News - National
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05-May-2010
The Federation of Catholic Bishops Conferences of Oceania will meet next week in Sydney, gathering prelates from more than a dozen countries as well as the Papal Nuncios for Australian, PNG and the Solomons, New Zealand and the Pacific.
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05-May-2010
A foreign-trained priest who laid a mentally and physically disabled girl on an altar during mass at the weekend and ordered her to walk has raised a furore among parishioners.
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04-May-2010
Catholic Health Australia has welcomed the Rudd Government's pledge to rule out any changes that "harm the not-for-profit sector".
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03-May-2010
Businessman David Gonski will lead a panel including Catholic education stalwart Peter Tannock and former West Australian Labor premier Carmen Lawrence to review the nation's system of funding government and non-government schools.
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05-May-2010
Catholic schools have received no new funding in Victoria's budget, despite educating almost a quarter of the state's students on less money per student than government schools.
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30-Apr-2010
Gangland killer Carl Williams has been denied a full mass at his funeral to be held this morning at St Therese's Catholic Church in Essendon.
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06-May-2010
St Vincent de Paul will hold its annual Matthew Talbot Homeless Services Race Day this month to raise funds for its Our Lady of the Way Refuge Centre that helps middle-aged and older women, mainly abuse victims.
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06-May-2010
A funeral service will be held today for former Australian Rugby League chairman Kevin Humphreys at the All Hallows Catholic Church in Five Dock.
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03-May-2010
A former school principal who discovered a priest sexually abusing young children has accused the Archbishop of Adelaide of involvement in the "cover-up" that followed, The Australian reports.
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03-May-2010
Father Kelvin Sharkey, who has been convicted for child sexual abuse, will be removed as a registered priest, said the Bishop of Wollongong Peter Ingham.
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30-Apr-2010
Former Wollongong priest Kelvin Sharkey, who has pleaded guilty to abusing an altar boy 40 years ago, has been sentenced to four and a half years in jail.
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06-May-2010
The Queensland Catholic Education Commission has launched a revised policy statement on Catholic schooling in rural and remote areas.
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05-May-2010
Queensland parish priest Father Paul Kelly has become a YouTube sensation with songs he has written, sung and filmed.
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04-May-2010
A legal procedural dispute between two of five families suing the Toowoomba Diocese over sex abuse by former teacher Gerard Vincent Byrnes has been resolved, avoiding ourt action.
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03-May-2010
Adelaide's Catholic Archdiocese has cut 13 staff and restructured several other positions as part of a bid to save $3 million.
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07-May-2010
Word is spreading in in Hermannsburg, west of Alice Springs ,that an Aboriginal woman said she was cured from an illness some momnths ago after drinking from a tap next to the site of the old Lutheran church.
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04-May-2010
Archbishop of Canberra and Goulburn Mark Coleridge says the newly-approved Holy See translation of the Missal would be in use in churches before the middle of next year.
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News - International
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06-May-2010
Archbishop Joseph Mitsuaki Takami of Nagasaki has met with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon to appeal for the abolition of nuclear weapons and handed in a joint statement from himself and the Bishop of Hiroshima.
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03-May-2010
A papal envoy will take over and reform the Legionaries of Christ, and Pope Benedict has also ordered a special commission to study the Legionaries' constitutions.
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30-Apr-2010
The impending new English translation of the Roman Missal could provoke "confusion or bewilderment" among worshippers if not "introduced with due sensitivity," Pope Benedict has warned.
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07-May-2010
The crisis in Greece shows that a new treaty is needed to protect the euro currency, say Vatican economists.
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07-May-2010
Thousands of pilgrims have set off on foot from Lisbon toward Fatima, in central Portugal, where Pope Benedict XVI is expected to arrive in a week.
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06-May-2010
German canonist Hartmut Zapp says he will sue the Vatican in his battle against the church tax that is deducted from the salaries of all employed German Christians.
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06-May-2010
Vatican critic Hans Küng has warned against "condemning the church and its priests wholesale" over clerical sex abuse and dismissed claims that Pope Benedict has been "the worst" pontiff "for centuries".
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05-May-2010
The Pope has made podcasts with prayer recordings in Portuguese for web-savvy Catholics in Portugal in the lead up to his visit there this month.
