News - National
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29-Oct-2010
A survey has found that half of the respondents want the government to fund the provision of aged care, while only a small number thinks profit-driven aged care services should provide care for the elderly.
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28-Oct-2010
The rooftop of the new Domus Australia pilgrimage centre in Rome will be a great place to "throw another steak on the barbie", said Australia's Minister for Foreign Affairs, Kevin Rudd.
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27-Oct-2010
A Greens' euthanasia bill, to allow the Northern Territory and ACT governments to legalise euthanasia, will be debated in the Senate tomorrow.
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25-Oct-2010
A coalition of 13 peak education bodies, including Catholic teachers and principals, has criticised the national school curriculum, saying it lacks a rationale and is unclear in its aims.
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22-Oct-2010
The former president of the Australian Jewish Historical Society said he glowed with pride when Mary MacKillop became a saint. His great-great-great uncle played a large role in her life.
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26-Oct-2010
In his maiden speech to Federal Parliament, the new Liberal Party member for the inner-Melbourne seat of Kooyong has paid homage to a great aunt who escaped death in Auschwitz thanks to help from a German guard and a Catholic priest.
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28-Oct-2010
The Church has expressed disappointment over recommendations for NSW primary schools to implement ethics classes as an alternative to religious classes.
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28-Oct-2010
Celebrations will be held this weekend in Newcastle and Wollongong in honour of the new St Mary of the Cross, with at least 6000 registered for the event in Wollongong.
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27-Oct-2010
Sydney's Randwick Council has quashed an idea to place Mary MacKillop's name at a memorial in the seaside suburb of Coogee dedicated to Australians killed in the Bali bombings.
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27-Oct-2010
Friends and family of Lachlan Murdoch and his wife Sarah gathered at St Mary Magdalene Catholic Church in Rose Bay, Sydney, yesterday for the baptism of their daughter, six-month-old Aerin Elisabeth.
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26-Oct-2010
Sydney's St Vincent's Hospital palliative care unit, Sacred Heart Hospice, has had to close seven beds - bringing the number down to 39 - and will no longer be able to accept country patients.
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26-Oct-2010
More than a year since starting on a project of 32 works for the Church, artist Paul Newton describes it as the "most monumental in size" he has ever undertaken.
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28-Oct-2010
Queensland members of State Parliament who vote in favour of decriminalising abortion would face an average swing of 12 per cent against them, according to a new survey.
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26-Oct-2010
A Queensland alliance including Catholic, state and independent schools wants cyber safety taught in class, and has called for every school in the state to be audited for anti-bullying measures.
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25-Oct-2010
The Queensland Attorney-General has lodged an appeal against a ten-year sentence for a teacher convicted of abusing 13 schoolchildren.
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25-Oct-2010
Voluntary euthanasia should not be introduced except by electoral mandate, says a leading Anglican Archbishop.
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27-Oct-2010
New media is a means to get the Church's message across to a younger generation of Catholics, said the Secretary of the Pontifical Council for Social Communication Monsignor Paul Tighe.
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News - International
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29-Oct-2010
Political projects that advocate the legalisation of abortion or euthanasia are a betrayal of the democratic ideal to protect the dignity of every human being, the Pope told a group of Brazilian bishops.
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29-Oct-2010
While authors have the right to be recognised and rewarded for their work, the purpose of intellectual property protection is the "promotion of literary, scientific or artistic production and ... inventive activity for the sake of the common good", Vatican officials said.
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28-Oct-2010
The 14th-century St Bridget of Sweden is a "powerful example of feminine sanctity" and a reminder of the spiritual power and authority of women in the Church, Pope Benedict said.
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27-Oct-2010
While states should "always guarantee" respect for migrants, immigrants themselves are duty-bound to assimilate into their new home country, Pope Benedict said in his message for the World Day of Migrants and Refugees.
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22-Oct-2010
Bob Guccione, the founder of Penthouse magazine - and one time altar boy at his Church - has died in the US. He was 79.
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28-Oct-2010
The head of the Belgian Catholic Church has called for mercy for elderly priests facing child abuse allegations.
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27-Oct-2010
A Scottish theologian said Harry Potter should be seen as a "Christ-like" figure, rather than condemned by religious commentators, because the boy wizard promotes Christian values.
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26-Oct-2010
Pope Benedict said peace is possible and is urgent in the Middle East, adding that "we must never resign ourselves to the absence of peace".
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26-Oct-2010
The Synod of Bishops for the Middle East has proposed a change to Vatican rules that technically prohibit the Eastern Catholic churches' ordination of married men outside the church's traditional homeland.
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25-Oct-2010
The Synod for the Middle East held in the Vatican was hijacked by enemies of the Jewish state, said Israel, after a communique released at the end of the two-week meeting said Israel should accept the UN's calls to end its occupation of Arab lands.
