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1 - Feb 2016 - Books: THE SHADOW OF HIS WINGS by Fr Gereon Goldmann, Chris Rule
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He joined the Franciscan novitiate in 1936 and by the time he had finished his philosophy training in 1939 World War II had started.
2 - Feb 2016 - The roots of domestic violence, Anne Lastman
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The home the suburbs the streets and schools are now a war zone.
3 - Dec 2015 - Genocide: US religious leaders condemn ISIS genocide against Christians, Nahal Toosi
However past reports have indicated that the administration is leaning toward declaring that the Yazidis face genocide while reserving judgment on the status of Christians as well as other religious minorities targeted by the ISIL.
4 - Nov 2015 - Miracle: St Charbel cures Muslim toddler in Lebanon, From ASIANEWS
The family is a family of refugees from Damascus who arrived in Lebanon after the civil war which has been destroying the country for more than four years.
5 - Sep 2015 - Preview: Mercy and compassion: focus of Synod of Bishops, Peter Westmore
The document recognises that the family continues to be seen as a safe haven for the most intimate and rewarding of loving relationships but it is undermined by the tensions resulting from an extreme individualistic culture.
6 - Sep 2015 - The Americas: Pope Francis’ challenge to American Catholics, AD2000 Report
Interestingly he even raised a collection for the Americans in their War of Independence with Britain.
7 - Sep 2015 - Refugees: Give priority to Syria’s persecuted Christians: Archbishop Fisher
Christians must remember our persecuted brethren and all those of any faith fleeing persecution war and danger in their prayers.
8 - Jul 2015 - Books: THE MYTH OF HITLER’S POPE, by Rabbi David G. Dalin, Paul Simmons
) The murder of some six million Jews during the dark days of World War II stands as one of the most wicked events of the 20th century: a century which saw the genocide of Armenians in Ottoman Turkey the Ukrainian peasantry in the 1930s the Chinese during Maos Great Leap Forward of the 1950s and Cambodians during the murderous reign of the Khmer Rouge in the 1970s.
9 - Jul 2015 - Culture: Magna Carta and Christianity: the inseparable links, Dr Augusto Zimmermann
When Langton arrived in England in July 1213 and met King John on 20 July at Winchester he immediately absolved the king from excommunication on the condition that the laws of his ancestors were fully restored particularly the laws of Edward the Confessor (c.
10 - Jun 2015 - Reflection: Faith: dialogue of mind and heart, Audrey English
Saying yes with mind and heart implies that we actively direct our lives towards the One we know to be not only the Highest Truth but also the greatest Good the good which excludes every evil and fulfills every desire God who is our ultimate end.
11 - Jun 2015 - Jesus: the extra-Biblical evidence, Andrew Sholl
Josephus claimed the Jewish Messianic prophecies that initiated the Roman-Jewish War made reference to Vespasian becoming Emperor of Rome.
12 - May 2015 - Today’s invisible Holocaust, Anne Lastman
September the 11th Bali bombings London bombings Indonesia bombings Tsunami hurricane Beslan Iraqi war the Middle East war ISIS the new form of terrorism and barbarism of new terror campaigns by extremists.
13 - May 2015 - Centenary: Armenian genocide must not be forgotten, Pope Francis
Coinciding with the popes homily the European Parliament also urged Turkey to recognise the genocide as a first step towards reconciliation of the Turkish and Armenian peoples.
14 - May 2015 - Exhibition: Exposition of the Holy Shroud of Turin, AD2000 Report
In exchange for gold and 200 prisoners of war the cloth was delivered to the army without a fight.
15 - Apr 2015 - Letters: The Holy See's relations with China, Francis Vrijmoed
For example during World War II it continued diplomatic relations (i.
16 - Apr 2015 - Today's prophets: where are they?, Anne Lastman
Looking back into our recent history we can see that there were voices of warning but we did not listen and hence we are where we are.
17 - Apr 2015 - Contemporary challenges facing Catholicism: Interview with Cardinal Robert Sarah, Élisabeth de Baudoüin
Q: Your Eminence in your book God or Nothing you mention several times the liturgical war that has been dividing Catholics for decades.
18 - Apr 2015 - Tu es Petrus: From John XXIII to Pope Francis: Four recent stages of Catholicism, Patrick Morgan
Catholics brought up in Victoria after the Second World War had for decades the unchanging leadership of Archbishop Mannix Sir Robert Menzies and Pope Pius XII whose reigns went on so long that by 1960 many people could remember no others.
19 - Apr 2015 - Vocations: Australia's seminaries flourishing in 2015, Br Barry Coldrey
With the robust interventions of Archbishop Barry Hickey in Perth and of George Pell (when Archbishop of Melbourne) and later as Cardinal Archbishop of Sydney - gradually all the Australian seminaries were reformed broadly on the lines put forward by Pope St John Paul II.
20 - Mar 2015 - Books: MODERN MORAL PROBLEMS: Trustworthy Answers to Tough Questions, William B Smith, Michael E. Daniel
However other issues such as theft and fraud and the just war are also dealt with.
21 - Mar 2015 - Seventh iWitness Retreat: another youth ministry success, Br Barry Coldrey
This community was founded in France after World War II.
22 - Mar 2015 - Challenging radical Islam, John A. Azumah
In other words for most Evangelicals Islam is the problem because it warrants the violence of jihadi groups.
23 - Mar 2015 - News: The Church Around the World
Paul VI was courageous a good pastor and he warned his sheep about the wolves that were approaching.
24 - Feb 2015 - Books: MY BATTLE AGAINST HITLER, by Dietrich von Hildebrand, Kate Veik
(Dietrich) saw the danger and he warned people.
25 - Feb 2015 - Books: AUSTRALIANS AND THE CHRISTIAN GOD: An historical study, by Hugh Jackson, Michael E. Daniel
Hugh Jackson a retired university lecturer and author of Churches and People in Australia and New Zealand 1860-1930 explores the history of religious belief in Australia with a particular focus on attitudes towards God and what could be described as orthodox Christianity which believes that God has revealed certain religious truths.
26 - Feb 2015 - The Pope and the Holocaust: why did Pius XII not speak out?, Robert A. Graham SJ
We all had the impression that our warders made us atone heavily for the fury these protests evoked .
27 - Dec 2014 - The Long View: Catholicism today and the lessons of history, John Young
They dont know there is a war on.
28 - Nov 2014 - Family: The global attack on religious belief and moral values, Alejandra Fabris
On the spiritual level it is an attack on the soul of Christianity by encouraging people to focus on outward appearances while all the while regarding the moral teachings of the Church as bigoted or insincere.
29 - Oct 2014 - Books: A POSTCARD FROM THE VOLCANO: A novel of pre-war Germany, by Lucy Beckett, Michael Daniel
A POSTCARD FROM THE VOLCANO A novel of pre-war Germany by Lucy Beckett (Ignatius 2009 520pp$39.
30 - Oct 2014 - News: The Church Around the World
She applauded lay members of the Catholic Church for being self-reliant as evidenced by the selfless contributions they make towards the various development projects of the Church.
31 - Oct 2014 - Editorial: Let's help desperate Middle East Christians, Peter Westmore
In close proximity to the war zone there are Muslim countries and communities which can offer safe haven to those fleeing the war and persecution.
32 - Sep 2014 - Letters: Fifth Commandment!, Richard Congram
Rebel Ukrainian cubs of the Russian Bear wantonly kill 298 airline passengers who had no involvement whatsoever in their wretched civil war.
33 - Aug 2014 - Books: NEW OUTPOURINGS OF THE SPIRIT, by Joseph Ratzinger, Pope Benedict XVI, Br Barry Coldrey
These new movements developed across the Church after World War II and especially following the Second Vatican Council.
34 - Aug 2014 - Books: IN SEARCH OF CARDINAL STEPINAC: A Complete Biography, by Fr Zvonimir Gavranovic, Fr Steven Ledinich
He fought with distinction in the Austro-Hungarian army during World War I.
35 - Aug 2014 - War of words: changing society through language, Audrey English
When communism was at its peak Cardinal Minszenty warned us: If you speak their language you will think their thoughts.
36 - Aug 2014 - Eyewitness to history: the canonisation of St John Paul II, Wanda Skowronska
They knew that out of the ashes of the Second World War and its continuation under Stalinist rule had arisen Karol who courageously insisted that in the midst of oppression the spirit of a person lives on and cannot be destroyed.
37 - Aug 2014 - Fatherhood: mirror of God's relationship with the Son, Anne Lastman
Abortion frees and/or denies the man the gift and responsibility of fatherhood and dishonours the very essence of maleness whose design is to be attracted to and receptive towards the one whom he has engendered and who is an extension of himself.
38 - Jul 2014 - Egpyt: Bishop sees hope for Egypt's Christians
He demonstrated this when he saved Egypt from an impending civil war last year.
39 - Jun 2014 - Books: THE CAMPION SOCIETY: Lay Catholic Action in Australia, by Colin H. Jory, Br Barry Coldrey
With a large number of others he was involved in efforts to build a vibrant intellectual and spiritual life among the generation of young people who had seen the catastrophic effects of World War I the triumph of the Bolsheviks in Russia and their anti-religious persecution the class war during the 1920s and the rise of fascism in Europe.
40 - May 2014 - Poetry: KOKODA a poem, John O'Neill
The 303 the trusty Bren the Aussie Owen Gun No troops in wars long history would ever dare to shun.
41 - May 2014 - News: The Church Around the World
Italian schools he warned would become indoctrination camps.
42 - May 2014 - Editorial: April 27: Canonisation of two great popes, Peter Westmore
During World War II when he was papal nuncio in Bulgaria he saved the lives of thousands of Jewish refugees fleeing the Nazi Holocaust.
43 - Apr 2014 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
95 ISBN 978-1-59417-196-3 Culture and Abortion Edward Short Examining the scourge of abortion from a cultural perspective Edward Short draws on history literature and papal encyclicals to show how defending the right to life can help us reaffirm an understanding of culture based not on human pride or power but on a civilization of life and love.
44 - Apr 2014 - Books: WHEN HITLER TOOK AUSTRIA: Memoir by the Chancellor's Son, Kurt von Schuschnigg, Br Barry Coldrey
The second and longer story within the book is Kurtis own exciting memoir of his extraordinary wartime experiences as a secondary school student in Munich followed by service in the German Navys Baltic Fleet and his going AWOL as Nazi Germany collapsed before the Russian invasion to its east and the Allied invasion from the West.
45 - Apr 2014 - Radicalism in Islam: the Christian response, Father Samir Khalil Samir SJ
Father Samir: The radicalisation started with the Muslim Brotherhood at the end of the 1920s specifically with the end of the First World War and the fall of the Caliphate in 1923-1924 in which the Ottoman Empire the last Muslim empire ended after 1300 years.
46 - Apr 2014 - Ukraine: Bishop Peter Stasiuk: Ukrainian people want peace and justice, Bishop Peter Stasiuk
Many nations might have sent in the army or started a civil war to resolve their political problems.
47 - Apr 2014 - Russia: the rebirth of religious belief, Peter Westmore
However attempts to erect the new building repeatedly failed due to water in the foundations and after World War II a later Soviet leader erected the Moscow swimming pool on the site.
48 - Mar 2014 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
They provided courageous witness during the Second World War sheltering Jews from Nazi persecution in wartime Italy.
49 - Mar 2014 - Books: TEN AFRICAN CARDINALS, by Sally Ninham, Michael Gilchrist
Certainly as far as this writer is aware relatively little has been written on the subject at least until now.
50 - Feb 2014 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
They provided courageous witness during the Second World War sheltering Jews from Nazi persecution in wartime Italy.
51 - Feb 2014 - Books: TO BONEGILLA FROM SOMEWHERE, by Wanda Skowronska, Michael Gilchrist
And most significantly the book sheds light on this countrys recent history involving the mass migrations of the post-World War II period.
52 - Feb 2014 - Art: Interview with Tommy Canning: art in the service of truth
As a young boy I grew up with cartoons Star Wars science fiction and fantasy.
53 - Feb 2014 - Pope Francis repeats world peace plea
In his Christmas message shortly after being declared Time magazines Person of the Year Pope Francis appealed for an end to the civil war in Syria repeating comments he had made last September calling for reconciliation in the deeply divided country.
54 - Dec 2013 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
They provided courageous witness during the Second World War sheltering Jews from Nazi persecution in wartime Italy.
55 - Dec 2013 - Catechesis and liturgy: an unbreakable bond, Bishop Arthur Serratelli
The answer could determine what side a person took when a war broke out between Protestants and Catholics.
56 - Dec 2013 - News: The Church Around the World
Zenit News Agency US bishops review liturgical reform The US Bishops Committee on Divine Worship is marking the 50th anniversary of Sacrosanctum Concilium (This Sacred Council) Vatican IIs Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy with a reflection on the liturgical reform of the last half century titled Stewards of the Tradition - Fifty Years After Sacrosanctum Concilium.
