News - National
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03-Nov-2010
A group of faith-based aged-care providers are telling the Federal Government that "immediate action" is required in caring for the elderly, said The Catholic Weekly.
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03-Nov-2010
Queensland child safety advocates and abuse victim support groups are urging the State Government to immediately upgrade mandatory reporting laws to include ministers of religion, reports The Cairns Post.
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02-Nov-2010
Independent schools spend almost 50 percent more on each student than government schools - and the gap has more than doubled over the past decade - a new analysis by a public education advocacy group has found, reports the Sydney Morning Herald.
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29-Oct-2010
The community needs to show "compassion and understanding" over government plans to move asylum-seekers into new detention centres near Perth and Adelaide, says the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference delegate for refugee and migrant issues.
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01-Nov-2010
For the first time in a Victorian State Election, the Archbishop of Melbourne and the Bishops of Ballarat, Sandhurst and Sale have prepared a powerful pre-election document to guide Catholics as they consider how they will vote.
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04-Nov-2010
The former NSW Minister for Juvenile Justice and Minister for Youth and Volunteering, Graham West, has been appointed the new chief executive of the state's St Vincent de Paul Society.
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03-Nov-2010
Sydney's Cardinal George Pell said Mary MacKillop, as the country's first native-born saint, represents another sign of maturity and coming of age of the local faithful, reports The Catholic Weekly.
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01-Nov-2010
No church or cathedral was big enough to contain the thousands of worshippers who gathered yesterday for the Diocese of Wollongong's Mary MacKillop thanksgiving Mass.
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05-Nov-2010
A leading Brisbane doctor has warned that decriminalising abortion in the state could put pregnant mothers at greater risk of extreme illness or death through increased availability of abortion drugs such as RU486, said a report in The Catholic Leader.
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04-Nov-2010
Talks on voluntary euthanasia in Brisbane, featuring the expert who was instrumental in creating Belgium's voluntary euthanasia law in 2002, failed to attract much interest from Queensland's politicians, according to Nine News.
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29-Oct-2010
Police in Queensland are investigating the case of 15 students who were suspended from Noosaville's St Teresa Catholic College over alleged marijuana use.
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News - International
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04-Nov-2010
Teen music heart-throb Justin Bieber says his belief in God can keep him from turning into a drunken and wasted mess like many other young Hollywood stars, the Hot Hits website reports.
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04-Nov-2010
As the new translation of the Roman Missal is rolled out, Catholics are having to learn new wording for some of the most familiar prayers, writes the CNN Belief Blog.
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02-Nov-2010
The Rabbinical Alliance of America, which represents more than 1,000 Jewish rabbis, said it joins a top Church official in saying US citizens must vote pro-life, reports LifeNews.com.
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01-Nov-2010
Former US President George W. Bush's forthcoming memoir will discuss his relationship with Pope John Paul II,especially the Pope's influence on his decision to restrict embryonic stem cell research.
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01-Nov-2010
A US man has been arrested for severely beating up a retired cleric, whom the man claims molested him 30 years ago. The priest has in the past denied the charge.
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05-Nov-2010
Archbishop Andre-Joseph Leonard of Belgium said his remarks about AIDS, gays and paedophile priests were twisted and misinterpreted by the media, according to an AFP report in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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05-Nov-2010
Research has found that 74 percent of Irish Catholic women feel the Church does not treat them "with a lot of respect", but their faith remains strong, reports the Catholic News Service.
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04-Nov-2010
A conservative Church of England cleric has prompted anger by reportedly comparing those who support the ordination of women bishops to the Nazis, said a report in The Australian.
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03-Nov-2010
The head of Belgium's Catholic Church is facing demands to step down, and his spokesman has quit, in growing unease following his remarks on abusive priests and AIDS, said a report in The Vancouver Sun.
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03-Nov-2010
Abortion is eliminating many children with Down Syndrome, a Church spokesman in Madrid said in an AFP report in the Herald Sun.
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02-Nov-2010
Victims of sex abuse by clergy held a candlelight procession in Rome to raise awareness of their suffering, with protesters from a dozen countries asking the Vatican to publish the names of abusers, ABC reports.
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02-Nov-2010
New Zealand's only school to be named after Mary MacKillop celebrated her canonisation with a special mass, speeches and cultural performances from students, the Manukau Courier reports.
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01-Nov-2010
A Polish priest is leading a quest to erect the world's tallest statue of Jesus, standing at 33 metres, topped with a three-metre-high gold crown. But the move has provoked strong division within Poland.
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29-Oct-2010
Catholic parishes in central Switzerland have caused an uproar by distributing condoms as part of an HIV-AIDS awareness campaign.
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04-Nov-2010
The Al-Qaeda splinter in Iraq has threatened to attack more Christians, in the wake of a Church siege and killings this week, said an Associated Press report in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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02-Nov-2010
The siege of a Catholic cathedral in Baghdad, which saw 46 worshippers killled, was a "savage" act of "absurd violence," Pope Benedict XVI said, according to the Catholic News Service.
