News - National
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05-Feb-2010
A national initiativas been launched by the Church to "reclaim St Valentine's Day", focus on the true meaning of the feast day and the importance of romance in marriage.
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04-Feb-2010
Opposition finance spokesman Barnaby Joyce has been criticised for suggesting that Government funds pledged to the World Bank should be redirected to reducing food costs in Australia.
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03-Feb-2010
Kevin Rudd and Tony Abbott greeted each other with smiles and warm handshakes outside a church service in Canberra hours before they go head-to-head for the first time in parliament on Tuesday.
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03-Feb-2010
The St Vincent de Paul Society says introducing smart metering for electricity, combined with other potential energy policy shifts, will add "hundreds of dollars to (annual) energy bills".
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02-Feb-2010
Ray Frawley, the founding editor of the Archdiocese of Canberra and Goulburn's newspaper Catholic Voice, has died in Ballarat. He was 62.
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03-Feb-2010
Geelong racing legend George Hanlon, who trained three Melbourne Cup winners, was farewelled at the Lumen Christi Catholic Church in Leopold yesterday.
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03-Feb-2010
Four-time AFL premiership coach David Parkin has joined with the Australian Catholic University (ACU) in a new degree course for coaches seeking to advance their education and training.
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01-Feb-2010
The final mass in St Brigid's Catholic Church in Greta, north-east Victoria was celebrated Sunday, following a decision to sell the poorly-attended church.
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05-Feb-2010
A spokesman for Archbishop of Sydney Cardinal George Pell has denied "rumours" that the cardinal "had a heart turn" while in Rome.
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04-Feb-2010
Those charged with the administration of the law must meet both the needs of society and the dignity of the human being, Archbishop Mark Coleridge has told the annual Red Mass in Sydney.
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04-Feb-2010
Bishop Kevin Manning, who has looked after parishes from Parramatta to Penrith and beyond, retires next month at the age of 76. He is a bit sorry to be leaving, but looks on it as a new phase in his life.
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03-Feb-2010
Henry Carlon, of Uralla in northern NSW, has been awarded the Vatican's Order of Knight of the Pontifical Equestrian Order of St Gregory the Great, a distinction that recognises service to the Church and unusual labours.
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02-Feb-2010
More than 500 people packed out Our Lady Queen of Peace Catholic Church in Sydnedy's west for the funeral of a couple who drowned in front of their children at Ballina Beach.
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02-Feb-2010
A Year 10 student in the Newcastle region of NSW has been asked to stay away from school for breaking school rules by dyeing her hair.
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01-Feb-2010
The mother of two children at the school rated the best-performing Catholic primary school in NSW - St Francis of Assisi Primary School in Paddington - says the result comes at a cost.
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02-Feb-2010
The Queensland Government has outlined a $350 million shakeup of the state's high schools in a "green paper" on education reforms, inviting comment on the plan to move Year 7 into high school by 2014.
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01-Feb-2010
Catholic schools in Western Australia made it mandatory for Year 12 students to sit a Tertiary Entrance Exam religion subject, prompting complaints from parents.
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05-Feb-2010
The Church needs to provide more clarity in youth ministry leadership roles to prevent confusion and a "role crisis", says a youth affairs consultant.
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News - International
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01-Feb-2010
British talent show star Susan Boyle, a devout Catholic who has worshipped at her Scottish parish since she was a child, wants to perform for the Pope when he visits Scotland in September.
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05-Feb-2010
Harry Knox, a member of an advisory panel to US President Barack Obama, said Pope Benedict XVI is "hurting people in the name of Jesus" through comments about the ineffectiveness of condoms against AIDS in Africa.
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05-Feb-2010
Cherie Blair has been reported to UK's Judicial Complaints Office, for apparent lenient sentencing of a Muslim man convicted of assault - because he was religious.
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04-Feb-2010
The Catholic Church in France has warned against government plans to ban full veils on Muslim women in the country, urging mutual respect between faiths.
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04-Feb-2010
The British government has abandoned proposed reforms that would have forced religious groups to abide by anti-discrimination laws, including the hiring of gay people.
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03-Feb-2010
Pope Benedict has confirmed his first papal visit to the UK with an unprecedented attack on the government's equality legislation, telling British bishops it threatened religious freedom and conflicted with natural law.
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02-Feb-2010
A Polish Bishop has denied having referred to the Holocaust as "a Jewish invention", calling a news report quoting him about it "a complete misunderstanding".
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02-Feb-2010
A Polish priest in the country's south has installed an electronic finger scanner in his church for schoolchildren to leave their fingerprints in order to monitor their attendance at mass.
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01-Feb-2010
British heavy metal fans are being urged to officially register their faith as "heavy metal" when filling in the next Census questionnaire, for the love of rock to be recognised as a "religion".
