News - National
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20-Feb-2010
The canonisation of Mary MacKillop is one of six new saints announced by the Pope.
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20-Feb-2010
News of the October canonisation of Blessed Mary MacKillop features prominently in all Australia's metro dailies.
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20-Feb-2010
A thanksgiving mass will be held this morning at Penola in South Australia to celebrate Mary MacKillop's canonisation. The small South Australian town is where she established her first school.
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20-Feb-2010
Cardinal George Pell says Mary MacKillop ''stands at the heart of the Catholic tradition'', and that "she had a great ability to forgive."
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20-Feb-2010
Australian Catholics were jubilant last night at the Vatican's announcement that Mary MacKillop has become the nation's first saint. A ''deeply pleased'' Melbourne Archbishop Denis Hart said St Mary was a woman of holiness.
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20-Feb-2010
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd says MacKillop sainthood is "a great, great tribute to the Catholic church and a great, great tribute to her hard work in education".
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20-Feb-2010
Commentator and former priest Paul Collins last night called Blessed Mary MacKillop a 'great Australian Sheila'.
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20-Feb-2010
Australia's Sister Maria Casey, who led Mary MacKillop's sainthood campaign, was among those who attended last night's historic meeting in Rome. "It's a rare privilege indeed,'' she said.
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20-Feb-2010
Australia's ambassador to the Holy See has welcomed the announcement that Mary MacKillop will become the nation's first Roman Catholic saint on October 17.
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20-Feb-2010
Mary MacKillop will become Australia's first recognised saint on Sunday October 17, after Pope Benedict XVI announced the date of her canonisation overnight in Rome.
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19-Feb-2010
The newly translated Roman Missal, to be issued in Australian parishes next year, will help address the serious theological problems found in the currently used 1973 missal, says Archbishop Mark Coleridge.
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18-Feb-2010
Forward in Faith Australia, part of the Anglo-Catholic group that also has members in Britain and America, has voted to leave the Anglican Church. It is setting up a working group on how best to move to Catholicism.
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18-Feb-2010
Australian Catholic University vice-chancellor Greg Craven said universities would need significant government funding for new teaching facilities to cope with expected rising enrolments.
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17-Feb-2010
The proposal for a human rights act for Australia has little prospect of being adopted due to widespread opposition over a potential shift of power from the executive to the judiciary.
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16-Feb-2010
Opposition Leader, Tony Abbott, has dismayed welfare services by declining to match the Rudd government's goal to halve homelessness by 2020, saying governments cannot stop people from being homeless "if that's their choice".
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16-Feb-2010
Cardinals will meet in the Vatican's Apostolic Palace on Friday to vote on the pending causes of canonisation for six candidates, including Australia's Blessed Mary MacKillop.
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19-Feb-2010
Youth ministers must have "the fire in the belly", be disciplined and have the academic knowledge, said the Australian Bishops Delegate for Youth, Bishop Joseph Grech.
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17-Feb-2010
A Catholic Regional College student has won first place in an MTV art competition for a T-shirt design, taking the $5,000 top prize and beating almost 500 other entries.
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18-Feb-2010
Celebrity chefs from four leading Sydney restaurants will cook-off for Caritas Australia's "Fish Friday" tomorrow in a fundraiser for its newly-launched Project Compassion 2010.
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17-Feb-2010
Thousands of Sydneysiders brought parts of the city to a halt yesterday in a flashmob freeze co-ordinated by Caritas Australia as it called for the Australian government to 'Stop Global Poverty'.
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19-Feb-2010
Queensland has set up a crisis hotline for Brisbane's northern bayside community struggling with this week's schoolyard stabbing. A funeral for 12-year-old victim Elliot Fletcher will be held today.
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19-Feb-2010
Queensland St Vincent de Paul president John Campbell will end his term this year with the knowledge that the body made progress under his leadership in increasing accomodation facilities for the homeless.
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18-Feb-2010
Brisbane Catholic Education says it will review school security protocols, and that families should also be aware of what their children are taking to school, following this week's stabbing.
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17-Feb-2010
The 13-year-old boy charged with murdering fellow student Elliot Fletcher has been denied bail but a Facebook tribute to the dead boy has been desecrated.
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16-Feb-2010
Police have charged a 13 year-old Brisbane boy with murder after the fatal stabbing of his 12 year-old schoolmate yesterday in a playground fight at St Patrick's College.
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15-Feb-2010
A student from St Laurence's College, Queensland has been disciplined for creating a Facebook page that appeared to advocate killing prostitutes called "Killing your hooker so you don't have to pay her".
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15-Feb-2010
A Sunshine Coast priest says he supports the Queensland Government's surrogacy bill and the right of gay couples to be parents, contrary to the official Church stance.
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15-Feb-2010
A decorated military chaplain and former video game executive has been appointed rector of St Ignatius' College in Athelstone, South Australia.
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News - International
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17-Feb-2010
A leading Vatican theologian and biblical scholar has warned that veneration of relics is running the risk of replacing authentic faith with irrational superstition.
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16-Feb-2010
The Vatican newspaper has published a list of its top ten pop and rock albums of all time, including works by the Beatles, Pink Floyd and U2.
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15-Feb-2010
The Holy See is planning to publish over 9,000 pages of documents from the Vatican Secret Archives in relation to World War II, free on the internet. It is expected to highlight the "unique efforts" of wartime pope, Pius XII.
