gifts
50 The Wondrous Childhood St John Eudes Saint John Eudes (1601-1680) wrote this study of the childhood of the Mother of God basing it on the revelation of Scripture the Liturgy and the testimony of Fathers and Doctors of the Church.
1429 - Dec 2004 - Books: Architects of the Culture of Death, by Donald DeMarco and Benjamin Wiker, Jodie Brown
If the Culture of Death rests on a fragmented view of the person and an eclipse of God hope for the Culture of Life rests on an understanding and restoration of the human being as a person and the rediscovery of a benevolent God.
1430 - Dec 2004 - Books: Making Sense of Private Revelations, by Fr Paul Newton, Msgr Peter J. Elliott
He adds some wise guidance for people who believe they are recipients of messages inspired by God.
1431 - Dec 2004 - Poetry: The Salami Treatment, Bruce Dawe
on hearing How Great Thou Art cut in half at Mass in the increasingly common dismissal of hymns as a central act of worship O Lord my God we find ourselves now under -whelmed to learn how low down on the chart We now place hymns that tore our souls asunder -How long O Lord before they all depart?
1432 - Dec 2004 - Letters: Nihilism (letter), Robert Prinzen-Wood
May God give us the grace to withstand such attacks now and in the future.
1433 - Dec 2004 - Letters: Abortion (letter), Maryse Usher
God only knows how many embryos are poisoned by the abortifacient effect of the contraceptive pill.
1434 - Dec 2004 - Letters: Call to holiness (letter), Mark Calleja
I agree with him that on Gods part there is no preference in granting His grace to those who ask for it.
1435 - Dec 2004 - Letters: 'Fem-speak' (letter), C.V.Phillips
I noticed that the new revised Roman Missal will have some good improvements over the old (July AD2000) and for that we owe praise to God.
1436 - Dec 2004 - Letters: Mass translation (letter), Leo McManus
However as we join with the priest to offer the Holy Sacrifice this is so pleasing to God that we are made worthy.
1437 - Dec 2004 - Letters: Graham Greene a Catholic? (letter), Malcolm Mackinnon
His description of the miserable cowardly priest who gave up his chance of liberty and his life to save a fellow sinner and a notorious one at that from going to meet his Maker without the aid of the Sacrament of Penance certainly suggests a Catholic who had meditated on the mercy of God the zealous lover of souls.
1438 - Dec 2004 - Letters: Orthodoxy succeeds (letter), Fr Adrian Head
In an interview in late 2003 Fr Fanzaga explained: Among our listeners there are many who having been away from the Church for a long time (and in some cases have completely abandoned it) come close to God go to confession after many years and take up again the living of a Christian life.
1439 - Dec 2004 - Archbishop Fulton Sheen: 25th anniversary, Martin Tobin
Much has been written on Archbishop Sheen Servant of God since his cause for canonisation was formally proposed in 1999 including three biographies the latest being Fulton J.
1440 - Dec 2004 - New Evangelisation: Rebuilding a lost Faith, Fr John Walter
We cannot presume that nominal Catholics who bring their children for Baptism have the slightest clue about what their responsibilities before God are.
1441 - Dec 2004 - Liturgy: Redemptionis Sacramentum on the liturgical rights of the faithful, CDF
It is the right of the Christian people themselves that their diocesan Bishop should take care to prevent the occurrence of abuses in ecclesiastical discipline especially as regards the ministry of the word the celebration of the sacraments and sacramentals the worship of God and devotion to the Saints (24).
1442 - Dec 2004 - English language: Will Rome ensure the completion of an improved Mass translation?, William Oddie
What in the years ahead they had to get used to was not simply the loss of the Latin text and the glorious music of the Missa de Angelis to which they sang it (the bouncy new version of the Gloria can be sung to the Eton boating song) but an English version which was both crass and seriously inaccurate: Gloria in excelsis Deo et in terra pax hominibus bonae voluntatis simply cannot defensibly be translated as Glory to God in the highest and peace to his people on earth: the peace prayed for here is not for everyone indifferently but is specifically confined to men of goodwill (to be fair Cranmer got it wrong too).
1443 - Dec 2004 - Administration: Cardinal Pell: Church administrators must put Christ's mission first, Cardinal George Pell
In each field of every Catholic bureaucracy and in every agency what matters is recognising resources as opportunities for spreading the Kingdom of God.
1444 - Dec 2004 - News: The Church Around the World
At the same time Cardinal Pell emphasised we do not want the liturgy to be banal and commonplace because we are addressing the omnipotent God.
1445 - Nov 2004 - Reflection: Saint Francis and the universal call to holiness, Fr Sebastian Camilleri OFM
The saints we admire for their heroic acts in upholding sound morality and their staunch faith despite ridicule and adversity were in fact ordinary people like ourselves; they trusted in God completely persevered in prayer and lived contented and fulfilled lives with the hope of eternal glory.
1446 - Nov 2004 - Books: More new titles from AD Books
50 The Wondrous Childhood St John Eudes Saint John Eudes (1601-1680) wrote this study of the childhood of the Mother of God basing it on the revelation of Scripture the Liturgy and the testimony of Fathers and Doctors of the Church.
1447 - Nov 2004 - Letters: Church teaching (letter), Carmel Pittari
The Holy Father encourages us to have respect for the uniqueness and dignity of all people based on their being created in the image and likeness of God.
1448 - Nov 2004 - Letters: Young Catholics (letter), Nola Viney
We little suburban St Monicas are wondering not when but how God is going to answer our prayers.
1449 - 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.
1450 - Nov 2004 - Morning Mass: Finding some 'head space': an alternative approach, David Birch
My plea if I may seeks to echo Pope John Paul IIs challenge in 1998 to move beyond whatever misunderstandings there have been and to reach the proper point of balance especially by entering more deeply into the contemplative dimension of worship which includes a sense of awe reverence and adoration which are fundamental attitudes in our relationship with God.
1451 - Nov 2004 - Education: Where secular humanism is triumphing over the Gospel, Fr John Walter
We ought also bear in mind the Gospel truth that despite the wondrous outreach of Gods mercy not all will be saved.
1452 - Nov 2004 - Liturgy: Ad-libbing in the Mass: Does it really matter?, John Young
This should be enough to cause any Catholic to avoid them for Christ gave the Apostles and their successors the Pope and bishops the power of binding and loosing in Gods name.
1453 - Nov 2004 - Deer Park: Transforming our secular culture: the role of women, Marcia Riordan
We can become witnesses to hope ambassadors of Gods love and mercy.
1454 - Nov 2004 - Ad limina: The Pope calls for strong leadership from New Zealand's Bishops, Michael Gilchrist
New Zealand he said was experiencing the tragic consequences of the eclipse of the sense of God: the drift away from the Church; the undermining of family life; the facilitation of abortion and prostitution; a misguided vision of life which seeks pleasure and success rather than goodness and wisdom.
1455 - Oct 2004 - Reflection: Our Lady, Fatima and the 'annihilation of nations', Anne Lastman
In other words extreme penance is required by humanity in order to call down graces through Our Ladys hands in order to avoid the deserved justice of God.
1456 - Oct 2004 - Letters: Come As You Are? (letter), Brigid P. McKenna
Meanwhile suffering parents bravely smiling outwardly while inwardly still praying for strength gratefully thank God if they can say at least they are still going to Mass.
1457 - Oct 2004 - Letters: Liturgical abuses (letter), George Simpson
Meanwhile the recent document Redemptoris Sacramentum has correctly affirmed the right of the faithful to complain about abuses since they have a God-given right to attend authentic liturgies.
1458 - Oct 2004 - Letters: Pastoral letters (letter), Charles Francis, AM
It read in part: He God now looks down from Heaven on our actions and secret thoughts and one day He will give each of us the reward his deeds deserve.
1459 - Oct 2004 - The Pope's Encyclical on the Eucharist, Sr Mary Augustine OP
In that profound mystery which is the Church the Eucharist that self-emptying sacrifice of Christ represented on the altar throughout history is reflected in a very tangible way by the self-emptying sacrifice of those men and women who throughout the Churchs history have given themselves up to God in close imitation of the Saviours life of poverty chastity and obedience and in union with His redeeming act of love and mercy.
1460 - Oct 2004 - Society: Why marriage should receive greater government support, Michael Casanova
We need to take up Pope John Paul IIs words that ours is the task of contributing with the light of the Gospel to Eacute; a world fully in harmony with Gods plan (Ecclesia de Eucharistia 20).
1461 - Oct 2004 - Books: Be Not Afraid: Cardinal George Pell's new book to be launched in November
THE Cathedral Church of the Archdiocese of Sydney is dedicated to God in honour of the Blessed Virgin Mary Immaculate Help of Christians.
1462 - Oct 2004 - Liturgy: Why priests should stick to the Mass texts, Bishop T.J. Paprocki
Thus canon 214 provides that the Christian faithful have the right to worship God according to the prescriptions of their own rite approved by the legitimate pastors Holy See or bishops of the Church.
1463 - Oct 2004 - University: International Movement of Catholic Students Australia, Aaron Russell
Fr Schall concluded: The Socratic admonition the knowing that we do not know the knowing of ourselves leads to knowing that the Godhead is Trinity that God is not alone that we already have a place to begin to know ourselves.
1464 - Sep 2004 - Reflection: Why the priesthood is absolutely necessary, Fr John O'Neill
What we discover is not only God but that He has let us know so much about what He is like (Revelation): that in God there are Three Divine Persons distinct and equal in all things Father Son and Holy Spirit.
1465 - Sep 2004 - Books: More new titles from AD Books
95 The Living Flame of Love Elizabeth Ruth Obbard The amazing depth of St John of the Crosss spiritual experience is made accessible to all in this appealing book which opens up the ways of God in drawing persons to share in the intimacy of His own life.
1466 - Sep 2004 - Letters: Moral relativism, Tim Coyle
It also calls for a greater preparedness to be objective to put God first to accept less materially and to lessen our self-indulgent focus on wealth and property.
1467 - Sep 2004 - Letters: Freedom to be Born pro-life march, George F. Simpson
All who believe in God and acknowledge Him as the author of life have an obligation to protect the unborn.
1468 - Sep 2004 - Letters: Permissiveness, Ena Makaus
And also Hebrews 12:28: Worship God in a way that will please him with reverence and awe.
1469 - Sep 2004 - Letters: 'King Arthur' an anti-Catholic movie, Fr Brian Harrison
All of these heathen he protests are sacrificed in the name of God and the faith.
1470 - Sep 2004 - Letters: Mass translation?, Philip Holberton
It has at the Consecration his venerable hands and further on behold the Lamb of God and come under my roof.
1471 - Sep 2004 - Mass Attendance: Where have all the worshippers gone?, Fr Martin Durham
According to this secular mind-set God is no longer regarded as necessary in our highly advanced technological world.
1472 - Sep 2004 - Iraqi bishop: positive developments despite the violence and bloodshed, Bishop Rabban Al-Qas
The goal says Bishop Al-Qas is to provide free education to all placing our hopes in Gods hands and those of people of good will.
1473 - Aug 2004 - Reflection: Why teaching in a Catholic school is far more than a profession, Fr Dennis Byrnes
In the words of the old catechism: to know love and serve God in this life and to be happy with Him forever in the next.
1474 - Aug 2004 - Books: A Guide To The Passion Of The Christ : 100 Questions, Fr Scot Armstrong STL
The second examines the Case for Christ or His claim to be the Son of God while the third deals with His founding of the Catholic Church.
1475 - Aug 2004 - Letters: Casual trend, Gina Voskulen
God always loves us and is ready to forgive us but He wants our sincere repentance.
1476 - Aug 2004 - Letters: Missal translation, Pastor David Buck
Romans 9:5 NRSV: To them belong the patriarchs and from them according to the flesh comes the Messiah who is over all God blessed forever.
1477 - Aug 2004 - Carnivale Christi: Whatever happened to beauty in art?, Paul Fitzgerald
They denied the existence of God and believed that man alone could shape his own destiny At the turn of the century a large proportion of the academic and cultural populace were ardent Communists and violently critical of the status quo which they identified with the philosophy and lifestyle of the middle-class or bourgeoisie.
1478 - Aug 2004 - History: Catholic education: triumph over adversity, Cardinal George Pell
Archbishop Goold of Melbourne came out fighting: They boldly and defiantly tell you it is their determination to do away with your schools and substitute for them Godless schools to which they will compel you under penalty (or imprisonment) to send your children.
1479 - Aug 2004 - Bioethics: Embryo stem-cell research: time for a moral benchmark, Christopher Pyne MP
But it is only when we talk about God that sanctity cuts any ice.
1480 - Aug 2004 - Catholic politicians and informed conscience, Bishop Michael Sheridan
Conscience discovers the truth that has been revealed by God.
1481 - Aug 2004 - Getting serious about orthodoxy: an American bishop shows how, Michael Gilchrist
He explains in his covering letter that as it is his responsibility before God to be a shepherd and a teacher he must ensure that those entrusted with important church tasks are worthy of their roles: A failure on my part to verify a persons suitability for ministry would be judged as seriously negligent.
1482 - Aug 2004 - News: The Church Around the World
Christians he said have a grave obligation of conscience not to co-operate formally in practices which even if permitted by civil legislation are contrary to Gods law.
1483 - Aug 2004 - Pope's representative reminds Australian religious leaders on liturgy abuses, Archbishop Francesco Canalini
Still others contribute to sowing confusion among the people of God and to draining Eucharistic celebrations of their sacredness.
1484 - Jul 2004 - Reflection: No time to pray? Try contemplation, Fr Leo J. Trese
To those of us who are dissatisfied with our efforts at prayer it is a comfort to remember that God asks of us only that we do our best.
1485 - Jul 2004 - Letters: The power of one (letter), Brian Harris
When he goes to God he will have the title of Pope John Paul II the Great.
1486 - Jul 2004 - Letters: Christian models (letter), Brett Powell
Here God gives us His Son Jesus as a guide.
1487 - Jul 2004 - Letters: Catholic schools (letter), George Simpson
Because theology is the study of the infinite God by finite minds it must surely be more a spiritual exercise than a mere academic pursuit.
1488 - Jul 2004 - Croagh Patrick, Ireland's Holy Mountain: 'Sure, it's a bit of a hill', Paul Russell
I uttered a quiet prayer of thanks and praise to God for a safe climb for Patrick and for the magnificent views.
1489 - Jul 2004 - Eucharistic Adoration: heart of evangelisation, Fr Sebastian Camilleri OFM
He calls on his followers to engage their lives totally not partially with God in a loving relationship.
1490 - Jul 2004 - Pastoral Letter: The secular challenges to our faith: how to respond, Bishop Geoffrey Jarrett
At the root of this disturbing development is the attempt to promote a vision of humanity without God.
1491 - Jul 2004 - News: The Church Around the World
Commenting on the six new saints canonised on 16 May - of whom four were priests - the Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith told the newspaper Il Tempo that the world was looking for credible men who are not merely making outward gestures but having a relationship with God.
1492 - Jul 2004 - Feminist 'rituals': no substitute for prayer, Joanna Bogle
Everyone was invited to pick up an object and give a testimony as to its relevance in their life and to place it on the cloth - rumpled for a bad experience and smooth to symbolise Gods goodness .
1493 - Jul 2004 - Liturgy: New improved English Mass translation nears completion, Michael Gilchhrist
Marked contrast A close reading of the document reveals that the overall tone of the new Missal - with its strong emphasis on the profound sacredness of the divine liturgy and our dependance on Gods goodness and mercy and our own unworthiness - contrasts markedly with the colloquial approach of the present translation.
1494 - Jul 2004 - Editorial: Separation of Church and State?, Michael Gilchrist
As Bishop Jarrett points out in his article (pages 8-9) keeping God out of the discussion in the public square as if He did not exist has become the default position.
1495 - Jun 2004 - Reflection: The Holy Spirit: like a bed for the weary traveller, Fr Leo Duck
In the Scriptures and in the writings of the saints of the Church the Holy Spirit is likened to many different things: the breath of God the finger of God and a freely moving wind; also to a dove to fire and to water; and to a counsellor an advocate a witness a judge and a teacher.
1496 - Jun 2004 - Books: More new titles for 2004 from AD Books
Edmund Campion: Hero of Gods Underground Harold C.
1497 - Jun 2004 - Books: The Outline Of Sanity, by G.K. Chesterton, Peter Westmore
How can the God-ordained nature of work be realised if neither his hands nor his mind manipulate materials provided to him directly by the Hand of Almighty God according to forms that are derived through the agency of the human intellect and imagination from the natural created structure of the world?
1498 - Jun 2004 - Letters: The Passion - Suffering (letter), Dr Arnold Jago
In Gods sight any suffering accepted for his sake has merit and deserves to be rewarded.
1499 - Jun 2004 - Letter: Signs of hope (letter), Daniel Attard
I see in the secular society in which we dwell that materialism has become the new God for the masses and I would be lying if I said that this has not disheartened my generation not only in the past but up to and including the present day.
1500 - Jun 2004 - Letters: Options (letter), Maryse Usher
Stand up and act like the wrath of God ordering everyone to be quiet.
1501 - Jun 2004 - Poetry: The power and beauty of religious poetry - Cast fear behind thee, I am come!, Marion and Delia Craig
Yet Thou O God art kinder than cold man I grasp Thy living hands in my utter fear Their palms and wrists punctured by a nails span.
1502 - Jun 2004 - Poetry: The power and beauty of religious poetry - Star-Life, Identikit, Ministers, Bruce Dawe
- only to find lame they could walk and see where they were blind Not only burning bush and Damascus Road confront us with the telegrams of God but all that sacralizes earth and sea calls us to reckon Heavens ministry.
1503 - Jun 2004 - Education: Chavagnes en Paillers: a Catholic college with a Catholic culture, Paul Russell
The Vendeacute;ans have a proud history having staged a war against the Revolutionary forces for God and King at great cost.
1504 - Jun 2004 - Society: Why Chesterton is needed now more than ever, Dale Ahlquist
Truth and love must always go hand-in-hand just as the two great commandments must always be remembered together: we must love God with all our being and love our neighbour as ourselves.
1505 - Jun 2004 - Abortion: 'Pro-choice' issue emerges in US presidential campaign, Michael Gilchrist
The issue involves two questions: the Churchs teaching that human life from its beginning to its end is a gift from God and cannot be taken away by man and the right to freedom of conscience.
1506 - May 2004 - Reflection: Why the world needs Jesus Christ and Christian models, Fr Sebastian Camilleri OFM
At the grass roots level the world needs Christs lasting peace; it needs genuine human relations and an inner joy germinated in a Godly-oriented conscience.
1507 - May 2004 - Books: ANGLICANS AND ORTHODOX: Unity and Subversion (1559-1725), by Judith Pinnington, Tracey Rowland
She suggests that what is needed for the restoration of organic unity is not schemes and devices even less endless theological reports but an ecumenism of litany - for the peace of the whole world for the good estate of the holy churches of God and for the union of all.
1508 - May 2004 - Books: Why Must I Suffer?, by Francis Remler, Bill Muehlenberg
The trick is to harmonise a concept of God which pictures him as all loving and all powerful with the tremendous amount of evil and suffering in the world.
1509 - May 2004 - Books: Marriage and Family in the Biblical World, edited by Ken Campbell, Bill Muehlenberg
So while the New Testament views marriage and family through the lens of Gods kingdom and purposes it still retains its very high status and calling.
1510 - 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.
1511 - May 2004 - Letters: Reverence at Mass (letter), Shirley Vaughan
Thank God for our own parish priest here in Riverwood Father John Walter.
1512 - May 2004 - Letters: Timely article on reverence (letter), Name and Address Supplied
This sacred place is Gods house of prayer and contemplation.
1513 - May 2004 - Letters: God's house (letter), Melanie Costabile
I was brought up to have a great respect for the house of God including the need to genuflect upon entering and exiting.
1514 - May 2004 - Liturgy: Cardinal George of Chicago examines post-Vatican II liturgical reforms, Michael Gilchrist
For since the Liturgy is the place where time and eternity meet changing the liturgical calendar he said means to change our way of relating to God.
1515 - May 2004 - Art: Beauty is very much an attribute of God - Sister Wendy, Sarah Macdonald
Talking to me about the natural evangelising that occurs in contemplating art she explains: Art is beauty and God is beauty.
1516 - May 2004 - Education: The religious character of Catholic schools: how can it be enhanced?, Br Paul Macrossan CFC
That could be the most important part of the charisms of founders namely a spirit which aims at God and bases a worthwhile life on His service and regards a knowledge of the Catholic faith and Church teachings as relevant and of basic importance.
1517 - May 2004 - Priesthood: Pope's World Day of Prayer for Vocations, Fr Paul Stuart
While it is known that God calls those whom he wills (cf.
1518 - 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.
1519 - May 2004 - Australian Bishops' ad limina: strong leadership needed to confront secularism
At the root of this disturbing development is the attempt to promote a vision of humanity without God.
1520 - May 2004 - News: The Church Around the World
But he adds: In other places thank God we see a promising springtime of vocations.
1521 - May 2004 - Editorial: May: the month of Mary, Mother of God, Peter Westmore
During his 26 year pontificate John Paul II has frequently reminded us that the month of May is in a particular way dedicated to Mary the Mother of God.
1522 - Apr 2004 - Reflection: Right is right, even if nobody does it (G.K. Chesterton), Fr F.E. Burns
But God gave us in Christ His Way and a Church to guide us on it.
1523 - Apr 2004 - Books: The Catholic Revival in English Literature 1845-1961, by Ian Ker, Francis Phillips
Fallen man A telling anecdote of a meeting between Greene and Evelyn Waugh in 1953 has Greene stating that he is planning to write a political novel rather than always about God; Waugh responded wittily I wouldnt give up writing about God at this stage if I were you.
1524 - Apr 2004 - Letters: Easter greetings from India, Fr S. John Joseph
I wish you all the best and God bless.
1525 - Apr 2004 - Letters: Taking a stand in the culture war, Robert and Carmel Garrett
If the media since the introduction of television in 1956 had promoted family values in tune with the Ten Commandments love of God and love of neighbour what a different Australia we would have today.
1526 - Apr 2004 - Letters: Life under threat, Brian Harris
I am sure God sees and cares that there is a raging battle between the culture of life and the culture of death in Australia for the hearts minds and souls of everyone.
1527 - Apr 2004 - Letters: The Sign of the Cross, Dr Arnold Jago
His book says the Sign of the Cross should be: (1) a sign of the Christian belief that God is a Trinity three Persons in one divine Nature; (2) a public declaration of being a follower of Christ; (3) a reminder that suffering is a normal part of Christian life.
1528 - Apr 2004 - Letters: Jehovah's Witnesses
While it is important to respect all Faith followings in their beliefs the rather imposing persistent door-knocking Jehovah Witness visitors continue to amaze as to how they totally reject the Divinity of Jesus Christ in being God i.
1529 - Apr 2004 - Letters: Catholic schools
Today the routine of parents sending their children to Catholic schools remains embedded in our Catholic culture and largely goes unquestioned with the assumption that children will be taught the essential basics of the Faith: Why did God make them?
1530 - Apr 2004 - Whatever happened to reverence at Mass?, Matthew Greene
Within seconds the quiet dignity of the House of God suddenly disappeared.
1531 - Apr 2004 - Theology: Fr Aidan Nichols to lecture on von Balthasar in Melbourne, Tracey Rowland
This provides a rich and complex theological aesthetic approaching God through the transcendental attribute of beauty (Glory) rather than directly through Truth and Goodness and drawing not only upon theology but also upon the entire breadth of the European literary and religious tradition.
1532 - Apr 2004 - God 'number one' in East Timor, Paul Russell
God is number one then our families then the nation said one adding that throughout the crises that preceded East Timors nationhood The Catholic Church was very brave.
1533 - Apr 2004 - Events: Adore 2004 Youth Eucharistic Congress, Nicole Osmak
Adore 2004 was led by the Oblates Apostles of the Two Hearts (OATH Brothers) who by their inspiring testimonies and unvarying cheerfulness love and example displayed to us that God was working through them in a powerful way.
1534 - Apr 2004 - Books: Archbishop Hart launches new book on Dr Mannix - Daniel Mannix: Wit and Wisdom, Archbishop Dennis Hart
Leadership approach However Gilchrist makes clear Central to Archbishop Mannixs approach to Church leadership and involvement in issues spiritual and temporal and arising from his Catholic and Irish roots and family upbringing was respect for the basic dignity of the human individual as a child of God; the entitlement of ethnic and religious groups to respect freedom of opinion and an equitable share of the nations resources - on merit - in a pluralist democracy; and the right of nations to self-determination and freedom from oppression (page xii).
