News - National
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11-Jun-2010
Australian women religious are backing an international campaign to prevent human trafficking during the World Cup in South Africa, which starts today.
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11-Jun-2010
After revising its insurance products, the Australian Catholic Superannuation & Retirement Fund (ACSRF) is arguing that it now offers a better deal for members without increasing premiums.
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11-Jun-2010
CathNews will be taking a break for Monday's Queen's Birthday, which is a holiday in all states except WA.
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10-Jun-2010
Cardinal George Pell and the Archbishop Phillip Wilson will join other Christian leaders for a pre-election question an answer session with Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and Opposition Leader Tony Abbott.
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09-Jun-2010
The Australian Catholic University is partnering with a hospitality academy to grant academic qualifications for experienced hospitality workers.
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08-Jun-2010
The Australian has today highlighted asylum seeker concern expressed by Bishop Christopher Saunders of the Australian Catholic Social Justice Council, warning it is a complex issue.
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08-Jun-2010
Catholic Health Australia has backed the AMA's warning that the Federal Government's hospital reform plan is at risk of being derailed, unless the Commonwealth "takes real responsibility for public hospitals".
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08-Jun-2010
Brian Lawrence of the Australian Catholic Commission for Employment Relations has said Opposition Leader Tony Abbott must do something about the Howard Government initiated wages policy that has failed low income workers.
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08-Jun-2010
The international Year for Priests ends this week on a strong note locally, with Cardinal George Pell set to ordain six men at St Mary's Cathedral on Friday - the biggest number since 1983.
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10-Jun-2010
Ballarat nursing students who believe they were unfairly failed by the ACU last month have lodged an official appeal.
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09-Jun-2010
Bishop Joseph Grech of Sandhurst has apologised over a breach of confidentiality in connection with a woman's statement that she had an affair with her parish priest, The Age reports.
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04-Jun-2010
The funeral service at St Brendan's Catholic Church in Central Victoria for an abandoned baby began with the song Twinkle Twinkle Little Star and ended with Somewhere Over the Rainbow.
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10-Jun-2010
The Sydney Catholic Cemeteries Board's new burial ground will meet a growing demand for environmentally-friendly burials and "return the body to the earth" in a way that allows it to decompose naturally.
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09-Jun-2010
Youth advocate Father Chris Riley has resigned from the NSW Government's Homelessness Advisory Council, less than four months into his two-year term, protesting a government refusal to overhaul the juvenile justice system.
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08-Jun-2010
The Catholic Church has organised a petition that insists ethics classes in NSW schools should not be "in competition" with Scripture classes.
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07-Jun-2010
Former Australian Catholic University student Kathleen Worrall has been sentenced to a maximum jail term of six years for manslaughter, after pleading guilty to the stabbing of her younger sister in 2008.
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09-Jun-2010
Native of Poruma Island and member of the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Catholic Council Dolly McGaughey said her home is being "eaten up by the sea".
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07-Jun-2010
A Federal MP is campaigning for an inquiry into a claim that children at an orphanage run by the Sisters of Mercy near Rockhampton were used as guniea pigs for unproven vaccines for diseases like smallpox and polio.
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07-Jun-2010
The Jesuits' Sevenhill Cellars sells wine directly to Church-goers in a novel approach that has struck a chord. It now receives 30,000-40,000 visitors a year.
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News - International
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11-Jun-2010
Pope Pius XII had written a letter to US President Franklin D. Roosevelt during World War II, appealing for him to spare Rome from bombing.
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10-Jun-2010
The St Vincent de Paul Society has elected Singaporean Michael Thio as its President General from outside Europe since the organisation's founding in 1883.
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10-Jun-2010
As the Year for Priests draws to a close, undersecretary for the Congregation for the Clergy Archbishop Celso Morga has told Vatican Radio that priests "must be pious men. And consequently they must be docile".
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09-Jun-2010
Three Spaniards, two Italians, a Slovenian, a Romanian, an Austrian and a Lebanese Maronite will be beatified in the next three months, the Vatican has announced.
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10-Jun-2010
A proposal by the Catholic League to have Blessed Mother Teresa honoured on her 100th birthday in the lighting scheme for the Empire State Building in New York City has local government backing.
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09-Jun-2010
Catholic scholar and commentator George Weigel dismissed a 10-page Time Magazine spread criticising the Church as "nonsense", offering counter-points to accusations within the story.
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07-Jun-2010
The US Armenian church has sued the J. Paul Getty Museum to demand the return of seven pages allegedly stolen from an Armenian Bible dating back to 1256.
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07-Jun-2010
A New York school district has been ordered to readmit a seventh-grade student suspended indefinitely for wearing a rosary to school.
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08-Jun-2010
A UK TV station's has commissioned Vatican critic and gay rights campaigner Peter Tatchell to make a documentary about Pope Benedict to coincide with the papal visit.
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07-Jun-2010
Pope Benedict XVI has ended a visit to Cyprus with a call to end to bloodshed in the Middle East, and highlighting the plight of the region's Christians.
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04-Jun-2010
The president of the Turkish bishops' conference, Bishop Luigi Padovese, was stabbed to death yesterday at his home in Iskenderun. Murat Altun, his driver and aide, was arrested as the prime suspect.
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04-Jun-2010
Nearly five million people have marched through Sao Paulo in a traditional "March for Jesus", marking the feast of Corpus Christi. It was touted as the biggest Catholic demonstration in the world.