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01-Feb-2010
Italy has appealed against a European rights court ruling that the display of crucifixes in Italian schools undermines religious freedom and the right to a secular education.
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04-Feb-2010
A massive hydroelectric dam project in the heart of the Amazon would trigger "unforeseeable consequences" among the region's indigenous people, says the Bishop of Xingu in Brazil.
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05-Feb-2010
The 10 Americans who were detained at the Dominican border with 33 Haitian children said God wanted them to help the children and their "hearts were in the right place".
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Regulars
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05-Feb-2010
When Polish priest Maksymin Tandek returned hom after studying at a Franciscan school in Jerusalem. he founded a college to teach Jewish subjects to Catholics, to bring the two faiths closer.
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04-Feb-2010
Having spent more than three decades chronicling Catholic life, the writer Mary Gordon decided to actually read the bible. In Reading Jesus, she tries to understand the rise of fundamentalism by engaging the Gospels herself.
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03-Feb-2010
Missionaries who survived the Haiti earthquake are consistently professing a heightened sense of calling. They speak of feeling new "responsibility," both to God and to the Haitian people.
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02-Feb-2010
Cardinal Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson is now the most senior African official in the Roman Curia. Last month, the retired Ghanaian archbishop took over as president of the Pontifical Council of Justice and Peace. He offers a couple of hints about its probable future direction.
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01-Feb-2010
Each year for the past 10 years, Inside the Vatican magazine has chosen 10 "People of the Year" - men and women of courage, vision, learning and faith. Here are its choices for this past year.
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05-Feb-2010
This website has a collection of snippets, inspirational stories, jokes, poetry and anecdotes from around the world to give followers a daily boost whenever they need it.
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04-Feb-2010
From February 15-20, the faithful will be able to venerate the mortal remains of St Anthony displayed in the Chapel of the Relics of the Pontifical Basilica of the Saint in Padua. This site has details of St Anthony's life and other interesting information.
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03-Feb-2010
This Australian site provides information and resources for women in the business world who look to their faith for support in their attempts to balance work and personal life. The site also provides links to forums where business women can meet, personal counsellors for private help, and faith resources.
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02-Feb-2010
The World Economic Forum is an independent, international organization focussed on finding ways to advance sustainable prosperity. This website carries news and reports of the discussions held in its just concluded annual meeting at Davos.
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01-Feb-2010
Second Sight is a blog site that explores the reconciliation between science and faith. The raw material is based on a fortnightly Science and Faith column in The Catholic Herald by Quentin de la Bedoyere.
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05-Feb-2010
Invictus focuses on Nelson Mandela’s involvement in the 1995 Rugby World Cup held in South Africa, depicting the unifying effect of the rugby game on a divided people and carries a stirring message.
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01-Feb-2010
Daybreakers is a futuristic thriller that uses vampires to explore the dark side of human nature. It is set in 2019 at a time when the inhabitants of the earth are in the grip of radical biological and social change, with only five percent of its population still genetically human.
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02-Feb-2010
As the debate over an Australian Human Rights act continues, Encounter explores some of the ideas which drive our modern, secular conception of universal justice and equality.
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04-Feb-2010
The spiritual lives and teachings of Fr Henri Nouwen and Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta continue to inspire a healthy literary legacy. Two new books about them weave together spiritual values with an ecumenical appeal.
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03-Feb-2010
I cried at Antonia Fraser’s description of her husband, Harold Pinter’s, death from cancer. “Must you go?” she writes. This is an account of their life together, the celebrated Jewish playwright and the Catholic historian.
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05-Feb-2010
February is usually the launch pad for the new year of grace and endeavour. The Catholic year begins fittingly with the Presentation of the child Jesus in the Temple, mirroring the crowds of young parents presenting their new entrants at schools, writes Fr Brian O'Connell.
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04-Feb-2010
A week ago, two potentially life-changing events took place. One was the announcement of Apple's iPad and the other was the launch of the MySchool website. Both will enhance our wellbeing if we use them responsibly and overcome the urge to deify or demonise, writes Michael Mullins.
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03-Feb-2010
Cardinal Pell thinks Church positions on contested moral issues have a better chance of being reflected in law and policy if parliaments are not constrained by a Human Rights Act. Frank Brennan says he begs to differ.
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02-Feb-2010
As a general rule, I try to avoid writing about both Pat Robertson and Richard Dawkins, writes Ross Douthat. But Dawkins’ defence of Robertson for suggesting that the Haitian earthquake victims were being singled out for divine punishment prompted him to make an exception.
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01-Feb-2010
Men have long had financial security, property, protection, clothing, and a hot meal at dinner to offer a woman. For this, women were long taught to keep their virtue until a husband was found for them. Those days of contractual prostitution are over, or so we thought. But not in the mind of Tony Abbott, writes Lauren Wilson,
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