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24-Sep-2009
Vatican Signatura Prefect, Archbishop Raymond L. Burke, has told a Washington gathering that politicians who support gay marriage or abortion rights cannot receive sacraments without publicly repenting their ways.
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24-Sep-2009
The US Bishops have stirred debate among practitioners following their announcement that reiki will no longer be performed in the Church's hospitals and retreat centres.
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23-Sep-2009
After a 13-year-old girl fell and broke her back during a school camp activity, staff at a Sunshine Coast Catholic school continued with the activity after deciding the equipment was safe.
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News
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25-Sep-2009
The director of the Holy See's press office, Father Federico Lombardi has again denied that Pope Benedict knew Bishop Richard Williamson's view on the Holocaust before the Pontiff lifted the latter's excommunication.
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21-Sep-2009
U2's Bono looks set to meet yet another pontiff, as Pope Benedict XVI extends an invitation to the singer and hundreds of other artists to meet with him in the Vatican.
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21-Sep-2009
An environmental delegation led by Catholic bishops from Europe, Africa and Latin America at the United Nations Summit on Climate Change on September 22 want a commitment from the US to steeply reduce emissions.
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25-Sep-2009
Father Thomas Berg, Executive Director of the Westchester Institute for Ethics and the Human Person, said the recent case of a woman implanted with an embryo from another couple was the sort of "tragedy that can happen in "the unregulated world of IVF."
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24-Sep-2009
The Canberra campus of Australian Catholic University will offer a new postgraduate Master of Social Work degree from next year.
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22-Sep-2009
The Board of Edmund Rice Education Australia has announced a new national education and social engagement initiative targeted at Australia's disenfranchised youth, called "Youth +".
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22-Sep-2009
The Australian Christian Lobby has launched a Tame the Tube campaign to agitate for less sex and violence on commercial television, asking the industry to fix the deteriorating code of practice
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News - National
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25-Sep-2009
The Broken Bay Institute (BBI) and the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference are planning to follow up the success of the Year of St Paul eConference with a new St Luke eConference in November.
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23-Sep-2009
Independent senator Nick Xenophon joined the Opposition and the Greens in calls for Immigration Minister Chris Evans to intervene and grant protection to Grace Gichuhi, 22, and Teresia Ndikaru Muturi, 21, who face possible genital mutilation at home.
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22-Sep-2009
Catholic Religious Australia is undertaking a survey of members to "fill out the national picture" of religious life in the Australian Church.
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21-Sep-2009
Melbourne priest Father Bob Maguire, Rose Tattoo frontman Angry Anderson and Melbourne youth worker Les Twentyman are calling for a campaign to reverse an increase in armed attacks.
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21-Sep-2009
Immigration Minister Chris Evans should grant immediate protection to a Kenyan woman, who arrived here as a World Youth Day pilgrim, over fears of forced circumcision and marriage if she is deported home.
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24-Sep-2009
The Herald Sun reported it believes Father Bob Maguire is expected to keep his job, following overwhelming support from Victorians.
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23-Sep-2009
Wodonga priest Father Paul Purcell says he feels sorry for the predicament facing his counterpart Father Bob Maguire but believes the South Melbourne priest is a "survivor".
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21-Sep-2009
The Friends of St Brigid's group has succeeded in its campaign to acquire the Catholic Church and hall buildings at Crossley in country Victoria.
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21-Sep-2009
Maitland-Newcastle Bishop Michael Malone has written to Pope Benedict XVI, asking the pontiff to consider appointing a Coadjutor Bishop to the diocese, reported by The Newcastle Herald as an appeal for a successor.
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22-Sep-2009
The City of Bayswater in Western Australia has denied asking a Church run Shopfront centre to close, saying the organisation needs to apply for a permit to serve food but it may continue its food service to the homeless in the interim.
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News - International
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24-Sep-2009
The UN Human Rights Council has reportedly published a written statement by the International Humanist and Ethical Union on the role of the Holy See in the child abuse scandals.
