News - National
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03-Jun-2010
Asylum seekers in detention are once again resorting to self-harm, with at least 17 injuring themselves or attempting suicide in the past 11 months.
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01-Jun-2010
Catholic Health Australia chief executive Martin Laverty says that while caregivers for elderly should be better paid, government funding rules need to change and funding increased to enable it.
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01-Jun-2010
The Government should simplify access to key welfare entitlements to ensure those who need help are in fact receiving it, says Catholic Social Services Australia.
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01-Jun-2010
Sister of Mercy Dr Dawn Goodwin, whose contribution to the education of youth workers was recognised with a Medal of the Order of Australia, has died from cancer. She was 72.
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31-May-2010
The Coalition's asylum seeker policy has come under strong criticism from Catholic circles, that it is a "work in regress" and shows "a lack of appreciation of the ethical issues related to migration".
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31-May-2010
A national shortage of aged care doctors has left more than half of nursing homes with no choice but to send residents to hospital emergency departments, according to a survey by Catholic Health.
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31-May-2010
NSW went $64million over budget for hosting World Youth Day, according to an Auditor-General's report.
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04-Jun-2010
An inner city Melbourne priest has been charged with eight counts of indecent assault. Police believe the Church's investigator into abuse, Peter O'Callaghan, QC (pictured), inadvertently tipped off the priest through "mishandled" communications with the priest's lawyers, reports The Age.
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02-Jun-2010
A baby found dead and abandoned in a shopping bag at Shepparton in Victoria two years ago will finally be buried tomorrow, in a Catholic Church.
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01-Jun-2010
A Melbourne woman who has alleged abuse against two Jesuit priests says she can't pursue the second case because her rights were given up without her knowledge in a settlement over the first, the Age reports.
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04-Jun-2010
The NSW Catholic Block Grant Authority has dismissed claims by the NSW Department of Education that Catholic schools were getting poorer quality buildings with their stimulus funds.
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02-Jun-2010
Nearly 40 vocations personnel from across Australia, New Zealand, Oceania and Fiji will meet next week in North Sydney for a Diocesan Vocations Directors' Conference sponsored by the Catholic Vocations Ministry Australia (CVMA).
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31-May-2010
Cardinal George Pell has voiced criticism of the ethics trials in NSW primary schhools, joining the Islamic Council of NSW and the Sydney Anglicans in protest against the program.
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31-May-2010
The Archdiocese of Sydney has joined UK bishops in criticising a British TV advertisement by one of that country's largest abortion providers, which offers to help women if they are pregnant.
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03-Jun-2010
Australian Catholic University's (ACU) Brisbane indigenous unit and Mt St Michael's (MSM) College, Ashgrove, have won the Queensland Premier's 2010 Reconciliation Award.
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03-Jun-2010
South Australia's Wattle Range Council detailed $11 million in capital works for its draft business plan, including proposed upgrades of the streets to cater for the influx expected from the canonisation of Mary MacKillop.
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02-Jun-2010
South Australia's Anglican Archbishop has received legal advice on how the church may access funds from Anglicare in the event of future claims by sexual abuse victims.
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28-May-2010
South Australian's Christian Brothers College will be launching a pilot program to map its water, electricity and gas consumption through an online database, one of the first schools in the state to do so.
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News - International
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03-Jun-2010
Israel's occupation of the Palestinian territories is a "political injustice", according to a leaked Vatican working document for the forthcoming Middle East Synod of Bishops meeting.
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02-Jun-2010
The Vatican said a recent Israeli raid on a flotilla bound for Gaza, bearing aid for Palestinians, caused "unnecessary loss of human life", joining widespread condemnation of the attack. Caritas has expressed shock and disappointment.
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28-May-2010
Pope Benedict has told Italian bishops that their evangelical mission "does not hide the wounds that scar the church community because of the weakness and the sin of some of its members".
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28-May-2010
Johnny Cash has been remembered in the Italian Bishops' Conference's newspaper Avvenire for how his music "sang the faith".
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02-Jun-2010
A Catholic school teacher in the US who joined an atheist website and noted on Facebook that she didn't believe in God has said she never imagined it would lead to her losing her job.
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04-Jun-2010
Pope Benedict's Britain visit will cost the Church twice the original estimate, and could lead to proposed events being scaled down or even cancelled.
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03-Jun-2010
Head of the German bishops conference, Archbishop Robert Zollitsch is under investigation on charges of abetting a sexual abuse, for allegedly placing at a monastery in his diocese a priest accused of molesting a boy.
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03-Jun-2010
Women in northern Italy who cannot afford to have their babies are to be offered A$6600 not to have an abortion, in a policy welcomed by pro-life campaigners but dismissed by critics as propaganda.