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02-Nov-2010
Baghdad Catholics marked All Saints Day in mourning for 46 Christians killed during a hostage drama with Al-Qaeda gunmen that ended in an assault by Iraqi forces backed by US troops, said an AFP report in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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01-Nov-2010
Two policemen were killed and eight people wounded in violence that began with an attack on the Iraqi stock exchange, after which militants fled to a nearby church in Baghdad and held the people inside hostage.
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03-Nov-2010
The Church will today open its first new seminary in Cuba in more than half a century, a further sign of improving relations with the communist-led government, said a Reuters report in the Montreal Gazette.
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Regulars
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05-Nov-2010
The Jesuits of La Civiltà Cattolica (whose director, Gianpaolo Salvini, is pictured) certainly think immigration will save the West from economic decline? But the Vatican banker Gotti Tedeschi is sceptical. They are in dispute over the future of the world, and over control of the birth rate.
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04-Nov-2010
Sister Bridget Harley, who has died aged 91,left Australia for Ethiopia in 1967 and thought she would be away for four years. It was 38 years before she came home, leaving behind a mighty legacy of education.
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03-Nov-2010
Anne Rice's latest book,
Of Love And Evil, is the second in a series about a former assassin turned envoy for angels, who time-travels to Renaissance Italy. It will, she says, be reviewed through the prism of her recent fallout with the church, but she can't edit her thoughts to suit others.
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02-Nov-2010
The main take-up in the National School Chaplaincy Program has been Christian. But the Catholic system has overwhelmingly opted out, and most chaplains have come from the International Scripture Union.
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01-Nov-2010
Paul Catchlove is hopeful of "responding to God in the same way" as newly canonised St Mary MacKillop did. The Brisbane seminarian described his excitement at participating with Pope Benedict XVI (pictured at back, holding candle) at the canonisation Mass.
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05-Nov-2010
The inaugural National Symposium of the Australian Ecumenical Council for Spiritual Direction was held in Melbourne last weekend. The broad range of papers presented over two days can be accessed through the council's website.
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04-Nov-2010
Oikocredit is an ecumenically-based investment bank that pays out a modest dividend a year to investors, while giving out small loans to poor people around the world to enable them to build up their businesses and work their way out of poverty.
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03-Nov-2010
The Catholic Bishops of Victoria this week released a document, Your Vote, Your Values - Issues and Questions for Parliamentary Candidates for the Victorian Election. The CSSV website carries detailed discussion of the document, with links and information relating to its subjects and concerns.
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02-Nov-2010
Since Mary MacKillop became Australia's first saint, this site has attracted more than 6000 prayers. The prayers range from the medical to the miraculous. The link for submitted prayers provides a rewarding experience.
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01-Nov-2010
Robert Galea is an internationally-acclaimed Australian Christian singer, with a number of albums to his name. On Friday, he will be ordained as a priest. This Myspace site has samples of his music and biographical details.
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05-Nov-2010
The title of this action-comedy stands for “Retired, Extremely Dangerous”. With a cast led by Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman and Helen Mirren, this movie unashamedly entertains, with the help of a witty script.
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04-Nov-2010
Most people will ask ‘where is Dagenham?’ It is a suburb of London, and this is a story about industrial action in 1968. It is an enjoyable experience that reminds us of the dignity and rights of women.
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01-Nov-2010
I am not on Facebook, I am not a Friendster and I do not occupy MySpace. Neither have I ever Twittered. I disclose this terrible fact just to show that one needn’t be up with all that internet jazz in order to thoroughly enjoy David Fincher’s intriguing account of the genesis of Facebook.
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05-Nov-2010
Despite the world's fascination with All Things Papal, there isn't much out there about papal humour, writes George Weigel, who hopes that his new book about John Paull II adds the Polish pope to the short list of papal humorists.
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04-Nov-2010
Church members have as much right as the members of any organisation to ascertain the views of political candidates on matters of concern to them, writes Greg Melleuish in ABC Unleashed.
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03-Nov-2010
There is an emerging Aboriginal middle class, says Frank Brennan. The contested questions in those communities relate to the expensive delivery of services. The contested issue in the urban community is over self-identification as Aboriginal by persons of mixed descent.
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02-Nov-2010
I don’t have a television because there are very few things about advertising that draws people to Christ, writes Nicole Edmiston. It is a real problem because people don’t realise it, or they do but they don’t do anything about it.
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01-Nov-2010
Sheila Cassidy, the doctor who was tortured in Chile in the 1970s, has written another book. It is called Confessions of a Lapsed Catholic and although its title naturally depresses me, I thought it worth a blog - if only to disagree with her conclusions, writes Francis Philips in the Catholic Herald.
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03-Nov-2010
The Social Policy Connections Lecture Series continues tomorrow night in Melbourne with a talk by Phil Glendenning, Director of the Edmund Rice Centre, on "Mandatory detention and release of children".
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02-Nov-2010
The Australian Catholic University will tomorrow night host a free public lecture and discussion to celebrate the life of Rosemary Goldie. The lecture will be given by Emeritus Professor Father Edmund Campion.
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