Features 1 November 2012 Vatican II produced 16 documents over the course of four sessions, it introduced major reforms and stands among the most significant religious events of the 20th Century. To honour this anniversary, Archbishop Gregory Aymond of New Orleans, chairman of the US Bishops’ Committee on Divine Worship, has offered ‘10 Ways Vatican […]
Reflect Veronica M Lawson RSM1 November 2012 In today’s gospel reading we encounter a good scribe, while in next week’s we find some not so good scribes. This seems to fit the pattern of the Markan gospel. There are faithful disciples and not so faithful disciples. There are honest Jewish leaders like Joseph of Arimathea […]
Schools Derek Johnson1 November 2012 A desire to teach school children about the Middle East amid a dearth of suitable resources spurred mother and daughter Gillian and Lucy Bailey to spend three years developing a social science unit and resource kit for Years 7 to 10 students. Camels, Terrorists and God? Questioning Stereotypes of the […]
World News Cecily McNeill1 November 2012 Hope… Security… Care… Challenge… are among the realities of life at Bethlehem University embodied in students such as Raed Handal who return from overseas study to join the faculty. In 2010 Raed graduated from the Shucri Ibrahim Dabdoub Faculty of Business Administration at Bethlehem University. ‘The best decision I […]
World News 1 November 2012 Calling on the Church in the Middle East to transform words into action, Pope Benedict XVI made a pastoral visit to Lebanon in September. During the visit, the pope signed a Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhoration on the Church in the Middle East. The Bible Society produced 200,000 special edition copies of […]
World News Anna Robertson1 November 2012 Reuben de Silva is a journalist and presenter for the rural development programme and the justice programme, ‘Crying without a Voice’. Acting on rumours that rural volunteer teachers had not received payment for months (volunteers in Timor traditionally receive a stipend for their work), Reuben and his team set […]
World News Anna Robertson1 November 2012 Tara D’Sousa and Anna Robertson of Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand travelled to Timor Leste to assess progress on some long-term development programmes. Here Anna Robertson explores the situation for women and bridge-building work through radio. Her dress reminiscent of a past Portuguese era, Mana Norberta is clearly a bit […]
Columns Kieran Fenn fms2012 This is the last of our reflections on Mary in the gospels.John’s Gospel gives two key places to the mother of Jesus: Cana, where Jesus officially starts his public life with his first sign, of the best wine, and the final sign of the cross and the flow of blood and […]
Columns Fr Kevin NealOctober 2012 I vaguely remember being in hospital when I was about seven, when I had my tonsils removed. I remember little about it and I never went near hospital wards as a patient very often till I had a stroke a good number of years later. But I was pleased to […]
Columns Archbishop John DewOctober 2012 We are God’s work of art. This amazing conviction from the letter to the Ephesians (2:10) invites us into the Year of Faith. Imagine if we could really believe this, live it, and act out of it. The rest of the quote reads ‘created in Christ Jesus to live the […]