News - National
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18-Nov-2010
Former Melbourne Archdiocesan vocations director Fr Anthony Denton has been named inaugural Rector of Domus Australia, charged with the mission of turning Australian tourists in Rome into pilgrims, reports The Record.
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18-Nov-2010
St Mary MacKillop's canonisation has boosted enquiries at Australia's Catholic Enquiry Centre by 63 per cent in the past year, reports The Catholic Leader.
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17-Nov-2010
The revamped MySchool website will allow parents to measure how much an individual school improves the performance of their child,reports the Sydney Morning Herald.
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16-Nov-2010
The CEO of St Vincent de Paul in the Northern Territory has been named as Australia's top young businesswoman in the 2010 Telstra Australian Business Awards, said a media release.
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15-Nov-2010
Australian abuse victims should become more militant in taking on the Church through the courts and the media, a US priest has told a survivors' meeting, ABC reports.
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15-Nov-2010
The number of religious in Australia's Catholic orders has shrunk by more than half since 1976, according to a census of nuns, brothers and clerical priests, and the tradition of entering holy orders has almost entirely died out, reports the Sydney Morning Herald.
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12-Nov-2010
A High Court judgement that effectively affords asylum seekers the same protection of the country's legal system as everyone else should spur the government to consider moving all asylum-seeker processing onshore, said the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference in a statement.
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19-Nov-2010
The Victorian coalition has promised a $240 million package for Catholic and independent schools, to fund their students at 25 percent of their state school counterparts if elected next week, says an AAP report in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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15-Nov-2010
Any same-sex marriage legislation should provide protection for religious ministers so they are not forced to perform those marriages, Federal Labor member for Melbourne Ports Michael Danby has urged, said The Age.
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19-Nov-2010
Parishes across Sydney will hold a World Youth Day 2011 Madrid "awareness weekend" this weekend to alert parishioners and encourage registration, reports The Catholic Weekly.
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18-Nov-2010
Students from Sydney's Cammeray Public School will perform an ABBA song after they were encouraged by a teacher not to refer to God or Jesus in their end-of-year concert, reports The Mosman Daily.
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18-Nov-2010
Homosexual marriage would fundamentally change our understanding of marriage as a life-giving and sexually complementary union, to one that is personal, romantic, without true communion or connection to procreation, Bishop Julian Porteous said, The Catholic Weekly reports.
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17-Nov-2010
Bishop Michael Malone (pictured) has announced that an independent investigation by the Church has cleared the way for Father Peter Brock to return to ministry, according to a press statement.
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16-Nov-2010
The Catholic, Greek Orthodox and Jewish communities in Sydney's southeast have joined forces to seek more space for burial plots, reports the Southern Courier.
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16-Nov-2010
Bishop Anthony Fisher of Sydney's Parramatta will petition the Holy See for permission to dedicate his diocese to the patronage of St Mary of the Cross MacKillop, reports The Catholic Weekly.
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12-Nov-2010
Minister for School Education, Early Childhood and Youth Peter Garrett has lauded the Southern Cross Catholic Vocational College in Burwood, NSW, as an "absolutely brilliant new facility", according to The Catholic Weekly.
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12-Nov-2010
Gambling isn't intrinsically wrong - unless it becomes an addiction, Cardinal George Pell said yesterday at an ethics lunch. He also said countries could produce arms morally, to defend thenselves, reports the Sydney Morning Herald.
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News - International
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17-Nov-2010
"The Lord's Prayer is utterly, totally, fully Jewish - there's nothing in it that is particularly Christian," an American theologian argues in a new book, reports The Jerusalem Post.
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17-Nov-2010
The Vatican television centre now has a multimillion-dollar high definition mobile television studio, which will be operational in time for the pope's Christmas midnight Mass, thanks to a discount from Sony and a contribution from the Knights of Columbus, said the Catholic News Service.
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16-Nov-2010
Pope Benedict has called for "profound reform" of the world economy, and said he is concerned the current economic crisis will tempt richer nations to forge alliances at the expense of poorer ones, VOA News.com reports.
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16-Nov-2010
Italian researchers say Michelangelo's Last Judgement in the Sistine Chapel was most likely inspired by scenes from Roman baths, CBC reports.
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18-Nov-2010
Over 100 US bishops and priests attended a conference on exorcism last week, hosted by the US bishops in Baltimore to "really to provide some guidance for bishops" because only a "small number" of priests are trained in the area, reports the Catholic News Agency.
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17-Nov-2010
The US bishops have elected Archbishop Timothy Dolan of New York as their conference president, overturning the tradition of electing the incumbent vice-president to the post, said the Catholic News Agency.
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15-Nov-2010
American actress Zsa Zsa Gabor, who was administered the last rites by a priest in August, is back home from hospital after being treated for a leg infection, said an AP report in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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18-Nov-2010
A meeting of European churches has adopted a "Budapest Call for Climate Justice", calling for social and ecological values to be a central goal in policy-making among industralised nations, the Independent Catholic News reports.
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17-Nov-2010
The Association of Catholic Priests in Ireland has described as "unwise" and "counterproductive" a Vatican ban on unapproved future writings by an Irish Capuchin - which followed an article by him that suggested homosexuality was "simply a facet of the human condition', reports The Irish Times.
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15-Nov-2010
The Vatican is moving ahead with its investigation of how the Catholic church in Ireland is responding to the sex abuse scandal, promising it will not interfere with ongoing official probes, said an AP report in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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15-Nov-2010
Archbishop Vincent Nichols, the head of the Catholic Church in England, will this week disclose the Vatican's plan to welcome 50 Anglican clergymen - including five bishops - who are joining the new Anglican Ordinariate, said a Telegraph report in The Age.
