Letters

,

Arnold Jago

Contents - Aug 2011 - Buy a copy now Homily: Benedict XVI: Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary - Pope Benedict XVI The Carbon (dioxide) Tax: a religious perspective - Peter Finlayson News: The Church Around the World Britain's anti-Christian brave new world - AD2000 REPORT Events: In defence of the authentic meaning of marriage - Canberra, 16 August 2011 - Babette Francis Bishop Conley on the new Missal translation: 'The very words of God' - Bishop James Conley Defending the Catholic Church against ill-informed attacks - Fr John Flynn LC Obituary: John Wright (1923-2011): pillar of the Catholic faith - Michael Gilchrist Exegesis: Genesis account of creation and fall: what does the Church teach? - John Young Young adult Catholic ministry: further progress - Br Barry Coldrey Letters: Archbishop Hickey - Frank Bellet Letters: Unseen kindness - Anne Lastman Letters: , - Arnold Jago Letters: Catholic schools - Fr Brendan Dillon PP Letters: No oxygen - Fr M. Durham Letters: Rose-coloured glasses - Cathy Cleary Letters: Christian heritage - Fr Bernard McGrath Letters: Anglican ordinariate - Michael Apthorp Books: PRODIGAL DAUGHTERS: Catholic women come home to the Church, ed. Donna Steichen - Michael Daniel (reviewer) Books: STANDARD-BEARERS OF THE FAITH: Lives of the Saints for Young and Old - Terri Kelleher (reviewer) Poetry: Consequences - Bruce Dawe Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au Reflection: The new evangelisation: 'missionary spirit' needed - Fr Dennis W. Byrnes

The Josephite Sisters, the Catholic Order founded by Australia's first saint, Mary MacKillop (Saint Mary of the Cross), have published a fourth collection of their founder's letters.

The new book, Mary MacKillop and a Nest of Crosses, contains the letters she wrote around the time of her "excommunication". The book was launched on 17 June but, apart from a few mentions in Catholic publications, has been pretty much ignored by the Australian media.

Almost as though, having successfully domesticated this Saint as being a "dinkum Aussie", a "rebel" - even a "feminist" - they don't want people reading what the real Mary MacKillop, the ardent, traditional Catholic Mary MacKillop, was actually all about, and what she said in her own words.

ARNOLD JAGO (DR)
Mildura, Vic
(Editor: This book is available through Freedom Publishing).

Reprinted from AD2000 Vol 24 No 7 (August 2011), p. 15