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04-Jan-2010
Pope Benedict XVI's personal secretary Monsignor Georg Gaenswein has paid a visit to Susana Maiolo, the woman who jumped a barrier and knocked down the pontiff in St. Peter's Basilica on Christmas Eve.
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News - National
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08-Jan-2010
Father Maurizio Pettena has been appointed director of the Australian Catholic Migrant and Refugee Office (ACMRO), replacing Monsignor John Murphy, who has retired.
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08-Jan-2010
Following Mary MacKillop's forthcoming ascent to sainthood, there are moves to push the case for similar recognition of Caroline Chisholm, for her work among immigrants in Colonial Australia.
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07-Jan-2010
South Australian Social Inclusion Commissioner Monsignor David Cappo has called for a revision of the Federal Government's approach to homelessness, saying an external body is needed to help monitor the bureaucracy.
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06-Jan-2010
The costs of education have risen broadly across states on the Eastern seaboard, with expenses in Melbourne soaring by up to 75 percent in a decade.
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05-Jan-2010
The Australian Catholic Film Office has awarded its 2009 Film of the Year to Warwick Thornton and Kath Shelper's Samson & Delilah.
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08-Jan-2010
An "alternative schoolies immersion trip" last month to the Philippines proved to be an eye-opener for Victorian school students, bringing them face to face with the extremely poor living conditions people deal with around the world.
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07-Jan-2010
Ballarat Bishop Peter Connors says priests can cancel weekday or weekend masses on days of catastrophic fire danger, in what is believed to be a first for Victoria.
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07-Jan-2010
A Melbourne priest and youth worker have urged the person behind the murder of an Indian student to surrender to them. "We could act as circuit-breakers," says Father Bob Maguire.
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06-Jan-2010
Rockhampton Bishop Brian Heenan is standing by a public appeal to raise $6 million for restoration work on the city's Saint Joseph's Cathedral.
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04-Jan-2010
Toowoomba's Holy Name Parish priest Father Tom Keegan will celebrate Mass with Pope Benedict XVI in St Peter's Basilica in Rome on the Feast of the Epiphany this week.
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04-Jan-2010
A 27-year-old woman has lodged an action in the South Australian Supreme Court against Catholic Special Schools for "violence and bullying" over 14 years during her education.
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04-Jan-2010
The Salvation Army, St Vincent de Paul Society and UnitingCare Wesley say dumping fees, incurred for clearing unusable goods dumped on them, are preventing money going to help the needy.
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News - International
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06-Jan-2010
Last year more than 2.24 million people spent time with the Pope in one form or another. This ranged from a weekly general audience, to a special audience, liturgies he celebrated, or being invited to the Vatican or at the papal villa.
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05-Jan-2010
The Jewish community of Rome has confirmed that Pope Benedict XVI would visit the city's synagogue as scheduled this month, despite Jewish groups' displeasure over the recent elevation of World War II era Pope Pius XII to "venerable".
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08-Jan-2010
Singer and actress Jennifer Lopez has said she would never consider in vitro fertilisation because of her traditional upbringing.
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05-Jan-2010
The US Postal Service has recognised Mother Teresa's humanitarian work with a stamp as part of its 2010 program.
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07-Jan-2010
The Catholic Church in Ireland must work with civil authorities and communities to ensure the best practice, co-operation and accountability in safeguarding children, says Irish Primate Cardinal Sean Brady.
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06-Jan-2010
A leading Italian Bishop has criticised Sunday homilies as boring, uninspired and unpalatable. Bishop Mariano Crociata urged priests to pay more attention to their homilies, acknowledging that the minds of churchgoers need to be nourished.
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06-Jan-2010
A row has erupted between two Roman Catholic leaders over a visit to the controversial Medjugorje shrine to the Virgin Mary in Bosnia.
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05-Jan-2010
The last bishop mentioned in a damning report on the failure of the Irish Catholic Church to deal with child abuse is facing calls to step down.
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05-Jan-2010
Thousands have paid their last respects to the former Catholic Primate of All-Ireland, Cardinal Cahal Daly, as his body was taken from St Peter's Cathedral in Belfast to his final resting place of Armagh.
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05-Jan-2010
The Archbishop of Westminster Vincent Nichols says secularists are "just as dogmatic as the worst religious believer and sometimes more stridently so".
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04-Jan-2010
The group Atheist Ireland has launched a campaign against the country's new blasphemy law, publishing 25 allegedly blasphemous quotes from people including Jesus Christ, Muhammad and the Irish Justice Minister.
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08-Jan-2010
Attackers set fire to the Protestant Metro Tabernacle Church in Kuala Lumpur early today, in the midst of growing controversy over the use of the word "Allah" by Malaysian Christians.
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07-Jan-2010
The Malaysian Catholic Herald weekly has agreed not to use the word "Allah" for God in its Malay-language pages until a government appeal on the matter is finalised, following a request by the country's Attorney-General.
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04-Jan-2010
The website of a Malaysian Catholic newspaper has been hacked after the High Court allowed the paper the right to use "Allah" for God in its Malay-language section.
