Posts Tagged ‘Catholic’
The Catholic Church Is out of Control
Friday, July 22nd, 2011
Matthew Warner sees a problem with the way that the Catholic Church can view new media. He believes that the Church is “out of control” in the sense that the Church is no longer able to control its message as once it was able to do. He says “They are out of control of their Read more
“Don’t preach” says Facebook Monk
Friday, July 15th, 2011
Popular Facebook identity, Franciscan Brother, John Mary Ignatius recommends not using Facebook to evangelise in the traditional sense of the word, making religious announcements and proclamations to the masses. Br Ignatius, the Facebook Monk, has more than 3,500 friends on Facebook and he says that making religious announcement and proclamations to the masses as “offensive”. Read more
Call for Catholic intellectuals to enter the public debate
Tuesday, July 5th, 2011
Australian Catholic University vice-chancellor Professor Greg Craven has called for a renewed age of Catholic public intellectualism to promote and defend Church values and teaching. Catholic intellectuals should weigh into public debate, along with the bishops, he said. “If you send an aircraft carrier out without a destroyer flotilla, you deserve everything you get,” he Read more
Reasons for being Catholic in 150 words or less.
Tuesday, June 28th, 2011
College graduate Kate Childs has found that over the past five years she had changed and grown. She found she had different reasons for being Catholic, different hopes for her church. She wondered if those she graduated with had experienced a similar transformation. So she asked some of her peers to answer a few questions Read more
Catholic related Google searches on decline
Friday, June 24th, 2011
Queries for Catholic related topics on Google have dropped significantly in volume between 2004 and 2011. The significant drop is disturbing however and while we should be concerned, it’s not a cause for panic, according Mark Gray a research associate at the Centre for Applied Research in the Apostolate in Georgetown. Gray created graphs from Read more
Top 10 reasons to stay Catholic
Tuesday, June 14th, 2011
Right now is not an easy time to stay Catholic. But is it ever easy? I sometimes speculate that it might be simpler to be Protestant. Protestants are allowed to go church shopping, and they don’t even have to go to a service every week to fulfill their Protestant Duty to God. We Catholics, on Read more
Profanity hoodies advertise “Cradle of Flith”
Friday, June 10th, 2011
T shirts and hoodies that advertise an album for British extreme metal group “Cradle of Filth” and describe Jesus as a profanity were seized from an Invercargill store on Wednesday. Police took away the offending apparel after being asked to do so by Internal Affairs. They visited the store mid-afternoon and seized between 10 and 15 Read more
Dutch Salesian leader “on leave”
Friday, May 27th, 2011
The head of the Dutch Salesian order, Father Herman Spronck, has been placed on “administrative leave” for his part in a Dutch Catholic pedophile scandal. Over the weekend, Spronck, known as the Delegate, said that sexual relationships between children and adults were not always damaging. “Formally I always say that everyone must obey the law. But Read more
Make another baby for Australia
Friday, May 27th, 2011
“Make love tonight and create another baby for Australia”. Australian trucking magnate Lindsay Fox’s shared his perspective on population at a media appearance for charity on Wednesday, saying everyone should have six kids. Fox was asked about a report published by Leadership Management Australasia that says baby boomers are more of a headache for managers rather than Generation Read more