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19-Nov-2010
Legitimate Chinese bishops were reportedly being forced to participate in an illicit ordination by China's Communist Goverment, with the Holy See saying it was disturbed by developments, reports ucanews.com.
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16-Nov-2010
A Cuban dissident economist who has been freed after years in prison says chaos looms if Cuba does not launch economic and political change, said an AFP report in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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Regulars
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19-Nov-2010
A Perth parish group’s pilgrimage to the Holy Land has revealed in October what could very well be the tomb of St Joseph, husband of the Virgin Mary, the Mother of God, reports The Record.
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18-Nov-2010
In 1954 the Australian Jesuits had 14 novices. In 2007,they had two. Although religious orders may be in decline, the Jesuits are confident they will always have a meaningful role to play. Barney Zwartz reports in The Age.
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17-Nov-2010
When artist John Maitland came to Australia from England in 1975, he did not know the name Mary MacKillop, writes Aurora magazine. Over the years he has painted his way into a relationship with her.
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16-Nov-2010
The recent Mideast synod had as a main goal to strengthen the presence of Christians in the region, and one important way to do that is to promote pilgrimages to the Holy Land, says Bishop Gregor Maria Hanke of Eichstätt, Germany in Catholic.net.
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15-Nov-2010
US bishops are looking for a few good men to become exorcists, with a strong response to an upcoming conference on the subject, writes the Catholic News Service.
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19-Nov-2010
Xt3.com will launch its third annual Advent Calendar on the first Sunday of Advent. The highly popular Advent Calendar is an online resource with daily reflections and features, well suited for youth groups, parishes, schools, or for your own personal Advent journey.
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18-Nov-2010
Vatican radio has an audio tour of the Pope's Apostolic library, which captures the aura and ancientness of this historical treasure. The site carries a written version of the tour, with a link to the audio experience.
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17-Nov-2010
The unprecedented level of hostility, ridicule and ill-will from certain public figures and sections of the press has got some Catholics genuinely worried that Pope Benedict is going to be embarrassed or even hurt. This site has news, links and an anti-Catholicism log to counter this trend.
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16-Nov-2010
The Inter-Church Criminal Justice Taskforce of the Victorian Council of Churches has just developed a publication to consider issues of criminal justice from a broad Christian perspective. A copy of the brochure can be found at the Victorian Council of Churches website.
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15-Nov-2010
Earlier this month, shoppers in Philadelphia were surprised when over 600 choristers who were there mingling with regular shoppers suddenly burst into Handel's Hallelujah Chorus. It was part of the Knight Foundation's "1000 Random Acts of Culture". See the spectacle here on Youtube.
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19-Nov-2010
This American film tells the story of a group of people living in abject poverty in rural USA and focuses on a teenage girl who sets out to find her father who has disappeared. The film is emotionally wrenching but is one that should be seen.
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17-Nov-2010
Bill Nighy is the hitman here. Emily Blunt is his erratically and moodily wild target. Rupert Grint is an apprentice (but does not realise what for.) Obviously, it’s a farce and, even though it is really a very slight film, you enjoy it all the way through.
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16-Nov-2010
Repatriated from Iraq after being wounded in action, a US Army staff sergeant finds himself assigned for the remaining few months of his enlistment to the casualty notification team. Thus begins an engrossing and frequently moving film.
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15-Nov-2010
Twentieth-century music afficionados will be familiar with the work of Serge Gainsbourg, both music and lyrics.Film fans will remember that he was married to Jane Birkin and appeared in a number of films with her. This is a biopic but moves away from the standard storytelling.
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18-Nov-2010
When the newly appointed curator of the Missionary Ethnological section of the Vatican Museums found up to 300 hundred pieces sent to the Museums in the 1920s from Australia, he set about devising a way of bringing them back to life via exhibition.
Rituals of Life, which opened in late October, is a journey through the spirituality and culture of the Aboriginal people of Australia.
This program includes extracts from a conference held at the Vatican Museums to mark the opening of the exhibition, and interviews with curators.
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19-Nov-2010
I stood at a street corner in New York, holding my last few dollars tightly inside my coat pocket, with nowhere to go, writes Michael Sullivan in The Huffington Post. As I hauled my green garbage bag of belongings over my shoulder, I searched for a sign that Jesus Christ existed.
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18-Nov-2010
Special ethics education should not be allowed for children not attending scripture classes. Nor should ethics education be "special". Rather, it should be available to all children, not only those withdrawn from scripture classes, says Robert Haddad (pictured) in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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17-Nov-2010
Today nobody claims that religion is headed for history’s junk heap, writes John Diiulio in America magazine. Instead, social science scholars such as Robert Putnam (pictured) are studying religion in all its complexity and concluding that, on balance, it benefits people and nations.
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16-Nov-2010
The late and now notorious Marcial Maciel Degollado, founder of the Legionaries of Christ, stands as a potent symbol for the crisis and the flawed Vatican legal system. But the inquiry into his abuses could have happened years ago, writes Tom Roberts in the NCR Online.
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15-Nov-2010
Tony Abbott has been in public life for a long time. It has not always been pretty, but it has always been entertaining. Yet there is something deeply disturbing in the way he carries out his public role.I find myself wondering wherein lies his moral core, writes Neil Ormerod in Eureka Street.
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