News - National
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12-Feb-2010
Government funding for non-profit organisations must go up to enable the groups to deliver better community services and to pay their staff properly, said a Productivity Commission report.
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12-Feb-2010
The Australian Catholic Bishops Conference (ACBC) has announced the launch of its Facebook page, containing information, media releases, photos and forums about the work and ministry of the ACBC.
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11-Feb-2010
The Australian Catholic Bishops Conference is offering "an innovative online experience" called "The Reflection" as a Lenten resource that presents reflections on the Gospel and the Creed. It starts on Monday.
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11-Feb-2010
The St Vincent de Paul Society has welcomed the Federal Government's move to allow disadvantaged people to access Centrelink payments weekly rather than fortnightly, but reiterated its opposition to compulsory income management.
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09-Feb-2010
Services for pensioners in nursing homes could be squeezed without the right compensation package under the emissions trading scheme, Catholic Health Australia has warned.
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09-Feb-2010
Father Frank Brennan has been appointed as "Catholic Advocate in Residence" for four social justice bodies in a move to to drive change on the health and welfare of disadvantaged Australians.
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12-Feb-2010
Bendigo Council has approved a proposal by the Church to subdivide 15 hectares of bushland in Golden Square, a move that has been opposed by local residents unhappy with the potential removal of vegetation.
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12-Feb-2010
Sydney Archbishop Cardinal George Pell says he did not "quietly move" Father Richard Abourjaily to Perth and stated that the priest "has no rights" to celebrate Mass or administer Sacraments.
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10-Feb-2010
The coordinator of a CatholicCare Hunter-Manning project to help the unemployed has won the Catholic Social Services' Perkins Award for Excellence in Individual Service.
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08-Feb-2010
Cardinal George Pell has told a Sydney parish priest to disallow the Australian Reforming Catholics group from using a church hall in Rose Bay to hold the group's annual general meeting.
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08-Feb-2010
Tony Abbott says the NSW Liberal Party could lose the next state election if it does not preselect David Clarke. He also says it is "one of the nastiest smears" to call Mr Clarke the leader of the party's religious right.
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08-Feb-2010
The Sydney priest who lied about having cancer to raise money from his local flock has been moved to Perth. His spiritual adviser believes the priest was "repentant" and would not lie about anything so serious in future.
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12-Feb-2010
Queensland's controversial surrogacy bill was passed last night, despite two Labor MPs crossing the floor to vote against the Bligh Government.
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11-Feb-2010
Queensland's plans to move Year 7 into secondary school would have enormous practical and financial implications for Catholic schools, the Queensland Catholic Education Commission warned.
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10-Feb-2010
A Brisbane man has been charged with aiding suicide and importing a border-controlled drug. He has been released on bail.
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10-Feb-2010
Queensland's Surrogacy Bill violates a child's birthright to a mother and a father, says the Family Council of Queensland, and the Australian Christian Lobby wants the bill amended or rejected.
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09-Feb-2010
Archbishop Mark Coleridge says the termination of negotiations to sell Calvary Public Hospital "means that in the new circumstances all must work together to ensure the best possible delivery of health care for the ACT community".
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08-Feb-2010
The Little Company of Mary Health Care (LCMHC), has pulled out of the deal to sell its Calvary Public Hospital to the ACT Government, saying the Vatican could take several years to approve the deal.
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News - International
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12-Feb-2010
Cardinal Claudio Hummes, Prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy, has reiterated that the Church condemns sex abuse by clergy and wants to work more closely with victims.
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11-Feb-2010
Pope Benedict has condemned accusations that Vatican officials were behind smears suggesting a former editor of an Italian Catholic newspaper was part of a homosexual relationship.
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09-Feb-2010
A Vatican official has proposed a shared "ecumenical catechism" among Catholics, Anglicans, Lutherans, Methodists and members of Reformed churches, as a fruit of four decades of dialogue.
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08-Feb-2010
A Jesuit teacher has confessed to sexually abusing boys at the top German school, Canisius College in Berlin, and has been suspended from the order. The confession follows sex abuse allegations against two other Jesuits.
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11-Feb-2010
Lawmakers in the US state of Virginia are set to vote on a bill that would protect Virginians from attempts by employers or insurance companies to implant microchips in their bodies against their will.
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10-Feb-2010
American actress and Brokeback Mountain star, Anne Hathaway, who has a gay brother, says she and her family left the Catholic Church to become Episcopalian over Catholic teaching on homosexuality.
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09-Feb-2010
Mexico's Catholic Church has inaugurated its first ever church dedicated to exorcisms.
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11-Feb-2010
Irish victims of Catholic sexual abuse want Pope Benedict to replace bishops implicated in decades of cover-up. Groups representing survivors are also seeking $1.5 billion in compensation from the Vatican.
