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The lingua franca: a franker linger on the story of an ad-hoc Vatican commission
More than 30 years ago, Pope Paul VI instructed Catholics that they must use the new rite of Mass. The instruction dismayed traditionalists, but a group of cardinals strove to ensure that the vernacular would not supplant the old Mass. In this article from The Tablet, Robert Mickens gives the history.
Ed Campion writes on writing a priest’s biography
When Ted Kennedy, the priest of Redfern in Sydney, died, in 2005, I wrote his obituary in The Sydney Morning Herald, expecting to hear no more about it. Writers are used to such occasional pieces sinking into a sea of silence, as if they had never been or no one had read them. Ted’s obituary, however, proved to be an exception…
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Photo: Deng Chour
Deng Chour, an Adelaide seminarian in his early twenties, is studying at Corpus Christi College, Melbourne and is originally a refugee from Sudan. With the help of Cabra College, where he completed his secondary education, he has visited the school he founded in Sudan.
Photo: Anyone for Tenors?
The Irish singing group, The Priests, Frs Martin & Eugene O’Hagan (brothers) and Fr David Delargy, played to packed houses in Sydney during their visit in May this year.
Pope lists priestly qualities
In his message for the World Day of Prayer for Vocations on Good Shepherd Sunday, 3 May 2009, Pope Benedict XVI listed four human qualities for those discerning a priestly vocation.
Nigerians in Tassie for TV series
Varcha Sidwell, producer of the ABC reality TV series, The Abbey which followed the experience of five women who spent a number of weeks at the Benedictine Sisters Abbey at Jamberoo NSW, is currently working on another TV presentation.
