News - National
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17-Feb-2011
The Jesuit theologian and commentator Father Andrew Hamilton has called for a "shift in the public imagination concerning asylum seekers".
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17-Feb-2011
A portrait of St Mary of the Cross MacKillop is the feature work of several paintings by Sydney artist Paul Newton that are headed to Italy for the Domus Australia pilgrim centre, reports The Catholic Weekly.
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16-Feb-2011
Former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has described his 2008 Apology to the Stolen Generations as like a "sacramental" sign.
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15-Feb-2011
Prominent Melbourne priest Father Bob Maguire said he would marry a gay couple - but not in a church, reports 9 News.
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15-Feb-2011
Port Pirie Bishop Greg O'Kelly told Adelaide morning radio hosts Matt Abraham and David Bevan that leading Liberal politician Christopher Pyne was "very pleasant" as a schoolboy, The Australian reports.
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15-Feb-2011
The Australian Catholic University is set to introduce 40 weeks' paid leave for new mothers and fathers at 60 per cent of their normal pay - on top of the 12 weeks' maternity leave on full pay for women and three weeks for men it already provides, reports the Sydney Morning Herald
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14-Feb-2011
Indigenous attendance rates at public high schools across the country are falling, except in Western Australia, where they were stable - but indigenous attendance at Catholic schools bucked the trend, improving in most states, The Australian reports.
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18-Feb-2011
The story behind the successful campaign to save Crossley's historic St Brigid's Church will be a part of a major exhibition at the National Museum of Australia from next month, reports The Warrnambool Standard.
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17-Feb-2011
A tree sapling growing out of the Sacred Heart Cathedral in Bendigo has moved to new home - the front yard of the crane operator who pulled it out of the building's gutter, said the Bendigo Advertiser.
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17-Feb-2011
"Spread the word, comrades. I will not do gay weddings. I cannot do gay weddings. The H/S headliner is wrong," tweeted Father Bob Maguire in response to a news report headline this week, said The Age.
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17-Feb-2011
New research by Jesuit Social Services' shows that the number of young people in remand in Victoria is growing. The organisation called on the government for reform as well as support options outside prison, said a media release.
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16-Feb-2011
The Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne has overhauled its sexual abuse inquiry process, which will now require the Church's investigator to seek permission from police before he notifies priests suspected of abuse that they are the subject of a covert police inquiry, The Age reports.
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18-Feb-2011
Catholic Education Commission Executive Director, Brian Croke, has denied claims that Catholic schools whose funding had been maintained were "overfunded", reports the Sydney Morning Herald.
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17-Feb-2011
Catholic parishes could be closed in western New South Wales as part of a review of the Wilcannia-Forbes diocese, as concerns are raised about the drop in the number of priests available for 22 parishes, reports the ABC.
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16-Feb-2011
The Australian Christian Lobby welcomed commitments by NSW Premier Kristina Keneally and Opposition Leader Barry O'Farrell to preserve protections for religious freedom for churches, Christian organisations and Christian schools under anti-discrimination law, said a report on Christian Today.
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16-Feb-2011
The Saint Mary MacKillop Memorial Wall was yesterday officially opened at Sydney's Gore Hill Cemetery, where she was originally buried, said a media release.
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15-Feb-2011
Some 400 mourners packed into St Finbarr's Catholic Church in Byron Bay, NSW, yesterday to farewell flood victim Mark Tiernan, reports the Northern Star.
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14-Feb-2011
NSW Attorney-General John Hatzistergos backs a 30-year-old NSW law that allows private schools to expel homosexual students, said a report in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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11-Feb-2011
Christian leaders will question the NSW Premier, Kristina Keneally, and the state Opposition Leader, Barry O'Farrell, on a range of social issues during a special leaders' forum at State Parliament next week, reports the Sydney Morning Herald.
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18-Feb-2011
Lawyers acting for Queensland's Attorney-General urged the Court of Appeal to increase a sentence imposed on a Toowoomba school teacher for child-sex offences to as much as 15 years, news reports say.
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16-Feb-2011
The principal of Adelaide's Christian Brothers College has circulated a staff memo to aid in culturally sensitive situations when dealing with Muslim students, touching issues such as the inappropriateness of tutoring students on a one-on-one basis and avoiding physical contact, reports the ABC.
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11-Feb-2011
Relatives of Perth's first bishop have given permission to return his remains from France 140 years after he left in controversial circumstances, The Record reports.
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18-Feb-2011
Three years after the Australian Government's historic apology to the Stolen Generations, Jesuit Father Frank Brennan says Indigenous people are still being singled out by policies which deny them the opportunity to speak for themselves, reports Province Express.
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15-Feb-2011
The Archdiocese of Canberra and Goulburn has announced the appointment of a new financial administrator, the first woman to hold the position.
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News - International
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15-Feb-2011
The number of Catholic priests in the world has increased consistently over the past decade and the "relative superabundance" of priests in Europe and North America has begun to taper off, the Catholic News Service reports.
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14-Feb-2011
The newly released schedule for Pope Benedict's visit to Madrid for the coming World Youth Day shows he will meet with young university professors, visit a center for the handicapped and meet religious sisters, seminarians and volunteers, says a media release from organisers.
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14-Feb-2011
Pope Benedict has accepted the resignation of Cardinal Lubomyr Husar, the Patriarch of Kyiv-Halych and Head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, according to a media release.
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14-Feb-2011
Christian leaders in Malaysia are dismayed that vices associated with Valentine's Day are being linked to Christianity as Muslim preachers and politicians issue warnings to Muslim youths against celebrating it, reports ucanews.com.
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16-Feb-2011
Two priests with strong ties to Egypt have said they fear young Egyptian Catholics will turn away from the Church because it did not back the protests that led to the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak, reports the Catholic Herald in the UK.
