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15-May-2009
The lawyer acting for Pope John Paul II's attempted assassin, Mehmet Ali Agca has confirmed that his client has asked the Vatican for permission to be baptised there once he gets released from prison in Turkey.
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14-May-2009
The Vatican is making public the original copy of English King Henry VIII's letter to Pope Clement VII seeking an annulment of his marriage to Catherine of Aragon.
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13-May-2009
Catholic Health Australia and Catholic Social Services both gave mixed reactions to last night's Federal Budget but Vinnies' President, Syd Tutton, expressed grave concern over those left out in the cold.
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15-May-2009
Following a Four Corners expose of rugby league sex scandals this week, Sydney Catholic Education Office executive director, Dan White, has said the code ran the risk of ending its historic relationship with the Catholic education system.
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14-May-2009
The first national online survey into staff bullying in Australian schools conducted by ACU National and the University of New England has shown that a staggering 99.6 percent of participants have experienced bullying in the workplace.
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13-May-2009
Queensland police have charged the principal of a Toowoomba Catholic school with allegedly failing to report suspected child abuse in the first such case brought against an educator in Australia.
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12-May-2009
One in four school children have experienced cyberbullying, according to research carried out at Australian Catholic University's Canberra campus.
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14-May-2009
Polish priest Fr Ksawery Knotz, who gained international fame with his "divine sex" workshops, has now gone into print, publishing his first book "Sex as you don't know it: For married couples who love God."
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News - National
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14-May-2009
CSSA executive director, Frank Quinlan, has warned that an "untargetted" boost to the First Home Buyers Grant may unleash market forces that make home ownership more difficult for working Australians.
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11-May-2009
Minutes from a meeting of Brisbane's Central Deanery list a series of items including a candleholder, timber table and vestments that were "removed" from South Brisbane's St Mary's church but former administrator Fr Peter Kennedy denies any wrongdoing.
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11-May-2009
Melbourne Catholic Archbishop Denis Hart and Anglican Bishop Philip Huggins, who is Vicar-General of the city's Anglican archdiocese, have rejected any proposal to play AFL games on Good Friday.
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14-May-2009
Cardinal George Pell has ordained four new priests for Sydney, the highest number of ordinations on one day since 1988.
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11-May-2009
Filmmaker Justin Sisely has launched an advertising poster campaign in Sydney featuring an image of the Virgin Mary with male genitalia on her forehead.
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15-May-2009
Following a request from Archbishop John Bathersby, the Congregation for Divine Worship has declared that Blessed Mary MacKillop is now patron of Brisbane archdiocese.
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12-May-2009
Rising numbers of homeless men are sleeping in church courtyards on Queensland's Fraser Coast
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News - International
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13-May-2009
Retired Milwaukee Archbishop Rembert Weakland, who resigned in 2002 over a sex and financial scandal, has published a memoir detailing his struggle with being gay.
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11-May-2009
An Ontario woman who was repeatedly raped by a Catholic priest while still a child has received over $2 million in what is believed to be the largest individual settlement in a sexual abuse case in Canada.
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11-May-2009
Vatican officials have reportedly launched a miracle investigation after Itallian woman, Rosa Mollica, a multiple sclerosis victim claimed to have been cured after a trip to Lourdes.
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15-May-2009
Speaking on Wednesday in front of the wall that separates Israel and the West Bank, Pope Benedict described it as a "symbol of stalemate" but added that such walls "do not last forever" and "can be taken down".
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14-May-2009
Visiting Bethlehem Pope Benedict has strongly backed an independent Palestinian state and prayed the embargo on Gaza will soon be lifted.
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13-May-2009
After a mixed reception to his speech at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial and an interrupted interfaith meeting on Monday, Pope Benedict on Tuesday visited the Western Wall and the Temple Mount.
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12-May-2009
Arriving in Israel after three days in Jordan, Pope Benedict has appealed for an end to anti-Semitism and also called for the establishment of an independent Palestinian homeland.
