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02-Jul-2009
UK's advertising watchdog banned an ice cream advertisement featuring a young nun and priest about to share a kiss, deeming it offensive and demeaning to those following a religious vocation.
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News
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02-Jul-2009
The Vatican has unveiled a restored Pauline Chapel that contains the last murals by Michelangelo, following five years shrouded under scaffolding, reports said.
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03-Jul-2009
Catholic Education Office Melbourne said it supports the view that private schools "deserve public funding because they are educators of the public," expressed in an article in The Australian yesterday.
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01-Jul-2009
University of NSW law professor George Williams and Australian Catholic University vice-chancellor Greg Craven are questioning the legality of a ban on school rankings in NSW.
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30-Jun-2009
Private school families don't want a comparison of like schools, contrary to the assertions of the Federal Government, a survey has found.
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30-Jun-2009
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School in NSW's South Murwillumbah will introduce tai chi, yoga and elements of martial arts in a program to educate "the whole child".
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03-Jul-2009
The restoration of Michelangelo's frescoes in the Vatican's Pauline Chapel has uncovered what is believed to be a previously unknown self portrait of the artist.
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News - National
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03-Jul-2009
Catholic Community Services is planning to hold a National Squalor Conference to create awareness that living in squalor it is not just happening near "rubbish heaps in the third world."
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02-Jul-2009
A Lismore woman hopes to ramp up her quest to reconcile former wartime enemies to a nationwide level, following an invitation to speak at an upcoming Peace Convergence in Rockhampton.
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01-Jul-2009
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has promised two Josephite nuns that he would urge for the canonisation of Mary MacKillop when he meets the Pope next week.
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01-Jul-2009
Some 5,000 people gathered in an international e-conference to mark the end the the Pauline year, a landmark event for the Australian Church, according to the Broken Bay Diocese.
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30-Jun-2009
Australian federal MPs are increasingly invoking Christian beliefs to justify policies and articulate their values and visions for the nation, said a study.
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29-Jun-2009
The Brisbane archdiocese will today celebrate the 150th anniversary of the consecration of the diocese's first bishop, James Quinn, with a 10am Mass in St Stephen's Cathedral.
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29-Jun-2009
Youth events like World Youth Day are catalysing the rediscovery of faith among a new generation, and the new breed of priests that will be needed, according to Sydney's auxillary Bishop Julian Porteous.
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29-Jun-2009
Church Resources has appointed Luke Kenny as its new Chief Executive Officer.
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03-Jul-2009
Greg McBurney, whose son was crushed to death by a faulty 100 kilogram gate at the Lismore Trinity Catholic College in 2005, said in a statement that it has led him to depression and fighting alcohol abuse.
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02-Jul-2009
"The centre of Australia is moving north. You have a Prime Minister, a Treasurer and a Governor General. Who knows what else?" quipped Cardinal George Pell about Brisbane.
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News - International
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01-Jul-2009
A group of palaeontologists were offended, amused and disturbed during a tour of the Creation Museum in Kentucky in the US, which was intended as a tongue-in-cheek way to cap off a serious conference they had attended.
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02-Jul-2009
Disputing a claim by Pope Benedict that the bones of St Paul seem to have been found in Rome, a Dutch expert, Rengert Elburg, says this can never be proven.
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30-Jun-2009
The first ever scientific test on bone fragments that are believed to be the remains of the Apostle Paul "seems to confirm" that they do indeed belong to the Roman Catholic saint, Pope Benedict XVI said.
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01-Jul-2009
A Vatican investigator has found enough evidence of a miracle in the survival of Kansas man Chase Kear that it intends to keep studying his survival, with an eye toward declaring it an official miracle towards the canonisation of Fr Emil Kapaun, church officials say.
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03-Jul-2009
Keep vampires away with garlic and holy water, the belief goes, but keep Marilyn Manson away with fasting and prayer, Hungarian Christians are being urged.
