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Contents - Apr 2015 - Buy a copy now Editorial: Welcome! Vocations: Australia's seminaries flourishing in 2015 - Br Barry Coldrey Designer babies: Dolce&Gabbana versus Elton John - Fr Dwight Longenecker Tu es Petrus: From John XXIII to Pope Francis: Four recent stages of Catholicism - Patrick Morgan Contemporary challenges facing Catholicism: Interview with Cardinal Robert Sarah - Élisabeth de Baudoüin Today's prophets: where are they? - Anne Lastman Our homeland is in Heaven - Audrey English Pilate's inscription on the Cross - Andrew Sholl Religious schools may teach the faith: Canada's Supreme Court - AD2000 REPORT Palliative care protects human dignity - Pope Francis EWTN's new app for smartphones and tablets - Peter Westmore Letters: The Holy See's relations with China - Francis Vrijmoed Letters: Critique of secular psychology - Eileen Cronin Letters: Put not your faith in electronic gadgets! - Anne Lastman Letters: Jesus words from the Cross - Robert Bom Letters: Mary in Scripture and history - Allan Choveaux Letters: Children's rights - Arnold Jago Books: MARY: A CATHOLIC-EVANGELICAL DEBATE, Dwight Longenecker & David Gustafson - Michael E Daniel (reviewer) Books: INSIGHTS FROM GRECO-ROMAN TIMES: A Christian Response, by Rex Dale - Peter Westmore (reviewer) Books: THE MASS OF THE EARLY CHRISTIANS, by Mike Aquilina - Paul Simmons (reviewer) Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au Reflection: Good Friday Reflection - Fr Raniero Cantalamessa

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The month of April 2015 covers the most holy period of the Christian calendar: from Holy Week which traces the events leading up to the arrest, trial and crucifixion of Jesus on Good Friday, the sadness of Holy Saturday, and the extraordinary events of Easter Sunday when Jesus conquered death and rose triumphant from the dead.

In hindsight, it was clear that Jesus had repeatedly foretold his disciples that he, the Son of Man, had to suffer and die on the Cross, but they had not understood what he had been saying.

They had believed that he was the Messiah, the anointed one of God who was going to set his people free, but like the rest of the Jewish people, they understood the Messiah as the liberator who would free his people from the yoke of Roman domination.

It was only after he rose from the dead that they began to understand that his death and resurrection were part of the Divine plan, to reverse the effects of the sin of Adam, to free not just the Jewish people but all mankind.

This issue contains two feature articles referring to Jesus’ passion: the Reflection homily given in St Peter’s Basilica on Good Friday in 2013, and Andrew Sholl’s examination of Pontius Pilate’s inscription on the Holy Cross.

Other articles feature the extraordinary resurgence in vocations to the priesthood across Australia, the controversial comments by Italian fashion designers on same-sex marriage, feature articles by Anne Lastman and Audrey English, and much more.

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Reprinted from AD2000 Vol 28 No 3 (April 2015), p. 0