News - National
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15-Apr-2010
Local Jesuit Provincial Father Steve Curtin says the media in Australia "have helped us to understand the extent and nature of the problem of sexual abuse in the Church here".
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15-Apr-2010
Outspoken Irish Columban ecologist Fr Sean McDonagh has told a Sydney audience that a Synod on Creation is necessary if Church teaching on ecology is to grow out of its infancy.
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14-Apr-2010
Churches have criticised Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's decision to suspend the asylum claims of Sri Lankans and Afghans for three and six months, drawing comparison with the Howard Government's treatment of refugees.
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14-Apr-2010
Catholic and Independent school teachers around Australia say a plan to boycott the annual NAPLAN tests next month is inappropriate.
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13-Apr-2010
Catholic Health Australia has welcomed the Federal Government's plans to simplify access to aged care but cautioned that without fundamental regulatory reform, a shortfall of beds for older Australians will keep growing.
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12-Apr-2010
More than 700 Polish-Australians attended a Mass in Sydney yesterday in honour of the late Polish president Lech Kaczynski following his death in a plane crash over the weekend.
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09-Apr-2010
An Australian brother from the St John of God Order convicted of sexual abuse in New Zealand is expected to be deported to Australia next year. He has been released from prison after serving 13 of a 33-month sentence.
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09-Apr-2010
Former High Court justice Michael Kirby would swap 10 judges for one honest homosexual like singer Ricky Martin, and wants the Federal Government to act on legalising gay marriages.
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16-Apr-2010
The restoration of the grand old lady of Lismore architecture, St Carthage's Cathedral, is breaking new ground in work safety practices in the Northern Rivers region of NSW.
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14-Apr-2010
The Bishop of North Sydney has urged Anglican priests to collect information from principals of public schools in their parishes about the exact number of students enrolled in religious education.
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13-Apr-2010
The Anglican Archbishop of Sydney Peter Jensen says NSW Premier, Kristina Keneally, has promised that the Anglican Church would have input into trial introduction of secular ethics classes in public schools.
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12-Apr-2010
The Australian Catholic University will honour the former leader of Sydney's Great Synagogue, Rabbi Raymond Apple, for his contribution to Christian-Jewish understanding, interfaith co-operation and community engagement.
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16-Apr-2010
The Diocese of Toowoomba is bracing itself for the possibility of more legal action should former students of teacher Gerard Vincent Byrnes come forward with further allegations of child sexual abuse.
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15-Apr-2010
Bishop William Morris of Toowoomba has issued a statement apologising for the abuse suffered by children while under the care of the Diocese.
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13-Apr-2010
Sporting scholarships and inducements risk turning students into little more than "commodities to be traded", said Ian McDonald, headmaster of South Brisbane's St Laurence's College.
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12-Apr-2010
The St Francis Xavier Church in Hall, ACT, believed to be the oldest continually used Catholic church in the territory, celebrated its centenary over the weekend.
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News - International
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13-Apr-2010
The Vatican has put online a guide to its rules for handling sex abuse charges against priests, in the face of mounting media criticism of Church leaders.
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12-Apr-2010
The Pope, while he was a cardinal, acted "expeditiously" by the standards of the time, when he hesitated to dismiss a priest convicted of molesting two boys, according to a Vatican lawyer.
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09-Apr-2010
An evolutionary geneticist, molecular biologist and former Dominican priest Francisco J. Ayala, who has written about evolution and refuted creationism, has won the 2010 Templeton Prize, one of the world's top religion prizes.
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16-Apr-2010
St Pius X Bishop Richard Williamson will not attend his trial in Germany for questioning the Holocaust, his lawyer told reporters, but he will be represented.
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15-Apr-2010
The Vatican has distanced itself from comments by Secretary of State Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone linking paedophilia to homosexuality.
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15-Apr-2010
Pope Benedict's private secretary, Monsignor Georg Gaenswein, has defended the pope's prolonged silence on sexual abuse in Germany's Catholic Church.
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14-Apr-2010
Belgian bishops have failed to punish any members of the clergy in over 300 complaints of clerical sex abuse received in the 1990s, said a priest.
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14-Apr-2010
The mayor of a town near Malta's main airport wants a sculpture resembling a penis to be removed before Pope Benedict visits the country.
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14-Apr-2010
A foot-high profane slogan, saying "F*** Yourselves", has been spray painted onto the facade of the house where Pope Benedict was born in Germany.
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13-Apr-2010
What would pop music be without the Beatles, Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano has written in a front-page article on the Fab Four's achievements.