57 - Dec 2013 - Pope Francis to canonise John Paul II and John XXIII next April, Michael Gilchrist
In recent months the final steps paving the way towards Blessed John Paul IIs canonisation including the approval of a second miracle have been completed.
58 - Nov 2013 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
They provided courageous witness during the Second World War sheltering Jews from Nazi persecution in wartime Italy.
59 - Nov 2013 - Books: WHO NEEDS GOD?, by Barbara Stockl with Christoph Cardinal Schönborn, Br Barry Coldrey
The nub of the matter is that throughout Western Europe once the epicentre of Christian faith and Catholic practice most Catholics have abandoned their Catholicism since World War II.
60 - Nov 2013 - Books: Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood, Prayer and Sex changed a Nation at War, Gabrielle Walsh
Liberia: How Christian and Muslim women prayed the devil back to hell MIGHTY BE OUR POWERS: How Sisterhood Prayer and Sex changed a Nation at War by Leymah Gbowee with Carol Withers (Beast Books 2011 260pp $35.
61 - Oct 2013 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
They provided courageous witness during the Second World War sheltering Jews from Nazi persecution in wartime Italy.
62 - Oct 2013 - Books: COURAGE AND CONVICTION, by Joanna Bogle, Peter Westmore
Within ten years the Second World War had begun and the convent became a place of support for people suffering the privations of war.
63 - Oct 2013 - Blessed Jacinta Marto: heroine of Fatima, Cedric Wright
At the time of the apparitions Portugal had a secular government which was antagonistic towards the Church but the Rosary the special devotion to Mary had been an important feature of each day for the people of the district for many generations.
64 - Oct 2013 - News: The Church Around the World
The groups goal is to enact a ban on the funding of embryo-destroying research and abortions as well as achieve a greater cultural awareness of the importance of respecting human life from conception.
65 - Oct 2013 - Pope Francis to consecrate world to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Peter Westmore
Jesus next told the servants to fill several large water jars to the brim to draw out some and take it to the chief steward who tasted not water but the finest wine.
66 - Sep 2013 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
They provided courageous witness during the Second World War sheltering Jews from Nazi persecution in wartime Italy.
67 - Sep 2013 - Frassati: The Holy Terror: a model for young Catholic men, Br Barry Coldrey
He joined the St Vincent de Paul Society and some of his spare time was spent nursing the sick and wounded from World War I and the victims of the 1919 influenza epidemic.
68 - Sep 2013 - News: The Church Around the World
The British Home Office has banned it from operating in the UK and the US State Department has offered a $US7 million reward for the capture of Boko Harams leader Abubakar Shekau.
69 - Aug 2013 - Understanding Syria's religious war, Fr Paul Stenhouse
Most of these reveal more about bias and unchallenged assumptions on the part of their authors and their networks than about the unpalatable truth behind the bloody and internecine war that has systematically been devastating Syria for almost two-and-a-half years.
70 - Aug 2013 - Holy See announces canonisation of Blessed John Paul II, Peter Westmore
During the period of Soviet occupation after the war he illegally established a youth group which grew to 200 people as well as writing plays and contributing articles to a Catholic newspaper.
71 - Jul 2013 - Books: ST JOSEMARIA ESCRIVA AND THE ORIGINS OF OPUS DEI, Br Barry Coldrey
The first volume tells the life of St Josemara from his birth (1902) through his childhood in the foothills of the Pyrenees and up to November 1937 the time of the Spanish Civil War.
72 - Jun 2013 - Books: AGE OF MARTYRS: from Diocletian to Constantine, Abbot Joseph Ricciotti, Br Barry Coldrey
Many wars revolts ensued but in the end the Romans allowed the Jews the right to avoid worshipping Rome the Emperor or any other god so long as they paid their taxes and did not otherwise trouble the peace of the Empire.
73 - Jun 2013 - Why we need the Rosary, Cedric Wright
The custom of meditating on major events in the Gospels (the Mysteries) developed from this time onwards.
74 - Jun 2013 - The strange story of Mr Douglas Hyde, Damian Wyld
It was the almost fantastic tale of a hardcore Marxist couple who having put their children to bed in post-war London one evening were having a chat about Christmas what their children should be raised to believe and what sort of life they should live.
75 - May 2013 - Books: SIXTUS V: the Hermit of Villa Montalto, by W.T. Selley, Michael Daniel
Selley served in the RAF during World War II and was a teacher and educational administrator.
76 - May 2013 - Order of Malta: 900 years young (Tuitio Fidei et Obsequium) Pauperum., Damian Wyld
After the last Christian stronghold of Acre fell in 1291 the Order moved gradually westward first to Rhodes (1310-1523) and then following a fierce six-month siege to Malta which it ruled from 1530 to 1798.
77 - Mar 2013 - Women priests and bishops: Anglicanism's crisis of identity, David Wetherell
In disagreement with Clark the Anglican Benedictine monk Dom Gregory Dix whose book The Question of Anglican Orders (1944) was standard reading for Anglican theological students from World War II insisted that in the form of its service of ordination the parent Church of England continuously claimed from the Reformation that by its rites it intends to do and does essentially what the Catholic Church has meant from the Apostles time; that the word priest is stated six times during the 1550 service of Ordination; and that the intention of the rite of priestly ordination is stated with the most unambiguous clarity.
78 - Mar 2013 - Religious persecution occurs in democracies, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò
While they may not have been aware of it their sensible plan reflected sound and reasonable rights that are addressed and protected by international human rights standards which are echoed in the Declaration on Religious Liberty Dignitatis Humanae of the Second Vatican Council.
79 - Dec 2012 - Books: ADAM AND EVE AFTER THE PILL, by Mary Eberstadt, Brian Peachey
This essay makes a comparison between what she calls the inexplicable act of intellectual abdication by otherwise reasonable educated people in possession of damning empirical evidence of the brutality of communism during the Cold War and the powerful will to disbelieve in the harmful effects of the world-changing social and moral force of the sexual revolution that we see today.
80 - Nov 2012 - Hong Kong's Catholic Bishop interviewed
Bishop John Tong is also a member of the Vatican Commission on China and as he says the relations with the government in China are warm and open but he will not sacrifice what he calls the bottom line.
81 - 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!
82 - Oct 2012 - History: Melbourne Catholics: Dr Mannix's impact, Patrick Morgan
He came to the Australian city best prepared when Irish events began from 1916 onwards to play a role in Australian affairs.
83 - Oct 2012 - News: The Church Around the World
Survey: hostility towards religion increases in US A report examining court cases from recent years has found that hostility towards religion has grown to unprecedented levels in the United States.
84 - Sep 2012 - Reflection: Fatima: Mary's appeal for penance and conversion, Bishop Arthur Serratelli
It began to descend towards the crowd.
85 - Sep 2012 - The Church's mission priority: to search for its 'lost sheep', Andrew Kania
If the limit of our plan of evangelisation is confined to the walls of our church and those saved who fill the pews on the Sabbath then we indeed have a crisis of identity a crisis that Congar so vividly and perceptively pointed towards over half a century ago.
86 - Sep 2012 - Film: 'For Greater Glory': an inspiring message for today's Christians, Babette Francis
These thoughts have been prompted by my nostalgic remembrance of a preview screening at the World Congress of Families VI in Madrid in May this year of For Greater Glory a film about the Cristero War in Mexico in the 1920s.
87 - Jul 2012 - Austrian Chancellor's son: How faith helped to survive the Nazis, Michelle Baumann
Kurt von Schuschnigg Jr son of the former Chancellor of Austria says that his Catholic faith helped him get through difficult times during World War II and now guides the way that he looks back at past events.
88 - Jul 2012 - News: The Church Around the World
He believes education especially for women is a key factor in achieving a stable democratic society since it is Arab women who build the family not the fathers and that females are also those who are more for peace and not for war.
89 - Jun 2012 - Books: YOU CAN UNDERSTAND THE BIBLE, by Peter Kreeft, Arthur Ballingall
Dr Kreeft is a Professor of Philosophy at Boston College a convert to Catholicism and the author of over 40 books including Prayer The Great Conversation Back to Virtue A Refutation of Moral Relativism Making Sense out of Suffering and How to win the Culture War.
90 - 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.
91 - Mar 2012 - Missions: Bringing hope to Nigeria's abandoned children, Madonna Brosnan
The compound consists of four distinct centres for lepers disabled war veterans blind deaf and dumb children and a prison.
92 - Mar 2012 - Extraordinary life of new Czech Cardinal, Dominik Duka, Peter Westmore
His father was a professional army officer who during the war fled his homeland and found his way to Britain where he fought in the Free Czech Army against the Nazis.
93 - Mar 2012 - The global financial crisis and the West's fertility decline, Babette Francis
We probably need to go back to times of significant wars (and plagues) to see this sort of environment where leverage rose and working age populations declined .
94 - Mar 2012 - News: The Church Around the World
The push to alter the definition of marriage warrants special attention within our faith communities and throughout society as a whole the letter said because such an action would have grave consequences including interfering with the religious freedom of those who continue to affirm traditional marriage.
95 - Feb 2012 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
The author in this prophetic book understood the war on womanhood and motherhood which accompanied attacks on the Catholic Church.
96 - Dec 2011 - Books: RONALD KNOX AND ENGLISH CATHOLICISM, by Terry Tastard, Michael Daniel
Available from Freedom Publishing) One of the most famous English Catholic priests from the interwar period until the 1950s was Monsignor Ronald Knox.
97 - Dec 2011 - Religious freedom: The plight of Christians in Islamic countries, Babette Francis
The free world is not only involved in a war against terrorism it is involved in a civil war which is internal to Islam and we are also involved in dealing with that dimension of Islam which is not just a religion but also a political ideology.
98 - Nov 2011 - The Lion of Munster: Blessed Cardinal von Galen: a voice against tyranny, Babette Francis
The other Nazi leaders however feared the population of Mnster would be alienated for the duration of the war.
99 - Oct 2011 - Angelus Message: Our Lady of the Rosary (October 7), Pope Benedict XVI
Presenting herself as Our Lady of the Rosary she insistently recommended the daily recitation of the Rosary to the three little shepherd children Lucia Jacinta and Francisco in order to obtain the end of the war.
100 - Sep 2011 - Books: SNOW ON THE HEDGES: The Life of St Cuthbert Mayne, by Helen Whelan, Br Barry Coldrey
After World War II she moved to Yeovil and became as an Inspector of Schools for the subject of Music.
101 - Sep 2011 - Interview: Pope's brother sheds more light on Benedict's early years, Zenit News Agency
The Ratzinger family became a kind of stronghold against all the tides of those stormy times including the brutality of the Nazi regime and the horrors of the war and it became strong because of its strong piety and intense religious life.
102 - Aug 2011 - Obituary: John Wright (1923-2011): pillar of the Catholic faith, Michael Gilchrist
During World War II John Wright learned Japanese and was involved in interrogating Japanese prisoners of war while after the war he travelled to Japan as part of the British Occupational Forces and lived there for two years making lifelong Japanese friends.
103 - Aug 2011 - News: The Church Around the World
Chaput of Denver Colorado warned Catholic social workers against the danger of Church institutions losing their religious identity amidst increasing hostility from the government and society.
104 - Jul 2011 - Books: A MEMORY FOR WONDERS: a true story, by Mother Veronica Namoyo Le Goulard PCC, Michael Daniel
The climax of the autobiography was her decision to enter the Poor Clare monastery in Algeria towards the end of World War II a decision which caused her parents to disown her.
105 - Jul 2011 - Books: STORIES OF KAROL: the Unknown Life of John Paul II, by G.F. Svidercoschi, Br Barry Coldrey
In fact the biography is at its strongest in portrayals of the inhumanity of the Nazi era and displays a familiarity with the realities of war-time (and Cold War Poland) and how they shaped the young Wojtylas life and thought.
106 - Jul 2011 - What attracts converts to the Catholic Church?, Fr F.E. Burns
Coopers daughter Maria tells how her father and Hemingway frequently discussed the Catholic thing and although he had always been well disposed towards the Church and frequently attended Mass with the family he never discussed it with them.
107 - Jul 2011 - Lübeck martyrs of the Nazis beatified on 25 June, Frank Mobbs
Today we have difficulty in believing that men could be put to death for circulating copies of the sermons of the Bishop of Mnster Clemens August Graf von Galen who was protesting against the systematic killing of mentally and physically handicapped people and who queried the justification for Germanys engaging in war.
108 - Jul 2011 - Hugh O'Flaherty: The priest who converted his former Nazi enemy, Stephen Walker
In Rome during World War II a plain white line was painted along the streets that ran by the Vatican.
109 - Jun 2011 - Letters: Climate change, R. Blackstock
During World War II while serving with the RAAF I was stationed at Coningsby Airfield close to the City of Lincoln UK from December 1944 to February 1945.
110 - Jun 2011 - Redefining gender: an assault on human dignity, Babette Francis
This year was no exception: at one morning session the delegate from Greece paid a warm tribute to (Blessed) Mother Teresa of Kolkatta.