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14-Feb-2011
Egyptians were left feeling angry, frustrated and uncertain with the country's fluctuating political situation, a Catholic priest told the Catholic News Service just minutes before the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak was announced.
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Regulars
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18-Feb-2011
As Britain’s David Cameron embraces the ideal of worker co-operatives, a remarkable hi-tech variant with global operations is already thriving in the industrial heartland of Northern Spain. The Mondragon group is the world's biggest co-op, though the Basque network is better known for products such as Orbea bikes that won gold at the Beijing Olympics. - Ambrose Evans-Pritchard @ UK Telegraph
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17-Feb-2011
Former Catholic priest, Idris Tawfiq, who converted to Islam, has told a Cambridge University audience about his reasons for changing faith. - BBC News
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16-Feb-2011
Mohammed Sharaf Eldin and Ahmed Usama joined the Muslim Brotherhood as young men in the belief that the organization's vision of political Islam was the way forward for Egypt. - Ned Parker @ Los Angeles Times
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15-Feb-2011
At this start of the new year, a controversy over this has exploded in Rome and Italy. And not only among the specialists. The newspaper of the Holy See, "L'Osservatore Romano," has entered the fray, and on several occasions has severely criticized some of the most famous examples of new sacred architecture sponsored by the Italian episcopate. - Sandro Magister @ www.chiesa
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14-Feb-2011
With a smooth voice, a signature mop of hair and a string of hits, Justin Bieber has accumulated millions of fans and sold 3.7 million albums in the United States last year. Now Bieber's handlers are showcasing another side of the 16-year-old pop sensation: Christian icon for the tween set. - Piet Levy @ Religion News Service
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18-Feb-2011
The first spinoff from CathNews, CathNewsUSA has been in recess for the last six months. Now a new team is preparing to relaunch the publication.
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17-Feb-2011
Fondacio is an international Christian community, a school of the Gospel, at the service of the world.
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16-Feb-2011
This website developed by the Cardijn Community International offers an online collection of most speeches and writings by the late Cardijn Joseph Cardijn that are currently available in English. It also includes recent translations of the three speeches to the Second Vatican Council given by the founder of the Young Christian Workers (YCW) movement. - www.josephcardijn.com
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15-Feb-2011
Now under the direction of Church Resources founder, Father Michael Kelly SJ, the Asian Catholic news agency ucanews.com has unveiled a new logo, a new look and a totally revamped website. - www.ucanews.com
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14-Feb-2011
Drawing on the work of Chesterton, Belloc, EF Schumacher and the Catholic Worker, The Distributist Review describes itself as "a journal analyzing current events through the theoretical and practical socio-economic theory of Distributism; combining provocative and sharp commentary along with golden age Distributist essays.
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16-Feb-2011
Gnomeo & Juliet is a very contemporary reworking of Shakespeare's tale of young lovers from the wrong tribes. The major difference this time around is that all the characters are garden gnomes. - Fr Richard Leonard SJ, Australian Catholic Office for Film & Broadcasting.
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14-Feb-2011
This is a drama focusing on a couple who have lost their son, hit by a car outside his house. He is their only child and was four years old. Each of them tries to deal with their grief in their own way, but this sets up great tensions because they have reacted so differently. How can they come to terms with what has happened to their son and to them? Can they? - Fr Peter Malone MSC, Australian Catholic Office for Film & Broadcasting
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18-Feb-2011
An exciting new Compass series hosted by theologian Scott Stephens who talks to high profile Australians about what they think is the meaning of life. First up is MasterChef's Matt Preston. - Life's Big Questions: Matt Preston on Compass, Sunday 20 February
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15-Feb-2011
In his new book, "The Rise and Fall of the Bible: The Unexpected History of an Accidental Book," religion professor Timothy Beal describes all the angst and doubt that Bible reading provoked in him during his youth, as well as the frustration many American Christians experience as a result of their own encounters with the book. - Laura Miller @ Salon.com
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18-Feb-2011
Young people are leaving the Church or - worse - becoming ambivalent toward it. I see it everywhere. It's as if I can no longer call myself "Catholic," but say "I grew up Catholic" to avoid the impression that I would ever participate in such silliness. - Tyler Mahoney @ Huffington Post
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17-Feb-2011
"I recently heard that the second priest to have ever dined in my parents' home had been implicated in sex abuse scandal." So began the letter of an old college friend with whom I have recently connected on Facebook. - Tom Gibbons @ Busted Halo
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16-Feb-2011
Every day, as I sit upstairs on the No 22 Bus, I pass Chelsea Town Hall and smile: I was married there, in 2004, in a brief but poignant ceremony. We had no priest, and took no religious vows, but I feel totally married. Do I regret that, as a Catholic marrying a divorced man, I was banned from a church wedding? I do. - Christine Odone @ UK Telegraph
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15-Feb-2011
I have made my views clear enough. I think that the new translation is wholly successful, and that if we had been using it from day one, thousands of people repelled by the banality of the ICEL translation now being superseded would still be regular worshippers rather than lapsed Catholics. I really believe it's as important as that. - William Oddie @ The Catholic Herald
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14-Feb-2011
You might be surprised to hear of agnosticism or atheism as a path to God. But, in my experience, believers have often found themselves on this path. This is not to say that atheism or agnosticism ineluctably leads to God. Obviously it does not. But for some the path ultimately leads to a desire to understand the transcendent. - Fr James Martin SJ @ Huffington Post
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17-Feb-2011
Dr Margaret Ghosn of the Broken Bay Institute will present a forthcoming course entitled "Sacred Journey - The 2011 WYD Pilgrimage" in preparation for this year's World Youth Day in Madrid.
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