News - National
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01-Oct-2010
The Australian Catholic Youth Ministry Convention (ACYMC) starts in Melbourne today, where participants will " reflect on the graces and challenges of youth ministry in the church in our country".
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30-Sep-2010
Catholic Health Australia is co-ordinating a national response to the renewed nationwide promotion of euthanasia, while the country's bishops have re-issued a submission previously made on the rights of the terminally ill.
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30-Sep-2010
A musical about Mary MacKillop's life, which features opera soprano Joanna Cole playing the nun, will premiere in Sydney tomorrow night.
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29-Sep-2010
One in three GPs in major cities believe people older than 70 who feel "tired of life" should have the right to professional help in ending it, according to a poll conducted by Philip Nitschke's Exit International.
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28-Sep-2010
Prime Minister Julia Gillard said she is "conflicted" on the issue of euthanasia, finding it "almost impossible" to conceive how there could be appropriate safeguards.
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28-Sep-2010
Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Opposition Leader Tony Abbott have agreed on sending a delegation to Rome for Mary MacKillop's canonisation - led by former PM Kevin Rudd, and including a Labor senator, and a Coalition MP and senator.
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27-Sep-2010
A report by Catholic Health Australia shows that socio-economic status, rather than ethnicity, is a better predictor of a person's chances of dying from cardiovascular disease than blood pressure, cholesterol levels and smoking combined.
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27-Sep-2010
Mary MacKillop's excommunication resulted from her reporting child abuse by a priest - against whom disciplinary action was taken, according to claims on a forthcoming documentary to be broadcast on the ABC's Compass program. Another grudging priest angered by the incident reportedly worked to throw her out of the church.
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01-Oct-2010
An assurance from the NSW Government that it will continue to allow special religious education (SRE) in public schools is welcome, said an official from the Diocese of Wollongong.
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01-Oct-2010
The Maitland-Newcastle diocese is selling its aged-care assets in face of a "substantial" total compensation bill for clerical abuse, the Newcastle Herald reports.
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30-Sep-2010
The Diocese of Maitland-Newcastle is seeking expressions of interest in the transfer of its residential aged care services, which are operated by CatholicCare.
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28-Sep-2010
A retired priest from the Hunter Valley in NSW has been charged with mutiple child sex offences dating back to the 1980s.
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27-Sep-2010
A plan to erect a statue of St Francis of Assisi in Mosman has been redrafted following concerns over placing a religious icon on public land.
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27-Sep-2010
Parishioners at St Vincent's Catholic Church in Redfern, inspired by the coming canonisation of Mary MacKillop, have defied their parish priest and returned a baptismal font to the church baptistery.
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24-Sep-2010
A local councillor has joined the proests at artist Rodney Pople's Bellini 21c exhibition at the Australian Galleries in Sydney's Paddington.
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30-Sep-2010
The former Anglican bishop of the Murray in South Australia has been found guilty of disgraceful conduct by a church tribunal, which recommended he be banned from acting as a bishop.
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29-Sep-2010
An avowed atheist from Penola says his survival from a heart attack constitutes Mary MacKillop's "third miracle".
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28-Sep-2010
The Anglican Church will hold a special hearing in Adelaide on charges against a South Australian bishop for bullying and emotional abuse.
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News - International
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29-Sep-2010
Pope Benedict, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and pop singer Lady Gaga have been counted among the "50 People Who Matter" in 2010 in the influential British magazine New Statesman.
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29-Sep-2010
Catholics responding to a US religious survey only got about half the answers right, while atheists and agnostics were found to answer most questions correctly.
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29-Sep-2010
The cast of The Sound Of Music will reunite for the first time in 45 years, with Julie Andrews - who played Maria, a postulant from a monastery - and Christopher Plummer, joining their seven fictional children on The Oprah Winfrey Show.
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27-Sep-2010
A lack of faith and courage among Christians is the primary block against a "Christian culture" during these times of predominant unbelief, said outspoken US Archbishop Charles Chaput.
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30-Sep-2010
A prominent French atheist and intellectual, Bernard-Henri Lévy, has come to the defence of the Church and Pope Benedict, saying Catholicism was "the most attacked religion in Europe".
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30-Sep-2010
Four of Ireland's archbishops will travel to Rome to meet apostolic visitors who have been appointed to their diocese in response to child sexual abuse revelations in the Irish Church.
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28-Sep-2010
British Christians have launched a campaign in defence of their belief, scheduled to coincide with this year's Advent season.
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27-Sep-2010
Pope Benedict has met the head of the Vatican bank, Ettore Gotti Tedeschi, who is under investigation by Italian authorities over alleged infringement of money laundering legislation.