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02-Jul-2009
Britain's Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams, Vincent Nichols, the Archbishop of Westminster, and Sir Jonathan Sacks, the country's Chief Rabbi want to put a stop to moves that could legalise euthanasia.
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01-Jul-2009
Five and six year olds on a school playground cleanup at the St Peter Chanel Catholic School in Otaki, New Zealand, were made to pick up used condoms, leading to the resignation of Board members in protest.
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30-Jun-2009
British Anglican Bishop Paul Richardson says that "Christian Britain is dead", while author Hal Colebatch writes that proposed anti-discrimination laws further erodes Church control.
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30-Jun-2009
Religious congregations in Ireland are feeling betrayed by Church leadership over actions and statements following the Ryan report.
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29-Jun-2009
The Society of St Pius X has defied a Vatican order by ordaining three priests in southern Germany on Saturday.
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29-Jun-2009
An Italian priest caught driving over the alcohol limit blamed the reading measured by police on the consecrated wine he consumed at Mass.
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29-Jun-2009
Northern Ireland's main paramilitary groups, the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF), the Ulster Defence Association (UDA) and the Red Hand Commandos (RHC) have announced that they are disarming.
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03-Jul-2009
Thirty seven US senators have urged Vietnam's president to free Catholic priest, Fr Nguyen Van Ly, as human rights groups said his imprisonment justified putting Vietnam on a religious freedom blacklist.
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Regulars
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03-Jul-2009
When we make a comment on how another person is reacting to something in their life, what we are doing is experiencing their situation from afar. We are not in that person's shoes, we do not know the facts or intricacies of the situation and we are judging from our own patch, our own situation, our own circumstance. - Pauline Connelly, The Southern Cross
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02-Jul-2009
Since it is not possible to argue that non-government schools, by definition, provide an inferior academic and technical education, critics therefore tend to question their role in society. Government schools are lauded as being the cornerstone of democracy and lighthouses of social inclusion. Non-government schools are accused of elitism and of creating intolerance. - Jennifer Buckingham, The Australian
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01-Jul-2009
Roger Pryke changed thousands of people's lives. Chaplain to Catholic students at Sydney University for a decade before the second Vatican Council (1962-65), he was an early exponent of the major themes that make up the Vatican II event. A historian tracing the Vatican II story in Australian Catholicism might profitably start with Roger Pryke. - Fr Edmund Campion, Sydney Morning Herald
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30-Jun-2009
Contraception, abortion and death. Many people think the Catholic Church is preoccupied with little else. Yet beyond that sometimes self inflicted stereotype there is hidden treasure - a centuries old tradition of radical, progressive action and insight on matters of social justice. I meet few people who are aware of the existence and extraordinary breadth of Catholic social teaching. Without doubt it is Catholicism's best kept secret. - Christine Allen, guardian.co.uk
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29-Jun-2009
It is understandable that popes appoint men they can trust to carry out the policies they want. But since the Vatican bureaucracy tends to promote people from within the Roman Curia rather than bring in lots of outsiders, a pope who has spent time in those corridors has a distinct advantage over one who has not. - Robert Mickens, The Tablet
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03-Jul-2009
The Emmanuel Community is an association of the faithful of all states of life. It takes its name from Scripture passage in (Mt 1:23) - "Emmanuel" is "God with us" in our daily life.
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02-Jul-2009
The Patrician Brothers came to Australia during the "educational crisis" of the 1880s and established numerous schools. In recent years they have moved beyond schools to other areas of need in the community.
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01-Jul-2009
American Catholic is the online home of St Anthony Messenger, Catholic Update, Millennium Monthly, Scripture From Scratch and other Catholic features. It is a service of St Anthony Messenger Press and Franciscan Communications based in Ohio.
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30-Jun-2009
Founded over 50 years ago in North Queensland, for the conversion and salvation of the "churchless millions", the Confraternity of Christ the Priest is a missionary association of priests and brothers, diocesan associates, affiliates and youth whose primary love and aim is to glorify God by exercising fully their participation in the Priesthood of Jesus Christ.
