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16-Oct-2009
Royal Canadian Mounted Police have seized three computers and various storage devices during searches of the residences and office of a resigned bishop, Raymond Lahey, who is accused of possessing child porn.
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12-Oct-2009
Pope Benedict XVI canonised five new saints at a solemn Mass in the Vatican on Sunday, including a renowned priest who worked with leprosy sufferers in Hawaii.
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12-Oct-2009
In conjunction with anti-poverty week this week, the St Vincent de Paul Society wants the Federal Government to address the inequality in pension and benefits.
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15-Oct-2009
The ACT's Greens and Liberals voted down a Bill to give school principals in the territory more disciplinary powers over students, saying they must seek the chief education officer's approval for suspensions longer than five days.
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15-Oct-2009
The University of Notre Dame will open a new teaching facility in its Sydney campus named in honour of Brother Kelvin Brian Canavan former long term Executive Director of Catholic Schools in the Archdiocese of Sydney.
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14-Oct-2009
Catholic schools across Australia will be able to publish education content on iTunes U, with video and text files from Catholic schools free to anyone visiting the iTunes Store.
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14-Oct-2009
NSW chemist Trevor Dal Broi removed condoms from his East Griffith Pharmacy several weeks ago, banned the sale of emergency contraception morning after pills and is telling women using oral contraceptive pills for birth control to take their scripts to another chemist.
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12-Oct-2009
The Religious Anti-Defamation Observatory president Antonio Alonso Marcos has denounced an anti-Christian bias in a new movie to be released shortly called "Agora" by Spanish director Alejandro Amenabar.
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News - National
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16-Oct-2009
Melbourne Mercy Sister Angela Reed, who was first alerted to the plight of trafficked women while working at a women's refuge in Melbourne, will take stories from trafficked women to the Asia Pacific NGO Forum - Beijing+15 next week.
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16-Oct-2009
The Australian Sex Party is planning to demonstrate in response to a "prayer offensive" by Catch the Fire Ministries pastor Daniel Nalliah against the devil in the Parliament.
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14-Oct-2009
The Catholic Enquiry Centre is hosting a series of celebrations to mark 50 years of helping people to learn more about Catholicism, the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference said in a media statement.
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12-Oct-2009
Sr Anne Derwin, as the present day Congregational Leader of the Sisters of St Joseph will also take the reins as the Congregational Leader of the Sisters of Perpetual Adoration, it was announced last week.
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15-Oct-2009
A decision to sell off land in Victoria left to Bendigo and the Diocese of Sandhurst is drawing dissent from several leaseholders.
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13-Oct-2009
The Christ the King Catholic Primary School in Victoria is considering barring cars from entering a 2km radius of its compound, to beat increasing traffic woes.
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12-Oct-2009
Bishop of Sale Christopher Prowse urges the repealing of the year old Victorian Abortion Law Reform Bill, which ignores the "fundamental human right to life of the unborn."
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16-Oct-2009
Teachers will go on strike in some of Brisbane's biggest Catholic schools and across Queensland on October 28 over pay, The Courier Mail reports.
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16-Oct-2009
Queensland police have said scammers are using religious lures to defraud romance-seeking Christians online.
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14-Oct-2009
The South Australian Attorney-General Michael Atkinson's statement an Aboriginal gang that faced court on Monday were part of an "evil phenomenon" beyond rehabilitation is drawing criticism.
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13-Oct-2009
Former priest Charles Alfred Barnett, who was extradited from Indonesia over sexual abuse charges, pleaded not guilty in the South Australian District Court to two counts each of unlawful sexual intercourse and indecent assault.
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15-Oct-2009
Proposed changes to the Anti-Discrimination Act tabled in the Tasmanian State Parliament has outlined moves that would allow schools to legally pick one student over another on the basis of their religion, the Tasmanian Mercury reports.
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13-Oct-2009
Catch the Fire Ministries pastor Daniel Nalliah has launched a "prayer offensive" to ward off evil forces seeking to cast spells on Federal Parliament.
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News - International
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15-Oct-2009
Deaths from unsafe abortion kill 70,000 women a year, a Guttmacher Institute report has found, leading to a call for further easing of developing nations abortion laws, a move rejected by a US bishops' pro-life spokesperson.