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24-Sep-2010
A Italian teenager whose life "exuded a love for God", despite suffering bone cancer and succumbing to the disease, will be beatified this weekend in Rome.
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24-Sep-2010
For the first time, the Vatican has joined in anniversary celebrations of the 1870 capture of Rome by Italian troops which ended the Papal States' domination of the city for more than a thousand years.
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29-Sep-2010
Filipino bishops say they will support protests against President Benigno Aquino if he advances a plan to promote contraception.
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28-Sep-2010
The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences has called for a rethink of religious policy towards Catholics, saying the country's official Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association interferes too much in the life of the Bishops' Council.
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Regulars
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01-Oct-2010
Four months ago, a woman living in Sydney's Inner West decided to devote her life to God by becoming one of Australia’s only Catholic hermits.
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30-Sep-2010
On a clear, sunny morning this month, Father Javier Igea, a member of the WYD organizing committee, met with a group of American Catholics in Madrid. He smiled, shook their hands and greeted them in unexpectedly good English.
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29-Sep-2010
A vast swath of rainforest in the northeastern corner of Peru is under threat and a British priest who is helping indigenous communities defend their rights, is under an even bigger threat.
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28-Sep-2010
Fr Gerry Hefferan was in East Timor as a representative of Brisbane archdiocese's Justice and Peace Commission during the 1999 referendum. He fears Southern Sudan could face similar violence.
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27-Sep-2010
Even in its unfinished state, the Sagrada Familia cathedral, by Antoni Gaudi, is a jaw-dropper. The building can hold 14,000 worshippers; and its towers, when finished in the next two years, will soar over the Barcelona skyline.
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01-Oct-2010
A major report commissioned by Catholic Health Australia, Health Lies in Wealth, was released on Monday. It contains a comprehensive picture of the socio-economic factors that shape public health in Australia. The CHA website has a full copy of the report.
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30-Sep-2010
The website of the Archdiocese of Canberra and Goulburn has a five-minute video on what Mary Mackillop means to people today.
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29-Sep-2010
Today marks the anniversary of the Pacific tsunami that devastated the Samoan islands. The Caritas website carries information, images and links related to its aid and rebuilding assistance, including a $1.5 million reconstruction program of destroyed villages. It also has ongoing coverage of aid work for the Pakistan floods.
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28-Sep-2010
The Young Catholic Women's Fellowship to be held from January to May next year has a new promotional video on YouTube.
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27-Sep-2010
Little Company of Mary Health Care provides values-based care for those who are sick, dying and in need. It manages the Calvary group of hospitals, whose Canberra facility faces an uncertain future.
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29-Sep-2010
This adaptation of a popular TV show is geared towards 8-14 year olds. It is a fantasy that relies heavily on eastern religions. We are in a world of four nations, Air, Earth, Fire and Water, who do battle.
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27-Sep-2010
This amiable pre-teen comedy charts the ogal of a wimpy boy to be class favourite who finds that his confident assumptions of his own likeability and superiority are not necessarily shared by others.
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01-Oct-2010
Mary MacKillop is about to be dubbed a saint because she was 'holy' - along with being a very great human being. Encounter explores what 'holy' means, and the origins of this idea.
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01-Oct-2010
When Mary MacKillop becomes Australia's first saint, her image will hang at St Peter's facade on a huge painted drape. It is an archaic form of promotion. But has her celebrity come too late, asks Desmond O'Grady.
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30-Sep-2010
Pinning down what we can deduce about good teaching beyond pastel-shaded nostalgia is more problematic. But it is fair to say that potentially good teachers are not staying in the classroom, writes Christopher Bantick.
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29-Sep-2010
The election result shows that we the people are not happy and we are not confident about the way forward, says Frank Brennan in this homily delivered in Canberra to coincide with the opening of the new parliament.
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28-Sep-2010
Recently I've been asked to discuss Islamophobia on several ABC stations. However, I've never been asked to talk about "Catholicophobia". Generally I think Catholics should "cop it sweet", although my patience is getitng pretty thin, writes Paul Collins.
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27-Sep-2010
Far from bringing equality, contraception has redistributed power away from women, says Cardinal George Pell.
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30-Sep-2010
Leading legal minds and human rights advocates Geoffrey Robertson and Alan Dershowitz will debate the scandal of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church on Saturday in Sydney at the 2010 Festival of Dangerous Ideas.
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28-Sep-2010
The Australian Catholic youth Movement Convention begins on Friday at the ACU Fitzroy campus in Melbourne.
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