News
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16-Sep-2009
A petition signed by 23,000 people, seeking Federal support for the nomination of Timor Leste for the Companion of the Order of Australia (Honorary) award, will be tabled in the House of Representatives today
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16-Sep-2009
Vatican negotiators will tell SSPX representatives that fundamental conclusions of Vatican II on Judaism, other non-Christian religions and on religious freedom are not negotiable, Vienna Cardinal Christophe Schonborn has said.
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16-Sep-2009
Catholic Super was among the top ten in the list of best local superannuation and pension funds in 2009, according to research by Super Ratings.
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18-Sep-2009
When dioceses are faced with a lack of priests, Pope Benedict said, they should not resort to "a more active and abundant participation of the laity" since it could take away from their own lay calling.
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15-Sep-2009
Some 280 pilgrims from last year's World Youth Day are still illegally in Australia, The Daily Telegraph reported, but the number represents less than 0.3 percent of the number who had arrived for the event.
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14-Sep-2009
At least one school library is removing from its shelves the novels in Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series, which explore the relationship between a teenage girl and a vampire, saying the books' adult theme might be too much for children.
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16-Sep-2009
Catholic Health Australia has called on Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to dump the Howard Government's aged care system and commit to "a radical rewrite" of the aged care rules.
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News - National
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18-Sep-2009
The National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Catholic Council will hold its 2009 NATSICC Assembly in Brisbane next week, seeking to focus on youth and the council's elders
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17-Sep-2009
A review commissioned by Make Poverty History and Micah Challenge to examine Australia's progress on Goal 8, Develop a Global Partnership for Development, of the Millenium Development goals, has revealed successes and failings.
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16-Sep-2009
The Bishops of Australia have pledged their support for young people's commitment to social justice, reasserting last year's World Youth Day central theme of witnessing through the power of the Holy Spirit.
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18-Sep-2009
Tony Long, the chairman of the parish council of Father Bob Maguire's Saints Peter and Paul Church in South Melbourne said a representative from the church hoped to meet with Melbourne Archbishop Denis Hart over the priest's retirement.
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17-Sep-2009
Father Bob Maguire will deliver a letter to Melbourne Archbishop Denis Hart today over an invitation to retire. Meanwhile, an Equal Opportunity Commissioner said it was illegal in Victoria to require retirement on the grounds of age.
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15-Sep-2009
A Deakin University marketing lecturer, Dr Paul Harrison, said the Church should wield the "Father Bob brand", which he called clever marketing, to attract more faithful rather than launch million dollar ad campaigns.
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14-Sep-2009
Parishioners and supporters of South Melbourne priest Father Bob Maguire crammed into the Saints Peter and Paul Church for Mass yesterday, while information about his financial management of the parish was revealed by the archdiocese.
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17-Sep-2009
The Diocese of Maitland-Newcastle is holding its first Open Day today as part of the NSW ecumenical "Jesus. All about life" campaign.
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17-Sep-2009
The Archbishop of Sydney, Cardinal George Pell will join British journalist and prominent atheist Christopher Hitchens and outspoken feminist and academic, Germaine Greer as keynote speaker for a "Festival of Dangerous Ideas".
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18-Sep-2009
A Happy Healthy Parenting Expo held at the Civic Centre in Gympie on Saturday, aimed at building relationships, gathered organisations such as St Vincent de Paul Welfare Assistance and Relationships Australia under one roof.
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14-Sep-2009
Tegan Simone Leach, 19, and her 21 year old partner, Sergie Brennan became the first Queenslanders in nearly 25 years to be sent to trial under the state's abortion law, for procuring an illegal abortion.
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News - International
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17-Sep-2009
In an interview with L'Osservatore Romano, former UK Prime Minister and Catholic convert, Tony Blair, has said "the voice of faith must not be absent from the public debate."
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16-Sep-2009
The $9 billion dollars that Australians spend on beer every year, or the annual sum spent globally on perfume could fuel the fight against global poverty, Caritas Internationalis secretary general Lesley Anne Knight said.
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15-Sep-2009
The Promise Metropolitan Community Church in Dallas said it wants to provoke discussion, sponsoring billboards that proclaim "The early church welcomed a gay man" and "Jesus affirmed a gay couple."