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13-Oct-2009
The organiser of a US spiritual retreat, James Arthur Ray, was caught deleting incriminating tweets he published during an event in which two people died and another 19 had to be admitted to hospital.
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13-Oct-2009
Katie Holmes has reportedly enrolled her daughter Suri in a Catholic school, despite arguments over it with Scientologist husband Tom Cruise.
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16-Oct-2009
A report that divulges how bishops in Dublin handled allegations of child sex abuse against a number of priests between 1975 and 2004 will be made public, with the exception of parts that will prejudice current proceedings against one cleric.
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15-Oct-2009
A pirate leader is believed to have abducted Philippine based Irish priest Father Michael Sinnott before possibly handing him over to Muslim rebels, a military chief reportedly said. The government is asking the rebel group to release him.
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14-Oct-2009
Irish priest Father Michael Sinnott who was kidnapped in the Philippines has been seen alive in captivity in an area where Islamist militants are known to operate, according to a report in The Age.
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12-Oct-2009
Six gunmen entered the Columban House in Pagadian city in the southern Philippines and abducted 78 year old Irish priest Fr Michael Sinnott late Sunday.
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14-Oct-2009
The Commission for Social Harmony and Vigilance of the Catholic bishops of India's Kerala state has urged Christians to be vigilant about a "love jihad" said to be adopted by Muslim extremists to convert women by marrying them.
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13-Oct-2009
Saying they have special talents and shouldn't be left to clean churches and mend vestments, nuns have told the African Synod in Rome they want more of a say in running the Church.
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Regulars
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16-Oct-2009
It's naive to think that you can fight abortion without also dealing with the issue of contraception for many, many reasons. Number 1 because fertility has not just a personal dimension, it has a social dimension. As we are seeing now in the declining fertility rates around the world, and how the declining fertility rates have economic consequences, have demographic consequences, have immigration consequences, and so even on a social level, if you ignore the whole issue of fertility, and just focus on abortion you're never going to see it in its full truth. - Inside the Vatican
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15-Oct-2009
There are many facets of nonviolence. We're just beginning to plumb the mystery, the possibility, the hope of becoming a nonviolent people. But there is, I think, one basic straightforward and practical measure of our nonviolence, how we drive. - Fr John Dear, National Catholic Reporter
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14-Oct-2009
"Joseph Silva", who prefers not to use his real name, is a loving father of three, devoted husband, good church going Sinhalese Catholic ... and a people smuggler. The 43 year old entrepreneurial fishmonger from Sri Lanka's west coast says he turned his hand to the illegal immigration racket for the first time this year only after a bad fishing season more than doubled his debt on his new fishing trawler. - Amanda Hodge, The Australian
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13-Oct-2009
Sometimes you walk into a modern Catholic church and think: this is really just a community centre with icons. But the sacred purpose of this particular church was still plainly obvious; it was just that neglect and botched repair jobs had somehow sucked the sacredness out of it. - Damian Thompson, The Catholic Herald
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12-Oct-2009
While church attendance is steadily declining and the number of confessed heathens steadily increasing, we're not quite ready to give up the ghost. Instead, for every person abandoning Mass, it seems two more are having their horoscope cast, their aura cleansed or their past lives aligned. - Melinda Houston, Sunday Age
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16-Oct-2009
Sunday October 18 is World Mission Day and Catholic Mission Australia has developed a website which incorporates the Day but also the month of October which it terms World Mission Month. It is a time dedicated to reflection in the hope that all the baptised will be always more committed to Christ's mission of salvation for the world.
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15-Oct-2009
St Maurus' Hanga Abbey is a vibrant Benedictine community in Southern Tanzania. Founded in 1957 by the late Fr Ebehard Spiess, Hanga Abbey was created to allow the Tanzanian population to live in the spirit of St Benedict.
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14-Oct-2009
Based at Glebe in Sydney the Brown Nurses is the work of Our Lady's Nurses for the Poor. Brown Nurses provide in-home support to socially and economically disadvantaged individuals and families with complex care needs living in the local government areas of Sydney,Randwick and Leichhardt.
