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12 Apr 2009 |
 The most read commentaries in 2009... We kicked off the countdown of the most read commentaries of 2009 by taking a more detailed look at how one commentator is appreciated by Catholica readers. The particular commentator whose work we examined was Dr Andrew Kania. The 140 commentaries Dr Kania has written for Catholica since 2007 were read a total of 57,754 times during the past year. [Read the front page we published on 11 Jan 2010]
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12 Apr 2009 |
 Easter Sunday 2009... No lead commentary today but if you are seeking something to reflect on there is a mountain of thoughtful posts in the forum from members of the Catholica Community — so much in fact that I've been getting messages in that people can't cope with it all. [Today's email] | [Holy Week Reflections]
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10 Apr 2009 |
 Reflections for Good Friday 2009... On this, the most solemn day in the Christian liturgical calendar, we invite you to pause a while and reflect on the meaning we are invited to take from the injustice connected with the arrest, trial, humiliation, punishment and crucifixion inflicted on the One we worship as the Son and Emissary of of the Trinitarian God. To assist in your reflection we have chosen a number of audio visual reflections from YouTube or we invite you to contribute to the active reflection we have been building on the Catholica Forum in recent days. The audio-visual reflections we have found on YouTube can be found HERE and you will find the reflection members of the Catholica Community have been building on our forum HERE. [more]
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25 Dec 2008 |
 Happy Christmas 25 Dec 2008... On the front page of our website today you will find an animated version of our Christmas Greeting. I hope it is entertaining as well as drawing attention to the real importance of what we are celebrating today. As well as an entertainment, the animation is interactive — you can get the gnomes, Father Christmas, my Ocker alter ego and even the baby Jesus to speak in whatever order you choose. One of the gnomes though will light up but will not speak. If you are the first to unlock the secret code sequence that will allow him to speak and you can get an email back to me with the code numbers he gives you, you'll be able to choose books, cds or other gifts to the value of $AU100 on offer in the Catholica Online Gift Shoppe we'll be opening early in the near year — around the time entries in this competition close. You'll find more details, and the rules for this private competition only open to subscribers to Catholica and registered members of our forum on the front page of our website. If you have young people at your house in the next few days you might keep them amused for a few hours trying to crack the code you need to get the last gnome to speak. Enjoy your Christmas day. [more]
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03 Aug 2006 |
 Our First Public Edition of Catholica: 3 August 2006... In the first public edition of Catholica, Brian Coyne, editor and founder of Catholica, offered a video introduction to what we hoped to achieve with this new web initiative. [the first public edition formatted with today's style] | [close to how it originally appeared] | [the first public email 3 Aug 2006]
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 Our First Commentary: 3 June 2006... Tom Scott, the pseudonym of the editor and founder of Catholica, Brian Coyne, wrote and published our first commentary on 3 June 2006. The commentaries produced up until our public launch on 3 August 2006 were only circulated to a private email list while we ironed out some of the technical issues with Catholica. [the first commentary formatted with today's style] | [close to how it originally appeared] | [the first email 1 June 2006] | [the first public email 3 Aug 2006]
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The Mission of Christ, the Mission of the Church, the Mission of a Diocese Dominican bishop, Anthony Fisher, was installed as the Third Bishop of the Western diocese of urban Sydney, the Parramatta Diocese, on 4 March 2010. His homily delivered at the Installation Mass outlined his broad sweep of the Mission of Jesus Christ, the Mission of the Church, and what he sees as his personal Mission which he was seeking to invite the people of the Western suburbs of Sydney to embrace. Here at Catholica we think the homily offers rich food for reflection and discussion at a number of levels: firstly the evident thought put into the address, secondly in that the Western suburbs of Sydney in many respects are typical of the social challenges encountered in almost any major city of the Western world, and also because of questions that intersect with many of the discussions the community at Catholica engages in of the problems facing the Church today. Because of YouTube limitations the video is in three parts of 9m 54s, 5m 59s, 6m 12s (22m 5s total). [Catholica Editorial where we first drew attention to this homily] | [WATCH THE VIDEO]