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12-Apr-2010
Prominent atheists Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens have asked human rights lawyers to produce a case for charging Benedict XVI over alleged cover-up of sexual abuse. Dawkins wants to have the Pope arrested during his state visit to Britain "for crimes against humanity".
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12-Apr-2010
The Shroud of Turin has gone on public display for the first time in a decade.
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15-Apr-2010
A Brazilian court has sentenced a rancher to 30 years for ordering the killing of the environmental activist American nun, Sr Dorothy Stang.
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13-Apr-2010
Continuous rainfall on Rio de Janeiro over several days has caused a series of catastrophic landslides, according to Caritas Brazil.
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Regulars
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16-Apr-2010
The Spanish cardinal who oversees the Vatican Congregation for Divine Worship has been nicknamed the "Little Ratzinger" because he holds similar views to the Pope, looks a little like him and has the same kind disposition.
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15-Apr-2010
The editor of the Vatican newspaper says he doesn't believe in a "plot" against the pope but he does see a "media campaign" designed to tarnish his image.
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14-Apr-2010
A new social history says that the women were given the burden for making 20th century marriages work. Whose responsibility is it today?
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13-Apr-2010
In the lead-up to next month's general election, British Opposition leader David Cameron answers questions about abortion, euthanasia, poverty, marriage and his own Christian faith.
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12-Apr-2010
When the Roman Empire ruled the world, and Jesus was radically changing it, what was life like for ordinary people? A new book attempts to answer that question by painting a picture of Palestine in New Testament times.
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16-Apr-2010
Founded two years ago in Amercia by the Sleeth family, Blessed Earth preaches a green message: return to grass roots action in the name of God. Next week Blessed Earth will hold a global simulcast to spread its message.
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15-Apr-2010
This week the Vatican announced the members of the commission to investigate alleged apparitions of the Virgin Mary at Medjugorje in Bosnia-Herzegovina. This website has a detailed archive about the history.
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14-Apr-2010
Posted this week by the Vatican in reponse to the church's sex abuse crisis, this guide provides a clear explanation of how the Church wants members of the clergy to deal with new cases.
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13-Apr-2010
This index of saints and angels on Catholic Online provides a vast array of important and inspirational figures within the church's history. It also categorises them according to sex, colour, geography and other criteria.
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12-Apr-2010
The Templeton Prize honours a living person who has made an exceptional contribution to affirming life's spiritual dimension. This site has information about previous winners, and a write-up on this year's winner, Francisco Layala, a former priest who became a geneticist.
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16-Apr-2010
I find most comedies disappointing. They are either too slapstick, too crudely adolescent, or just not very funny. The best ones are subtle and ironic. Date Night is neither subtle nor ironic, but I enjoyed it.
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14-Apr-2010
Alert to all devotees of Hagar the Horrible and his family - and wider audiences beyond. This is a very entertaining film.
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13-Apr-2010
Xenophobia, whether racially or economically motivated, is an emotional (and irrational) disease that corrodes individuals and societies. Welcome is a helpful contribution to this subject, especially in light of the invasion of Iraq.
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15-Apr-2010
This program examines the covert Catholic ritual of exorcism in Italy. Pope Benedict recently hailed the importance of the rite and now the Vatican is backing a course to prepare a new generation of exorcists.
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12-Apr-2010
The Australian Chamber Orchestra is going on a national tour with guest singers. They speak about the faith and innovative mind of Johann Sebastian Bach and his influence on modern composers.
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16-Apr-2010
I don't know which psychologists Cardinal Bertone has been reading, but the consensus among reputable ones is that the sexual abuse of minors cannot be be conflated with homosexuality, writes Austen Ivereigh.
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15-Apr-2010
Celibacy does not cause pedophilia but that hasn't stopped otherwise thoughtful commentators, including some Catholics, from labelling celibacy as a cause of the sex abuse crisis, writes Rev James Martin.
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14-Apr-2010
The Catholic Church has templates to work from in addressing the sex abuse crisis, in the processes that have accompanied thel apologies to wronged Australians made by the Prime Minister, writes Michael Mullins.
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13-Apr-2010
Negating women is at the heart of the church's indifference to the welfare of boys and girls in its priests' care, writes Maureen Dowd in The New York Times.
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12-Apr-2010
Dame Maria Boulding was a biblical scholar, writer, novice mistress and a hermit before being diagnosed with terminal cancer at 80. She set down her thoughts and found the mark of Easter within her life's ebb and flow.
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