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13-Oct-2009
The Way of the Lord Jesus website highlights the central work of the prominent Catholic moral theologian, Germain Grisez. The three volume set of The Way of the Lord Jesus is available online, with the fourth volume to be added in the future.
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12-Oct-2009
One of the largest parish communities in the Archdiocese of Brisbane, the Southport Catholic Parish on the Gold Coast has a widespread diversity of members from a high concentration of children through to the retired and elderly. This diversity is reflected in its website.
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15-Oct-2009
This film is a small scale story but it has a top cast beyond expectations.The cast builds up the film beyond its small stature. Winona Ryder plays a friend, Monica Bellucci is the publisher's former wife, Julianne Moore is the aunt's companion and Shirley Knight is the neighbour. Robin Wright Penn is immensely watchable and gives the film its power. Many older women will find it easy to identify with her. - Fr Peter Malone, Australian Catholic Office for Film and Broadcasting
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12-Oct-2009
Michael Moore, the writer, director, and producer, belongs to a long tradition of American humour. His scruffy, overweight persona may be traced back through Will Rogers and Mark Twain to the Down East Jonathan figures of the earliest American comedies. Such bumpkins and hicks exhibit, but more often feign, innocence and naiveté in order to expose the absurdity of their city slicker cousins. To their inherent populism, Moore adds a left wing ideology, his chief targets being the CEOs of Corporate America. - William Park, MercatorNet
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13-Oct-2009
This edition of Compass looks at the Anglican Diocese of Sydney, its spiritual battle against modernising trends and the evangelical ministry at the heart of its identity. Anglicans are struggling with the future of their church. Conservatives are angry about plans to bless same sex relationships and the consecration of an openly gay bishop in the USA.
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16-Oct-2009
God's Philosophers has been criticised for reading like a textbook, but a textbook is exactly what is needed, both for those now studying and for those who have to unlearn what we were taught in textbooks written under the shadow of the authors of the great IXth Edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. - Joe Egerton, Thinking Faith
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16-Oct-2009
The fact that one bishop worries that another bishop's public speech might have had a corrosive effect on the faith is itself a clear sign that others have shirked their responsibility. If Bishop Gumbleton undermines Church teaching on the highly contested issues, and he does, why does he remain a bishop in good standing? The Vatican has responsibilities, too. - Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture
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15-Oct-2009
From the First Fleet to the 1960s, Irish Catholics were a discriminated against underclass, openly barred from employment in much of the private sector and accused of disloyalty for putting Australia before the British Empire. In what we now cosily term "Anglo-Celtic" Australia, a virtual social apartheid existed at times between Catholics and Protestants. - Siobhan McHugh, Brisbane Times
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14-Oct-2009
I can attest that the Catholic Church is a nest of Lefties. On economic and welfare issues, as well as various other subjects like immigration, aid and defence, the Vatican is well to the left of the main parties. Christianity is a very broad religion that can be interpreted in a number of ways, and arguing that Jesus was "Left wing" is as anachronistic as speculating over who he'd want to win the Premiership. - Ed West, Telegraph.co.uk
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13-Oct-2009
Catholics worship not just with their heads but with things of the earth: bread and wine, water and oil, processing, standing and sitting, lighting candles and even smoke and ashes. Liturgical prayer is prayer with the body, the earth, ritual, song and celebration. Symbol is the very language of liturgy. Symbols do what theory cannot do. Symbols bring us into touch with realities, which are at once familiar and mysterious. - Julie Kelly, Catholic Outlook
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12-Oct-2009
The GFC is more than a credit crisis. It's also a crisis of faith. The near meltdown has shaken people's faith in the financial system and its institutions. It's even shaken people's faith in the way we live. The Prime Minister of Australia, Kevin Rudd, has written not one but three essays in which he essentially says that the system which gave us the GFC is "fundamentally flawed". - Ian Harper, Online Opinion
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14-Oct-2009
Federal Minister Tony Burke will be the next high profile speaker at the St Thomas More Forum hosted by the parish of the same name in Campbell, ACT. He will present on the topic "Food Security - One of the Greatest Social Justice Challenges in Today's World."
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