News - National
-
09-Sep-2010
UK-based barrister Geoffrey Robertson says the church must be pressured to abandon canon law, and that the Vatican should be treated as a kind of "rogue state".
» more
-
08-Sep-2010
The Jesus the Christ eConference, organised by the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference and Broken Bay Institute, will be held on Thursday, September 16.
» more
-
08-Sep-2010
Euthanasia advocate Dr Philip Nitschke says a "hard-hitting" pro-euthanasia ad campaign will soon appear on television screens and billboards across the country.
» more
-
03-Sep-2010
Brisbane artist Leonard Brown, who has been ordained in the Russian Orthodox Church - and once sang on stage with the Bee Gees - has won the prestigious $20,000 first prize in Australia's annual Blake Prize for religious art.
» more
-
03-Sep-2010
The 2010 Australasian Catholic Press Association Annual Awards for Excellence were presented in Hobart last night, honouring the best in Catholic media across Australia and The Pacific over the past year.
» more
-
10-Sep-2010
NSW's Same Sex Adoption legislation is "bad social engineering" and would "eliminate mothers and fathers", says Sydney's Cardinal George Pell.
» more
-
10-Sep-2010
The Australian Catholic University has received an icon of Blessed Mary MacKillop by renowned iconographer Michael Galovic, which was commissioned for the upcoming canonisation.
» more
-
07-Sep-2010
It would be "inappropriate" to try an elderly priest suffering from dementia over charges of indecently assaulting two boys more than 50 years ago, his lawyer told a Sydney court.
» more
-
07-Sep-2010
The University of Wollongong has held talks with the St Vincent's and Mater Health Sydney group over running a proposed $300 million private hospital and a health and medical precinct.
» more
-
07-Sep-2010
An independent evaluator of NSW's trial ethics classes is wading through submissions and will deliver her report later this month.
» more
-
06-Sep-2010
Concerns have been raised that the Blake Prize entry by artist Rodney Pople, called Cardinal with Altar Boy, could cause "a Bill Henson-type debacle" over sexually explicit art.
» more
-
09-Sep-2010
Thousands of faithful in Brisbane gathered last week to be blessed with the relics of beloved Italian mystic, St Pio of Pietrelcina.
» more
-
08-Sep-2010
The Church has donated 48 hectares of land to Carteret Islanders whose homeland off Papua New Guinea is dfisappearing under a rising sea.
» more
-
03-Sep-2010
Some 500 pilgrims have registered their interest to attend the Mary MacKillop canonisation celebration in South Australia's Penola, within the first week that bookings opened for the event.
» more
-
07-Sep-2010
A parishioner from Western Australia has produced a CD with a Josephite sister with music to be used for liturgies and Masses that celebrate Mary MacKillop's canonisation.
» more
-
06-Sep-2010
Students from two Hobart Catholic colleges are continuing their holiday in New Zealand after experiencing the shock earthquake that hit Christchurch.
» more
-
09-Sep-2010
Northern Territory Labor Senator Trish Crossin plans to speak with Darwin's Bishop Eugene Hurley, who has said the Government is failing to make sure asylum seeker children go to school, and has reneged on its promises by continuing to detain them.
» more
-
06-Sep-2010
Darwin's Bishop Eugene Hurley said Australia needs to remember its "great history of being big-hearted people" in the treatment and view of asylum seekers, after locals called for men who broke out of a detention centre to be sent "back to where they came from".
» more
News - International
-
09-Sep-2010
Pope Benedict said the life of medieval nun St Hildegard of Bingen demonstrated that "women make a special contribution to theology".
» more
-
09-Sep-2010
The solution to the problem of clerical sex abuse lies in a spirit of penitence and conversion, rather than a radical change of church structures, said Pope Benedict.
» more
-
08-Sep-2010
Catholic leaders worldwide and US officials are protesting against a plan to publicly burn the Koran on September 11.
» more
-
10-Sep-2010
Belgian judges said evidence seized by police in raids on the country's Church, over child sex abuse scandals, was invalid.
» more
-
09-Sep-2010
A Vatican official said European Christians must return to practising their faith and have more children - or their population numbers will be overtaken by Muslims.
» more
-
08-Sep-2010
On his trip to Britain, Pope Benedict will meet an Anglican clergywoman who is a campaigner for women bishops. He is also planning to meet victims of clerical abuse.
» more
-
08-Sep-2010
Climate control is needed to preserve the artwork in the Sistine Chapel, said the director of the Vatican Museums, after a huge layering of dust and sediment had accumulated over the past four years.
» more
-
07-Sep-2010
The committee overseeing Pope Benedict's itinerary in Britain next week announced today that they have chosen a hip-hop track to be the official "youth anthem" for his visit.
