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01-Sep-2009
Pope Benedict is urging people to commit themselves to safeguarding the environment, in a message for today's Italian Day for the Protection of Creation.
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01-Sep-2009
Vietnam will free more than 5000 prisoners as part of an annual prison amnesty program to mark the country's National Day this week, but the government isn't budging on the detention of a dissident priest
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01-Sep-2009
Sacred Heart School Cabramatta, in the Archdiocese of Sydney, is one school benefiting from the Federal Government's investment in schools under its economic stimulus package.
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01-Sep-2009
Queensland Premier Anna Bligh is overseeing State Parliament moves to change existing laws, to protect doctors providing medical abortion services from prosecution.
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01-Sep-2009
British human rights lawyer Cherie Blair has called on the Church to reconsider its opposition to artificial contraception because it may be holding back women's careers.
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01-Sep-2009
Nearly a third of Australians still believe mothers should not breastfeed their babies in public, especially not in church, a Newspoll survey has found.
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News
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02-Sep-2009
A US $2.3 trillion "ecological debt" is owed by industralised nations to poorer countries, said a University of California study, and it should be assessed and penalised by an international court, an ecumenical gathering heard.
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02-Sep-2009
Queensland's Independent Education Union is expected to lead disgruntled members in stop work action next month over pay rates for Catholic school teachers after a ballot vote is held in the coming weeks.
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31-Aug-2009
Australian private schools will receive up to $23 million each in overpayments over the next four years because of the Rudd Government's commitment to a deal that John Howard struck, the Sydney Morning Herald said.
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04-Sep-2009
A ten minute silent video, featuring footage of emotional young fans watching their favourite bands play during this year's Big Day Out, took the $20,000 top award at the Blake Prize for religious art.
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03-Sep-2009
More than a decade since the publication of the orignial collection of contemporary church music, Willow Publishing has released the As One Voice - The Next Generation songbook, crafted with young people in mind.
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News - National
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04-Sep-2009
US marriage expert Dr William Doherty, at a national marriage conference last week, explored five modern myths including that marriage without prior cohabitation is foolish and that men aren't interested in relationships.
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04-Sep-2009
Author Mary Ryllis Clark's book on the Loreto sisters, Loreto in Australia, chronicling the founding and development of the order in the country, has been launched.
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03-Sep-2009
Journalist, editor, television producer and author Christine Hogan, with a career in media that spans more than 30 years, has joined Church Resources as its new Communications Manager.
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03-Sep-2009
International Catholic youth congress Convivio will be held in Sydney this weekend for participants in their final three years of secondary school, to reflect on contemporary challenges and present Christ as the "essential answer".
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02-Sep-2009
The number of couples tying the knot reached a 20 year high, figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) showed. Divorce rates also dropped in 2008 to the lowest in a generation.
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02-Sep-2009
More than 150 parish leaders from around the country will gather for the 2009 National Conference of Pastors and Pastoral Associates beginning today at Shoal Bay, NSW, to reflect on challenges facing contemporary church life.
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03-Sep-2009
Parishioners of St Joseph's in Melbourne's Collingwood have written to Pope Benedict, appealing him to intervene and save their gutted church building from being demolished because they say local church leaders aren't helping.
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31-Aug-2009
Xavier College in Melbourne has expelled a student for dealing in marijuana and suspended two others for buying the substance, the Sunday Herald Sun reported.
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31-Aug-2009
A leaked confidential minute from a meeting of the Senate of Priests in 2002 reveals that compensation paid in sex abuse cases in Melbourne came from "the money of the Archdiocese given by its people," a news report said.
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04-Sep-2009
Severe domestic squalor is twice as common as previously believed, brought to light by the Severe Domestic Squalor Project run by Catholic Community Services, the Daily Telegraph reported.
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31-Aug-2009
With rising enrolments from both Christian and non-Christian students, Catholic schools would be the "first place" many hear about the faith, Port Pirie Bishop Greg O'Kelly said.
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02-Sep-2009
Church leaders in the Northern Territory are calling on Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to act on a UN expert's findings on indigenous rights.
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News - International
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03-Sep-2009
A fragment of the world's oldest Bible, the Codex Sinaiticus, has been uncovered hidden underneath the binding of an 18th century book in an Egyptian monastery, news reports said.
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31-Aug-2009
Ted Kennedy's letter to Pope Benedict, sent through President Barack Obama during the US leader's Vatican visit this year, was read out at the interment service in Arlington on Saturday.
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04-Sep-2009
A proposed legislation drafted by Polish Catholic citizens' group Contra In Vitro, calling for the criminalisation of in vitro fertilisation, will be tabled in Poland's parliament next week.
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03-Sep-2009
The London based Catholic Truth Society has published a Prayer Book for Spouses complete with a prayer to prepare for sex.
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02-Sep-2009
An anonymously written Italian pamphlet called Anti-Ratzinger is set to be translated, published and released in the Czech Republic just ahead of Pope Benedict's visit to the country scheduled for later this month.
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31-Aug-2009
New Zealanders Doreen Dooley 76, and Des Hurdle 84, have known each other 30 years, been engaged for a whirlwind one month and finally tied the knot on Sunday.
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04-Sep-2009
Iraqi Christians must be the promoters of dialogue and national reconciliation, Muslim leaders told the Archbishop of Kirkuk Louis Sako, appreciating the prelate's gesture of inviting them to break fast over dinner during the Muslims fasting month of Ramadan.
