News - National
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26-Mar-2010
Opposition Leader Tony Abbott has told a Melbourne gay radio station he regrets his choice of words about feeling "a bit threatened" by homosexuals, adding that he would like to see same-sex relationships "celebrated, acknowledged and recognised".
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25-Mar-2010
The Catholic Superannuation Fund was among the country's top five super fund earners over a five-year period, delivering 6.1 percent returns.
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24-Mar-2010
Catholic Health Australia chief executive Martin Laverty said neither the the Prime Minister Kevin Rudd nor Opposition Leader Tony Abbott had detailed how their health reform plans would be implemented in their debate yesterday.
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23-Mar-2010
National Catholic Education Commission deputy chairman Brian Croke says the Rudd Government's Education Revolution would be more appropriately named the Administration Revolution.
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23-Mar-2010
A new national Aged Care Radio Service delivered via the web and uploaded directly to the televisions of aged care residents is due to be launched today by the Casholic Healthcare network.
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22-Mar-2010
An Australian victims group, Care Leavers Australia Network, says Pope Benedict should apologise to abuse victims in Australia, as he has done to victims in Ireland.
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25-Mar-2010
An Equal Opportunity Bill debated in the Victorian State Parliament could force religious institutions and schools to secularise or disband, some religious groups fear.
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24-Mar-2010
The federal Labor MP for Macquarie, Bob Debus, says he supports a proposal to develop a new private hospital in Bathurst to replace St Vincent's Hospital, which is set to close in September.
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22-Mar-2010
The Archdiocese of Sydney's auxiliary Bishop Julian Porteous has warned that generation Y risks a dangerous fascination with the occult fuelled by the Twilight and Harry Potter series.
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25-Mar-2010
The union representing Queensland's Catholic school teachers will meet with employers next week in the hope of receiving a revised pay offer, after hundreds of teachers rallied in Brisbane yesterday.
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24-Mar-2010
Only 43 of Queensland's 288 Catholic schools will be affected by a strike planned for today, according to the Queensland Catholic Education Commission.
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24-Mar-2010
The Church in Central Queensland is looking at ways to make Indian priests feel welcome in the region, with three priests from the subcontinent likely to move to Rockhampton, Mackay or Bundaberg by July.
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23-Mar-2010
The National Director of Catholic Earthcare Australia, Jacqui Remond, has been appointed the official ambassador for Queensland's Catholic Education Week 2010.
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22-Mar-2010
The Archdioces of Brisbane's Catholic Education said there will be no strike action at the vast majority of Catholic schools in the archdiocese this week.
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22-Mar-2010
A priest who was convicted of child sex offences before he was ordained has been working in a leadership role assigned to him by the Archbishop of Perth, the West Australian newspaper reports.
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26-Mar-2010
Archbishop of Canberra and Goulburn Mark Coleridge has given tacit approval to further negotiations on the ACT's renewed deal to buy Calvary Public Hospital, but remains unconvinced a buy-out is necessary.
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22-Mar-2010
Little Company of Mary Health Care supports the ACT Government's new offer to buy Calvary Hospital, but the Church has yet to approve the deal, The Canberra Times reports.
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News - International
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23-Mar-2010
The Vatican began tweeting over the weekend with the launch of its own Twitter account, with a feed in six languages.
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25-Mar-2010
Portion sizes at the Last Supper table have "increased dramatically" over the past 1,000 years, based on paintings in that period depicting the meal, according to an article in the International Journal of Obesity.
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24-Mar-2010
While the Church in Europe is being hit by a wave of sex abuse allegations and investigations, similar complaints in the US are tapering off, according to a report in the New York Times.
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23-Mar-2010
In a deal to ensure the passage of the US healthcare bill, President Barack Obama agreed to sign an executive order to prevent abortion funding.
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25-Mar-2010
German Chancellor Angela Merkel's cabinet plans to establish an expert panel to deal with sex abuse allegations in the Church and other institutions.
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24-Mar-2010
An English supermarket millionaire has put A$786 million - nearly all of his fortune - into a charitable trust, to fulfill a promise to God.
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23-Mar-2010
Archbishop Robert Zollitsch, the head of the German Bishops Conference, has admitted that the Roman Catholic church consciously covered up cases of sexual abuse by priests.
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22-Mar-2010
Pope Benedict XVI has apologized to victims, called on abuser priests to tell the truth, and charged bishops to cooperate with civil authorities. Victims are, however, disappointed with it.
