Saturday, 10 May 2008

News

Baby dies in car outside Toowoomba school

Published: 09 May 2008

A five month old girl died yesterday after the child's mother left her in the family car while she collected her other children from a Toowoomba Catholic school.
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Abuse victims plan protest for pope

Published: 09 May 2008

Support groups for victims of clerical abuse are joining together to hold protests during Pope Benedict's Australian visit.
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Defend religious freedom: Jesuit calls on Muslims

Published: 09 May 2008

Muslims must defend religious freedom if dialogue between Christianity and Islam is to progress, a German Jesuit expert on Islam has said.
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Rudd cites community hub need

Published: 09 May 2008

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd cited a St Vincent de Paul Society proposal for community hubs in his 2020 Summit summary, Vinnies president Dr John Falzon says.
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US honour for Notre Dame's Tannock

Published: 09 May 2008

Notre Dame University Vice Chancellor Dr Peter Tannock has received a prestigious award, the Christus Magister Medal, from an American university.
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Expectations mount for papal apology over Australian clergy abuse

Published: 08 May 2008

Maitland-Newcastle Bishop Michael Malone and retired Sydney Bishop Geoff Robinson have backed a call for Pope Benedict to make an apology during his WYD trip to Australia for abuse by clergy.
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Melbourne's Skipping Girl later a nun

Published: 08 May 2008

Melbourne's iconic Skipping Girl Vinegar neon sign in Richmond was inspired by a five year old girl who later became a nun.
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News - International

45 dead in Brazilian Pentecost festival disaster

Published: 09 May 2008

At least 45 people are dead after a ferry carrying pilgrims to a Brazilian Pentecost festival capsized on a remote Amazon tributary.

Opinion - What to do when feeling bored at Mass

We do not primarily come to the Eucharist in order to derive pleasure out of it for ourselves. We come to give ourselves to God no matter what it costs. We are not seeking our own pleasure but, like Jesus, both in worship and outside of worship, we always try to do what pleases the Father rather than what pleases ourselves. - Fr John Kelly, Marist Messenger
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Feature - Our common links

We live in a linked-up world! We might not think about the links very much but they are there. There are the physical links likes pipes, wires, roads and railway lines. There are radio and televisions links and the World Wide Web. There are other kinds of links in our life too, such as marriage and family links, school and town links, national links, worldwide links. People even speak of being linked with others in a "global village". - Fr John Martin, The Majellan
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Featured Website - CathCommunity.org

Another week passes and another Catholic social networking site pops up on the web. CathCommunity.org is an initiative of the England and Wales Catholic Bishops' Conference and was launched only two days ago. It is designed as a forum where people can explore their faith, be challenged by those who disagree and dispel myths about Catholicism.
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Film Review - What happens in Vegas

The title of this film plays with the common and contemporary throwaway line, "what happens on tour stays on tour." The idea that we can become a different moral person away from home without any effect on our daily lives is as naive as it is immoral. We are our behaviour at home or on tour, and, in a sense, our integrity is more to be judged when we think no one is looking then when we are under the usual scrutiny. - Fr Richard Leonard, Australian Catholic Office for Film and Broadcasting