News - National
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20-Aug-2010
Jesuit Refugee Service Australia has opened a large new shelter in Sydney's Manly, which will house asylum seekers and offer a temporary place to live for those already granted protection visas.
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19-Aug-2010
East Timor's Church and military have slammed the Gillard Government's plan for a regional refugee processing centre in the country.
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18-Aug-2010
Twenty million people - almost the entire population of Australia - are homeless in Pakistan from the severe flooding of an unprecedented scale, says Catholic Mission Director for Pakistan, Father Mario Rodrigues.
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17-Aug-2010
Sydney's Jewish and Christian leaders, including Australian Catholic Bishops Conference president Archbishop Philip Wilson, have met to mend the rift caused by a call for Australians to boycott Israeli goods.
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16-Aug-2010
The Greens policy to cut funding to private schools was making the federal election campaign more difficult, according to an internal email from an adviser to Greens leader Senator Bob Brown.
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13-Aug-2010
The History Channel has commissioned a new documentary called Blessed Mary: A Saint for All Australians to commemorate her canonisation.
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19-Aug-2010
Senior staff from Notre Dame's School of Medicine in Sydney have met student representatives to reassure them after the Australian Medical Council questioned its ability to implement the final years of the course successfully.
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19-Aug-2010
The former home of poet and priest John O'Brien needs funds for urgent repairs and maintenance of the Narrandera property.
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18-Aug-2010
Hollywood actor and former rap star Mark Wahlberg has attended Mass at St Mary's Cathedral in Sydney, taking time out of the Australian promotional tour of his new film The Other Guys.
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17-Aug-2010
Leading legal minds, Geoffrey Robertson and Alan Dershowitz, will debate the scandal of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church in a centrepiece event of the 2010 Sydney Festival of Dangerous Ideas.
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17-Aug-2010
Youth off the Streets founder Father Chris Riley is "devastated" by an election welfare crackdown by Labor and the Coalition, saying Labor's move to suspend welfare for missed appointments will lead to increased crime.
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16-Aug-2010
A Mosman councillor wants to build a "larger-than-life" statue of St Francis of Assisi at the Taronga Zoo, as "a symbol of Mosman's love and respect of animals".
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16-Aug-2010
An Illawara priest credits his recovery from cancer to the intercession of Mary MacKillop, although the Vatican did not pick his case as an official miracle for her sainthood.
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18-Aug-2010
A case of meningococcal disease has been confirmed at the Catholic Chanel College in Gladstone, Queensland, but the school says students are not considered at risk of transmission.
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13-Aug-2010
The world's first water cremation centre on the Gold Coast is offering a liquid alternative to cremation and burial - and the process has been approved by the Catholic Church.
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13-Aug-2010
Toowoomba's Bishop William Morris said he has offered to meet the families of victims sexually abused by Catholic primary school teacher Gerard Byrnes "so that I could apologise personally".
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20-Aug-2010
The storm-damaged town of Penola in South Australia plans to launch a public appeal to fund the town's recovery work in preparation for the canonisation of Mary MacKillop.
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16-Aug-2010
A team of asbestos removalists is combing the site surrounding Penola's Mary MacKillop Centre to remove sheets of roofing containing asbestos - which was blown off a house by the recent storm, smashed to bits and scattered.
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16-Aug-2010
A rustic redgum cross-shaped sculpture, containing three fine hairs taken from Blessed Mary MacKillop when she died in 1909, has been revealed in Penola.
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News - International
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20-Aug-2010
Six women and one man in the US are alleging sexual abuse by a priest over three decades, in a new lawsuit filed in California.
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18-Aug-2010
Legendary Hollywood actress Zsa Zsa Gabor has returned home from hospital after refusing anymore surgery and being administered the last rites by a priest at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center.
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17-Aug-2010
Pro-life groups in the US are opposing the approval of a new "morning-after pill" by the country's Federal Drug Administration, saying the pill is effectively an abortion drug.
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19-Aug-2010
The Vatican has released the official program of Pope Benedict XVI's visit to Britain, which will end with the beatification of Cardinal John Henry Newman.
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18-Aug-2010
Archaeologists and clerics in Bulgaria say they have unearthed bones belonging to John the Baptist, which the country's government hopes will bring salvation through tourism.
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18-Aug-2010
The Vatican will host a conference to examine the global role of the Catholic press, addressing, among other topics, the Catholic media response to controversy within the Church.
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17-Aug-2010
Footage of a Hungarian priest's skateboarding skill has become a YouTube hit. The Reverend Zoltan Lendvai, 45, believes it helps him spread the Word to young people.
