Saturday & Sunday, January 28 & 29

This Weekend

Backgrounder

Fifty years since the revolution of Vatican II

Published: 27 Jan 12

Opened by Pope John XXIII in October 1962, the Second Vatican Council went to the roots of faith. But how much of that radicalism of the greatest church event of the last century survives today, asks John Wilkins in the Tablet.

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Digest - International

US health attack, Nigerian letter, UK same-sex marriage

Published: 27 Jan 12

US Catholic leaders fight Obama on the proposed contraceptive health plan cover, a Franciscan sister writes a letter from Nigeria, the brain is found to make special decisions over sacred values, and in Britain the Archbishop of Southwark (pictured) questions the government over its same-sex marriage plans.

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Digest - National

Sydney priest's adoration of the coffee

Published: 27 Jan 12

School holiday vandalism rates in Canberra are down, a priest has been re-elected as chancellor of Sunshine coast university, a Brisbane Catholic school will host a forum on bullying and in Sydney, an inner-city priest (pictured) has declared his parish must use top quality coffee.

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Feature

The Top 10 under-reported Vatican stories

Published: 27 Jan 12

There are many stories from the Vatican that are given too much oxygen. But there are also several that otherwise flew below radar over the past year but were actually fairly important, writes John Allen in NCR Online.

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Living Catholic

Iraqi sisters study in Australia to help their people

Published: 27 Jan 12

Many concerns weigh on the minds of two Sisters from a tiny, endangered religious order in Iraq currently studying at Brisbane's Australian Catholic University (ACU), reports the Catholic Leader.

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Obituary

Brother Charles an outstanding educational trailblazer

Published: 27 Jan 12

Brother Charles Howard, who has died at 87, was the only Australian to be appointed Superior General of the Marist Brothers. As head of St Joseph’s College, Hunters Hill, Sydney, he proved himself a strong consultative leader full of humour, serenity and compassion.

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When the Sabbath came, he entered the synagogue

Mark 1:21-28

They went to Capernaum; and when the Sabbath came, he entered the synagogue and taught. ²²They were astounded at his teaching, for he taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes.

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