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08-Sep-2009
The Australian Confraternity of Catholic Clergy and the US Confraternity of Catholic Clergy are planning a special seminar in Rome in January to mark the Year for Priests and patron St. John Baptiste-Marie Vianney.
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08-Sep-2009
A state funeral took place in Adelaide yesterday for long missing
Vietnam War Flying Officer Michael Herbert, whose remains were finally
found in July, along with the wreckage of his plane.
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News
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10-Sep-2009
Comparing schools on the basis of test scores isn't in itself enough, evaluating student improvement would help give a clearer picture, said incoming chief executive of the Australian Curriculum Assessment and Reporting Authority, Peter Hill.
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News - National
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11-Sep-2009
The De La Salle Brothers are inviting giving young Australian men aged between 20 and 35 years to take up a "challenge program", experiencing the Brothers' life and work for two weeks in Papua New Guinea.
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11-Sep-2009
The founding director of Australia's Catholic Enquiry Centre and described as one of the Australian Catholic Church's great evangelisers, Fr Tom White, has died in Melbourne. He was 86.
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11-Sep-2009
World Youth Day related media activity scored several accolades at the Australasian Catholic Press Association (ACPA) awards in Sydney last night, winning best editorial feature, best original photo, best devotional article applying faith to life, and best media campaign.
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11-Sep-2009
Wagga Wagga Bishop Gerard Hanna said different challenges faced by rural dioceses often meant parish priests would work beyond the age of 75 without compulsion to retire, unlike Fr Bob Maguire's case in Melbourne.
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10-Sep-2009
Student leaders from Geelong region Catholic secondary colleges have convened a march against violence in response to drink fuelled thuggery on Australian streets, the Geelong Advertiser reported.
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09-Sep-2009
South Melbourne's Father Bob Maguire said priests from abroad would probably fill the void left by retiring local priests.
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09-Sep-2009
A hurdle in the transfer of the property's title is delaying the signing of the sale contracts for Crossley's St Brigid's church. The Friends of St Brigid's group said they are working to secure funds for the sale to proceed.
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08-Sep-2009
South Melbourne's Father Bob Maguire has been asked to resign on his 75th birthday next week by Melbourne Archbishop Denis Hart, drawing criticism and dismay, but the Archbishop said he is merely obeying Canon Law.
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07-Sep-2009
Veteran newspaper journalist Basil Sweeney was farewelled at a packed Our Lady Star of the Sea church at Watsons Bay, rememberd by colleagues and policemen he had encountered in his years as a police reporter.
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11-Sep-2009
Queensland's St Vincent de Paul Society urgently needs donations to complete its $8 million homeless facility and services centre on the Gold Coast under the organisation's "Families Back of Track" project.
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07-Sep-2009
The release of findings from an inquiry into claims that a Toowoomba principal ignored a nine year old girl's accusations that a teacher had molested her, due to be completed on Friday, has been delayed a week.
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09-Sep-2009
Extradited ex-priest Charles Barnett pleaded guilty to three child sex charges against him and not guilty to six others at the Adelaide Magistrates Court, news reports said.
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07-Sep-2009
Kokoda plane crash victim Matthew Leonard was remembered as a "superhero" during a funeral Mass held in Perth. The 28 year old was among 13 killed in the ill-fated flight to Papua New Guinea.
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News - International
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10-Sep-2009
Oscar nominated director, Ronald Joffe, whose work includes The Mission, City of Joy and The Killing Fields has begun shooting a film in Argentina about St Josemaria Escriva, the founder of Opus Dei.
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09-Sep-2009
Pope Benedict XVI said young Church communities need the funding at a time of economic crisis and urged Catholics to give generously to the Church's missionary agencies, in a message for World Mission Sunday.
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07-Sep-2009
Teachers have a special responsibility to listen to children who believe they have seen angels or had other spiritual experiences and want to talk about it, the British Educational Research Association conference heard.
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10-Sep-2009
Three churches are suing the city of Phoenix in the US over a noise ordinance that prohibits the ringing of their church bells but allows an exception for ice cream trucks.
