News - National
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16-Apr-2010
The head of the Australian Bishops' Committee for Professional Standards says it's up to professional psychologists to determine whether church sexual abuse is caused by homosexuality, celibacy, or other factors.
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23-Apr-2010
CathNews will join the nation in honouring our Anzac heroes this weekend. We will be taking a break on Monday and back as usual on Tuesday, April 27.
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23-Apr-2010
Australia will be judged by the way it treats refugees, says Bishop Christopher Saunders, Chairman of the Australian Catholic Social Justice Council.
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22-Apr-2010
Catholic Health Australia has welcomed the terms of reference for an inquiry into aged care announced by the Federal Government, saying it has prioritised the three most important needs of future aged care.
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22-Apr-2010
Attorney-General Robert McClelland has rejected a proposal, led by Catholic priest Father Frank Brennan, for a human rights charter because it was too politically divisive.
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21-Apr-2010
The Australian Catholic University is among eight new universities that have recorded the fastest growth in research publications, outpacing the sandstone universities.
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20-Apr-2010
NSW Community Services Minister Linda Burney will be among noted personalities taking part in the nationwide Vinnies annual CEO Sleepout on June 17, a project to raise funds for the homeless.
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19-Apr-2010
The Federal Government's suspension of processing new asylum claims from Sri Lankans and Afghans runs contrary to the country's commitment to fairness and humanity, says the St Vincent de Paul Society and other Catholic groups.
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23-Apr-2010
Victorian Catholic schools are getting their Building the Education Revolution projects up and running much faster than their public counterparts. Nearly all of their projects are already underway.
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22-Apr-2010
Victorian police have called for sweeping changes to the Catholic church's handling of sex abuse complaints, with only one priest defrocked in Melbourne in the past 14 years, out of nearly 300 allegations.
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16-Apr-2010
A pair of devout elderly Germans "desperate to go to church" have led police on a 12km car chase through Melbourne.
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21-Apr-2010
Nhan Chanh, a 29-year-old Vietnamese Australian with learning disability, is grateful to CatholicCare's disability employment services arm for changing his life by finding him a job.
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20-Apr-2010
A NSW trial of secular ethics classes for students who don't choose scripture lessons begins today in ten primary schools, Education Minister Verity Firth said.
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19-Apr-2010
Public schools would have had better value for money under the Building the Education Revolution program if it had been administered in the way used by Catholic schools.
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19-Apr-2010
It is unclear whether NSW's 10-week trial for secular ethics classes, scheduled to start this week in state primary schools, will begin as expected.
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21-Apr-2010
Rockhampton Council has proposed rebating the Sscared Heart School at Yeppoon nearly $21,000 incurred through an undetected water leak, as a "community service obligation".
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20-Apr-2010
A former priest who was extradited from Indonesia and pleaded guilty to child sex abuse has admitted to more offences at a District Court hearing in Adelaide.
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News - International
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22-Apr-2010
Former Munich Vicar-General Fr Gerhard Gruber claims he was pressured into taking responsibility for the transfer of a pedophile priest during the tenure of then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger.
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21-Apr-2010
On the fifth anniversary of his election as pontiff, Pope Benedict XVI says he does not feel alone at the head of what he called a "wounded and sinner" church.
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16-Apr-2010
Addressing the recent abuse crisis publicly for the first time, Pope Benedict has said that the church should "do penance" in response to recent public attention to its "sins."
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23-Apr-2010
The Archbishop of Westminster, Vincent Nichols, has issued an apology to the five million faithful in England and Wales, and to the victims of clerical sexual abuse.
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22-Apr-2010
France's Catholic church has launched a public campaign for more priests.
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22-Apr-2010
Pope Benedict has promised church action to confront the clerical abuse scandal, in remarks to his weekly public audience in St Peter's Square.
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21-Apr-2010
A survey commissioned by the Pro-Life Campaign in Ireland shows that 70 percent of respondents support the constitutional protection for the unborn, including the prohibition of abortion.
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21-Apr-2010
Obituaries and tributes have poured in for Antony Flew, the renowned British rationalist who discovered God at the end of his life.
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20-Apr-2010
Former Vatican official Cardinal Dario Castrillon Hoyos, who congratulated a French bishop for hiding a sexually abusive priest, said his action was backed by the late Pope John Paul.
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20-Apr-2010
Ireland's goverment will seek an additional contribution of A$293 million from 18 religious congregations, to the fund for the victims of abuse in the residential institutions run by the congregations.
