News - National
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09-Jul-2010
A few hairs from Mary MacKillop's head contained in a small silver locket, long-forgotten and found in the archives of Mary MacKillop's Sisters of St Joseph order, will go into a cross to be sculpted and presented to the Pope.
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07-Jul-2010
Government policy on asylum seekers must focus on protecting the vulnerable, rather than on the elimination of people smugglers, says Jesuit Refugee Service Australia.
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06-Jul-2010
St Vincent de Paul National President Syd Tutton is urging Prime Minister Julia Gillard to "show true leadership" on the issue of asylum seekers.
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06-Jul-2010
A nationwide search is on for actors for the new Australian musical MACKILLOP.
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06-Jul-2010
Director of the Australian Institute of Family Studies Alan Hayes has said the mothers of more than a third of babies born in 2008 were unmarried, an increase from 8.3 percent in 1970.
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07-Jul-2010
The Federal Magistrate's Court in Melbourne has ruled that a Jewish mother cannot let her children participate in religious ceremonies until they choose to, or their Catholic father agrees to it.
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07-Jul-2010
The Bishop of Sale in Victoria, Christopher Prowse, has apologised to victims of clerical sexual abuse, saying the abuse brings shame on the church.
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05-Jul-2010
Archbishop Denis Hart issued a Pastoral Letter at theweekend in response to the recent international focus on the issue ofsexual abuse.
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05-Jul-2010
Melbourne's punting priest Joe Giacobbe, St Francis' Church parish priest Father Tom Knowles, and Victoria's energy and water ombudsman Fiona McLeod have been accused of conspiring to block plans for an inner city bar.
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08-Jul-2010
The NSW Board of Studies has granted initial registration for a new, tuition-free Jesuit primary school for Aboriginal children, set to open in Sydney's Redfern next year.
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06-Jul-2010
Outstanding national literacy and numeracy test results, published for the first time this year, are contributing to higher enrolments in public schools, as are rising birth rates, the raising of the compulsory school leaving age to 17 and tough economic times.
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05-Jul-2010
Former teacher and priest John Sidney Denham was sentenced to almost 20 years in jail for "sadistic", indecent and sexual assault on young boys.
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05-Jul-2010
A Wollongong church official is adopting a wait-and-see stance to an
assessment of the trial ethics classes in NSW public schools by a South
Australian academic.
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02-Jul-2010
Dr Anne Benjamin, adjunct professor in the Australian Catholic University's School of Educational Leadership, has been awarded a Fellowship of the Australian College of Educators.
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08-Jul-2010
Two Queensland ethicists believe a recently announced poll that showed broad support to decriminalise abortion is part of a push to liberalise state abortion laws.
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08-Jul-2010
Brisbane's Twelfth Night Theatre's will stage a production of a play about Mary Mackillop next month. The play is titled At the Centre of Light: The Mary MacKillop Story.
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02-Jul-2010
Coonawarra wines from South Australia will be used to propose the toast during October's Mary MacKillop canonisation celebrations in Italy.
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06-Jul-2010
Archbishop Adrian Doyle of Hobart raised concerns about a euthanasia bill that appears to have the State Government's endorsement, urging for respect for "the sacred nature of human life".
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News - International
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08-Jul-2010
Pope Benedict XVI has donated a year-long membership for a family of four to attend Papal Mass in Rome, with VIP seating and a private tour of the Vatican and Sistine Chapel, to a charity auction.
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07-Jul-2010
Dutch soccer star Wesley Sneijder, who scored the crucial second goal in this morning's World Cup semi-final victory over Uruguay, converted to Catholicism shortly before leaving for South Africa.
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07-Jul-2010
The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith is expected to soon release a set of changes to the Church's rules for disciplining abusive priests.
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06-Jul-2010
Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone warned against elevating the economy as an absolute good, and said an economic model that supports human development is neeeded.
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05-Jul-2010
More than 600,000 pilgrims from outside Spain have registered for the World Youth Day 2011 celebration in Madrid, organisers said.
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02-Jul-2010
Pope Benedict has announced the appointment of Archbishop of Quebec Cardinal Marc Ouellet as prefect of the Congregation for Bishops, a post that was earlier rumoured to be going to Sydney's Cardinal George Pell.
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08-Jul-2010
Archbishop Vincent Nichols of Westminster has told Vatican Radio that the faithful will have ample opportunity to participate in events planned for Pope Benedict's trip to Britain.
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08-Jul-2010
A German historian carrying out research in the Vatican archives says Pope Pius XII may have saved thousands of Jewish lives by secretly securing visas so they could escape Nazi Germany.
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09-Jul-2010
Three Malaysians have gone on trial over a January arson attack on the Metro Tabernacle Church in suburban Kuala Lumpur.
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07-Jul-2010
The statue of Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janiero has been re-inaugurated after four months of restoration work.
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05-Jul-2010
The local parish priest has described as "apocalyptic" the scene where more than 200 people died after a fuel tanker exploded in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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09-Jul-2010
Cuban dissident Guillermo Farinas has ended a 135-day hunger strike after the communist government said it would free 52 political prisoners, following talks between the Archbishop of Havana and President Raul Castro.
