News - National
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10-Nov-2010
A retired Australian Anglican bishop, a former bishop of Ballarat, is among five local bishops who have left for the Catholic Church, reports The Australian.
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09-Nov-2010
Confessions of a Liar, Thief and Failed Sex God, a coming-of-age story set around a Catholic boys school written by Bill Condon, has won the $100,000 young adult fiction prize of the Prime Minister's Literary Award, reports the Sydney Morning Herald.
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08-Nov-2010
Only two Sisters of St Joseph are under age 40, sparking concern over the future of its works and prompting the sisters to use the internet to attract more women to the congregation, reports The Mosman Daily.
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08-Nov-2010
The "warped practice of eugenics is rising from its Nazi tomb" in Australia, said the head of Melbourne's John Paul II Institute for Marriage and the Family, reports The Australian.
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05-Nov-2010
A delegation from the Edmund Rice Centre and the Pacific Calling Partnership is attending a major climate change meeting hosted by the low-lying Kiribati island, reports The Catholic Leader.
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12-Nov-2010
The World Union of Catholic Women's Organisation's Vice President General and Australian board member, Brenda Finlayson, has been awarded the Papal Honour of Dame of the Order of St. Gregory the Great.
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10-Nov-2010
Victoria's Labor Government has promised a 40 percent increase in funding for Catholic and independent schools, if re-elected, The Age reports.
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10-Nov-2010
Victorian Education Minister Bronwyn Pike will break ground on Friday for a new $75m energy efficient building planned for Australian Catholic University's Melbourne Campus, said a media release from the university.
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08-Nov-2010
Victorian independent school enrolments have risen by more than 6 percent and Catholic student numbers by almost 4 percent in the past three years, Victorian Education Department figures reveal, according to an investigation by the Herald Sun.
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12-Nov-2010
Edcuational leaders from all sectors of the system have jointly signed a letter saying NSW will not implement parts of the Australian curriculum, and are rejecting the achievement standards it sets for students, reports the Sydney Morning Herald.
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11-Nov-2010
Jesuit Refugee Service Australia will be able to accommodate entire refugee families after opening its latest shelter, a former boarding house in the Sydney beachside suburb of Manly, reports Province Express.
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09-Nov-2010
Male teacher numbers in NSW Catholic primary schools have dropped to around 15 per cent, and the government school level is 20 per cent, as classrooms become female-dominated, reports The Daily Telegraph.
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05-Nov-2010
With visitor numbers expected to rise after the recent canonisation, Mary MacKillop's original resting site at Sydney's Gore Hill is set for a huge makeover, according to the North Shore Times.
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11-Nov-2010
The film featuring the story of Sister Berenice Twohill's experience as a prisoner of war during World War II is of special interest to the younger members of her family - as children, they were always under strict instruction never to ask their aunt about the war, said the Tweed Daily News.
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News - International
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09-Nov-2010
Pope Benedict XVI has has called cardinals to the Vatican for a "day of reflection and prayer" to discuss topics including clerical sex abuse and religious freedom around the world, reports the Catholic News Service.
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05-Nov-2010
Pope Benedict is in the top five of Forbes Magazine's list of "The World's Most Powerful People", and is the highest ranked religious figure on the list of 68, said a report on HULIQ.com.
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10-Nov-2010
US gay Anglican Bishop, Gene Robinson, has announced that he will resign from his diocese in two years, citing the toll that worldwide publicity has taken on his marriage, according to the Catholic News Agency.
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11-Nov-2010
Pope Benedict has spoken of the need to support marriage and family, and for dialogue between religious, political and economic spheres to encourage a just society in Europe, in remarks following his recent trip to Spain, reports the Catholic News Service.
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10-Nov-2010
Thousands of British Anglican faithful are tipped to begin following bishops and clergy into the Catholic Church, an exodus that a report in the Herald Sun said could see the Catholic Church begin to reclaim its pre-Reformation status as the Church in England.
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09-Nov-2010
Five Church of England bishops have announced they are converting to Catholicism, the highest-profile defectors among conservatives opposed to gay bishops and female clergy said an AP report in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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09-Nov-2010
France has sent a plane to Iraq to fetch 36 Iraqis who bear bullet and grenade wounds from the al-Qaeda hostage-taking at a Baghdad church, and 21 companions, said a 9 News report.
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09-Nov-2010
An order of Catholic monks in Switzerland has started an unconventional recruitment drive by advertising in a classifieds section normally reserved for high-flying executive roles, said an AP report in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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08-Nov-2010
Pope Benedict has defended the traditional family and condemned Spain's "aggressive lay mentality", in a visit to the country over the weekend, said a report in the Telegraph.co.uk.
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08-Nov-2010
Video footage has shown a young man hitting Belgium's top Archbishop Andre Leonard in the face with a pie during an All Saints' Day service, according to a report in The Age.
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08-Nov-2010
Two Church of England bishops' resignations are set to be announced today by the Archbishop of Canterbury, feared as the first of a wave of departures expected to Roman Catholicism resulting from the conflict over women's ordinations, said a report on news.com.au from NewsCore.
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12-Nov-2010
Officials in a southern Laotian village have ordered six more Christian families to renounce their faith or face expulsion in early January, Christian Today reports from the advocacy group Human Rights Watch for Lao Religious Freedom.