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14-Sep-2009
Muslims in the US took part in a "summer of service", which culminated on September 11, to mark the first official September 11 Day of Service and Remembrance that was established by President Barack Obama.
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15-Sep-2009
The Bishop of Osnabruck in northern Germany, Franz-Josef Bode, has said that the 16th century reformer Martin Luther offers a "positive challenge" to Catholic and other Christian churches.
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14-Sep-2009
A choirmaster from a cathedral in the southern Italian city of Lecce, who claims he was sacked over a sex change, wants the Church to tell him why he was relieved of his duties, the Italian ANSA news agency reported.
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14-Sep-2009
Jesuit Superior General Father Adolfo Nicolas has expressed his concerns over the long term institutional effects of the asylum process in Ireland, during the launch of the annual report of the country's Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS).
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18-Sep-2009
Timor Leste's Catholic Church has joined NGOs and the United Nations in condemnation of the release of an Indonesian former militia commander, Martenus Bere, accused of crimes against humanity.
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15-Sep-2009
Archaeologists have discovered the ruins of a synagogue from Jesus' time during excavations of a site in Magdala where a pilgrimage centre is being built on the shores of the Sea of Galilee.
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17-Sep-2009
A leaked CD recording, reportedly containing admissions made under the effects of a truth serum by two priests and a nun that they killed another nun, Sister Abhaya, has been broadcast on the south Indian Kerala state TV channels.
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18-Sep-2009
Hundreds of people are gathering to see an image allegedly of the Virgin Mary that has appeared on the wall of a Congregational Christian Church building in the Samoan capital of Apia.
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Religion
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15-Sep-2009
The German state of Lower Saxony is planning to train its own Muslim clergy from next year, instead of relying on Turkish prayer leaders who only serve short terms in German mosques and do not integrate, a report said.
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Regulars
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18-Sep-2009
The sanctity of human life from the moment of conception throughout all of life up to and including a natural death is the only foundation our society will ever be able to stand upon if we hope to flourish as a truly free people. It's quite obvious our foundation is crumbling. To repair it, we must go back to square one and correct our ideas about sex. - Jennifer Hartline, Catholic Online
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17-Sep-2009
The Church seems more confident that the tide of secularism has turned, and it needs a boost to its morale after the years of apparently unending scandal. So a display of flamboyant and shameless devotion to the relics will be an assertion of its status. - Andrew Brown, guardian.co.uk
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16-Sep-2009
The effect of "The Da Vinci Code" on many Catholics was not only to raise questions about the leadership of the Church but to open floodgates of long pent-up feelings of anger and frustration with that leadership. And because it was a media phenomenon, "The Da Vinci Code" made these Catholics realise as never before that their feelings were shared by millions of others, Catholics and non-Catholics alike. - Eric Plumer, The Washington Post
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15-Sep-2009
It is not that often that a general publicly rebukes his brigade and battalion commanders. And it is equally rare for a pope to reprove his bishops. But at a very high profile service in St Peter's on Saturday, Pope Benedict XVI did just that. - John Hooper, guardian.co.uk
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14-Sep-2009
I realise this is a bold claim, but I'm going to make it anyway: If you haven't been to Mass with Padre Marcelo Rossi, you haven't really been to Mass. Theologically, of course, that's ridiculous, because every validly celebrated Mass has the same spiritual value. Sociologically, however, I guarantee that a Mass with Padre Marcelo is an experience you won't soon forget. - John L. Allen Jr, National Catholic Reporter
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18-Sep-2009
Terra Spiritus is a susbcription based online publication which provides an opportunity for an engagement with the Spirit in our lives. The website states the publication inspires readers to a renewed and refreshed experience of Christian spirituality. It contains a range of articles on Christian spirituality, reflective prayers and beautiful visuals.
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17-Sep-2009
Formerly Centacare, CatholicCare is the official welfare arm of the Catholic Church in the Archdiocese of Sydney. It provides for the social and emotional wellbeing of communities, families and individuals. The organisation's website comprehensively lists the programs and services and also ways people can support its activities through volunteering or donations.
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16-Sep-2009
The US Bishops have established a website to assist in explaining the impending changes to the English translation of the Roman Missal, the last components of which they are expected to vote on in November. As can be determined from the timeline on the site, the "third revision" of the Roman Missal has been underway for several years and the Bishops through this site are suggesting the new words will give a deeper meaning to the same Mass.
