News
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09-Apr-2009
Recent Catholic convert, former British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, has said in an interview that Catholic leaders are out of step with ordinary believers in their attitude toward homosexuals.
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07-Apr-2009
Sixty five Australian pilgrims led by Sydney Cardinal George Pell have journeyed to Rome to present Pope Benedict with an Aboriginal message stick that symbolically protected him during his stay in Sydney.
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08-Apr-2009
Parents groups are demanding that Education Queensland withdraw its endorsement for a website that teaches primary school students that abortion can be "a relief" and hormones make you "feel sexy".
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News - National
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09-Apr-2009
Catholic Social Services Australia has joined with other service organisations to launch the Australian Community Services Industry Group.
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09-Apr-2009
With his last Mass at St Mary's South Brisbane looming, outgoing administrator, Fr Peter Kennedy, says his group does not want to become a cult but wishes to remain within the Catholic community.
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08-Apr-2009
Newcastle Bishop Michael Malone has called on Catholics to "look forward" after recent tragedies of fire and flood while Canberra Archbishop Mark Coleridge said Easter demonstrates a process of "supernatural selection" as opposed to Charles Darwin's "natural selection".
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07-Apr-2009
Eighty seven percent of respondents know that Easter concerns the resurrection of Jesus while four percent confused Easter and Christmas, a survey by the Centre for Public Christianity shows.
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07-Apr-2009
A Senate inquiry is to be held into the Job Network tender in which many church service providers lost contracts after the Opposition backed the Greens' push for an investigation into the process.
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06-Apr-2009
Peace activist and former Iraq human shield, Donna Mulhearn, is to take up a role as Regional Coordinator of the Edmund Rice Network in NSW and the ACT.
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09-Apr-2009
A "suspicious" fire has destroyed the 97 year old St Brigid's Catholic Church in Ballan, near Ballarat in Victoria.
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09-Apr-2009
Senior staff at Sydney's Royal North Shore Hospital have ordered that crucifixes, Bibles and other Christian symbols be removed from the hospital chapel in order to avoid offending Muslims, Hindus and other non-Christian groups.
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06-Apr-2009
Two Sydney Catholic high school students are now receiving counselling after a 13 year old girl sent a nude photo of herself to her teenage boyfriend.
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News - International
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08-Apr-2009
Organisers of an international 40 Days for Life campaign of protests outside abortion clinics in the US, Australia and other countries claim to have helped save nearly 400 babies from abortion.
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07-Apr-2009
The Knights Templar hid and secretly venerated The Holy Shroud of Turin for more than 100 years after the Crusades, Vatican researcher, Barbara Frale, has found, apparently solving the conundrum of the relic's missing years.
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08-Apr-2009
A British charity is at the centre of a row after a children's magazine it publishes appeared to depict Christians as Islamaphobes who regard Muslims as terrorists.
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06-Apr-2009
Vatican spokesman, Fr Federico Lombardi, has described a resolution passed by the Belgian parliament condemning Pope Benedict for saying the use of condoms could worsen the spread of AIDS as "astonishing" for a democratic state.
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06-Apr-2009
Some Leeds priests have stopped saying "good morning" to their congregations after a diocesan meeting on the work of the International Commission of English in the Liturgy expressed concerns that services had become too informal.
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06-Apr-2009
The discovery of a prayer roll once owned by King Henry VIII in a British Catholic seminary proves that the monarch who split with Rome was indeed a pious believer in his youth, historian Dr David Starkey says.
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06-Apr-2009
Anna Nobili, 38, spent years working as an exotic dancer and striptease artist at Milan night clubs but now she's a Catholic nun who describes herself a "ballerina for God".
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09-Apr-2009
A pro-abortion NGO that is battling East Timor's bishops in an effort to legalise abortion receives funding from Canada's Caritas organisation, Development and Peace.
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07-Apr-2009
Kirkuk Archbishop Louis Sako has warned that a US troop pullout is likely to plunge the country in a "civil war" after five Christians were murdered in different Iraqi cities over the past week.
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08-Apr-2009
A Brazilian court has ordered the arrest and retrial of a rancher previously acquitted of the murder of US born, Sr Dorothy Stang.
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08-Apr-2009
The De La Salle brothers are seeking volunteers for their education programs at a Papua New Guinea high school.
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07-Apr-2009
At least four people were wounded when police opened fire on demonstrators calling for independence and an election boycott in Indonesia's Papua region on Monday, a local Catholic activist has said.
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Regulars
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09-Apr-2009
Jesus' Resurrection was different. He did not rise in the natural state he had when he died on the Cross.