111 - May 2011 - Books: ELIZABETH HAYES: Pioneer Franciscan Journalist, by Pauline J. Shaw, Br Barry Coldrey
Mother Mary Ignatius was involved with the turbulent times in which she lived being active in the Oxford Movement the romantic religious revival of the 19th century missionary life in the West Indies the Franco-Prussian War the American westward expansion and the turbulent Rome of Pius IX.
112 - May 2011 - Letters: Simon of Cyrene, Andrew Sholl
The current civil war in Libya brings to mind an important indeed vital fact of our Faith especially during the Easter season.
113 - May 2011 - Literature: The 'impossible dream' of Don Quixote - Part 2 (Matthew 6:19), Andrew Kania
How often do we aspire only to see our aspirations thwarted?
114 - May 2011 - Oppression: Christians under fire worldwide, Cardinal Sean Brady
After an address from Archbishop Bashar Warda of Erbil Iraq Cardinal Brady compared the situations for the faith in Ireland and Iraq.
115 - Apr 2011 - Books: EUROPE AND THE FAITH, by Hilaire Belloc, Michael Daniel
And the Middle Ages were a backward period which ended with the Renaissance and the Reformation.
116 - Apr 2011 - Books: THE RIDDLE OF FATHER HACKETT: A Life in Ireland and Australia, by Brenda Niall, Colin Jory
When the British gave Ireland dominion-style independence in December 1921 and the Irish Civil War broke out Father Hackett sought to be a peacemaker.
117 - Apr 2011 - Events: Holy Week 2011 - St Aloysius, Caulfield North
30am: Solemn Pontifical Mass with blessing of Palms and Procession (meet at War Memorial Caulfield Park) Spy Wednesday (20 April) 8.
118 - Mar 2011 - Letters: Understanding Islam, John Frey
The Koranic equivalent of the above is given in Sura 2:193: Fight against them until Idolatry is no more and Gods religion reigns supreme and Sura 8:39: Make war on them until Gods religion shall reign supreme.
119 - Mar 2011 - Islam divided over Pope's call to respect religious freedom, Babette Francis
An intermittent civil war has raged since the death of Mohammed between the Sunni and Shia branches of Islam because of disputes about who was his legitimate successor.
120 - Feb 2011 - Books: MOTHER BENEDICT: Foundress of the Abbey of Regina Laudis, by Antoinette Bosco, Br Barry Coldrey
Mother Benedict lived through the French collapse in World War II and the resulting horrors of the Nazi occupation.
121 - Feb 2011 - Books: Isabel of Spain: The Catholic Queen, by Warren Carroll, Terri M. Kelleher
Isabel of Spain: The greatest woman ruler in all history ISABEL OF SPAIN: The Catholic Queen by Warren Carroll (Christendom Press 385 pp $29.
122 - Feb 2011 - That ubiquitous F word: don't demean the sacred, Fr Max Barrett CSsR
Not heroes in the category of those who have been under enemy fire in war.
123 - Feb 2011 - Key issues of ecumenism: new Vatican president's assessment, AD2000 Report
Orthodox churches In regard to the Orthodox Cardinal Koch explained The definition that is most adapted to Orthodox ecclesiology is Eucharistic ecclesiology a concept developed above all by exiled Russian theologians in Paris after World War I in clear opposition to the centralism of the papacy of the Roman Catholic Church.
124 - Dec 2010 - News: The Church Around the World
Already the Anglican parish of St Peter in Folkestone has declared its intention to become Catholic as has the Anglican Bishop of Fulham John Broadhurst chairman of the Anglican group Forward in Faith.
125 - Dec 2010 - Euthanasia: Australia's Christian churches unite in opposition, MIchael Gilchrist
Catholic Health Australia (CHA) has been co-ordinating a national approach to counteract any legalisation of euthanasia with its chief executive officer Martin Laverty warning that Catholic Health Australia would fiercely oppose any attempts to legalise euthanasia.
126 - Nov 2010 - Books: HIS NAME IS MERCY, by Fr Ken Barker MGL, Archbishop Denis Hart
I will be a little bit cryptic to make sure that you read the book for yourself: Jesus call to forgive seventy-seven times; war stories from Belgium and Bosnia Herzegovina; deathbed conversions conversions of young people; of murderers; of suffering under the Japanese.
127 - Nov 2010 - Ukrainian Catholics: Ukraine's University of the Catacombs, Andrew Kania
Despite the fact that the Polish government forbade any awarding of degrees from the Academy Sheptytskyi continued to plan for the time when this Academy which by World War II had 300 students enrolled could begin life as a recognised university.
128 - Oct 2010 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
90 ISBN 978-0-89870-865-3 A Postcard from the Volcano Lucy Beckett English author Lucy Beckett gives us an epic story of a Prussian aristocrat tracing his life from his early manhood at the outbreak of World War I through to the eve of World War II.
129 - Sep 2010 - Vocations: The story of a grandmother and her love of the priesthood, Andrew Kania
My grandmother (known as Babia) could not speak English and had suffered immensely in the war - but she had faith.
130 - Sep 2010 - News: The Church Around the World
World War II research vindicates Pius XII Claims of papal inaction in the face of Jewish persecution during World War II have been further challenged by a German historian conducting research in the Vatican archives who says that Pope Pius XII may have arranged for the escape of 200000 Jews from Germany in the weeks after the Kristallnacht Nazi attacks.
131 - Aug 2010 - Books: THE GUILLOTINE AND THE CROSS, by Warren H. Carroll, Michael Daniel
THE GUILLOTINE AND THE CROSS by Warren H.
132 - Aug 2010 - The Mass: why we should focus on its essence, Fr John O'Neill PP
For example some Latin Mass Catholics look askance at the attendees of the Ordinary Rite Mass and in extreme cases declare the Ordinary Rite invalid if not heretical because of the words for all instead of for many: the famous pro multis war.
133 - Jul 2010 - Reflection: The challenge: how to spread God's word in a secular culture, Bishop Arthur Serratelli
Already in 1971 in the pastoral message To Teach As Jesus Did the American bishops expressed serious concern about the pressures on families the loss of neighbourhoods the widening gulf between rich and poor and the break-up of the international community by war.
134 - Jul 2010 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
90 ISBN 978-0-89870-933-9 A Postcard from the Volcano Lucy Becket English author Lucy Beckett gives us an epic story of a Prussian aristocrat tracing his life from his early manhood at the outbreak of World War I through to the eve of World War II.
135 - Jul 2010 - Books: THE ABBESS OF ANDALUSIA: Flannery O'Connor's Spiritual Journey, Lorraine Murray, Terri Kelleher
(Catholics were not even allowed to settle in Georgia before the American War of Independence).
136 - Jul 2010 - Newly discovered World War II documents further vindicate Pius XII
General Wolff knew that if this invasion were executed massive riots throughout Europe would ensue seriously hindering the German war effort.
137 - Jun 2010 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
90 ISBN 978-0-89870-933-9 A Postcard from the Volcano Lucy Beckett English author Lucy Beckett gives us an epic story of a Prussian aristocrat tracing his life from his early manhood at the outbreak of World War I through to the eve of World War II.
138 - Jun 2010 - Letters: Climate alarmists, P.C. Wilson
And one gentleman in Britain has even suggested a war crimes tribunal be set up for those daring to disagree.
139 - Jun 2010 - FOUNDATIONS OF FAITH: The Eucharist: the background to Vatican II's liturgical reforms, Br Barry Coldrey
Catastrophic international events notably World War I the Great Depression and World War II slowed liturgical developments and concentrated minds elsewhere.
140 - Jun 2010 - News: The Church Around the World
Their worldwide generosity has all too frequently been the difference between a significant number of the worlds poor going hungry and homeless and having a warm meal and secure shelter.
141 - May 2010 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
90 ISBN 978-0-89870-933-9 A Postcard from the Volcano Lucy Beckett English author Lucy Beckett gives us an epic story of a Prussian aristocrat tracing his life from his early manhood at the outbreak of World War I through to the eve of World War II.
142 - May 2010 - Books: NINETEEN EIGHTY FOUR, by George Orwell, Michael Daniel
Fewer people will be aware of the genesis of the term Big Brother namely George Orwells famous novel Nineteen Eighty Four which paints a nightmarish futuristic world ruled by three totalitarian states one of which Oceania is ruled by the mysterious dictator called Big Brother.
143 - May 2010 - Foundations of Faith: The Mass: early centuries to Vatican II, Br Barry Coldrey
The early Church had a different view especially towards its martyrs.
144 - May 2010 - Culture: The vocation of Christians in public life, Archbishop Charles J. Chaput
In effect the raising of the Catholic issue itself went a considerable way toward secularising the American public square by privatising personal belief.
145 - Apr 2010 - Real Presence: Eucharistic Adoration: ultimate weapon of spiritual warfare, Fr Martin Durham
As the powerful preacher on EWTN (Eternal Word Television Network) Fr John Corapi SOLT often reminds his listeners We are at war: a spiritual warfare against principalities and powers (Eph 6:12) a warfare that began at the origin of the human race - I will put enmity between you and the woman between your seed and her seed (Gen 3:15).
146 - Apr 2010 - Jerusalem: Catholic soldiers' World War I military pilgrimage in the Holy Land, Tom Johnstone
Although it was not known at the time that was almost the eve of the last offensive of the war in the Middle East.
147 - Apr 2010 - Foundations of Faith: How do Catholics relate to non-Christians?, Fr Dudley Perera OMI
In the decades since Vatican II many people of diverse faiths have come together in order to address common problems confronting humanity at large: war human trafficking unjust detention paedophilia abortion the natural environment poverty etc.
148 - Apr 2010 - Formation: Young Australian Catholics commit to promoting Judeo-Christian values, Richard Lyons
Bill Muehlenburg detailed the culture war raging between those that would break down Christian culture and values and those that would uphold it while Tim Cannon Patrick Byrne and Damian Wyld gave essential practical advice on how to act in the modern political landscape.
149 - Apr 2010 - News: The Church Around the World
Feeling filial mercy towards their ancestors in the faith African bishops believe they must support the Church in the lands of origin of the missionaries and send priests to prevent parish closings in the West.
150 - Mar 2010 - Netherlands: Remnants of faith in Europe's most secularised nation, Marina Corradi
In reality the fear of Eurabia seems to be simply a consequence of an even more radical phenomenon: the almost complete secularisation of a country that until the last war was Catholic or Protestant but in any case Christian.
151 - Mar 2010 - News: The Church Around the World
The press release noted that these surveys also held in October 2008 and July 2009 have been tracking an increasing trend toward the pro-life position - a trend confirmed by Gallup and Pew surveys.
152 - Feb 2010 - Books: SECULAR SABOTAGE, by Bill Donahue, Fr Martin Durham
The well-known and powerful preacher on EWTN (Eternal Word Television Network) Fr John Corapi often stresses a point that many it would seem are completely unaware of namely that we as followers of Jesus Christ are constantly engaged in a war.
153 - Dec 2009 - Books: IMAGES OF HOPE, EUROPE TODAY AND TOMORROW, by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Br Barry Coldrey
In 1939 Joseph entered the minor seminary in Traunstein in the months prior to the outbreak of World War II.
154 - Dec 2009 - Books: 111 QUESTIONS ON ISLAM: Samir Khalil Samir SJ on Islam and the West, Michael E Daniel
For example some Muslims argue they must conduct a Jihad - that is a violent war against unbelievers - in the name of Islam whereas others assert that they must practise peace.
155 - Dec 2009 - Vatican II: Yves Congar, Vatican II, ecumenism: finding the right balance, Andrew Kania
In his youth he attended a local church shared between Catholics and Protestants on alternate weeks; and during World War II while a prisoner of war he rubbed shoulders with believers and non-believers alike.
156 - Dec 2009 - Marriage: A Biblical defence of marriage: Africans take the lead, Babette Francis
Even a Cross in a park commemorating World War I veterans is being challenged by the American Civil Liberties Union.
157 - Nov 2009 - Holocaust: English nun who saved Jews from the Nazis put forward as saint, AD2000 Report
A Holocaust survivor has given evidence to support the canonisation of an English nun who hid Jews from the Nazis in wartime Rome.
158 - Sep 2009 - Books: DOVE DESCENDING: A Journey into T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets, by Thomas Howard, Br Barry Coldrey
Eliots Four Quartets by Thomas Howard (Ignatius Press 2006 148pp $29.
159 - Sep 2009 - Letters: Abortion evil, Diana E. Fox
Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta was once quoted as declaring the fruit of abortion will be nuclear war.
160 - Sep 2009 - The Reformation and England's changing Coronation Oath, Tom Johnstone
However at the enthronement of the third Tudor monarch Edward VI after the king had become head of the Church of England this changed.
161 - Aug 2009 - Books: THE WINE OF CERTITUDE: a Literary Biography of Ronald Knox, by David Rooney, Michael Daniel
Easy to digest they were originally composed for a girls school to which Knox became the chaplain when it was evacuated to the Acton family home during World War Two.
162 - Aug 2009 - Letters: Pope Pius XII vindicated, Tony Evans
The Myth of Hitlers Pope is surely the definitive account of the Popes role during the war.
163 - Aug 2009 - God's Messengers: Angels: what Scripture and Tradition reveal, Susan McKinley
St Augustine teaches that angels are pure spirits who are messengers of God while the Catechism describes them as Gods obedient servants warriors and messengers quoting the psalmist: Bless Yahweh all his angels mighty warriors who fulfil his commands attentive to the sound of his words (Ps 103: 20).
164 - Aug 2009 - Is this where 'progressive' religious life is heading?, AD2000 REPORT
The crunch came immediately: the active gay and lesbian life styles were endorsed; the ordination of women to priestly ministry was supported; the obligation to preach the Gospel and to convert people to the Catholic faith was declared unnecessary a threat to ecumenism peace and harmony in a pluralistic world; the writer was also opposed to war: something at least we can agree on.
165 - Jul 2009 - Books: LIKE A SAMURAI: The Tony Glynn Story, by Fr Paul Glynn SM, Tim Cannon
In addition to his work in Japan Fr Tonys efforts would eventually lead to a pioneering mission of Christian reconciliation back in Australia as well as in New Zealand in the aftermath of a war which had yielded a bitter crop of resentment on all sides.
166 - Jul 2009 - History: Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust: revisiting Jewish sources, Fr Michael Butler
Vatican warning The first book Prima Del Aurora (Before the Dawn) by Rabbi Zolli Chief Rabbi of Rome describes his experiences in Rome during the German occupation.
167 - Jul 2009 - New Evangelisation: Catholics Come Home: a fresh approach to re-evangelising, Bob Denahy
Revealing the Catholic Churchs war on ideas.
168 - Jul 2009 - News: The Church Around the World
Catholic News Agency Catholic values and the US culture war In an interview for his diocesan newspaper on 18 May Bishop Robert Finn of Kansas City-St Joseph commented on the University of Notre Dames recent decision to honour President Obama.
169 - Jun 2009 - Books: ISLAND OF THE WORLD, by Michael O'Brien, Luke McCormack
True to history the home- grown communist resistance is engaged in a bloody overthrow with Allied backing and quickly becomes as trigger-happy as the World War II Axis occupation.
170 - Jun 2009 - Books: The Catholic Church and Conversion, by G.K. Chesterton, Michael Daniel
However Chesterton and his contemporaries had witnessed the horrors of war caused in part by excessive nationalism and Chesterton reminds his readers that while patriotism is honourable a Christians first loyalty is not to country but to faith.
171 - May 2009 - Books: Golden Years: Grounds for Hope: Fr Golden and the Newman Society 1950-1966, David Kehoe
A valuable insight into the beginnings of this mentality in the Melbourne Archdiocese and throughout Australia post-World War II can be found in a recent publication The Golden Years: Grounds for Hope: Father Golden and the Newman Society 1950- 1966.
172 - May 2009 - FOUNDATIONS OF FAITH: The Crusades: the truth behind the myths, Frank Mobbs
It causes divisions cruelty and wars.
173 - Apr 2009 - Letters: Capitalism, William Briggs
His philosophy of culture war to weaken the institutions of church family education and media so as to radically alter the status quo has been vigorously followed since he was rediscovered in the 1960s.
174 - Apr 2009 - Foundations of Faith: The Mass and private devotions in Catholic life, Br Barry Coldrey
There appeared to be nothing in the deceaseds quiet suburban family life which warranted desperate recourse to the patron saint of hopeless cases!
175 - Mar 2009 - Books: Labour and Justice, by Gavan Duffy, Peter Westmore
It was in its conception of a just society based on divine not human laws that Christianity put forward the moral principles which ultimately made possible the replacement of the pagan world of ancient Greece and Rome with the new law based on the teachings of Jesus Christ.
176 - Mar 2009 - Obituary: Fr Richard Neuhaus (1936-2009): bringing the Gospel to public life, Fr Raymond J. De Souza
He organised clergy against the Vietnam War and was a leading figure in the progressive movements then sweeping America.
177 - Mar 2009 - Did Antonio Gramsci have second thoughts?, Babette Francis
Although the nuclear threat from the former Soviet Union isnt the concern it once was the culture war being waged against the very foundations of Western democracies is becoming more obvious all the time.
178 - Feb 2009 - Foundations of Faith: Protestant Reformation: origins and beliefs, Frank Mobbs
Soon Protestantism broke into warring factions all appealing to Scripture.
179 - Feb 2009 - Vibrant retreat: Young adult ministry builds on WYD: iWitness Conference in Sydney, Br Barry Coldrey
WYD has passed and now we look forward to World Youth Day Madrid in three years time.
180 - Dec 2008 - Books: Books available now from AD2000 Books
95 The Last Crusade Warren Carroll One of the foremost Catholic historians in the US and founder of Christendom College Virginia Professor Warren Carroll provides a gripping account of how the Church and Faith in Spain were saved during the cruel 1930s Spanish Civil War.
181 - Dec 2008 - Letters: Pro-Life, Chris Hilder
gun control abolition of the death penalty and opposition to war).
182 - Nov 2008 - Letters: Tribute to Bob Ward, Br Con Moloney CFC
To me Bob Ward was no run-of-the-mill person.
183 - Oct 2008 - Eugenio Pacelli: The enduring legacy of Pope Pius XII: a 50th anniversary tribute, Fr John Walshe
The nineteen years of his papacy had seen the horrors of World War II and Europes rebuilding in the years following.
184 - Oct 2008 - Foundations of Faith: Recent Marian apparitions and the life of the Church, Br Barry Coldrey
In the Bible - both in the Old and New Testaments where angels sometimes appeared without warning.
185 - Sep 2008 - Books: THE WISDOM OF NAZARETH: Stories of Catholic Family Life, Siobhan Reeves
Yet this noble desire can be easily thwarted in the face of serious illness near-death accidents severe financial difficulties and the tendency to pride.
186 - Aug 2008 - Letters: Lebanon, Richard Stokes
Shortly after the Second World War the Soviets quietly left Austria.
187 - Aug 2008 - Foundations of Faith: How much history do the Scriptures contain?, Frank Mobbs
St Pauls earliest letter I Thessalonians was written about 20 years after Christ - about the same time gap as that between the First and Second World Wars.
188 - Jul 2008 - Religious faith and the power of music and song, Andrw Kania
In 1745 the Catholic armies were confidently massing behind Charles Edward Stuart (1720-1788) - Bonnie Prince Charlie.
189 - Jul 2008 - FOUNDATIONS OF FAITH: Jesus: how do we know he was God?, Br Barry Coldrey CFC
about the weather of sickness of happiness or signs of war.
190 - Jul 2008 - Abortion: A false concept of moral equivalence, Babette Francis
During the cold war era the intelligentsia of the Left regarded - and wrote - of the USA and the USSR as if these two countries were morally equivalent like two football teams and it didnt matter from a moral perspective which team won.
191 - Jul 2008 - News: The Church Around the World
They saw a spiritual leader who came off as warm humble and compassionate and who did not flinch from addressing the pain left behind by the sexual abuse crisis.
192 - Jun 2008 - Books: FR WERENFRIED: A Life, by Joanna Bogle, Michael E. Daniel
Soon after the end of the Second World War in the wake of the forced relocation to the West of 16 million Germans from former eastern German regions such as Pomerania and Silesia the Holy See asked the abbey of Tongerlo for assistance.
193 - Apr 2008 - Books: THE ENEMY WITHIN: Radical Feminism in the Christian Churches, Catherine Sheehan
She writes that feminism wages war on femininity and unwittingly labours toward a total victory of men over women.
194 - Apr 2008 - Books: REDEEMING GRIEF: Abortion and Its Pain, by Anne Lastman, Charles Francis
Anne points out that today nations do not fight one another often in a visible war.
195 - Apr 2008 - Legal Year homily: Truth and the law: legal should also mean moral, Bishop Peter Elliott
Those tempted in this way should beware.
196 - Apr 2008 - News: The Church Around the World
I would like to warn you about the perils of liberal Christianity a trend he said that has sharply divided the Christian community in the last decades.
197 - Mar 2008 - Letters: Abortion laws, Robert Prinzen-Wood
Later after the war they claimed in their defence that the law at the time authorised or allowed them to do those experiments.
198 - Feb 2008 - A remarkable father remembered, Maria Rankin
Peter then studied shorthand becoming a Commonwealth Court Reporter and on the outbreak of World War I enlisted and became a second Lieutenant.
199 - Feb 2008 - Grace under fire: ordinations, and first Holy Communion in Iraq, Babette Francis
The drop is mainly due to growing emigration: around 100000 have left since the start of the Iraq war in March 2003.
200 - Nov 2007 - World Youth Day: Wagga Wagga priest's 'fly-a-thon' project to aid East Timor
Thurgoonas Fr John Fowles CCS and Fr Joel Wallace CCS (Confraternity of Christ the Priest) came up with the idea of having a fly-a-thon - the circumnavigation of Australia by Fr Fowles in May 2008 - as a means of raising awareness.
201 - Nov 2007 - Latin is still the universal language of Liturgy, Bishop Arthur Serratelli
At the beginning of World War I nearly one out of every three individuals in the United States was born in a foreign land or had parents who had been born in a foreign land.
202 - Sep 2007 - Laity: How the Legion of Mary can benefit parishes, Fr Hugh Thwaites SJ
Thwaites SJ was raised as an Anglican in England and served in the British Army during World War II.
203 - Aug 2007 - Letters: Breath of hope, Terry and Rosemary McDonnell
It has been a war of attrition slowly wearing the good voices down to the point of futility.
204 - Aug 2007 - World Congress of Families: grass roots ecumenism at work, Babette Francis
An example of such ecumenism was the World Congress of Families the fourth of which was held in Warsaw in May.
205 - Aug 2007 - Lex orandi: Benedict XVI's liturgical armistice: 'Summorum Pontificum', Fr Glen Tattersall
On the seventh day of the seventh month of the seventh year of the new millenium Pope Benedict XVI declared an armistice in the Great War that has raged over the Sacred Liturgy in the West for forty years.
206 - Jul 2007 - Books: ILLUSTRISSIMI: Letters of Pope John Paul I, by Albino Luciani, Tim Cannon
Renowned for his endearing smile his wry sense of humour and his warm-hearted humility this unassuming pontiff brought to the office the same jovial legacy which had characterised his ministry as Cardinal Albino Luciani Patriarch of Venice.
207 - Jun 2007 - Books: THE SONG OF BERNADETTE, by Franz Werfel, Michael E. Daniel
Towards the end of the story Werfel contrasts Bernadette with one of the sharpest critics of the apparitions Lafitte.
208 - Jun 2007 - Sigrid Undset: Revived interest in a remarkable Norwegian Catholic novelist, Michael Daniel
Although the marriage was to break down in 1919 Sigrids experience of married life and the First World War profoundly influenced her spiritual journey.
209 - May 2007 - The importance of 'holy things' for one's Christian faith, Andrew Kania
One day at the time of the systematic destruction of the synagogues in Eastern Poland during the Second World War a scroll lay tossed and torn on the cobbled streets of the Galician city of Jarosaw.
210 - Mar 2007 - Catholic religion courses and the challenge of relativism, Audrey English
For instance the study of literature in NSW is directed to ideas and themes rather than towards an appreciation of a text as a whole.
211 - Mar 2007 - Catholicism flourishes in South Korea, Richard Stokes
When the Korean War broke out in 1950 the Catholic population was estimated at one percent.
212 - Mar 2007 - WYDSYD08: Salesian provincial urges parishes to sponsor Timorese to World Youth Day 2008, Peter Westmore
The courageous former Bishop of Dili Carlos Belo who personified the struggle of the people of East Timor for human rights and self- determination and was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize in 1996 is a Salesian priest.
213 - Feb 2007 - Music: Johann Sebastian Bach and the heavenly choir, Fr Finbarr Flanagan
A delightful book written just after the Second World War by the German author Johannes Ruber called Bach and the Heavenly Choir tells the fictional story of a violin- playing Pope Gregory who reigned after the Second World War and attempted to get Bachs name entered in the list of saints.
214 - Feb 2007 - East Timor: priests threatened with execution, Peter Westmore
Civil war In April 2006 East Timor descended into a state of virtual civil war after it was revealed that a death squad organised by Interior Minister Rogerio Lobarto had been formed to assassinate and intimidate Fretilins rivals.
215 - Feb 2007 - Editorial: The Church and globalisation, Peter Westmore
Since Blessed Frederic Ozanam in the 1830s Pope Leo XIII in the 1890s and a profusion of 20th century Catholic thinkers the Church has built up a body of social teachings which inspired Christian democracy in post-war Europe Solidarity in Poland in the 1980s and similar movements worldwide including in our own country.
216 - Dec 2006 - Catechesis of the Good Shepherd: the Montessori method for RE, Anne Delsorte
Eventually however due to the war and other factors this work was discontinued in Barcelona though some of the ideas were taken up and used in England.