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23-Sep-2009
Swedish public TV channel, SVT, will broadcast a program quoting Stockholm Bishop Anders Arborelius saying he warned the Holy See of the views of controversial SSPX Bishop Richard Williamson prior to the lifting of his excommunication.
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25-Sep-2009
Commuters leaving Toronto, Canada's Union Station during the morning rush hour were greeted by four Anglican bishops in full regalia passing out invitations to church services this Sunday.
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25-Sep-2009
Irish Bishop Noel Treanor's statement that Catholics can vote "Yes" without reserve and in good conscience to the Lisbon Treaty that will knit the EU community closer together was misinformed, said dissenting pro-life groups
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25-Sep-2009
Although helping someone die is still illegal in England and Wales, newly released guidelines on the country's law on assisted suicide appear to clarify that prosecution is unlikely for those acting out of compassion.
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24-Sep-2009
Polish Catholic weekly Gosc Niedzielny has been ordered to apologise and pay damages to a woman, who sought an abortion, for a series of articles against her action.
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22-Sep-2009
The Church of England's Bishop of Reading, the Right Rev Stephen Cottrell, said the church must shed its middle class "Marks & Spencer" image and become more like "Aldi", welcoming to the masses.
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22-Sep-2009
Pope Benedict announced a special meeting of bishops next year to discuss Middle East peace efforts and the role of the Catholic Church in the region. The Patriarch of Jerusalem, meanwhile, warned that the faith is dying in the Holy Land.
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23-Sep-2009
The Catholic Bishops Conference of India, the country's highest ecclesiastical body, is planning to release a policy that recommends equal representation for women at every level to "redeem" a centuries long "injustice".
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Religion
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23-Sep-2009
Parliament of the World's Religions Executive Director Dirk Ficca said Australia is a good place for finding a path to better relations among religions, thanks to its cultural and religious diversity and comparatively small population
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Regulars
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25-Sep-2009
There's a question about God's goodness as old as religion itself: How can an all good God send someone to hell for all eternity? How can God be all merciful and all loving if there is eternal punishment? It's a false question. God doesn't send anyone to hell and God doesn't deal out eternal punishment. God offers us life and the choice is ours as to whether we accept that or not. - Fr Ron Rolheiser, ronrolheiser.com
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24-Sep-2009
Christian Rossiter died with dignity. In saying this, I do not refer to the physical manner of his passing. Rather, my claim rests entirely on the fact Rossiter died knowing he had achieved recognition of his right to decide whether or not to accept ongoing medical treatment. - Simon Longstaff, Sydney Morning Herald
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23-Sep-2009
Catholics tend to know as little about Pentecostals as Pentecostals know about Catholics. Each has stereotyped views of the other, and stereotypes which, rather than being helpful, are largely mistaken.
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22-Sep-2009
As final school exams approach, some kids find themselves studying subjects they hate, to get into courses that don't interest them, so they can start well paid careers they don't want. No wonder so many kids are taking a gap year. - Arun Abey and Andrew Ford, abc.net.au
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21-Sep-2009
From a strictly demographic point of view, one could argue that the intense interest surrounding relations between the Vatican and the Society of St Pius X, popularly known as the "Lefebvrites," is terribly exaggerated. It claims one million faithful, a number impossible to confirm but which, even if true, would represent less than one-tenth of one percent of the global Catholic population. - John L. Allen Jr, National Catholic Reporter
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25-Sep-2009
In the past 12 months a number of CathNews sister publications have been launched including CathNews USA and CathNews Asia. The latest one to be added is CathNews India which is put together by local staff from the Union of Catholic Asian News (UCAN) in the country.
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24-Sep-2009
The Congregation for the Clergy's online presence is geared towards serving the world's priests, deacons and catechists. The site offers a vast electronic library for research, study, formation, liturgy and spirituality.
