News - National
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12-Mar-2010
ConnectCare, an initiative from Church Resources that helps people in aged care facilities stay connected to their families and their communities, has been honoured at the national telecommunications industry awards.
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12-Mar-2010
The Sisters of St Joseph have launched a new official Mary MacKillop website, which features an interactive journey into her life and legacy, at www.marymackillop.org.au.
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10-Mar-2010
Australians have given more than $1 million to Caritas Australia's Project Compassion over the past two and a half weeks, which the organisation says displays the nation's commitment to eradicate global poverty.
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09-Mar-2010
The gay and lesbian community has criticised Opposition Leader Tony Abbott over his remarks that homosexuality challenges "the right order of things" and that he feels "a bit threatened" by it.
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09-Mar-2010
Catholic Health Australia chief executive Martin Laverty says there are 3000 people in hospital beds nationwide who should actually be receiving aged care but can't, because of limited funds for such facilities.
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08-Mar-2010
Catholic Network Australia (CNA) has announced the completion of its core telecommunications network, linking over 1500 schools and education offices across the country.
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08-Mar-2010
A student of Emmanuel College, Warrnambool, has been suspended over making false accusations on Facebook that a teacher is a homosexual paedophile.
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11-Mar-2010
Rocco Mimmo, a Sydney lawyer and chairman of the Ambrose Centre for Religious Liberty, says the Church has a role in public debate and that it was a "great relief" that a proposed national human rights act appeared to be on hold.
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11-Mar-2010
Sydney Archbishop Cardinal George Pell will launch a series of talks to youth next week at Cabramatta in Sydney's west, speaking on the topic "Without God we are nothing" at Sacred Heart Parish.
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10-Mar-2010
A group called the Christian Save the Sheik Coalition says it has collected thousands of signatures on a petition to prevent the deportation from Australia of Iranian cleric Dr Mansour Leghaei.
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11-Mar-2010
A father has pulled his two sons out of St Patrick's College in Shorncliffe, where 12 year-old Elliot Fletcher was stabbed to death, after one of them was bullied and attacked by another student.
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10-Mar-2010
A priest in Maryborough Queensland wants the district's pubfest banned and has asked for an "honest and independent survey" on the pub crawl-turned-fest.
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08-Mar-2010
Catholic Priest Peter Doohan and Anglican Priest Charlie Murry have praised the community spirit at a multi-faith service in the flood-hit town of Charleville, in Queensland's south-west.
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12-Mar-2010
Tasmania's Archbishop Adrian Doyle has unveiled a plaque at Hobart's St Mary's Cathedral to recognise Aborigines as the traditional owners of the cathedral grounds.
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News - International
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12-Mar-2010
The Vatican has reaffirmed the importance of celibacy for the clergy, after Austria's Archbishop Christoph Schoenborn suggested a link between celibacy and abuse.
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12-Mar-2010
A leading Catholic ethicist has endorsed the decision to recognise a 48-year-old Sydney woman as the first person in NSW to officially be neither man nor woman.
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11-Mar-2010
The Australian Christian Lobby wants the Federal Government to voice concern over the massacre of hundreds of Christians near the Nigerian city of Jos and more actively assist persecuted people groups overseas.
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11-Mar-2010
The iPhone's 140 million-plus applications now include one that helps Catholics pray the rosary.
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08-Mar-2010
An adviser to Pope Benedict, Cardinal Walter Kasper, has told an Italian newspaper that the Church needs to clean up its act over child abuse, by compensating victims and punishing the perpetrators.
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08-Mar-2010
About 100 traditionalist parishes of the Anglican Church in America (ACA) across the United States will convert en-masse to the Catholicism.
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11-Mar-2010
Carmelite nuns who traditionally produce communion hosts for French churches have launched a campaign against cheaper imported Polish hosts produced by a secular workforce.
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10-Mar-2010
Monsignor Georg Ratzinger has admitted that he slapped pupils as punishment but says he was unaware of allegations of sexual abuse at the German Regensburger Domspatzen boys choir that he took over in 1964.
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09-Mar-2010
Despite news of illness of a French nun, whose formerly reported miracle cure from Parkinson's was attributed to Pope John Paul II, the late pontiff could be beatified as early as October 24, says Sydney's Catholic Communications.
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09-Mar-2010
Swiss theologian Father Hans Kung says clerical sex abuse across the globe is linked to priestly celibacy and the Church's "uptight" views on sex.
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09-Mar-2010
Germany's justice minister has criticised what she called a "wall of silence" from the Vatican, referring to a secrecy rule which is complicating the country's clergy child sex abuse investigations.