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10-Sep-2009
Archbishop Daniel E. Pilarczyk of Cincinnati said he barred Sister of Charity Louise Akers, who supports women's ordination, from catechesis because it was his responsibility to provide "authentic and orthodox Catholic teaching" in his diocese.
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09-Sep-2009
US physician Dr Ron Bryce, whose pro-life convictions grew after once treating a shortlived aborted baby, has launched a service to help Texan property owners prepare deeds that bar abortions on their land, in perpetuity.
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08-Sep-2009
US Sister of Charity Louise Akers has been barred from teaching catechesis by the Archbishop of Cincinnati Daniel Pilarczykon, citing her refusal to back away from supporting women's ordination.
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08-Sep-2009
The Legionaries of Christ have initiated a number of reforms since publicly acknowledging that founder Father Marcial Maciel Degollado fathered a child, the order said in a letter to members of the its lay association, Regnum Christi.
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07-Sep-2009
With 23 postulants this year at the Motherhouse of Nashville's Dominican Sisters of St Cecilia, the order has the largest group of new nuns in training in the United States.
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11-Sep-2009
Switzerland's Catholic Bishops Conference is opposing a controversial right wing referendum proposal to ban Muslim minarets.
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10-Sep-2009
The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith has written to Italian bishops and religious superiors seeking action against 41 priests who signed a petition approving the removal of food and hydration from patients.
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07-Sep-2009
Dino Boffo, editor of Italian bishops' newspaper Avvenire, which criticised Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi about his alleged extramarital affairs, has resigned after another Berlusconi family owned paper alleged that he had been fined for harassment.
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08-Sep-2009
The Women's Commission of the South Indian Kerala Catholic Bishops Council (KCBC) has released a gender policy, reportedly a first by an Indian church, to promote gender equality and uplift the status of women.
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Religion
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09-Sep-2009
The newly elected World Council of Churches General Secretary Norwegian Reverend Olav Fykse Tveit has said he believes it is important to maintain and develop cooperation with the Catholic Church.
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Regulars
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11-Sep-2009
I can honestly say that I have never felt in danger as a Columban missionary priest in Pakistan even during the threatening days of the Gulf Wars or during the civil wars between different ethnic groups in the port city of Karachi where I teach in the Theological Institute. In Pakistan, I choose to be clearly and publicly seen and known as a priest. I am obviously a foreigner but I am obviously a priest. - Fr Robert McCulloch, St Columban's Mission Society E-News
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10-Sep-2009
More than four years into the papacy of Benedict XVI, analysts have repeatedly pulled his track record apart and put it back together again, raising provocative questions about where the pope comes from and where he might be going. In that vast forensic exercise, however, one question often seems to loom above the rest. Has Ratzinger changed his spots? - John L. Allen Jr, National Catholic Reporter
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09-Sep-2009
Retired AFL footballer Glen Manton says when he talks to students about life and relationships, he makes sure that they know he understands what they are going through. - Michael McVeigh, Australian Catholics
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08-Sep-2009
I'm an institution man despite what anyone says. I wouldn't do anything to make it harder for church to be a "mother". I see it as part of my mission to reassure insiders and outsiders that the Catholic Church is here for them, like a mother at her best, unconditional and non-judgemental, self-sacrificial. - Fr Bob Maguire, fatherbob.com.au
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07-Sep-2009
How swiftly we have moved into the season of spring, which always brings to my mind Mary, the bearer of the Light of the World, who gives new life to us all. Throughout the centuries, the words of the Magnificat have echoed strongly over and over. It is impossible to understand Christianity and its devotions without paying attention to Christ's Mother. - Elizabeth Pike, Madonna
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11-Sep-2009
Mary Aikenhead Ministries recently launched its website which is designed to provide a contemporary online presence for the new organisation. It presents the ministries' history, traditions, facilities and daily operations in a clear and accessible manner.
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10-Sep-2009
Catholic Health Australia is the representative body of Catholic health and aged care providers and has over 75 hospitals and 550 aged care facilities among its members. It has recently launched a new, clean and easily navigable website to accommodate both its members and the health and general communities.
