News
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18-Jun-2009
The Vatican warned the Society of St Pius X not to go ahead with plans
to ordain new priests this month, describing the ordinations as
"illegitimate".
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15-Jun-2009
Pope Benedict says his new encyclical on the economy and labour issues, due to be published at the end of this month, will focus on ways to make globalisation more responsive to the needs of the poor amid the worldwide financial crisis.
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15-Jun-2009
Five year old St Andrew's College Cairns student Matt Tunney is in danger of being sent to the principal's office if he turns up again wearing socks that are too short.
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15-Jun-2009
Aussie icon Kylie Minogue is reportedly considering becoming a Catholic ahead of her rumoured forthcoming marriage to Spanish model Andres Velencoso.
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News - National
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19-Jun-2009
Catholic Social Services Australia has renewed its call for the establishment of an independent Australian Entitlements Commission to set and review pensions and other income support payments.
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19-Jun-2009
CEOs bedding down outdoors in the Society of St Vincent de Paul's annual sleepout fundraiser have raised $500,000, double what the organisers were expecting.
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18-Jun-2009
The Anglican Church is set to overhaul its rules for how clergy and church workers interact with adolescents after an independent report revealed the church averaged nearly a complaint a month between 1990 and 2008.
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17-Jun-2009
Good Shepherd's Social Justice Network has called on religious orders and community groups to strengthen anti-trafficking networks worldwide and support those fighting against human trafficking in poor countries, especially in Asia.
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17-Jun-2009
Anthony and Christine Foster, who failed in a bid to meet Pope Benedict during last year's World Youth Day visit, want to warn other parents that the "insidious" sexual abuse inflicted on two of their three young girls could happen to anyone.
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17-Jun-2009
The Catholic Superannuation and Retirement Fund (CSRF) has signed the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment, which are designed to integrate environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors into the investment process.
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16-Jun-2009
Former Collingwood AFL star, Nathan Buckley, is furthering his coaching education this week with the US University of Notre Dame's football team, the Fighting Irish.
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15-Jun-2009
The Australian Catholic Council for Employment Relations and Catholic Social Services Australia have told the Fair Pay Commission that its housing cost estimates are "unrealistic".
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15-Jun-2009
Almost fifty Catholic laity, priests and religious from around the nation gathered in Melbourne at the weekend to consider the challenges facing the Church.
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19-Jun-2009
Pope Benedict has appointed Melbourne Auxiliary Bishop Christopher Prowse as the eighth Catholic Bishop of Sale.
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19-Jun-2009
The Hunter Valley's Catholic and Anglican bishops say they are committed to ensuring more people do not suffer the trauma experienced by people abused by members of the clergy.
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17-Jun-2009
The NSW Education Department has banned a life education program, The Wonder of Life (Before Birth), because the program's creator, Bruce Coleman, has links to pro-life groups.
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16-Jun-2009
Bathurst's city bells, located in a newly built tower at the All Saints Anglican Cathedral, will ring out together for the first time later this month to welcome the new Catholic Bishop of Bathurst, Fr Michael McKenna.
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18-Jun-2009
Brisbane's Pregnancy Crisis Centre president Patti Camp says that with the rate of abortions standing at about 15,000 a year in Queensland alone, crisis pregnancy support services for women are essential.
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News - International
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16-Jun-2009
Ho Chi Minh City police have arrested Catholic lawyer, Paul Le Cong Dinh on charges of working with foreigners to overthrow the government and creating "propaganda against the State of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam."
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19-Jun-2009
In a letter to priests around the world to launch the Year for Priests, Pope Benedict deplored priests who were unfaithful to their vows and called for a "frank and complete acknowledgment" of the Catholic Church's weaknesses.
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19-Jun-2009
In the wake of Ireland's Ryan Commission Report on abuse in institutions, Christian Brothers congregational leader, Br Philip Pinto, has called on the brothers to become "more human and compassionate" and to "seek forgiveness" from victims.