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11-Nov-2010
A Vatican delegation is meeting with officials in Iran this week to discuss ways of strengthening interfaith ties, in an ongoing attempt by the Vatican to reach out to the largely Muslim Islamic Republic, said a report on VOA News.com.
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11-Nov-2010
Iraqi Christians are fearing for their safety after a string of anti-Christian bombings shook the country and left six dead, since the hostage-taking and deaths at a Baghdad about two weeks ago, said reports by AFP, in the Sydney Morning Herald, and euronews.net.
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10-Nov-2010
A Muslim cleric in a Nazareth mosque has been charged by Israeli authorities with inciting violence against Pope Benedict and supporting al Qaeda and "global jihad", said a Reuters report.
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11-Nov-2010
Hong Kong's richest man has been asked to brush off a priest's remarks likening him to the devil as a joke, said an AFP report in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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Regulars
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12-Nov-2010
Ascertaining the religious beliefs of Australia's prime ministers, including the basic matter of denomination, is often no easy task, writes John Warhurst in Eureka Street.
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11-Nov-2010
Five years ago I began a new life among the poor of the new mission called Jesus the Bread of Life on the outskirts of the city of Guayaquil (pictured) in Ecuador. Then God took over, writes Father Frank Jones.
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10-Nov-2010
Normally, a leaking church roof merits little more than a mention in a parish newsletter. But if the church happens to be the reputed birthplace of Jesus Christ,major repairs can prove a little more tricky, reports The Times.
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09-Nov-2010
Looking out at St Peter's while you brush your teeth is a surreal pleasure for Australian seminarians studying at the Pontifical North American College in Rome, reports The Record.
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08-Nov-2010
Australian Jesuit priest Richard Leonard thought his struggle in dealing with his own family's suffering could help other people hold on to faith when tragedy hits. The result is his book, Where the Hell is God?
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12-Nov-2010
The Jesuit Refugee Service will hold a month-long online retreat as part of celebrations to mark the organisation’s 30th anniversary.
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11-Nov-2010
The first meeting to establish the Palms lay mission program was held in July 1961. Next year marks the 50th anniversary of Palms Australia, the volunteer organisation for those in need. The website features news from its broad network of volunteers in the field across the world.
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10-Nov-2010
Real Choices has recently launched the Pregnancy Care Network initiative, which aims to professionally train a nationwide network of life-affirming, woman centred pregnancy support consultants.
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09-Nov-2010
Caritas Australia has released its list of global gifts for this Christmas, with a new range which includes the gifts of Peace, Food Security, Health, Water, Education and Disaster Response. The website has full details.
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08-Nov-2010
The Catholic Education Office in Sydney has relaunched its website, featuring new user-friendly design, functionality and content. The home page is divided into four portals with a strong focus on those who most regularly use the website.
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11-Nov-2010
This film begins with a seemingly idyllic scene in rural Sweden that is interrupted violently by two hit-men coming to kill Jack (George Clooney).Jack is not a very likeable person, and Clooney projects the complexities of his character very effectively.
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12-Nov-2010
Sisters of War, on ABC-TV1 this Sunday night, is inspired by the true story of a small group of Australian nurses and nuns who found themselves in the eye of the storm when the Japanese military made them prisoners of war on the island of New Britain in 1942.
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10-Nov-2010
Derek Hastings’ book, Catholicism & the Roots of Nazism, should be read by anyone interested in the history of the Christian churches, Nazism and the Shoah, writes Eugene Fisher in the Catholic News Service.
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08-Nov-2010
Romantic Ireland is no longer within Australian reach. Ireland, however non-deliberately, has been the prime mover in this breaking of nations, primarily because it has changed more than Australia, radically so, writes Gerard Windsor in The Australian.
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12-Nov-2010
The policy of the Howard Government on asylum seekers was overwhelmingly popular by every poll and estimate. As as result, it injected a poison into the political culture whose antidote has not yet been discovered, writes Robert Manne in ABC Online.
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11-Nov-2010
Recently Victoria's Catholic Bishops distributed to parishes their advice to voters in the November 27 state election. The statement was portrayed as an attack on the Greens but it was more complex than that,writes Andrew Hamilton in Eureka Street.
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10-Nov-2010
The damage caused to the Foster family in Victoria by Kevin O'Donnell, followed by the heroin addiction and suicide of Emma and a tragic traffic accident involving Katherine, is a very sad example of human tragedy and suffering, writes Archbishop Denis Hart in the Herald Sun.
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09-Nov-2010
I was born a Protestant, became an atheist and never had a Protestant girlfriend. Now I am married to a Catholic and have children baptised in the Catholic Church. But children are too young to be atheists, or for that matter believers, writes Malcolm Knox in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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08-Nov-2010
Cardinal Pell, with whom I have voiced disagreement, preached superbly at the mass of thanksgiving after the canonisation of Mary MacKillop, writes Frank Brennan. "She does not deter us from struggling to follow her. As we wrestle with the common good, let's make a place for all our fellow citizens," said Cardinal Pell.
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09-Nov-2010
Father Gerald O'Collins SJ AC (pictured) will give the inaugural John Duffus Memorial Lecture tomorrow night, November 10, on the topic Jesus and the Homeless at the La Trobe University Visual Arts Centre.
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