1535 - Apr 2004 - News: The Church Around the World
Shortcomings noted in the currently-used Mass translation have included its failure to express mans need for grace to do the good the emptying out of religious terms such as soul and spirit the lessening of the significance of the Mass as a sacrifice and the loss of sacral language which stresses God as a gracious Creator in relation to man as a supplicant creature.
1536 - Apr 2004 - National Church Life Survey: church-going declines further, Michael Gilchrist
Significantly Sydney is Evangelical and conservative as are the various smaller Protestant denominations that continue to grow such as the Assemblies of God and the Baptists.
1537 - Apr 2004 - Editorial: The Passion of the Christ: 'Why do you seek the living among the dead?', Michael Gilchrist
Here indeed is the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world; the bloody sacrifice of Gods own Son which is at the heart of the Mass.
1538 - Mar 2004 - Reflection: Scholarship, truth and Divine Revelation, Fr John O'Neill
At the same time they enjoy immensely the light it sheds on what is beautiful and good upon Gods earth and in human life which He made to reach the height of being in His image.
1539 - Mar 2004 - Books: Lord, Have Mercy : The Healing Power of Confession, by Scott Hahn, Paul Russell
Why not confess to God in prayer?
1540 - Mar 2004 - Books: John Henry Newman on the pre-eminent place of the Blessed Virgin in Christianity, Leo Madigan
Concepts such as Mother of the Creator The Mother of God The Immaculate Conception Mediatrix were developing well beyond anything countenanced by Anglican belief.
1541 - Mar 2004 - Letters: Scripture and the Magisterium, John Frey
Perusing Dei Verbum article 10 one finds that this teaching office is not above the word of God but serves it .
1542 - Mar 2004 - Letters: Tabernacle (letter), Rosemary Chandler
We are saddened by the poor faith education our young people are receiving but are we showing them by our example that we truly believe that Christ our God is present in our churches?
1543 - Mar 2004 - USA: Pro-abortion politicians put on notice, AD2000
Many Catholics he noted misunderstand the meaning of the so-called separation of Church and state in our nation and believe that the Word of God handed on to us in the Church has no application to political life.
1544 - Mar 2004 - USA: American bishops critical of their RE texts, Zenit News Service
The Father may be referred to as God.
1545 - Mar 2004 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000
We come to Mass to adore God praise Him and thank Him not to entertain one another.
1546 - Mar 2004 - Red Mass Homily: Can Lawyers Be Saints?, Bishop Anthony Fisher
The law in our country today is challenged in many directions by those who would compromise its reverence for human life especially in its beginning and end; those who would equate all sorts of relationships with marriage and family life; those who would respond to perceived threats to security with suspension of rights; those who put the interests of the privileged and powerful before Gods little ones the orphan and widow the sick and poor the stranger and refugee the ones most in need of the protection of law.
1547 - Mar 2004 - Editorial: Archbishop Wilson's challenge for educators, Michael Gilchrist
We want people to be able to develop their relationship with God and with the Church while theyre alive and then to be prepared for eternal life.
1548 - Feb 2004 - Reflection: The ministerial priesthood: 'truly a gift from God', Fr Dennis W. Byrnes
You are ministers of the Eucharist and ministers of Gods mercy in the sacrament of Penance.
1549 - Feb 2004 - The foundation of moral law: the pagan witness of Cicero, 106-43 BC
But there will be one law eternal and unchangeable binding at all times and upon all peoples; and there will be as it were one common master and ruler of men namely God who is the author of this law its interpreter and its sponsor.
1550 - Feb 2004 - Letters: New Age?, Fr Don Coutts
I believe it is a God-given opportunity (among many others and particularly for this time) to heal hurts bandage the wounds reconcile enemies and evangelise showing that God is at work among us with His redemptive love!
1551 - Feb 2004 - Letters: Fertility rates, Brian Harris
Genesis verses 27-29 states: So God created human beings making them to be like Himself.
1552 - Feb 2004 - Letters: One-World Church?, Philip Robinson
The Portugal News of 1 November 2003 reported on a Vatican/UN pan-religious congress The Present of Man - The Future of God: The Place of Sanctuaries in Relation to the Sacred held at Fatima between 10-12 October 2003.
1553 - Feb 2004 - Letters: Christ's gift, Wendy Francis
God is with us .
1554 - Feb 2004 - Letters: Higher calling, Judy O'Reilly
Some make a private vow of celibacy to God in order to offer their lives more completely to Him.
1555 - Feb 2004 - Interview: Scott Hahn interviewed on Dei Verbum : What Vatican II taught about Scripture, Zenit News Service
The document is a remarkable development - a positive constructive integral holistic approach to the ways that God reveals Himself.
1556 - Feb 2004 - Modern church design: 'Spank the architect!', Paul Mees
Catholic churches are designed to communicate non-verbally this fact of Gods presence to help us weak individuals strengthen our faith - save in some sterile modern churches with which architects and clergy in a burst of mistaken ecumenism have tried to placate the Protestant suspicion that Catholic churches hoard idols.
1557 - Dec 2003 - Reflection: 'Jesus Christ: the door of our salvation' : the meaning of Christmas, Pope John Paul II
His words inspired by God surprising words come down through history and re-echo all through the earth proclaiming the great mystery of the Incarnation.
1558 - Dec 2003 - Books: Celibacy in the Early Church, by Stefan Heid, Fr Peter Murphy
Notwithstanding their state of life however what all clerics did hold in common was the call to perfect chastity total sexual continence for the sake of the kingdom of God.
1559 - Dec 2003 - Books: Adventures in Orthodoxy, by Dwight Longenecker, Richard Egan
In his chapter on Christ as true God and true man titled Arians Apollinarians and One-Eyed Pirates Longenecker succinctly summarises the whole complex history of Christology.
1560 - Dec 2003 - Letters: Men at church, Rosanne Turne
if he is fearful say Jesus can wipe out all care; if God is an ogre inflicting suffering say Christianity is the Way of the Cross so each believer has a cross and suffers too; if the man loves adventure tell stories of the saints and Church history.
1561 - Dec 2003 - Poetry: Ex Maria Virgine, Delia Craig
Ex Maria Virgine When has the might of man surpassed that She Who worshipped on her meek adoring knee And to the Second of the Awful Three (In Manhood less in Godhead Equal-One) Whispered with shining eyes It is my Son!
1562 - Dec 2003 - BOOKS: DANIEL MANNIX : Wit and Wisdom - new edition, Michael Gilchrist
Central to his approach to Church leadership and involvement in issues spiritual and temporal and arising from his Catholic and Irish roots and family upbringing was respect for the basic dignity of the human individual as a child of God; the entitlement of ethnic and religious groups to respect freedom of opinion and an equitable share of a nations resources - on merit - in a pluralist democracy; and the right of nations to self-determination and freedom from oppression.
1563 - Dec 2003 - INTERVIEW: New Melbourne and Sydney Religious Education texts, Msgr Peter Elliott
At the secondary levels 7 to 10 student books have been revised in line with the Sydney curriculum Faithful to God Faithful to People.
1564 - Dec 2003 - News: The Church Around the World
Commenting on Pastores Gregis the Holy Father said that in the document the synodal fathers emphasised the great importance of the episcopal service for the life of the People of God.
1565 - Dec 2003 - John Paul II's 25th anniversary: the impact of his teachings, Cardinal George Pell
John Paul also believed that at the heart of every enduring culture is an acknowledgement of the Transcendent preferably the worship of the one true God and his only Son Jesus Christ.
1566 - Dec 2003 - Editorial: The challenge of Christmas, Peter Westmore
St Luke tells us that Jesus Christ the Son of God was born in a stable because there was no room for his parents at the inn in Bethlehem.
1567 - Nov 2003 - Reflection: Cardinal Pell on Pope St Gregory the Great and the duties of bishops, Cardinal George Pell
Jeremiah captures the competing imperatives: the duty to be a prophet to the nations speaking Gods word and the realisation of personal inadequacy inexperience and lack of eloquence.
1568 - Nov 2003 - Books: Great books at the best prices!
95 Saint Dominic and the Rosary Catherine Beebe Here is a dramatic account of the life and adventures of Saint Dominic who fearlessly preached on the word of God.
1569 - Nov 2003 - Books: A Grief Unveiled, by Gregory Floyd, Bill Muehlenberg
Mankind and sufferings The same God.
1570 - Nov 2003 - Letters: Lourdes pilgrimage (letter), Jenny Davies
The Gundersons God willing have every intention of returning to Lourdes next year for a longer period.
1571 - Nov 2003 - Letters: Good out of evil (letter), Brian Harris
However two spin-offs could affirm that God can indeed draw good out of evil with doctors threatening to refuse sterilisations or scripts for contraceptives for fear of failure with these as well.
1572 - Nov 2003 - Education: The Catholic Church's one Founder, Fr John O'Neill
The reason for this is not difficult to see if we take time to look at eternal realities and Gods desire to have us share in them.
1573 - Nov 2003 - Letters: The Mass? (letter), Kevin McBride
Will somebody clear the decks to make straight clearly and once and for all our pathway to the proper worship of God through the Mass?
1574 - 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.
1575 - Nov 2003 - Letters: Vatican II, Peter D. Howard
On salvation says Fr Hardon two streams of doctrine were delicately welded into a composite whole (p 235) in Lumen Gentiums statement: Hence they could not be saved who knowing that the Catholic Church was founded as necessary by God through Christ would refuse either to enter it or to remain in it (14).
1576 - Nov 2003 - Letters: Cardinal Pell (letter), Alan Hoysted
God Bless you Cardinal Pell!
1577 - Nov 2003 - Interview: Vatican Cardinal praises Mel Gibson's film 'The Passion'
The viewer is drawn into a powerful experience of Gods strong yet gentle love of his overflowing mercy.
1578 - Nov 2003 - Tattoos and body-piercing: the moral dimension, Fr Peter Joseph
The human body was not made by God to be a pin cushion.
1579 - Nov 2003 - Vocations: Father James Gould and the hallmarks of successful vocations promotion, Michael Rose
In every era there have been problems in the priesthood; but these problems as serious as they sometimes have been have always been overcome by the grace of God and with fidelity and obedience to Gods will by clergy and laity alike.
1580 - Nov 2003 - Vocations: Missionaries of God's Love congregation flourishes in Canberra, Mary Pidcock
At a time when many religious congregations are wondering what to do with their buildings the Missionaries of Gods Love (MGL) do not have enough room to accommodate the influx of new recruits.
1581 - Nov 2003 - Melbourne on course despite brain drain, Fr Paul Stuart
But Catholics there can rest assured that the Archdiocese remains on course with a significant number of young Catholics and clergy ready for the next chapter in Gods plan for his people in Melbourne.
1582 - Nov 2003 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000
In his apostolic exhortation Ecclesia in Europa the Pope sketched a grim picture of a European society that rejects God and has lost the memory of its Christian heritage.
1583 - Nov 2003 - John Paul II elevates Archbishop George Pell to the College of Cardinals, Michael Gilchrist
At the last consistory in February 2001 the Holy Father recalled that a cardinal is called to a witness that can require the heroism of a total gift of himself to God and to his brothers.
1584 - Oct 2003 - Reflection: Why the tabernacle should be centrally located in our churches, Fr Sebastian Camilleri OFM
More than ever the supreme God of mercy and His Son Jesus Christ need to be at the centre of Catholic life.
1585 - Oct 2003 - Letters: Footy Show (letter), Alan A. Hoysted
I feel that this attack is most unfair to the thousands of good Catholic and Anglican priests (and other Church members) who do their best to serve God and humanity.
1586 - Oct 2003 - Letters: Thomas Groome (letter), Dr Susan Moore
Its basis is hubris posing as enlightened discernment; and its effect is to undermine the Word of God in the name of collegiality.
1587 - Oct 2003 - Letters: Clerical celibacy (letter), Gerard Wilson
I would like to compliment John Young on his article about the Churchs discipline regarding celibacy in the priesthood (Clerical celibacy for the sake of Gods Kingdom: the Churchs teaching August AD2000).
1588 - Oct 2003 - Letters: Individual confession (letter), John Cassar
Now I feel very contented that I am back on my knees at the confessional seeking real pardon for my past sins from our Catholic priest who wants us all to be truly reconciled with God.
1589 - Oct 2003 - Orthodox US Catholic colleges and universities continue to flourish, Julia Duin
Instead they are gravitating towards a new breed of college that aims to attract students who place Gods truth moral absolutes and loyalty to Pope John Paul II above parties sexual hookups and winning football programs.
1590 - Oct 2003 - Why Catholic teaching on marriage is 'good news' for all humanity, Eamonn Keane
That we can ask such questions at all is an indication that we are made in the image and likeness of God who at creation gifted us with intelligence and free will.
1591 - Oct 2003 - How fatherhood is crucial to children's faith, Fr Robbie Low
But they will inevitably look to fill that yawning gap in their spiritual lives the experience of fatherhood that is derived from the true fatherhood of God.
1592 - Oct 2003 - Melbourne Archdiocese responds to John Paul II's Year of the Rosary, AD2000 Report
The Proclamation of the Kingdom of God in which Jesus calls us to conversion (Mk 1:15); 4.
1593 - Oct 2003 - Youth: Thomas More Winter School in Sale Diocese has Eucharistic focus, Michael Casanova
The human body as made in the image and likeness of God underlines our great value.
1594 - Oct 2003 - Saints: The Beatification of Mother Teresa of Calcutta
Her work became very widely known in the West as a result of a book Something Beautiful for God written by the well-known writer and commentator Malcolm Muggeridge.
1595 - Oct 2003 - Ethics: Bishop Fisher and Dr Philip Nitschke in Sydney euthanasia debate, Frank Mobbs
What sort of a gift is it if God gives us a life that we cant actually get rid of?
1596 - Oct 2003 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000
This episode he concluded has taught us not to highlight the opposition but rather the harmony that must reign between reason and faith the two wings with which the Christian can fly to God as John Paul II has synthesised it in the encyclical Fides et Ratio.
1597 - 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.
1598 - Sep 2003 - Reflection: A Christian response to bereavement: Jesus' ministry to the sick and dying, Fr Dennis Byrnes
Martha said to Jesus If you had been here my brother would not have died but I know that even now whatever you ask of God he will grant you (John 11:21-23).
1599 - Sep 2003 - Books: The Practical Preacher: Handy Hints for hesitant homilists, by Paul Edwards SJ, Anthony Cappello
For the priest one of the key aspects of his ministry is to proclaim the Word of God.
1600 - Sep 2003 - Letters: Prophetic words (letter), Errol Duke
The Church will be full of those who accept compromise and the demon will press many priests and consecrated souls to leave the service of God.
1601 - Sep 2003 - Homosexual conduct: how Gospel teaching can be distorted, Bill Muehlenberg
It was a given in Jewish culture that it was an abomination to God and not to be practised amongst the Jews.
1602 - Sep 2003 - Understanding the Catholic Liturgy since Vatican II, Dom Alcuin Reid OSB
Catholic Liturgy is the public and official worship of Almighty God by the Church as distinct from personal spiritual practices.
1603 - Sep 2003 - Catholic summer conferences in the United States: signs of hope, Richard Egan
He spoke of how even in the midst of a confused post-modernist culture there is a yearning for the absolute for certainty and for God.
1604 - Sep 2003 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000
However even divorce provides a context in which Christian virtues can be exercised and out of which there can be a return to the joy that God promises.
1605 - Aug 2003 - Reflection: The Apocalypse: proclaiming the final victory of Christ and His Church, Fr G.H. Duggan SM
They are appropriate to the season for as St Paul has reminded us being risen with Christ we are called to set our hearts on things above where Christ is seated at the right hand of God.
1606 - Aug 2003 - JESUS: According to the Gospel of Luke (CD-ROM and Book), Roberta Wilson
In addition this excellent film created for the Great Jubilee of the year 2000 has been highly approved and recommended by Pope John Paul II: I invoke Gods blessing upon this initiative and I cordially impart to you the Apostolic Blessing.
1607 - Aug 2003 - Priesthood: Clerical celibacy 'for the sake of God's Kingdom': the Church's teaching, John Young
The fact is that despite variations in practices over the years between Eastern and Western rites of Catholicism regarding compulsory celibacy the principle is clearly and constantly taught that celibacy chosen for the love of God is a higher state of life than marriage.
1608 - Aug 2003 - Is Pope John Paul II canonising too many saints?, Michael Casanova
However in addition to reflecting reality which by Gods grace is what it is it also responds to the desire expressed by the second Vatican Council .
1609 - Aug 2003 - Church architecture: overcoming iconoclasts and cult of ugliness, Larry Henderson
I personally do not have a fixed image for the House of God.
1610 - Aug 2003 - Catalyst for Renewal Address: The legacy of Vatican II, Archbishop George Pell
Catholicism teaches that Christ is the son of God who came to redeem and save us and explain to us the secrets of this life and the next.
1611 - Aug 2003 - Bioethics: End-of-life decisions: the moral issues at stake, David Perrin
The Catechism of the Catholic Church reaffirms for Catholics and for all Christians Our Lords command You shall not kill because human dignity comes from God alone.
1612 - Aug 2003 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000
Ive been pastor at New Life Church for 18 years and I dont remember anyone displaying a fear of God on our platform the way Mel did today.
1613 - Aug 2003 - Documents: Ecclesia in Europa - Pope challenges Christians to re-evangelise Europe, Michael Gilchrist
Turning to the Mass and sacraments the Holy Father calls for revival of an authentic sense of the liturgy and the proper formation of consciences: The Synod Fathers have insisted on the recognition of the reality of personal sin and the necessity of personal forgiveness by God through the ministry of the priest.
1614 - Aug 2003 - Editorial: 'Do this in memory of Me', Peter Westmore
The essential function of the priest in both the Old Testament and the New is to offer sacrifice to God.
1615 - Jul 2003 - Reflection: The meaning of vocation for baptised Christians, Archbishop Philip Wilson
A second point is that this specification of baptismal consecration also takes place as an act of faith and for us the act of faith is never a matter of just God and oneself.
1616 - Jul 2003 - Books: Europe: The Exceptional Case: Parameters Of Faith In The Modern World, Anthony Cappello
What of basic questions such as belief in God?
1617 - Jul 2003 - Letters: Pell biography feedback (letter), Mary Lou Corboy
What a great good man and God knows we need a few more of his type in this country - solid sound Catholic leaders of courage.
1618 - Jul 2003 - Letters: New religion (letter), Br Jim Ward CFC
In 1936 Teilhard wrote to Leontine Zantha: What increasingly dominates my interest is the effort to establish within myself and to diffuse around me a new religion whose personal God is the soul of the world .
1619 - Jul 2003 - Letters: Misunderstood (letter), Elsie Cunningham
I am immersed in the creative action of God whose Hand has never ceased from the beginning of time to mould the human clay destined to constitute the Body of His Son (Cosmic Life).
1620 - Jul 2003 - Letters: Lenten program (letter), Robert Osmak
22): God does not ask the sacrifice of any living being - animal or human.
1621 - Jul 2003 - Letters: Catholic heritage (letter), Sue Russell
It simply does not make sense to place God Incarnate the King of Creation in a side chapel.
1622 - Jul 2003 - Letters: Obstacles to confession (letter), M.G.A. De Wolf
speaking about evil and Hell and the fact that God is infinitely loving and merciful.
1623 - Jul 2003 - School sacramental programs: evangelise Catholic families first, Fr John Speekman
It might be helpful here to remember what Malcolm Muggeridge once said: Every step into reality is a step closer to God.
1624 - Jul 2003 - The concentration camp prisoner who became a Queensland priest, Warren Losberg
God has a plan and that is what we have to accept.
1625 - Jul 2003 - Brisbane Synod ends: Archbishop Bathersby to announce pastoral programs, AD2000 REPORT
Cardinal Avery Dulles summed it up neatly recalling how he walked into a church hall saw butchers paper hanging on the wall marked God is other people and wished he could insert a comma to make it read: God is other people.
1626 - Jul 2003 - Catholic Literature: Hilaire Belloc's 50th anniversary: is he 'yesterday's man'?, Br Christian Moe FSC
Stand about my wraith and harbour me almighty God.
1627 - Jul 2003 - Orthodox Anglicans close ranks to preserve faith, Nigel Zimmermann
But as Archbishop Peter Jensen will tell you their wealth does not reside in church property or trusts but in their faith in Gods written Word the Bible.
1628 - Jul 2003 - Events: Seeking the face of Christ through the arts: Carnivale Christi goes national, Nicholas Rynne
During the Carnivale it has become evident how art can be an instrument of the new evangelisation - as a beautiful witness to the existence of God and through its ability to attract people towards the light of Christ.
1629 - Jul 2003 - Homily: Bicentenary Mass celebrated in Sydney, Archbishop George Pell
A priest from the visiting Spanish expedition of 1793 was astonished that there was not a single church in the colony (an Anglican church was built later that year) adding that the Spanish colonisers always built a house for God before any human habitation and certainly before a gaol.
1630 - Jul 2003 - Books: AD2000 to distribute Ignatius Press titles in Australia from July, Peter Westmore
He said What I find most gratifying about being with Ignatius Press is when I reflect on what I do I feel like Im doing what God wants me to do.
1631 - Jul 2003 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000
He continued: May God help you to work incessantly so that all people believers and non-believers understand that the protection of human life starting at conception is a necessary condition to build a future worthy of man.
1632 - Jul 2003 - Editorial: The pivotal roles of Saints Peter and Paul, Michael Gilchrist
Pauls central conviction was simple and absolute: Only God can save humanity.
1633 - Jun 2003 - Reflection: Church scandals: focus on the message, not just the messengers, Fr Kevin Brannelly
Yet the Scriptures amply demonstrate how flawed Gods messengers often have been.
1634 - Jun 2003 - Books: Family in the Bible, edited by Richard H. Hess and M. Danial Carroll, Bill Muehlenberg
Genesis Old Testament scholar Gordon Wenham begins the discussion with the important early chapters of Genesis where Gods ideal for the family is first laid out.
1635 - Jun 2003 - Letters: Prayer to Our Lady of Good Counsel (letter), Marie E. Curtin
Stir my heart while gazing on thy features With the old old story ever new:- How our God has loved His sinful creatures: Then dear Mother show me what to do.
1636 - Jun 2003 - Letters: Latin Mass (letter), Philip Robinson
To us and to an increasing number of Catholics the focus of this Mass is God not the Presider or the congregation; it is much richer in its prayers and devotion than the Novus Ordo - it is much more than ritual.
1637 - Jun 2003 - Letters: Teilhard de Chardin (letter), Grahame Fallon
That was the real presence and grace of God at the very heart or centre of every form of matter that God the Father had originally made for the incarnation of God the Son - through Him in Him and for Him (Col 1:16).
1638 - Jun 2003 - The seal of confession: how a priest put his life on the line, Clem Lack
He must make his peace with God by expiating his terrible sin.
1639 - Jun 2003 - Those dreadful old Catholic hymns?, Fr Fabian Duggan OSB
For example songs like In a Monastery Garden The Nuns Chorus Last night I Lay Asleeping and even songs like When you Come to the End of a Perfect Day are all well-known and very beautiful so there is no reason why they could not be consecrated to the glory of God in our liturgical celebrations remembering that all beauty belongs to God.
1640 - Jun 2003 - Laity: The role of lay Catholics in a time of crisis, Mary Ann Glendon
The Council Fathers sent strongly- worded messages to lay men and women reminding us of our baptismal vocation to evangelisation and that wherever we find ourselves we must strive to consecrate the world itself to God.
1641 - Jun 2003 - The environment: rediscovering the balanced Catholic perspective, Michael Casanova
Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament) with no mention of the environment at all and having finished that retreat encountering sun trees and people with eyes opened in an extraordinary way to their wonder while feeling the need to treat them with a reverence their relationship to God required.
1642 - Jun 2003 - Interview: Vatican II and the liturgy, 40 years later, Zenit News Service
In the West we often want to control plan even manipulate worship so it centres more on us than on God.
1643 - Jun 2003 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000
Cardinal Godfried Danneels Archbishop of Malines-Brussels in commenting on the encyclical called the Eucharist a treasure that cannot be neglected reduced or manipulated whose link with the Church is manifested through the person of the ordained minister bishop or priest who acts in persona Christi.
1644 - Jun 2003 - Liturgy: John Paul's new encyclical on the Eucharist targets liturgical abuses, Michael Gilchrist
In regard to the real presence - another aspect of the Eucharist tending to be confused in some quarters - the Pope reminds us: The sacramental re-presentation of Christs sacrifice crowned by the resurrection in the Mass involves a most special presence which - in the words of Paul VI - is called real not as a way of excluding all other types of presence as if they were not real but because it is a presence in the fullest sense: a substantial presence whereby Christ the God-Man is wholly and entirely present.
1645 - Jun 2003 - Editorial: Three Feasts: Ascension, Pentecost, Trinity, Peter Westmore
It marks the exact moment when Jesus Son of God commissioned his disciples to begin the gigantic task of converting the whole world.
