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This is the call Benedict urges religious revival in world ‘rapidly going deaf’ ■ By John Thavis
On the first leg of a six-day visit to his Bavarian homeland, Pope Benedict XVI urged a revival of religious values in a society that he said risks going “deaf ” to God. “Put simply, we are no longer able to Pope hear God - there are too many different Benedict XVI frequencies filling our ears,” the Pope said at a Mass in Munich on September 10. “Along with this hardness of hearing or outright deafness where God is concerned, we naturally lose our ability to speak with him and to him. And so we end up losing a decisive capacity for perception,” he said. The Pope spoke to some 250,000 people gathered at a fairground in Munich, where he was archbishop from 1977 to 1981. Arriving for the liturgy, he was cheered as he rode a Popemobile through a crowd that waved German, Bavarian and Vatican flags.
Stenhouse A weekend of weddings, and dreams opposes law underway, for staff of The Record on vilification ■ By Paul Gray
Radical Islamists are using a controversial Victorian law against religious vilification to silence their critics, says influential priest and publisher Fr Paul Stenhouse MSC. Fr Stenhouse, editor of Annals Australasia magazine, warns that “critical appraisal by non-Muslims of Islamic law and custom” is being prevented in Victoria under pain of being hauled through the courts and charged with vilifying a religion. This is a dangerous interference with free speech, he suggests. “It is self-evident that a democracy must permit the free and open discussion of ideas, and that necessarily includes religion and politics,” Fr Stenhouse says. The Victorian anti-vilification law has been supported by
When people lose the ability to communicate with God, he said, they also lose a capacity for perception. This “dangerously curtails the range of our relationship with reality,” he said.
Continued on Page 5 What are the chances of that? For weeks Record editor Peter Rosengren and other staff had been careful to explain to callers that when Terence Boylen, The Record’s Production Manager, and Kathi Horobin, a Record Administration Assistant, were leaving last weekend to get married, it was not to each other. Instead, both staff had independently chosen the same week end for their weddings. Terence married Sarah Chamberlain at Our Lady of the Missions Church in Whitfords (top) while Kathi married Andrew Harp at St Dominic’s in Innaloo.
The Pope told reporters on his plane that he was making the September 9-14 visit in part to see and thank the people who made a difference in his life and to join fellow German Catholics in celebrating their faith. But the Pope also took aim at secularisation in his homeland, explaining at an airport welcoming ceremony on September 9 that he worried whether the centuries of Christian values were being transmitted to younger generations of Germans. The next day at the Mass, which was broadcast across Germany, the Pope focused on liturgical readings that spoke of God as the centre of all reality and the centre of personal life. When people lose the ability to
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Lockridge marks the day for all Dads ■ By Sherilee Kingston
The Good Shepherd Parish in Lockridge celebrated Father’s Day a day early with a ‘Breakfast for Blokes’ held on Saturday September 2. The parish has a tradition for commemorating Father’s and Mother’s day during the Sunday Masses on their special day. Each year all fathers and mothers receive a special blessing and a prayer card prepared by the Liturgy group. The 57 parishioners who attended the breakfast were served a meal of bacon, eggs, sausages, muffins and toast. The guest speaker for Continued on Page 6
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EVEN IN THE DARKEST HOUR A new book by an Italian writer takes a fresh look at how beauty and goodness can shine forth from the suffering of HIV-AIDS, and how people can learn to hope.
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JOHN HEARD reflects on how to deal cleverly with the schoolyard bully, rather than relying on politically correct enforcement of language in the schoolyard.
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