217 - Nov 2006 - Poetry: Sometimes Gladness: Collected Poems 1954 to 2005, by Bruce Dawe, Michael Gilchrist
The themes include city suburbs family friends reflections war dreams and questions and elegies.
218 - Oct 2006 - Books: Order AD2000 books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
It tells of his family life the years of Nazi oppression and war his intellectual and spiritual formation his involvement during Vatican II and more.
219 - Oct 2006 - Modernism's 'second wave' continues to impact on the Church, Fr Martin Durham
First wave The first wave of modernism battered the Church towards the end of the 19th century with a radically new theology of revelation.
220 - Sep 2006 - Books: Stimulating reading from Freedom Publishing
95 Pope Pius XII: Architect for Peace Margherita Marchione Margherita Marchiones book provides a telling defence of Pius XII against critics - from Hochhuth to Cornwell - of his World War II role and in particular his alleged failure to intervene on behalf of the Jews.
221 - Sep 2006 - Books: Why Must I Suffer? by Fr F.J. Remler CM, Jacinta Cummins
Todays public searches for answers not only to world crises like the war on terrorism and the alarming rise of family breakdown and dysfunction but also for solutions to issues relating to their personal lives.
222 - Sep 2006 - Books: Advancing the Culture of Death, by Peter Hung Manh Tran, Peter Westmore
The Nazi experience inoculated society against this philosophy for a generation after the war but the rise of utilitarianism the collapse of religious belief and practice and even the soaring cost of medical care forced the issue back onto the agenda where it remains to this day.
223 - Sep 2006 - Conscience: AD2000 interviews Cardinal Pell, Cardinal George Pell
The spokesman Frank Purcell a former priest was extravagantly muddled in his claims invented and misstated elements in my writings and even compared me to Adolf Eichmann the Nazi in charge of exterminating the Jews in World War II.
224 - Sep 2006 - Editorial: 2006 Fighting Fund launched, Peter Westmore
The attacks on the United States in September 2001 have been followed by acts of jihad (holy war) perpetrated in the name of Islam against many other nations.
225 - Aug 2006 - Books: Stimulating reading from Freedom Publishing
95 Pope Pius XII: Architect for Peace Margherita Marchione Margherita Marchiones book provides a telling defence of Pius XII against critics - from Hochhuth to Cornwell - of his World War II role and in particular his alleged failure to intervene on behalf of the Jews.
226 - Jul 2006 - Letters: Pope Pius XII, Br Con Moloney CFC
Bishop Lucker of New Ulm writes of Pope Pius XII during World War II: Some say he didnt speak out forcefully enough or even that he was silent in the face of the Nazi regime in Germany especially in the mass slaughter of the Jews of Europe .
227 - Jul 2006 - Re-mythologising: Narnia - faith and fiction: The parallel world of C.S.Lewis, Msgr Peter J. Elliott
Dan Brown draws on the work of de-mythologisers in a work of fiction insinuating that it contains much fact so as to lead his readers towards conclusions that are opposed to faith.
228 - Jul 2006 - Evangelisation: Strong leadership: US bishop Robert Finn shows how, AD2000 Report
Our new Office of Consecrated Life will help raise our awareness of these vocations.
229 - Jun 2006 - Books: The Defamation of Pius XII, by Ralph McInerny, Michael Daniel
Extol the virtues of Pope Pius XII and someone is soon bound to object with the observation that he did nothing not even raise a protest to save the lives of the Jews during World War II.
230 - Jun 2006 - Respect: New text book series vilifies the Catholic Church, Kevin Donnelly
Instead of acknowledging Australias success in providing prosperity stability and peace leftist teacher academics argue that society is in the words of one textbook set in teacher training courses during the 80s disfigured by class exploitation sexual and racial oppression and in chronic danger of war and environmental destruction.
231 - Jun 2006 - Is dialogue possible between Christians and Muslims?, Cardinal George Pell
One scholar estimates that up to the Greek War of Independence in 1828 the Ottomans executed eleven Patriarchs of Constantinople nearly one hundred bishops and several thousand priests deacons and monks.
232 - May 2006 - Books: Young Faces of Holiness: Modern Saints in Photos and Words, by Ann Ball, Jacinta Cummins
It will particularly appeal to secondary school students with its simple yet realistic stories and accompanying photos of young people who stood firm for God in the face of illness family opposition and even civil war.
233 - May 2006 - Papacy: Benedict completes his first twelve months as Pope, Fr Ephraem Chifley
Beginning in 1978 after the tragically short reign of his predecessor John Paul I it continued through the 1980s and the final stages of the Cold War into the new millennium.
234 - Apr 2006 - Books: Fr Martin D'Arcy: Philosopher of Christian Love, by H.J.A. Sire, Michael E. Daniel
His immediate challenge was the decline in numbers due partly to the war but also to changes in the ethos of Jesuit schools under DArcys predecessors which saw a drop in vocations.
235 - Apr 2006 - Conscience: Dissenters' appeal to Rome 'a real hoot' says Cardinal Pell, Michael Gilchrist
(Adolf Eichmann was the Nazi in charge of exterminating Jews in World War II.
236 - Mar 2006 - Books: Edith Stein Discovered: A Personal Portrait, by Pat Lyne OCDS, Michael Daniel
Available from AD Books) While most people are aware of the murder of six million Jews during World War II by the Nazis comparatively unknown are the Catholic victims of Jewish origin who were murdered because they were racially Jewish.
237 - Mar 2006 - Letters: The Fortified School, Chris Hilder
Some advice from St Teresa of Avila to the problem presented by Br Luke Saker and Bishop Geoffrey Jarrett (February AD2000) on the dismal performance of our Catholic schools in instilling love of the Catholic faith in its students could be: What is necessary is the approach of a lord when in times of war his land is overrun with enemies and he finds himself restricted on all sides.
238 - Feb 2006 - Books: Stimulating reading from AD Books
It tells of his family life the years of Nazi oppression and war his intellectual and spiritual formation his involvement during Vatican II and more.
239 - Feb 2006 - Books: Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church, Peter Westmore
Available from AD Books) The Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church is the long-awaited summary of the Catholic Churchs social teachings a project initiated by Pope John Paul II and continuing the Churchs long-standing commitment to analyse economic political and social realities and put forward the principles on which a just society is based.
240 - Feb 2006 - The Church of England: beyond satire?, Rev Peter Mullen
She warbled syrupy phrases about race relations and those who seek to bring signs of enrichment.
241 - Feb 2006 - Blessed Charles de Foucauld: seeking nothing but God's will, Dr Frank Mobbs
The Paris Geographical Society awarded him its Gold Medal.
242 - Dec 2005 - Books: Christmas reading from AD Books
It tells of his family life the years of Nazi oppression and war his intellectual and spiritual formation his involvement during Vatican II and more.
243 - Dec 2005 - Books: The Cube and the Cathedral, by George Weigel, John Ballantyne
George Weigel - a distinguished Roman Catholic theologian from America and author of the international bestseller Witness to Hope: The Biography of Pope John Paul II - offers a compelling diagnosis of Europes long-term civilisational crisis which he argues first became lethally evident in World War I.
244 - Nov 2005 - Thomas More Centre: Fifty years from Shadowlands: Childhood memories of the world of C. S. Lewis, Msgr Peter J. Elliott
He had been reading Lewis since the immediate post-War years as I see from his edition of The Pilgrims Regress a work he relished for he could swim easily in the deep sea of philosophy and he enjoyed the storms of what we call today the culture wars.
245 - Nov 2005 - National Press Club: Cardinal George Pell on the dictatorship of relativism, Cardinal George Pell
Shortly before he entered the conclave in which he was elected pope Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger preached the homily at the pre-conclave Mass and warned against the rise of a dictatorship of relativism.
246 - Oct 2005 - Books: More good reading from AD Books
It tells of his family life the years of Nazi oppression and war his intellectual and spiritual formation his involvement during Vatican II and more.
247 - Oct 2005 - Conference: C.S. Lewis: defender of objective truth, Adam Glyn Cooper
But despite the war someone else in Europe was also painting pictures in 1943 though with quite different brush- strokes.
248 - Sep 2005 - Books: More good reading from AD Books
In Coffee with Nonna he retells the colourful religious-based stories his grandmother told him as a child during World War II.
249 - Sep 2005 - A religious response to evil ideologies, John Rego
Communism goaded revolution and civil war in such places as Cuba and Angola just as radical Islam encouraged revolution in Iran and the current anarchy in Iraq.
250 - Sep 2005 - BOOKS: The Myth of Hitler's Pope: How Pope Pius XII Rescued Jews from the Nazis, Thomas E. Woods Jr
Woods Jr outlines in this review article Rabbi Dalin provides a telling rebuttal of recent attacks on Pius XII for his alleged inaction during the World War II Jewish Holocaust.
251 - Sep 2005 - Interview: Benedict XVI and the power of the Eucharist, Fr John Corapi
Certainly he was interested in preserving and/or restoring peace in the tumultuous days surrounding World War I.
252 - Aug 2005 - London's Balham parish, 'an icon of liturgical hope', Joanna Bogle
Called Let us proclaim the Mystery of Faith it was produced in conjunction with St Johns seminary Wonersh which is the seminary for the local diocese Southwark.
253 - Jul 2005 - Reflecton: The soul: what reason and revelation tell us, John Young
As St Paul puts it: For I delight in the law of God in my inmost self but I see in my members another law at war with the law of my mind (Romans 7:23).
254 - Jul 2005 - Books: Letters To a Young Catholic, by George Weigel, David Birch
Weigels approach towards answering that question is to take a tour of the Catholic world composing each letter around a particular Catholic site like the Oratory in Birmingham St Peters and the Sistine Chapel in Rome the Metropolitan Curia in Krakograve;w and Chartres Cathedral amongst others.
255 - Jun 2005 - The previous Pope Benedict and his quest for world peace, R.J. Stove
On the other hand examining the new Popes choice of name is possibly a more illuminating exercise since in calling himself Benedict XVI he has deliberately evoked a Vicar of Christ whose opposition to unjust wars he himself reaffirms.
256 - Jun 2005 - Papal awards for WA Catholic politicians, Hugh Ryan
The awards were made by the Pope shortly before Easter were received in Perth before the Popes death and presented by Archbishop Barry Hickey in a ceremony that coincided with the Popes funeral in Rome.
257 - Jun 2005 - Habemus Papam: Benedict XVI charts course as successor to John Paul II, Michael Gilchrist
In an ironic development the global best-seller The Da Vinci Code recently criticised by the Vatican but named book of the year at the British Book Awards lost its supremacy on the Amazon.
258 - May 2005 - Books: Remembering Pope John Paul II
In Coffee with Nonna he retells the colourful religious-based stories his grandmother told him as a child during World War II.
259 - May 2005 - Books: A GENTLE JESUIT: Philip Caraman SJ, by June Rockett, George Russo
Born in London in 1911 Philip George Caraman was the middle son of nine children - two boys and seven girls - of devoutly Catholic Armenian parents who immigrated to Britain after brutal civil war in their own country and settled in Hampstead.
260 - May 2005 - 'Santo Subito': the impact of John Paul II, Peter Westmore
Despite constant efforts by the communist regime to control the Church the Archbishop of Warsaw Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski insisted on being treated on the basis of equality and was supported by both priests and people preserving a degree of autonomy which the Church enjoyed in no other communist state.
261 - Apr 2005 - Letters: Religious habit, Fr G.H. Duggan SM
The religious habit is as it were the uniform of a regiment of the Church Militant in her never-ending war against the world.
262 - Mar 2005 - Books: DOLLFUSS: An Austrian Patriot, by Fr Johannes Messner, Alice von Hildebrand
Evil of Nazism Dollfuss was one of the few political leaders of the day who saw with matchless clarity the evil of the National Socialist philosophy and who in spite of the weakness of his country which had been largely dismembered in the wake of World War I became a new David confronting a new Goliath Adolf Hitler.
263 - Mar 2005 - Church's future lies with orthodoxy, not dissent, Fr Paul Stuart
When Father Hodgens and company enter retirement the successors to their parishes will be younger priests with very different attitudes towards the Church the Papacy the Sacraments and morality.
264 - Nov 2004 - Letters: Abortion issue (letter), Greg Byrne
There was a film made many years ago about a prosecutor in Nuremberg for war crimes in which he told leading Germans that they had to accept responsibility for what happened to the Jews because they did nothing.
265 - Nov 2004 - Obituary: RIP Michael Davies - The passing of a true defender of the Faith, Michael Foley
He saw further service in Cyprus in the heady days of the Makarios civil war.
266 - Nov 2004 - News: The Church Around the World
The Eucharist compels us to show solidarity towards others becoming promoters of harmony peace and especially of sharing with the needy .
267 - Oct 2004 - Reflection: Our Lady, Fatima and the 'annihilation of nations', Anne Lastman
However I think that while there is always the future possibility of the annihilation of whole nations through war nuclear or otherwise or natural disaster there has been an annihilation of nations every year for the past forty years.