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09-Sep-2009
The Star Quest Production Network (SQPN) is a multimedia organisation the brainchild of Dutch priest Fr Roderick Vonhogen which specialises in the production of audio and video programs faithful to the teachings of the Church. Its mission is to respond to the Church's call to use the media for religious information, for evangelisation and for formation and education.
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08-Sep-2009
The Australasian Catholic Press Association is due to commence its annual conference today in Sydney. As the website of the organisation attests, the purpose of the body is to promote harmony and cooperation among members of the Catholic press and with other Catholic and ecumenical associations, and to promote the advancement of the religious press and the religious media.
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07-Sep-2009
You Shall Believe is a website developed to promote the film produced by famed newsmaker Mike Willesee and Sydney lawyer Ron Tesoriero on the Eucharist which they are currently touring to parishes and church groups in the United States.
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11-Sep-2009
There are some genuinely funny moments in this thoughtfully different film, and it entertains largely because of the very considerable comic skills of the actors who feature in it. Despite its comic spontaneity, however, and its authentic delivery of stand up comedy routines, the film lingers in the mind as one that builds skilfully on lost opportunities. - Peter W. Sheehan, Australian Catholic Office for Film and Broadcasting
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08-Sep-2009
Blessed by Melbourne director Ana Kokkinos is a slightly ironic title, since for the mothers in the film the way their offspring behave is anything but a benediction. Yet the bonds of maternal love, although they may fray at the edges, are not severed. - Jim Murphy, Australian Catholic Office for Film and Broadcasting
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10-Sep-2009
Heart and Soul is the new BBC comedy drama on ABC TV with a not necessarily overt Christian angle, however as preview internet episodes have indicated, its themes of love, church choirs and rejection all come into play.
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09-Sep-2009
If I had passed over Rembert Weakland's autobiography, I would have missed a marvelous read; it is at once a crash course on monastic life, a record of inside stories of Vatican dealings, and insights into the struggles of some church officials to reconcile conscience with reality. It is about one man's personal journey from working class Pennsylvania to the heights of ecclesial power. But it is also about the kind of scandal, moral and social, that can unmake a career. - Mary E. Hunt, Religion Dispatches
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07-Sep-2009
Australians are among the world's most godless people, according to Tom Frame, director of St Mark's National Theological Centre in Canberra and professor of theology at Charles Sturt University. In his latest book Losing My Religion: Unbelief in Australia, he traces the history of religion, in particular Christianity, since European settlement. - Larry Buttrose, The Australian
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11-Sep-2009
There is a spectre haunting Europe, the spectre of empty maternity wards and closed down schools. Europe is dying, its people have lost confidence in themselves and choose a life of pleasure seeking over procreation. For four decades they have bought the good life, with five week holidays and retirement at 60, by hiring low paid, invisible immigrants to do the dirty, dangerous and demeaning jobs, each generation of migrants then joining this giant pyramid scheme once they are granted citizenship. Now Europe is paying the price. - Ed West, The Catholic Herald
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10-Sep-2009
Bleeding statues, images of Mary or Jesus appearing on pieces of toast, incorrupt corpses, travelling relics, rosary beads turning to gold...like it or not, all these and many more oddities are part of what theologian Rosemary Haughton calls "the Catholic thing". They range from harmless trivia, to a real distraction from what being Catholic is all about. - Tracey Edstein, Aurora
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09-Sep-2009
It is easy to vent our spleen at a small minority, particularly if they are wealthy or powerful. Not only does it make us feel better to have a good rant at someone else's expense but such scapegoating relieves us of our own responsibility to change, or take action to help others to do so. - Johnathan Bartley, Ekklesia
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08-Sep-2009
Notwithstanding the good that Fr Bob has done, he knows the rules of the Church, and is conscious of the vow of obedience he took when he was ordained. Fr Bob is no exception. He has my admiration and the admiration of many. - Archbishop Denis Hart, Herald Sun
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07-Sep-2009
It's an irony of life that when we are successful we believe that God must be on our side and when our works fail then we despair and feel deserted by God. Yet the Church has always needed apparent failure and suffering to become fully alive to its real nature and mission. - Fr Noel Connolly, The Far East
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