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11-May-2009
During his visit to Jordan, Pope Benedict visited a mosque, taken a trip to biblical Mt Nebo while appealing to Christians to "build bridges" with other religions and cultures and also to give witness to "respect for women".
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15-May-2009
Australia's Catholic bishops and Catholic Religious Australia have expressed their prayerful solidarity with the people of Sri Lanka as the nation's escalating civil war leads to a mounting humanitarian crisis.
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13-May-2009
Heavy fighting over the weekend in Sri Lanka's north has caused more than 2,500 civilian casualties with over 50,000 civilians trapped in the crossfire, Caritas Australia CEO Jack de Groot says.
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12-May-2009
A shell has killed a local staff member for Caritas Australia who was working in a No Fire Zone of the troubled Vanni region in Sri Lanka's north.
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12-May-2009
Five prosecution witnesses gave compromised testimony in the case of Sr Meena, the nun raped during the August pogrom against Christians in India's Orissa state, because they had been threatened with "dire consequences", International Christian Concern says.
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13-May-2009
Africa's Catholic bishops have backed Pope Benedict stance rejecting condom use in the fight against HIV/AIDS, Cardinal Polycarp Pengo, the president of the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa has said.
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12-May-2009
An African human rights groups has accused Rwandan priest, Fr Emmanuel Uwayezu, now working in a Catholic parish near Florence, Italy, of being responsible for the deaths of 80 students during the genocide of 1994.
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15-May-2009
A Bougainville Catholic mission is welcoming the world's first climate refugees from Papua New Guinea's low lying Carteret Islands.
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Regulars
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15-May-2009
Branded an implacable foe of Islam after his landmark Regensburg speech in 2006, Pope Benedict has shown during his current Holy Land tour that he is slowly learning how to dialogue with Muslims. - Tom Heneghan, Reuters
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14-May-2009
On his lone day in the Palestinian Territories, Benedict delivered the papal equivalent of Ronald Reagan’s famous 1987 "tear down this wall!" speech in Berlin. Standing in a Palestinian refugee camp located in the shadow of Israel’s towering security wall, Benedict forcefully criticised such barriers between peoples. - John L. Allen Jr, National Catholic Reporter
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13-May-2009
I wrote in response to the first Rudd Labor Budget that we may have turned a corner, towards a fairer Australia and a more sustainable community sector, but that only time would tell. After all the scripted theatre of pre-budget leaks, secure lock-ups and dazzling announcements are stripped away, the 2009-10 Budget seems to indicate that we may well be waiting for a long time yet. - Frank Quinlan, Eureka Street
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12-May-2009
Because we cannot will ourselves into being good people. We can't just decide that we will be loving and happy any more so than we can decide never again to be angry, bitter, or jealous. Willpower alone hasn't got that kind of power. Only an influx into our souls of something that is not anger, bitterness, or jealousy can do that for us. We call this grace and it, not willpower, is what ultimately empowers us to live loving lives. - Fr Ron Rolheiser, ronrolheiser.com
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11-May-2009
It might seem odd, when there are already hundreds of Roman Catholic religious orders in existence and most of them are crying out for new recruits, to set up a new order rather than help boost the fortunes of an existing one. But when Sister Camilla started searching, a decade or so ago, for the right order to enter as a nun, she found there wasn't one that provided quite what she was looking for. - Joanna Moorehead, Times Online
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15-May-2009
Majellan Publications has a new website and a renewed focus on its books and publications including its flagship, The Majellan. The organisation is the focus of the Redemptorists publishing apostolate in Australia, providing strength, inspiration and consolation to people on their Christian journey.
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14-May-2009
The Nuns' Run website supports the campaign of two Sisters of Charity who intend to walk from Dubbo to Darlinghurst in Sydney to raise funds for the Garvan St Vincent's Campus Cancer Centre. The site promotes the activities and towns that will be encompassed along the journey and how people can get involved and support their venture.
