POPE John Paul turned 80 on Thursday, an age at which most people are ready to slow down and take life a little easier...
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Defining the family
AS Queensland president of the Australian Family Association, I attended the gathering in Melbourne entitled "Family - Dare to Dream" and I must take up the issue of the definition of family referred to both in your editorial (CL7/5/00) and the subsequent letter by Chris Christensen (CL 14/5/00)...
Read More »Ray of hope amid tragedy
IN this week's People profile, Franciscan Missionary of Mary Sister Pamela Barker tells how, by co-ordinating fundraising for Zoe's Place, a planned Brisbane hospice and respite centre for children with life-limiting illnesses, she also hopes to help save the marriages of their parents...
Read More »University for a gentler era
IN this week's People profile, Australian Catholic University Vice-Chancellor Peter Sheehan tells how he looks forward to the day when the institution can play a pivotal role in a post-economic rationalist world...
Read More »Plea for unity
THE Church has been busy apologising to others in recent months...
Read More »Laying on of hands
FR David Pascoe (CL 30/4/00) writes: "Fr Hanlon equates laying on of hands with ordination and hence sees the latter as evident in the action accounted for in the Acts of the Apostles (6:1-8)...
Read More »Family diversity
THE traditional family is close to becoming an endangered species in Australia, and deserves special protection...
Read More »Abandoning the rules
THE main thrust of Fr Kevin Ryan's article (CL 16/4/00) seemed to be that the real obstacle to living Christian lives today is "rules and regulations"...
Read More »Champion of refugees
In this week's People profile, the co-ordinator of Brisbane's Centre for Multicultural Pastoral Care, Jose Zepeda, tells how he believes Australians and the Catholic Church in this country can find a new direction by embracing the cause of refugees and asylum seekers ...
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