Before his death, he was subject to space and time, and was always present somewhere on earth. After his Resurrection, to be sure, he rose in the same body he had before, so that he could show the apostles in the Upper Room the wounds in his hands and his feet and he could invite Thomas to put his finger into the wounds. - Fr John Flader, The Record
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08-Apr-2009
When he lifted the cross, the victim, trembling all over, struggled to his feet and looked at Simon with gratitude in his eyes. This was not the face of a dying man in Simon's experience, but of an athlete. There was neither fear nor hopelessness there, but determination, like an exhausted runner using his last ounce of energy to finish the race. And Simon recognised this man as the famous Nazarene who had confronted all these Temple tyrants and sought to liberate the people from the legalities they were burdened with. - Fr Bill MacCurtain, Thinking Faith
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07-Apr-2009
The resurrection of Jesus confronted the first believers with the revelation that Jesus really was the Son of God. But as Pope Benedict pointed out in his catechesis on St Paul only last October, this implied another problem: how it was possible "to believe that God could end on a Cross"? - Archbishop Denis Hart, Kairos Catholic Journal
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06-Apr-2009
We are about to enter Holy Week, a goldmine of rich Christian symbolic tradition. Without an appreciation of symbol and its workings, our Easter experience could degenerate into formalism (just going through the motions of rites) and legalism (a mere conformity to the letter of the law and the rubrics without appreciating the "spirit" of what is being celebrated). - Julie Kelly, Catholic Outlook
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09-Apr-2009
The Good Sams are a well known and much loved Australian religious congregation founded in 1857 by Archbishop Polding who take their inspiration from the Gospel parable of the Good Samaritan and the Benedictine spirit.
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08-Apr-2009
Awakening or Aussie Awakening as it is also known, was born over 20 years ago when it was speculated the opening of the new Parliament House in Canberra would not involve any prayers. Following a grassroots campaign involving the community and all churches, a new organisation was born. Awakening has a special emphasis on "reclaiming" Easter from commercialism and every year Easter events are held aross the country.
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07-Apr-2009
The Centre for Public Christianity (CPX) is an independent research and media organisation seeking to promote the public understanding of the Christian faith in Australia and beyond employing the best of scholarship via the best of media.
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06-Apr-2009
Acceptance Sydney's mission is to support gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Catholics their families and friends. Acceptance Sydney does not seek to promote homosexuality. It is not affiliated with groups that aim to publicly confront Church leaders nor is it associated with groups that claim to be able to "cure" homosexuals.
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06-Apr-2009
The popular music world changed irrevocably in Britain in the decade known as the Swinging Sixties. A significant catalyst for the change was the emergence, in defiance of the authorities, of pirate radio stations that beamed in rock and pop records 24 hours a day from outside British territory. - Jim Murphy, Australian Catholic Office for Film and Broadcasting
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09-Apr-2009
The Stations Of The Cross was one of the most memorable events from last year's World Youth Day, played out over three hours to thousands on Sydney's streets and to an international television audience of millions.
This fly-on-the-wall documentary from the crew at Compass aims to give some behind the scenes action of the journey the cast and crew took from first auditions to showtime.
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08-Apr-2009
For evidence of religion's centuries old hostility toward science, Galileo is the go-to guy. His belief in a Copernican universe led to his imprisonment and torture at the hands of the Church, or so the story often goes. But is it true? Galileo Goes to Jail, explains that while Galileo was interrogated, forced to recant and sentenced to house arrest, he was never (with the unlikely but possible exception of three undocumented days) jailed or subjected to torture. - Amanda Gefter, New Scientist
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09-Apr-2009
On that first Easter morning something truly extraordinary happened to Jesus: God raised him from death to new life. But that wasn't all. Something extraordinary happened to the women who went to the tomb and, eventually, to all the disciples. And it changed their lives and ours, forever. Just how do you and I, with our limited comprehension, make sense of this event which is central to our faith and lives as followers of Jesus? - Br Julian McDonald, edmundrice.org
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08-Apr-2009
Vilification deadens honest emotions. It operates as a social anaesthetic. A licence to offend diminishes the dignity and humanity of those whose participation in society it undermines because it stops or deters the exercise of the right of free speech by its victims. The idea that liberty is measured not by the freedom exercised by one person, but rather by the freedoms exercised by us all, is central to the Australian ethos of a "fair go". - David Knoll, Online Opinion
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07-Apr-2009
The changes to our way of being and what we are accepting now as normal have not been sudden. It is not difficult to look back over the years and note changes in many areas of our society that are troublesome. If we compare what is generally accepted as normal 10 years ago, the change seems minimal, but if we compare this with 50 years ago, the change is stark.
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06-Apr-2009
When it comes to reducing chronic disease and extending people's lives, improving lifestyle is only a small part of the picture. The most powerful factors in determining whether you get chronic disease and how long you are likely to live are decided in the womb, in the home, in the classroom and at work. - Martin Laverty, The Weekend Australian
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07-Apr-2009
Nearly 30,000 people from Christian churches throughout the Redlands region south-east of Brisbane will get together on Easter Sunday afternoon to celebrate REFF 2009 Commencing from 2.00pm and going until 8.00pm, all are welcome and everything is free - food, drinks, rides, fireworks, displays and presentations.
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