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01-Jun-2010
Pope Benedict has appointed nine prelates, including the archbishops of Boston and New York, to undertake an investigation into child abuse he had promised in a March pastoral letter to the Irish faithful.
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31-May-2010
An unprecedented open letter by Italian women who have had relationships with priests or lay monks has appealed to the Pope to abolish celibacy, saying a clergyman also "needs to live with his fellow human beings, experience feelings, love and be loved".
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02-Jun-2010
A prominent archaeologist says he believes that his controversial view that the biblical Mount Sinai is in Israel's Negev desert rather than Egypt's Sinai Peninsula will soon be adopted by the Vatican.
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01-Jun-2010
An Indian film about seven nuns and a divorcee has won the first prize at the 25th International Catholic Film Festival in Poland.
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Regulars
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04-Jun-2010
Ron Rolheiser's weekly column is syndicated in more than 60 newspapers. He is that rare thinker who can appeal both to those who have doctorates in systematic theology, and to thoroughly secularized 20-somethings.
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03-Jun-2010
Every job interview has its awkward moments, but in recent years, the standard interview for men seeking a life in the Roman Catholic priesthood has made the awkward moment a requirement.
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02-Jun-2010
Five hundred years after Michelangelo drew them, his hidden anatomical illustrations have been found - painted on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, cleverly concealed inside the body of God.
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01-Jun-2010
Ukrainian Catholic priests have so far escaped the sexual scandals rocking the Church worldwide - a feat they attribute to their rare marital permissions.
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31-May-2010
Liana Lupas stands out in New York, even by the standards of a city that defines itself with superlatives. She calls herself "the only librarian in the world who takes care of one book."
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04-Jun-2010
Tomorrow is World Environment Day. The website has a comprehensive range of activities being organised. Catholic Mission Australia has made a special contribution to this year's commemoration, with its support of Poruma, (formerly known as Coconut Island), between Queensland and PNG.
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03-Jun-2010
This new online Catholic Bible search engine enables people to find specific Scripture passages using keywords. The program has been developed by Catholic.net with the support of the US Bishops' Conference.
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02-Jun-2010
This site outlines the provisions of the Apostolic Constitution promulgated by Pope Benedict XVI. It also includes a newsletter which sets out the details of the Pope's offer to traditional Anglicans.
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01-Jun-2010
Sunday was the anniversary of the feast of St. Joan of Arc, the patroness of France. Joan was born to a peasant family near Lorraine, France in the 15th century.
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31-May-2010
Sydney's Vivid festival lit up iconic city buildings on Thursday night, including St Mary's Cathedral, seen as never before. This multimedia gallery captures the lights and colour of Sydney's makeover.
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02-Jun-2010
Prince of Persia has been produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, well-known for Top Gun and Con Air. This one looks as if somebody made him a bet that he couldn't produce a movie that was almost all action. He has won the bet.
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01-Jun-2010
"Life's a bitch" chants the rap singer behind the end credits of Fish Tank, and for once a closing song captures perfectly the theme and mood of the movie that has gone before.
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31-May-2010
This film was awarded Hollywood's Oscar for the best Foreign movie of 2009. It is a smart, and tense crime thriller that keeps you guessing, and is the second most successful box office success in Argentine film history.
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04-Jun-2010
Three Nigerian Catholic priests are sent to save Tasmania's struggling church. In this second episode, Reaching Out, the three priests are struggling with Australian life, homesickness, and confronting the reality of a Church in decline.
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03-Jun-2010
ABC Radio's Encounter joins one of the controversial ethics classes currently being trialled in NSW public schools. The classes have sparked a turf war and they have also sparked robust debate - can you be ethical without God?
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04-Jun-2010
The problem with two centuries worth of historical Jesus scholarship is that it has created a culture of choosing your own version of him, writes Ross Douthat in the New York Times.
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03-Jun-2010
The Apostolic Visitation to the Archdiocese of Armagh will be overseen by Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor. Michael Smith SJ, the Safeguarding Co-ordinator for the British Jesuits, explains the policies currently in effect and looks to the further transformation in the Church in the future.
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02-Jun-2010
Single people have lots of opinions about what they look for in their future spouse. Rarely, however, do I hear someone propose putting 'Truth Seeker' on that list, writes Anthony Buono from the Catholic News Agency.
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01-Jun-2010
The Coalition's new asylum seeker policy is best described as a work in regress. It returns to the policy it put into practice when in government, adding new nasties that make it look tougher, writes Andrew Hamilton in Eureka Street.
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31-May-2010
The stories of leadership by women religious around the world offers a peek behind the curtains of a magnificent and under-reported church story. It is a hope-filled story, still mostly buried under the tale of clergy sex abuse, writes the NCR.
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