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16-Jul-2009
Renovation is in progress on Domus Australis, a pilgrimage centre in Rome for Australian pilgrims, said Sydney Archdiocese Cardinal George Pell.
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News
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15-Jul-2009
The Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano gave the new Harry Potter movie four stars for promoting "friendship, altruism, loyalty and self giving", a break from Holy See officials' previous reservation that the books promote witchcraft.
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13-Jul-2009
Pope Benedict primarily stressed defence and promotion of life in his first meeting with US President Barack Obama, stating the Church's opposition to abortion and stem cell research, reports said.
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15-Jul-2009
More than 90 percent of Catholic schools in the country have committed to linking up through a new $146 million national broadband network, to be rolled out by Telstra over the next two years.
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14-Jul-2009
New South Wales teachers said the Government's league tables plan is too simplistic to accurately reflect schools' performance and have said they will oppose the plan.
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13-Jul-2009
Directing federal funds to private schools "suits the idea of the market and the ideology of choice" but erodes social cohesion, said University of Technology Sydney professor Andrew Jakubowicz.
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News - National
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17-Jul-2009
A state funeral attended by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull, Premier John Brumby and a host of military brass was held for Edward Kenna VC, Australia's last World War II recipient of the medal.
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14-Jul-2009
The Australian Catholic Bishops Conference is inviting expressions of interest for appointment as the official pilgrimage provider to the Australian Catholic Church for local World Youth Day pilgrims heading to Madrid in 2011.
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13-Jul-2009
A former St Joseph's College, Pascoe Vale student is suing the school for failing to protect him from bullies, while a former teacher of Lismore's Trinity Catholic College has been charged with possession of child pornography.
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17-Jul-2009
A Victorian inquiry into exemptions available in the Victorian Equal Opportunity Act could harm religious freedom, and threaten services the Church provides, the state's Catholic bishops said.
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16-Jul-2009
Bishop Christopher Prowse was installed as the eighth Bishop of Sale on Wednesday, a news report said.
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15-Jul-2009
The Friends of St Brigid's will submit a tender on Friday for the the purchase of the St Brigid's church and hall in Crossley, Victoria, the community said in a statement.
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15-Jul-2009
Jesuit Social Services founder, Fr Peter Norden is leaving the religious order and contemplating his future as a priest, burnt out from decades of overwork and heavyweight social work, a news report said.
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15-Jul-2009
The three churches that were destroyed in Victoria's Black Saturday fires in Kinglake aren't receiving financial help from the $350 million relief fund to rebuild, a news report said.
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15-Jul-2009
St Mary's school hall in Geelong that was sold off by the Church on Tuesday will become a central community hub within a $50 million apartment complex planned for the location.
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16-Jul-2009
An anti-homosexual letter published in Albury, NSW's Xavier High School alumni publication breaches the state's anti-vilification laws, a gay activist said, and he demanded an apology from the school.
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14-Jul-2009
Police have charged a priest with 19 offences of sexual assaults on young boys in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s with the latest offences allegedly occuring while he served at Maitland, Muswellbrook, Cessnock, and Windale.
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17-Jul-2009
Catholic, Anglican and Uniting Church leaders have issued a joint statement underscoring their solidarity with farmers against mining in southern Queensland's Darling Downs.
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16-Jul-2009
The Brisbane based Pregnancy Crisis organisation, at risk of closing down due to insufficient funds, said it has successfully raised money to operate for another year from a recent fundraising dinner.
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14-Jul-2009
Peace activist Baptist minister Simon Moyle and three colleagues plan to hide in 10,000 square miles of Australian bushland in order to disrupt war games involving the US and Australian armies, navies and air forces.
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13-Jul-2009
A 69 year old grandmother protesting war games in central Queensland was arrested for crossing a police delineated line doing the hokey pokey.
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13-Jul-2009
The first group of walkers are poised to take on 125 kilometre walk from St Joseph's Church in Subiaco to the country's only monastic town, New Norcia, tracing a route travelled by Dom Rosendo Salvado in the 1860s.
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News - International
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16-Jul-2009
A "stained glass" billboard bearing the message, "Imagine No Religion" erected by the US based Alabama Freethought Association has sparked a round of debate, a news report said.
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17-Jul-2009
Cardinal John Henry Newman will be beatified in Birmingham, England on May 2, 2010, reports say.
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17-Jul-2009
The New Zealand Transport Agency is moving Auckland's Christ the King Primary School 50 metres south to keep down noise pollution from a nearby highway, a report said.
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16-Jul-2009
The Church of England has blocked the sale of a disused church, St George's Church in Gorton, east Manchester, to the Society of St Pius X (SSPX).
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13-Jul-2009
Young people in the UK think the Bible is "old fashioned", "irrelevant", and for church goers, a survey found. Bible knowledge is on an overall decline, although three quarters of the 900 respondents own a copy.
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17-Jul-2009
Catholic villagers in Vietnam's Thua Thien-Hue province say their government's two child policy, imposed with the threat of a fine burdensome to the poor, force the use of artificial birth controls.
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14-Jul-2009
Two Malaysian Catholics have lodged a police report against the Al Islam magazine over an article in which a Muslim journalist took the holy communion at a Kuala Lumpur parish before taking the wafer from his mouth and photographing it.
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14-Jul-2009
Several bomb blasts near churches and other areas in Iraq over the past two days have left Christians in fear and dismay, while police have cordoned off the affected locations for security purposes.