1646 - May 2003 - Reflection: St Francis on individual confession and receiving Holy Communion, Fr Sebastian Camilleri OFM
The Holy Father has repeatedly warned that unbridled secularism has infiltrated the Church and corroded the very core of religiosity and reverence towards God with moral values in family lives and society tossed out of the window.
1647 - May 2003 - Review: The Mysteries of Light: Rosary for Children and Youth on cassette, Colleen McGuinness-Howard
Describing the whole mystery of Christ as a mystery of light the Pope has singled out the Baptism of Christ in the Jordan his self-manifestation at the wedding of Cana Jesus proclamation of the Kingdom of God with his call to conversion His Transfiguration and finally Jesus institution of the Holy Eucharist as the sacramental expression of the Paschal Mystery.
1648 - May 2003 - Books: Life-Giving Love: Embracing God's beautiful design for marriage, Kimberley Hahn, Leanne and Michael Casanova
LIFE-GIVING LOVE: Embracing Gods beautiful design for marriage by Kimberly Hahn Foreword by Scott Hahn (Servant Publications 2001 375pp $26.
1649 - May 2003 - Letters: Praying for priests (letter), Denise Kelly
Our Pope has called for a global rediscovery of the Rosary as the ideal prayer for asking God for His blessing of world peace.
1650 - May 2003 - Letters: Teilhard de Chardin (letter), Stuart J. Blackwood
Noted philosopher Dietrich von Hildebrand wrote in Trojan Horse in the City of God: It was only after reading several of his works however that I fully realised the catastrophic implications of his philosophical ideas and saw the absolute incompatibility of his theology fiction with Christian revelation and with the doctrine of the Church.
1651 - May 2003 - Letters: Healing of the family tree (letter), Anne Lastman
I understand and believe that God exists in the eternal now and if this is so then maybe one of my ancestors who died say 70-80 years ago (long before I was even a thought) with perhaps an unrepented sin may have a need for some future kinswoman/man to help expiate that sin.
1652 - May 2003 - Letters: Infallible (letter), George Simpson
Before the well-known definition of ex cathedra statements the document mentions other definitions by popes who by taking advantage of useful means afforded by Divine Providence defined as doctrines to be held those things which by Gods help they knew to be in keeping with Sacred Scripture and the Apostolic Traditions.
1653 - May 2003 - Language: The forgotten language of adoration of God - through words and actions, Audrey English
The traditional way of beginning prayers - Almighty and eternal God - is to be restored in new translations of the Lectionary.
1654 - May 2003 - Cardinal Nguyen Van Thuan (1928-2002): How faith survived in a Communist prison, Cardinal Francis Xavier Nguyen Van Thuan
The following are extracts from the late Cardinal Francis Xavier Nguyen Van Thuans address - Experiencing Gods liberating power - given at a religious education conference in Los Angeles prior to his death in 2002.
1655 - May 2003 - Liturgy: Latvia shows the way on liturgical renewal, Cardinal Janis Pujats
In the Liturgy of the Word we are talking to the people and they are listening to the Word of God.
1656 - May 2003 - Brisbane archdiocesan synod: challenges needing to be addressed, Peter Howard
The Statement of Conclusions urged that formation at all levels must continue and must rely on instruments offered by the Church: above all the word of God the documents of the Second Vatican Council the Catechism of the Catholic Church and the teachings of the Magisterium of the Church which offer timely indications for dealing with the different challenges mentioned.
1657 - May 2003 - Why priestly vocations are up in Perth Archdiocese, Debra Warrier
The Archbishop spoke highly of the growing number of youth who are faithful to God.
1658 - May 2003 - Surge in priestly vocations confounds secular culture, Joanne Grainger
While we are able to make decisions regarding our vocation it is God who has chosen it for us from the moment He created us.
1659 - May 2003 - News: The Church Around the World
During meditations prior to reciting the Angelus with the faithful gathered in St Peters Square on Sunday 30 March the Holy Father referred to his forthcoming encyclical which on the occasion of Holy Thursday God willing I will sign during the Mass of the Lords Supper.
1660 - Apr 2003 - Reflection: The road to Emmaus: coming to terms with the hard reality of loss, Fr Dennis Byrnes PP
God seemed to be saying to me: You must learn to face losses.
1661 - Apr 2003 - Books: Our books are the cheapest!
95 The Dream of Gerontius John Henry Newman With a preface by Fr Benedict Groeschel this new edition of John Henry Newmans renowned poem describes the death of an old man and the journey of his soul to the judgement seat of God.
1662 - Apr 2003 - Letters: Life Walk (letter), Brian Harris
Hear the cry to God of the innocent baby next in line to be aborted.
1663 - Apr 2003 - Letters: Experiential catechesis (letter), Fr. G.H. Duggan SM
It was the communication of a body of truths revealed by God and entrusted to his Church as a sacred treasure to be defended and expounded with authority the key to happiness for the individual and humanity as a whole in this world and in the next.
1664 - Apr 2003 - Letters: Shooting the messenger, Alan Gill
Among less sophisticated journos there is a further view of clergy of all denominations (as cited by the late Anglican Dean Lance Shilton) as interfering God-botherers out to stop people having a good time.
1665 - Apr 2003 - Education: Chavagnes International Catholic college update, Br John Moylan
All the teachers are talented Catholic educators and scholars who believe strongly that with Gods help Catholic schools have the potential to produce outstanding Catholic men loyal and committed to Christ and His Church.
1666 - Apr 2003 - Ecumenism: Christian unity: major obstacles still remain, David Schutz
Evangelicals on the other hand tend to see the basis of unity in the Word of God correctly preached and taught.
1667 - Apr 2003 - Archbishop Hickey's pastoral letter on marriage, Archbishop Barry Hickey
The original plan of God for marriage was gradually eroded by local customs unjust practices false ideas and human frailty which Jesus referred to as hardness of heart.
1668 - Apr 2003 - News: The Church Around the World
The Pope continued: We must pray to God not only with theologically precise words but also with beauty and dignity .
1669 - Apr 2003 - Dr Claudio Betti's inspiring visit to Australia, Peter Westmore
Pointing to predictions that the 20th century would see the end of religions and the triumph of secularism he said these predictions have been proven false: In reality especially in the last decades of the 20th century we have witnessed a revanche de Dieu a revenge of God as it has been acutely stated by the Islamologist Gilles Kepel in which religion has re-emerged as the most powerful force far stronger than the dying secular culture.
1670 - Apr 2003 - Editorial: Good news on the liturgy, Peter Westmore
In some places the liturgy has suffered from an explosion of experimentation and spontaneity becoming man-centred rather than God-centred.
1671 - Mar 2003 - Reflection: Lenten self-denial - at the very heart of our lives with Christ, Fr F.E. Burns
He remarked to the farmer how much God had blessed him with such a beautiful property.
1672 - Mar 2003 - Books: The Latest from AD Books
God and the World Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger Another wonderful volume by one of the Churchs great leaders and thinkers.
1673 - Mar 2003 - Books: The Self Evident Proof, by Richard Kouchoo, Catherine Sheehan
com) Richard Kouchoo claims that knowledge of the existence of God is possible through simple reasoning and logic.
1674 - Mar 2003 - Poetry: From Tradition (For my mother), Andrew Huntley
But she Was made by God from all eternity To voice her fiat once the angel hailed.
1675 - Mar 2003 - Letters: Invalid (letter), Maria Lossberg
The Pope states in The Mercy of God: It is not acceptable to contrive or allow contrivance of situations of apparent grave necessity resulting from not administering the Sacrament in the ordinary way .
1676 - Mar 2003 - Letters: Third rite (letter), Norm Power
On 2 May 2002 Pope John Paul II issued an apostolic letter Misericordia Dei (The Mercy of God) to clarify the laws of the Church regarding general absolution.
1677 - Mar 2003 - Letters: New springtime (letter), Errol P. Duke
On this occasion thanks be to God the media correctly exposed an issue that the Church would not - to cleanse it from some internal dreadful sins.
1678 - Mar 2003 - Letters: Brisbane Synod (letter), John F. Nolan
The Synod is both an exercise in discerning the Spirit from below as well as an opportunity to place the local Churchs collective wisdom in contact with the teaching authority of the Church so that our Synod reflection may enable us to see Gods design more clearly.
1679 - Mar 2003 - New Age ideas: how Catholics should respond, Fr Peter Joseph
God has not given the devil such unfailing power.
1680 - Mar 2003 - Liturgy: The Mass is the same sacrifice as the Cross, Msgr. Peter J. Elliott
It should be understood not in a psychological sense of remembering something but as the Jews understand it in the vivid biblical sense of a real re-play of Gods saving acts a great memorial that makes something present again.
1681 - Mar 2003 - Religious faith and modern culture: responding to a secular critic, Bill Muehlenberg
Her attempt at witticism simply further undermines her case: I trust God will excuse from purgatory or hell those who have not been given the right genes.
1682 - Mar 2003 - Vatican tells politicians: Don't hide your light, Michael Casanova
Against this the Congregation cites the example of Thomas More Patron of Statesmen and Politicians: Man cannot be separated from God nor politics from morality.
1683 - Mar 2003 - Ten years on former Anglicans enrich Church, Fr Peter Geldard
For anyone who has shared the joy of an ex-Anglicans ordination it almost goes without notice that there is included within that rite a specific prayer thanking God for that persons past sacramental life.
1684 - Mar 2003 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000
It is a question of a religious challenge and at the same time a cultural one: the New Age proposes theories and doctrines about God man and the world that are incompatible with the Christian faith.
1685 - Mar 2003 - Sydney Archdiocese RE test: behind one school's success story, Michael Gilchrist
It turns out that apart from preaching the Word of God at Masses Fr Walter plays an active catechetical role in his school instructing its pupils each Wednesday at a class Mass and again each Friday at Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament.
1686 - Feb 2003 - Reflection: Lectio Divina: a way to deepen our prayer life and spirituality, Fr Andrew Wise
Sometimes however I wonder if we approach prayer more as a type of monologue or as our activity with God responding rather than as a dialogue with God acting and with our responding to Him.
1687 - Feb 2003 - Books: New year reading from AD Books
Couples who practise Natural Family Planning advocated in this book co-operate with Gods design making wise decisions about family size without losing respect for the mystery and meaning of sex.
1688 - Feb 2003 - Letters: Infallible teaching (letter), George Simpson
In fact as the reply explains the definitive nature of this assent derives from the truth of the doctrine itself since founded on the written Word of God and constantly held and applied in the Tradition of the Church it has been set forth infallibly by the ordinary universal Magisterium (Lumen Gentium 25).
1689 - Feb 2003 - 'Healing the family tree': New Age under the guise of religion (Part One), Fr Peter Joseph
Jesus answer is very enlightening and very important: It was not that this man sinned or his parents but that the works of God might be made manifest in him (Jn 9:3).
1690 - Feb 2003 - Liturgy: The sacrifice of the Mass: the Eucharistic words of Christ, Msgr Peter J. Elliott
To the men at the supper table what Jesus did with bread and wine was all about a new sacrifice for a new relationship with God.
1691 - Feb 2003 - Events: Europe's most influential Catholic lay association coming to Melbourne, Anthony Cappello
Cardinal Ruini in February 2001 referred to the Community as fishers of men arguing that to choose the poor is to choose God.
1692 - Feb 2003 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000
Fr Kolodiejchuk said Mother Teresa kept her interior life private her concern always being that everything she did was Gods work.
1693 - Feb 2003 - Confronting today's persecution of the Catholic Church, Bishop Luc Matthys
The Catholic Church in Australia is being excoriated by enemies of the Church by enemies of religion by enemies of God.
1694 - Feb 2003 - Vocations: Sydney seminary growth based on orthodoxy, fidelity, Fr Julian Porteous
Theirs is a love of the liturgy as an act of worship of Almighty God.
1695 - Dec 2002 - Reflection: John Paul II on Christmas: 'the mystery of humanity redeemed by Christ', Pope John Paul II
A mystery hidden in Gods eternal plan; a mystery which in a certain way became history with the incarnation of the Eternal Word of the Father; a mystery which the Church re-lives with profound emotion each Christmas.
1696 - Dec 2002 - Books: Ideal Christmas Gifts from AD Books
Couples who practise Natural Family Planning advocated in this book co-operate with Gods design making wise decisions about family size without losing respect for the mystery and meaning of sex.
1697 - Dec 2002 - Books: Barb of Fire: Twenty Poems of Blessed Elizabeth of the Trinity, Michael Daniel
Although they wrote independently of each other their writings reflect similar themes in particular their intense love of God.
1698 - Dec 2002 - Poetry: The New Year, D.C. Craig
We know not what the year will bring; Be thou our guide through days untrod Its thoughts conceived and witnessing Its fruits dear Jesu done in God.
1699 - Dec 2002 - Letters: Forgiveness (letter), John Schmid
They must be reminded of Gods mercy and given hope of Gods forgiveness when they repent.
1700 - Dec 2002 - Letters: 'Misandry' (letter), Name and address supplied
With great wisdom it has been said: Belief in God is the unshakeable foundation of all Christian order and responsibility on Earth (vide Pope Pius Xls encyclical letter Atheistic Communism).
1701 - Dec 2002 - Letters: Bishop Power (letter), Fr G.H. Duggan SM
That this action is strictly forbidden by God is very plain (Leviticus 18:22) and St Paul is equally clear (Romans 1:27; 1 Corinthians 6:9).
1702 - Dec 2002 - Letters: Women's Commission (1) (letter), Sr Breda O'Reilly
Thank God however there are many male supporters around Australia who are happy that at last this important issue of women in the Church is really being addressed.
1703 - Dec 2002 - Archbishop Chaput: what makes a good leader?, Archbishop Charles J. Chaput
Adams never allowed the big demands of his public life to eclipse the seemingly little things that were really the important things - a devotion to his wife his children his friends and his God.
1704 - Dec 2002 - 'New' ecumenism fights secular culture: Protestant theologian
The old ecumenism was embarrassed by allegedly sexist language about God the Father and God the Son appealing constantly to Marxist social location analysis and psychoanalytic theories of religion.
1705 - Dec 2002 - Brisbane Synod 2003: a leadership challenge, Peter D. Howard
On the record so far the Archbishop will need the Holy Spirits guidance to prudently direct the outcome for the glory of God and the re-evangelisation of the flock.
1706 - Dec 2002 - Thomas Groome: his influence on religious education continues, Eamonn Keane
In this regard he says that revelation as doctrine which understands revelation as divinely authoritative doctrine inerrantly proposed as Gods word by the Bible or by official Church teaching .
1707 - Dec 2002 - Books: Biography of Archbishop Pell launched in Melbourne: author interviewed
The Church would do worse than to make the opening chapters of Sheehans Apologetics on the existence of God compulsory study material for Year 12 Catholics.
1708 - Dec 2002 - Education: Most teachers reject Church teaching: ACU professor, Michael Gilchrist
They are the only God/Church persons the vast majority of Catholics ever meet regularly and the evidence is that Catholic kids do find some religious meaning not in parishes but in Catholic schools.
1709 - Dec 2002 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000
When meeting with the bishops the Pope said: I know and appreciate all you are doing in favour of the family which faces so many difficulties of different kinds and is exposed to snares that attack essential aspects of Gods plan such as the indissoluble character of marriage.
1710 - Dec 2002 - Editorial: Christmas 2002: the state of the Church, Peter Westmore
We have many things going for us: in Pope John Paul II a spiritual leader who has personally confronted and defeated regimes based on rejection of God and provided answers to modern societys contested issues.
1711 - Nov 2002 - Books: Ideal Christmas Gifts from AD Books
Couples who practise Natural Family Planning as advocated in this book co-operate with Gods design making wise decisions about family size without losing respect for the mystery and meaning of sex.
1712 - Nov 2002 - Books: Bernard Of Clairvaux: Essential Writings, Michael Daniel
On Grace and Free Choice The Steps of Humility and Pride On Loving God Sermons on the Song of Songs and Five Books on Consideration focusing on themes and ideas that Tamburello believes are useful for modern readers.
1713 - Nov 2002 - Letters: Tough teachings (letter), Mrs Maureen Federico
With these words of Jesus in mind only God knows all the secrets of the human heart.
1714 - Nov 2002 - Letters: Radical feminism (letter), Gordon Southern
The real Catholic women I am privileged to know are women seeking transformation in Christ through the truth revealed in the Word of God as transmitted by the magisterium of the Catholic Church; their striving to live with integrity gospel values; their wholehearted participation in the Churchs sacramental life their living a life of prayer.
1715 - Nov 2002 - Catholic schools: restoring a sense of sin, Br John Moylan CFC
This life comes through accepting Gods call to return His love with the totality of our being and by loving our neighbours as ourselves.
1716 - Nov 2002 - Sydney Archdiocese courses on 'Catechism', Fr John Flader
Not only her geographical extension and numerical increase but even more her inner growth and correspondence with Gods plan depend essentially on catechesis (No 13).
1717 - Nov 2002 - Opus Dei founder Josemaria Escriva canonised at Papal Mass in Rome, AD2000 Report
On 2 October 1928 during a spiritual retreat in Madrid Escrivagrave; founded Opus Dei or Work of God with the goal of reminding all those who are baptised that the Christian vocation is a call to holiness and apostolate and to promote a personal commitment to follow Christ to love the Church and to search for holiness in ordinary life among men and women from all sectors of society.
1718 - Nov 2002 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000
In his homily the Holy Father recalled that when the Cardinal preached spiritual exercises to the Roman Curia in 2000 he recounted that during the 13 years he spent in prison he understood that the foundation of Christian life is to choose God alone abandoning oneself completely into His fatherly hands.
1719 - Nov 2002 - Independent inquiry exonerates Archbishop George Pell, Peter Westmore
Archbishop Pell issued a statement immediately after the release of the inquirys report on 14 October saying I am grateful to God that this ordeal is over and that the inquiry has exonerated me of all allegations.
1720 - Oct 2002 - Reflection: Devotion to God through the Angelus and Rosary, Fr Fabian Duggan OSB
There was something quite heavenly about praying the Angelus reminding one as it did of the divine Motherhood of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Incarnation of the Son of God.
1721 - Oct 2002 - Books: New Titles from AD Books
Couples who practise Natural Family Planning as advocated in this book co-operate with Gods design making wise decisions about family size without losing respect for the mystery and meaning of sex.
1722 - Oct 2002 - Books: The Courage to be Catholic, by George Weigel, Michael Novak
Communion with God?
1723 - Oct 2002 - Poetry: The Great Deliverance, Marion Craig
If cruelty be worst of all our sins Pity and solace are the gift of God Love is the remedy that Pity wins For man and lowlier creatures of the sod.
1724 - Oct 2002 - Letters: Celibate priesthood (letter), Cyril Drew
Is Fr Duggan suggesting that because these women and men are not celibate priests - because many are intimate with their husbands or wives - they cannot be also intimate with their God (with their feet on the ground and their hearts in heaven).
1725 - Oct 2002 - Letters: Shepherds (letter), Br Con Moloney CFC
These leaders are our God-appointed shepherds and we are the sheep to whom they minister.
1726 - Oct 2002 - Letters: Archbishop Pell (letter), Eamonn & Patricia Keane
The culture of life is predicated on the truth that God exists that there are objective moral norms the violation of which are intrinsically evil and that the family based on marriage is the foundation of society.
1727 - Oct 2002 - John Henry Newman's critique of liberalism, Michael Davies
Newman himself was so conscious of the transcendence and majesty of God and of mans duty to accept and act on any message given by God that he regarded the liberal principle as not only false but evil.
1728 - Oct 2002 - Catholic liturgy in the 21st century: major challenges facing the Church, Fr Peter Williams
The current impasse on the question of texts perhaps reflects the desire of all sides in the debate to get it right so that our liturgical forms might have dignity accuracy and provide a ready tool to assist not only the people of God to worship but also to act - as worship so often does as a vehicle to evangelise those seeking to know God and the things of God.
1729 - Oct 2002 - US billionaire promotes orthodox teaching, Zenit News Service
After receiving a billion dollars from the sale of his business Mr Monaghan has been returning thanks to God by devoting his resources to building an independent chain of primary secondary and post-secondary Catholic educational institutions through the Ave Maria Foundation of which he is principal benefactor.
1730 - Oct 2002 - Bishop Power: Church teachings need to be 're-examined', AD2000 REPORT
In this they will follow Christs example who by his obedience unto death opened the blessed way of the liberty of the sons of God to all men (Lumen gentium n.
1731 - Oct 2002 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000
The secret to obtaining good results lies in the strength of God and in human work fulfilled with wisdom he said.
1732 - Sep 2002 - Reflection: The Christian way to spiritual maturity, Fr Dennis W. Byrnes PP
In other words God does not condemn us even though others - including ourselves - may do do.
1733 - Sep 2002 - Music: CD specials from AD Books
00 Spirituality of the Psalms The Schola Cantorum of St Peter the Apostle Beautiful Gregorian Chants with English lyrics focussing on sung Psalms like Quam Dilecta O God Be Merciful Unto Us Deus Misereatur Psalm 84 and many more.
1734 - Sep 2002 - Marilen Studios: a Christian approach to business, Joe Padero
I first had the idea for Marilen Studios in 1999 when I attended a Focolare conference in Rome titled God is Beauty.
1735 - Sep 2002 - Books: The Arians of the Fourth Century, by John Henry Newman, Peter Westmore
Church history tell us that Arius was a priest in Alexandria who formulated the doctrine that God created before all things a Son who was the first creature but who was neither equal to nor coeternal with the Father.
1736 - Sep 2002 - Letters: Zero tolerance (letter), J. Dekker
It used to be said There but for the grace of God go I but in this present period of the Churchs history it is: There go I.
1737 - Sep 2002 - Letters: Seminaries (letter), Andrew Sholl
Also I always took it for granted as axiomatic that Catholic seminaries raison dtre is to train orthodox and morally-upright priests for the service of our God and fellow-Catholics.
1738 - Sep 2002 - Letters: Abortion (letter), Bob Denahy
He writes: The rational soul which is not transmitted by the parents is infused by God as soon as the body is ready to receive it.
1739 - Sep 2002 - John Paul II and World Youth Day in Toronto: an Anglican perspective, David Warren
That is for God; and God changes nothing.
1740 - Sep 2002 - The strange case of Father Damien and Robert Louis Stevenson, Fr F.E. Burns PE
To see the infinite pity of this place The mangled limb the devastated face The innocent sufferers smiling at the rod A fool were tempted to deny his God.
1741 - Sep 2002 - Promoting Catholic vocations in the Melbourne Archdiocese, Joanne Grainger
A vocation newsletter titled God Knox Knocks is another initiative aimed at promoting vocations amongst youth and young adults.
1742 - Sep 2002 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000
They reflect our image and they are created in Gods own image.
1743 - Aug 2002 - Reflection: What Catholics should expect of their priests: men 'clothed in holiness', Fr Fabian Duggan OSB
For example while putting on the amice he asks God to place on his head the helmet of salvation to ward off the arrows of the devil.
1744 - Aug 2002 - Books: New Titles from AD Books
Couples who practise Natural Family Planning as advocated in this book co-operate with Gods design for their bodies making wise decisions about family size without losing respect for the mystery and meaning of sex.
1745 - Aug 2002 - Music: 'Live Worship: Lifted', by Emmanuel Worship, Anthony Cappello
According to Emmanuel Worship Director James Garrahy his hope is that these new songs will touch peoples hearts and encourage the Church community to sing a New Song that will remind people that with God you can soar.
1746 - Aug 2002 - Books: Abortion And Martyrdom, edited by Aidan Nichols, Tracey Rowland
Nonetheless McCarthy suggests that a primary cause of the abortion industry may be found in the activities of demonic powers for whom the personal sinlessness of the unborn and their ordering by God to grace and glory renders them an especially desirable and vulnerable target.
1747 - Aug 2002 - Books: Dynamics Of World History, by Christopher Dawson, Michael Lynch
This book serves to whet the appetite for other Dawson works such as Progress and Religion (1929) The Making of Europe (1932) Religion and the Rise of Western Culture (1948) and The Gods of Revolution published after Dawsons death in 1972.
1748 - Aug 2002 - Letters: Leaving it to God (letter), Errol P. Duke
I now firmly believe that many of us Catholics - certainly with good intentions - spend too much time running round in circles trying to organise God in our worry about the future of the Church.
1749 - Aug 2002 - Letters: Theological accuracy (letter), Jan Chalmers
In the June edition Father John Crothers states referring to theological accuracy that we should strive to be as precise as we can be in our language about God.
1750 - Aug 2002 - Letters: God's masculinity (letter), John Davis
In the June edition of AD2000 Fr John Crothers PP of the Parish of Penshurst NSW argues that God is neither male nor female.