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Regulars
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04-Sep-2009
Even someone you've known since childhood may turn out to be not the person you thought they were. Brenda Niall remembered William Hackett, sometime rector of Xavier College, as an avuncular priest who used to visit her family home in Kew to chat with her father and smoke cigars. Many years later she discovered that the genial Jesuit had lived a double life. - Ray Cassin, The Age
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03-Sep-2009
As dawn breaks in downtown Kuala Lumpur, calls to prayer blare out from speakers that sit atop the minarets of the city's mosques, blanketing the ring of bells from neighbouring Hindu temples. In the background, churches and Buddhist temples quietly come alive. To the many tourists who visit this vibrant city, this religious routine of the faithful exudes a charm of old Asia, showcasing a seemingly exemplary state of religious tolerance. - Murali Ram Krishn, Online Opinion
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02-Sep-2009
We cheat ourselves of meaning whenever we treat scripture, the creeds, and the dogmas of our faith as simple statements of history, newspaper accounts in literal language. They have a historicity and they are true, but the language surrounding them is not the language of the daily newspaper. - Fr Ron Rolheiser, ronrolheiser.com
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01-Sep-2009
I asked myself how one child's death could be mourned in such personal direct language when the deaths of so many other "unborn children" are not mourned as a loss to humanity. How can one of these unborn be called a "victim" when the deaths of so many other victims go unremarked? How could it be that one unborn child's death is a tragedy in one set of circumstances, while another's is its mother's "human right"? - Angela Shanahan, Quadrant
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31-Aug-2009
Does a Catholic university have the responsibility to give witness to the Catholic faith and to the consequences of that faith by its actions and decisions-especially by a decision to confer its highest honor? If not, what is the meaning of a life of faith? And how can a Catholic institution expect its students to live by faith in the difficult decisions that will confront them in a culture often opposed to the Gospel? - Bishop John M. D'Arcy, America
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04-Sep-2009
Vocation.com was launched over 7 years ago and offers a wealth of resources to young people considering vocations and all Catholics interested in promoting and fostering vocations. This global outreach website has extended to 57 countries on 6 continents, and considers itself at the service of the Universal Church.
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03-Sep-2009
Emmaus Journey's mission statement says the organisation endeavours to help non-practicing Catholics, occasional Catholics, and nominal Catholics experience conversion to Christ, transformation in Christ, and mobilisation for Christ as Catholic disciples that motivates them to wholeheartedly embrace Christ and his Church.
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02-Sep-2009
The Broken Bay News is available each month and is the official publication of the Diocese of Broken Bay. It comes in both online and hard copy versions, with the latter distributed free to more than 24,000 families throughout the diocese's 31 parishes and 47 diocesan schools.
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01-Sep-2009
An internet pioneer, Just Peace has been around for a long time, since 1997. It shows its age in its layout but it is still a goldmine of resources on Catholic Social Teaching and social action.
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31-Aug-2009
Catholic Social Services Victoria is the peak body serving the community services sector of the Church in Victoria. Among its objects is its desire to represent its members and the Church in responding to social welfare issues so as to bring about social change in accordance with Catholic Social Teaching.
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03-Sep-2009
This is a comedy drama about the relationship between dairy farmer, Charlie McFarland (Paul Hogan) and his son, Boots (Shane Jacobson) that carries some heavy emotional punch. Charlie has just lost his wife tragically, and misses her deeply. Boots realises something has to be done to rescue his father from his misery over her death. - Peter W. Sheehan, Australian Catholic Office for Film and Broadcasting
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31-Aug-2009
No one could accuse The Soloist of not having its heart in the right place. It is an eloquent plea for the plight of the mentally ill and of the homeless. - Jim Murphy, Australian Catholic Office for Film and Broadcasting
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04-Sep-2009
This documentary traces the inspirational story of the Zimbabwean Homeless World Cup team and the players' journey to reach above the distractions of their life in Zimbabwe through sport. Coached by Samual "The General" Mandaba, a former drug dealer and gang member, the team battled homelessness, separation from family, unemployment, HIV/AIDS, food shortages and a life of hopelessness to represent Zimbabwe at the sixth annual Homeless World Cup in Melbourne.
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01-Sep-2009
Director of the Australian Catholic Office for Film and Broadcasting and regular celebrant on Mass For You At Home, Fr Richard Leonard often speaks in a tongue and cheek manner about his frustration that this television program is not recognised by the industry for its long running and durable nature.
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02-Sep-2009
For those people who missed last Sunday night's Encounter program on Radio National on East Timor featuring the work of Caritas and the Mary MacKillop Mission in East Timor, they may like to listen online to the program or view a transcript of the program.
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04-Sep-2009
News that Christian churches in Australia are about to start an advertising blitz to persuade people to bring Jesus into their lives, once again shows how naive and uninformed businesses, government, and people are generally when they believe that advertising has some magical power to persuade people to behave the way they want them to. - Dr Paul Harrison, abc.net.au
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03-Sep-2009
It sometimes feels as if there is a seek and destroy mission by sections of the medical profession in which the targets are women and their unborn babies. Women deserve better than abortion. - Teresa Martin, The Courier Mail
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02-Sep-2009
Healthy relationships allow people to be who they truly are, their essential selves, stripped of affectation and ambition, the false adornments and layers we build in trying to become what other people want. It is about being authentic, where the outer person truly reflects the inner person. It is about seeing the good before the bad, prioritising the positive and seasoning all relationships with empathy, compassion, a bit of forgiving and forgetting and a good dose of laughter. - Ann Rennie, Australian Catholics
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01-Sep-2009
I have a theory which may may astound you. You may even feel that I am bordering on profanity. I think that Judas Iscariot may well be in heaven. How does that make you feel? Angry? Disgusted? Uncomfortable perhaps? - Bill Farrelly, Marist Messenger
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31-Aug-2009
One of Ted Kennedy's most important legacies to American politics has hardly been mentioned in the acres of newsprint - how he shaped the debate about faith and politics. For Ted Kennedy was a Catholic. He had the Massachusetts Catholic vote in his pocket. - Michael Cook, MeratorNet
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