News - National
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05-Aug-2010
The Australian Christian Lobby is launching a website today that it says will help inform Christians on the political parties' stance on issues ranging from homelessness, to foreign aid, to the sexualisation of children.
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05-Aug-2010
The Labor Party has promised to extend funding arrangements for private schools for a further year, meaning any changes would not take effect until after the 2013 election.
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04-Aug-2010
Former deputy Prime Minister and Australian ambassador to The Vatican, Tim Fischer, will quit the role after his three-year term, he said during a visit to the South Australian town of Penola.
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04-Aug-2010
The chief executive of Catholic Health, Martin Laverty, says the effects of a government decision to strip a $300 million special dividend from Medibank Private will be felt by the users of private health services.
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03-Aug-2010
Catholic Social Services Australia has welcomed Prime Minister Julia Gillard's pledge of increased payments for young people aged 16-18 years.
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02-Aug-2010
Caritas Australia says that the Coalition's proposed cuts to International Development Assistance would increase the vulnerability and marginalisation of the poorest communities in the region.
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02-Aug-2010
Education Minister Simon Crean has confirmed that private schools should not assume they would have their funding maintained in real terms by a re-elected Gillard government.
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02-Aug-2010
Opera soprano Joanna Cole has been cast to to play Blessed Mary MacKillop, in MacKillop, a musical that has been 10 years in the making.
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30-Jul-2010
The National Council of Priests of Australia has published the 2010-11 edition of The Official Directory of the Catholic Church in Australia, on behalf of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference.
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30-Jul-2010
Opposition Leader Tony Abbott said a Coalition Government would safeguard the tax-exempt status of charities.
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05-Aug-2010
Cardinal George Pell will join NSW Premier, Kristina Keneally, the ambassador to the Holy See, Tim Fischer, the opposition treasury spokesman, Joe Hockey among 700 guests at a dinner tonight to raise funds for Bl Mary MacKillop's canonisation celebrations.
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04-Aug-2010
The Australian Catholic Bishops Conference and the Broken Bay Institute are expecting thousands across the country and the globe to participate in the upcoming Jesus the Christ eConference on September 16.
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03-Aug-2010
Catholic schools are among those that have been served with notices by WorkCover NSW for workplace safety breaches in handling asbestos.
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30-Jul-2010
Catholic Healthcare says all staff at St Vincent's hospital in Bathurst who have not resigned or found alternative work will receive the details of their redundancy packages in the coming days.
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03-Aug-2010
Three men plan to walk 2000 kilometres, from Cairns to Stanthorpe in Queensland, to raise awareness that the Bible remains untraslated in 2000 languages - representing 350 million people.
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06-Aug-2010
Former priest Charles Alfred Barnett will be jailed for at least four years after he pleaded guilty in a South Australian court to sexual abuse charges.
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03-Aug-2010
South Australian Premier Mike Rann has promised the local Catholic Church $100,000 for repairs to the town's old school house to be made before the canonisation of Mary MacKillop in October.
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02-Aug-2010
The South Australian government has committed $250,000 to help repairs in Penola after a tornado ripped through the historic town on the weekend, causing millions of dollars in damage to structures including the historic Mary MacKillop Centre.
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02-Aug-2010
Perth's Anglican Archbishop Roger Herft says it is "unhelpful and untrue" to suggest the Christian faith has a monopoly on moral integrity and has cautioned against making simplistic assessments of religious beliefs in an election context.
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04-Aug-2010
The MacKillop Cross will arrive in Goulburn on Sunday as the first stop in a national tour in honour of Australia's first saint.
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News - International
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03-Aug-2010
Pope Benedict XVI has appointed American priest Father Joseph William Tobin as secretary of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, which oversees religious orders globally.
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03-Aug-2010
The Vatican has condemned the recent decision by US regulators to begin using embryonic stem cells in clinical tests on human patients, saying the destruction of embryos is tantamount to "the sacrifice of human beings".
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02-Aug-2010
The Vatican's Pontifical Academy for Life is preparing a document on the effects of abortion on women, often called post-abortion syndrome.
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05-Aug-2010
The Peace Bridge on Niagara River in New York will mark the 100th birthday of Bl. Mother Teresa, on August 26, with blue and white lights, the colours of the Missionaries of Charity.
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06-Aug-2010
Pope Benedict XVI, as Cardinal Ratzinger, had requested to quit and serve as archivist of the Vatican Secret Archives and as a librarian of the Vatican Library but his request was turned down by Pope John Paul II.
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06-Aug-2010
Pilgrims have ended up at the village of Lourde, 91km away from the Catholic shrine of Lourdes in France, after misspelling the destination on their navigation systems.
