News
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25-May-2009
Polish-born Australian sociologist and friend of the late Pope John Paul II, Jerzy Zubrzycki, also known as the "Father of Australian Multiculturalism", has died in Canberra aged 89.
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29-May-2009
The content of religions and popular tales is often similar, but only religions have martyrs, according to a newly published analysis by British Columbia evolutionary anthropologist, Joe Henrich.
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29-May-2009
With the Julian and Gregorian calendars coinciding in 2010 and 2011 resulting in Easter on the same date in East and West, an international ecumenical seminar has reaffirmed the hope that all Christians will be able to celebrate Easter on the same day every year.
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28-May-2009
Marking the 2009 Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, the Catholic Dioceses of Maitland-Newcastle and Broken Bay, and the Anglican Diocese of Newcastle, last night renewed their commitment to an ecumenical cooperation covenant adopted one year ago.
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29-May-2009
The ACT Department of Education and Training, and the Archdiocese of Canberra-Goulburn Catholic Education Office have pledged to provide $24,000 to support Indonesian language teaching assistants, an Indonesian embassy official says.
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News - National
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25-May-2009
Sydney Cardinal Pell has attacked Sydney City Council's consideration of development application for a
brothel opposite historic St Benedict's on Broadway, the city's oldest
consecrated Catholic church.
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26-May-2009
Rockhampton's Cathedral College has presented a cheque of $6,809.45 to Caritas Australia, after students raised the funds in this year's Project Compassion Appeal.
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25-May-2009
Townsville's Ryan Catholic College principal Andrea O'Brien has blamed a belligerent parent's tirade of abuse for a teacher suffering a heart attack.
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27-May-2009
Six rampaging Naracoorte youths attacked a group of 50 students, teachers and bus driver from Adelaide's Cardijn College who were en route to Mt Gambier for a Sunday sporting competition.
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29-May-2009
Darwin Bishop Eugene Hurley has already spoken to indigenous painters about a planned world-class stained-glass window for the city's St Mary's Cathedral.
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28-May-2009
There is every room for compassion but no room for sentiment and 'tough love' is the key to improving the lives of Aboriginal Australians, Sydney Cardinal George Pell said on the first day of his visit to the Northern Territory.
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27-May-2009
Sydney Cardinal George Pell has visited the Northern Territory community of Wadeye to launch a training program for Indigenous teachers and to study remote learning.
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News - International
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28-May-2009
Fifteen year old Young Christian Students leader, Celeste Joseph, and 18 year old bride, Deepa Patrick, were those killed in the Sunday bombing of Kathmandu's Assumption Church.
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27-May-2009
Security personnel at the Philippines House of Representatives in Manila fired water cannons at a group including farmers, nuns and a local bishop who were pressing for the passage of an agrarian reform bill.
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25-May-2009
A bomb exploded during Sunday Mass at Kathmandu's only Catholic church, the Church of the Assumption, killing two people and injuring fourteen.
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27-May-2009
Vatican Radio, one of the world's oldest broadcasters, will introduce commercials from July in order to meet rising costs.
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29-May-2009
With the apostolic visitation to the Leadership Conference of Religious Women, the peak body for women religious worldwide - International Unions of Superiors General - has issued a statement of support for the American leadership.
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28-May-2009
If confirmed, new Supreme Court nominee, Judge Sonia Sotomayor, will be the sixth Catholic on the nine member court.
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29-May-2009
Ireland's religious orders say that they do not have funds beyond those already committed to abuse victims, but the government insists that they must pay more.
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28-May-2009
Eighteen Irish congregations that signed a controversial deal with the Government in 2002 to compensate victims of abuse said they would not renegotiate the terms of the agreement despite pressure from the government and the church hierarchy.
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27-May-2009
The director of the Scientology Celebrity Centre in Paris, Alain Rosenberg, and five other French Scientology leaders have gone on trial in Paris on charges of organised fraud that could lead to the banning of the organisation.
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26-May-2009
British churches will be forced to accept practising homosexuals or
"transsexuals" in positions as youth workers and similar roles, under
upcoming equality legislation, Deputy Justice Minister Maria Eagle has said.
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26-May-2009
At least 500 women in Ireland are conducting clandestine affairs with
Catholic priests, says excommunicated Irish Bishop Pat Buckley, who leads a support group for those in forbidden relationships.
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26-May-2009
The dedication of an Orthodox church on the grounds of the Russian
Embassy near the Vatican signifies a warming of
relations between the Russian Orthodox Church and the Vatican, analysts say.
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25-May-2009
UK Caritas chief, Chris Bain, has been caught up in the furore over British MPs expenses after it was revealed that Northern Ireland Minister Paul Goggins had allowed him to stay rent free at a house allegedly paid for by taxpayers.
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25-May-2009
Holocaust investigator, French priest, Fr Patrick Desbois, says that estimates of the number of Jewish dead on the World War II killing fields of the Ukraine will have to be revised upwards.
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27-May-2009
Vietnam's Commission for Religious and Ethnic Affairs Vice-Chief, Nguyen Thanh Xuan, has stated that his government "has no intention to return any properties to the Catholic Church or any other groups of religion".
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26-May-2009
A Sri Lankan priest, Fr Amalraj, who was caught with his parishioners in the so-called "no-fire zone", has described army shelling as "like rain" and also accused the LTTE of killing people in the last week's of the just concluded civil war.
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28-May-2009
Pope Benedict has accepted the resignation of Archbishop Paulin Pomodimo from the Central African Republic following an investigation into priests of his diocese who live more or less openly with women and the children they have fathered.
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26-May-2009
On a visit to Monte Cassino, Pope Benedict has urged Catholics in China to renew their loyalty to the Holy See as the Vatican marked the second annual day of prayers for the church in China.
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Regulars
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29-May-2009
When Pope Benedict told a crowd in St. Peter's that the Virgin Mary 'silently followed her son Jesus to Calvary, taking part with great suffering in his sacrifice, thus cooperating in the mystery of redemption and becoming mother of all believers,' most listeners probably heard nothing remarkable in the statement. Yet for one group of devotees, Benedict's statement was a milestone - a sign that he had moved one step closer to granting their wish for a new dogma on Mary's contribution to human salvation. - Francis X. Rocca @ Pew Forum
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28-May-2009
FertilityCare does not offer IVF to its clients, but is the UK's biggest provider of NaPro Technology, or Natural Procreative Technology (NPT). Developed and still mainly taught at the Pope Paul VI Institute in Nebraska, NPT is offered to couples as an 'ethical alternative' to assisted reproductive techniques. - Angela Pertusini, Times Online
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27-May-2009
Ghana priest, Fr Martin Corazzin, describes how an exodus of young people to sects could be halted by a new initiative to help Catholics know their faith. Young people, he says, are leaving the Catholic Church to join the various sects that have rapidly grown in the country over the last quarter of a century. - John Newton, Aid to the Church in Need
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26-May-2009
My mother was a very strong, practising Catholic and she instilled in me a deep sense of the importance of faith. However, as an adult, decisions for me were not taken till much, much later;
until I was on the road to university. But since I was about 18, I’ve been active in whatever local church I found myself in, either in Australia, in China or wherever I worked in the world. - Kevin Rudd, War Cry
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25-May-2009
Hesitancy and uncertainty are definitely not the Nichols style. At 63, he has a fluency any politician would envy and while his hooded eyes inevitably evoke an intensely calculating mind, they are offset by a natural, almost childlike smile. - News Review interview: Vincent Nichols, Times Online
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29-May-2009
This Franciscan site provides quotations and short stories from eclectic sources that promote positive attitudes, and development of holistic human dignity - from tiny seeds to ripened fruit. - www.appleseeds.org
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28-May-2009
New Zealand's Family Life International has released a new Gardasil for parents and caregivers. Available on the movement's website. - www.fli.org.nz
