Monday, 06 February 2012

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Les Tomlinson appointed Bishop of Sandhurst  
 

Published: 05 February 2012

Bishop Les Tomlinson has been appointed as the seventh Bishop of Sandhurst, The Bendigo Advertiser and various news media reports said.


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News - National 

School fees rise with costs, says educationist 
 

Published: 05 February 2012

The executive director of the Catholic Education Commission of NSW, Brian Croke, said it was unfair to compare school fee increases with inflation, reports The Sydney Morning Herald.


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News - International 

Pope actively considering invite to visit Ireland soon


Published: 05 February 2012

Pope Benedict would visit Ireland "soon rather than later" and was "actively considering" an invitation from the Irish Catholic Church, the Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin has said, reports The Irish Times.


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News - International 

Vatican rejects 'erroneous' accusation of corruption


Published: 05 February 2012

In an unusually public rebuke of a high-ranking colleague, Vatican officials have dismissed the accusations of "corruption and abuse of power" made in letters by an archbishop who is now apostolic nuncio to the US, reports the Catholic News Service.


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News - International 

Church falling behind in tackling clerical abuse in Asia


Published: 05 February 2012

The Vatican's top anti-abuse prosecutor has warned that the Church in Asia is falling behind in the fight against paedophilia because of cultural differences over what constitutes child abuse, said an AFP report in The Sydney Morning Herald.


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Fr Chris Riley endorses program for sex offenders


Published: 02 February 2012

A successful program developed by Youth Off The Streets to deal with young sex offenders should be used as a national treatment model, the organisation's CEO Father Chris Riley told The Catholic Weekly.

 
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Priest claims Pope exorcised demons from two men


Published: 02 February 2012

A blessing by Pope Benedict exorcised the devil from two howling men during a general audience in St Peter's Square in 2009, an exorcist priest says in an upcoming book, reports the AFP in The Vancouver Sun.

 
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News - National

Vic parents' group advertises to end religious education

Published: 05 February 2012
Parents in Victoria are increasing pressure on the Education Department to end religious education in state schools amid claims it is making children isolated and fearful, reports The Herald Sun.

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Opinion - Barriers to quality aged care must come down

For many of us, aged care is a topic we think we can place in the "not now" basket. We're not in need of care now, and won't be for some time yet. Our parents might not yet need it or might have passed away. "It'll be there for us when the time comes," we reason, write Rod Young, Martin Laverty (pictured) and Rob Hankins in The Australian.


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Feature - Church's desire to stamp out pedophilia

The Promoter of Justice at the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Mgr Charles Scicluna (pictured with Fr Lombardi) talks to Vatican Insider about the objectives of the conference against paedophilia which opens in Rome today.


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Featured website - Catholics in Coalition for Justice and Peace

Catholics in Coalition for Justice and Peace is a coalition of individuals and groups, working for the emergence of just social structures in Australia and overseas. The website carries details of campaigns, letters and other activities.

 


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Film review - A Few Best Men

This is not a film for the fastidious.  It is for those who like a yarn that is funny but not afraid to be crude as well.


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BlogWatcher - Civil vs canon law in Bishop Morris case

Bloggers – and Archbishop Denis Hart – respond to Age religion writer Barney Zwartz, who says the forced resignation of Toowoomba’s Bishop Bill Morris shows “the Inquisition is alive and well”. Also Australian expat Benedictine Father Hugh posts a blog with the intriguing title “A monk tumbles”.


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Daily Prayer

Gospel Verse for 6 February 2012
wherever he came...they laid the sick in the market places, and besought him that they might touch even the fringe of his garment... [Mark 6:56]

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