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05-Aug-2010
The Vatican has denounced a 12:30pm Sunday fixture in the upcoming Italian Serie A football season as an invasion into private family time.
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04-Aug-2010
The Irish Bishops' Conference education arm has welcomed new government data on possibly divesting its patronage of primary schools, and said it would cooperate in the process.
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05-Aug-2010
Caritas reports that relief efforts for flood victims in Pakistan are being hampered by high waters making communities accessible only on foot.
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04-Aug-2010
Havana's Cardinal Jaime Ortega Alamino says the Cuban Government's release of 20 of 52 political prisoners is a hopeful sign, and the Castro administration is benefiting through it with improved foreign relations.
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Regulars
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06-Aug-2010
The environmental activities employed at the Sevenhill Vineyards in the Clare Valley, South Australia, illustrate the depth of engagement towards reconciliation with creation in the Province.
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05-Aug-2010
Tradition holds that St Peter was jailed in Rome's maximum security Mamertine Prison before he was crucified upside down and buried. Archaeologists say they have uncovered evidence that supports this belief.
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04-Aug-2010
A Father's Day gift of a magazine subscription, to an Elderslie resident from his wife, will lead to lights being switched on in a Nepalese village.
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03-Aug-2010
Fr Paul Prendergast, originally from Akaroa near Christchurch, went to Peru in 1966. For the past 12 years he has been the sole priest at Yanaoca, a parish of 35,000 people not far from Cusco in Peru.
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02-Aug-2010
The Carmelite Monastery in Nedlands marked its 75th anniversary on July 16, the Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, with a solemn Mass concelebrated by Western Australia's Archbishop Hickey and nine priests.
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06-Aug-2010
The Catholic Charismatic Renewal seeks to foster an awareness of the gift of God's Spirit and to help people develop a deeper personal relationship with Jesus Christ. This just-launched site contains an online seminar, details of meetings, a healing mass, and downloadable newsletter.
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05-Aug-2010
The Columban calendar has been published for more than 80 years and has become something of an institution in Australian Catholic homes. The 2011 calendar is now available.
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04-Aug-2010
The National Council of Priests of Australia recently invited renowned American priest and commentator, Fr. Donald Cozzens, to speak to them. In this podcast, Fr Cozzens and Australian priest Michael Whelan assess the temperature of the Church's sex abuse debate.
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03-Aug-2010
The Theology of the Body Institute exists to promote the revolutionary teaching of Pope John Paul II on the divine meaning of the human body and human sexuality.
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02-Aug-2010
This recently launched newsletter and website promotes the work of Caroline Chisholm as someone who worked tirelessly for the good of others.
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04-Aug-2010
This is the third film in the trilogy which dramatizes the political career of Tony Blair, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007. It focuses on what Blair learnt from his relationship with US President Bill Clinton.
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03-Aug-2010
This French subtitled film is a romantic thriller, with Kristin Scott-Thomas playing the role of a married woman who has a steamy affair with a carpenter. It entertains and the acting is fine but the story could have been more convincing.
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06-Aug-2010
Written in the early 5th century, Augustine's City of God is one of the classics of Western theology - but it also articulates a guide to politics that resonates today. This program features a discussion by leading theologists.
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05-Aug-2010
Although his book Test Everything suffers the predictable limitations of being a collection, Cardinal Pell is a powerful intellectual and a clear and conversational writer, and there are chapters of absorbing interest, writes Greg Sheridan in The Australian.
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06-Aug-2010
It would seem more accurate to describe the ordaining of women in the Catholic Church as primarily an offence against order rather than as an offence against faith, writes Andrew Hamilton in Eureka Street.
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05-Aug-2010
There are two different dramas we can live out in life, an ego-drama or a theo-drama, writes Ron Rolheiser. In an ego-drama, we draw our energies from our ego. In a theo-drama, we draw our energies from God.
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04-Aug-2010
Religious organizations play a central role in the long journey endured by refugees that begins with forced exile, moves through a sojourn in a camp, and ends with resettlement a new country, writes Joshua Ralston.
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03-Aug-2010
It could have been a mistake for Gillard to 'declare' her atheism, almost as if she was giving witness to a firmly held religious belief, writes Michael Mullins in Eureka Street.
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02-Aug-2010
American women religious, whose leaders meet this month, find themselves in a terrible position, writes the NCR in an editorial. On one hand, they can defend their approach to religious life. On the other hand, they can continue to show obedience to the male hierarchy.
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02-Aug-2010
On Wednesday, Professor John Warhurst will give a talk about religion and politics in Australian federal election campaigns, with special reference to 2010 and social issues.
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