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Oscar Romero sainthood cause on long, tangled path


Published: 17 May 13

Under a new pope, the shocking nature of Oscar Romero's death and the stunning implications of his example, have made his canonisation even more relevant for the universal church. What the bishops at Medellín 45 years ago called the "institutionalised violence" of poverty remains the fate of billions of people in the world, and this continues to pose the question Francis is now echoing: "Does the church walk with the poor?" writes Pat Marrin in NCR Online.



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Digest - International

Patriarch to China, tango dedication, Cardinal's Irish boycott


Published: 17 May 13

An Argentine tango dancer dedicates his performance at St Peters to the Pope, Patriarch Kirill pays historic visit to China and Boston Cardinal Sean O'Malley (pictured) boycotts a college ceremony to protest at the Irish Prime Minister's stance on abortion.


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Digest - National

Nurse training, church closure, NDIS delight


Published: 17 May 13

ACU to get $250,000 for nursing training, the Royal Commission will cost $434m to taxpayers over the next four years according to the Federal budget, A Victorian church in the Ballarat diocese is closing down, after 101 years, and a Brisbane mother is delighted at how the National Disability Insurance Scheme will help her son (pictured).


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Feature

Mums embrace blogs to become digital disciples


Published: 17 May 13

One of Mary's titles is "Christ's First Disciple," and some of Christ's earliest followers were women, two of whom he appeared to first after his resurrection. Now, some 2,000 years later, another special group of women, specifically Catholic mums who blog on the Internet about their faith, the Catholic Church, as well as the joys and challenges of parenthood and everyday family life, can be considered among Christ's newest evangelisers or "digital disciples," reports the Catholic News Service.


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Living Catholic

A simple ministry of presence and hospitality


Published: 17 May 13

A year in ministry at Santa Teresa, near Alice Springs, has been a steep learning curve for Good Samaritan Sister, Anita Brennan, and one thing she has learnt is that while “we can’t fix everything”, a simple ministry of presence and hospitality plays a key role in the life of the Aboriginal community, reports The Good Oil.


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Obituary

The Old Fox finally goes to ground


Published: 17 May 13

Giulio Andreotti, the former Italian premier who was past master of the black art of Italian politics,   died last week in Rome, aged 94. For more than 40 years, he was the godfather of Christian Democracy in Italy’s first post-war republic, until even this genius of baroque and Byzantine government was tainted by the corruption scandals that removed from office virtually the entire political class. This obituary of the man with deep links to the Vatican was published in The Telegraph of London.


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For those whose sins you forgive, they are forgiven

John 20:19-23

In the evening of that same day, the first day of the week, the doors were closed in the room where the disciples were, for fear of the Jews. Jesus came and stood among them. He said to them, ‘Peace be with you’, and showed them his hands and his side. The disciples were filled with joy when they saw the Lord, and he said to them again, ‘Peace be with you.’


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The wages of celibacy

Recently an op-ed piece appeared in the New York Times by Frank Bruni, entitled, The Wages of Celibacy. The column, while provocative, is fair. Mostly he asks a lot of hard, necessary questions. Looking at the various sexual scandals that have plagued the Roman Catholic priesthood in the past number of years, Bruni suggests that it's time to re-examine celibacy with an honest and courageous eye and ask ourselves whether its downside outweighs its potential benefits, writes Ron Rolheiser.


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Pope Francis, the Jesuits and liberation theology

Alejandro Crosthwaite, OP, discusses the relationship between Pope Francis, the Jesuits and liberation theology, on the America website.


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Portrait of the artist as a young woman

From the heart of the Irish countryside in the 1930s, to the heart of Chelsea in swinging London in the 1960s… that was the original trajectory Edna O’Brien took. As a writer, she shocked with what some saw as her honesty, and others her brazenness. Now, she has written her memoir, Country Girl…  These memoirs might have been 'agony' to write, but they reveal a brave, beautiful and sometimes helpless woman on her journey from repression to creative freedom...


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