1751 - Aug 2002 - Letters: 'New Catholicism' (letter), Richard Congram
mankind first and God second.
1752 - Aug 2002 - Helping Catholic school students to love the Church, Br John Moylan CFC
The Church is no less than the people of God a royal priesthood the Spouse of Christ the universal sacrament of salvation our Holy Mother the community of the disciples of Jesus Christ and many other images derived from Scripture conciliar documents the writings of popes and doctors of the Church and others.
1753 - Aug 2002 - Sexual abuse, celibacy and vocations: a response to the Church's critics, Fr Paul Stuart
It remains true that some Catholic bishops priests religious sisters and brothers have failed God the Church fellow Catholics and most especially the young.
1754 - Aug 2002 - New program to apply Papal teachings in Melbourne Archdiocese, Michael Gilchrist
Among the monthly themes over the two year period are Contemplate Jesus Mystery of the Faith Word of God Holiness Grace Penance Eucharist The Family Vocations Charity and Challenges.
1755 - Aug 2002 - Education: Beliefs and practices of Catholic students: the decline continues, Michael Gilchrist
In 1982 70 percent believed Jesus to be truly God; in 1998 the figure was 51 percent.
1756 - Aug 2002 - Liturgy: New English Missal: Vatican sets guidelines for ICEL, Michael Gilchrist
It found ICELs approach wanting in the area of prayers of petition which it said was adversely affected when many of the texts now appear to say to God rather abruptly: You did a; now do b.
1757 - Aug 2002 - Editorial: The Assumption of Our Lady: 15 August, Michael Gilchrist
Since Mary in the Bible is called the mother of Jesus her cousin Elizabeth describing her as the mother of my Saviour and since her Son was God the second person of the Holy Trinity it followed she was the Mother of God.
1758 - Jul 2002 - Reflection: John Paul II clarifies Vatican II teaching on lay and priestly roles, Pope John Paul II
Some persons we know affirm that the decrease in the number of priests is the work of the Holy Spirit and that God Himself will lead the Church making it so that the government of the lay faithful will take the place of the government of priests.
1759 - Jul 2002 - Books: New Titles from AD Books
How could God allow such evil in the world?
1760 - Jul 2002 - Books: The Modern Rite, by Mgr Klaus Gamber, Fr Peter Joseph
Fr Nichols observes: Certain themes predominate: the fact that worship is God-centred and Christ-centred not assembly-centred us-centred; that its liturgical expression must develop naturally gradually not by massive ruptures and remakes; that Western Catholic worship should move closer to the Christian East with its liturgical richness and amplitude rather than to Protestantism with its truncations of the mediaeval rite.
1761 - Jul 2002 - Books: The Greatest Marvel of All, by Pierre-Marie Emonet OP, Michael Casanova
It is difficult to put the book down as one follows the next adventurous chapter of the story of this incredible creature God has made.
1762 - Jul 2002 - Letters: Fr Des Jenkins Golden Jubilee (letter), Gordon R. Coomber
We pray that God will bless you with good health to keep up His work.
1763 - Jul 2002 - Letters: Abortion (letter), George F. Simpson
The Gospel of Life further tells us that life is good because in man there shines forth a reflection of God himself.
1764 - Jul 2002 - Letters: Accuracy (letter), Fr Austin Kenny CP
As we all know God as a pure Spirit is neither male nor female.
1765 - Jul 2002 - Letters: Short-changed (letter), Mrs Carol V. Phillips
In upper primary (late 1960s) religion lessons were fuzzy feely Make a poster to show how much God loves you stuff.
1766 - Jul 2002 - Vatican II, church architecture and "reform of the reform", Sidney Rofe
In the Christian experience it is God who calls His people together to worship Him in the liturgy.
1767 - Jul 2002 - Events: The Italians: Three Centuries of Italian Art 1500-1800, Francis Young
Again the beauty of bright colours and picturesque scenes serves to elevate the mind to God and the last things.
1768 - Jul 2002 - Interview: George Weigel: the impact of John Paul II's pontificate, Zenit News Service
Rather the Council was meant to revivify within the Church a profound sense of itself as the sacrament of the worlds salvation: the communio in which we experience here and now a foretaste of what God intends for humanity for all eternity.
1769 - Jul 2002 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000
Blessed he said will be the politician who is responsible and honest who works for the common good and is consistent and open to dialogue who is committed to change with an evangelical perspective and who listens to the people his conscience and God.
1770 - Jul 2002 - Saints: Padre Pio canonised: "a model of the priesthood" (John Paul II), Paul MacLeod
He was at every moment in intimate union with God - he lived in the supernatural.
1771 - Jun 2002 - Reflection: A reason for mercy: healing post-abortion trauma, Anne R. Lastman
Abortion is Satans desire not only for revenge against God but revenge against a creature of God designed in His own image (Gen 1:26).
1772 - Jun 2002 - Letters: Accuracy (letter), Fr John Crothers PP
The reason hymns are sometimes modified to remove any reference to God as masculine is precisely because God is not masculine.
1773 - Jun 2002 - Letters: Inclusive language (letter), George F. Simpson
It contains the instruction that there shall be no systematic substitution of the masculine pronoun or possessive adjective to refer to God in correspondence to the original text.
1774 - Jun 2002 - Letters: Good example (letter), Paul Foster
gradually yet persistently to change all of this temporal passing world so that it comes to reflect Gods will .
1775 - Jun 2002 - Letters: An exemplary priest (letter), John Monaghan
God bless you Father and thanks from the families in Oak Park.
1776 - Jun 2002 - Letters: Father Fessio (letter), P.A. McKenna
Indeed Gods purposes for Fr Fessio may be best suited by the current circumstances.
1777 - Jun 2002 - Letters: IVF expansion (letter), Brian A. Coman
God alone knows how many others languish in similar suspense around the world.
1778 - Jun 2002 - How John Paul II's 'new springtime' came to an American parish, Elizabeth A. Wittman
The Pope has written often about the new springtime in the Church and I feel that I have been privileged to witness an inkling of what God is willing to do if we make the effort.
1779 - Jun 2002 - Following our baptismal calling takes courage - Chrism Mass homily, Bishop Geoffrey Jarrett
The priests present join with their bishop in consecrating the Sacred Chrism because they share in the sacred office of the bishop in building up sanctifying and ruling the People of God.
1780 - Jun 2002 - Sydney initiative to strengthen Catholic influence at university, Robert Haddad
Every week the WYD pilgrims gather in the University Chapel of the Resurrection to pray for Gods blessings on the upcoming pilgrimage.
1781 - Jun 2002 - Editorial: Corpus Christi: at the core of the Faith, Michael Gilchrist
In reality the real presence of Jesus Christ in the Eucharist is no less a mystery of Faith than the Incarnation itself - where the Creator God assumed human flesh.
1782 - May 2002 - Reflection: The Ascension: climax of Our Lord's life on earth, Fr Ian Falconer SJ
The Word was with God.
1783 - May 2002 - Books: Prove It! Church, by Amy Welborn, Bill Muehlenberg
Why do you obey the pope instead of God?
1784 - May 2002 - Poetry: Two Loves, John Meston
Two LOVES apart God grant both Loves love Thee in this poor heart.
1785 - May 2002 - Letters: Need for prayer (letter), Kevin Pitt
With the happenings we have seen of 11 September 2001 in America and the emerging conflicts together with the worldwide attacks on Christians - some close to Australia - one feels today that our nation must return to God in prayer and invoke the aid of our Patroness of Australia Our Lady Help of Christians.
1786 - May 2002 - Letters: Christian principles (letter), Errol P. Duke
Its leader is the former Australian leader of the Assemblies of God Church Andrew Evans and one of the three key players behind the Party is the prominent Adelaide Catholic laywoman Dr Toni Turnbull.
1787 - May 2002 - Letters: Priestly formation (letter), Cyril Drew
While there is much that is positive - encouraging the future priest to be a person of prayer for instance - it is sad that Fr Stuart found it necessary to denigrate those involved in his own formation and to suggest that there is less value in the witness of the lay pastoral worker or social worker than that of the ordained; surely we are all equal in Gods love and ministry.
1788 - May 2002 - Letters: Farewell Mass for Fr Des Byrne (letter), Barry O'Brien
Unfortunately for us he has now reached that mandatory age where he is obliged to resign his parochial duties and enjoy possibly a quieter more mundane lifestyle in his future service to God.
1789 - May 2002 - 'The Resurrection in the university' - IMCSA National Conference in Sydney, Nicholas Rynne
In his post-synodal exhortation Ecclesia in Oceania the Holy Father writes A new evangelisation is needed today so that everyone may hear understand and believe in Gods mercy destined for all people in Jesus Christ.
1790 - May 2002 - US Jesuits' action against Father Fessio sparks worldwide protests, AD2000 Report
That will make me a better Jesuit and will be pleasing to God.
1791 - May 2002 - Catholicism in Australia: facing the challenges of Western secularism, Archbishop George Pell
More people in the British Isles believe in heaven than the afterlife and more Germans pray than believe in God.
1792 - Apr 2002 - Books: New Titles from AD Books
95 If There Is a God Why Do I Need Braces?
1793 - Apr 2002 - Books: Bound To Forgive: The Pilgrimage to Reconciliation of a Beirut Hostage, Michael Daniel
So important is this imperative that each time we pray the Lords Prayer we ask God to forgive us as we forgive those who have sinned against us.
1794 - Apr 2002 - Books: 'The Church In The Dark Ages' by Henri Daniel-Rops, Michael Lynch
His understanding of history and culture in works such as the The City of God enabled the Church not to be overwhelmed by the seemingly hopeless situation which surrounded it.
1795 - Apr 2002 - Letters: Mutilated hymns (letter), Eric G. Miller
Over the last 18 months I have spent time in my original home-town of Adelaide and found that in the suburban church where I attended Mass the feminist element had modified many of the hymns to remove any reference to God as masculine.
1796 - Apr 2002 - Letters: Croatian appeal (letter), Fr Zeljko Rakosec SJ
The suffering we endured has made us strong in faith but has left us devoid of the material infrastructure necessary to fulfil our important role in the evangelisation of Gods people here in Croatia.
1797 - Apr 2002 - Letters: Harry Potter (letter), Christine Slagter
As Catholics we not only have the Bible to turn to for the word of God but the Churchs teachings to guide us.
1798 - Apr 2002 - Letters: Evangelisation (letter), Mavis Power
We are asking them to lead us in a common commitment which will challenge the laity priests and religious to rediscover those dimensions of our faith that are the fruit of Gods call and to evangelise our own fallen-away Catholics.
1799 - Apr 2002 - Letters: Ambassador (letter), Tom King
Thank God for the life and work of Fr Paul Stuart Director of Vocations Melbourne and to AD2000 for publishing such a positive report (February).
1800 - Apr 2002 - Letters: Vocations (letter), Erin Carli
Our future is in Gods hands and thank God we got Archbishop Pell and now our magnificent new Archbishop Denis Hart.
1801 - Apr 2002 - 'Victims of Abortion' founder appeals to Catholic priests, Anne Lastman
She is currently circulating Australias Catholic priests with the latest edition of her organisations bi-monthly newsletter Broken Branches Mrs Lastman told AD2000 that unless we start getting some very real and overt clerical help I cannot see how the abortion issue will ever be overcome; nor would those who suffer as a result of their abortion decision know about Gods mercy and forgiveness and healing.
1802 - Apr 2002 - A fresh way for children to learn the faith - Catechesis of the Good Shepherd, Anne Delsorte
The work is about building a relationship between the child and God.
1803 - Apr 2002 - The Lord of The Rings, Harry Potter and Star Wars, Hal G.P. Colebatch
Spirituality As for Star Wars George Lucas interviewed in Time magazine of 3 May 1999 said that: I put the Force into the movie to try to awaken a certain kind of spirituality in young people - more a belief in God than a belief in any particular religious system.
1804 - Apr 2002 - Melbourne TMC: The rights and responsibilities of laity in the Catholic Church, Archbishop Denis Hart
God came to earth to gather to himself a people He might call His own.
1805 - Apr 2002 - Adelaide Thomas More Centre address: The key elements of Catholic Action today, Archbishop Philip Wilson
At the outset he said the responsibility of Catholics to become involved in the world and to shape its values derived from the sacraments of Baptism and Confirmation: Thats where our dignity as members of the People of God and the royal priesthood of the faithful takes root in our hearts and provides us with what is necessary to be that kind of witness in the world.
1806 - Apr 2002 - Events: Carnivale Christi 2002 - Young Catholics restoring Sydney's Christian culture, Helen Ransom
Not for their own ends but for the glory of God and the witness of the beauty and richness of Christian culture to a city that so badly needs it.
1807 - Apr 2002 - News: The Church Around the World
The Pope pointed out that the free research of the theologian is exercised in fact within the faith and the communion of the Church and that by having an increasingly profound understanding of revealed truth theological science becomes a service to the entire People of God sustains its hope and reinforces its communion.
1808 - 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.
1809 - Mar 2002 - Reflection: John Paul II: St Joseph's renewed significance for the Church, Br Christian Moe FSC
St Joseph is seen in the Gospels as the humble but exalted instrument of Gods great designs in the redemptive Incarnation; he is the spouse the husband of Mary the guardian of her honour lending his name to her Child: Is not this the son of Joseph?
1810 - Mar 2002 - Books: Faith of the Fatherless: The Psychology of Atheism, by Paul Vitz, Bill Muehlenberg
Wells was contemptuous of both his father and God.
1811 - Mar 2002 - Letters: Parish libraries?, Bob Cotterall
God made us says the old catechism so that we might know love and serve Him in this world and be happy with Him forever in the next.
1812 - Mar 2002 - Thoughts of a recent convert to Catholicism, Rett Peaden
we are made in the image of God.
1813 - Mar 2002 - 'Liturgiam Authenticam', ICEL and the need for improved Mass translations, Anna Silvas
Irrefutable evidence that this was done is that whenever the text addresses God as Pater Sancte i.
1814 - Mar 2002 - Former Anglican Bishop of London explains why he became a Catholic, Monsignor Graham Leonard
I have always believed that faith is a gift of God and that it is not the result of individual discoveries that each one can make.
1815 - Mar 2002 - 'Conservation Plan' recommends changes to Toowoomba's Cathedral, Michael Gilchrist
The liturgical symbol system he said consequently is no longer regarded as the revered medium of Gods presence and action but as the subjective creation and self-expression of the worshipping community.
1816 - Mar 2002 - St Thérèse's relics make Australian pilgrimage, Mother Teresa OCDM
It has been welcomed as a gift of grace a symbol and icon of Gods abiding presence among His people - a treasure far greater than the human remains of the greatest saint of modern times.
1817 - Mar 2002 - Editorial: Selecting and forming future priests, Michael Gilchrist
Celibacy for the Kingdom of God must be presented as a choice that is eminently favourable to the joyful announcement of the Risen Christ.
1818 - Feb 2002 - Reflection: NCC Mass of Thanksgiving: Archbishop Hart's homily, Archbishop Denis Hart
New opportunities for presenting the Churchs age-old wisdom It is a pleasure indeed to join with you in giving thanks to God for the tremendous work of so many of you.
1819 - Feb 2002 - Books: St Therese of Lisieux: from Lisieux to the Four Corners of the World, Catherine Sheehan
During this excruciating death she maintained her complete confidence in God and even her sense of humour.
1820 - Feb 2002 - Books: Hogwarts or Hogwash? by Peter Furst and Craig Heilmann, Bill Muehlenberg
The Biblical message is that mankind cannot save itself and that God had to take the initiative on our behalf.
1821 - Feb 2002 - Letters: Overcoming evil, Mary Beaumont
It means real concrete accomplishment of the redemption and even deeper reconciliation of sinful man with God in prospect of a better world.
1822 - Feb 2002 - Letters: Human evolution, Fr Brian Harrison OS
We call to mind facts well-known to all and doubtful to no-one: after He formed man from the slime of the earth on the sixth day of creation and breathed into his face the breath of life God willed to give him a female companion whom He drew forth wondrously from the mans side as he slept.
1823 - Feb 2002 - Letters: Crisis of faith, Mavis Power
They no longer know their faith they no longer know God they live as pagans rarely thinking of God or the teachings of his Church.
1824 - Feb 2002 - Catholic schools and 'youth spirituality', John Kelly
When I see some Catholic educators urging youth spirituality as a substitute or alternative to formal religious teaching and practice I wonder whether such people really appreciate the extraordinary provision God has already made for us in the revelation and self-giving of Christ; and because of Christ in the Church.
1825 - Feb 2002 - Books: 'Meaninglessness' and today's Western culture, Archbishop George Pell
Godlessness Hitlers idea of the Untermenschen - the underlings - echoes Nietzsches talk of slaves as inferior human beings but Nietzsches other ideas such as the will to power the blond beast and the superman can also be found (to some extent) in Wagner Schopenhauer and especially Hegel who also praised world historical individuals or heroes with their will to power who were entitled to consider moral claims irrelevant.
1826 - Feb 2002 - Homily: Most Rev Geoffrey Jarrett installed as new Bishop of Lismore, Bishop Geoffrey Jarrett
It is in the environment of determined faith that our family life will flourish our marriages will deepen our priestly and religious commitment will be renewed and ministries and apostolates will be energised: in a word that we will be effective bearers of the holiness of God into the human community of our time and place.
1827 - Feb 2002 - US Conference: 'Newman's Idea of a University', Msgr Michael J. Wrenn
Shifting the burden of proof to the secular institutions they should challenge the other universities to defend themselves and to show how it is impossible to find and transmit the fullness of truth if they neglect or marginalise the Word of God.
1828 - Feb 2002 - Into the Deep Forum: young Catholics meet Australian bishops, Helen Ransom
Its going to take a lot of courage from us - we cant just talk about it we have to do it he said adding that like St Peter at the Sea of Galilee Catholics must have the courage to say to God: If you say so Lord I will cast out the net.
1829 - Feb 2002 - Melbourne Archdiocese: positive trend in priestly vocations continues, Fr Paul Stuart
Poignantly for us in Victoria and Tasmania the Pope added: Where there is no priest it is necessary to ask God insistently with faith to give numerous and holy workers to his vineyard.
1830 - Feb 2002 - Editorial: St Thérèse's relics: a pilgrimage of grace, Peter Westmore
St Thrse is now known and loved worldwide for her passionate devotion to her Saviour and her love for every human person whom God wishes to live with Him forever in Heaven.
1831 - Dec 2001 - Reflection: St Thérèse's 'little way', Kate Cleary
It was not sentimental or gushing but a detailed attention to the person and an honouring of God in them.
1832 - Dec 2001 - New Titles from AD Books
God this book is engaging and readable challenging our teenagers and adults to seriously consider the Church.
1833 - Dec 2001 - Books: The Prayer Of Jabez' by Bruce Wilkinson, Bill Muehlenberg
And Jabez called on the God of Israel saying Oh that You would bless me indeed and enlarge my territory that Your hand would be with me and that You would keep me from evil that I may not cause pain!
1834 - Dec 2001 - Books: AD Books 'Top Ten'
Prove it God (Amy Welborn) Our Sunday Visitor 4.
1835 - Dec 2001 - Books: 'Thomas More On Statesmanship' by Gerard B. Wegemer, Michael Casanova
As Pope John Paul said What enlightened his conscience was the sense that man cannot be sundered from God nor politics from morality.
1836 - Dec 2001 - Letters: Pipe-dream, Arnold Jago (Dr)
Only God has rights.
1837 - Dec 2001 - Letters: Huge response, Dolores Lightbody
Thank you so much for assisting us in our little apostolate to which the Catholics involved have contributed for the love and glory of God as well as for the love and mutual support of their fellow Catholics.
1838 - Dec 2001 - Books: De Lubac's writings in English translations, Tracey Rowland
50) In his Preface to the English translation Cardinal Ratzinger described this book as an essential milestone on my theological journey in which de Lubac demonstrated how the idea of community and universality rooted in the trinitarian concept of God permeates and shapes all the individual elements of Faiths content.
1839 - Dec 2001 - Books: 'Soul Survivor' - Philip Yancey book launch at Thomas More Centre, Bill Muehlenberg
The 13 individuals profiled in the book were spiritual mentors for Yancey and had altered forever his understanding of the faith and the object of faith God Himself.
1840 - Dec 2001 - St Vitus Cathedral, Prague, and Europe's Christian heritage, Stephen W. Carson
This should be unproblematic for Christians since as St Irenaeus of Lyons said: with God there is no coercion.
1841 - Dec 2001 - Obituary: Thomas Kendell (1929-2001) R.I.P. - The passing of a great Catholic educator, Nicholas Kendell
In the final weeks of his life Tom was not afraid of dying for he was at peace with God and his family - in his passing what more could he ask for?
1842 - Dec 2001 - Church leaders say 'No human cloning', AD2000 Report
These five churchmen were joined by about 80 other leaders of all the main Christian Churches including Anglicans Catholics Uniting Church leaders Lutherans Presbyterians Methodists Assemblies of God Churches of Christ Jewish Rabbis an Islamic iman medical practitioners politicians leaders of pro-life organisations and others in signing a joint statement titled No Human Cloning - an open letter to Australias Federal State and Territory Governments.
1843 - Dec 2001 - Tenth Synod of Bishops' statement, Michael Gilchrist
Only through this could a bishop speak credibly of the joy of the humble and pure of heart the power of forgiveness and the hope that those who hunger and thirst for justice will finally be satisfied by God.
1844 - Dec 2001 - Editorial: A Christmas reflection, Peter Westmore
In contemporary Australia while Christmas is associated with family gatherings gift-giving and holidays in the sun sand and surf its true meaning is a celebration of that moment in time when in the immensely attractive account of St Luke God in the person of Jesus Christ was born in poverty in a stable in Bethlehem because there was no room for Mary and Joseph in the local inn.
1845 - Nov 2001 - Reflection: All Souls Day and a Christian response to bereavement, Fr Dennis W. Byrnes PP
As long as the story of Gods dealings with us remains unfinished death cannot be regarded as a complete blessing.
1846 - Nov 2001 - Bookstore: New Titles from AD Books
God this book is engaging and readable challenging our teenagers and adults to seriously consider the Church.
1847 - Nov 2001 - Books: 'Pardon And Peace: A Sinner's Guide to Confession', by Fr Francis Randolph, Christopher Quinn
In the earlier part of the book he repeatedly states that absolution is the assurance of Gods forgiveness.
1848 - Nov 2001 - Books: My Dear Young Friends: Pope John Paul II Speaks to Teens on Life, Love, Courage, Mary-Jane Donnellan
He writes: Draw close to Christ so that you may participate with the whole community of believers in the great task of transforming the world according to Gods design of creating a world where the love of God directs all things!
1849 - Nov 2001 - 'Those Terrible Middle Ages', by Règine Pernoud, Christopher Quinn
She simply asserts that it had a more wholesome grasp of the relationship of man to man man to the world and of man and God than does our individualistic era.
1850 - Nov 2001 - Letters: A response on the Creation of Man, Gerry Keane
He claims as doubtless the passage I refer to in Pope Leo IIIs 1880 encyclical Arcanum Divinae Sapientiae is the one in which Leo wrote of God making man from the slime of the earth on the sixth day.
1851 - Nov 2001 - Letters: Catholic women, Errol P. Duke
Would it be about Jesus Christ true God and true man or perhaps Sophia - the Divine One herself!
1852 - Nov 2001 - Winter school: Evangelising in a "post-pagan" culture, Fr Anthony Mastroeni
Very few realised it was because 2000 years ago the Eternal Son of God took flesh in the womb of a virgin named Mary.
1853 - Nov 2001 - Cardinal Ratzinger's latest book-interview - 'God and the World', Zenit News Service
In God and the World a new book based on an interview with Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger by German journalist Peter Seewald the Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith comments on the future of the Church.
1854 - Nov 2001 - Pastoral letter: Taking up John Paul II's concerns about the Sacrament of Penance, Archbishop Barry J. Hickey
The Sacrament of Penance which flows from Christs own mandate to the Church is an expression of Gods desire to heal and forgive.
1855 - Nov 2001 - Brisbane liturgy director calls Vatican document "a betrayal", Michael Gilchrist
However Father Elich remarks at the outset: I believe the document itself is a betrayal on two levels: firstly with respect to the language we will use to worship God in our liturgy and secondly with respect to the bishops responsibility for preparing and approving liturgical books in the vernacular.
1856 - Nov 2001 - News: The Church Around the World
The Holy Father reminded Congregation members that the celebration of the sacred mysteries is above all else an act of praise to the sovereign majesty of God and for that reason the first characteristic of any liturgy must be a profound sense of the sacred.
1857 - Nov 2001 - Tenth Synod of Bishops: Bishops called to courageous witness to the Faith, AD2000
Divided into four sections it covered a bishops relationship with God the universal Church his diocese and the general community.
