News - National
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28-May-2010
The Edmund Rice Centre has condemned the Coalition's newly-announced asylum seeker policy, calling it a return to the worst strategies of the past, and that it would mark a "new low-point".
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28-May-2010
Catholic Health Australia and Health Super will jointly conduct a study into providing Nurse Unit Managers with better support and training.
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27-May-2010
Small and not-for-profit pathology providers could soon be muscled out by just one or two mega-providers, Catholic Health Australia (CHA) has warned.
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26-May-2010
General Peter Cosgrove will be the next chancellor of the Australian Catholic University.
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26-May-2010
James Thomas Griffin, one of the country's best-known independent scholars, died earlier this month and was buried on Monday alongside his father and brother in Warrnambool in Victoria. He was 80.
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25-May-2010
Caritas Australia said its mission is to deliver emergency assistance and long-term aid to the needy - but it also needs to engage the Australian public to the cause.
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24-May-2010
Archbishop Philip Wilson says he has not mishandled or covered up sexual abuse cases during his time in the Maitland-Newcastle diocese, north of Sydney, in the late 1970s and 80s.
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24-May-2010
The new translation of the Mass will revive tradition and replace the more colloquial and dumbed-down liturgy adopted after the Second Vatican Council, reports The Australian.
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21-May-2010
Father Cyril Thomas Hally, priest and missionary of St Columbans Missionary Society, died peacefully in Melbourne on Tuesday.
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28-May-2010
The switches flicked on last night for the Vivid Sydney Festival, with colourful visuals lighting up the Opera House and seven prominent buildings along Macquarie Street - from St Mary's Cathedral to the Conservatorium of Music.
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27-May-2010
An exhibition featuring art and writings of students from more than 50 Catholic schools in the Sydney archdiocese is to be held in the St Mary's Cathedral Crypt.
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25-May-2010
Parents have called on the NSW government to speed up the sacking of underperforming teachers following a report that said principals were failing to do anything about poor teachers.
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21-May-2010
The St James Ethics Centre's push for secular ethics to be taught in state schools shows a general hostility toward religion, says Cardinal George Pell.
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21-May-2010
The passage of the NSW Relationships Register Bill is "deeply troubling" and undermines marriage and discourages permanent commitment, said the director of the Sydney Archdiocese Life, Marriage and Family Centre.
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25-May-2010
A crowd of over 300 people travelled to Penola to watch the unveiling of chainsaw-carved wood sculptures created as a memorial to Father Julian Tenison Woods by artist Kevin Gilders.
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27-May-2010
West Australian Premier Colin Barnett says he does not support a backbencher's call to make women seeking abortions first undergo 3-D colour ultrasound imaging and view the foetus.
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26-May-2010
Perth Archbishop Barry Hickey has joined more than 800 pro-life activists on a march to the Western Australian Parliament House, protesting the 12 years since abortion was legalised in the state.
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24-May-2010
The Archbishop of Canberra and Goulburn Mark Coleridge says an institutional pride within the Church has prevented many from speaking out against abuse, and he has called for everything possible to be done to stop sexual abuse.
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News - International
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27-May-2010
The total number of Catholic priests, men and women religious and seminarians killed during 2009 was 37, the highest number in the last 10 years and nearly double the number reported in 2008.
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26-May-2010
The Vatican has entered a joint initiative with international bio-pharmaceutical company Neostem to research adult stem cell therapy and explore the use of the cells in regenerative medicine.
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25-May-2010
Nicolaus Copernicus, the 16th-century astronomer whose theory that the Earth revolved around the Sun was once condemned as heretical, has been reburied with honours in a Polish cathedral.
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24-May-2010
Vatican officials said that if correctly used, the recent creation of the first synthetic cell can be a positive development - but only God can create life.
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24-May-2010
English soccer team Manchester United star Wayne Rooney says he would have entered the priesthood if he hadn't become a footballer.
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25-May-2010
The Obama administration has taken the side of the Vatican in the US lawsuit that wants the Holy See to be held responsible for the sex abuse crisis in the country.
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24-May-2010
A new online Catholic Bible search engine, believed to be the first complete Catholic Bible translation made available for keyword search, has been launched.
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27-May-2010
Law professors from across the globe have asked the European Court of Human Rights to overturn a ruling that bans crucifixes from Italian classrooms.