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08-Mar-2010
Pope John Paul II's fast-track to sainthood has met a speedbump after the nun who reported recovery from Parkinson's disease following intercession by the late pontiff has fallen ill again.
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10-Mar-2010
The Holy See has launched this year's Easter appeal for the support of Christians in the Holy Land, calling for support to preserve the "Christian origins" of the region.
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10-Mar-2010
Christian villagers in Nigeria have fled their homes fearing new attacks in the aftermath of a massacre that killed some 500.
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09-Mar-2010
The Vatican has condemned the slaughter of hundreds of Christians in Nigeria in three hours of violence on Sunday. Survivors said killers hacked victims to death after snaring them in animal traps.
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12-Mar-2010
Latin America's first gay marriage law has seen the first same-sex couples take make their relations official before the court in Mexico.
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Regulars
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12-Mar-2010
The Guardian Angels Padre Pio prayer group in Wynnum, Brisbane, has long claimed an extra reason for thanks to the Capuchin St Pio of Pietrelcina - the miraculous cure from lung cancer of a relative of one of the founders.
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11-Mar-2010
American researchers Andrew Newberg and the late Eugene d’Aquili have shed light on the origins of ritual and liturgy in the human sphere and in particular on the tensions that underlie the “liturgy wars.”
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10-Mar-2010
Archbishop Ignatius Kaigama from Jos in Nigeria, where 500 sectarian killings have occurred in recent days, says the cause is ignorance, not religion.
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09-Mar-2010
Retired British businessman Brian Gail speaks about his novel Fatherless, a word-of-mouth sensation that challenges the ‘culture of death’.
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08-Mar-2010
Late last year, Sister of Mercy Mauren Lohrey went to Christmas Island's detention centre to provide pastoral care to asylum seekers. She says she could write a book about the terrible stories she has been told.
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12-Mar-2010
This website was launched last year as part of a reader competition to invite people to contribute inspirational stories about a first communion - theirs, a relative or friend. The site now has a large archive of uplifting stories.
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11-Mar-2010
The Reflection is three weeks into its seven-week season, and response has been overwhelmingly positive, with around 6000 hits made to the site in the first two weeks.
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10-Mar-2010
This website is dedicated to the Church in South Africa, which hosts the 2010 football World Cup in June. This site has articles about the Pope's views on sport and the Church's own World Cup, known as the Clericus Cup.
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09-Mar-2010
Calling itself a Voice for the Voiceless, CSW is a human rights organisation that specialises in religious freedom. Its website features details of this weekend's upcoming World Day of Prayer for Burma, plus analyses and stories of other trouble spots.
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08-Mar-2010
Today is International Women's Day and this website contains a rich array of information and archival material about IWD, now in its 99th year. The site lists IWD events in different countries, plus photos and videos.
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11-Mar-2010
This version of the well-known story by Tim Burton is not his best film but there are clear moments of imaginative brilliance.
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10-Mar-2010
Colin Firth has received a great deal of acclaim for his role as George, a gay professor of English in California in 1962. This film has confirmed him as a strong and versatile actor.
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08-Mar-2010
The expression “Dear John letter” describes letters sent to soldiers abroad by wives and girlfriends to break off relationships. So it seems clear that the path of true love in this romantic drama is not going to be stumble-free.
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12-Mar-2010
In this, the 2nd part of a series on Christianity, British journalist Michael Portillo, a former Conservative Party politician and lapsed Catholic, investigates the legacy of the Roman Emperor Constantine.
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09-Mar-2010
Sydney artist Martin Sharp talks about his religious view of what really happened in the Luna Park fire of 1979. He also explains the significance of Tiny Tim as a Christ-like figure.
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12-Mar-2010
Even now, despite the spread of the clerical abuse scandal across America and Europe, there is a danger that the Vatican has not fully grasped the damage it is doing to the standing of the Church, writes Richard Owen.
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11-Mar-2010
Even though it’s many years since I was a practising Catholic, I still find myself paying almost obsessive attention to any pronouncement by the church or its followers on the subject of sexuality, writes Laurie Taylor.
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10-Mar-2010
I was fortunate enough to be in Haiti twice. My mind is filled with unforgettable experiences, but I want the children of Haiti to speak for themselves, writes Mercy Sister Karen Schneider.
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09-Mar-2010
This coming weekend Australia will have its first Global Atheist Convention. It is an important event but I look forward to it with the same tempered gloom as if a convention of Christian evangelists came to town, writes Andrew Hamilton.
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08-Mar-2010
Proposals to liberalise abortion in Spain look set to become law. The country's religious map has been altered thanks to the huge increase in immigration in recent years and the separation of Church and State.
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