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08-Jan-2010
At least six Coptic Christians and a security guard are dead after a midnight mass shooting attack in southern Egypt.
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06-Jan-2010
The practice by some ultra-Orthodox Jews of spitting at priests, nuns and other Christian clergy has been denounced in a statement by the Israeli Embassy to the Holy See.
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07-Jan-2010
Around 2,500 Chinese Catholics have braved freezing conditions to pay their last respects to "underground" Bishop Leo Yao Liang of Xiwanzi, who had spent almost 30 years of his life behind bars.
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Regulars
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08-Jan-2010
The “environmental crisis is a moral challenge” that requires us “to examine how we use and share the goods of the earth, what we pass on to future generations, and how we live in harmony with God’s creation.” Two decades later, the diocese of San Jose in California has launched the Catholic Green Initiative.
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07-Jan-2010
Inside a plain stone building that was once a Catholic convent in Paris,a dozen black-robed seminarians struggle over French theological phrases. They are a bold experiment: the Russian Orthodox Church's first seminary outside the former Soviet Union.
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06-Jan-2010
Thirty-seven priests, nuns and missionaries were killed worldwide in 2009, nearly twice as many as 2008 and a record high for a decade, the Vatican's news agency has reported.
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05-Jan-2010
A California appeals court has dismissed a lawsuit against the Vatican bank seeking restitution for Holocaust survivors who said the bank stored and laundered millions of dollars worth of assets looted by a Nazi-backed regime in Croatia.
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04-Jan-2010
A 13th-century letter from Genghis Khan's grandson demanding homage from Pope Innocent IV, and another from 20th Century Japanese emperor Hirohito, are among a collection of documents from the Vatican's Secret Archives that has been published for the first time. The archives contain scrolls, parchments and leather-bound volumes with correspondence dating back more than 1000 years.
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08-Jan-2010
The online religious portal of The Times newspaper features lively opinion and commentary on topical subjects, including debate about the intentions of the Susanna Maiolo, the Swiss-Italian woman who knocked down the Pope.
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07-Jan-2010
The Catholic Book Club on the America magazine online site contains well-written and thoughtful reviews on subjects ranging from rethinking Jesus to the future of the Church.
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06-Jan-2010
The Canossian Daughters of Charity carry on the spirit of Magdalen of Canossa, who lived in Italy from 1774-1835. They are a group of Gospel women, living in Queensland, who strive to challenge injustice through a collective voice.
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05-Jan-2010
The shy, frumpish British singer who appeared on a British talent show last year has become an international celebrity. Her website, with songs, video clips and snippets about her best-selling album, captures the amazing story of how Susan Boyle captivated he world.
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04-Jan-2010
This site contains a high quality archive of Papal masses and audiences at St Peter's Basilica, as well as footage of international conferences discussing today's most pressing issues for the Church.
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08-Jan-2010
Jacques Mesrine was a famous criminal in his time, the 1960s and 1970s in France and in Quebec. However, these two companion films about him - Killer Instinct and Public Enemy Number 1, certainly put him in the cinema pantheon of crime celebrities.
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07-Jan-2010
Nowhere Man was a popular Beatles' song. Nowhere Boy is the story of the boyhood and adolescence of John Lennon. The focus is on 1957 when John discovers that he was brought up by his mother's sister and her husband, while his mother lived nearby.
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06-Jan-2010
Wes Anderson and Roald Dahl? Rushmore, Steve Zissou and Willy Wonka? Yes, Anderson has directed this version of Dahl's Fantastic Mr Fox.
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05-Jan-2010
Basil Rathbone, Jeremy Brett and most other actors who portrayed the most famous fictional detective Sherlock Holmes on screen stuck pretty close to the character as described in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s stories. Not so Robert Downey Jr.
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04-Jan-2010
Jane Campion's intimate portrait of the love between poet John Keats and Fanny Brawne takes place on Hampstead Hill near London in 1819. This is a very refined film, a picture of her gentle passion for Keats and passion taking possession of him for Fanny. Peter Malone - Australian Catholic Office for Film & Broadcasting.
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08-Jan-2010
Representatives from the Baptist World Alliance have held annual meetings with counterparts from the Vatican’s Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity. The challenge in ecumenical conversation is how to receive the gift of unity in the midst of our present brokenness.
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07-Jan-2010
Benedict’s decision to venerate Pius XII is certainly debatable, but it was not, as some have suggested, rushed, much less deliberately “insensitive.” It was, rather, the end result of a well-thought out process.
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06-Jan-2010
Why do we stay up late every New Year's Eve, in a mixed attitude of religious observance and Bacchanalian revelry, seemingly possessed by an anxiety that the clock will fail to chime in the new year unless we are there to welcome it?
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05-Jan-2010
This year Pope Benedict XVI has chosen to appeal to all people to care for the environment in his letter: “if you want to cultivate peace, protect creation.”
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04-Jan-2010
The terrible crisis of sexual abuse is deeply linked to the way that power can corrupt human relationships, which is why it touches all the Churches, even if the Catholic Church happens to have been more in the spotlight recently.
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