268 - Sep 2004 - Books: Interrupted Journeys: Young Refugees from Hitler's Reich, by Alan Gill, Michael Gilchrist
Available through AD Books) The number of TV documentaries and well-researched books shedding additional light on every conceivable aspect of World War II has been seemingly endless.
269 - Sep 2004 - Books: The Decline and Fall of the Catholic Church in America, by David Carlin, Fr James Schall SJ
Since this is so Carlin thinks that in fact Catholicism is on the road towards disappearing in America or to itself become a small rather insignificant group of no particular significance a kind of left-over oddity.
270 - Sep 2004 - Events: Carnivale Christi Melbourne to celebrate Graham Greene's centenary, Liam Houlihan
And he skirted death and danger in Stalinist Poland Duvaliers Haiti Vietnam during the Indochina war and Kenya during the Mau Mau uprising.
271 - Aug 2004 - Books: DANIEL MANNIX: Wit and Wisdom, by Michael Gilchrist, Hermann Kelly
His comment that World War I was a sordid trade war between competitive imperialistic powers sent the establishment into apoplexy.
272 - Aug 2004 - News: The Church Around the World
Although he did not allude directly to Zapateros policy statements Pope John Paul warned the new Spanish ambassador about the incoherent nature of certain tendencies in public life.
273 - Jul 2004 - Books: Flee To the Fields - The Founding Papers of the Catholic Land Movement, Peter Chojnowski
So it is with these practical words of warning that Belloc prefaces the enthusiastic and unequivocal articles in this agrarian manifesto.
274 - Jun 2004 - Books: The Outline Of Sanity, by G.K. Chesterton, Peter Westmore
Too many Catholics who should know better reject or ignore the warnings and admonitions which issued from the popes from Leo XIII to Pius XII and have also remained ignorant of the critiques of the liberal capitalist system which have issued from Catholic intellectuals such as G.
275 - Jun 2004 - Letters: Priestly vocations (letter), Monsignor Robert Egar
The decline in vocations to the priesthood in France accelerated after World War II.
276 - Jun 2004 - The importance of beauty in the Liturgy, Christopher Pearson
A fellow-Dominican Fr Peter Knowles who is an expert on Eastern Rite liturgies added: Aesthetic appeal and conversion cannot be placed at war with one another .
277 - 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.
278 - Jun 2004 - Society: Why Chesterton is needed now more than ever, Dale Ahlquist
He warned of the dangers of both big government and big business which would rob the family of its rights and its independence and its integrity.
279 - May 2004 - Books: ANGLICANS AND ORTHODOX: Unity and Subversion (1559-1725), by Judith Pinnington, Tracey Rowland
When the outcome of the Civil War led to the collapse of the Church of England in any way they could recognise it and the social ascendency of Puritans and Whigs they became increasingly interested in the Eastern Church.
280 - May 2004 - Art: Beauty is very much an attribute of God - Sister Wendy, Sarah Macdonald
Coming towards me across the lobby of a plush Kensington hotel the long black habit flowing veil and white wimple spark an involuntary smile.
281 - Apr 2004 - Letters: Taking a stand in the culture war, Robert and Carmel Garrett
In spite of the many warnings by God Himself of the fire of hell that awaits the wicked we find the entire civilised world engulfed in a tidal wave of wickedness.
282 - Apr 2004 - Events: Adore 2004 Youth Eucharistic Congress, Nicole Osmak
The Adore 2004 Youth Gathering held at Melbournes Telstra Dome on 22-25 January 2004 incorporated daily Mass and rosary many well-qualified speakers stirring testimonies amazing performances on stage and heart-warming Christian fellowship.
283 - Apr 2004 - Books: Archbishop Hart launches new book on Dr Mannix - Daniel Mannix: Wit and Wisdom, Archbishop Dennis Hart
I am aware that this expanded and revised second edition which follows at a distance of twenty-two years will have a two-fold purpose.
284 - Mar 2004 - Books: THE HEADLONG TRAFFIC : Poems and Prose 1997 to 2002, by Bruce Dawe, Michael Gilchrist
on the fall-out from globalisation: Here a textile factory closes And its business moves off-shore - Just another nameless victim Of a necessary war.
285 - Mar 2004 - Letters: Social Justice Statement (letter)
Mr Barich has taken exception to a comment I made in passing where I said I believe that even Keith Windschuttle would agree that the Black Line in Tasmania and the activities of the Queensland Native Mounted Police are phenomena reminiscent of a civil war rather than a peaceful settlement.
286 - Mar 2004 - World AIDS Day: A Cardinal, AIDS and the BBC, Msgr Peter J. Elliott
The year 2004 began with noisy rows over the BBC Tony Blair and the War in Iraq but we heard little about a clash between a prominent Vatican Cardinal and the BBC.
287 - Feb 2004 - Modern church design: 'Spank the architect!', Paul Mees
He is the author of numerous book chapters journal articles conference papers and a book titled A Very Public Solution: Transport in the Dispersed City (Melbourne University Press 2000) which won the 2001 Royal Australian Planning Institute (RAPI) award for Planning Scholarship.
288 - Dec 2003 - Reflection: 'Jesus Christ: the door of our salvation' : the meaning of Christmas, Pope John Paul II
We lift our eyes to you O Christ door of peace as pilgrims in time we visit all the places of grief and of war the resting places of the victims of brutal conflicts and cruel slaughter.
289 - Dec 2003 - Letters: Social Justice Statement, Michael Barr
Mr Egan cites the Statements claim (made in reference to Australias history of race relations) that in many parts of Australia there were massacres and incidents of a kind that are more common in civil war than in peace.
290 - Dec 2003 - BOOKS: DANIEL MANNIX : Wit and Wisdom - new edition, Michael Gilchrist
Relatively little from these specific sources has appeared in other writings on Mannix as far as I am aware.
291 - Nov 2003 - Social Justice Statements: in whose name should they be published?, Richard Egan
In regard to the interaction between British settlers and Aborigines the Statement presents as a fact that in many parts of Australia there were massacres and incidents of a kind that are more common in civil war than in peace.
292 - Oct 2003 - AD2000 readers' generous response to Queensland Lourdes appeal, Jenny Davies and Nicole King
Another reader from Drouin wrote: I am a World War II veteran .
293 - Oct 2003 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000
He considered two steps to be essential: Conversion to a profound and deep faith with a life of prayer and sacraments and clear moral teaching and awareness of the teaching that the Church has the Holy Spirit and can give us the way.
294 - Aug 2003 - Reflection: The Apocalypse: proclaiming the final victory of Christ and His Church, Fr G.H. Duggan SM
Perhaps its most urgent lesson is that while we are here on earth we are caught up in the never-ending war between the Church which is the Kingdom of God on earth and the world which is the empire of Satan the implacable enemy of God the prize of the conflict being the immortal souls of men.
295 - Aug 2003 - Letters: Martyrdom ignored, Tom King
War dead and injured appear to approximate less than 5000 persons while SARS has at the time of writing occasioned 600 deaths.
296 - Jul 2003 - Books: Europe: The Exceptional Case: Parameters Of Faith In The Modern World, Anthony Cappello
Her previous title Religion in Britain in 1945 explored the post-war religious practices of Britain.
297 - Jul 2003 - Letters: Misunderstood (letter), Elsie Cunningham
Remarkable since many of these recorded his contemplation of sublime realities during his four years of service as a thrice-decorated stretcher bearer in the trenches of World War I.
298 - Jul 2003 - Orthodox Anglicans close ranks to preserve faith, Nigel Zimmermann
Evangelical and Anglo-Catholics met at the Passionist Fathers Monastery in Glen Osmond (Archdiocese of Adelaide) for the biennial national conference of Forward in Faith Australia over the Australia Day weekend.
299 - Jun 2003 - Reflection: Church scandals: focus on the message, not just the messengers, Fr Kevin Brannelly
Most of us Catholics have been well aware of the terrible scandals afflicting our Church over recent years not only in Australia but elsewhere too.
300 - Jun 2003 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000
It has gone forward with the times sharing uneasiness and anxieties concerning itself with indicating in the message of Revelation the answer that God offers to the serious problems that from era to era trouble mankind.
301 - May 2003 - News: The Church Around the World
Vatican Information Service Kenyan Christian leaders unite on AIDS approach Sexual abstinence outside marriage should be encouraged Catholic and Anglican church leaders in Kenya have united against the use of condoms in the war against AIDS.
302 - Apr 2003 - Film Review: Why 'Gangs of New York' misses the boat as history, William J. Stern
It is this troubled neighborhood and its people the beginning of the New York melting pot that director Martin Scorsese seeks to bring back to life in his major new movie Gangs of New York a chronicle of gang warfare between Irish immigrants and anti-Catholic anti-immigrant natives or nativists.
303 - Apr 2003 - Dr Claudio Betti's inspiring visit to Australia, Peter Westmore
Apart from charitable works Dr Betti and the SantEgidio Community have been involved in efforts to mediate on behalf of victims of civil war and other conflicts in such places as Lebanon (1982) and Mozambique (1989-92); to engage in inter- religious dialogue including the International Meetings of People and Religions at Assisi; and to carry out rescue operations on behalf of Iraki refugees in 1986 and a Bosnian Muslim leader Mr Ibrahim Rugova freed from a Serb prison in 1999.
304 - Mar 2003 - Religious faith and modern culture: responding to a secular critic, Bill Muehlenberg
Entitled The most dangerous force in the world (30 November 2002) the militant secularist again waged war against those who think differently from her.
305 - Mar 2003 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000
Catholic World News Scottish Archbishop on evil of IVF First step in downward spiral to cloning Archbishop Mario Conti of Glasgow wrote a letter published in the Sunday Herald last January identifying the creation of test-tube babies through in vitro fertilisation as the first step in the downward spiral to cloning.
306 - Mar 2003 - Editorial: War in Iraq? Questions to be considered, Peter Westmore
The imminent danger of war with Iraq as this issue of AD2000 goes to press raises important and difficult moral questions made even more complex by current political divisions which make it hard to separate moral from merely political considerations.
307 - Feb 2003 - Books: How To Win The Culture War, by Peter Kreeft, Bill Muehlenberg
HOW TO WIN THE CULTURE WAR by Peter Kreeft (InterVarsity Press 2002 222pp $22.
308 - Feb 2003 - Letters: Threat to schools (letter), Richard Congram
When the Amendment Bill was introduced without warning on 6 November 2002 Church authorities reacted predictably and correctly.
309 - Dec 2002 - Books: Ideal Christmas Gifts from AD Books
95 How to Win the Culture War Peter Kreeft This is a must for any Christian who wants to change society for the better.
310 - Dec 2002 - Letters: Anti-Catholicism (letter), Glenn Talaue
Shadbolt PP under the heading of War declared writes: In America the Catholic League uses a website to monitor anti-Catholicism in the media and organise Catholic resistance.
311 - Dec 2002 - The sound of thunder and laughter: Hilaire Belloc re-consideredA.G. Evans, Joseph Pearce, biography, Catholic literature, G.K. Chesterton
His political philosophy inspired by the papal encyclicals Rerum Novarum and Quadragesimo Anno which he and Chesterton called Distributism (alternatively but more awkwardly distributivism) is generally dismissed as hopelessly impractical by political economists in our age of giantism and global capitalism.
312 - Dec 2002 - 'New' ecumenism fights secular culture: Protestant theologian
The old is identified with the National Council and World Council of Churches both founded after World War II.
313 - Nov 2002 - Reflection: St Maria Goretti's 'perfect Christian death', Mary Kenny
Well-brought up young men were taught to look out for their sisters and for other female relations: which shows that people were aware that a young woman or a girl could be sexually assaulted.
314 - Nov 2002 - Letters: Anglican Church (letter), Fr James Grant SSC
It is our Christian belief that even if it were possible to solve all the material problems of life - poverty unemployment and war - the highest elements of the human soul would be still be vastly dissatisfied.
315 - Nov 2002 - Letters: Media war declared (letter), Fr M. Shadbolt PP
They are not just targeting Archbishop Pell (October AD2000) they have declared war on him.
316 - Oct 2002 - Letters: New Zealand (letter), Kevin E. Fennessy
I became a permanent member of our Air Force and throughout a fearsome and deadly war of six years was ably supported along with many thousands of other Catholics by chaplains of the highest calibre.
317 - Oct 2002 - Bishop Power: Church teachings need to be 're-examined', AD2000 REPORT
In his article in The Mix Bishop Power also offered a curious interpretation of the teaching of the Second Vatican Council: New moral dilemmas began to emerge in the wake of Humanae Vitae in 1968 and the outbreak of the Vietnam War (or at least Australias involvement in it).
318 - Sep 2002 - The 1960s 'cultural revolution': from self-sacrifice to self-fulfillment, Fr Gregory Jordan
The previous twenty-five years had dramatically reinforced that ideal of self-sacrifice: World War II and even Korea offered endless examples of courageous selflessness in the face of an evil that was all too easily identifiable.
