News - National
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28-Jan-2011
Data to be released today by the Productivity Commission suggests that public funding for each student at private schools has declined over recent years, once state government funding is taken into account, reports the Sydney Morning Herald.
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27-Jan-2011
At least 31 Catholics received recognition for service - to fellow citizens and internationally - by Governor-General Quentin Bryce on Australia Day 2011 Honours List, according to a media release.
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25-Jan-2011
CathNews will not be published tomorrow. We wish all our readers a happy Australia Day. We will return on Thursday, January 27.
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25-Jan-2011
Two Sisters of St Joseph will undertake a "travelling roadshow" across Australia to raise funds for community project grants that will benefit those affected by the recent floods, according to a media release.
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21-Jan-2011
The Australian Catholic Social Justice Council said the Federal Government must act on commitments it made to improve conditions for asylum seekers and speed up processing, according to a media release.
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21-Jan-2011
An ordinariate for Anglicans to enter the Catholic Church is set to be established in Australia by Pentecost this year, and will include Japan, reports The Record.
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21-Jan-2011
A Brigidine sister who runs an asylum seeker project is taking on the Commonwealth Government over the detention of child asylum seekers, reports The Age.
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24-Jan-2011
Surrogacy should be discouraged because a "committee of parents" - surrogate, donors and commissioning parents - confuses a child's sense of identity, says leading Catholic ethicist Nicholas Tonti-Filippini, reports the Herald Sun.
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25-Jan-2011
A seven-year-old Catholic student from the western suburbs of Sydney has won a Community Hero of the Year award for saving his mother's life by calling triple-0, reports the Catholic Weekly.
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24-Jan-2011
Sydney QC Terry Tobin has been elected as Chancellor of the University of Notre Dame Australia, reports the Catholic Weekly.
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24-Jan-2011
The NSW Government has introduced a levy amounting to some $800,000 for an average-sized new independent school in Western Sydney, which will make it harder for non-profit groups to build schools, reports the Daily Telegraph.
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24-Jan-2011
The Australian Federation of Islamic Councils has purchased St Gregory's Armenian School at Rouse Hill in Sydney's western suburbs for $9.2 million - sold at a forced auction after it was liquidated, reports the Rouse Hill Times.
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27-Jan-2011
Queensland's St Vincent de Paul Society had a team ready to respond to the flood disaster, having been involved in emergency simulation exercises for a number of years, reports the Catholic Leader.
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News - International
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25-Jan-2011
As outrage in Italy grows over sex scandals surrounding Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, Pope Benedict has called on government officials "to rediscover spiritual and moral roots", said an Asian News International report on Daily India.com.
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27-Jan-2011
The announcement of a second Vatican Council was broadcast by the media before Pope John XXIII could tell his cardinals about it, said his former personal secretary, reports the Catholic News Agency.
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25-Jan-2011
Pope Benedict said Christians should be part of social networks and websites - without "enclosing oneself" in just virtual relationships, and in a "Christian way" that is "honest and open, responsible and respectful of others", reports the Catholic News Service.
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24-Jan-2011
Pope Benedict has told priests to do a better job counselling would-be spouses to ensure their marriages last, and said no one has an absolute right to a wedding, said an Associated Press report on newser.com.
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28-Jan-2011
The Archdiocese of Boston has decreed that children of same-sex couples can enrol in its parochial schools, reversing a 2010 decision at the parish level refusing one such admission, reports the National Catholic Register.
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27-Jan-2011
A massive crowd, including Catholic parishioners, gathered for the March for Life at the US Capitol in Washington DC this week, demanding the country's Congress pass legislation ending federal funding of abortion, said a Christian Post report on the Christian Today website.
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25-Jan-2011
The tradition of passing the church plate might become a relic of the past, as a majority of Americans pay bills electronically and move away from using cash or writing cheques, said a Reuters report on SBS.com.
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24-Jan-2011
The Kennedy clan, former President Bill Clinton, First Lady Michelle Obama and U2 singer Bono were among the hundreds qho gathered for the funeral of R. Sargent Shriver, the first director of the Peace Corps, said a report in the Herald Sun.
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27-Jan-2011
Italy's most senior Catholic bishop said Silvio Berlusconi's private life threatened to turn Italy into a moral vacuum, and that the leader's behavious was sowing the seeds of an "anthropological disaster", said a Telegraph report in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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27-Jan-2011
The Archdiocese of Liverpool in England has announced plans to change the order in which young people receive the sacraments of Christian Initiation, placing Confirmation before First Communion, said a report in Catholic Culture.