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Regulars
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17-Jul-2009
There are several things you learn about Sister Carmel Wauchope in the new Australian documentary, A Nun's New Habit. She joined the Benedictine order, The Sisters of the Good Samaritans, just shy of her 19th birthday, chose "career" over family in her 30s, is touchingly close to her niece and is no aficionado of housework. - Jen Vuk, War Cry
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16-Jul-2009
Almost 40 per cent are what Michael Perusco, Sacred Heart Mission chief executive, terms the "chronically homeless": people trapped in a cycle of living on the streets, couch surfing with friends or moving from one rooming house to another when the money runs out or their phobias get the better of them.
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15-Jul-2009
There appears to be an underlying ideal that suggests it is somehow wrong to have spare time, as if this will result in some awful calamity. Our modern society is finding more and more ways in which we should fill our days, and this message is sent our way through advertising, work, peer pressure and even government. We should not waste time. We must be "productive", although nobody has really defined what this means. - Peter Tapsell, Online Opinion
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14-Jul-2009
Good conversation engages others on an equal footing and with mutual respect. It involves careful listening for the hidden treasures to be revealed. May we continue to learn this great art of conversation and invite the help of that artful conversationalist, Ignatius Loyola, when July 31 rolls around this year. - Fr Chris Gleeson, Madonna
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13-Jul-2009
Much has been made of the power wielded by the secretive Opus Dei under John Paul II, not least by Dan Brown in The Da Vinci Code, but many Vatican watchers believe that the Legion of Christ was bigger, richer, more influential, and even more sinister. - The Independent on Sunday
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17-Jul-2009
What Every Catholic Should Know is not a Catholic website. The site is sponsored by the anti-Catholic Berean Beacon Ministries, whose president and founder is a former Catholic priest.
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16-Jul-2009
The Catholic Diocese of Broome serves the vibrant and diverse community of the Kimberley in remote north west Australia. The Diocese covers an area of over 770,000 square kilometers and the region has a population of approximately 33,500. Its website attempts to catch the breadth and diversity of this vast diocese.
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15-Jul-2009
Beginning Experience is a voluntary group who run weekends for separated, divorced and widowed people to deal with the grief associated with their loss and assist them to work towards a new beginning. It is associated with the Catholic Church, but is ecumenical in its outreach.
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14-Jul-2009
CathNews Asia is a recently launched sister publication of CathNews under the auspices of United Catholic Asian News (UCAN). People can subscribe to the daily news email service via the website.
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13-Jul-2009
Rachel's Vineyard Australia is a confidential healing ministry for the many people, both men and women, who have been touched by an abortion experience. The purpose of the organisation is post abortion reconciliation and healing for the "other victims" of abortion.
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17-Jul-2009
This film is the sixth movie in the Potter series, with another to come. It has to be the longest running series in movie history and the temptation to continue with what has gone before must be enormous. Produced as a film designed to be a movie which combines style with substance, it defies the odds, and is perhaps the best Potter movie in the series so far. - Peter W. Sheehan, Australian Catholic Office for Film and Broadcasting
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13-Jul-2009
The title of this Australian film is ironic at best. The wide, brown landscape has been anything but lucky for hapless farmer Nat (Aden Young). A God fearing widower with a disability, he struggles to support his son and daughter on a miserable property in unforgiving bushland at the outer edge of civilisation in South Australia. - Jim Murphy, Australian Catholic Office for Film and Broadcasting
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16-Jul-2009
Baby Boomers invented "the lifestyle choice" but now they're choosing a death style, the natural way of death. Zenith Virago, co-author of The Intimacy of Death and Dying, has established the Natural Death Centre in Byron Bay based on an English model, and set up a natural burial ground in Lismore, in northern NSW.
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15-Jul-2009
In the Catholic Church it is still accepted that parents should not delay in baptising a child because the child might die and not be admitted into the Kingdom of Heaven. Children must be saved at all costs. For the essence of childhood is innocence, accepted by all as unsullied and pure; they are unique and have to be cared for by all who know them. - John Hinton, The Catholic Herald
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17-Jul-2009
One of the ironies of life is that it is much easier to give love than to receive it. We can be very generous in helping others and extremely ungracious when they offer to help us. - Fr Noel Connolly, The Far East
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16-Jul-2009
Hungry? Go to the fridge or the cupboard and it is likely that if you live in Australia, you will soon have your needs sated. Tonight though, around the world, 1 billion people will go to bed hungry. It is a devastating fact. - Jack de Groot, The Southern Cross
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15-Jul-2009
The Church does not deal with matters of morality by opinion poll, nor by assessing the current behaviour of its members. Imagine if the Vatican were trying to decide whether or not to retain the Fourth Commandment, and took a poll asking whether or not you had ever been disrespectful of your elders. Survey says? Oops. 100% said they had. - Fred Liewehr, Catholic Online
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14-Jul-2009
Many readers will be surprised that Benedict has not made a more stringent critique of the excesses involved in the crash of financial markets and the cascading global economic crisis. The language in the encyclical is much more restrained, though the Pope's meaning is evident. He names many abuses, though his social views are framed from a theological perspective, which is, at times, obscure. - Fr Bruce Duncan, The Age
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13-Jul-2009
The arrival of the thousands of young people on the streets of so-called "sin city" took many by surprise. Instead of the noisy drug and drink fest so often associated in recent times with crowds of youth, the streets of Sydney were peopled with throngs of happy youth, who were able to manifest to those passing by that living their Catholic Faith did not amount to some staid and stuffy sort of existence but could lead to a vibrant and spirited way of life that enabled them to reach out caringly with a genuine sense of joy for one another as fellow creatures of God. - Fr Gerard Dowling, Kairos Catholic Journal
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14-Jul-2009
Queensland's Catholic schools will celebrate Catholic Education Week from July 26 to August 1. This year's event connects with the 150th anniversary of the state of Queensland and the Archdiocese of Brisbane. It's theme is Proud Tradition, Spirited Future.
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