pathways OCTOBER 07

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pathways, OCTOBER 2007
 
The articles in this month's posting are:
(please click on the heading to be taken to the article)
 
from the CRA PresidentThe story is still being told
In the history of religious life, the last story is yet to be told.  Religious life has contributed vitality to the Church since the beginning and will continue to do so ...  Faith and service of the poor are at the heart of the mission of Jesus and of the mission of religious. Religious have a prophetic role within the Church. Religious charisms are kept alive by living out and telling our stories which echo the person of Jesus and his prophetic mission.
 
October 1's inauguration of the new Province of Oceania signals a new day for the 400 Christian Brothers of Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, East Timor, the Cook Islands, Fiji and the Philippines.
 
The Social Justice Sunday Statement 2007 is broad, interesting, well-researched, nuanced, accessible and should add to the much-needed public debate on Australian global involvement, according to the international relations expert who launched Who is my neighbour?
 
Although Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the United States resisted to the end, the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples has been adopted overwhelmingly.
 
Australia's best practices in the work against trafficking in persons (TIP) will be presented to an international gathering of women Religious, in Rome, this month.
 
An enclosed Benedictine Monastery at Jamberoo has opened its doors and its heart in a faith adventure unparalleled in Australian Church or television history.
 
Abortion should be redefined from a women's issue to a relational issue, according to the founder of a growing, worldwide retreat-based movement for healing for men and women following an abortion.
 
Young Mums in rural Australia are at the heart of an award-winning project, but Government funding extends only until next year.
 
Sr Josephine Cannell RSC returned "home" to retire after a long and dedicated ministry.  Instead, she found herself writing a book.  To the Beckoning Shores was launched recently.
 
In Catholic communications circles around the world Australia fights well above its weight.   Two Australian Religious lead the charge.
 
Echo from Africa takes out major Catholic press award ... Booked out! ... Change of emphasis for MSCs in NT ... CTC offers Eucharist unit ... Quietly finish the day ...
PUBLIC LECTURES:  Ethics and human research and The Function of the Autonomic Nervous System ...
LINKS: Encounter -  A light at the door ... Sisters of St Joseph mark 125 years at Goulburn ... Federal Government and Aboriginal communities ... 21st century moral education leaves Simpson's donkey behind.
 
 
 
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