We were delighted with the response to the new look RESource site: 1,952 visitors have viewed 39,399 pages  Hopefully each of those visitors has found something useful to help them expand their own knowledge or help in their classes. We are still busy getting the site into ‘apple-pie’ order but the next addition to the Beliefs module is on the way. 

 Art at Advent Seminar: Townsville artist Jan Hynes, Claire Renkin, lecturer in art history and spirituality (YTU, Box Hill) and curator Mark Pierson in conversation about Jan's contemporary renderings of the Christmas story and approaches to using them in worship.
Saturday 6 October, 9.30 - 1pm at Centre for Theology and Ministry
$25.00. Credit card facility available.
Registration: Jo Yeaman 03-9340 8800, email info@ctm.uca.edu.au, or turn up on the day at the Centre for Theology and Ministry 1 Morrison Close, Parkville.  The entrance is located on College Crescent, (Melway 2B D3).

“Singing from the Same Hymn Sheet’ – Is this our understanding of Catholic Identity today?
Sr Jan Grey, Lecturer in Theology at Jesuit Theological College Melbourne.
31st October 2007, Simonds Hall High St South Yarra. 4.30 8.00 including a light meal.
Applications for this Professional Learning activity must be submitted in the CEVN website http://admin.ceo.melb.catholic.edu.au on a PL application form.

Pope Benedict’s recent permission for the celebration of the Tridentine Rite has people talking again about Vatican II the most significant event in the 20th Century history of the Church. What was it all about?

The Jammed is an Australian film that has received top reviews despite its dark subject matter – trafficking in human beings and illegal prostitution right here in Melbourne.  Project Respect  and another site run by the Good Shepherd Order shows what is being done in our community to challenge this abuse particularly of women.

The Jewish Christian Muslim Association website highlighting the interfaith Schools Project has the aim of introducing each of the faith traditions to secondary students and of promoting dialogue and friendships between students of differing faiths.

We mentioned the Bible Dudes  site on the front page of RESource not all that long ago but anecdotal evidence suggests that many teachers still have not seen this site which introduces good biblical scholarship to students in language they can appreciate.

The sale of Australian Uranium to Russia has been in the news recently. Check out some of the implications in the Ethics module learning object on Uranium.

Sports of all kinds are also very much in the news especially in Melbourne. The Sport and Disability issue in Ethics has an interesting collection of articles under Broadening Perspectives looking at how thinking about sport sometime reflects thinking about broader social issues and who is and isn’t acceptable in society. You might like to check some of them out.

 A Catholic Health Australia survey has found that people who rent their homes are three times more likely than home owners to postpone visiting a doctor for reasons of cost. It is not the only symptom of inequality of opportunity in our society.