News
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22-Jun-2009
The Vatican has rebuffed as "unjustified and inopportune" comments by Pope Pius XII expert, Jesuit Fr Peter Gumpel, that pressure from Jewish organisations is delaying the beatification of the controversial wartime pope.
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22-Jun-2009
The Congregation for the Causes of Saints have approved a miracle attributed to Cardinal John Henry Newman, the last step before Pope Benedict promulgates the British cardinal's beatification.
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25-Jun-2009
Coonabarabran's business community has joined parents to fight to save the town's only Catholic high school, scheduled for closure due to falling enrolments.
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24-Jun-2009
The successful Catholic Education Office Melbourne and University of Melbourne co-developed Literacy Assessment Project will be rolled out across 600 Victorian public schools.
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23-Jun-2009
The Catholic Education Office Melbourne will benefit from an $860,000 linkage grant from the Australian Research Council to continue research into the successful Literacy Assessment Project (LAP) in Catholic schools.
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22-Jun-2009
Australian Education Union president Angelo Gavrielatos says that faith based schools promote bonding but not bridging after Independent Education Union boss Chris Watt accused him of a "head high tackle" on non-government schools.
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26-Jun-2009
Former Charlie's Angel Farrah Fawcett died of cancer at age 62 after receiving the last rites from a Catholic priest, reports say.
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22-Jun-2009
Pope Benedict has signed a record deal for an album of religious music and prayers for Christmas to be released under the Geffen label, which also distributes music for Lady GaGa and U2.
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News - National
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25-Jun-2009
Developing a better understanding of issues faced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples is key to more effective action by the Christian community, the National Council of Churches Australia said.
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26-Jun-2009
A homosexual rights group wants the St Mary of the Angels' parish priest and the Australian Family Association to apologise for criticising a ratepayer funded night for gay youths in Geelong.
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26-Jun-2009
Victorian Supreme Court Justice Peter Vickery has described the actions of a Good Shepherd Sisters investment company as "harsh, unreasonable and unnecessary".
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23-Jun-2009
Christian Brother John Francis Coswello, 70, will serve 15 months in jail for molesting a boy at the St Vincent De Paul Boys Orphanage in South Melbourne in the early 1970s.
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23-Jun-2009
An Australian-Irish community at Crossley in western Victoria fighting to retain their 130 year old St Brigid's Church and hall which are up on sale, raised $10,000 for its cause from a musical display over last weekend.
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26-Jun-2009
Sydney's St Joseph's College Hunters Hill has closed after five students tested positive for the swine flu virus with that tally expected to "significantly increase" in coming days.
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25-Jun-2009
A total of 13 Bathurst Diocese Catholic primary schools have received $22.6 million in the second round of grants under the Federal Government's economic stimulus package.
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22-Jun-2009
The general manager of the Campbelltown Catholic Club has been fined $1,800 for breaching new liquor licensing conditions imposed by the NSW Government since late last year.
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24-Jun-2009
North-west Queensland's Indigenous Catholic Social Service says that fewer Northern Territorians are crossing the border and accessing its services compared to this time last year.
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24-Jun-2009
A 14 year old Chisholm Catholic College student escaped with minor cuts after a rock was thrown at a bus in Alexander Heights in Perth on Monday afternoon.
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23-Jun-2009
Vandals caused some $40,000 worth of damage at the St Thomas More Catholic Church in Margaret River in a weekend attack.
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News - International
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25-Jun-2009
The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) decried US President Obama's swatting a fly, urging compassion for even "the smallest and least" animals, but admitted ambivalence on abortion.
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24-Jun-2009
Development and Peace, the international development arm of Canada's episcopal conference, has been cleared of allegations of funding pro-abortion groups in Mexico, following an investigation into the agency's partner organisations.
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24-Jun-2009
Over 250 women's religious orders have formed a new international network to beat the trafficking of women and children for prostitution at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics Games and the 2010 soccer World Cup in South Africa.
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26-Jun-2009
Discovery astronaut Ronald Garan who carried relics of St Therese of Lisieux into space and put them in orbit around the earth attended Pope Benedict's general audience on Wednesday.
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24-Jun-2009
In a letter to clergy for the Year for Priests, Boston Cardinal Sean O'Malley has called for a return to the ancient theology of the presbyterate as an "intimate sacramental brotherhood" with a "corporate sense of priestly identity".
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25-Jun-2009
Rome Reports has released the first in-depth documentary on Benedict XVI from his childhood in Bavaria, Germany, through the first years of his pontificate.
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22-Jun-2009
Italy's major Catholic newspaper Avvenire has called on Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi to "respond to public opinion" urgently over allegations that escorts were paid to attend parties at his residences.
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26-Jun-2009
More than 500,000 people reportedly paid homage to former Jesuit priest and Spanish missionary Vincent Ferrer between his death last week and his funeral early this week in India.
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23-Jun-2009
Australian cricket legend Steve Waugh has launched a unit of his charity foundation in India, saying his inspiration to do social work came from Blessed Mother Teresa of Kolkata.
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25-Jun-2009
Paraguayan President and ex-Bishop Fernando Lugo allegedly sexually assaulted a former housekeeper, one of the women who is now accusing him of fathering her six year old child.
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23-Jun-2009
The killer of an Austrian priest working in South Africa has confessed to the crime in an anonymous note left at a church, South African police say.