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10-Feb-2010
Irish bishops have met representatives of victims of Church abuse for a second time, to inform the bishops' preparations for their meeting with Pope Benedict XVI next week.
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10-Feb-2010
Dozens of Spanish Catholic organisations have united with the Church to defend the presence of crucifixes and other religious symbols in response to the Spanish government's plan to "regulate" the presence of religious symbols in public areas.
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09-Feb-2010
Research at a biogenetic centre in Milan that takes stem cells without destroying human embryos has been featured in the Vatican's L'Osservatore Romano newspaper.
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08-Feb-2010
Alleged relics of Joan of Arc, under the care of the Archbishop of Tours in Chinon, France, do not contain the charred remains of the saint but consist of a mummified cat leg bone and human rib.
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Regulars
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12-Feb-2010
It is easy to hear the passion for social justice in Margaret Harvey's voice as she talks about the people she sees on the streets of Brisbane suburbs Logan and Beenleigh. Margaret is the current coordinator of Rosies street outreach operations.
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11-Feb-2010
In the Year of Priests, the life of Andrea Santoro is an example of the 'tireless and hidden service' given by priests around the world that deserves renewed attention.
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10-Feb-2010
Since the earthquake in Haiti, a wide range of voices have emerged seeking to explain how Haiti might move forward. Sadly, we have heard very little from the people most affected by the devastation: Haitians themselves.
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09-Feb-2010
The secretary-general of Caritas Internationalis has confessed to “mixed feelings” about the World Economic Forum’s outcomes, saying international institutions are underperforming on poverty eradication, security and many more.”
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08-Feb-2010
Cameron Auld is a former "booze-guzzling, racist motorbiker" who was once shot in the head by a rival. A pint of milk a day and the entry angle of the bullet may have saved his life, but it's salvation from Jesus that remains the Brisbane man's stronghold.
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12-Feb-2010
This is the website of the Australian bishops' online Lenten Reflection series. It is an Internet-based resource comprising 6 short pre-recorded segments (one for each week of Lent). The segments will be posted online each Monday at 7pm, starting February 15.
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11-Feb-2010
Catholic Community Services won an award at this weeks's Catholic Social Services Association Conference for its Domestic Squalor Project. This site provides access to all its services and important community partners.
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10-Feb-2010
The Catholic Light blog describes itself as dealing with "life and living in communion with the Catholic Church". Its most recent entry is an English translation of a conversation concering Medjugorje with German theologian Manfred Hauke.
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09-Feb-2010
The Winter Olympics have never enjoyed the same publicity as the original, summer Games. But they still embody the same values, as Pope Benedict XVI acknowledged in his message earlier this month.
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08-Feb-2010
As St Valentine's Day approaches, this website has information on the history of this often misunderstood day, and who St Valentine really was. They are accompanied by links to articles on marriage and relationships.
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11-Feb-2010
Dusting off the acclaimed BBC mini-series he made in the 1980s, director Martin Campbell repackages and moves it to Massachusetts more as a Mel Gibson action thriller than the thoughtful, dark drama it once was.
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08-Feb-2010
This film is about a completely dysfunctional family in the Bronx in the 1980s, where the pregnant teenager Claireece Precious Jones lives with her indolent and abusive mother. It is a familiar subject but nevertheless very moving.
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12-Feb-2010
Pam Rhodes discovers that there's more to the season of Lent than giving up chocolate when she meets people whose lives have been transformed.
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10-Feb-2010
See Cardinal Pell and Australian Ambassador to the Holy See, Tim Fischer, in hard hats as they tour around Domus Australia, the site of an Australian pilgrims centre being built in Rome.
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10-Feb-2010
Rachael Kohn talks with Priest, Professor and Prophet, Hans Kung, the dissident Swiss Catholic whose concept of a Global Ethic has ignited the imaginations of religious, business and political leaders around the world, including British Prime Minister Gordon Brown
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12-Feb-2010
The day Nelson Mandela walked free from prison 20 years ago, I was scouring the dirt roads of the Kruger National Park for wildlife, woefully unaware of one of history's most significant events, writes Catharine Marshall.
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11-Feb-2010
The news that Pope John Paul II practised bodily mortification, which has caused a ripple of interest in the secular press, ought not to come as a surprise to anyone familiar with Catholic tradition, writes Alexander Lucie-Smith.
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10-Feb-2010
The states are dragging their federalist feet on hospital reform, but it's Canberra wrongly wearing all the blame, writes Martin Laverty, head of Catholic Health Australia.
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09-Feb-2010
Cardinal George Pell is perhaps the best living example of a certain species of Vatican ecclesiastical life that we might designate as the “rumour magnet.”
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08-Feb-2010
Reports of contemporary provoke the ire of those who see them as further evidence of the irrational character of religious faith. The debate is predictable. But another angle may be found in an apparent oddity in the processes of saint-making, writes Andrew Hamilton.
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