E-News Vol 1 - No 18

So this Christmas, I will personally avoid excuses like “I am only human” because Jesus showed that being human is being God-like. (more)

... the local population have no rights or defence. In the bigger picture civilians are what we have come to describe as ‘collateral damage,’ caught between the guns of the American ships and the Japanese kill squads. (more)

Staying with them, dying and being buried with them is a proven powerful witness. It denies we are there for some motive of our own. It affirms we see them as persons, as equals.  (more)

This is the seventh time that I have tried writing. Perhaps if I had been able to cry when they were putting Rufie into the earth then I would be able to write this more easily. But my feelings were bottled up then, I couldn't produce a single tear.  (more)

Rudd has chosen to push aside the science presented by government departments, CSIRO and that used in the Garnaut Review. (more)

The festival has been reduced to a shopping frenzy for gifts and obligatory feasting, overlaid with ‘Seasons Cheer’ as a sentimental short cut to peace on earth (more)

The Columban Calendar has been published in Australia for more than 80 years. In that time it has become something of an institution in Australian Catholic homes. (more)

                "Without dignity there is no freedom" - St Columban