http://www.cathnews.com CathNews http://www.cathnews.com http://www.cathnews.com/_sharedimg/img_cathnews_logo_rss.jpg http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss CathNews Tue, 09 Feb 2010 07:37:56 +1100 Tue, 09 Feb 2010 07:37:56 +1100 Father Frank Brennan has been appointed as "Catholic Advocate in Residence" for four social justice bodies in a move to to drive change on the health and welfare of disadvantaged Australians. http://www.cathnews.com/article.aspx?aeid=19266 http://www.cathnews.com/article.aspx?aeid=19266 Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT Services for pensioners in nursing homes could be squeezed without the right compensation package under the emissions trading scheme, Catholic Health Australia has warned. http://www.cathnews.com/article.aspx?aeid=19271 http://www.cathnews.com/article.aspx?aeid=19271 Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT Tony Abbott says the NSW Liberal Party could lose the next state election if it does not preselect David Clarke. He also says it is "one of the nastiest smears" to call Mr Clarke the leader of the party's religious right. http://www.cathnews.com/article.aspx?aeid=19248 http://www.cathnews.com/article.aspx?aeid=19248 Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT The Sydney priest who lied about having cancer to raise money from his local flock has been moved to Perth. His spiritual adviser believes the priest was "repentant" and would not lie about anything so serious in future. http://www.cathnews.com/article.aspx?aeid=19249 http://www.cathnews.com/article.aspx?aeid=19249 Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT Archbishop Mark Coleridge says the termination of negotiations to sell Calvary Public Hospital "means that in the new circumstances all must work together to ensure the best possible delivery of health care for the ACT community". http://www.cathnews.com/article.aspx?aeid=19269 http://www.cathnews.com/article.aspx?aeid=19269 Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT A Vatican official has proposed a shared "ecumenical catechism" among Catholics, Anglicans, Lutherans, Methodists and members of Reformed churches, as a fruit of four decades of dialogue. http://www.cathnews.com/article.aspx?aeid=19272 http://www.cathnews.com/article.aspx?aeid=19272 Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT A Jesuit teacher has confessed to sexually abusing boys at the top German school, Canisius College in Berlin, and has been suspended from the order. The confession follows sex abuse allegations against two other Jesuits. http://www.cathnews.com/article.aspx?aeid=19250 http://www.cathnews.com/article.aspx?aeid=19250 Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT Mexico's Catholic Church has inaugurated its first ever church dedicated to exorcisms. http://www.cathnews.com/article.aspx?aeid=19270 http://www.cathnews.com/article.aspx?aeid=19270 Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT Research at a biogenetic centre in Milan that takes stem cells without destroying human embryos has been featured in the Vatican's L'Osservatore Romano newspaper. http://www.cathnews.com/article.aspx?aeid=19273 http://www.cathnews.com/article.aspx?aeid=19273 Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT The secretary-general of Caritas Internationalis has confessed to “mixed feelings” about the World Economic Forum’s outcomes, saying international institutions are underperforming on poverty eradication, security and many more.” http://www.cathnews.com/article.aspx?aeid=19251 http://www.cathnews.com/article.aspx?aeid=19251 Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT The Winter Olympics have never enjoyed the same publicity as the original, summer Games. But they still embody the same values, as Pope Benedict XVI acknowledged in his message earlier this month. http://www.cathnews.com/article.aspx?aeid=19254 http://www.cathnews.com/article.aspx?aeid=19254 Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT Rachael Kohn talks with Priest, Professor and Prophet, Hans Kung, the dissident Swiss Catholic whose concept of a Global Ethic has ignited the imaginations of religious, business and political leaders around the world, including British Prime Minister Gordon Brown http://www.cathnews.com/article.aspx?aeid=19276 http://www.cathnews.com/article.aspx?aeid=19276 Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT Cardinal George Pell is perhaps the best living example of a certain species of Vatican ecclesiastical life that we might designate as the “rumour magnet.” http://www.cathnews.com/article.aspx?aeid=19267 http://www.cathnews.com/article.aspx?aeid=19267 Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT