News
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04-Jun-2009
A Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade representative has denied that government funds were spent to assist the Chaser comedy team after they launched a blimp over St Peter's Square in the Vatican.
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01-Jun-2009
Echoing former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's call for 'new thinking', Pope Benedict has challenged lay people to undertake a 'change in mentality' by becoming aware of 'being Church and of the pastoral co-responsibility that, in the name of Christ, all of us are called to carry out'.
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News - National
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05-Jun-2009
The City of Sydney has refused a development application for a brothel proposed for Sydney's Broadway district only 45 metres from St Benedict's church and the University of Notre Dame Australia.
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05-Jun-2009
Retired president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, Australian Cardinal Edward Idris Cassidy, is publishing his memoirs with the title of My Years of Vatican Service.
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01-Jun-2009
St Vincent de Paul Society Queensland spokeswoman, Julie McDonald, says that the organisation, which has just launched its winter appeal, is facing unprecedented demand for emergency accommodation and help.
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03-Jun-2009
Victorian sentencing laws will be amended by the end of the year to require judges to consider race, religion, gender or sexual orientation factors and prejudice in sentencing violent offenders.
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02-Jun-2009
St Mary's Geelong parish priest Fr Kevin Dillon, who is celebrating 40 years of priesthood, counts honorary life membership of the local Vietnam Veterans Association among his proudest achievements in the city.
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02-Jun-2009
Melbourne Archbishop Denis Hart has written to all priests of the Archdiocese advising that communion should only be distributed under the species of the Consecrated Host to limit the spread of germs during the H1N1 epidemic.
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05-Jun-2009
Christian Brothers College Burwood in Sydney's west is to close its doors in December at the end of its centenary year.
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03-Jun-2009
After months of controversy, the NSW Land and Environment Court has rejected the Quranic Society's application to build a $19 million school for 900 students in a rural area near Camden south-west of Sydney.
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03-Jun-2009
Cairns Catholic Education Office will today hold talks with Queensland Health to discuss the temporary closure of a third school in a bid to slow the spread of H1N1 flu.
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04-Jun-2009
The Adelaide Archdiocese and Catholic Education have launched a new Diocesan Capital Fund that aims to provide a sustainable capital base for future growth and will be funded by a levy on students.
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01-Jun-2009
The Northern Territory's longest serving missionary, MSC Brother John Pye, and the man known as the Top End's 'Father of Football' has died in Darwin aged 102.
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News - International
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05-Jun-2009
The Order of Friars Minor has re-elected Spanish Fr Jose Rodriguez Carballo as minister general at its general chapter in Assisi.
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05-Jun-2009
New Westminster Archbishop Vincent Nichols has said that children should be taught Christian values and virtues as part of a religion curriculum in schools.
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03-Jun-2009
East Timor has approved a law allowing emergency abortions despite objections from the Catholic Church, whose members make up 95 percent of the population.
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02-Jun-2009
A Hindu extremist group calling itself the Nepal Defence Army which claimed responsibility for bombing the Assumption Catholic Church in Kathmandu has demanded that all Christians leave the country.
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04-Jun-2009
Pope Benedict has given the Congregation for Clergy new powers to dismiss from the priesthood and release from the obligation of celibacy priests who are living with women, who have abandoned their ministry or who have engaged in seriously scandalous behaviour.
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03-Jun-2009
The beatification of Pope John Paul II may be delayed as the Vatican seeks more documentation regarding his almost 27 years as pope, Italian newspapers have reported.
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02-Jun-2009
On the eve of the 20th anniversary of the 1989 Tianmanmen killings, retired Hong Kong Cardinal Joseph Zen has urged China to reassess its verdict on the events of that period.
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02-Jun-2009
Just as the human body is threatened by breathing polluted air, the human soul is threatened by images and ideas that glorify violence or the exploitation of others, Pope Benedict said in his Pentecost homily on Sunday.
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03-Jun-2009
Mel Gibson is alleged to have gone on a 'crazed rant' at his private Holy Family Chapel on Sunday and is said to have blasted fellow worshippers for gossiping about his private life, following his split from wife Robyn.
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02-Jun-2009
A Kansas man Scott Roeder, is expected to be charged over the shooting death of late term abortionist, Dr George Tiller, who was killed as he arrived at his local church on Sunday.
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05-Jun-2009
Leeds Catholic Care has lost a dispute after the British Charity Tribunal ruled that Catholic charities who discriminate against homosexual couples who want to adopt children are breaking the law.
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04-Jun-2009
Europe is 'anti-Christian and especially anti-Catholic', former Polish Prime Minister Jaroslav Kaczynski says.
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01-Jun-2009
Religious orders at the centre of a report into child abuse in the Republic should make more resources available for compensation, Irish Christian Brothers leadership team head, Br Edmund Garvey has said.
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01-Jun-2009
Saigon Cardinal Jean Baptiste Pham Minh Man has issued a strongly worded Pentecost pastoral letter condemning the exploitation of the environment and urging the faithful to protest against economic plans that benefit only the minority in power.
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04-Jun-2009
Kenya's Catholic Church is threatening to take legal action against individuals who name their schools after saints and hire "ghost sisters" to operate them.
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01-Jun-2009
Leading Hong Kong pro-democracy campaigner and prominent Catholic layman Martin Lee said on Saturday he had been the target of an assassination plot during the 2008 elections.
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Religion
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04-Jun-2009
Congregation for Clergy secretary, Archbishop Mauro Piacenza, has lamented that many faithful no longer confess their sins, and says some confuse a psychologist's couch for a confessional booth.
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Regulars
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05-Jun-2009
The process of Vatican Bank reform has been slower and more painful than previously thought to judge by a new book, Vaticano Spa ('Vatican Ltd'), by the journalist Gianluigi Nuzzi. Nuzzi's allegations are based on internal IOR documents, more than 4000 in all, that were smuggled out of the Vatican by a disgruntled employee. This unique violation of IOR confidentiality was made possible by an unlikely whistleblower, Monsignor Renato Dardozzi. - Phillip Willan @ The Guardian
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04-Jun-2009
The direct question-and-answer, without reading prepared texts, is a method that pope Joseph Ratzinger loves. He used it when he was a professor. But until a few days ago, Benedict XVI had tried this method with children only once. The question-and-answer session took place in Saint Peter's Square in October of 2005, the first year of his pontificate. - Sandro Magister, www.chiesa
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03-Jun-2009
We have a Vatican II president. Barack Obama, I am sure, does not think of himself in those terms, but when I heard his speech at Grant Park in Chicago the night he was elected, and more recently his commencement address at Notre Dame, that is what immediately struck me. - John W. O'Malley, America Magazine
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02-Jun-2009
Boystown founder, Fr Edward Flanagan decided to return to the land of his birth in 1946 to visit his family, and also to visit the 'so-called training schools' run by the Christian Brothers to see if they were 'a success or failure.' But he was dismayed at the state of Ireland's reform schools and blasted them as 'a scandal, un-Christlike, and wrong.' And he said the Christian Brothers, founded by Edmund Rice, had lost its way. - John Fay @ IrishCentral
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01-Jun-2009
We usually take truth for granted in everyday life. It is only when we discover that we have been deceived, or at least mistaken, that the full truth dawns on us. We need truth like we need oxygen. - Cardinal George Pell, Pentecost Message
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05-Jun-2009
An internet pioneer, particularly in the Catholic world, Deaconsplace has been online since 1997. With a recent revamp, it continues a broad variety of resources for deacons, their wives and children and other Catholics. - www.deaconsplace.org.au
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04-Jun-2009
American Passionist priest, Fr Thomas Berry, a self-described 'Earth scholar' or 'geologian' has died aged 94. His website offers an impressive insight into his original contribution as an eco-theologian and as a thinker on interreligious issues. - www.thomasberry.org
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03-Jun-2009
AWRC is an organisation of women and women's organisations in Asia who are engaged in promoting Asian women's theology. It is based in Kuala Lumpur (but shortly moving to Yogyakarta), and aims to 'form a community of Asian women engaged in theology and ministry and to encourage them to articulate Asian women's contextual theology'.
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02-Jun-2009
Musica Sacra is the website of the Church Music Association of America. The site offers a huge range of classical church music resources of all genres. - www.musicasacra.com
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01-Jun-2009
Come, Walk in the Light is the next phase (2009-2011) in the Archdiocese of Brisbane's approach to ministry and evangelisation with Catholic young people. Through the program, the Archdiocese will focus on inviting young people to ... Connect Grow Choose and Go. - Come walk in the light, Brisbane Archdiocese
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05-Jun-2009
In the grand tradition of video games with the motto 'kill, kill, kill', it is a succession of violent action sequences, staged and edited at breakneck pace, linked by thin strands of plot. Location filming in New Mexico presents a post-apocalyptic landscape in which Mad Max himself would have felt at home. - Jim Murphy, Australian Catholic Office for Film and Broadcasting
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03-Jun-2009
Fires of Faith challenges the historical commonplace that by burning heretics, 'the Marian church was using the wrong weapons ... in a fight it could not win'. Eamon Duffy, Cambridge professor of the history of Christianity, argues that for Catholic authorities, burnings were a way to combat heresy in England after Henry VIII broke with Rome in the 1530s, which only intensified in Edward VI's reign. - James Shapiro, Financial Times
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05-Jun-2009
Another characteristic of the Madrid World Youth Day will be networks. For the first time, we are going to have a World Youth Day in which really the fundamental means of communication will be the Internet, the social networks, not only as information but also as communication, to create communities. In Sydney, this already began, but I think this is going to be the explosion. - Santiago de la Cierva interviewed by Zenit.
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04-Jun-2009
John W. O'Malley SJ, a professor in the theology department at Georgetown University and author of What Happened at Vatican II, is so impressed by President Obama's style and rhetorical skills, he appears to have nominated him for the position of Pope of the American Catholic Church. Some readers might think there is something in the water within Georgetown's theology department. My theory is that it has actually run out of water, and we are witnessing the besetting symptoms of dehydration. - Carl Olson, Ignatius Insight Scoop
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03-Jun-2009
Recently I have been reflecting on how much more difficult it is to think generously than to act generously. Most Christians will make all kinds of sacrifices for others but find it much more difficult to think generously of others, especially if we do not think they deserve it. That is where we are so different from God. - Fr Noel Connelly, Far East
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02-Jun-2009
Anyone with the slightest knowledge of Catholicism could have forecast that Anthony Blair wouldn't get very far from his position as a recent convert to Rome with his grand self-serving project, the Tony Blair Faith Foundation. Especially if he set himself up to preach to the pope about his pastoral duties as he did earlier this year. - Hugh O'Shaughnessy, Guardian
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01-Jun-2009
Last week, too late, the bishops of Ireland finally appeared to realise that the way in which Church authorities have exercised power for more than half a century has caused incalculable damage to Christianity. - Colum Kenny, Independent.ie
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05-Jun-2009
In
the grand tradition of video games with the motto 'kill, kill, kill',
it is a succession of violent action sequences, staged and edited at
breakneck pace, linked by thin strands of plot. Location filming in New
Mexico presents a post-apocalyptic landscape in which Mad Max himself
would have felt at home. - Jim Murphy, Australian Catholic Office for Film and Broadcasting
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02-Jun-2009
The Sydney Congress Embracing the New Evangelisation will mark the first anniversary of Pope Benedict's visit to Sydney for World Youth Day 2008. - www.scene.org.au
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01-Jun-2009
The Australian Catholic Students Association will host their annual National Conference in Brisbane this July. All Catholic students studying their HSC or at Tertiary institutions such as University or TAFE are invited to a weekend of prayer, talks, and social fun. - ACSA National Conference, July 10-12 2009
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