Year-end Review 2006
JANUARY 2006 The Vatican Congregation for Evangelisation reveals that 27 Catholic missionaries were killed in 2005. In his first encyclical, titled Deus caritas est, Pope Benedict reflects on...
by Gunther Simmermacher · Published December 31, 2006 · Last modified August 31, 2017
JANUARY 2006 The Vatican Congregation for Evangelisation reveals that 27 Catholic missionaries were killed in 2005. In his first encyclical, titled Deus caritas est, Pope Benedict reflects on...
by Toni Rowland · Published December 28, 2006 · Last modified September 1, 2009
What a note on which to end one year and begin another. It is all a question of perception of course. Listening to a wildlife show with...
In 2006, the world was spared the astonishing series of natural disasters and terrorist attacks that shook us in the previous year but it was a year...
GUEST CHRISTMAS EDITORIAL BY PROFESSOR PETER HUNTER –Â Christmas means different things to different people. For the young children of families who can afford it, it is primarily...
A reflection by Professor Peter Hunter Christmas means different things to different people. For the young children of families who can afford it, it is primarily a...
On Christmas Day we celebrate the fact that the Word became flesh. Or, to use a profound phrase of Benedict XVI, the day when eternity entered time....
by Michael Shackleton · Published December 13, 2006 · Last modified October 12, 2017
Is abortion the moral equivalent of murder, even if not the legal equivalent, because of our pro-abortion legislation? If so, should this not morally preclude voting for...
Commenting on a recent “Santa Claus Parade” in his English hometown, an Internet blogger remarked on the succession of floats on display. One that agitated the blogger...
by Chris Moerdyk · Published December 13, 2006 · Last modified September 1, 2009
Ever since I saw my Great-aunt Evelina get down on her knees in urgent and desperate supplication to St Anthony of Padua over a missing pair of...
Since Vatican II, the Catholic Church has sought dialogue with other Christian denominations, notably the Orthodox, Anglican and Lutheran churches, and with other religious faiths, in particular...
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