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25-Jan-2011
The Supreme Court in India has upheld life sentences handed down to the killers of Australian missioner Graham Stuart Staines and his two young sons, and upheld the acquittal of 11 other accused, ucanews.com reports.
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28-Jan-2011
An Irish nun working in Southern Sudan said Southerners were returning from Northern Sudan for fear of what will happen after results of the referendum for the South's independence are announced, according to a Catholic News Service report in the Record.
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Regulars
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28-Jan-2011
The main problem facing Australian teachers is student misbehaviour and classroom discipline. Teachers are also being overwhelmed with a cumbersome and bureaucratic curriculum that causes a good deal of stress, says Kevin Donnelly in an interview on Education Now.
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27-Jan-2011
Many Catholic heroes and heroines of the Holocaust today remain largely anonymous and unsung. To mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day today, here is a brief glance at just 10 of them, reports the Catholic Herald.
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25-Jan-2011
In her book that examines the lives of 20 adults classified as gifted children, psychologist Joan Freeman explodes the myth about children with high IQ scores, reports the Guardian.
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24-Jan-2011
How well would Harry Potter do in his Year 12 exams? The questio has been raised by a Harvard research fellow about just how fine an education Harry Potter and his friends received at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, writes Valerie Strauss in The Washington Post.
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28-Jan-2011
The Vatican's website has a comprehensive section offering guidance on education in human sexuality, which is a valuable resource for teachers.
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27-Jan-2011
Prayer Online carries a daily prayer in the classroom, one suitable for primary/infants and one for secondary schools.
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25-Jan-2011
The Independent Education Union of Australia represents all employees working in non-government schools and institutions across Australia. The site carries a broad range of news, information and links on current issues such as NAPLAN, class sizes, school funding reviews, and the MySchool website.
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24-Jan-2011
Australian Catholics website has a dedicated portal called Teacher Resources. Each quarterly edition of the magazine includes a companion publication titled Reflections and Notes, which offers a deeper look at one of its main features and provides teachers with resources, reflections and activities they might find useful.
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28-Jan-2011
Director Ron Howard has created a problem drama for forty-somethings. Vince Vaughn is Ronnie, friend and business partner of Nick (Kevin James). Nick is long married to Geneva (Winona Ryder). Then Ron sees Geneva with another man. And here is the dilemma. Should he tell Nick or not?
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27-Jan-2011
This dark film tells the story of a ballet dancer Nina (Natalie Portman), wanting, and eventually being chosen for, the lead role in a new production of Tchaikovsky’s ballet, Swan Lake. Natalie Portman gives a brilliant performance as an insecure, talented dancer and Barbara Hershey is wonderfully controlling as her mother.
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25-Jan-2011
Yogi Bear is 50 years old this year. With a revival of interest in the 1980s, a new series, and the some specials in the 1990s, he has been on screen for half a century.He has now reached the 3D era. But this film version remains easy family entertainment.
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24-Jan-2011
Burlesque is a glitzy musical that tells the story of Tess (Cher) who wants to keep her Burlesque theatre going in the face of bankruptcy. Then Ali Rose (Christina Aguilera), a small-town girl, arrives, seeking fame and fortune. Her incredible voice rescues the theatre’s past glory. Cher and Aguilera make a strong team.
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28-Jan-2011
The teaching of history provides much more than the practical skills which underpin the study of politics and society, it also gives children a vital understanding of their place in the world, argues Antony Beevor (pictured) in the Guardian.
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27-Jan-2011
At school reunions, former students don't reminisce about the introduction of a certain software program or their first laptop. They talk about the teachers they had and tell stories now well out of school. The primacy of the relationship between student and teacher cannot be overstated, writes Ann Rennie in The Age.
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25-Jan-2011
One of the marks of a Christian heart is the desire for inclusivity, the desire to ultimately be in communion with as many people as possible, without demanding that they become just like you to get there. Sadly, we tend to harbour the opposite attitude, though we are slow to admit this, writes Ron Rolheiser.
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24-Jan-2011
The revised Code of Canon Law that followed Vatican II invited the laity to participate in the organizational development of the church. Little was made of the statement and little expected to come from it. But it is a ticking bomb, writes Joan Chittister (pictured) in NCR Online.
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