News - National
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26-Feb-2010
Australian Catholic University National Vice-Chancellor Greg Craven has warned that the apparent collapse of the push for a national charter of rights would impact Victoria and the ACT, which have charters of their own.
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25-Feb-2010
The Federal Government is considering a "My Hospital" website that will let patients examine hospital infection rates, intensive care mortality rates, errors and waiting times for elective surgery.
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25-Feb-2010
A judge has condemned the vow of chastity required of the Catholic priesthood as "cruel" and "archaic" in sentencing a Sydney priest to jail for internet grooming.
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24-Feb-2010
Enrolments in Sydney Catholic systemic schools in 2010 are at a 20-year-high, according to preliminary census data.
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23-Feb-2010
Maitland-Newcastle Bishop Michael Malone said the Church hopes to negotiate an amicable settlement with abuse victims of a Hunter Valley priest, once the court has dealt with the perpetrator.
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22-Feb-2010
Maitland-Newcastle Bishop Michael Malone says a series of child sex abuse scandals over the past 15 years has prompted him to ask the Pope for help.
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22-Feb-2010
NSW Liberal Party powerbroker David Clarke, reputed leader of the party's "religious right", has survived a challenge for his upper house seat.
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26-Feb-2010
A Year 12 Marist College student in Queensland has been suspended for creating a Facebook group saying missing schoolboy Daniel Morcombe will be handed over if the group attracts a million members.
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25-Feb-2010
Brisbane Catholic Education's director for School Services Centre South, Neil Bloxsidge, died of a suspected heart attack in a touch football match on Monday night.
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24-Feb-2010
A new Queensland Schools Alliance Against Violence, made up of parents, teachers and child advocates, will try to prevent schoolyard violence and cyber bullying.
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23-Feb-2010
A group of students from Townsville are spreading their award-winning environmental messages on the side of a garbage truck.
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23-Feb-2010
The bishop of Rockhampton has raised concern about the impact of mining on family life, especially the 12-hour shifts that workers spend in the mine.
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22-Feb-2010
Liberal Isobel Redmond will consider closing down the Rann government's social inclusion unit and sacking its commissioner, Monsignor David Cappo, if she wins the South Australian election.
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24-Feb-2010
Both the ACT Government and the Liberals want to let school principals impose longer suspensions to discipline students without needing permission from the Education Department or the Catholic Education Office.
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News - International
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26-Feb-2010
Pope Benedict has urged the Churches and ecclesial communities of Brazil to "unite their forces to reconcile the people with God, helping them and freeing them from the slavery of money".
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26-Feb-2010
Pope John Paul II cured his communist barber of a painful hernia, and the relationship between the two has become a factor in his path to canonisation.
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25-Feb-2010
The official Australian pilgrimage tour agency has been inundated with calls from people wanting passes to attend the canonisation of Mary MacKillop in Rome later this year.
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25-Feb-2010
The Congregation of the Legion of Christ has apologized over the behaviour of its founder, the late Mexican priest Fr Marcial Maciel, saying he "harmed with the immoral acts of his private life."
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24-Feb-2010
The new Vatican Yearbook shows that the number of Catholics as a percentage of the worldwide faithful is growing slightly and the number of priests is also growing, while the number of religious sisters is falling.
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22-Feb-2010
Federal Opposition Leader Tony Abbott said he is giving up sex for Lent, saying it "was almost impossible to have" on the campaign trail.
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22-Feb-2010
Pope Benedict XVI has called for the preservation of human dignity, in a reference to the use of body scanners at airports.
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26-Feb-2010
Spain has passed a new law easing restrictions on abortion, removing the threat of imprisonment and giving girls who are 16 and 17 the right to have abortions without parental consent.
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26-Feb-2010
Organisers of The Atheist Bus Campaign in New Zealand are considering taking legal action after their ads were rejected by the national bus company.
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25-Feb-2010
The British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has apologised for the country's "shameful episode" in sending children to former colonies where they were exploited and abused, Times Online reports.
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24-Feb-2010
Pope Benedict has offered condolences to the victims of a recent flooding on the Portuguese island of Madeira, saying he was "dismayed with the "grave consequences" of the disaster.
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23-Feb-2010
The head of the German Bishops' Conference has expressed shock at a child sexual abuse scandal in the country's Catholic schools, and asked for victims' forgiveness.
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23-Feb-2010
A doctor treating the Belgian man who has been in a coma for 23 years since a car crash, said reports that his patient could communicate using new technology were incorrect.