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13-May-2009
Founded by French priest St Marcellin Champagnat, the Marist Brothers have been active in Australia since their arrival in Sydney in 1872. The current Sydney province covers most of New South Wales, Queensland and the ACT. It shares supervision for Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands with the Melbourne province.
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12-May-2009
The Catholic Diocese of Townsville was established in 1930 and covers an area of 434,400 square kilometres. It extends from Townsville on the coast, to the Whitsunday and Burdekin regions in the south and north to Ingham and Halifax, south-west to Winton, and west to the border with the Northern Territory, encompassing Mount Isa and several small, isolated western towns and east to Palm Island.
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11-May-2009
L'Arche is an international federation of faith communities where people with and without an intellectual disability share life together. L'Arche is a French word for the "Ark". Founded by Jean Vanier in France in 1963, it seeks to create homes where people live a simple life of work, care, prayer and celebration.
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15-May-2009
This is the film adaptation of Dan Brown's novel of the same name that preceded his "The Da Vinci Code". Liberties have been taken with Dan Brown's novel which bring a different story to the screen. Key events and scenarios which made the novel very controversial have been omitted from the movie. - Peter W. Sheehan, Australian Catholic Office for Film and Broadcasting
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14-May-2009
With a terrific cast and a cracking script, distinguished director Barry Levinson has fashioned a thoroughly entertaining satirical putdown on the film business told from the inside. - Jim Murphy, Australian Catholic Office for Film and Broadcasting
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12-May-2009
Thornton's debut feature Samson and Delilah is an ode to his town and its extremes. It's an ethereal love story between Aboriginal adolescents, that takes place against a backdrop of addiction, violence and displacement. Racism is not an explicit presence in the characters' lives, but it is there, like a foul breath that muggies the air around them. - Tim Kroenert, Eureka Street
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13-May-2009
With rugby league in the national headlines for all the wrong reasons at the moment, this repeat edition of Compass examines how three high profile rugby league players turn to prayer and worship for team motivation to see them through challenging moments in the game and to heal their injuries.
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11-May-2009
With this new book Rist writes as a Catholic undertaking intellectual history with apologetic and constructive purpose. He presents Catholic thought as adaptive and as promoting the development of a broad Catholic culture, interested not only in the narrow bounds of "saving truth" but in truth as a whole. - Lewis Ayres, The Tablet
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15-May-2009
For years the Church's institutional efforts to promote social justice have been dominated by political liberals, and years of exchanging similar ideas within their closed fraternity, their conversation has become so restricted that they can easily fail to recognize the existence of other viewpoints. - Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture
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14-May-2009
Marcus Einfeld had been a long serving Federal Court judge, the founding president of the Human Rights Commission, and a prominent member of the Jewish community. He had enjoyed success, status and esteem. Now, this one time national "living treasure", was to spend at least two years in gaol. His humiliation was as public as it was complete. On all accounts it was indeed a "spectacular fall from grace". - Sr Patty Fawkner, goodsams.org.au
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13-May-2009
People will read, not words written on a page but the life giving words of your heart. The closer you are to God, the clearer is your translation. Think of Mother Teresa, Brother Roger of Taizé, Chiara Lubich. Think too of the neighbour who helps you with a difficult child, the stranger who stops to assist you up when you stumble in the street, the teenager who helps in a soup kitchen, the people who work for and with the homeless. - Sr Redempta Twomey, The Far East
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12-May-2009
If the Catholic Church is going to begin to move forward in cooperation with the Jewish people, it is going to have to acknowledge the past. And you don't have to go far back in history to find a time when the Church's relationship with the Jews was based on persecution, hate or abject indifference. - Rabbi Marvin Hier, LA Times
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11-May-2009
The decision to remove the crucifix and bible out of the chapel at a Sydney hospital was, I'm sure, done as a well meaning gesture. Somebody or some committee would have met and discussed how this hospital could offer religious access to all groups seeking spiritual solace in a time of need. I'm sure words such as equitable, socially just, respectful, diverse and accessible were used in planning such a move. - Pauline Connelly, The Southern Cross
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