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Regulars
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11-Jun-2010
"Nobody messes with Father Vien. He tends to get what he wants."So said President Obama in a speech on May 24 after being introduced,
just moments earlier, by Reverend Vien Nguyen, pastor of the Mary Queen
Viet Nam Church in eastern New Orleans. - Brentin Mock @ Religion Dispatches
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10-Jun-2010
Depicted in church art wearing the striped uniform of the victims of the concentration camps, Kolbe represents the defining tragedy of the 20th century, under which Poland suffered most of all. In the many photographs of him, Popiełuszko exudes quiet dignity, symbolising the strength of the Polish people in the postwar decades. - Sophia Deboick @ The Guardian
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09-Jun-2010
The Catholic bishops of the United States have learned many lessons from
the sex abuse crisis. Here is a list of twelve that are among the most important. - Blase Cupich @ America Magazine
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08-Jun-2010
It seems like an example of reverse mission: six Nigerians will serve in the United States as Josephite priests, after a 10-year journey.
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07-Jun-2010
The plight of the people of Haiti following a huge earthquake last January has slipped from the headlines, but the relief effort by their compatriots in Florida continues undiminished.
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11-Jun-2010
New York's Museum of Biblical Art is hosting an exhibition on the last two centuries of medieval Spanish
history in the Crown of Aragon from the vantage point of
religious art, focusing particularly on the relationship between Christians and Jews. - Museum of Biblical Art
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10-Jun-2010
With the Society of St Vincent de Paul having elected its first
non-European international president, it's worth a look at the
Worldwide Vincentian Family which is a network of the international
organisations following the spirituality of the great French saint. - Worldwide Vincentian Family
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09-Jun-2010
No need to queue up or crane your neck to see Michelangelo's masterpiece. The Vatican has now placed the Sistine Chapel online in a stunning 360 degree web gallery. - Sistine Chapel @ The Vatican Website
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08-Jun-2010
Family Edge is a blog published by Mercatornet that deals with all manner of family concerns and issues, as a quick glance at its tag cloud confirms: abstinence, marriage, women, trafficking, religion, education, children's health, social networking, child development... - Family Edge @ Mercatornet
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07-Jun-2010
Caritas is at the forefront of contemporary events and issues - it is hosting a Peace Cup for homeless communities in South Africa, has a response to Israel's flotilla attack, and news about climate justice in Ethiopia and Cambodia.
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08-Jun-2010
Animal Kingdon is loosely based on the Walsh Street murder in Melbourne in 1988. It is confronting, with a pervasive air of menace. It is powerful, believable and it is the best Australian crime movie since Lantana.
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07-Jun-2010
This film is like eating a couple of large slices of sponge cake, over-filled with cream and laden with lots of icing. Maybe a treat at the start but, full of sugar, and ultimately not healthy for you.
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10-Jun-2010
On Tasmania's isolated north-west coast Nigerian Fr Felix has been spending many
hours alone in his room; until he finds a young mate who introduces him
to the world of Tasmanian wood chopping, BBQs and ferret racing. Meanwhile, compatriot Fr Christopher has his own
Aussie experience. In contrast to the thousands he's used to in
Nigeria; he's meeting with the three remaining members of Tasmania's
Legion of Mary. - The Mission, Part 3 on Compass
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11-Jun-2010
Bernard Haisch is a very interesting
physicist. Together with Alfonso Rueda, he has pursued the idea that
inertial and gravitational mass have their origin not in the interaction
of subatomic particles with the hypothetical Higgs field but in their
interaction with the more familiar quantum vacuum. In The Purpose-Guided Universe, Haisch makes his case
for a physical cosmos that is deity-driven. The principal piece of
evidence he uses is the apparent fine-tuning of the laws of physics for
us to be here. - Martin Chown @ New Scientist
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11-Jun-2010
I believe that with this murder, which has an explicitly religious, Islamic element, we are faced with something that goes beyond the government it points towards nostalgic, perhaps anarchist groups who want to destabilize the government. - Izmir Archbishop Ruggero Franceschini talks to AsiaNews
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10-Jun-2010
Let me start by saying what a faithful Catholic
media is not. Today's
secular media culture is often competitive and can have little regard
for the damage done to people's lives and reputations. There is a
tendency to be mean-spirited and engage in personal attacks. Many times
the secular media present only a superficial rendering of a story, often
choosing what is sensationalist over in-depth reporting. - Los Angeles Auxiliary Bishop
Gabino Zavala
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09-Jun-2010
When I am introducing people to Centering
Prayer meditation, the first
challenge for many is the simple weirdness for them of being silent and
in silence, "alone" with their thoughts, for more than a few minutes.
Between cell phones, iPods, the radio on at work or in the car, and the
TV flipped on the moment they walk in their door, they manage to keep
background noise going all day. - Phil Fox Rose @ Busted Halo
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08-Jun-2010
In this BBC audio program, Biographer John Cornwell and Jack Valero, of the conservative group Opus Dei, debate whether conservative Catholics are trying to "tidy up" the image of Cardinal Newman. - Today, BBC News
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07-Jun-2010
The provision of Special Religious Education in NSW government schools is a truly remarkable example of the kind of religious tolerance that our multicultural community so greatly values, writes Michael Jensen in The Drum.
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09-Jun-2010
Pope Benedict's world meeting of clergy marking the end of the Year for Priests begins in Rome today.
The meeting from 9 to 11 June also marks the 150th anniversary of the
death of St. John Mary Vianney, the holy "Cure of Ars". - Vatican Information Service
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