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15-Feb-2010
The book on Pope John Paul II co-authored by the official postulator of his sainthood has attracted displeasure from the Vatican, with top officials "perplexed and unhappy" at its publication.
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19-Feb-2010
A Sky News presenter has referred to the Ash Wednesday mark on US Vice President Joe Biden's forehead as a "nasty" brown mark and "large bruise".
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18-Feb-2010
American actress Jessica Alba has vowed never to do onscreen nudity, citing the influence of her Catholic upbringing.
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19-Feb-2010
Irish Cardinal Sean Brady said the country's bishops will perform an act of penance equivalent to putting on "sackcloth and ashes" this Lent as a sign of humility and empathy with the victims of clerical child abuse.
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18-Feb-2010
A British bishop and a climate change campaigner are urging people to go on a carbon fast this Lent - abstain from meat, eat by candlelight, and cut down on computer, mobile phone and iPod use.
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17-Feb-2010
Pope Benedict XVI has called the Irish child abuse scandal "heinous" in a statement issued after a two-day meeting with the bishops of the Irish Church.
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16-Feb-2010
Pope Benedict XVI has begun talks with a delegation of Irish bishops over the culture of child abuse by the country's clergy, unearthed in the Irish Government's Murphy report last year.
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16-Feb-2010
The 17th century French philosopher René Descartes was poisoned by a Catholic missionary who wanted to prevent Descartes's ideas derailing an expected conversion of the monarch of protestant Sweden, claims an academic.
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15-Feb-2010
The Apostolic Nuncio to Haiti has hosted a meeting for Caritas affiliates in Port-au-Prince to examine relief operations and long-term challenges in the devastated country.
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Regulars
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19-Feb-2010
Twelve years ago at the Winter Olympics, speedskating prodigy Kirstin Holum was tapped for greatness when she finished sixth in the 3,000 metres. Instead, Holum, now devotes her life to religious service as a Franciscan nun.
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18-Feb-2010
Caritas Australia and a group of Queensland educators travelled to Cambodia last November to see the organisation's work first hand.
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17-Feb-2010
As the Church invites us over the next few weeks to associate ourselves in a special way with Jesus, on Aash Wednesday it is time to examine the significance of traditional Lenten observances.
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16-Feb-2010
When violent conflict breaks out in northern Nigeria between Christians and Muslims, it is never Christians who provoke it. Regrettbly, Muslims have been quicker to tell their version of events.
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15-Feb-2010
The Catholic Diocese of Albany in New York has launched a needle exchange, saying the decision came down to choosing the lesser of two evils. Buit some Catholic scholars question the diocese's moral calculus.
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19-Feb-2010
In recognition of this year's theme for Lent - "Justice", the Redemptorists' wesbite has a series of writings, videos, homilies and reflections that may be of help over this season.
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18-Feb-2010
As the 30th anniversary of his martyrdom approaches, the Carmelites have updated the website of Salvadorean priest, Archbishop Oscar Romero, who was assassinated in March, 1980.
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17-Feb-2010
This site is an online guide to the history, customs and practices of Ash Wednesday. It also contains links and reflections.
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16-Feb-2010
This website contains a virtual experience of the famous Lent festival at Venice. It includes a history of Carnival and the masks, locations of the main event, photo and video galleries of this year's event, and archives from previous years.
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15-Feb-2010
The Australian Catholic bishops Conference has now launched its own Facebook page. This wide-ranging page features photos of leading priests, events of interest, reviews and other aspects of Catholic community life.
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18-Feb-2010
This film is based on a novel in the US by writer Rick Riordan, who told his original story to his son as a bedtime story. It is an outing for younger audiences who have imagination and a sense of adventure.
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16-Feb-2010
This is really a two-hour movie equivalent of Valentine's Day cards, posters and romantic gifts, roses and chocolates and dinner dates. It was made for the romantic audience at the multiplex for a light night out.
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15-Feb-2010
Young and successful, Jason Masterman, an Australian working in New York, loses all his money in a financial crash. He is sent to an unusual restaurant, where he encounters a mysterious writer who specialises in uplifting people’s lives.
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19-Feb-2010
Christianity and Islam have long histories of apocalyptic expectation. But when messianic fervour starts to shape the foreign policy of nation states, how concerned should we be?
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17-Feb-2010
Over the years, the Catholic Church has been in the forefront in providing practical assistance and guiding principles in ministering to people on the move. This book adds to that body of knowledge.
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19-Feb-2010
The deeply offensive aspect of Tony Abbott's comments about homelessness is that he blames people for being left out or pushed out. Nothing could be further from the truth, writes John Falzon.
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18-Feb-2010
There are only three physical examples of God's unconditional love which we can access here on earth: the love from one's mother, the love from one's grandmother and the love one receives from a very large dog, writes Angelo Stagnaro.
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17-Feb-2010
There are some proposals that are doomed because they upset the wrong sort of people. The ACT Government's plan to buy Canberra's Calvary Public Hospital was a good example.
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16-Feb-2010
The decision by Cherie Booth, the wife of Tony Blair, to take a prisoner's Islamic faith into account when passing sentence on him was based on the "promises, covenants, and oaths which are the bonds of human society", writes Nick Spencer.
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15-Feb-2010
Matt and his girlfriend, Kelly, are in their late 20s. They have been dating for four years and living together for two. They were both raised Catholic, and joke about being “semi-married.” Journalist Hannah Seligson explains this new demographic trend.
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