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Regulars
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26-Jun-2009
I would welcome a sermon about death and the life to come. I would like to be assured that the Lord does not hold it against me that I am frightened of the actual process of quitting this life. It would be helpful to be urged to pray for a happy death and to look forward, in both senses of that verb, to that supreme moment of truth when I shall come face to face with my Maker and meet absolute justice for the first and last time. - Jack Scarisbrick, The Catholic Herald
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25-Jun-2009
Many of us felt great joy when the "ordinary" Susan Boyle turned into someone quite extraordinary, singing the aptly named "I Dreamed a Dream" with such passion and beauty it could have brought tears to the eyes of a statue. There was indeed something dreamlike about seeing this Scottish daughter of Irish immigrant parents prove, as she said after her stunning solo, "that I could do something with my life." - Fr Tim, Irish Central
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24-Jun-2009
In the next few days Benedict XVI is to sign a new encyclical letter to be called Caritas in Veritate. Its formal title, "Charity in Truth" might best be rendered in English as "Home Truths for Bankers". - Hugh O'Shaughnessy, guardian.co.uk
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23-Jun-2009
A couple of weeks ago departing Telstra Chief Sol Trujillo was quoted extensively in the media on his comments about Australia being a backward nation of racists. I joined in unison with Indigenous leaders around the nation by offering a wry smirk and a silent nod of approval to an animated Sol while I was viewing his forthright reflection on the evening news. - Stephen Hagan, Online Opinion
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22-Jun-2009
ACRATH says women and children are continually trafficked to Australia from Southeast Asia, South Korea and China. Some leave their homelands voluntarily to work in brothels, while others are forced or deceived into coming. They are slaves, but often do not see themselves as such. They are reluctant to seek help, due to lack of trust, self-blame, or 'training' by traffickers. - Michael Mullins, Eureka Street
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26-Jun-2009
Prayers for Priests is a website which holds a range of prayers, novenas, holy hours, and a rosary for priests. The site has the capacity for readers to submit the name of a member of the clergy and you can become a PrayerWarrior for Priests.
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25-Jun-2009
The Society of Australian Congregations of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary (PBVM) is a federation of six autonomous Presentation Congregations in Australia and a group of Australian and Melanesian Presentation Sisters in Papua New Guinea.
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24-Jun-2009
Armidale Catholic Schools Office assists in the adminstration of 25 schools across north and north-western New South Wales in what is the second largest diocese by area in the state.
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23-Jun-2009
Another website out of the Just Act series of sites, Just Holy Hardware is for people who do not want to buy Christian devotional items made under gross exploitation or from illegally obtained material.
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22-Jun-2009
The Vatican's Congregation for the Clergy have developed this website to mark the recently commenced "Year for Priests", a special year to deepen the commitment of all priests to interior renewal for the sake of a more forceful and incisive witness to the Gospel in today's world.
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22-Jun-2009
This is a fast paced, science fiction thriller that maintains its suspense and energy through excellent animation, and it should thoroughly engage Transformer fans. The plot is more than a little complex and confusing, as people are moved from one place to another with literally no explanation. However, amidst all the explosions, the animated sequences carry the day. - Peter W. Sheehan, Australian Catholic Office for Film and Broadcasting
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24-Jun-2009
Boy meets girl, they fall in love and plan their "happily ever after", but what happens if the partners hold different religious beliefs? Everyday issues take on a new dimension as couples look for common ground across the religious divide. Wedding celebrations, praying together, moral codes and how to raise children have to be negotiated in the light of two faith traditions.
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26-Jun-2009
The National Human Rights Consultation has prompted the publication of three books arguing the case for and against a commonwealth charter of human rights and responsibilities. There are acute differences of opinion in the community about the utility of a statutory bill of rights. But there is much common ground.
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25-Jun-2009
A new encyclical on Catholic social teaching will soon be released as Pope Benedict's response to the current economic crisis. Conservatives will be shocked and disappointed by the encyclical, which will reflect Benedict's skepticism toward unbridled capitalism based on greed. - Fr Thomas Reese, The Washington Post
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24-Jun-2009
If the Church is to have a future it has to replace that ethic of control with a radical ethic of service. It has to place itself, not as a quasi-government, but out there in the wide field of voluntary activity in which people do good things for their own sake. It has to recognise that the old compact weakened the State to the point where it could not protect vulnerable citizens and corrupted the church to the point where it committed and enabled systemic atrocities. For its own sake, as well for that of society, it has move on.
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23-Jun-2009
In a few days time, we, the leaders of Catholic Religious in Australia, will gather for our annual assembly. Our focus this year is on the nature of our multifaith society - its reality, gift and challenge. It is appropriate, too, that this focus follows on so closely to the Pope's recent visit to the Middle East, where he spoke of the importance of such interreligious dialogue for the well being and peace of our world. - Sr Clare Condon, Pathways
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22-Jun-2009
When we hear the comment that the churches are dying, however, we think first of the Church institution and reject the idea. Whether the numbers be great or small in particular places, and whether local communities
flourish or close down, it will never be that the Church as the People of God will die. The Church is here till the end of time. - Fr Barry Brundell, Compass
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26-Jun-2009
The Victorian province of the Sisters of St Joseph are commemorating the Centenary of the death of Blessed Mary MacKillop. who was born in the well know Melbourne location of Brunswick Street, Fitzroy.
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25-Jun-2009
With the aim of highlighting the legacy of St Paul for the Catholic community, the format of the Year of St Paul National E-Conference will allow the Church across Australia to take part in an exciting innovation in a cost effective way. The conference is structured to allow participants to receive the input from the presenters and then participate in a structured process using a local trained person to help facilitate the learning in each local site as well as assist with coordinating interaction with the conference site.
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23-Jun-2009
The Life, Marriage and Family Office of the Archdiocese of Melbourne invites people who are celebrating their 25th, 40th, 50th or 60th anniversaries in 2009 to the Annual Anniversary Mass.
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