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15-Sep-2009
The Australasian Religious Press Association (ARPA) calls itself a Christian Communication Network and involves 80 publications and agencies as members, including several leading Catholic publications and organisations. ARPA just held its annual gathering and awards in Sydney over the weekend at which The Catholic Weekly took out the top gong.
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14-Sep-2009
AskACatholic.com is a Catholic support group of orthodox lay Catholics loyal to the Holy See and the Church's magisterium whose primary interest is Catholic apologetics and evangelisation. The website answers questions and clarifies issues about what the Church teaches.
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15-Sep-2009
The movie as a whole is less a romance than a cautionary tale about the perils of defining attachment in a particular way; and it is less about the predictability of relationships than what happens to attachments in-between. This is a movie that has great virtuosity behind it. - Peter W. Sheehan, Australian Catholic Office for Film and Broadcasting
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17-Sep-2009
In Christian tradition, Jesus Christ is The Logos, The Word, but he's about to become the logo of the biggest marketing campaign ever seen in Australia. This edition of The Spirit of Things features Daniel Willis of the Bible Society, the co-founder of the campaign called 'Jesus. All About Life', and together with Sharon Williams of Taurus Marketing, they are coordinating a media blitz that aims to revive Jesus' popularity with the public.
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18-Sep-2009
This Economist style faith survey by that publication's Catholic editor and his atheist colleague proves that religion has undergone a remarkable global revival. This is not in reaction to modernity but as its handmaiden. The forces of modernity, manifest in greater pluralism and individual choice, are increasing an adherence to faith, not weakening it as the theory of secularisation has long insisted. Indeed, it is because the evidence is, everywhere, destroying that theory that secularists such as Richard Dawkins have lately grown so shrill. - Austen Ivereigh, The Tablet
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14-Sep-2009
Cliff Baxter's work shatters the notion that a history of an order of Catholic laymen is merely the recounting of dates, events and personalities through a narrow and respectful spectrum that avoids controversy or offence at all costs so as to produce a feel-good reaction in its sponsors.
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18-Sep-2009
Music unites as it can raise minds to heaven; it hints at the overwhelming beauty of God; it underlines our sense of spirituality and it can lead people into the very presence of our Creator. These qualities make it an essential part of worship and a necessary feature of our liturgy. - Colin Mawby, The Catholic Herald
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17-Sep-2009
I do not like strangers messing with the minds of my children. I object to anybody inserting disturbing notions into their sanely happy understanding of marriage and family. From the commanding heights of culture come strange decrees that two women, or two men, are just as good as a mother and father when it comes to raising a child. Who are these surreal city dwellers, so out of touch with nature? - David van Gend, MercatorNet
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16-Sep-2009
Apparently I'm one of the lucky ones. Reading of the sexual abuse by Catholic priest Monsignor Penn Jones of former altar boy Gavan Boyle was quite a revelation. An awful story, Boyle's life, and the lives of his family, were affected by those events in a lasting and tragic manner. I have to admit that such stories have long held a fascination for me. - Bill Farr, The Age
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15-Sep-2009
One of my pet hates is the way the world religions are referred to in the media. That is, in a way that simplifies and smooths over the gaping differences between them. For example Christianity, Islam and Judaism are described as “the great monotheistic faiths”. Monotheism is taken here as the one thing they have in common that allows us to sweep them up together as though they were slightly different versions of the same thing. - Peter Sellick, Online Opinion
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14-Sep-2009
We hold fast to our own convictions that meat consumption is part of the national character, and rarely question whether it is sustainable at current levels. We are keenly aware that meat production is a major contributor to the Australian economy. Perhaps unwittingly, we marginalise the vegetarians among us, and treat activists from groups like PETA with scorn because we have justifiable criticisms of some of their positions. - Michael Mullins, Eureka Street
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16-Sep-2009
The three day Joseph Cardijn National Conference 2009 will be held in Adelaide next month hosted by the Cardijn Community International - Australia with the theme "Rediscovering Joseph Cardijn for the New Millennium". The keynote speaker will be Redemptorist priest Bruce Duncan who will present on the rise of lay consciousness.
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