» more
-
06-Sep-2010
A leading cardinal in Britain accused the BBC of having an "institutional bias" against Christianity.
» more
-
06-Sep-2010
The Marist order religious in Christchurch has reported that the community suffered only property damage in the earthquake that hit the city over the weekend.
» more
-
06-Sep-2010
Pope Benedict has appointed Monsignor Giorgio Lingua as the Holy See's representative to Iraq and Jordan, as the Iraqi Church struggles to find peace.
» more
-
07-Sep-2010
A South Indian professor, whose hand was chopped off by Muslim extremists over an exam question allegedly insulting Prophet Muhammad, has lost his job at his Catholic college.
» more
Regulars
-
10-Sep-2010
On the eve of the Pope's visit to the UK, many believe that the church is losing ground to the secular realities of modern life. But in Africa, and other parts of the world, the picture is very different.
» more
-
09-Sep-2010
There is a profound ignorance among Catholics about the role of fertility with intimacy in the communication between spouses preparing for marriage in the Church, says Perth Auxiliary Bishop Donald Sproxton.
» more
-
08-Sep-2010
Actor and director Emilio Estevez's new film The Way follows four characters walking the Camino de Santiago de Compostela, through Spain. The Camino serves as the ultimate metaphor for life," he says.
» more
-
07-Sep-2010
Since 2004 Fr Gino Alberati, a Capuchin Father working in Brazil, has had at his disposal a 15-metre motor launch, which has given an enormous boost to the pastoral care among the riverside communities in the upper Amazon.
» more
-
06-Sep-2010
Jewish, evangelical and Catholic speakers have called the controversy over plans to build an Islamic mosque a few blocks from ground zero in New York "contrived" and likely to help those who would recruit potential terrorists.
» more
-
10-Sep-2010
menAlive is Catholic Men's Ministry whose aim is to bring men together, to renew their faith in God and to encourage them to become an active force of renewal in the church.
» more
-
09-Sep-2010
The Jesus the Christ econference begins on September 16, to be led by Fr Gerald O'Collins, who will share his insights into the life and ministry of Christ. The econference website has a full range of details.
» more
-
08-Sep-2010
The Victoria & Albert Museum exhibition of Raphael's Cartoons and Tapestries for the Sistine Chapel opens today in London. The Museum's website has a video tour of the works by noted art writer Waldemar Januszczak.
» more
-
07-Sep-2010
Christopher Patten, former Governor of Hong Kong, has overseen preparations for the Papal visit of Great Britain. In this video interview with the BBC, he discusses the build-up and what the Pope will try to achieve.
» more
-
06-Sep-2010
Recently the 11th anniversary of the commemoration of the Australian Monument to the Great Irish Famine (1845-1848) was celebrated. This website aims to provide a rewarding experience for anyone interested in Irish History and Genealogy.
» more
-
08-Sep-2010
If ever there was real schlock horror, then this is it. Piranha 3D can probably be best described as a "hoot".
» more
-
06-Sep-2010
When a Russian defector turns up in Washington and Evelyn Salt (Angelina Jolie) interviews him, he warns that there is to be an assassination attempt on the visit Russian president and the sleeper agent to be activated is called... Evelyn Salt. Is she or isn't she?
» more
-
10-Sep-2010
Compass examines the debate about religious education by turning up for class for the NSW pilot ethics program. The program also visits schools, one public and one faith-based, in other states where the study of ethics and philosophy are already on offer.
» more
-
10-Sep-2010
There are human beings who, in times of dire need, respond in unique ways - in ministries without definition, outside the boundaries of institutionalised services, beyond anyone's assumption that they should, writes Joan Chittister.
» more
-
09-Sep-2010
Geoffrey Robertson has made a serious error in his argument that Catholic Church's claims to statehood are bogus. The error is central to the the argument and so his whole case appears to crumble, writes Austen Ivereigh.
» more
-
08-Sep-2010
Julia Gillard now faces the herculean task of leading an alliance government that will be almost bipolar, writes Greg Craven, Vice-Chancelllor of the Australian Catholic University.
» more
-
07-Sep-2010
How does our spiritual life change and demand new things from us as we grow? Drawing upon the insights of John of the Cross, I believe there are three fundamental stages to our spiritual lives, three levels of discipleship, writes Ron Rolheiser.
» more
-
06-Sep-2010
No challenge facing Pope Benedict in Britain will be greater than that of re-framing the Anglican-Catholic ecumenical dialogue, which is on the verge of de facto extinction, writes George Weigel.
» more
-
09-Sep-2010
Media columnist Mia Freedman is among the speakers at the iconnect conference, which aims to boost parent-power in the digital age, to be held this weekend at the Australian Catholic University in North Sydney.
» more
-
07-Sep-2010
James Maher is a brother in the order of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart. His second album Gospel of Love has just been released.
» more