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25-Oct-2010
Two Syrian bishops living in Lebanon told a Vatican meeting of bishops that Catholic-Muslim dialogue projects did not work and may never lead to real understanding - but a third urged for more interaction among peoples of both faiths.
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25-Oct-2010
Middle Eastern churches are seeking a common Easter and Christmas time for the various Christian traditions in the region, as a step to greater communion between Christians in the region.
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22-Oct-2010
An Indian Jesuit priest has been praised for defying a ban on a novel by acclaimed Canadian writer Rohinton Mistry, being used as a text at Mumbai University. Critics say the ban resulted from political interference.
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Regulars
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29-Oct-2010
American author Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove (pictured) has discovered the spiritual benefits of stability in our hyper-mobile society.
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28-Oct-2010
A flying bishop and a small parish in Folkestone, England (pictured) are the first of the Church of England rebels ready to turn their backs on Canterbury and make for Rome via the special structure of an ordinariate. But could progress be stymied by salaries, pensions and buildings, asks The Tablet.
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27-Oct-2010
With mortality rates dropping and cremation gaining in popularity, Catholic cemeteries are fighting a battle just to survive.
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26-Oct-2010
The special synod for the Middle East at the Vatican is shedding light on a segment of the Christian world in dramatic movement, in several directions and with an uncertain future.
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25-Oct-2010
John Dominic Crossan is arguably the world’s foremost scholar of the historical Jesus. His new book argues that Christianity’s best-known invocation, The Lord's Prayer,is misunderstood and undervalued in today’s society.
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29-Oct-2010
Since the Spanish architect Antonio Gaudí was neither a priest nor a member of a religious order, nobody officially started up his beatification when he died in 1926. This website, of the Association for the Beatification of Antoni Gaudí, has everything you need to know about this process.
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28-Oct-2010
The Vatican Information Service has full transcripts of Pontifical messages and those by the recent Synod of Middle-East bishops, plus a broad range of other similar information. It also contains links to details of Papal trips, audiences and other related activities.
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27-Oct-2010
Jesuit Social Services works to build a just society by advocating for social change and promoting the health and wellbeing of the disadvantaged. The website has a downloadable version of its new publication, Moving from The Edge, authored by Tony Vinson.
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26-Oct-2010
Franciscan Friars have been involved with Australia almost since the start of its European history. Their website, covering Australia, NZ, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei and the Pacific Islands, contains a wealth of news, events and links.
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25-Oct-2010
SIGNIS is the website of the World Catholic Association for Communication, which brings together radio, television, cinema, video, media education, Internet, and new technology professionals.
Last week SIGNIS announced its Human Rights Award for 2010 went to an Australian film about Afghanistan. Details, along with a broad range of other media and cultural information and links, are on the site.
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26-Oct-2010
Here we are again in romantic comedy land: a couple who bicker cannot see that they really, truly love one another. But the geniality of the cast, led by Katherine Heigel, and the smooth directioncarry the day.
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25-Oct-2010
This is an Australian movie that explores in detail the relationship between a young woman who arrives in Australia from the US to begin a journey to recover memories of her childhood and dead father. The scenery in the movie is wonderfully captured.
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28-Oct-2010
Forty-six years ago, the Canadian Catholic philosopher Jean Vanier (pictured) invited two intellectually disabled men to come and live with him in a small French village.He named their home "the Ark". Today, there are 138 L'Arche communities across six continents.
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29-Oct-2010
While visiting the Broome Regional Prison many years ago, I was called into one cell. The inmates had written a new song,which hinted that it was most certainly safer on the inside than outside, writes Bishop Christopher Saunders, Chairman of the Australian Catholic Social Justice Council.
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28-Oct-2010
You don’t need to be a Catholic to be affronted by Zoo magazine's pornographic parody of Mary MacKillop. The treatment of our new saint is an insult to all women, writes Melinda Tankard Reist in ABC Unleashed.
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27-Oct-2010
St Mary of the Cross now joins the ranks of women deemed worthy of canonisation but not of serving as priests. Her story illustrates how the Catholic Church hierarchy continues to impede women's commitments and aspirations, writes Laura Beth Bugg in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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26-Oct-2010
The stories in the Jesuit Social Services study Moving from the Edge are a reminder of the fact that with human courage and the support of others it is possible for people to turn around fractured lives, writes Tony Vinson,author of the publication.
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25-Oct-2010
The news this week that Benedict XVI has named 24 new cardinals, including 20 who are under 80 and hence eligible to vote in a conclave, merits a few reflections, writes John Allen.
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29-Oct-2010
More than 1500 people are expected to join Bishop Anthony Fisher OP, the Bishop of Parramatta, this Sunday, for a Eucharistic celebration of Australia's first saint, St Mary of the Cross MacKillop.
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27-Oct-2010
A seminar will be held in Melbourne tomorrow night titled Not Much God, The Spirituality of Teenage Boys. The evening will feature two speakers, Michael McGirr and John Marsden (pictured), who will talk on their wide-ranging understanding of what spirituality really means.
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