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05-May-2010
A British High Court judge has ruled that Christian beliefs have no standing in law because they are "necessarily subjective" and "incommunicable by any kind of proof or evidence".
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04-May-2010
Disgraced Sydney businessman Rodney Adler received an audience at the Vatican last week with Pope Benedict.
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03-May-2010
A group of Church of England traditionalist bishops have secretly told senior Vatican officials that they are ready to defect to Rome.
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04-May-2010
Filipino pastor Apollo Quiboloy, a Christian sect leader and self-proclaimed "son of God", has backed ex-defence secretary Gilbert Teodoro for president in upcoming elections.
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04-May-2010
A former member of the archaeological team that claims to have discovered Noah's Ark on Turkey's Mt Ararat says the team may have been hoaxed.
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Regulars
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07-May-2010
With the launch of his new book, Rage Against God, Peter Hitchens says that the New Atheism promoted by his brother, Christopher, is corroding our culture.
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06-May-2010
It's time to expand the canon of great Catholic writers to include those born outside the western world.
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05-May-2010
A rash of violence in Juarez, Mexico, has prompted some Christian organizations to halt educational tours across the border. But Rose Mary Sanchez-Guzman, from the Christ the King Lutheran Church in El Paso, is not deterred.
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04-May-2010
Australian-born Father Pat Connor is a missionary and marital expert. Now based in New Jersey, has condensed his wisdom from 40-odd years of counselling engaged couples into a pithy manual of advice: Whom Not to Marry.
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03-May-2010
The Irish writer John Waters is a huge fan of Benedict XVI and discusses how he can lead the Church out of the abuse scandal.
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07-May-2010
The Pontifical Swiss Guards have had a controversial history. As they prepare to swear in 30 new recruits, this site provides detailed information about the tradition they will inherit and live up to.
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06-May-2010
With the UN review Conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty underway, the United Nations website carries a rich array of news, archival information and this subject, and also many issues of social and political interest.
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05-May-2010
The Vatican has decided to reform the Legionnaires of Christ following revelations about improprieties in the order. The Zenit news service has a full translation of the Pope's statement and the details of the restructuring.
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04-May-2010
World Fair Trade Day is on Saturday, May 8, and is an initiative of the World Fair Trade Organization. This website has information, links and details of campaigns, events to help mark this popular initiative.
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03-May-2010
With the change in administrator following its recent merger, Catholic Super members need to adjust their account information. The website has full details of what to do and how to do it.
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07-May-2010
This film by Michael Haneke is about the Protestant village of Eichwald in rural Germany, just before the beginning of World War I, about children who will grow up to be Nazis. It is a movie not to be missed.
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06-May-2010
This Aussie romantic comedy starts out like many an American movie about sex and the dating game. But it finds unexpected heart and pathos thanks to the very short American actor, Peter Dinklage.
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04-May-2010
The writer-director describes this film as a road movie within the central character's head. This is a low-budget film that will appeal to those who want something visually different from their entertainment.
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03-May-2010
The extraordinary measures of the title of this film about disease and cure are those of the scientists who research in order to find cures and the business people who want to provide healing drugs.
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05-May-2010
A new history of the church is impressive for its concision, scholarlship, erudite prose and sympathetic tone.
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07-May-2010
If the Tories get up in the UK general election tghis weekend, Tony Abbott ought to take this as a sign that he should be running toward - not away from - his Catholicism, writes Scott Stephens in The Drum, on ABC Online.
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06-May-2010
Religious leaders of all faiths must work together to reject the terrifying "theology" of nuclear weapons, writes William Vendley. If we are beings under the authority of God, we dare not arrogate to ourselves the authority to destroy all life.
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05-May-2010
The sex abuse crisis is not fundamentally about sex. The phrase is a convenient tag that has been applied to a deeper, ongoing problem that has to do with authority and how it is used in the church, writes the NCR in an editorial.
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04-May-2010
Western Christianity is suffering from a bad case of spiritual amnesia. Even those who claim to be devout or conservative often know little about the history of their faith traditions, writes Diana Butler Bass.
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03-May-2010
One of the first and key places I encountered the spiritual ideas that eventually led me to the Catholic Church was at Estes Park, high in the American Rockies, amidst Birkenstock-wearing radical environmentalists, writes Phil Fox Rose.
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