1858 - Oct 2001 - Reflection: Christ's Real Presence in the Eucharist, Bishop Kevin Manning
However we must also remember that God is the Creator of all that exists and has the power to do much more than we can ever possibly imagine.
1859 - Oct 2001 - Poetry: Feast of St Francis of Assisi (4 October), A. Muir
And happen what may on Judgement Day I shall not affrighted be If the cats and dogs and weak dumb things That on earth were dear to see Shall receive from God the gift of speech For I know theyll plead for me.
1860 - Oct 2001 - Books: 'The Spirit of the Liturgy' by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Christopher Quinn
The Cardinal underlines this point at some length going so far as to say that Mass with the priest facing the people during the liturgy of the Eucharist has led to the situation where less and less is God in the picture.
1861 - Oct 2001 - Letters: Non-Christian gods (letter), Jane Wilks
If your correspondent is correct that the Commission for Australian Catholic Women is praying to the goddesses Gaia and Sophia then I question whether this body can adequately represent the needs of Catholic women who believe in and worship the One True and Triune God.
1862 - Oct 2001 - Letters: First parents (letter), Scot Chaston
We believe as Christians that God has intervened in human history.
1863 - Oct 2001 - Letters: Papal teaching (letter), John Young
Doubtless the passage he has in mind is where the Pope speaks of God making man from the slime of the earth on the sixth day of creation and breathing into his face the breath of life.
1864 - Oct 2001 - Education: Mass attendance: a key measure of Catholic schools' effectiveness, Br John Moylan CFC
Rather its principal aims are these: that as the baptised person is gradually introduced into a knowledge of the mystery of salvation he may daily grow more conscious of the gift of faith which he has received; that he may learn to adore God the Father in spirit and in truth (cf.
1865 - Oct 2001 - Events: Gerry Matatics Visit / Catholic Homeschooling Conference, Parramatta, AD2000
His topics will include Purgatory and Suffering The Bible Contraception and Abortion The Mass: Heaven on Earth Did Jesus really know He was God?
1866 - Oct 2001 - News: The Church Around the World
However the letter states over the years the Magisterium has also emphasised the importance of safeguarding and defending the very identity of priests conscious of the fact that the laity are called especially to give evangelical witness in the world and to order temporal realities according to Gods plan.
1867 - Sep 2001 - Reflection: Saint Catherine of Siena: how to receive the Eucharist more worthily, Sr Mary Jeremiah OP
St Augustines faith led him to say God cares for each of us as if he alone existed and for all of us as if we were but one.
1868 - Sep 2001 - Books: 'Padre Pio: In My Own Words', ed. Anthony F. Chiffolo, Mary-Jane Donnellan
The reader is enabled through them to enter into Padre Pios inner world one of sacrifice and suffering directed to the greater glory of God.
1869 - Sep 2001 - Books: 'The Book of Marriage', edited by Dana Mack and David Blankenhorn, Bill Muehlenberg
Available from AD Books) Some of the most profound witty incisive comments on marriage available When one considers that the institutions of marriage and family were the first ordained by God preceding even the State or the Church one can see the great importance placed on them.
1870 - Sep 2001 - Letters: God's word (letter), Vic Hall
Since God is perfect in every way He never deviates from His word.
1871 - Sep 2001 - Letters: Mind of the Church (letter), Mrs Carol V. Phillips
Theistic Evolution a very common Christian position is the proposal that God could have and probably did use evolution to bring about His Divine purpose in Creation.
1872 - Sep 2001 - Letters: Adelaide protest (letter), Pauline Pascoe
On the other hand religious women who feel God is calling them to the priesthood and who protest against the Churchs teaching authority are in effect imposters.
1873 - Sep 2001 - Why today's secular culture is anti-Catholic, James Hitchcock
One can point to the Protestant Reformation of the 16th century as splitting the religious unity of the Western world and perhaps - not intentionally - giving rise to a belief on the part of many people that religion is a purely personal and private thing between oneself and God and oneself and the Bible - that there is no single authority or Church which can pronounce the truths of Christianity.
1874 - 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.
1875 - Sep 2001 - Ballarat Thomas More Centre Winter School report
The Anglican Bishop of Ballarat Dr David Silk spoke on the evidence for the Resurrection while Bishop Joe Grech of Sandhurst focused on the blazing fire of Gods love.
1876 - Sep 2001 - Successful Thomas More Centre Winter School in Brisbane, Sidney Rofe
The opening address given by this writer dealt with Church Architecture underlining the importance of churches as icons of heavenly realities and physical examples of Gods dwelling with Man.
1877 - Sep 2001 - News: The Church Around the World
Daily prayer and Scripture study are needed he said to hear God properly and to equip educators with the vision to see Christ in the face of those we serve.
1878 - Sep 2001 - Archbishop Hart's reception at St Patrick's Cathedral, Melbourne - Homily, Archbishop Denis Hart
In the Gospel account (Luke 1:53) Mary prophesied that God would feed the hungry with good things.
1879 - Aug 2001 - Reflection: Clerical celibacy: Giving ourselves up completely to God and the people He loves, Fr Dennis W. Byrnes PP
This dimension of our being is intrinsically good being made by God.
1880 - Aug 2001 - Books: The DNA of God: Newly Discovered Secrets of the Shroud of Turin, Garza-Valdez, Anthony Cappello
THE DNA OF GOD: Newly Discovered Secrets of the Shroud of Turin by Dr Leoncio A.
1881 - Aug 2001 - Books: Hail, Holy Queen: The Mother of God in the Word of God, by Scott Hahn, Catherine Sheehan
HAIL HOLY QUEEN: The Mother of God in the Word of God by Scott Hahn (Doubleday 2001 191pp hardback $44.
1882 - Aug 2001 - Books: The Cross of Anzac, by Tom Johnstone, Mark Posa
Called initially to the vocation of total service to a loving God each has added to that the call to serve the men and women whose vocation is to strive to preserve truth justice and freedom in the land we love even unto death if so called.
1883 - Aug 2001 - Letters: St Thomas Aquinas (letter), Valentine Gallagher
What makes the philosophy of the Angelic Doctor so wonderfully apt to be the handmaid of faith (ancilla fidei) is that it has gained possession of truths of the natural order which have their origin in God the Creator just as truths of the divine order have their source in God as revealing.
1884 - Aug 2001 - Letters: Evolution/Original Sin (letter), John Schmid
This answer mentions Darwin attributed the whole evolutionary process to God.
1885 - Aug 2001 - Denver Archdiocese: the future of Catholicism, David Scott
Why not give your life to God as a priest?
1886 - Aug 2001 - After 14 years: why does AD2000 continue?, Michael Gilchrist
Indeed the modern notion of human rights originates from the Churchs moral teaching on the sacredness of each human being created in the image and likeness of God.
1887 - Aug 2001 - Editorial: The Assumption of Our Lady: 15 August, Michael Gilchrist
As we celebrate the Feast of Our Ladys Assumption this month we might recall the words of Vatican II in its Dogmatic Constitution on the Church (Lumen Gentium) part 66: Mary has by grace been exalted above all angels and men to a place second only to her Son as the most holy mother of God who was involved in the mysteries of Christ: she is rightly honoured by a special cult in the Church.
1888 - Jul 2001 - Music: From the Great South Land of the Holy Spirit:, John Miles
The album includes a rendition of the simple but effective Kyrie from the Missa de Angelis as well as beautiful hymns like Soul of My Saviour To Jesus Heart All Burning Sweet Sacrament Divine We Stand for God and Now Thank We all Our God.
1889 - Jul 2001 - Books: The Gift of the Rosary: How to make and How and Why to Pray, by Brian Peachey, Barry Morgan
Throughout history the mysterious reality of the Blessed Virgin whose submission to the demands of incarnate love brought the God man into the world has captured the imagination and loyalty of legions of Catholics and other Christians.
1890 - Jul 2001 - Books: 'Five Loaves and Two Fishes' by Archbishop F. X. Nguyen Van Thuan, Anthony Cappello
Of 13 years of imprisonment Thuan spent nine in solitary confinement; but as we find in this book Five Loaves and Two Fishes the power of God cannot be confined and it is at its best when the odds are against it.
1891 - Jul 2001 - Books: Testimonies to the Glory of God: World Youth Day Pilgrimage AD2000, Catherine Sheehan
Testimonies to the Glory of God: World Youth Day Pilgrimage AD2000 edited by Helen Hedigan (Buxton Printers Melbourne 2000 122pp RRP $10.
1892 - Jul 2001 - Letters: Church land (letter), Charles Haber
What better place to worship our God than amid such beautiful examples of His creation.
1893 - Jul 2001 - The case for more Church History in Catholic schools, Michael Lynch
He had already charted the role of religion in cultures in The Age of the Gods in 1928 and how Christianity had formed Western culture in The Making of Europe in 1932.
1894 - Jul 2001 - Basic Ecclesial Communities, Archbishop Leonard Faulkner
Through the Eucharist members of the Basic Ecclesial Communities and indeed all parishioners are nurtured by the Word of God and strengthened by the Body and Blood of Christ to carry out their mission in daily life.
1895 - Jul 2001 - Education: National Catholic Education Conference: but who chose the guest speakers?, Michael Gilchrist
One might anticipate helpful input from Dr Peter Tannock Vice-Chancellor of the University of Notre Dame Australia and from Dr John Carroll Reader in Sociology at La Trobe University Melbourne and a non-Catholic who recently stated in connection with his latest book The Western Dreaming that in the Western world God is already dead and the rest of us are dying for want of a story.
1896 - Jul 2001 - News: The Church Around the World
Irish Mass attendances increase More university students finding God Mass attendance in Ireland is on the increase for the first time in almost 40 years reports the Irish edition of The Sunday Times.
1897 - Jun 2001 - Reflection: The priest: mediator between God and man, Archbishop George Pell
God has chosen us gratuitously (I am sometimes tempted to think personally perhaps a little bit capriciously but certainly gratuitously) to be his ambassadors to act as his representatives especially through the Sacraments.
1898 - Jun 2001 - Books: 'Praying with Thomas Aquinas' by Houle, Monshau and Norris, Catherine Sheehan
Each of them concentrates on a particular teaching of St Thomas helping the reader gain a greater understanding of God and the possibility of a more inspired prayer life.
1899 - Jun 2001 - Books: 'Praying The Psalms: A Commentary' by Fr Stanley L. Jaki, Anthony Cappello
His area of expertise has been in contributing to scientific theological debates on the Cosmos God and Science.
1900 - Jun 2001 - Books: 'The Doctors of the Church' by Bernard McGinn, Angela Joseph
The author believes that the future of Church doctors rests in the continued impact and inspiration that they provide for all Christians especially in the model they present of combining the intense love of God and neighbour with a commitment to the intellectual work of learning preaching teaching and writing.
1901 - Jun 2001 - Books: Heaven in Stone and Glass: Experiencing the Spirituality of the Great Cathedrals, Michael Daniel
They and cathedrals in the New World based upon these awe-inspiring monuments to God such at St Patricks in Melbourne fail to move few who spend time in them.
1902 - Jun 2001 - Books: 'Blessed Columba Marmion: a Short Biography' by Mark Tierney OSB, Michael Daniel
Marmion entered religious life because he wanted to do the will of God and to obey (p.
1903 - Jun 2001 - Books: 'As One Struggling Christian to Another: Augustine's Christian Ideal for Today', Bill Muehlenberg
His City of God is one of the classic Christian writings as well known by students of philosophy as students of theology.
1904 - Jun 2001 - Letters: 'Lest we forget' (letter), Marion Craig
In fact Rudyard Kipling addressed his hymn-poem to God; it was not applied to those fallen in war.
1905 - Jun 2001 - Letters: Science and Christianity (letter), Mrs Carol V. Phillips
The idea that God could have created using the evolution process does nothing to prove that the process actually occurs.
1906 - Jun 2001 - Letters: Annunciation (letter), Andrew Scholl
My intention in doing so is in no way to detract from the wonderful fiat of our Blessed Mother but to highlight the fact that precisely through her agreement to become the Mother of God our focus should be on the fact that God the Father in His ineffable love for us sinful human beings sent the Holy Spirit to overshadow Mary and thereby conceive Jesus a man like us in all things but sin who was and is God the Son the Second Person of the triune God.
1907 - Jun 2001 - Letters: Encouragement (letter), John F. Doran
The majority are not receiving the sacraments regularly but in Gods good time perhaps they will come to realise what they are missing.
1908 - Jun 2001 - Letters: Ballarat Diocese (letter), Fr Gerry Baldock
Regrettably Gilchrists unprofessional selectivity sallies a genuine humble and far- reaching diocesan search for the truth of the Spirit of God to reveal renewed directions for the Church we love and to which we are committed.
1909 - Jun 2001 - Letters: Archbishop Pell (letter), Godwin Brown
Thanks be to God for Archbishop Pell.
1910 - Jun 2001 - Denver document addresses challenges to Catholic marriage teachings, AD2000 Report
In a recent document titled What God Has Joined .
1911 - Jun 2001 - Annual women priests protest in Adelaide, AD2000 Report
We stand with those women who know themselves to be called by God to priesthood in the Catholic Church .
1912 - Jun 2001 - Archbishop Pell installed in Sydney, Michael Gilchrist
The good God and his only Son must not be shunted from centre stage by any human good or activity; not by life issues or family or social justice work or inter-religious dialogue.
1913 - May 2001 - Reflection: 'Blessed are the poor in spirit', Fr Ian Falconer SJ
In such a religious context the poverty intended is poverty in spirit that is the humble recognition of ones utter nothingness before God that without His gifts one is and has nothing.
1914 - May 2001 - Books: 'A Vacation With The Lord' by Fr Thomas H. Green SJ, Catherine Sheehan
But as Fr Green points out in the introduction to his book A Vacation With the Lord a retreat was originally meant to be an individual encounter with God with just one retreatant and one director.
1915 - May 2001 - Books: 'Prayers From The Heart: for the Feasts of the Year', Joanna Bogle, Mary-Jane Donnellan
As we rest aside a while we are better able to reflect on the wonders of God.
1916 - May 2001 - Books: 'He's Risen' by Phelim McGowan SJ, Mary-Jane Donnellan
In a world surrounded by much activity it can be difficult to allow the presence of God to come into our being.
1917 - May 2001 - Books: 'Great Christian Prayers' by Stephen Redmond SJ, Peter Westmore
Among the interesting facts discussed is that use of the sign of the cross was documented by the early Church fathers that the Te Deum was written as a response to the Arian heresy of the 4th Century and that the words of the Eucharistic Prayer at Mass Blessed are you Lord God of all creation .
1918 - May 2001 - Books: 'Becoming Fire' by Fr Ken Barker mgl, Peter Westmore
Becoming Fire is particularly valuable in that it provides sound advice - based on the practical experience of Fr Ken Barker as a priest spiritual director and founder of the Missionaries of Gods Love - on how to organise ones life towards the things which finally matter.
1919 - May 2001 - Letters: 'Courage' (letter), John Dodwell
What we do offer is the challenge to put God first in ones life.
1920 - May 2001 - Letters: Paul Collins (letter), Arnold Jago (Dr)
It claims that its ultimate Head is God who chooses to reveal Himself through a Church which teaches from the top down.
1921 - May 2001 - Why John Henry Newman converted to Catholicism, Michael Davies
The final paragraph of this sermon is perhaps the most moving of all that he has written: And O my brethren O kind and affectionate hearts O loving friends should you know any one whose lot it has been by writing or by word of mouth in some degree to help you thus to act; if he has ever told you what you knew about yourselves or what you did not know; has read to you your wants or feelings and comforted you by the very reading; has made you feel that there was a higher life than this daily one and a brighter world than that you see; or encouraged you or sobered you or opened a way to the inquiring or soothed the perplexed; if what he has said or done has ever made you take interest in him and feel well inclined towards him; remember such a one in time to come though you hear him not and pray for him that in all things he may know Gods will and at all times he may be ready to fulfil it.
1922 - May 2001 - US professor defends papal teaching on universities, Charles E. Rice
Of course to accept the right of the Church to define what it means to be Catholic would conflict with the political correctness which perhaps second only to the cult of the money god is the dominant religion of the American Academy.
1923 - May 2001 - New WA Catholic schools document stresses orthodoxy
The Mandate stresses the need for students to be taught to integrate their Faith into daily life and to learn how to make a total commitment to Christ and learn Gods answers to the deeper questionings in their hearts particularly those related to the purpose and direction of their lives.
1924 - May 2001 - News: The Church Around the World
He pointed out that individual and complete confession and absolution are the only ordinary way that the member of the faithful aware of grave sin can reconcile himself with God and with the Church.
1925 - May 2001 - Vatican signals continuation of reform process, AD2000 Report
These issues he said included the questions of Cafeteria Catholicism versus the Churchs authority calls for so-called democratisation of the Church as opposed to the rightful role of its hierarchy a trend towards forms of pantheism as opposed to seeing God as Creator of the universe seeing sexuality as self-expression rather than affirming its true place in committed love and marriage and a loss of understanding of what happens in the Churchs liturgy.
1926 - Apr 2001 - Reflection: Giving witness to the Gospel of Life, Rebecca van Rensburg
When people lose their sense of God they lose their sense of themselves their dignity and their lives.
1927 - Apr 2001 - Books: The Seven Cities of the Apocalypse, by Roland J. Worth, Michael Daniel
What is interesting is that many terms Christians use in connection with Jesus were also connected with the Imperial Cult such as saviour son of God epiphany and gospel.
1928 - Apr 2001 - Books: 'The Atonement Child' by Francine Rivers, Mary-Jane Donnellan
Advice is plentiful - from the boyfriend parents (with their own personal problems) her friends her own - and in all this she tries to hear the voice of God amid the chaos.
1929 - Apr 2001 - JESUS - Jubilee Edition Video, Johanna O'Farrell
While a movie depiction can help bridge this gap it is especially important that it portray the Son of God correctly and respectfully.
1930 - Apr 2001 - Review Article: A 'silly book' from ACU professor of theology, Frank Mobbs
If anything is to count as theology it will consist of claims to know something of theos (God).
1931 - Apr 2001 - Letters: Good responses (letter), Hyacinth Morel
Please God I wont fall back to neglecting them again.
1932 - Apr 2001 - Letters: ACU Syllabus (letter), John Kelly
In addition to the serious deficiencies of course content itemised in Mr Gilchrists article there are further issues to be addressed if ACUs offerings are to be credibly Catholic: a growing regard of theology exclusively as an academic exercise and career qualification that can be pursued independently of its genesis in faith and the practice of prayer and sacramental life; a failure to recognise the divinely given nature of revelation and faith and a misplaced emphasis on the construction rather than Apostolic derivation of theological truth and meaning; a postmodernist lack of conviction about the objectivity and knowability of truth and the ability of language to make valid affirmations about God.
1933 - Apr 2001 - Rights of unborn are inalienable, Archbishop Barry J. Hickey
They are from God destined to live now and forever.
1934 - Apr 2001 - How to avoid banal, superficial liturgies, Bishop Kevin Manning
Some marvellous concepts flowed from the Second Vatican Council but one the People of God stood out.
1935 - Apr 2001 - Thomas More Centre Summer School 2001: "Building a Culture of Life", Michael Daniel
He focused on the growing interest among scientists in arguments for the existence of God based upon the complex design of the universe and the odds against there being life in the universe.
1936 - Apr 2001 - News: The Church Around the World
They added The right of the unborn child should be protected and abortion goes contrary to the fifth commandment of God Thou shalt not kill.
1937 - Apr 2001 - Editorial: 'If Christ is not risen, then your faith is in vain', Peter Westmore
His resurrection alone proved he was truly God.
1938 - Mar 2001 - Reflection: Liturgy in the true spirit of Vatican II, Ralph McInerny
It is at worship in the prayers and music readings and homilies above all in the Eucharist that the people of God come most intimately together and take on the faith by osmosis as it were.
1939 - Mar 2001 - Books: The Pange Lingua Hymnal, compiled by Paul Newton, Fr Gregory Pritchard PP
Now let those responsible for music in our parishes - including priests who have a special responsibility for the Sacred Liturgy - rediscover these riches and commit themselves and their communities to good music and meaningful words which sing of the mystery of God.
1940 - Mar 2001 - Books: Why I Am A Priest: Thirty Success Stories, ed. Boadt, Hunt, Katie Lindorff
The reasons these priests give for continuing to live their priesthood are also similar: the people they serve the Eucharist they celebrate and Gods continuing call.
1941 - Mar 2001 - Books: Streams of Living Water: Autobiography of a Charismatic Leader, Anthony Cappello
But members of the Covenant Community had dared to preach to them helping effect a profound change in outlook through the Gospel message and Gods call.
1942 - Mar 2001 - Books: Come To The Father: An Invitation to Share the Catholic Faith, Aidan Nichols OP, Christopher Quinn
Nichols is equally forthright about Gods love and mercy correcting insipid sentimentalism.
1943 - Mar 2001 - Letters: Catholic education (letter), Daniel Bryce
But I believe God did me a favour.
1944 - Mar 2001 - Letters: Misguided compassion (letter)
To truly love is to uphold Gods truth and Church teachings while loving the person.
1945 - Mar 2001 - Letters: Supernatural order (letter), Fr G.H. Duggan SM
Some women have been telling us that they experience difficulty in addressing God as Our Father.
1946 - 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 .
1947 - Mar 2001 - Letters: Science and Christianity (letter), Scot Chaston
Acts of God happen spontaneously under the right conditions such as lightning etc.
1948 - Mar 2001 - What we must teach our children: Archbishop Chaput, Archbishop Charles J. Chaput
If you love God they see and learn faith.
1949 - Mar 2001 - Cardinal Ratzinger on 'Third Secret' of Fatima
The term public Revelation says the Cardinal refers to the revealing action of God directed to humanity as a whole and which finds its literary expression in the two parts of the Bible: the Old and New Testaments.
1950 - Mar 2001 - How monastic life can reinvigorate the Church, Fr Peter Knowles OP
The monastery has been called the prophetic place where creation becomes praise of God and the precept of concretely lived charity becomes the ideal of human co-existence where the human being seeks God without limitation or impediment.
1951 - Mar 2001 - ACU theology: how orthodox, how accountable?, Michael Gilchrist
Religious pluralism Another ACU religion unit titled Studies in Religion and Philosophy (Theology 114) devotes much space to Semitic Muslim and Indian religious perspectives and includes extracts from This I Believe edited by John Marsden (1996) which consists of interviews with various people of some little or no belief in God - e.
1952 - Mar 2001 - News: The Church Around the World
The role of committed Christians he said is to make the world a better place and to create a society that respects Gods laws.
1953 - Feb 2001 - Reflection: The essential role of the Catholic priest, Fr John A. Hardon SJ
But the fact of life is that God became man in order to sacrifice Himself on the Cross by dying for the salvation of the world.
1954 - Feb 2001 - Books: 'The Sacred Liturgy', 'Discovering the Mass', by a Benedictine monk, Christopher Quinn
The last Four Benefits of the Liturgy is a brief and inexpensive volume which is a meditation on how the liturgy continually recalls the transcendence of God on the attractive power of liturgical beauty on how the liturgy gives us a sense and vision of what the Church is and on how the liturgy nourishes and educates our inner selves.
1955 - Feb 2001 - Letters: Science and Christianity (letter), Mrs Carol V. Phillips
Evolutionism taught as science has insidiously and almost totally undermined belief in God as creator.
1956 - Feb 2001 - Letters: Anti-Catholicism (letter), Kevin Tighe
For their part the Southern Baptists (God bless them) launched an ongoing boycott against all Disney products about five years ago.
1957 - Feb 2001 - Letters: Consecrated life (letter), Sr Mary Augustine Lane OP
Here thank God is yet another young woman of faith who will be there one hopes to put together the scattered shards of true womanhood when the feminists have done their worst.
1958 - Feb 2001 - Letters: Vocations (letter), Mrs Irena Nagy
God cannot deceive us so if we are lacking in priests we must be at fault somehow.
1959 - Feb 2001 - Letters: Limbo (letter), John Young
But that expression should not be taken as a denial of limbo for souls in limbo have great natural happiness and a knowledge and love of God.
1960 - Feb 2001 - Letters: Feminist book (letter)
This is a standard feminist-goddess work which cannot be reconciled with Catholicism nor with Christianity generally.
1961 - Feb 2001 - A former heroin addict's personal testimony
In the end God alone proved to be the instrument of my cure.
1962 - Feb 2001 - The "priest shortage": natural or artificial?, Larry A. Carstens
These acts made it an infallible declaration of the ordinary Magisterium that Gods plan for His Church does not include ordination of women: never has never will.
1963 - Feb 2001 - Liturgy: when will the 'Statement of Conclusions' make an impact?, Michael Gilchrist
New creed The Entrance Song consisted of Under Southern Skies as sung by Nikki Webster at the Sydney Olympics opening ceremony while at the Penitential Rite the celebrant said O God you who are Mother and Father to us all.