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22-Feb-2010
Gay rock star Sir Elton John has told a magazine that "Jesus was a compassionate, super-intelligent gay man who understood human problems."
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23-Feb-2010
Police in the Indian city of Shillong have seized copies of a school book that has pictures of Jesus Christ holding a cigarette in one hand and a beer bottle in the other.
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24-Feb-2010
Pontifical Academy for Life head, Archbishop Rino Fisichella, has dismissed calls for his resignation that follows an uproar over his stance about the abortion performed on a nine-year-old Brazilian child raped by her stepfather.
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Regulars
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26-Feb-2010
The Vatican Observatory is launching its own iPhone app, targeting the world's 1.5 billion Catholics. The move follows Pope Benedict's recent encouragement to reach people worldwide through new technology.
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25-Feb-2010
Christians and other faith leaders have criticised the speculative excess and greed that led to the GFC. American writer Jim Wallis calls for a “new normal” of biblical values that include broad themes like “Enough is enough” and “We’re in it together.”
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24-Feb-2010
In a world that is increasingly renewable, recyclable and energy-efficient, many people in developed countries already spend much of their lives in an eco-friendly environment. Now they can spend eternity there, too.
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23-Feb-2010
Victims of clerical child sexual abuse in the Archdiocese of Dublin say they are close to despair because the church will not take full responsibility for covering up the abuse.
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22-Feb-2010
Women in the Philippines are creating alternatives to violence and poverty in their lives. They use strategies for change that start at the household and community, and then connect to the global level.
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26-Feb-2010
This weekend, the Parishes of Our Lady of the Way launches its website for Catholics living on Sydney's north shore. It has information about: activities for Lent, including a Spiritual Exercises blog, and an update on the Chinese New Year mass.
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25-Feb-2010
This is the site of Project H Design, which connects design with the people who need it most. It consists of designers and builders who engage locally to improve the quality of life for the socially overlooked.
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24-Feb-2010
This sub-site at The Washington Post includes comment on the faith aspects of current media issues, including Tiger Woods. There is also a comprehensive dialogue on religion and politics, videos and links.
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23-Feb-2010
Thinking Faith is the online journal of the British Jesuits. It contains writing and commentary on everything from church rituals to human rights There is also a broad range of book reviews.
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22-Feb-2010
The Columbans are a missionary society of priests who work in 15 countries. This site has articles, videos, links and covers a broad range of their activities here and overseas.
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22-Feb-2010
This film is a quality romantic drama that carries considerable punch. It tells the story of a down-and-out alcoholic singer, played by Jeff Bridges, who is reduced to playing in bowling alleys and dingy bars in Southwest America.
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26-Feb-2010
This powerful film on Compass explores how five American Christian families have handled having a gay child. Among them are the parents of the first openly gay Episcopal Bishop in the US, Gene Robinson.
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25-Feb-2010
In 1965 Harvey Cox wrote The Secular City, in which he argued that God was very much alive and well and living in the secular city. Today, Cox says we've departed the Age of Religion and entered an Age of Faith.
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26-Feb-2010
Last week the lives of two Queensland families were ruined. One 12-year-old boy stabbed another, who died, in a playground before school started. Why do schoolchildren use knives, asks Moira Rayner.
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25-Feb-2010
Pope John Paul II hinted that today's world of the arts needs the Church. The door is open for the Church to become the leader in newly created, serious music and art, writes Webster Young.
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24-Feb-2010
Actors receive Oscars, scientists get Nobel Prizes, but outstanding people of faith remain largely unnoticed. That is why the canonisation of Mary MacKillop will be welcomed by Australians, whatever their faith or lack of it, writes Rachael Kohn.
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24-Feb-2010
This is an impressive piece of film-making. However, it is an extraordinarily gruelling film to watch if you are caught up in the characters and their efforts to climb the north face of the Eiger, in Switzerland in 1936.
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23-Feb-2010
Before I invested in the iTunes Universalis program, I used to have to carry my heavy Book of Christian Payer whenever I travelled. Now all of the prayers I ever need can be found in my own little 32 gigabytes of heaven.
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22-Feb-2010
For several years now experts have been preparing a revised English translation of the Roman Missal, which follows the Latin more closely. Some people are predicting riots in the pews when the translation is introduced.
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23-Feb-2010
Sacro Song 3 was one of the more striking releases of 2009. Rap is not a genre always associated with affirmative messages and it is especially startling to hear it being used as a means of spreading the gospel.
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