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29-Jun-2009
For Your Marriage is a website initiative of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops which provides resources for couples, whatever their stage of life. The site addresses a wide range of marital issues from making marriage better to dealing with serious problems like the dangers of internet pornography on a marriage.
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30-Jun-2009
Last Ride describes the troubled relationship between a father and son. It is all at once a road movie and a coming of age story in which murder, curiosity and struggling to survive are key. In what is essentially a two-hander, the ever excellent Hugo Weaving grounds the ride, while youngster Tom Russell impresses as the boy forced to learn the toughest of life's lessons with no safety net. - Louise Keller and Andrew L. Urban, Urban Cinefile
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01-Jul-2009
If your gut reaction to names like Hamas and Hezbollah is that they are essentially terrorist organisations and that their ideas are of no interest to any civilised person, this book is an attempt to redress the balance by putting forward a much more sympathetic case. - Fr Damian Howard, Thinking Faith
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29-Jun-2009
When John Geiger read Sir Ernest Shackleton's memoir of his 1914-1917 Antarctic expedition, he was transfixed by the legendary polar explorer's tale of his battle for survival. He was in awe of Shackleton's powers of physical endurance. But it was the metaphysical aspect of the story that stayed with him - the "unseen presence" that, according to the explorer, had accompanied the three men on the last harrowing stage of their journey. - Liz Porter, The Sunday Age
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03-Jul-2009
Is the attempt by some to ostracise those who seek alternative approaches to the subject of abortion really the most effective and the most moral position a Catholic can take? By ignoring, and so minimising, all other social justice issues, can we possibly consider ourselves sufficiently grounded in a Catholic vision of the world, even in regard to our commitment to this one? - Sr Joan Chittister, National Catholic Reporter
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02-Jul-2009
While the very public embrace of religion as justification for particular policies may still be confined to a minority of members, there is a risk that religious reasoning, not subject to the usual rational challenges, may grow in significance. As political philosophies have been eroded in favour of a pragmatic market based materialism, and as the parties look more and more alike, elected representatives are often unable to explain why they make the decisions they do. - Carmen Lawrence, The Age
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01-Jul-2009
Now instead of finding itself persecuted by Elizabethan spies, informers and hangmen, Catholicism finds itself under severe assault from the self-righteous, politically correct social engineers of Britain's political Left. Thankfully the same thing has yet to happen in Australia, but with the increasing politicisation of public education here by an ideologically driven Marxist Left, something very similar may not be far away. - Giles Auty, The Australian
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30-Jun-2009
I am deeply shocked and profoundly embarrassed, even angered, by what I have read in the Executive Summary of the Ryan Report related to findings involving the Christian Brothers in Ireland. I know that I am not alone in this. I am aware also that there are many good people, who have been and continue to be associated with the Christian Brothers in various formal and informal ways, who will be experiencing similar reactions and responses to mine. - Br Shane Wood, Eureka Street
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29-Jun-2009
St Paul was like an eccentric uncle in our family, the Apostle who didn't seem quite suitable to introduce in polite company. Perhaps we have even found him slightly alarming: too quick to turn the conversation to matters of religion, too strong in his opinions. And, of course, as St Peter wrote in his second letter (2 Peter 3:15), some things in the letters of "our beloved brother Paul" are just a little "hard to understand." - Archbishop Denis Hart, Kairos Catholic Journal
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03-Jul-2009
Celebrate the 400 years of Mary Ward and have Eucharist with the Loreto Community at St Francis Church Lonsdale Street, Melbourne on Sunday July 19 2009 at 2.30pm. A photographic exhibition highlighting Mary Ward and the story of Loreto will be on display in St Francis Pastoral Centre from July 19 to 31.
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02-Jul-2009
Shane Howard and Archie Roach are the headline acts at a Melbourne fundraising concert to benefit the Friends of St Brigid's as they attempt to to retain St Brigid's Church and Hall, Crossley in south-western Victoria for community use.
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