1964 - Feb 2001 - The finest RE texts produced to date, Anthony Cappello
The texts are published in-house by James Goold House Publications and have assimilated into their content four Catholic foundations: We believe in one God Father Son and Holy Spirit who loves us.
1965 - Feb 2001 - New RE texts launched in Melbourne's Catholic schools, Michael Gilchrist
That title has been extended to the new text books because this provides the vision and goal of the whole course - that Catholic students should know God and the teachings of the Church should relate to God personally in worship and prayer and live this each day according to the Christs new law of love.
1966 - Dec 2000 - Reflection: The coming of Christ on earth, Pope John Paul II
There is her husband Zachary whose tongue was loosed for him to sing the great deeds of God toward his people.
1967 - Dec 2000 - Books: 'John Paul II's Book of Mary', compiled by Margaret R. Bunson, Anthony Cappello
In producing John Paul IIs Book of Mary Margaret Bunson has sifted through John Paul IIs writings to provide the reader with an excellent cross section of his best reflections on the Mother of God.
1968 - Dec 2000 - Letters: Hell? (letter), P.J. Jones
The question here is not about its nature - whether it is fire and brimstone eternal deprivation of the vision of God or endless viewing of TV commercials - but about the long-standing silence of the Church on the subject.
1969 - Dec 2000 - Letters: Misguided (letter), Joyce Pearson and Marie Kennedy
Thank you Fr Austin Kenny CP for the splendid explanation in response to misguided religious who advocated calling God Mother (October AD2000).
1970 - Dec 2000 - Letters: Remembrance services (letter), Richard Grant
It would be wonderful if we could inform these women of the existence of remembrance services conducted by the Catholic Church to assist in the healing process while reinforcing Gods infinite mercy and readiness to forgive all who repent.
1971 - Dec 2000 - Letters: Rainbow Serpent (letter), Hans Klaver
What is the point in confusing those pupils if as one hopes in their religious education classes they are taught that God in Heaven is the Creator of all things?
1972 - Dec 2000 - The 'new breed' of orthodox seminarians, Carter H. Griffin
Our aim though is nothing new: to preach the Good News to teach men and women how to live freely as children of God and to cherish the collected wisdom of our fathers especially our fathers in faith.
1973 - Dec 2000 - C.S. Lewis: Christian apologist, Sarah Macdonald
IN THE TRINITY term of 1929 I gave in and admitted that God was God .
1974 - Dec 2000 - News: The Church Around the World
I think God preserved me in difficult moments to help me lead the country in the new century Kim Dae-jung said following his victory in the 1997 presidential elections after four previous unsuccessful attempts.
1975 - Dec 2000 - Jubilee Congress of Families: Rome report, Anthony Cappello
He reminded the gathering that children are the supreme gift of married love that the questions that come from children are an echo of Gods voice and that children must be able to depend on both parents.
1976 - Nov 2000 - Reflection: Brother Andrew (1928-2000): returning to spiritual basics, Brother Andrew
Father Patrick McNulty in Restoration recently distinguished between the grip of issues on us and the vision to which God calls us.
1977 - Nov 2000 - Books: Hungry For God: Practical Help in Personal Prayer by Ralph Martin, Michael Daniel
Hungry For God: Practical Help in Personal Prayer by Ralph Martin (Ignatius Press 2000 157pp RRP $21.
1978 - Nov 2000 - Books: Casta Meretrix: An Essay on the Eccesiology of St Ambrose, Cardinal Biffi, Michael Daniel
He argues that given the Churchs relationship to Christ particularly in his mission of redemption it is necessary for anyone who is persuaded under the guidance of the Word of God that all salvation and all sanctification issue into the world from the Church to believe in her beauty and her sanctity (p.
1979 - Nov 2000 - Science and Christianity: can they co-exist in the new millennium?, Stephen Hitchings
Thus we may speak of the social sciences and the natural sciences while theology is traditionally known as the science of God.
1980 - Nov 2000 - New lay apostolate: Confraternity of the Holy Name of Jesus, Barry O'Brien
God quickly blessed us with quite a sizeable membership from all parts of Australia and even some from Papua New Guinea which is continuing to grow.
1981 - Nov 2000 - The Great Jubilee: reaffirming the spiritual power of indulgences, Catherine Cavanagh
Therefore each good deed we do with the help of Gods grace can have a positive impact on others.
1982 - Nov 2000 - The right to work: central to the Catholic Church's social teaching, Patrick Byrne
The bishops of Vatican II stated that it is ordinarily through their labour that humans support themselves and their families are joined to neighbours and serve them and are enabled to exercise genuine charity and be a partner in the work of bringing Gods creation to perfection.
1983 - Nov 2000 - Toowoomba's 'Creating Our Future' - or a recipe for further decline?, Michael Gilchrist
And what is one to make of the heading Key Pastoral Directions with its sub-heading: Through baptism we are called to live out Gods dream by .
1984 - Nov 2000 - Enneagram Workshop
Under the heading Discovering Our True Selves Before God the promotional leaflet stated: Study of the Enneagram can lead towards a new self-understanding - helping us to know our personal giftedness and name the shape of our struggles and particular unfreedoms.
1985 - Nov 2000 - News: The Church Around the World
Meanwhile in response to questions regarding the document Cardinal Francis George of Chicago said he was grateful for this declaration stressing that it opposes religious relativism which bases truth in personal experience rather than in Gods self revelation in history.
1986 - Oct 2000 - An authentic Christian spirituality grounded in objective revelation, Michael Daniel
Christianity exists because Christians believe that God revealed Himself at various points in history the summit of this revelation being Jesus Christ.
1987 - Oct 2000 - How language transforms a Christian society into a secular society, Audrey English
Unlike communism which was recognisably opposed to Christianity a common feature of these ideologies is their use of Christian terms of references to God to the Holy Spirit - traps for the uninformed who are deluded into thinking they are being spiritually nourished instead of being deflected from the truth.
1988 - Oct 2000 - How orthodox are Australian Catholic University's professorial staff?, Eamonn Keane
In referring to mortal sin Gascoigne says it should be understood in terms of a fundamental option meaning a state of personal being which rejects the love of God and neighbour at the deepest and freest core of the person.
1989 - Oct 2000 - News: The Church Around the World
Bishop Michael Putney told the children: The story of Noah tells us of the promise and hope that God has given us.
1990 - Sep 2000 - Reflection: Religious life: death or re-birth?, Fr Benedict Groeschel
In our one-to-one encounter with God in silence and honesty we must ask to be led toward the understanding of what we can do to bring a community back to life.
1991 - Sep 2000 - Ensuring our schools are truly Catholic, Br John Moylan CFC
The fundamental aim of Catholic education is to help students follow Christs first and greatest commandment - You must love the Lord your God with all your heart with all your soul and with all your mind .
1992 - Sep 2000 - The 'Statement of Conclusions' and liturgy: what needs to be done, Msgr Peter J. Elliott
People come to Mass looking for a sense of God not to be talked at or entertained.
1993 - Sep 2000 - Rome's International Eucharistic Congress: 'an unforgettable week', Christine McCarthy
They are given because God wants our happiness.
1994 - Sep 2000 - News: The Church Around the World
Otherwise it is suggested that readings be changed to reflect the equal presence of women and men in the assembly of Gods people.
1995 - Sep 2000 - Rome calls for new emphasis on the sacred at Mass, AD2000 Report
The priest is again reminded - in the words of Vatican II - not to add remove or change anything on his own authority and in selecting among available options he should consider the common spiritual good of the people of God rather than be concerned about his own inclinations.
1996 - Aug 2000 - Reflection: Re-discovering holiness will lead to more priestly vocations: Cardinal Daly, Cardinal Cahal Daly
The problem of vocations concerns the whole people of God.
1997 - Aug 2000 - A tribute to Cardinal John O'Connor, Msgr Michael J. Wrenn
Who would have ever thought eighty years ago when you were born in the city of Brotherly Love Philadephia and baptised John Joseph that in Gods providence you would occupy the See of New York and that not only would your offices be located on the site of the fifth edifice of the Parish of St John 1011 First Avenue but that the Chapel of your residence at 52 Madison Avenue would bear the name in honour of St John the Evangelist!
1998 - Aug 2000 - 'We Shall Overcome': 'liberal' Catholicism after Vatican II, Norm Yodgee
While the general population finds it difficult to commit itself even to the basic idea of belief in God and drifts further into agnosticism the establishment continues to preach in its moralistic fashion a commitment to its concept of the higher ideals of Christian living.
1999 - Aug 2000 - Cardinal Ratzinger on 'Third Secret' of Fatima
The term public Revelation says the Cardinal refers to the revealing action of God directed to humanity as a whole and which finds its literary expression in the two parts of the Bible: the Old and New Testaments.
2000 - Aug 2000 - Eucharistic Congress in Wollongong: 'a time of blessing', Fr Mark De Battista
During his address Bishop Putney emphasised that the primary purpose of the liturgy was adoration of God and not celebration of the community.
2001 - Aug 2000 - Rockhampton: shuffling deck chairs on the 'Titanic', AD2000 Report
A Holistic experience of God through Exercise and Massage: There will be two reflective experiential prayer sessions.
2002 - Aug 2000 - News: The Church Around the World
Pope on wider acceptance of Petrine ministry Feast of Sts Peter and Paul celebrated with Greek Orthodox representatives On 29 June as he celebrated the feast of Sts Peter and Paul along with representatives from the Greek Orthodox Church Pope John Paul II issued a plea for all Christians to recognise the importance of the papal ministry as a service of unity to the people of God.
2003 - Aug 2000 - Archbishop Hickey on Perth's priestly vocations success story, Archbishop Barry J. Hickey
With gratitude to God I am pleased to announce that fourteen men will be ordained to the priesthood this year for the Archdiocese of Perth.
2004 - Jul 2000 - John Bradburne: Zimbabwe martyr and lepers' friend
He was searching for God.
2005 - Jul 2000 - Family Mission Novena: Australian response to Jubilee 2000
How often do we hear words like From Catholic families God wants saints on earth today.
2006 - Jul 2000 - US bishops' new art and architecture document, Charles M. Wilson
The draft document on church art and architecture titled Domus Dei (The House of God) was presented for discussion at the plenary session of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops (NCCB) last November.
2007 - Jun 2000 - Reflection: Dom Columba Marmion on the significance of Pentecost, Dom Columba Marmion
Glory of heaven It was only then that the sacred humanity entered definitively into possession of the glory to which it is doubly entitled as being united to the Son of God and as a victim offered to the Father thereby to merit every grace for souls.
2008 - Jun 2000 - Highway to Heaven: raffle becomes an apostolate to truck drivers, Neville Kenyon
How ironic how strange how wonderful: here was I caught up in this wild ride of days and nights of selling of heat and dust and bone weary for the sake of a church to find my God here in this concrete wilderness seeking out His lost sheep.
2009 - Jun 2000 - How Catholics can help rebuild Christian culture, Archbishop Charles J. Chaput
We still think of ourselves as a more or less Christian people; more that 90 percent of Americans still pray and describe themselves as believing in God; and American church attendance is still very high by Western standards.
2010 - Jun 2000 - One of the great bishops of modern times, Michael Gilchrist
The Cardinal united his own illness and suffering of these past eight months with the suffering of Christ and always accepted the changes in his condition with great faith in God and in His mercy and gentle goodness.
2011 - Jun 2000 - News: The Church Around the World
The Archbishop stated: The text does not accurately represent the word of God and therefore risks being a danger to the faith .
2012 - Jun 2000 - Archbishop Hickey reins in abuses in Sacrament of Penance, AD2000 Report
The second heading read How I want to change with Gods help.
2013 - May 2000 - Reflection: Mary's divine motherhood: central to God's plan of salvation, Sr Mary Augustine Lane OP
She is present in the beginning when after the Fall God promises to set her and her offspring in deadly opposition to the serpent for all time.
2014 - May 2000 - Books: 'Three Inns of Everlasting Happiness' by Fr Fabian Duggan, Catherine Sheehan
Further chapters point out that humility and a healthy fear of God are needed in order to progress in prayer.
2015 - May 2000 - Letters: God's love (letter), Justin Ford
Duggan (March AD2000) rightly insists on the necessity of keeping the commandments if we are to retain the virtue of charity and the life of grace without which we will be eternally deprived of the vision of God.
2016 - May 2000 - Letters: 'Day of Pardon' (letter), Paul MacLeod
The Pope addressed himself to God on behalf of the Church asking His pardon for the faults and errors of Catholics.
2017 - May 2000 - Books: Francis Thompson: author of 'The Hound of Heaven', Michael Daniel
The first of these extended retreats was at the Norbertine monastery of Storrington in 1889 during which period Thompson composed his most famous poem the autobiographical Hound of Heaven that tells of God who does not abandon but pursues the most wayward soul.
2018 - May 2000 - Understanding the Incarnation, Msgr Peter J. Elliott
These words echo the first sentence of Genesis In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
2019 - May 2000 - What are the foundations of a good Catholic education?, Dr. John J. Haldane
They were aware of the great figures of the Middle Ages such as Aquinas and Bonaventure and they knew in very broad terms the two main styles of argument for the existence of God: from the contingency of the world and from the order within it.
2020 - May 2000 - The priesthood: John Paul II's Holy Thursday Letter sets guidelines, Pope John Paul II
And Paul shows us why: We bear this treasure in earthen vessels so that it might be clear that this extraordinary power comes from God and not from us (2 Cor 4:7).
2021 - May 2000 - Australian Catholic University student survey, Michael Gilchrist
50 percent of students understood God as meaning the Blessed Trinity.
2022 - Apr 2000 - Reflection: The message of the Resurrection teaches nothing is impossible for God, Fr Ronald Rolheiser
A friend of mine is fond of saying: You know it is easier for me to believe in God in a supernatural world beyond our own in a world of spirit and even in the physical resurrection than it is for me to believe that anything really new will ever happen to me!
2023 - Apr 2000 - Coming Home Network: a Catholic apostolate for converts, Marcus Grodi
One morning as I was reflecting on our work over the last five years I read the liturgical readings for that day and was greatly confirmed in the reason for our apostolate: The twelve summoned the body of the disciples and said It is not right that we should give up preaching the word of God to serve tables.
2024 - Apr 2000 - Indulgences and the Millennium Jubilee Year, Neil Coup
Tradition itself is the treasure while the Mystical Body of Christ the Church of God is a secure storehouse of the fullness of grace and truth (John 1:14).
2025 - Apr 2000 - Father Winfried's progress report from Tanzania, Fr Winfried Ngonyani
They praised God because they were grateful to the many Australians who had given them clothing that they really needed.
2026 - Apr 2000 - John Paul II calls for recovery of the true spirit of Vatican II, AD2000 Report
In Dei Verbum the centrality of the Word of God in the life of the Church asks each one of us to assume our own responsibility at the moment of conserving it intact in the process of transmission.
2027 - Apr 2000 - Should the Church apologise?, Fr Colin Barker
But when faced with the Biblical concept that every human being is created in the image and likeness of God these differences become superficial.
2028 - Mar 2000 - Biography: Fulton J. Sheen: prophetic inspiration for today's new evangelisation, Archbishop Barry J. Hickey
Religion is pushed to the edge of a secular society where governments make policies based on a purely secular ethic where matters of morality and truth are determined by majority vote or strong lobbies in which God or Christian principles have no role to play.
2029 - Mar 2000 - Education: Religious education: putting the emphasis back on God, Br John Moylan CFC
Are the last seven commandments of the decalogue those governing human relationships given more weight in modern Catholic schools than the first three which refer directly to peoples relationship with God?
2030 - Mar 2000 - New York Scripture seminar affirms reliability of New Testament, Eamonn Keane
Professor Scott Hahn linked the Churchs teaching on the Kingdom of God with the Sacrifice of the Mass: Our Eucharistic liturgy is a royal Sacrament in which we participate in our Kings priestly self-offering before the angels and saints and unto his Father and our Father in heaven.
2031 - Mar 2000 - Priestly vocations increasing in Melbourne, Fr Paul Stuart
It can also be said that Gods grace the prayers of thousands in the Archdiocese and the efforts of all those who have worked hard in vocational ministry in the past have been fruitful.
2032 - Mar 2000 - News: The Church Around the World
I wish to God they would speak up.
2033 - Mar 2000 - English language Mass translation reform: should ICEL be wound up?, Michael Gilchrist
Dr Larsen was quoted as saying: We seldom refer to God as Him or Father and in general we avoid personal pronouns .
2034 - Feb 2000 - Reflection: Private revelations: "Keep to what is countenanced by the Church", Fr Peter Joseph
God may and sometimes does grant revelations to private individuals.
2035 - Feb 2000 - Letters: Persecution (letter), George F. Simpson
The attitude to financial management is that if members concentrate on Gods work the Lord will provide.
2036 - Feb 2000 - Letters: God’s love (letter), Louise Howell (Dr)
G H Duggans article How unconditional is Gods love?
2037 - Feb 2000 - Letters: Conflicting views (letter), Joseph Said
Fr Brennan must realise that the Catholic Church condemns abortion because it violates the natural law which is synonymous with Gods law.
2038 - Feb 2000 - Letters: Missing ‘glue’ (letter), Joseph Taylor
Catholics know that the needed glue is belief in God and depending on his grace to live in accordance with his laws.
2039 - Feb 2000 - Letters: Catholic survey (letter), Joe Lopez
I am not positing bad faith on anyones part; I am well aware I dont have all the answers: God alone judges.
2040 - Feb 2000 - Books: ‘Hidden Way: The Life and Influence of Almire Pichon’ by Mary Frances Coady, Mary O'Neill
Pre Pichon born to a peasant family in Normandy in 1843 (after his childless parents made a pilgrimage to Our Lady) had an affectionate and tender manner which reflected his belief in a God who is Father and rich in mercy.
2041 - Feb 2000 - Tom Monaghan: the tycoon who sold his assets to serve the Church, Patrick Ward
I feel its Gods money and I want to use it for the highest possible purpose - to help as many people as possible get to Heaven.
2042 - Feb 2000 - Sydney’s Centre for Thomistic Studies upholds Catholic truth, John Young
People want to know whether there is a God and what he is like; whether the world has a meaning; whether life ends with the grave or whether we will live forever.
2043 - Feb 2000 - Defending the faith against secularism and relativism, Bishop Kevin Manning
Many of us have encountered Catholics who speak and act in a way that says: Gods word revealed by Scripture and developed by Tradition is no longer the supreme authority.
2044 - Feb 2000 - The comunità: a new form of monastic life for Australia, Peter Westmore
A new monastic religious community the Comunit dei Figli di Dio (Community of the Sons and Daughters of God) founded in 1946 in Italy has become established in Australia.
2045 - Feb 2000 - News: The Church Around the World
The Committee on Liturgy has produced a draft document entitled Domus Dei Gods house in response to requests to overhaul Environment and Art in Catholic Worship (EACW) which has been the de facto standard since its promulgation in 1978.
2046 - Dec 1999 - Reflection: Christmas: John Paul II's thoughts on the eve of the Jubilee, Pope John Paul II
Through the humanity assumed in Marys womb the eternal Son of God begins to live as a child and grows in wisdom and in stature and in favour with God and man (Lk 2:52).
2047 - Dec 1999 - On the Highway to Heaven: Wagga priest's trucking apostolate, Fr Thomas Casanova
God commanded St Francis of Assisi Build My Church and St Francis did.
2048 - Dec 1999 - The Holy City: recent impressions of old and new Jerusalem, Desmond Piggin
The site of Herods magnificent Temple of the Jews to the one and only God is marked by a great and beautiful mosque of Islam.
2049 - Dec 1999 - 'Woman and Man' document poses challenges, Frank Mobbs
This despite the fact that the bishops have in every age taught as a truth revealed by God that females lack the capacity to receive one of the sacraments Holy Orders.
2050 - Dec 1999 - The Enneagram: recipe for apostasy?, Rick Kephart
Sufis believe they possess certain supernatural powers (akin to witchcraft) to be used for the sake of the design defined as Gods plan for mankind the direction God wishes human evolution to take.
2051 - Dec 1999 - Catholic Church Life Survey's shock findings, AD2000 Report
Father Mason found that only 63 percent of those aged 15-39 attending weekly Mass accepted the central article of Christian faith that There is one God Father Son and Holy Spirit while 83 percent of those over 60 did so.
2052 - Dec 1999 - Church art and architecture: 'sacramental role' is central, Msgr M. Francis Mannion
The liturgical symbol system consequently is no longer regarded as the revered medium of Gods presence and action but as the subjective creation and self-expression of the worshipping community.
2053 - Dec 1999 - News: The Church Around the World
To deny that the power of Gods grace enables homosexuals to live chastely is to deny effectively that Jesus has risen from the dead.
2054 - Dec 1999 - Stress Christianity's uniqueness says Pope, Father Bernardo Cerveller
Gods saving plan was initiated in Asia God chose an Asian tradition and it was in Asia that the Church first began to spread.
2055 - Nov 1999 - Reflection: How unconditional is God's love?, Fr G.H. Duggan SM
Recently Bishop Holloway the Anglican Bishop of Edinburgh was reported as saying: Gods love is unconditional: that is the message of the Gospel.
2056 - Nov 1999 - The Jesuits: 150 years of ministry in Australia, Elizabeth Ledlin
The motto and motivation of the Jesuits down the centuries have been aptly encapsulated in the words For the greater glory of God.
2057 - Nov 1999 - Religious Education: 'Gospel of life' in Melbourne's new RE curriculum, Msgr Peter J. Elliott
In grades 5 and 6 units will focus on death and dying but not in the unhealthy way seen in some secular programs rather with a strong emphasis on the right to life and reverence for human life in Gods plan.
2058 - Nov 1999 - Piers Paul Read on the future of the Church, Piers Paul Read
This is partly because of a kind of consensus of humane values which seem to them an entirely sufficient moral system without the need to bring God into the equation.
2059 - Nov 1999 - St Vincent's drug injecting rooms: 'monumental spiritual blindness', Fr John Walter PP
Will God almighty join with Mr Carr and put the natural law aside for the Sisters?
2060 - Nov 1999 - News: The Church Around the World
For example 39 percent of the French say they have no religion only 56 percent of the English believe in a personal God while in the Czech Republic Sunday observance barely reaches 3% a situation repeated in other countries of Western Europe.
2061 - Oct 1999 - Bishop John Myers of Peoria on the meaning of teaching authority, Bishop John Myers
Gods truth Teaching in this way can only make sense if one is teaching not simply from a standpoint of personal conviction but from a standpoint of a greater truth to which people are called.
2062 - Oct 1999 - News: The Church Around the World
The fragments were found close to a temple dating from the ancient Hellenistic period and dedicated to the Greek god Apollo.
2063 - Sep 1999 - Reflection: A spirit of poverty and the level of vocations: how they connect, Fr Fabian Duggan OSB
Since these are not of our own making they must also be benefits bestowed freely by a loving God and therefore regarded as a cause for humility rather than pride.
2064 - Sep 1999 - Scripture: The call to conversion in the early Church: lessons for today, Rev Dr Peter Waters
Both groups were challenged to give up a sinful life which was displeasing to God.
2065 - Sep 1999 - Spirituality: West Australian Rosary tapes: a growing international success story, Colleen McGuiness-Howard
But as the Rosary is back on Irelands school curriculum and people still turn out for Rosary rallies overflowing Masses public demonstrations of faith and May He Rest In Peace is still included in secular newspaper obituaries I believe Irelands faith will be looked on lovingly by God.
2066 - Sep 1999 - Cardinal O'Connor's tribute to noted priest-author, Cardinal John O'Connor
Kelly have I met him without thanking God that this erudite streetwise prelate is on the Churchs side.
2067 - Aug 1999 - Reflection: Hymn In honour of Our Lady's Assumption, Fr Ramsey Williams SSC
Marys Assumption - the belief that the Mother of God by a unique privilege was transported body and soul into heaven at the end of her life on earth - was defined as a part of revealed truth by Pope Pius XII on 1 November 1950.
2068 - Aug 1999 - The pipe organ and Catholic liturgy: an expression of Church teaching, Jeremy Fletcher
This fine pipe organ will inspire a sense of prayer and worship of God through music.
2069 - Aug 1999 - Vatican II and "Signs of the times": a call for a democratic Church?, Fr G.H. Duggan SM
This man his adversaries said is not from God for he does not keep the Sabbath (John 9:16).
2070 - Aug 1999 - How a Canadian church was saved from destruction, Paul Likoudis
Father Richard Vosko a priest of the American diocese of Albany (New York State) who had proposed the radical plan to remove the churchs marble communion rail confessionals high altar and rearrange the pews was still paid $60000 for his plan to wreck the churchs interior; but parishioners will enjoy - at least for the foreseeable future - worshipping God in the magnificent surroundings crafted by their ancestors.