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17-Jun-2009
The Pave the Way Foundation for interreligious dialogue has announced it has found more than 2,300 pages of original documents illustrating Pope Pius XII's efforts to help Jews in the face of Nazism.
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15-Jun-2009
Polish woman, Wanda Poltawska, 87, has defended her publication of a book of her correspondence with the late Pope John Paul II.
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18-Jun-2009
America's Communist Party has established a new Religion Commission chaired by Chicago trade unionist, Tim Yeager, to strengthen its work among religious people and organisations.
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18-Jun-2009
The newspaper of the Italian bishops conference has published new evidence that Hitler's security forces had planned to either kidnap or kill Pope Pius XII.
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18-Jun-2009
A group of British witches is claiming religious discrimination after a Stockport Catholic church banned them from using its social club for their Crystal Cauldron Witches Ball.
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17-Jun-2009
A Paris prosecutor has recommended that a court should dissolve the Church of Scientology's French branch when it rules on charges of fraud against the organisation.
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16-Jun-2009
British Catholic couple Austin and Nuala Conway who had sextuplets last month have revealed doctors advised them to abort some of the babies.
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16-Jun-2009
The Santa Maria Stella Maris church at Fiumicino, near Rome, has stopped offering holy water to worshippers because the parish priest fears it is being stolen for satanic rituals.
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16-Jun-2009
In a German newspaper article, Freiburg im Brisgau Archbishop Robert Zollitsch has admitted Church orphanages did "wrong" to some children in the 1950s and 1960s and promised individual inquiries.
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Regulars
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19-Jun-2009
It seems Muslim independent schools are often the cause of controversy, usually stirred up by those having some kind of fear of Muslims. The idea that Muslim schools will train jihadist fighters and religious radicals is a bit silly. For one thing, no one has been able to point to a single individual from a single Muslim independent school in Australia who has fallen into the radical lap of the likes of Osama bin Laden. - Irfan Yusuf, abc.net.au
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18-Jun-2009
As a school principal, one receives letters of many varieties, but by far the saddest I ever received came from a parent who had taken his life the previous day. Fully conscious that he was about to end his life, he wrote to ask me to take care of his boys. What a sadness that he could not imagine a future in which he would take care of them himself! No doubt he had a huge hole in his soul. - Fr Chris Gleeson, Madonna
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17-Jun-2009
Concert pianist, composer, poet, philosopher, blogger and committed Catholic. Stephen Hough is also a mildly spoken gay activist who disputes Tchaikovsky's supposed suicide - he doesn't believe a word of it - and believes several Christian saints were homosexual. Like his surname, Hough is a complicated man to grasp first time. - Steve Meacham, brisbanetimes.com.au
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16-Jun-2009
In an inspired move, Pope Benedict has declared that the Year of Paul which ends this month will be followed by the Year of the Priest starting on June 19, 2009. In the past year we've been captivated and challenged by this extraordinary layman's passion for the gospel. As mystic, missionary and martyr Paul's power and authority came from a baptism lived radically. He was never ordained. - Sr Elizabeth Julian, Wel-com
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15-Jun-2009
Over the past 20 years, the invariably black dressed Bridge has become Australia's high priest of contemporary music. Since founding Ars Musica Australis in 1996, the 57 year old Anglican turned Catholic has commissioned more music from more Australian composers than anyone else in history. - Sydney Morning Herald
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19-Jun-2009
The Centre for Multicultural Pastoral Care (CMPC) is an agency of the Archdiocese of Brisbane which responds to and advocates for the needs and concerns of migrants, refugees, refugee claimants and people on the move regardless of their race, creed or nationality. It also helps to coordinate multicultural pastoral care within parishes and other Church organisations.
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18-Jun-2009
Community for a Better World is an international Catholic group of lay women and men, bishops, priests and religious, present in 37 countries of Europe, Africa, Asia, Latin America, North America and Oceania. It is proclaims its passion about promoting the type of collective change in ways of thinking, in values and attitudes, in ways of relating and acting that will result in a better world.
