News - National
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22-Jul-2010
The National Catholic Education Commission has welcomed the Coalition's announcement about expanding a tax rebate for parents with school children, saying it would benefit families on low to average income.
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22-Jul-2010
Catholic Social Services, along with Anglicare, the Salvation Army and Uniting Care, have expressed reservations about the federal government's $50 billion health reform plan, pointing out poor mental health policies on both sides of the political divide.
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21-Jul-2010
A member of the Australian Catholic Religious Against Trafficking of Humans, has appeared at the United Nations to support a delegation of Australian women making presentation about discrimination against women.
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19-Jul-2010
On Christmas Eve, 2002, Sydney solicitor John Ellis received a letter from the Archbishop of Sydney, Cardinal George Pell, saying his abuse claim against a priest could not be substantiated as the person involved was demented and "in no state to respond to the charges against him".
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19-Jul-2010
Catholic educators have invited all MPs on the campaign trail to visit their schools, in a bid to secure funding after the upcoming federal election.
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20-Jul-2010
Xavier College Melbourne's principa said the school was "gutted and ashamed" of its boys on a trip to New Zealand who shoplifted $5,000 worth of items.
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23-Jul-2010
A petition supporting catechists' work on scripture classes, with more than 52,000 signatures - including from 37,000 Catholics throughout NSW - has been tabled in the NSW Parliament.
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21-Jul-2010
Week-long celebrations of the Sydney Congress for Embracing the New Evangelisation, SCENE, took place in the city's Martin Place last week, with a faith-inspired rock music show, talks and a family day.
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21-Jul-2010
The St Vincent De Paul Society NSW's new State Office must be a place where people can find Jesus, said Sydney's Auxillary Bishop Terry Brady.
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20-Jul-2010
CatholicCare and Relationships Australia have received $660,000 in Federal Government funding to continue drought support, asa part of a a $6.6 million funding for Family Support Drought Response teams.
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16-Jul-2010
Opposition Leader Tony Abbott says his leadership would offer the youth of Australia "an opportunity to re-engage with the fundamental views of our society".
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22-Jul-2010
Brisbane pro-life activist Graham Preston is expecting to spend at least seven months in jail for unpaid fines totalling about $7500 for his sit-ins in front of abortion clinics.
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20-Jul-2010
The breakaway "St Mary's in Exile" community in Brisbane reportedly drew 240 parishioners on a Sunday, compared to just 45 at the original St Mary's parish.
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19-Jul-2010
Brisbane's Archbishop John Bathersby has described the archdiocese's Pray 2010 as "a success beyond all expectations" and "the best retreat" he has ever made.
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22-Jul-2010
Archbishop Philip Wilson has presented the inaugural Mary MacKillop Award to Adelaide journalist Shirley Stott Despoja at the 20th annual Catholic Archbishop's Media Citations.
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23-Jul-2010
Caritas Australia's Blueprint for a Better World exhibition was officially launched yesterday in Canberra at the Museum of Australian Democracy in the Old Parliament House.
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21-Jul-2010
Nine young people have announced plans to start discerning a religious vocation at the Neo-Catechumenal Way vocations rally in Canberra this month.
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News - International
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21-Jul-2010
A new AIDS study by the UN has lent credibility to faith leaders who have long argued that behavioural change was a key to combatting the spread of the illness.
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20-Jul-2010
An apparent glitch in Google's ranking system for web searches resulted in the search for "Vatican" bringing up the website www.pedofilo.com as the first option, ahead of the Holy See's official website late last week.
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19-Jul-2010
Vatican spokesman Father Federico Lombardi said the Church must respect local laws when handling child abuse cases.
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16-Jul-2010
The Vatican will fast-track its investigations of clerical sexual abuse cases and extend by a decade the statute of limitations. And for the first time, a priest may be defrocked through an "extra-judicial decree" - effectively, without a hearing.
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16-Jul-2010
The Vatican has labelled the ordination of women among the "most serious crimes" and a "crime against the faith".
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22-Jul-2010
A documentary on the life of late priest and mountaineer Father Pablo Dominguez is spurring conversions, according to the film's Spanish director.
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20-Jul-2010
The Benedictine Abbey of the Missionaries of St Ottilien, in Oberbayern, Bavaria, has begun building a biogas plant which will enable the community to produce its own electricity and sell power to the local community.
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20-Jul-2010
A picture of the Virgin Mary holding a child-like Adolph Hitler in her arms, used on a poster promoting an Italian expo, was withdrawn from the event after complaints from local Catholics.
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19-Jul-2010
Maria Jepsen, the world's first woman Lutheran bishop, has resigned after accusations of abuse in her Hamburg diocese.