2071 - Aug 1999 - News: The Church Around the World
Both of these fine speakers will help to focus our image of God for our lives in these times.
2072 - Aug 1999 - Editorial: Feast of the Assumption: 15 August, Peter Westmore
August 15 is one of the greatest feast days in the calendar of the Catholic Church celebrating the Churchs belief that at the end of her life on earth the Virgin Mother of God was taken up body and soul into Heaven where she is Mother of the Church as well as the Mother of God.
2073 - Jul 1999 - Reflection: John Paul II: how the arts and Christian faith nourish each other, Pope John Paul II
None can sense more deeply than you artists ingenious creators of beauty that you are something of the pathos with which God at the dawn of creation looked upon the work of his hands: God saw all that he had made and it was very good (Gen 1:31).
2074 - Jul 1999 - Jacques Maritain: modern philosophy in the tradition of St Thomas Aquinas, E. J. Borich
Human values To Maritain the cardinal sin of modern man was that he did not realise that in the order of good God had the first initiative and man the second initiative.
2075 - Jul 1999 - A successful French seminary that follows the Curé of Ars tradition, Francis Davidson
However his trust in God and the unfailing support of his mentor Fr Balley sustained him and he was ordained on 13 August 1815.
2076 - Jul 1999 - Liturgy: An American parish's formula for success, Judy Trajanyi
Its lets put everybody on stage rather than have God as our focus.
2077 - Jul 1999 - Statement of Conclusions: a 'politically correct' interpretation, Pastor Agnosticus
- WRONG It is important to remember that this document has not received an ex cathedra guarantee of infallibility and therefore its suggestions must be regarded as provisional and incomplete and subject to revision consequent upon the scrutiny of the professional theological community and the lived wisdom and experience of the people of God with the understanding that the conscience of the individual is always primary in our faith tradition.
2078 - Jul 1999 - Ecumenism: New ARCIC document on Papal authority, Peter Westmore
It was an act of obedience in that the Church discerned and received Gods life-giving Yes through the Scriptures accepting them as the norm of faith.
2079 - Jul 1999 - News: The Church Around the World
Third place is occupied by another Marian sanctuary in Latin America: The Sanctuary of Our Lady of Aparecida where Brazilians venerate the Mother of God receives almost 7.
2080 - Jun 1999 - Reflection: The spirit of poverty of Francis of Assisi, Fr Christopher Sharah FSF
He understood the humility and love of the Son of God.
2081 - Jun 1999 - New Missal a 'decided improvement' concludes US Archbishop Elden Curtiss, Archbishop Elden Curtiss
For example the early struggles in the life of the Church which defined the Trinitarian nature of God in our Catholic faith (the Father Son and Holy Spirit three Persons in one God) must be understood fully by translators so that imprecise English words are not used in reference to the Trinity.
2082 - Jun 1999 - St Thomas Aquinas: philosopher for our time, Fr G.H. Duggan SM
Secondly it was clear that our abstract ideas are not an innate endowment of the intellect whether acquired in an earlier existence or infused by God but are derived by the action of the human intellect working on the data of sense experience.
2083 - Jun 1999 - The challenge for religious educators in a secular culture, Archbishop Charles J. Chaput
And the result is that we cannot hear God when he tries to speak to us.
2084 - Jun 1999 - Fr. Frank Andersen's new book on the Eucharist: how Catholic is it?, Des O'Hagan
89 Like his our lives redeem; and also (same page) It is ourselves we give to God not Jesus.
2085 - Jun 1999 - Archbishop Weakland finds defects in the post-Vatican II liturgy, Michael Daniel
He suggests that too many liturgical celebrations emphasise the human element at the expense of the Divine: Has the reform respected the nature of sacramentality as a free gift from God as a given or have our people drifted into a more horizontal and purely human activity?
2086 - Jun 1999 - News: The Church Around the World
In fact he observes contemporary art is often characterised by the absence of God and often by opposition to him.
2087 - Jun 1999 - Pope John Paul II denounces 'ethnic cleansing', rejects war in Yugoslavia, Catholic World News
He added God is truth and justice and truth and justice are on the side of our Serbian brothers.
2088 - Jun 1999 - Editorial: Bishops address the crisis of faith, Michael Gilchrist
While the ultimate destiny of the Catholic Church in Australia remains in Gods hands - and hence the power of prayer and sacrifice should not be overlooked - God helps those who help themselves.
2089 - May 1999 - Reflection: John Paul II: Christ provides the answer to the mystery of human suffering, Pope John Paul II
Mans greatness and dignity consist in being a child of God and being called to live in intimate union with Christ.
2090 - May 1999 - US Dominican nun brings the 'New Cosmology' to New Zealand, Bernard Moran
Fr Berry was acknowledged by Fr Paul Collins as a major influence in his book Gods Earth: Religion as if Matter Really Mattered which radically questions key Church teachings (see August 1995 AD2000 p.
2091 - May 1999 - Vatican launch of book highlights Pius XII's World War II role in saving Jews, Zenit News Service
In regard to anti-Semitic accusations Father Gumpel said that on 25 March 1928 the Holy Office published a document stating The Church fully condemns the hatred against the chosen people of God that hatred is currently called anti- Semitism.
2092 - May 1999 - News: The Church Around the World
This means throwing off all vestiges of sin and forming that right relationship with self others and God.
2093 - May 1999 - Vocations: Confronting today's vocations crisis, Fr Paul Stuart
For many of them God is in all things and is to be reached through all and any philosophical or spiritual roads that might take ones fancy.
2094 - Apr 1999 - 1999 Thomas More Summer School: another resounding success
The theme this year was 1999 The year of God the Father: A journey of Conversion.
2095 - Apr 1999 - Extending general absolution: why such a move is out of the question, Fr Peter Joseph
contrition confession and satisfaction; that by divine law the penitent must make a specific confession of all grave sins even those of thought which he or she can call to mind; that private or auricular confession as practised in the Church from the beginning is not a human invention or opposed to the ordinance of Christ; that for those who have fallen into grave sin after Baptism the Sacrament of Penance is the only gate of salvation; that though t sometimes happens that contrition is perfect through charity and reconciles man with God before the Sacrament of Penance is actually received nevertheless the reconciliation itself is not to be ascribed to contrition alone but to contrition together with the desire it includes of receiving the Sacrament.
2096 - Apr 1999 - What the census statistics on religious affiliations reveal, Michael Gilchrist
The statement said: The People of God look to their shepherds for guidance and leadership now more than ever in these confusing and increasingly secularised times.
2097 - Apr 1999 - News: The Church Around the World
Members of the faithful who divorce and remarry remain members of the People of God the Cardinal pointed out.
2098 - Mar 1999 - Reflection: Being a disciple of Christ: no soft option, Archbishop George Pell
We stand under the Word of God; and with the help of our intelligence hundreds of years of commentary and some Church guidelines (often not too many on the exact meaning of many parts of Scripture) we are entitled to try to puzzle out the meanings of difficult passages.
2099 - Mar 1999 - How a parish priest reinforces the Church's moral teaching, Fr Michael Butler
Gods grace and commands need to connect with our human nature as it is so I begin by confining myself to the Pills side-effects and then when the couples realise what these can be they are then more receptive to what the Catholic Church teaches in this area.
2100 - Mar 1999 - A Polish priest's story: how I survived the Nazi occupation, Fr Marcel Pasiecznik
But even during more peaceful times unless a priest takes the initiative with courage he cannot shepherd the people of God well.
2101 - Mar 1999 - Vocations: The Brothers of St Francis: a sign of renewal in religious life, Fr Christopher Sharah FSF
I also wanted to be open to receive any whom God might send to live this life with me.
2102 - Mar 1999 - Changing church interiors: what is at stake, Fr G.H. Duggan SM
Be shepherds of Gods flock that is under you (1 Peter 5:2).
2103 - Mar 1999 - News: The Church Around the World
Over 48 percent of Irish aged between 15 and 24 both believe in God and practise their faith.
2104 - Feb 1999 - Reflection: Catholic identity and 'reading the signs of the times', John Kelly
For God is the source of all good (Stromateis I v).
2105 - Feb 1999 - Brompton Oratory: London's liturgical oasis, Joanna Bogle
It is celebrated facing God with the clergy wearing beautiful Roman vestments and birettas.
2106 - Feb 1999 - Liturgy: Cardinal Ratzinger on the old and the new Mass, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger
They are expressions of the life of the Church in which are distilled the faith the prayer and the very life of whole generations and which make incarnate in specific forms both the action of God and the response of man.
2107 - Feb 1999 - News: The Church Around the World
The announcement was made public on 21 December after the approval of the decree recognising a miracle attributed to the intercession of the venerable servant of God Pio of Pietrelcina professed priest of the Capuchin Minor Friars born on 25 May 1887 in Pietrelcina and died on September 23 1968 in San Giovanni Rotondo.
2108 - Feb 1999 - John Paul II throws down the gauntlet to Australia's bishops, AD2000 Report
The crisis encompassed a declining belief in God an afterlife and the inspiration of the Scriptures with Christ reduced in many cases to just a great prophet of humanity and the Church to a body of purely human origin.
2109 - Dec 1998 - Reflection: The mystery of Christmas confronts a sceptical world, Fr Robert J. Batule
More than thirty years later the flesh of the God-Man pressed against the wood of the Cross.
2110 - Dec 1998 - The right to work: what does the Catholic Church teach?, Bishop Kevin Manning
The goods of the earth were intended by God for the use of all so everyone has a right of access to what they need for their survival.
2111 - Dec 1998 - John Paul II's new encyclical 'Faith and Reason' analysed, Hayden Ramsay
Is there a God and why does He allow such great sufferings?
2112 - Dec 1998 - Missionary Brother's heroism in PNG tidal wave disaster, Eric Carman
Missionary religious Brothers often see themselves as the workers serving God by doing the manual tasks so that the priests could devote themselves to the spiritual life of the faithful.
2113 - Dec 1998 - Intercommunion: why Catholics need not 'apologise', Kevin Myers
The principle of apostolic succession from the Last Supper to this day gives the priest the authority unique in the world and precious beyond compare to eradicate the substance of the wafer and wine and to replace it with the very substance of the Son of God there miraculously on the altar before the cathedral congregation or in the prison cell; and the body of the Risen Christ is then consumed by the worshipful.
2114 - Dec 1998 - Pope John Paul II calls for more 'balance' in the reformed liturgy, AD2000 Report
This involved entering more deeply into the contemplative dimension of worship which includes the sense of awe reverence and adoration which are fundamental attitudes in our relationship with God.
2115 - Dec 1998 - Thomas More Centre's Sydney Spring School, Anthony English
The Bishop referred to the spirituality of work as a continuation of the work of God in creating and redeeming the world.
2116 - Dec 1998 - Cardinal Ratzinger presents John Paul II's latest encyclical, Michael Gilchrist
In the face of this cultural situation the encyclicals message responds proposing again strongly and with conviction the capacity of reason to know God and to arrive at .
2117 - Oct 1998 - Perth Archdiocese vocations: an 'optimistic picture', Archbishop Barry J. Hickey
This thank God is slowly happening.
2118 - Oct 1998 - Pope John Paul II: the impact of his twenty-year pontificate, Peter Westmore
In 1992 John Paul released the Catechism of the Catholic Church the modern compendium of the teachings of the church and a year later his important encyclical Veritatis Splendor (The Splendour of Truth) which placed mans relationship to God as the centre-point of the quest for human dignity and human rights.
2119 - Sep 1998 - Books: Why Christianity must Change or Die, by Bishop John Selby Spong, Frank Mobbs
For example he does not believe in God the Father Almighty because the word Father elicits the notion of an old man who lives just beyond the sky (p.
2120 - 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.
2121 - Aug 1998 - Australian Rosary tape's success story, Colleen McGuiness-Howard
Their hope is that the prayers of innocent children can touch Gods heart and those of people for the conversion of the world.
2122 - Aug 1998 - Cardinal John Henry Newman and the development of doctrine, Fr Peter Waters
For who is there so envious towards men and so exceedingly hateful towards God that he would try to inhibit progress?
2123 - Aug 1998 - Education: Catholic schools: Do they make enough difference?, Br John Moylan CFC
In the past tens of thousands of Australian Catholic men and women have vowed their lives to serve God as teachers in Catholic schools.
2124 - Aug 1998 - Decline in priests 'an opportunity for growth!' says Townsville's Bishop, Michael Gilchrist
Liturgy is the expression of who we are as the People of God .
2125 - Aug 1998 - Pope's new Apostolic Letter puts theological dissenters on notice
The Popes present document enshrines this requirement in Canon Law with an additional paragraph to Canon 750 of the Latin code and Canon 598 of the Eastern code extending the obligations of Catholics beyond simply believing all that is contained in the written Word of God and all that has been proclaimed as being divinely revealed.
2126 - Jul 1998 - Inclusive language: 'eventually all nonsense implodes upon itself', Gerald Wilson
So may it be (see Donna Steichen UngodlyRage p.
2127 - Jun 1998 - John Henry Newman on liturgical tradition, Cardinal John Henry Newman
It was on this account that he was circumcised in order that is to show that he did not renounce the religion of Abraham to whom God gave circumcision or of Moses by whom it was embodied in the Jewish Law.
2128 - Jun 1998 - New Texts the key to reshaping religious education, Msgr Peter J. Elliott
We must first know the God we are called to worship and love.
2129 - Apr 1998 - Obituary: Archbishop Pell's tribute to B.A. Santamaria, Archbishop George Pell
He had decided like St Paul in todays letter to the Romans to be on Gods side and he worked tirelessly to ensure that nothing - no power height or depth - came between him and the love of God made visible in Christ Jesus.
2130 - Apr 1998 - Holy See rejects the latest ICEL submission
This alters the expression given in the liturgical texts of the relative positions of God and his people .
2131 - Mar 1998 - Reflection: Young Catholics: why 'updating' the Church will not bring them back, Rocco Loiacono
To those who profess the if you cant beat em join em mentality I say you need look no further than Sacred Scripture to find that To God a day is as a thousand years and a thousand years is as a day!
2132 - Feb 1998 - Reflection: The Mass: the symbolism of 'facing East', Fr Fabian Duggan OSB
The tabernacle was most often situated on the altar itself or directly behind it in such a prominent place as to focus attention as soon as one entered the house of God.
2133 - Feb 1998 - Vatican Instruction addresses an 'inadequate theology' of priesthood, Fr Ephraem Chifley OP
We might hope that this new Instruction will assist theologians and pastors and the Church in general to come to a more sophisticated understanding of the relationship between the priesthood of all believers and the ordained priesthood more in accordance with the Sacred Tradition and more receptive to the spiritual needs of our God-starved world.
2134 - Dec 1997 - Cardinal John O'Connor: what Catholics believe, Cardinal John O'Connor
We believe that this same Christ the Son of God is here with us in his eucharistic presence that in this holy sacrifice of the Mass a piece of bread will actually become his sacred body a cup of wine his precious blood fountain of life and of eternal youth and renewal.
2135 - Nov 1997 - Books: 'Tomorrow's Creed' as drafted by Fr Michael Morwood, Frank Mobbs
However according to Dr Frank Mobbs who formerly taught philosophy and theology at the Ballarat Campus of Australian Catholic University there is much in Fr Morwoods latest book Tomorrows Catholic: Understanding God and Jesus in a New Millennium (Spectrum Books 1997 146pp RRP $19.
2136 - Nov 1997 - Editorial: Can the tide of religious illiteracy be reversed?
In fact the so-called doctrinal deficiencies more often than not amount to the ingredients of a new religion along the lines proposed by Fr Michael Morwood in his latest book Tomorrows Catholic: Understanding God and Jesus in a New Millennium (see page 8).
2137 - Oct 1997 - Reflection: St Therese of Lisieux: only half the story, Msgr Peter J. Elliott
The melody of her life was focussed around the offering to Merciful Love that she made to God.
2138 - 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.
2139 - Sep 1997 - Editorial: Inclusive language: the Vatican sets the limits, Michael Gilchrist
It states: The translation of Scripture should faithfully reflect the Word of God in the original human languages.
2140 - Aug 1997 - Reflection: A young Catholic comments on the meaning of church 'participation', Lucy O'Connell
Or do we want to give glory to God?
2141 - Aug 1997 - Participation of Women in the Catholic Church in Australia: an update, Michael Gilchrist
Moreover patriarchy has been religiously legitimated in Christianity by an overwhelming bias in favour of masculine imagery for God.
2142 - Aug 1997 - Editorial: Mannix: A Monument to a Leader, Michael Gilchrist
Only God knows the inner dispositions of the souls of those on either side.
2143 - Jul 1997 - Reflection: Catholic youth: facing the challenges to faith (Pastoral Letter), Archbishop George Pell
To know the love and forgiveness of the one true God offered to us by his Son Jesus Christ provides an unparalleled sense of security and makes a world of difference in everyday living and in eternity.
2144 - Jul 1997 - Books: 'Banished Camelots: Recollections of a Catholic Childhood', by John Redrup, Br Christian Moe FSC
History itself will ultimately determine whether the direction-setters of the contemporary Church have been in error; if this should prove to be the case then the Church itself in Gods good time will make the necessary corrections.
2145 - Jul 1997 - Which Catholic women will the Australian bishops listen to?, Michael Gilchrist
She told the panel that treatment of women in the Catholic Church was like domestic violence in Gods household.
2146 - Apr 1997 - Disabled journalist: euthanasia is 'incompatible with human dignity', Peter Dwan
The Australian Constitution opens with the noble words: Humbly relying on the blessing of Almighty God.
2147 - Apr 1997 - Brisbane Archdiocese booklets: how to make parishes 'zoom along', Michael Gilchrist
) Rituals (using movement symbols art drama etc) are used appropriately to express the connection between Gods Word and our everyday life.
2148 - Mar 1997 - Editorial: On being - and not being - a Catholic, B.A. Santamaria
It is that despite the fact that the sheen has been taken off the name and the title of Catholic by the regrettable and sometimes highly disgraceful events which have come to light in recent years the Catholic believes that the Catholic Church is the Church founded by Jesus Christ; that He established it as the pillar and ground of truth; and that in the matter of fundamental teachings relating to doctrine and morality God will not permit it to err or to mislead its members.
2149 - Feb 1997 - Euthanasia and the religion of self, Audrey English
In this inverse form of religion God does not exist man is totally independent the self is supreme.
2150 - Oct 1996 - Reflection: Mediator Dei: Recovering the 'vital impulse' of the liturgical movement, Bishop Basil Meeking (Christchurch, New Zealand)
Nor did the bishops of the Council believe they had by their Constitution on the Liturgy achieved all its objectives for enabling the People of God to penetrate more deeply the mystery of Christ made present in the liturgy.
2151 - Oct 1996 - How the new Catechism can impact on the secular culture, Archbishop Barry J. Hickey
Freedom of choice is enshrined by law and God is excluded from public life.
2152 - Aug 1996 - How to overcome the shortage of priests, Fr Kevin Dillon PP
To hold a consecrated Host in front of a parishioner and hear the word Amen in response to The Body of Christ to say words of absolution over a troubled person who seeks Gods forgiveness - these are extraordinary moments in any priests life; and yet they are daily occurrences which can so easily be taken for granted.
2153 - Jul 1996 - Books: 'Critics on Trial - An Introduction to the Catholic Modernist Crisis', O'Connell, Fr John Parsons
The first of these cross-breedings removes the supernatural element in Christianity but leaves intact a philosophical belief in God and the natural law.
2154 - Jul 1996 - Vendée Catholics during the French Revolution, James Bogle
First yield me my God was the reply.
2155 - Jun 1996 - Michael Davies' Australia / NZ tour - The Catholic liturgy: where is it headed?, Michael Gilchrist
More and more the Mass comes to appear man-made rather than God-made.
2156 - Jun 1996 - McBrien's 'Catholicism': what the US Bishops criticised
The Committees detailed review stated that it would outline major difficulties that the book poses from the standpoint of those who are concerned to monitor the possible effects of the book not on theological specialists but on theological beginners the vast majority of the People of God in every age.
2157 - May 1996 - Reflection: Holy Communion and the Real Presence: whatever happened to reverence?, Christine McCarthy
The psalmist away from Gods presence pines and yearns for His courts more than the weary watchman longs for daybreak more than the parched deer for running streams.
2158 - Apr 1996 - Emperor Charles I: World War I peace campaigner, James Bogle
God on the other hand may have different plans for his venerable servant.
2159 - Apr 1996 - Vatican II, 1962-1965 - The next 30 years: to bring about a Catholic revival, Fr John Parsons
On moral errors the Pope said that today at last it seems men of themselves that is without refutations and condemnations are disposed to condemn such errors; in particular those ways of behaving which despise God and His law.
2160 - Mar 1996 - Examining the impact of Vatican II after 30 years, Fr John Parsons
For example Lateran IV condemned the doctrines of the Cathari who held there were two Gods or principles a good and an evil one who between them shaped the world.
2161 - Mar 1996 - New Vatican document vindicates concerns about classroom sex education
Therefore the spiritual and moral dimensions must always be predominant so as to have two special purposes: presenting Gods commandments as a way of life and the formation of a right conscience (94).
2162 - Mar 1996 - Editorial: The problem is belief, B.A. Santamaria
Some have already asserted that Christ himself did not originally know that he was God the knowledge dawning on him only gradually.
2163 - Feb 1996 - An agnostic medical student on euthanasia: 'Why taking a life is unacceptable', Matthew Bailey
That is for God.
2164 - Feb 1996 - 'Mass facing the people': did Vatican II require it?, Eamon Duffy
Instead there was a profounder sense of reverence and of a people waiting in a shared hope for the gift of God.
2165 - Feb 1996 - St Patrick's College, Manly, seminary becomes a hotel school!, Tony Abbott
Now to cope with fewer seminarians and higher maintenance costs the Church has concluded a 30-year lease to an international hotel school - and the college tower which once served as finger beckoning man to God will soon so to speak summon patrons to their table.
2166 - Nov 1995 - Evangelium Vitae - Catholicism, the media and the 'culture of death', Bishop George Pell
The crucial clash is between Judeo-Christianity and the new paganism which explicitly denies the existence of the one true God.
2167 - Oct 1995 - Lord Ripon (1828-1909) - I - How to base political life on Christian principles, Fr John Parsons
Over the next four years he read Newman to whom as he put it later under God I owe that greatest of all blessings the blessing of belonging to the Catholic Church.
2168 - Sep 1995 - Alexander Rzewuski (1893-1983): The Catholic Church viewed with 'fresh eyes', Fr Peter Knowles OP
They were so little curious to understand the ways of God in their spiritual lives.
2169 - Sep 1995 - Saints and heroes: where the difference lies, Lawrence Cross
The whole business of saint making has always been open to misunderstanding ever since the first formal canonisation of a saint by the Pope of Rome in the 10th century but the meaning of the saint (the manifestation of Gods holiness in the human being) is not at all obscure and the essential meaning of sainthood is clearest in martyrdom.
2170 - Aug 1995 - Reflection: A Catholic undergraduate faces the future with confidence, Lucy O'Connell
By prayer penance and frequent sacraments each of us will become the instruments which God can use.
2171 - Aug 1995 - Blessed Edith Stein (1891-1942): The most significant German woman this century, Mary O'Neill
Edith had suffered doubts about the existence of God in the face of evil and tells how she was freed from the pain of this doubt by attending a concert of Bach which brought her joy and restored her hope.
2172 - Aug 1995 - Fr Paul Collins: seeking a new green constituency?, Michael Gilchrist
In his latest book Gods Earth: Religion as if Matter Really Mattered (Dove RRP $19.
2173 - Jul 1995 - Edel Quinn (1907-1944): Ireland's 20th century apostle to Africa, Michael Gilchrist
After her return to Ireland she resolved to become a nun and dedicate her life totally to God.
2174 - Jul 1995 - Understanding the terms of the euthanasia debate, Peter Coghlan
This doctrine is based upon the natural law and upon the written Word of God is transmitted by the Churchs Tradition and taught by the ordinary and universal Magisterium.
2175 - Jun 1995 - Why Vatican rejected 'inclusive' New Revised Standard Version Bible, Fr G.H. Duggan SM
Dr Peter Kreeft of Boston College has pointed out that Gods masculinity is so deliberate and all-pervasive in Scripture that it has to be regarded as an essential element in the revelation not an accident which can be discarded.
2176 - May 1995 - Perth's Archbishop calls for liturgical fidelity, Archbishop Barry J. Hickey
Through Him with Him and in Him the faithful offer sacrifice praise worship and thanks to God.
2177 - May 1995 - Editorial: Re-defining Christianity through substitution, B.A. Santamaria
The program seemed to invite the conclusion that these secular icons were perhaps better off for keeping Christianity at a distance and that genuine holiness need not derive from Gods help via prayer penance sacraments or the Mass.