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27-May-2009
The Internet Padre is one of the longest established resources for Catholic content on the web. - www.internetpadre.com
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26-May-2009
The International Catholic Movement for Intellectual and Cultural Affairs is fortunately known by an easier to remember name - Pax Romana. Founded in the aftermath of World War I, it is one of the earliest international lay movements. - www.icmica-miic.org
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25-May-2009
Launched to coincide with World Communications Sunday, Pope2you is the Vatican's newest attempt to project the Gospel message to the digital generation. - www.pope2you.net
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25-May-2009
Don't be fooled by the title into thinking this is yet another superficial entertainment about the perennial boy-girl nonsense. That could not be further from the mark. In this writer's opinion, My Year Without Sex is simply one of the best-crafted movies ever made in Australia, a brilliant evocation of ordinary Australian suburbia where people struggle with problems and cruel fate but still somehow refuse to be bowed down. - Jim Murphy, Australian Catholic Office for Film and Broadcasting
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26-May-2009
At one stage he masqueraded as a Catholic priest, celebrating Mass. It started out as a skerrick of vague information: an unidentified
foreigner, probably an Australian, had been arrested in eastern India
after sexually abusing boys at an orphanage. Months of investigation later, ABC South Asia correspondent Sally
Sara has pieced together the full story: a disturbing and bizarre
account of Paul Henry Dean, an Australian businessman who dumped
family, friends and middle class comforts for a new life among lepers,
orphans and the desperately poor of India. - Four Corners, Tuesday 26 May, 11.35pm or online at ABC
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28-May-2009
ABC Radio National's Rachael Kohn looks at the future of priests and nuns this Sunday in her program The Spirit of Things, with guests including Sr Maryanne Confoy RSC.
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29-May-2009
Thomas Cahill's A Saint on Death Row is an angry condemnation of the Texas criminal justice system. At the urging of a Chicago friend, Cahill stopped to visit Dominique Green on Texas' Death Row. - David Hendricks, Miami Herald
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29-May-2009
Any disaster that warrants the declaration of a state of emergency has at least three distinct phases. The second stage is the recovery stage. We are in this stage at present. My role as Bushfire Recovery Chaplain derives its meaning and title from this stage. People who have dealt with other national and worldwide emergencies describe this stage in these or similar words: 'In the face of the disaster, we saw the best of human nature. In the recovery stage, we shall see the worst of human nature.'- Fr Greg Bourke, Far East
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28-May-2009
Whistleblower John Prior, whose allegations of abuse in a Tralee industrial school helped lift the lid on a hidden culture of rape and brutality in the Catholic Church, has revealed the torment he suffered "for daring to tell the truth". - Simon Brouder talks to John Prior, The Kerryman
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27-May-2009
Even those who criticised Notre Dame's invitation to the President and his speech acknowledge that he did offer some gestures towards the concerns of his critics. He spoke of a common effort to reduce the number of abortions, to promote adoptions of infants, and to protect by a 'conscience clause' doctors and nurses who oppose abortion. These would be meaningful steps if enacted. - Robert Imbelli, www.chiesa
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26-May-2009
What do I say to the religious orders who have been identified as
being responsible for what happened? Let me speak to them directly: I
think that you have to ask and truly try to answer the question which
Ryan has put to you: “What happened that you drifted so far away from
your own charism?” I believe that you owe it to your good
members to try to answer that question thoroughly, honestly and in a
transparent way. - Archbishop Diarmuid Martin, Irish Times
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25-May-2009
The moment that finally convinced me [to convert] was when Benedict XVI
came here [to the United States] and Callista in the church choir sang
for him at the vespers service and all the bishops in the country were
there. - Former US House of Representatives Speaker Newt Gingrich, US News and World Report
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27-May-2009
High Court Justice Susan Crennan SC will be the guest speaker at the Melbourne Catholic Lawyers Annual Dinner. - Friday 12 June, 2009 beginning with Mass at 6pm at St Augustine's Church followed by drinks and dinner at Vibe Savoy Hotel Melbourne.
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