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19-Apr-2010
British excommunicated and rehabilitated bishop, Richard Williamson, has been fined $14,600 by a German court for denying the Holocaust in a Swedish television interview.
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19-Apr-2010
Tearfully expressing his "shame and sorrow" at the abuse that victims suffered from members of the clergy, Pope Benedict has promised the Church would do everything to punish paedophile priests and protect children.
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20-Apr-2010
The Vatican has sacked Tanzanian Bishop Jakob Koda for alleged violation of church moral teachings.
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19-Apr-2010
Television and internet pornography makes celibacy difficult, an influential Mexican bishop has told a conference in Mexico City.
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Regulars
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23-Apr-2010
San Francisco promoter Russ George formed a Hungarian company called Climate Trees. His strategy was to present the Vatican with carbon offsets to make the Holy See carbon neutral based. It didn't work out that way.
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22-Apr-2010
Sister Adelia Oling is a tenacious woman who has used her heart, and head, to lift the lives of many thousands of the poor in central and southern Philippines. She is a self-taught banker, and her tool is microfinance.
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21-Apr-2010
As the Vatican reels from a swirling clerical sex abuse crisis, the Holy See has turned to an unusual advocate: a tennis-loving, Saab-driving solo practitioner from San Francisco, California.
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20-Apr-2010
Women made pregnant by priests have signed pledges in exchange for hush money from the church. One woman broke her promise after the Franciscans refused to help pay for medical treatment for her son.
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19-Apr-2010
As Pope Benedict XVI marks the fifth anniversary of his election today, he is mired in controversy. Benedict laid out his priorities in the early days of his papacy, a 'plan of action' as pope. So how has he fared?
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23-Apr-2010
This is the Australian War Memorial website with details about the significance and history of Anzac Day, and where services will be held here and abroad.
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22-Apr-2010
Thinking Faith is the online journal of the British Jesuits. In the best Jesuit tradition, it carries thoughtful and informed articles on current issues, including the debate about mandatory celibacy.
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21-Apr-2010
Lisa Miller is author of Heaven: Our Enduring Fascination With The Afterlife, and is a senior editor at Newsweek. Her site has news and information about her latest book.
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20-Apr-2010
Australian Catholic Religious Against Trafficking in Humans is a site dedicated to edning modern day slavery - whether it is through race, youth, sex, or religion.
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19-Apr-2010
This is the website for the new film No Greater Love, a documentary film about the Carmelite nuns who live in the monastery of the Most Holy Trinity, in London's Notting Hill.
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22-Apr-2010
Its director is Australian, it was shot in Sydney, but to all intents and purposes Accidents Happen is an American movie. This curious hybrid wavers between black comedy and a dissection of suburbia.
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21-Apr-2010
Welcome, once again, to the end of civilisation as we know it and introducing the wasteland of post-apocalyptic America. Eli (Denzel Washington) has been wandering the devastated United States for thirty years.
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20-Apr-2010
This biopic highlights the main successes of the leads and concentrates on their relationship. It is quite low key and an audience wanting sparks flying will be disappointed. But the story is not without drama.
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19-Apr-2010
Of all the films made about World War 1, I cannot recall much emphasis, if any, on the part tunnelling played in that grand folly. That omission is redressed by Beneath Hill 60, a significant Australian production.
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23-Apr-2010
During WW2 the Timorese risked their lives to help the Australian Commandos known as 'Sparrow Force'. This Anzac special follows Sister Susan Connelly's campaign to have their unique wartime contribution recognised.
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23-Apr-2010
The Federal Government's refusal to frame a human rights act ignores the will of the people, writes Father Frank Brennan.
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22-Apr-2010
Pope Benedict's pontificate has seen a number of missed opportunities, writes theologian Hans Küng in an open letter to all Catholic Bishops.
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21-Apr-2010
The New Atheist campaign to have Pope Benedict XVI arrested when he visits Britain later this year exposes the authoritarian and even Inquisitorial side to today's campaigning secularism, writes Brendan O'Neill in Sp!ked.
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20-Apr-2010
If an Ethics Course is to proceed in NSW schools, it should not be offered in direct competition with scripture, writes Peter Ingham, Bishop of Wollongong, on behalf of the Catholic bishops of NSW.
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19-Apr-2010
It is difficult to see how anyone could object to the teaching of ethics in schools. However, the brawl in NSW over the teaching of ethics in public schools is making for some interesting bedfellows.
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