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16-Aug-2010
An apparently hoax bomb threat at Lourdes led French police to evacuate thousands, including many disabled or ailing pilgrims, on the feast of the Assumption - one of the busiest days at the shrine.
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19-Aug-2010
Pope Benedict has appealed to the international community not to hold back in their assistance to those devastated by flooding in Pakistan, and expressed a "spiritual closeness" to those suffering the "calamity".
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19-Aug-2010
Christian rights groups say that the mother of a deceased Cuban political prisoner is being harassed by the government and even being prevented from attending Mass.
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17-Aug-2010
Six more Cuban political prisoners are to be released, adding to the list of dissidents already set free following talks between the Church and the country's leaders.
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Regulars
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20-Aug-2010
In a sign that things may be moving forward in China, the St Vincent de Paul Society has established charities in the atheist country - albeit under a non-Catholic name.
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19-Aug-2010
The Benedictine monks of St Joseph Abbey in Louisiana are suing the state over its legal threat to jail them for making funeral caskets to help pay for their medical and educational needs.
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18-Aug-2010
The Swiss Guards have the colourful uniforms and the heroic legends, but the Vatican police and firefighters have the ancient church.
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17-Aug-2010
Joseph Ratzinger believes the changes to the Mass that followed Vatican II signalled a rupture from what had gone before. As Pope, he has taken active steps to return elements that were lost, writes The Tablet.
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16-Aug-2010
In 1984 thieves stole a Caravaggio painting from the co-Cathedral of St John in Valletta. Fr Marius Zerafa was able to mastermind this painting's recovery. Today he still works as a priest and lectures about sacred art.
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20-Aug-2010
Tele Lumiere is the only Christian television in Lebanon and the Middle East. Its website has details of programs that can be accessed, including video and an archive of previous telecasts.
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19-Aug-2010
A recently released five-year study showing remarkable success, yet deplorable lack of knowledge among women of the Billings Ovulation Method, has prompted its teachers to launch a new web site
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18-Aug-2010
The Sisters of Charity of Australia are women religious who have been serving since 1838. Their newly-launched website has information on missions past, present and future, with an archive, photo galleries and links.
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17-Aug-2010
A national Mary MacKillop video competition has been launched to help young people engage with the reality of the Canonisation and discover the significance of Mary's life in a modern context. This Youtube link has details.
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16-Aug-2010
The Vatican website, which has 500,000 pages, is to be redesigned. It will include documents from pre-20th century popes and pages on the Holy See's diplomatic activity, plus a page of videos of Pope Benedict's talks.
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20-Aug-2010
Once again, we have scientists who may be motivated by benefiting the human race with their experiments but are not initially aware of their hubris, of their 'playing God' in wanting to create life.
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18-Aug-2010
If you can't go to Egypt, seeing Cairo Time could be the next-best thing. Director Ruba Nadda is clearly in love with Egypt's capital and gives it great prominence in her languorous love story about an American woman and Arab man.
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17-Aug-2010
Denmark's first 'big budget' action movie, filmed in tropical Queensland, is an idiosyncratic spoof of Hollywood adventure films. Its success depends on the age and expectations of the viewer.
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16-Aug-2010
This is the third Step Up film built around the 'art' of street dancing, which is in vogue in urban USA. The storyline is feeble but the attraction is the dancing and it is certainly full of vim and vigour.
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19-Aug-2010
David Fanshawe, the English composer who died last month, was best known for his 1972 work, African Sanctus, a setting of the Catholic Latin Mass which combined rock music with traditional African singing and drumming. Here Fanshawe describes his remarkable travels to Africa in 1969.
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20-Aug-2010
I have been asked frequently in recent weeks who Catholic Social Services Australia (CSSA) would like to see win the Federal Election. The truth is that we do not endorse one party over another, writes Frank Quinlan.
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19-Aug-2010
Australia is nowhere near population overload. The problem is a lack of appropriate planning, infrastructure and services, writes Anthony Fisher, Bishop of Parramatta.
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18-Aug-2010
The American Leadership Conference of Women Religious met in Dallas last week under scrutiny from Rome and with a cloud hanging over its head, writes Joan Chittister.
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17-Aug-2010
Tony Abbott has been influenced by BA Santamaria, who embraced a form of theological integralism which sees everything as tainted unless it is 'integrated' into the orbit of Catholicism. This approach has no place in a pluralist, democratic state, writes Paul Collins in Eureka Street.
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16-Aug-2010
One week from a federal election, neither of the main parties has made a firm commitment to even maintain social and community services at their existing levels, let alone increase them in order, writes Frank Quinlan.
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