319 - Sep 2002 - CHURCH ATTENDANCE: The family, feminism and the declining role of fatherhood, Richard Egan
In the light of these distressing figures a statistical report from Switzerland (The demographic characteristics of the linguistic and religious groups in Switzerland by Werner Haug and Phillipe Warner) provides a vital clue as to how to reverse the trend.
320 - Sep 2002 - Is the self-destruction of Anglicanism to continue?, Nigel Zimmerman
New Archbishop of Canterbury appointed Nigel Zimmerman is in the second year of priestly formation for the Anglican Diocese of the Murray and is a member of Forward in Faith Australia.
321 - Jul 2002 - Cardinal Avery Dulles: US Jesuits need 'wake-up call', Michael Gilchrist
became wildly optimistic about secularisation in the 1960s and then in the early 1970s were deeply involved in protests against the Vietnam War and in fighting for various social causes.
322 - Jun 2002 - Books: 'Right And Reason: Ethics in theory and practice', by Fr Austin Fagothey SJ, Michael Casanova
What is a just war?
323 - Jun 2002 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000
Bishop Power writes: In his opening speech to the Second Vatican Council Pope John XXIII warned of the prophets of gloom.
324 - May 2002 - Letters: Need for prayer (letter), Kevin Pitt
We can no longer live in isolation in Australia and many observers have warned that things will never again be as they were prior to the destruction on 11 September.
325 - May 2002 - Letters: Transubstantiation (letter), Fr G.H. Duggan SM
After the Second World War some theologians contended that the term transubstantiation should be abandoned because it was based on an out-of-date medieval philosophy and we should now use such terms as transignification to indicate a change in meaning of the bread and wine or transfinalisation to indicate that they were now being used for a purpose different from their normal one namely to bring about a union in faith of the believer with Christ.
326 - May 2002 - Letters: Priestly formation (letter), Cyril Drew
Over many years I have been reading the writings of Fr Michael Hollings who after fighting with the Coldstream Guards in the Second World War lost his faith regained it and asked to be a priest.
327 - Apr 2002 - Letters: Croatian appeal (letter), Fr Zeljko Rakosec SJ
Presently we are struggling to recover from several decades of communist rule and likewise from the recent war through which we finally gained our independence.
328 - Apr 2002 - Letters: Harry Potter (letter), Christine Slagter
I refer to the review of Hogwarts or Hogwash?
329 - Apr 2002 - Australian version of Maltese Marian shrine of Ta' Pinu
The story goes that on the morning of 22 June 1883 a middle-aged woman named Carmela Grima heard a voice calling her as she prayed while walking homeward.
330 - Apr 2002 - The Lord of The Rings, Harry Potter and Star Wars, Hal G.P. Colebatch
His Return of The Heroes: The Lord of the Rings Star Wars and Contemporary Culture was published by the Australian Institute for Public policy in 1990.
331 - Mar 2002 - Books: Fr Werenfried - A Life, by Joanna Bogle, Michael Daniel
Soon after the end of the Second World War in the wake of the forced relocation of 16 million Germans from former eastern German regions such as Pomerania and Silesia to the west the Holy See asked the abbey of Tongerlo for assistance.
332 - Mar 2002 - Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration spreads throughout the world, Fr Douglas Harris
Advantage In the 1940s a priest in the US started perpetual adoration in his parish to pray for the safety of the men in the parish who had gone to war; not one of these men was killed.
333 - Feb 2002 - Books: 'Meaninglessness' and today's Western culture, Archbishop George Pell
We have seen in the Second World War the consequences of this sort of godlessness.
334 - Dec 2001 - St Vitus Cathedral, Prague, and Europe's Christian heritage, Stephen W. Carson
The author works as a software engineer studies political economy at the graduate level at Washington University and works with inner-city children in St Louis through a ministry of his church.
335 - Dec 2001 - East Timor: how the Church is rebuilding a shattered nation, Peter Westmore
Australias contribution particularly through the peace-keeping force has been generous and is highly appreciated A major uncertainty is how the newly elected government predominantly members of Fretilin the left-wing party which ran the guerilla war against Indonesia after 1975 will run the country.
336 - Dec 2001 - News: The Church Around the World
Zenit News Agency Japanese Catholics China exchange Aim to heal 1930s wounds with China Japanese Catholics are trying to mend the deep wounds caused by their nations 1930s war with China.
337 - Sep 2001 - Kenneth Bruce Dowding, Australian Catholic hero: his brother's tribute, Rev Keith Dowding
It means a great deal to me not least because although Bruces name is recorded in the Australian War Memorial in Canberra and is to be found in some of the books written about underground groups in the war years in France I am the only family member left who knew him - he was the baby of our family.
338 - Sep 2001 - Commission for Australian Catholic Women: Executive members' feminist views, Richard Egan
All: I see a New Beginning in all who overcome addiction in all who will not go to war in all those good and generous ones who witness to compassion who struggle to bring about a time when no one is below another and no one is above when we are all within Shalom bonded together in love.
339 - Sep 2001 - Archbishop Hart's reception at St Patrick's Cathedral, Melbourne - Homily, Archbishop Denis Hart
Increasingly secular society is impelled to move towards what Pope John Paul II calls a culture of death where life is being valued only as useful when it is productive.
340 - Aug 2001 - Books: The Christian Travellers' Guides: France, Britain, Italy, Germany, F.T. Long
These guidebooks he writes are designed to awaken an awareness of Europes Christian heritage among evangelical Christians although we hope all Christians and others who are simply interested in Christianity will also find them useful.
341 - Aug 2001 - Books: The Cross of Anzac, by Tom Johnstone, Mark Posa
For anyone who may be interested in the battles in which Australians were involved from the Boer War until the present day the book is an invaluable resource and would be a worthy addition to any school library.
342 - Aug 2001 - Australian scholarship for African priest
The war-ravaged Kinshasa (Congo) may be very distant from Australia but a number of Sydney Catholics are supporting the education of its clergy.
343 - Aug 2001 - News: The Church Around the World
Rebels in the mainly Christian south have been waging a civil war with the Islamic government in the north of the African country for two decades leaving more than a million dead.
344 - Jul 2001 - Reflection: An Australian World War II hero, Ron Cowban
When the Second World War broke out a year later Dowding joined the British Royal Army Service Corps and was subsequently captured by the Germans at Dunkirk.
345 - Jun 2001 - Books: 'Blessed Columba Marmion: a Short Biography' by Mark Tierney OSB, Michael Daniel
He was to play a key role in the reconciliation of the Anglican monks of Caldey just before World War I and was himself to return to Caldey in August 1914 as a refugee from the German advance.
346 - 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.
347 - May 2001 - Books: 'Great Christian Prayers' by Stephen Redmond SJ, Peter Westmore
Many lesser known prayers are also documented including prayers of John Henry Newman Franz Jurstutter (an Austrian peasant martyred by the Nazis in World War II) and King Bauduoin of Belgium.
348 - Apr 2001 - Tanzania's Father Winfried makes return visit to Australia, Martin Sheehan
Based in the Morogoro region of central Tanzania about 600 kilometres from the capital Dar es Salaam Fr Winfried described to me the living conditions of the people in his region and in Africa generally: Africa is hard- pressed by poverty and war.
349 - Apr 2001 - News: The Church Around the World
Martyrs of Spanish Civil War recognised Beatification in St Peters Pope John Paul II presided at beatification ceremonies for 233 martyrs of the Spanish Civil War in St Peters Square on 11 March.
350 - Mar 2001 - The surprise Cardinal: Fr Avery Dulles SJ, Zenit News Service
He holds 21 honorary doctorates and many education and theology awards.
351 - Feb 2001 - Books: 'Pope Pius XII: Architect For Peace' by Margherita Marchione, Michael Daniel
Available from AD Books) Perhaps no twentieth century Pope has aroused so much debate as Pius XII the Pope who reigned during the Second War War and its concomitant atrocities.
352 - Feb 2001 - Religious persecution continues in Vietnam, AD2000 Report
Government curbs on religion in Vietnam have been a source of tension since the communists took power after the Vietnam War ended in 1975.
353 - Dec 2000 - News: The Church Around the World
According to the Norwegian Nobel Committee the award to the first Catholic Korean President in history is merited because of his work for democracy and human rights in South Korea and in East Asia in general and for peace and reconciliation with North Korea in particular.
354 - Dec 2000 - ACU - when will the 'Statement of Conclusions' be implemented?, Michael Gilchrist
According to The Australian a proposal by one of ACUs pro-vice-chancellors (academic) to introduce some core units that stressed ethics social justice spirituality and the more traditional areas of theology and philosophy prompted a backlash from staff concerned that the university was becoming too religious and that it would be dragged into the politicised culture war associated with Melbournes Catholic Archbishop George Pell.
355 - Nov 2000 - Fr Francis Harman RIP: bioethicist of distinction, Dr Joseph Santamaria
Dr Santamaria has recently had published Drugs Dilemma: a Way Forward available through AD Books.
356 - Oct 2000 - An authentic Christian spirituality grounded in objective revelation, Michael Daniel
Through a daughter house in England at Erdington Marmion was to play a key role in the reconciliation of the Anglican monks of Caldey and nuns at Milford Haven just before World War I.
357 - Aug 2000 - 'We Shall Overcome': 'liberal' Catholicism after Vatican II, Norm Yodgee
The Vietnam war had triggered a violent backlash among Americas university students which grew into a broad protest movement.
358 - Jul 2000 - Reflection: St John the Baptist, the Precursor (Feast Day, 24 June), Br Christian Moe FSC
Apart from those who live with the New Testament and are consciously aware of its content most would not realise that no one who figures in its accounts apart from Christ himself is given such prominence.
359 - Jul 2000 - John Bradburne: Zimbabwe martyr and lepers' friend
Twenty years ago the war in Rhodesia - now Zimbabwe - was at its height.
360 - Jul 2000 - US historian criticises 'Hitler's Pope' book
MARTIN DOORHY a World War II specialist historian has commented on John Cornwells much-publicised book Hitlers Pope in an interview for Chicagos Catholic New World weekly.
361 - Jul 2000 - US bishops' new art and architecture document, Charles M. Wilson
Three major declarations were the pastoral letters on War and Peace (1983) the Economy (1986) and Women (1994).
362 - Jun 2000 - One of the great bishops of modern times, Michael Gilchrist
Pope John Paul II has named Bishop Edward Egan of Bridgeport Connecticut as the new Archbishop of New York.
363 - Jun 2000 - News: The Church Around the World
Catholic News Service Vatican Social Catechism due for publication An indispensable aid to Catholic leaders Archbishop Francois Xavier Nguyen Van Thun president of the Vatican Council for Justice and Peace confirmed that the Holy See is preparing to publish a Social Catechism towards the end of the Jubilee year.
364 - May 2000 - How the future John Paul II saved a Jewish girl's life, Zenit News Service
The young Jew who was not yet aware that she was the only member of her family to survive the Nazi massacre let a tall strong 25-year-old tonsured seminarian carry her and give her a ray of hope.
365 - May 2000 - News: The Church Around the World
Support for Pius XIIs World War II role Conclusions of Russian historian One of the latest historical testimonies to Pope Pius XIIs honourable role during World War II has come from Russian historian Evghenija Tokareva.
366 - Mar 2000 - News: The Church Around the World
In his address the Pope warned the canonists against certain opinions which have sprung up in the domain of theological and canonical research.
367 - Dec 1999 - History: The Crusades: separating myth from reality, Zenit News Service
In a number of recent articles the Crusades have been described as Holy Wars and the massacre of Jews at the time as a forerunner of the Holocaust.
368 - Dec 1999 - The Holy City: recent impressions of old and new Jerusalem, Desmond Piggin
Today Jerusalem offers newly arrived visitors a view of a shining modern city which lies towards the desert on the eastern boundary of the tiny 50-year-old state of Israel some 56 km inland from the Mediterranean coast.
369 - Nov 1999 - Piers Paul Read on the future of the Church, Piers Paul Read
My own theory on this is that the Church was traumatised by the events of World War II in a way that only slowly emerged.
370 - Nov 1999 - News: The Church Around the World
Also overlooked was the fact that Dr Robert Kempner former attorney at the Nuremberg Tribunal concerned with war crimes having consulted the documents in the control of the Secret Services and of Hitlers Ministry of Foreign Affairs revealed that Pius XII and the Catholic Church had sent a great number of protests both direct and indirect diplomatic and public secret and explicit to which the Nazis never responded.
371 - Oct 1999 - Apostleship of the Sea: the Stella Maris Seafarers' Centre, AD2000 Report
The Stella Maris Centre was especially busy during World War II when numerous Allied vessels called at Australian ports.
372 - Oct 1999 - The UN's war on population confronts religious principles, Stephen Hitchings
The United Nations arose from the embers of the Second World War and the determination that such destruction should never occur again.
373 - Oct 1999 - Pope Pius XII's efforts to avert World War II, Zenit News Service
The release this October of Hitlers Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII by John Cornwall signals yet another campaign against Pope Pius XII over his role during World War II and in particular his alleged silence and inaction over the Jewish Holocaust.