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27-May-2010
The Italian bishops' conference has revealed that about 100 cases of alleged abuse had been handled by Italian church courts in the past decade.
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26-May-2010
Of Gods and Men, a film about a group of martyred French monks, has taken the second highest honour at the Cannes Film Festival.
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26-May-2010
The Italian Bishops' Conference rhas uled out setting up a special commission into child abuse despite the high number of cases.
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25-May-2010
The Bank of Spain has taken control of CajaSur, based in the southern city of Cordoba and controlled by the Roman Catholic Church, and will give it an injection of "at least" A$780 million to ensure its survival.
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Regulars
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28-May-2010
Geoff Chapman was flying a glider in Britain when he suddenly realised the importance of a telephone call he had received from Rome: the late Pope John XXIII had left a diary. Chapman landed, flew to Rome and signed up for the English-language rights.
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27-May-2010
The Catholic community in Iran faces many restrictions. In this interview, Camille Eid, journalist, author and observer of middle-east churches, reflects on daily life there.
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26-May-2010
There are perhaps three million Jews who are alive today because of Pius XII's secret but direct intervention, writes Gary Krupp, a Jewish Papal Knight.
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25-May-2010
Canberra Goulbourn Archbishop Mark Coleridge has acknowledged that many of the causes of abuse can be located in the Church's culture. ABC's Encounter program asks him and others how it shapes sexual abuse.
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24-May-2010
Italian Father Paolo Padrini wants to put the new technologies at the service of the spiritual life of Catholics. So he came up with the iBreviary initiative, which digitized the Liturgy of the Hours for use on the iPhone and iPad.
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28-May-2010
The Catholic Church has a special site for the World Cup, which kicks off on June 11. Already with links to South African Church groups and the Clericus Cup, the site now has a dedicated prayer for the world's biggest sporting event.
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27-May-2010
This French film, about a group of French Trappist monks who were kidnapped and beheaded in Algeria, won the 2nd highest prize at this year's Cannes film festival. The entry on wikipedia has details, reviews and other links.
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26-May-2010
This week the Vatican announced it would give Nicolas Copernicus a headstone on his grave. The wikipedia entry for the famous Polish astronomer provides a portrait of the life and times of a radical scientist.
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25-May-2010
This recently launched site is a guide to visiting holy places in Israel and the Palestinian territories. It features a comprehensive list of them, and makes a useful travel tool.
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24-May-2010
SAT-7 is a Christian TV network which seeks to illuminate countries in the Middle East and North Africa with God's love.
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28-May-2010
Nick Giannopoulos and Vince Colosimo return in this sequel after starring in the original, The Wogboy. Home-grown comedies that satirize race are now more sophisticated than this. But it aims to please, and succeeds.
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26-May-2010
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Finding a new twist for romantic comedy is a bit like the holy grail for Hollywood screenwriters, and The Back-Up Plan manages to be both traditional and modern in achieving this.
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25-May-2010
Harry Brown was a marine in Ulster but his disgust at the drug-dealing scum of London sends him back to his weapons and he goes on a confrontation and killing spree.
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27-May-2010
Three Nigerian Catholic priests are sent to save Tasmania's struggling church. But will the dwindling congregations and the resistance of the local clergy prove too hard a cross to bear?
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24-May-2010
Tomorrow night the Insight program on SBS brings together parents, children and faith leaders to discuss ethics, religion and how it should be taught in our public schools.
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28-May-2010
The Church can show courageous leadership by agreeing to a Federal Government request to allow asylum seekers to be housed in its private property, says a Brisbane refugee advocate.
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27-May-2010
Victims of the clergy must be allowed to find peace by telling their stories, writes Jodi Death in The Age.
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26-May-2010
Last Sunday hundreds of people gathered in Penola, South Australia, to commemorate a park to the memory of a remarkable priest, Julian Tenison Woods, who lived just 56 years, writes Frank Brennan in Eureka Street.
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25-May-2010
The sins of the 21st century carry a social resonance - ruining the environment, carrying out morally debatable scientific experiments. Here are the virtues to fortify us against them, writes Richard Heffern in NCR.
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24-May-2010
Interfaith dialogue reminds Catholics that the Church is charged with continuing the dialogue that God has begun with the whole of humankind, writes Michael Barnes in Thinking Faith.
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