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Regulars
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09-Jul-2010
The entire greater region of Port-au-Prince was hit in the Haiti earthquake. The epicentre was located at Leogane, and nearby is a little town. In its midst is a church which was under construction (pictured), and its pastor, Father Andre.
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08-Jul-2010
Jeffrey Lena, the laywer who defends the Holy See from US lawsuits, talks about last week's decision by the US Supreme Court to allow a 2002 Oregon abuse lawsuit against the Holy See to move forward, and how it would impact his legal defence.
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07-Jul-2010
The Gothic church invites us to contemplate the divine. Napoleon said, upon entering Chartres for the first time: “This is no place for an atheist”. We cannot help but pray there.
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06-Jul-2010
Would any other cardinal but Christoph Schönborn, the Archbishop of
Vienna, have joined protesters against clerical sexual abuse in a
reconciliation service in his own cathedral and spoken as he did - a
service with the motto: "I am furious, God"? - Christa Pongratz-Lippitt @ The Guardian
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05-Jul-2010
Australia's World Cup campaign has not been without its low points.
Its hard to get lower than 4 goals down. However over the weekend we
appeared to have achieved just that. On
Friday Fairfax press broke the story that AusAID, the agency
responsible for managing Australia's aid budget, had agreed to help
Football Federation Australia's bid to host the World Cup by boosting
spending in Africa and the Pacific. - Evan Ellis @ Eureka Street
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09-Jul-2010
Rio's Christ the Redeemer Statue looks grander than ever following the completion of its recent restoration, announced this week. This Wikipedia entry has a comprehensive history, details of the restoration and photos.
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08-Jul-2010
It is now six months since the inauguration of the Rosary for the Bishop campaign, a website that encourages the faithful to pray for bishops around the world. Visitors can commit to a weekly or monthly Rosary for any bishop.
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07-Jul-2010
To celebrate the centenary of Mother Teresa, the Tablet online magazine has published a collection of previously unseen paintings of one of the world's greatest missionaries.
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06-Jul-2010
The Christian Radical blog, is a Catholic Worker information and resource service run by a member of the CW community of Vancouver Canada. A recent entry reflects on CIA and Pentagon torturers. "Irrespective of what they might have done, there can be no question that those suffering illegal and criminal tortures are, in fact, more courageous than their tormentors. After all, how much courage does it take to pummel a man tied to a chair or chained to a wall?"
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05-Jul-2010
The Economy of Communion (EOC) involves entrepreneurs, workers,
managers, consumers and financial operators. It was launched by Chiara
Lubich in May of 1991, in Sao Paolo, Brazil, with the aim of building
and showing a human society where, following the example of the first
Christian community in Jerusalem, "no one among them was in need". - www.edc-online.org
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07-Jul-2010
This is the third in the series of films based on the popular series of novels by Stephenie Meyer. These films achieve what they set out to do: tell a tale of vampires to a wide audience, without the blood and gore.
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06-Jul-2010
The Winslow family move from Kansas to Orange County in search of a
better life. Phil and Debbie together with their children Barbara and
Brian pack up their possessions and their dog, Marmaduke, and Carlos
their cat and head to California. Phil gets a job working for a pet food
company, whose boss, William H Macy, likes to have meetings in a dog
park. - Fr Richard Leonard SJ
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05-Jul-2010
Refinement is not the first, second or even hundredth word that springs
to mind in reviewing Get Him to the Greek. Rather, this is one of those raucous American comedies where there is
potential to offend sensitive audiences as well as potential to offer
some laughs to different sensitivities about how silly human beings can
be. - Fr Peter Malone MSC, Australian Catholic Office for Film &
Broadcasting.
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09-Jul-2010
This is the first instalment of a provocative series examining the history and impact of Christianity through the personal views of leading British figures. In this episode former Conservative MP Ann Widdecombe explores the Reformation.
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08-Jul-2010
This year the Melbourne College of Divinity celebrates its 100th anniversary. This program of Encounter explores the history, shape and future of theological education in Australia.
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09-Jul-2010
Letters of apology leave their writers particularly vulnerable, writes Andrew Hamilton. I would argue that even if they come late and are awkwardly written such letters are still important.
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08-Jul-2010
The theme for this year's NAIDOC Week is Unsung Heroes - Closing the Gap by Leading Their Way. As a nation we are still learning to listen to those unsung heroes representing their mob at the table, writes Frank Brennan.
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07-Jul-2010
Have reports of Christianity's death in Europe been greatly exaggerated? It's too early to tell, writes George Weigel, but the flock of pilgrims at Fatima and those who came to see the Shroud are encouraging signs.
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06-Jul-2010
Benedict XVI has worked hard to restore a little peace among a few
cardinals who have clashed publicly in recent weeks. He did so with two
rather unusual statements, and with an equally special audience with
three of the belligerents. - Sandro Magister @ www.chiesa
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05-Jul-2010
How did we arrive at a circumstance in which a 56-year-old man is
convicted in the NSW District Court this week of sexually abusing eight
children aged from 12 months to 14 years, videotaping thousands of
unspeakable crimes, and barely a comment is made? - Miranda Devine @ Sydney Morning Herald
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