374 - Oct 1999 - Catholic objections to the 'morning-after' pill, Maria Luisa Di Pietro
In the recent debate on the morning-after pill in particular and on emergency contraception in general attention was drawn to only one situation which so many desperate persons are facing these days: violence to women in wartime.
375 - Aug 1999 - Vatican II and "Signs of the times": a call for a democratic Church?, Fr G.H. Duggan SM
Military experts in discussing warfare distinguish between strategy and tactics.
376 - Jul 1999 - Reflection: John Paul II: how the arts and Christian faith nourish each other, Pope John Paul II
In this spirit of profound respect for beauty the Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy Sacrosanctum Concilium recalled the historic friendliness of the Church towards art and referring more specifically to sacred art the summit of religious art did not hesitate to consider artists as having a noble ministry when their works reflect in some way the infinite beauty of God and raise peoples minds to him.
377 - Jul 1999 - News: The Church Around the World
At that time and in response to the Popes call for Western churches to help their Eastern sisters after the fall of Communism a contribution was made toward the reconstruction of the Moscow cathedral destroyed by Stalin in 1931.
378 - Jun 1999 - The challenge for religious educators in a secular culture, Archbishop Charles J. Chaput
Jesus himself was very blunt about the cost as well as the rewards of discipleship: Take up your cross and follow me.
379 - Jun 1999 - News: The Church Around the World
Among the events planned for this papal trip are the beatification of 108 martyrs from the Second World War the canonisation of Blessed Cunegunda a Poor Clare Sister and a visit on the last day to the graves of his family members.
380 - Jun 1999 - Pope John Paul II denounces 'ethnic cleansing', rejects war in Yugoslavia, Catholic World News
War cannot solve but can only multiply the problems .
381 - May 1999 - Association of Catholic Families: meeting challenges to today's family, Chris and Mary Clare Meney
Many of the forums which comment on the current situation affecting the traditional family speak of it as under challenge or of it being severely tested by a society which is often at war with its values.
382 - May 1999 - Victoria's Governor pays tribute to Dr Mannix, Sir James Gobbo
During the Great War he denounced those who relentlessly wasted millions of young lives in mindless trench warfare.
383 - May 1999 - Vatican launch of book highlights Pius XII's World War II role in saving Jews, Zenit News Service
Throughout World War II Pius XII remained in the Vatican at the heart of occupied Rome seemingly separated from the action of the war.
384 - Apr 1999 - 1999 Thomas More Summer School: another resounding success
The Holy Father wants us to take time to reflect and then to move forward with greater energy he said.
385 - Apr 1999 - What the census statistics on religious affiliations reveal, Michael Gilchrist
Australias culture war: who is to halt the triumph of secularism?
386 - Mar 1999 - A Polish priest's story: how I survived the Nazi occupation, Fr Marcel Pasiecznik
During times of social upheaval such as war a priest must learn to take many risks.
387 - Mar 1999 - News: The Church Around the World
Ballarat Cathedral High altar to remain in place An AD2000 report last September drew attention to a proposal by Ballarats diocesan authorities to dismantle the beautiful marble high altar in St Patricks Cathedral using its base as a replacement for the existing forwardly-placed altar table while relocating its tabernacle to a side chapel.
388 - Oct 1998 - Teresa-Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein): new Carmelite Saint, Tracey Rowland
Her major contribution to the intellectual life of pre-War European Catholicism related to the education of women.
389 - Oct 1998 - Pope John Paul II: the impact of his twenty-year pontificate, Peter Westmore
In the political sphere his leadership led to a partnership with US President Reagan to bring what the latter described as quot;the evil empirequot; of Soviet Communism to an end reversing the World War II settlement which had consigned hundreds of millions of people to the prison camp which constituted the Soviet bloc.
390 - Jun 1998 - New Texts the key to reshaping religious education, Msgr Peter J. Elliott
Amidst the pressures of a culture war religious education should also transmit a Christian culture.
391 - Apr 1998 - Obituary: Archbishop Pell's tribute to B.A. Santamaria, Archbishop George Pell
Bartholomew Augustine Santamaria was born in 1915 in the Melbourne suburb of Brunswick the first of six children of Joe Santamaria and Maria Terzita who had migrated here from the Aeolian island of Salina to escape poverty just before the First World War.
392 - Dec 1997 - Cardinal O'Connor of New York in Australia as the Pope's representative, Michael Gilchrist
His natural humour was never far from the surface as when asked about his wearing of a bullet-proof vest while celebrating Mass in St Patricks Cathedral New York: Once only once the New York Police department asked me to wear a vest because they had received all sorts of warnings there would be an assassination attempt.
393 - Aug 1996 - How to overcome the shortage of priests, Fr Kevin Dillon PP
In 1966 Galilee won the Melbourne Cup St Kilda won its first flag Harold Holt became Prime Minister and demonstrations commenced over Australias involvement in the Vietnam War.
394 - Jul 1996 - Vendée Catholics during the French Revolution, James Bogle
The Vendeans could be distinguished throughout the civil war by the Rosaries they always wore around their necks the Scapulars on their breasts and the symbol of the Sacred Heart of Jesus sewn onto their lapels or their broad hats.
395 - Apr 1996 - Emperor Charles I: World War I peace campaigner, James Bogle
The evil legacy of World War I (1914-1918) was incalculable most notably in the rise of Russian Communism the emergence of Nazism in Germany and ultimately World War II.
396 - Mar 1996 - Examining the impact of Vatican II after 30 years, Fr John Parsons
At the Council Cardinals Ottaviani Brown Ruffini and many other traditionalists had warned that mistakes were being made and that trouble lay ahead.
397 - Feb 1996 - St Patrick's College, Manly, seminary becomes a hotel school!, Tony Abbott
On the other hand if war is too important to be left to the generals religion is too important to be left to the clergy.
398 - Nov 1995 - Lord Ripon (1828-1909) - II - How to base political life on Christian principles, Fr John Parsons
He was convinced of the wrongness of the attempts of Lord Lytton the Viceroy of India and his patron Disraeli then Prime Minister to annex Afghanistan by provoking a war.
399 - Oct 1995 - Books: The Battle for the American Church (Revisited), by Msgr George A. Kelly, Michael Gilchrist
Kelly wrote: A guerrilla-type warfare is going on inside the Church and its outcome is clearly doubtful .
400 - Oct 1995 - Lord Ripon (1828-1909) - I - How to base political life on Christian principles, Fr John Parsons
The Calvinist revival in the Anglican Church in the late 18th and early 19th centuries was the source of many probably most of the intellectual converts to Catholicism in Victorian and Edwardian England.
401 - Sep 1995 - Alexander Rzewuski (1893-1983): The Catholic Church viewed with 'fresh eyes', Fr Peter Knowles OP
It is even harder to try to depict it: a society multi-lingual yet with a bias towards French reverencing the values of personal honour and family tradition possessed of a broad education in the humanities but not a noticeably deep one.
402 - Aug 1995 - Blessed Edith Stein (1891-1942): The most significant German woman this century, Mary O'Neill
Edith Stein beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1987 was a Jewish convert to Catholicism and one of the better-known victims of the World War II Nazi Holocaust.
403 - Mar 1995 - Leonid Federov (1879-1935): Russian Catholicism - a brave vision unfulfilled, Fr Peter Knowles OP
However a hint of warning from the Imperial Russian Embassy in Rome alerted Church authorities to the chance of some danger for this seminarian (Leonid Fedorov) should he remain in the city.
404 - Dec 1994 - Many vocations: empty seminaries, Fr Timothy E. Deeter
And even though I have my own war-stories to tell having survived my training in one of Americas most liberal schools of theology I was nevertheless surprised and saddened to learn what is happening in some of Australias seminaries.
405 - Nov 1993 - Preparing for a 'priestless' Church in Rockhampton?, Michael Gilchrist
Knowing there was no civil war raging on the Central Highlands to necessitate an overabundance of Masses for the dead I wondered why the priest who was on the spot was not permitted to walk 30 metres to say Mass at the advertised time?
406 - Aug 1993 - Reflection: Feast of the Assumption and the Japanese connection, Robert Denahy
Xavier was impressed by the honesty and industriousness of the Japanese but not by their language which he thought must have been designed by the devil to thwart missionaries.
407 - May 1993 - 'The Catechism of the Catholic Church': Confronting the post-Christian world, B.A. Santamaria
Of this anomalous situation he writes at the end of his autobiography: I am old-fashioned enough to believe that if the Church has been as wrong in the past on so many topics as forward-looking clergy believe then her claims to impose belief and obedience are in the form in which they have traditionally be made mere impudence (The Path From Rome p.
408 - Oct 1992 - Reflection: Fatima - after seventy-five years, Bishop George Pell
On October 13th Lucia believed Our Lady to say that the First World War would end that day and that the soldiers would soon return home; in fact the War did not end for another thirteen months.
409 - Sep 1992 - Crises in the Church: Fr Hubert Jedin's warning to Rome
An American professor of Yugoslavian origin whose father was kidnapped after the end of the war and then assassinated by agents of the local regime and who later sought asylum with her mother in Germany and finally emigrated to America said to me when I was travelling across California with her and her husband who is also a university professor: During all the terrible years we lived through my Catholic faith our Church was the secure support to which I clung the rock upon which I stood.
410 - Aug 1992 - The problem of suffering, Fr Campion Murray OFM
The people in Bosnia-Herzegovina cant control the war - their lives are devastated by the terrible reality of war.
411 - May 1992 - Christianity's first three centuries - the truth behind the myth, Andrew Quinlan
But about AD 303 there came The Great Persecution within a bare decade before Constantine when the state under Emperor Diocletian (245-313) began to declare war on the Church.
412 - Nov 1991 - NCC Anniversary: National Civic Council 50th anniversary celebration, 7 October 1991 - address, Bishop George Pell
At the end of the Second World War the Red Army controlled Eastern and Central Europe as far as Vienna; Greece nearly fell to Communism.
413 - Aug 1991 - New Zealand Catholicism to put on Maori clothing?, John Kennedy OBE
In the years that followed they did good work among the Maori people but as settlers poured in and wars developed over land-grabbing the influence of the Church with the Maori waned and the fast-growing settler population became her main preoccupation.
414 - Jun 1991 - Richard John Neuhaus interviewed, Mary Arnold
A well-known public commentator on civil rights and the anti-war movement he is a founder-director of the Centre for Religion and Society in New York and the author of several books including The Naked Public Square and The Catholic Moment.
415 - Jun 1991 - Encyclical: John Paul II's Memorial to 'Rerum Novarum': a summary of 'Centesimus Annus', B.A. Santamaria
In structure the new Encyclical begins with a description of the historical situation which prevailed in 1891 the emergence of hyper-industrialism the accelerated division of Western societies into rich and poor the spirit of revolution based largely but not exclusively on class war and Marxist philosophy.
416 - 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.
417 - Aug 1990 - Editorial: Dissent in Catholic academia is 'out' says Vatican Instruction, B.A. Santamaria
The release of the Vatican Instruction on the Ecclesial Vocation of the Theologian on May 24 1990 marked an important stage in the long-running war of words between Rome and dissenting Catholic theologians around the world.
418 - Jun 1990 - Being a Catholic in 1990: Rev James Murray interviews Bob Santamaria, James S. Murray
With Bob Santamaria those who cross it especially those who have waged words with him any time find a man of consummate charm courtesy and warmth proud of his family and grateful for its stability.
419 - Feb 1990 - Books: Archbishop Oscar Romero: a modern martyr - 'Romero: a Life', by James Brockman, Paul Gray
Brockman documents why Romero felt obliged to take it: The letter Romero recorded in his diary was prompted by the proximate danger that he saw in military aid in view of the new notion of special warfare which consists in eliminating in murderous fashion all the endeavours of the peoples organisations under the pretext of fighting communism or terrorism.
420 - Sep 1989 - Three problems for Catholic schools, Michael Gilchrist
That there is a serious crisis in the Catholic school insofar as that is a major agent of Catholic education is no longer a matter of personal opinion or unwarranted pessimism.
421 - Jul 1989 - Editorial: No subscriptions under false pretences, B.A. Santamaria
The story of Fr Van Straaten who over the years has fed millions of starving victims of war persecution and famine (June 1989).
422 - Jul 1988 - Growth of a 'new church': the Dutch experiment, Michael Gilchrist
In this study Fr Bots identities the process of pillarisation - the establishment of separate Catholic social institutions to insulate the faithful from pluralism - during the post-World War I period as the basis of the later Dutch reformation In such a compact nation this tight network of Catholic pillars would allow any dominant ideology to speedily indoctrinate the entire Church.
423 - May 1988 - John Paul II's new social encyclical, Sollicitudo rei socialis, B.A. Santamaria
The awful expansion of poverty the exacerbation of the housing crisis as a result of the flight of rural people to the great wens of the Third World the growth of unemployment and of under employment war terrorism the tide of refugees the heavy pressure of international debt - all of these constitute world- wide problems which are as familiar as they are apparently insoluble.
424 - Apr 2006 - Creation: Intelligent Design and the war against God, Stephen Hitchings