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23-Sep-2009
ePriest is an outreach of Sacerdos Institute, an apostolate serving priests in union with the Church throughout the world. This website's ideal is to be a resource for Catholic Priests, dedicated to loving Christ, building the Church, and serving people.
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22-Sep-2009
Eternity is a new mass market newspaper for Australian Christians which will also have an online exposure through this website. Eternity is not affiliated with any church or other organisation.
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21-Sep-2009
The Notre Dame St Thomas More Society is a student run organisation that caters to the educational, vocational, spiritual and social needs of students from The University of Notre Dame, Australia. One of its main activities is the popular Theology on Tap sessions run at PJ Gallagher's pub in Parramatta.
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25-Sep-2009
This is a film that will hugely entertain. Its philosophical and cultural underpinnings provide edifying moral messages, and the movie is a welcome return of Bruce Beresford to Australian cinema. - Peter W. Sheehan, Australian Catholic Office for Film and Broadcasting
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24-Sep-2009
The story of a Roman Catholic bishop who resigned his bishopric to run in a presidential election was always going to be a fairly unique one. Even more so when, having won the election, he was welcomed by the Vatican as a legitimate president and sent a present by the Pope. Fernando Lugo is the man in question and his country of Paraguay the beneficiary of his decision. - Fr Michael Campbell-Johnston, Thinking Faith
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21-Sep-2009
In Say You're One of Them, being strong enough to live usually means running away: slipping away through a window, hiding among a group of other retreating children, scaling a road divider, lying to conceal your identity and, most difficult yet so common, leaving someone else, usually another child, behind. The lucky children disappear, leaving unlucky ones behind. The even unluckier ones, together with so many unlucky adults, are made to disappear. - Scott Korb, America
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25-Sep-2009
The Optimum Population Trust, an organisation which promotes the radical reduction in human population primarily for the sake of the environment, believes it has come up with a cheap solution to global warming: more contraception. On the face of it there is some plausibility in its argument. But scratch beneath the surface and one soon finds that it is the OPT's research which is based on a serious dose of hot air. - Dermot Grenham, The Catholic Herald
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24-Sep-2009
When I began in journalism more than 30 years ago, my colleagues (and I) were generally hostile to religion, which was seen entirely through the prism of Christianity. With today's young journalists, that's largely been replaced by a slightly shame faced ignorance and an open minded apathy, doubtless because it wasn't rammed down their throats. - Barney Zwartz, National Times
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23-Sep-2009
Right now, convicted pedophile Dennis Ferguson may be the most despised man in Australia. Repeatedly run out of town amid hysteria and witch hunts, it is clear that average Australians are not prepared to tolerate Ferguson living in their neighbourhoods. But while contempt for Ferguson is understandable, the recent actions of vigilante groups do little to assist in understanding or curbing wider rates of childhood sexual assault. - Nina Funnell, Online Opinion
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22-Sep-2009
People who grew up in the Catholic faith learnt how to be Catholic through osmosis. They learnt through their experiences with family, their parish and friends. They knew how to be Catholic by the time they were old enough to realise they were Catholic and that some people were not. But for those choosing to be Catholic, there is a grace at work in the realm of freedom of personal decision. - Julie Kelly, Catholic Outlook
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21-Sep-2009
For many years I have witnessed the suffering of people living in abject poverty in developing countries - from India and El Salvador to the Democratic Republic of Congo and Burma. Despite their enormous dignity and fortitude, and despite the good work done by aid agencies to help those in need, their lives remain adversely affected by factors beyond their control, and one of these is climate change. - Cardinal Keith O'Brien, The Tablet
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23-Sep-2009
A new network for Catholic young adults in Sydney focused on exploring the gospel themes of justice, action and reflection will be launched this weekend with a gathering at Balmain.
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22-Sep-2009
Through the exceptional talent of some of Australia's best artists, The Face of Compassion, Compassion Australia's inaugural art exhibition opens for public viewing from September 26 through to October 1 at 72 Erskine St Sydney.
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