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19-Jul-2010
A Dutch priest has been suspended for holding a special orange-themed mass in support of the national football team before the World Cup final between his country and Spain.
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22-Jul-2010
Australia's peak ecumenical body has asked Australians to consider boycotting goods produced by Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian Territories, in solidarity with Palestinian Christians.
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23-Jul-2010
Sister Nancy Pereira, a religious who founded a "Fund for the Poor" bank to help impoverished people in Bangalore, India, died last week at the age of 86.
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21-Jul-2010
A justice of the peace in the Argentinean city of General Picohas said she will not marry homosexual couples despite the country's new law legalising it.
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Regulars
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23-Jul-2010
An American Evangelical Protestant who turned Catholic topples the arguments he once used against the Church and tells how he discovered the fullness of the Catholic faith.
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22-Jul-2010
Rev. Basil Georges Casmoussa is the Archbishop of Mosul for the Syrian Catholic Church in Iraq. In 2005 he was abducted at gunpoint, and released 24 hours later unharmed. He discusses his experiences in the war zone.
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21-Jul-2010
American scholar and writer Donna Freitas has written a novel, This Gorgeous Game, which looks at priest and sex abuse through the eyes of a teenage girl. Freitas discusses how she came to write the book.
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20-Jul-2010
Father Stan Fortuna is a rapper priest from New York, and he was a hit at this year's Pray festival. He talks about the influence of Pope John Paul II on his life and work.
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19-Jul-2010
Perth St Mary's Cathedral architect Peter Quinn has spent the last 32 years working on Catholic churches, schools and prayer spaces. But he admits that restoring the Cathedral was terrifying.
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23-Jul-2010
First Things is published by The (American) Institute on Religion and Public Life, an interreligious, non-partisan research and education institute whose purpose is to advance a religiously informed public philosophy for the ordering of society.
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22-Jul-2010
The Sydney Congress for Embracing the New Evangelisation, known as SCENE, was held last week, with public concerts, workshops and public sessions, all well attended. The website has a vibrant audio-visual and photo record of the Congress.
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21-Jul-2010
Pray 2010 has been hailed as an outstanding success. Its website features a broad range of photos of the event, an online resource centre, a multi-media video and one by Brisbane Archbishop John Bathersby.
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20-Jul-2010
In May, 83 bishops came to Sydney for the Oceania Bishops Conference. Compass has an eight-minute video of the Mass they celebrated in St Marys Cathedral.
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19-Jul-2010
The Vatican has announced that Raphael's cartoons and tapestries for the Sistine Chapel will be exhibited at the V & A museum in London. This interactive tour provides a rich experience of the tapestries and other treasures.
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22-Jul-2010
Hedgehogs are prickly on the outside but more tender on the inside. This is the metaphor for understanding Renee, a 54-year-old Paris widow, overweight, sometimes curmudgeonly. The film is a satisfying look at being human.
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19-Jul-2010
This third film in the Predator series attempts to offer a more sophisticated version of sci-fi action-adventure. For those at ease with the series, this film is a step forward. For newcomers, the aggression may be uncomfortable.
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23-Jul-2010
In this third part of a series on the history of Christianity, eminent scientist Colin Blakemore interviews scholars and churchmen in order to understand how science transformed Christianity over the last four centuries.
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21-Jul-2010
Have we in the West lost the idea of civic virtue? Did the 1960s, with their celebration of free choice and individualism, do away with such public values as decency and honour?
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20-Jul-2010
Massive membership, popular music and an upbeat message may be the future of the church, but it comes at a price of increased materialism and male-dominated leadership.
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23-Jul-2010
A lot has changed over the 20 years I've been coming to Cracow in Poland, writes George Weigel. That change includes a loss of recent history, including the role played by the Catholic Church in the struggle against Communism.
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22-Jul-2010
Currently there is a confrontation between religion and science, made popular by a number of most strident publicists, who despite the fact that they believe there is no God, spend an inordinate time in discussing him, writes Professor T. J. Martin in Eureka Street.
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21-Jul-2010
John Lennon may have written Imagine, but he also wrote beautiful and touching hymns to creation and to Mary, writes William Oddie in the Catholic Herald.
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20-Jul-2010
The New York Times says it is 'shocking' that eight years after American child abuse policies were developed, the pontiff has not yet imposed them on the rest of the world. That's where experienced Catholics shake their head, writes John Allen in the National Catholic Reporter.
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19-Jul-2010
Let's lay off Kevin Rudd, for our own good as well as his. We don't need to kick our former prime ministers when they are down, writes Frank Brennan.
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