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26-Mar-2010
A Pakistani man who died from burn injuries this week self-immolated in frustration, and was not set alight by Muslim extremists for refusing to convert, as had been reported earlier.
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25-Mar-2010
A Pakistani Christian who was set alight last week for refusing to convert to Islam has died in a hospital. Pakistan's Catholic Bishops Conference has condemned the attack, in which the man's wife was raped.
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Regulars
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26-Mar-2010
His videos are an internet sensation: a skateboarder in Franciscan habit performing jumps, flips, grinds and other tricks at graffiti-covered skate parks and streets in Perth, Western Australia.
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25-Mar-2010
The goosebumps Mariana Passeggi Romagnoli said she felt during World Youth Day week in Sydney, 2008. are certain to return when she joins the WYD pilgrimage to Spain in 2011.
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24-Mar-2010
Christians were a majority in Bethlehem for almost two millennia. Now poverty and intolerance are driving them out, says Mark Elvins.
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23-Mar-2010
Padua College, at Kedron in Brisbane, chose an "extreme" experience for its Year 12 students to start the year in a different and challenging way in 2010. It proved to be a weekend the young men would not easily forget.
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22-Mar-2010
Here is the full text of the Pope's Letter to all of the faithful of Ireland: Dear Brothers and Sisters of the Church in Ireland, it is with great concern that I write to you as Pastor of the universal Church.
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26-Mar-2010
In the week marking the 30th anniversary of Oscar Romero's assassination, this website makes available a precious resource bank of materials on Archbishop Romero’s life and martyrdom.
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25-Mar-2010
The American Bishops Conference site has a wealth of interesting current news, including a wide range of responses to the American health care bill, ongoing coverage of Haiti and results of an audit into sexual abuse by clerics, showing a substantial decrease in recent years.
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24-Mar-2010
The Vatican launched its own Twitter page over the weekend. This is the English version. Click on it to follow current events and engage in the world's latest social networking format.
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23-Mar-2010
The website of the Secular Franciscan fraternities in Oceania includes Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Singapore and Sabah, who try to live the Gospel in the spirit that St. Francis of Assisi showed in his life.
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22-Mar-2010
This newly created site will touch a chord with all expatriate Brits who share in the excitement generated by the Pope's historic visit to Britain.
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24-Mar-2010
Hollywood likes films about battling couples who wrangle with each other but who turn out to really love one another. Think Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy. But don’t dare think Jennifer Aniston and Gerard Butler.
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23-Mar-2010
Separation City is a well-written comedy of manners that is witty, entertaining, and memorably acted. It speaks to our times, offering a salutary take on the old adage that "the grass is always greener in the other paddock".
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22-Mar-2010
Chinese agent, Jackie Chan, seconded to the CIA. lives a quiet suburban life. When he is unmasked as a genial spy, Chan goes full steam into action. This is Saturday matinee material that most young kids will enjoy.
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26-Mar-2010
This fourth part of the series examines the Crusades. In the West, the 900-year-old Crusades are a chapter of Christian history that has little impact on our everyday lives, but in the Middle East many believe that the Crusades are happening again.
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25-Mar-2010
In July 2009, as the GFC played itself out, Pope Benedict XV1 issued an encyclical suggesting that love bind us in society and in the market economy. What sense can an economist make of this? Or theologians? Or indeed the Anglican Archbishop of Melbourne?
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26-Mar-2010
Pope Benedict XVI’s apology for the global scandal of child abuse is strong on forgiveness but far short of the full accountability that Catholics need for repairing their damaged church, says the New York Times in an editorial.
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25-Mar-2010
Is it not time for Pope Benedict XVI himself to acknowledge his share of responsibility, instead of projecting it onto others and complaining about a campaign against his person, writes Michelle Mulvihill?
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24-Mar-2010
Pope Benedict's unprecedented pastoral letter to the Catholics of Ireland reflects his deep compassion for the victims of sexual abuse and his strong commitment to seeing that justice is done, writes Archbishop George Pell.
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23-Mar-2010
At inquiry sessions in my weekly RCIA classes, one’s Personal Faith Journey is currency. When asked what brought me here, my story changes with each telling. I’m sure I sound totally incoherent.
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22-Mar-2010
For all the certainty about the facts of the case, there is still an aura of discontent everywhere about the situation surrounding clerical sex abuse in the church. But what, precisely, is the real problem, writes Joan Chittister.
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