2178 - Apr 1995 - How a Catholic scientist stood up for her principles, Marcia Riordan
I prayed for Gods help and wisdom feeling that I was too upset to risk saying anything on the spot.
2179 - Apr 1995 - Catholicism: 'revealed by God, not devised by man', Fr Graham Leonard (former Anglican Bishop of London)
The magisterium reflects the fact that the Faith is revealed by God and not devised by man though expressed by human minds.
2180 - Apr 1995 - Why Virginia's Arlington Diocese has no priest shortage, Michael Gilchrist
The memorandum explained: One of the top priorities of the Diocese of Arlington is to identify and nurture potential vocations to the priesthood and it is a special gift of God that our corps of diocesan priests has grown over 50% in the past decade.
2181 - Apr 1995 - New Melbourne R.E. Guidelines: an improvement on the old, Michael Gilchrist
Right direction That the Guidelines are headed in the right direction is underlined by inclusion of the following kinds of statements: In Baptism the human person is cleansed from original sin and all personal sin reborn as a child of God sanctified with the gifts of the Holy Spirit.
2182 - Mar 1995 - Leonid Federov (1879-1935): Russian Catholicism - a brave vision unfulfilled, Fr Peter Knowles OP
When he approached the Inspector of the Academy Br Theophan with notice of his intention to discontinue his studies the old man responded I know where you are going and I know the reason: may God be with you!
2183 - Mar 1995 - Aboriginal religion and Christianity: 'fundamentally incompatible', Max Champion
The idea of a personal God who suffers and dies out of love for unworthy people is absent.
2184 - Feb 1995 - Reflection: Receiving Communion: why the Church's rule should be followed, Christine McCarthy
At Holy Mass this intimate relationship between Christ and the priest is at its most intense especially when he pronounces those words of Consecration which bring the divine presence onto the altar so as to offer Christ in sacrifice to God the Father in the re-presentation of Calvary.
2185 - Dec 1994 - An Open Letter to the Manly Seminary staff, Fr Brian Harrison OS
If in fact she is not perennially reliable in such matters she is nothing or rather worse than nothing: a colossal imposter speaking falsely in the name of God.
2186 - Dec 1994 - Many vocations: empty seminaries, Fr Timothy E. Deeter
Oh well I was finally ordained and the boycott boys werent; God is good.
2187 - Oct 1994 - An Anglican Bishop responds to Bishop Spong - defending Christian revelation, Bishop David Silk (Anglican Bishop of Ballarat)
For I believe that the initiative is with God.
2188 - Sep 1994 - New edition of Fr Richard McBrien's 'Catholicism': but dissent still remains, James Likoudis
The Bishops Committee had taken issue with the authors treatment of grace and other points of doctrine which it said remain confusing and ambiguous: for example the description of the virginal conception of Jesus as a theologoumenon (in McBriens words: A non-doctrinal theological interpretation that cannot be verified or refuted on the basis of historical evidence but that can be affirmed because of the close connection with some defined doctrine about God (p.
2189 - Sep 1994 - Gregorian Chant makes a comeback, Simon Matthews
Gregorian Chant but that it will also be an important channel for transmitting the Word of God to a wide audience.
2190 - Aug 1994 - How dissent operates in the Church, Bishop George Pell
What about the many saintly and powerful women in Church history ranging from Mary Mother of God to Mary MacKillop?
2191 - Aug 1994 - Bishop Spong at Australian Catholic University - Why?, Michael Gilchrist
They are first how we come to know God and second how we are saved by God.
2192 - Jul 1994 - Books: 'Catechism of the Catholic Church', Fr Peter Joseph
When the French says: God Father Holy Mother Church man and men the English says precisely that.
2193 - Jul 1994 - Putting orthodoxy on the line, B.A. Santamaria
Acceptance depends entirely on whether one believes that Christ was God that He established the Church and that the New Testament - the only historical record of His teachings - clearly indicates that he vested his teaching authority in St.
2194 - May 1994 - Reflection: Our Lady: the family context, Bishop George Pell
From giving birth in a stable at Bethlehem through her time as a refugee in exile in Egypt to her stand at the foot of the cross where her son was dying the Mother of God knew obedience through suffering far beyond what most of us are called to suffer.
2195 - Apr 1994 - Making sense of 'Veritatis Splendor', Bishop Kevin Manning
Some of the traditional moral doctrines called into question are: in certain currents of theology the natural law and the universality and permanent validity of its precepts have been rejected; it is questioned whether the magisterium is competent to intervene in matters of morality and to teach authoritatively the binding requirements of Gods commandments which we hold are a reflection of the goodness of God himself it is maintained that one can love God and neighbour without being obliged always and everywhere in all situations by the commandments taught by the Church; doubt is raised about the intrinsic and unbreakable bond between faith and morality i.
2196 - Mar 1994 - The new Catechism and Cardinal Newman, Archbishop Eric D'Arcy
I fell under the influences of a definite Creed and received into my intellect impressions of dogma which through Gods mercy have never been effaced or obscured.
2197 - Mar 1994 - Books: 'Commentary on the Catechism of the Catholic Church', Michael Gilchrist
Contradicting the Catechisms teaching (473) that the human nature of the Son of God not by itself but by its union with the Word knew and manifested in itself every that pertains to God (emphasis in the original) Fr Jacques Dupuis S.
2198 - Mar 1994 - Townsville Mass attendance document - 'Where have all the parishioners gone?'
; How does each of us personally witness God-with-us to those in our family workplace leisure environments etc?
2199 - Feb 1994 - Reflection: The Immaculate Conception: Mary’s unique holiness, Br Christian Moe FSC
It was with a view to Christ that God the Father from all eternity chose Mary to be the all-holy Mother and adorned her with gifts of the Spirit given to no one else.
2200 - Feb 1994 - Can liturgical 'reform' be reformed?, Simon Matthews
People were encouraged to participate actively in the worship of God by following the rites and prayers of the liturgy with mind and heart.
2201 - Feb 1994 - The state of Catholicism after 'Veritatis Splendor', B.A. Santamaria
Newmans point was reformulated with even stronger authority by the Second Vatican Council in Dei Verbum: All that has been said about the manner of interpreting Scripture is ultimately subject to the judgment of the Church which exercises the divinely conferred commission and ministry of watching over and interpreting the word of God.
2202 - Nov 1993 - Brompton Oratory, London: Keeping Catholic tradition alive, Simon Matthews
a sort of Catholic club not the Kingdom of God .
2203 - Nov 1993 - Thomas More Centre Lecture: Janet Smith champions Church's moral teaching, Dr Janet Smith
The Church being an expert on humanity - who man is and how he ought to live - has known all that for 2000 years; and it has God on its side.
2204 - Nov 1993 - In the aftermath of 'Veritatis Splendor', B.A. Santamaria
But Revelation is integral to the Christian religion - the proposition that God has spoken to man through the Prophets of Israel and through Jesus Christ the eternal pastor (who) set up the holy Church by entrusting the apostles with their mission as he himself had been sent by the Father .
2205 - Nov 1993 - Editorial: The Pope: for or against him?, B.A. Santamaria
What is unacceptable it states is the attitude of one who makes his own weaknesses the criterion of truth about the good so that he can feel self-justified without even the need to have recourse to God and his mercy.
2206 - Oct 1993 - Eucharistic adoration - are we keeping up with the rest of the world?, Christine McCarthy
People are hungry for God.
2207 - Sep 1993 - Archbishop Hickey's Pastoral Letter - 'Humanae Vitae' 25th anniversary, Archbishop Barry J. Hickey
In his letter he reminded married couples that God was calling them to a fully human conjugal love through a free and total commitment to each other which was to be faithful and exclusive until death and open to the creation of new life.
2208 - Sep 1993 - Lincoln, Nebraska - how to fill seminaries with vocations, Fr T.I. Thorburn
These things are happening primarily due to the Grace of God.
2209 - Aug 1993 - Reflection: Feast of the Assumption and the Japanese connection, Robert Denahy
There were three criteria by which they were to identify Catholic priests were they ever to return to Japan: they would be celibate they would obey the Pope in Rome and they would have devotion to the Mother of God.
2210 - Jul 1993 - Reflection: Eucharistic reverence: 'How our actions reflect our belief', Christine McCarthy
My first recollections of an overwhelming sense of being in the presence of God occurred in the mid-1950s whilst attending Friday Benediction with my kindergarten classmates.
2211 - Jul 1993 - Brother Andrew speaks out on the Catholic crisis, Brother Andrew
The Adelaide changes in gender language in the Creed are only one or two steps prior to the deletion of Father Son and the removal of anything judged by humans to be inappropriate for the Bible and the Word of God.
2212 - Jun 1993 - US opposition to ICEL changes intensifies, AD2000 Report
Credo recently issued a statement of criticisms identifying several mistakes in fact as well as theological errors and faulty translation: Deleting some prayers that refer to the priests role as the one who offers sacrifice in persona Christi to God.
2213 - May 1993 - 'The Catechism of the Catholic Church': Confronting the post-Christian world, B.A. Santamaria
The scheme of that Catechism writes Eamon Duffy in his recent monumental work The Stripping of the Altars (Yale 1992) was structured round the Creed; the Ten Commandments and Christs summary of these in the dual precept to love God and neighbour; the seven works of mercy; the seven virtues; the seven vices; and the seven sacraments and was intended to provide a comprehensive guide to Christian belief and practice.
2214 - Mar 1993 - Books: A review of the 'Catechism of the Catholic Church' (French Edition), Fr Peter Joseph
The second part opens with a superb exposition of the Liturgy with emphasis upon it as a sacred saving action where man encounters God.
2215 - Mar 1993 - What the secular humanists are up to, David Quinn
If God exists however then values have an objective reality.
2216 - Mar 1993 - Religious Order Leaders challenge Catholic structures
Who Christ is for the Church relates to the God revealed in Jesus.
2217 - Feb 1993 - The dimming of the 'vision splendid': religious life in distress, Sr Mary Augustine Lane OP
Taking a last stand for the classical forms of religious life these religious have few illusions as to their chances of putting the toothpaste back into the tube (to use a clicheacute; much overworked in convent circles) although they trust no doubt that the grace of God could do it given the right conditions.
2218 - Nov 1992 - Where 'normal' religious life flourishes, Fr John Parsons
They too celebrated their Low Masses in the morning after Lauds each priest thus making full personal use of his priesthood for the greater glory of God and to intercede for some particular need.
2219 - Nov 1992 - From a 'workshop' for Pastoral Associates
The bulk of the Newsletter describes workshops for pastoral associates held last June at Sunnystones (Bacchus Marsh Victoria) entitled Fresh Insights: God Church and Community as a Pastoral Perspective.
2220 - Nov 1992 - Editorial: Turning the Faith inside out, B.A. Santamaria
If Jesus was not God he was no more than one of thousands of itinerant holy men who have lived throughout the course of history some Christian some Muslim some Buddhist some anything.
2221 - Oct 1992 - Reflection: Fatima - after seventy-five years, Bishop George Pell
Apparitions such as Lourdes or Fatima can never be at the centre of our faith; only Christ the Son of God has this central role.
2222 - Sep 1992 - Crises in the Church: Fr Hubert Jedin's warning to Rome
The liturgy is being organised like a community meal and people are forgetting that this is liturgy a service pre-ordained by God.
2223 - Sep 1992 - 'Science can't explain Creation of the Universe' - Fr. Stanley Jaki in Australia, Peter Westmore
When Stephen Hawking asserts that the origins of the Universe prove that God does not exist that proposition cannot be proved scientifically.
2224 - Sep 1992 - The Townsville experiment: next stage in the evolution of an Australian Church?
In fact it could be called a theological interpretation of the practical desires of the lay people - the People of God.
2225 - Aug 1992 - The problem of suffering, Fr Campion Murray OFM
Job says to his wife Shall we not receive the good from God and shall we not also receive the bad?
2226 - Aug 1992 - Surveys highlight decline of mainline Christianity, Michael Gilchrist
The study found for example that: 77% affirm at least a tentative belief in God and Jesus; 57-58% describe themselves as religious or say they have some intention of modelling their lives on the teaching and example of Christ; 35% have a Positive self-estimate of their understanding of the Christian story; 13% can explain Church teaching on the Incarnation and only 2% can give an adequate explanation of the Kingdom of God; 32% said they read religious books; 42% believed that life after death was certain.
2227 - Aug 1992 - Editorial: The graph points downwards, B.A. Santamaria
What Sr Carmel Leaveys research discloses is that of those who are still at school: 77% have at least a tentative belief in God and Jesus; 57-58% have some intention of modelling their lives on the teaching and example of Christ; 35% have a positive view of their knowledge of Christianity; 13% can explain the Incarnation; 42% believed in the certainty of life after death; 2% could adequately explain the Kingdom of God; 43% went to weekly Mass (compared with 90% in a similar survey in 1970 and 63% in 1981).
2228 - Jul 1992 - Editorial: The principle for which Thomas More died, B.A. Santamaria
On the scaffold awaiting death Thomas More himself defined his own position as that of the Kings good servant but Gods first.
2229 - Jun 1992 - Did 'the Enlightenment' K.O. Christianity?, David Quinn
The Churchs role as appointed interpreter of Gods will and the Bibles as the repository of Gods revelation were challenged in the light of reason.
2230 - Jun 1992 - Monika Hellwig visits Australia, Michael Gilchrist
and Jesus the Compassion of God.
2231 - May 1992 - Christianity's first three centuries - the truth behind the myth, Andrew Quinlan
The whole system was held together more or less by one man - the Emperor - who was the embodiment of the state and popularly seen as divine as a god.
2232 - Apr 1992 - Problems of modern Biblical scholarship, B.A. Santamaria
Traditions are crucial to Christianity but they need to be looked at in the light of the Word of God.
2233 - Mar 1992 - Mary - Biblical focus of Christian unity, Archbishop Barry J. Hickey
As Mother of God her special powers of intercession were acknowledged and taken to heart by ordinary people among whom devotion to her flowered.
2234 - Feb 1992 - The Pope's agenda - overcoming the obstacles, Michael Gilchrist
It is a matter of the divinely revealed word of God.
2235 - Dec 1991 - 'Follow your conscience': but what does that mean?, Frank Mobbs
Which is truly marvellous for I had always thought that not even Almighty God could make a proposal true just by believing it.
2236 - Dec 1991 - New Zealand: 'transforming the Church from within', John Kennedy OBE
Her views are widely known and were set out at some length earlier this year in Donna Steichens Ungodly Rage: The Hidden Face of Catholic Feminism (Ignatius Press).
2237 - Nov 1991 - NCC Anniversary: National Civic Council 50th anniversary celebration, 7 October 1991 - address, Bishop George Pell
Humanist dream It was part of the humanist dream formulated in the eighteenth century Enlightenment movement to divorce life from God from any foundations in a divinely-ordered natural law to radically separate religion and the spiritual from the public order.
2238 - Oct 1991 - 'Faith of Our Fathers' - still valid for the 1990s, Bishop George Pell
Sense of the sacred Now our liturgies are in the vernacular intelligible even to outsiders while the challenge is to preserve and develop that sense of the sacred to insist that the Mass is an act of worship of reverence for the numinous the powerful invisible presence of Gods love revealed to us through Gods redeeming Son Jesus Christ Our Lord.
2239 - Oct 1991 - The priesthood: one layman's view, B.A. Santamaria
Less than half may have some vague intimations of the existence of a God but that is not sufficient to constitute religion.
2240 - Aug 1991 - 'Creative liturgy' - darker reasons beneath the surface, Fr Ephraem Chifley OP
At the April meeting of the Diocesan Pastoral Council of the Archdiocese of Canberra the official liturgies of the meeting contained instances of where ideas seemingly inconsistent with a Christian notion of God were presented.
2241 - Aug 1991 - New Zealand Catholicism to put on Maori clothing?, John Kennedy OBE
our monotheist view of God.
2242 - Jun 1991 - Richard John Neuhaus interviewed, Mary Arnold
On the other hand I have to deal with the assets I have been given by God and one of them is the intellect.
2243 - Jun 1991 - Encyclical: John Paul II's Memorial to 'Rerum Novarum': a summary of 'Centesimus Annus', B.A. Santamaria
Not only has God given the earth to man who must use it with respect for the original purpose for which it was given to him but Man too is Gods gift to man.
2244 - May 1991 - Why the 'new' catechetics is flawed, Sr Mary Augustine Lane OP
that God is there for us; not vice versa.
2245 - Feb 1991 - How religion fares in the U.S.A. - Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches, Michael Gilchrist
The Economist interpreted Greeleys findings as follows (October 20 1990): For practising Catholics the Church is their local parish church usually a lively place where God is love and where the priest is much keener to get people involved in good works than to tell them what they cant do in bed.
2246 - Nov 1990 - Can Australia's seminaries turn the tide?, Michael Gilchrist
Seminary courses Former Rector of Banyo the late Fr Maurice Duffy told the Telegraph reporter in 1981 of the seminary courses: Weve got some mind- blowing attempts by modern scholars to articulate the God question the Man questions the whole notion of education to faith .
2247 - Oct 1990 - Newman belongs to us all, Fr Peter J. Elliott
The spirituality we find in his poetry his sermons and Meditations and Devotions is the fruit of a continuous and candid converse with God.
2248 - Aug 1990 - Christians and the 'Green' prophets of doom: the need for scepticism, Bill Muehlenberg
If the conference had focused on our God-given role as caretaker and steward of the earth utilising creativity and ingenuity to help correct and/or avert ecological problems it would indeed have been a useful gathering.
2249 - Aug 1990 - Editorial: Dissent in Catholic academia is 'out' says Vatican Instruction, B.A. Santamaria
It systematically explores erroneous assumptions underlying these and affirms the authority of the Magisterium in having the last word: By virtue of the divine mandate given to it in the Church the Magisterium has the mission to set forth the Gospels teaching guard its integrity and thereby protect the faith of the People of God.
2250 - Jun 1990 - Books: 'Iota Unum: A Study of Changes in the Catholic Church in the Twentieth Century', Fr John Parsons
In his chapter on the virtue of hope he has already pointed out that the latter has nothing to do with optimism about the course of events in this life but is a hope for union with God in the life to come.
2251 - Jun 1990 - Being a Catholic in 1990: Rev James Murray interviews Bob Santamaria, James S. Murray
He simply says Take it because in Gods plan it will be best in the end.
2252 - Apr 1990 - Architects of failure on the offensive: US theologians 'pan' new Catechism, Michael Gilchrist
However from past experience there is every reason to anticipate that the Catechism will suffer the fates of earlier supposedly authoritative documents such as the Credo of the People of God the General Catechetical Directory and Catechesi Tradendae unless more of the bishops play an active role in supervising or designing the new materials flowing from the Catechism.
2253 - Apr 1990 - Editorial: 'Everything is connected with everything else', B.A. Santamaria
Central to Christianity is the belief that there is such a thing as the human soul; that while the body passes out of existence at death each persons soul is immortal that is it does not die that a personal God who made and sustains the Universe is intimately concerned with our ultimate fate; that that fate is determined by the pattern of our conduct in this world which for a Christian is measured by his fidelity to Christs teachings; and for the non-Christian by his fidelity to the law which is written in his own conscience.
2254 - Mar 1990 - New Zealand: tensions between Rome and the Bishops, John Kennedy OBE
The principal qualification needed to the statement is that a majority of the hierarchy are being apologetic about that all-male all-clerical tag when instead they should be firmly reasserting their position as the teachers and fathers in God of their people.
2255 - Mar 1990 - 'Being church': manipulating language to change meaning, Fr Peter J. Elliott
In whatever tongue we use church describes the called and assembled ones the baptised believers who are the Body of Christ the priestly people of God gathered in unity around the Successor of St Peter.
2256 - Mar 1990 - Close encounter with feminist theology, Dr Frank Mobbs
But what has this to do with theology (theos God)?
2257 - Feb 1990 - Books: Archbishop Oscar Romero: a modern martyr - 'Romero: a Life', by James Brockman, Paul Gray
Propaganda and the truth An outstanding example of this propaganda line is Joan Coxsedges Thank God for the Revolution published in 1987.
2258 - Feb 1990 - A Tale of Two Universities, Dr Ralph McInerny, Dr Alan Schreck
Pray God that they will.
2259 - Feb 1990 - Cardinal Newman: a centenary tribute, Dr Frank Mobbs
By that he meant the adoption of criteria of rationality that would exclude belief in God from the area of rational belief.
2260 - Dec 1989 - Challenging the atmosphere and agenda of secularist Australia, Karl Schmude
The abiding problem in Australian life has been a cultural incapacity to face God.
2261 - Dec 1989 - Can Catholic integrity be recovered?, Colin Jory
From early in primary school we were brought to understand that the principal reason we should believe and act as Catholics was that the Church taught with the authority and under the inspiration of God as evidenced by the Bible.
2262 - Nov 1989 - Thomas More and today's crisis in faith and morals, John Finnis
But if one is going to recall that truth one had better recall its companion: if one reaches such a judgement one has made a serious moral error is entangled in ethical incoherence and corruption has wandered away from Gods law and therefore from Gods wisdom and from the terms of the divine offer of friendship and adoptive sonship and if one has heard the Gospel preached in its integrity such an error is scarcely possible without a sinful failure of faith hope and love threatening salvation at its root.
2263 - Nov 1989 - Teaching Christian doctrine in Catholic primary schools, Gerard Gaskin
Traditionally summaries of Catholic Doctrine arranged the doctrinal statements under the sequence of the various themes of the Creeds: God Creation Incarnation Sin Redemption the Church Sacraments etc.
2264 - Oct 1989 - Catholicism at the crossroads, Michael Gilchrist
The first draft Position Papers for the Canberra-Goulburn Diocesan Synod showed a distinct preference for the we are church and people of God models the latter allegedly canonised by Vatican II.
2265 - Sep 1989 - Three problems for Catholic schools, Michael Gilchrist
From the early 1970s beginning with the likes of Come Alive the so- called professionals have produced materials more in tune with the Dutch Catechism and the discredited ideas of Lawrence Kohlberg than with Pope Paul Vls Credo of the People of God.
2266 - Jul 1989 - Making a revolution by changing the meaning of words, Frank Mobbs
VATICAN II But these four marks are a far cry from the traditional ones as say expressed in the catechism in use in Australia before Vatican II a catechism virtually identical with others in use throughout the Church where: one The Catholic Church is one because all its members believe the same truths; offer to God the same Holy Sacrifice; share the same Sacraments; and are united under one visible head on earth the Pope holy founded by Jesus Christ .
2267 - Jun 1989 - How the liturgy fell apart: the enigma of Archbishop Bugnini, Michael Davies
God forbid that this should happen!
2268 - Apr 1989 - The Catholic Church in Britain: Piers Paul Read interviewed by 'AD2000', Paul Gray
So you get God projected as a sort of kindly amiable figure who wouldnt hurt a fly.
2269 - Feb 1989 - The condition of Catholic teacher training in Australia, Michael Gilchrist
If we are to take seriously such Papal and Vatican statements on education as the Credo of the People of God General Catechectical Directory or Catechesi Tradendae it is quite clear that programmes used in many Catholic primary and secondary schools continue to be inadequate whatever lip-service may be paid to them.
2270 - Feb 1989 - Editorial: Who are the educational 'experts'?, B.A. Santamaria
Or did it just happen by accident force majeure or act of God?
2271 - Nov 1988 - The issues facing Australian Catholicism, Bishop George Pell
Catholicism is a development of Jewish monotheism which sees Christ as the promised Messiah and the Son of God.
2272 - Sep 1988 - Decline and fall of the Catholic priesthood, Gary Scarrabelotti
Binding power In proportion as priests lose sight of their sacrificial and sacramental roles they lose faith in the power of divine grace to bind together the people of God into a mystical community.
2273 - Sep 1988 - 'Putting the essence of the Faith in doubt' (Jean Guitton), B.A. Santamaria
The very solitariness of the confessional provides the environment in which the penitent separated both from the world and normal human contacts can find himself face-to-face alone with God; able to say to Him Ive been wrong.
2274 - Jun 1988 - Muggeridge at eighty-five: the long road from agnosticism to faith, B.A. Santamaria
From this meeting he wrote Something Beautiful for God the earnings from which have all been given to Mother Teresa.
2275 - Apr 1988 - A kingdom divided in itself, B.A. Santamaria
when Abbe Godin wrote his France: Pars de Mission and later when Cardinal Suhard published his The Church: Growth or Decline?
2276 - Dec 1987 - about: About AD2000
If it is Gods will that we succeed your prayers will help us more than anything else.
2277 - Feb 2014 - Letters: Spirit of Vatican II, Murray Cook
2278 - Nov 2002 - Books: Scripture Diary 2003