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17-Jun-2009
Zenit is a non-profit international news agency whose objective is to inform about the "world seen from Rome," with professionalism and faithfulness to the truth. It views the modern world through the messages of the Pope and the Holy See; tells about the happenings of the Church; and informs about the topics, debates and events that are especially interesting to Christians worldwide.
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16-Jun-2009
The Dominican Centre for Interfaith, Ministry, Education and Research (CIMER) engages with communities of people of other faiths, and contributes to mutual understanding and social cohesiveness in the Australian society. It develops theological and other resources found in the Catholic and Christian tradition which support interfaith engagement.
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15-Jun-2009
The Archdiocese of Canberra and Goulburn has launched a Virtual Pilgrimage website which will follow thirty five pilgrims, led by Archbishop Mark Coleridge, retired Archbishop Francis Carroll and St Christopher's Cathedral Administrator Fr Francis Koloncherry, as they walk in the Footsteps of Saint Paul.
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17-Jun-2009
This is classical romantic comedy, and a typical theme for such plots is that when two people start to spend time together, they also start to fall in love, with perfectly predictable results. However, the film offers more than that. - Peter W. Sheehan, Australian Catholic Office for Film and Broadcasting
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18-Jun-2009
This program of The Spirit of Things looks at the radical influence St Francis has on the lives of people more than 800 years after his life. He's inspired Brother Wayne to be a hermit in northern New South Wales and has also encouraged the Franciscan Sister Ilia Delio's commitment to science in partnership with religion.
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19-Jun-2009
Can we describe America as "religious" and Europe as "secular"? This is the basic question analysed in this book. It takes its theme from the idea of "eurosecularity" and compare it with the "religious" United States by looking at four dimensions between the two. In Europe religion is regarded as part of the problem; in the United States it is part of the solution. - John Battle, Thinking Faith
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15-Jun-2009
The author of Heart Whispers, Elizabeth Canham, writes out of her experience of living for five years as a monastic Oblate in a Benedictine community. She has a very readable style, often reflective, sometimes conversational, as she shares her own lived experience and her reflection on the relevance of Benedict's Rule for her own life. - Sr Sue Barker, The Good Oil
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19-Jun-2009
The destruction of the planet raises many theological questions. We have been led to believe that God cares only for the salvation of humans and that our calling is to exploit the earth for our own ends. This false Gospel has its preachers, politicians and policymakers who follow its dictates. In doing this they are destroying the Earth. - Fr Sean McDonagh, The Far East
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18-Jun-2009
Tolerance, charity and respect are not "weasel words," nor are they excuses to paper over legitimate differences among Catholics. Rather, they are essential elements for a Church in which members work together toward common goals. Polarisation must stop; otherwise our identity as a faith community will be torn asunder and Catholicism will cease to be an elevating force for change. - America
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17-Jun-2009
For some men and women, IVF can seem like a godsend. Inability is always felt as a grievous loss for loving couples. But the clinics which offer IVF and other "assisted reproductive technology" techniques are businesses, and offer services, not love. They make mistakes which devastate lives. - Bill Muehlenberg, MercatorNet
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16-Jun-2009
I sense a growing weariness among Christians in the fierce cultural battles currently being waged, such as abortion and gay "marriage." Does it seem like life would be so much easier if we stopped making a big deal about things and just let people do what they wanted? Live and let live, right? Isn't that the compassionate attitude? - Jennifer Hartline, Catholic Online
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15-Jun-2009
The Advanced Medical Institute (AMI) with its "Nasal Delivery Technology" has descended upon Australian billboards, newspapers, TV and radio, peddling an alleged cure for impotence. The AMI campaign is not a medical campaign. Rather it is an attempt to reshape our understanding of the human person and the sexual act and to make a great deal of money in the process. - Bernard Toutounji, Energy Publisher
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16-Jun-2009
Well known broadcaster Geraldine Doogue will be in conversation with the former Master of the Dominicans, Fr Timothy Radcliffe at the next Catalyst for Renewal Forum in Sydney on June 24.
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