News - National
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25-Feb-2011
Financial data from nearly all private schools will be published on the federal My School website when it is relaunched next week, reports the Age.
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24-Feb-2011
Archbishop Philip Wilson, President of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference, has sent a mesage of condolence to the bishop and the people of Christchurch as they cope with the earthquake disaster, in a media release.
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24-Feb-2011
The National Council of Priests of Australia said the new missal translation will introduce significant liturgical change, and it expects a diverse response. Some members have called for a boycott or moratorium, while others support the new text, said a media release.
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23-Feb-2011
The head of the Bureau of Meteorology has rebuked Cardinal George Pell for his scepticism about climate change, insisting the cardinal has been misled, reports the Sydney Morning Herald.
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21-Feb-2011
At least a dozen Australian priests have indicated they will refuse to use the new Mass translation which comes into force later this year, and hundred more are angry about the lack of consultation over the translation, reports the Sydney Morning Herald.
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21-Feb-2011
A news report last week claiming many Catholic schools - including five in the Archdiocese of Sydney - are overfunded was not correct, said the Executive Director of Catholic Schools, Dr Dan White, in a media release.
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21-Feb-2011
Opposition Leader Tony Abbott has ruled out changing his party's position against gay marriage, despite sympathising with a Vietnam veteran who has made a case for marriage for his gay son, reports the Australian.
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18-Feb-2011
If you get a phone call from a bishop claiming to be stranded in the Philippines and unable to pay his airport tax, it's almost certainly the ecclesiastical equivalent of the famous internet Nigerian letters scam, reports The Age.
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25-Feb-2011
Catholics across NSW are being urged to ask the upcoming State election candidates their stance on vital issues such as abortion, euthanasia and same-sex marriage, reports the Catholic Weekly.
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22-Feb-2011
The NSW Opposition has called for prison reforms in response to a questionnaire by a church and social justice advocacy group, reports the Sydney Morning Herald.
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18-Feb-2011
Peter Hill feared his three-year-old daughter was killed when he rolled his 22-seater bus on top of her in a queue for petrol on the NSW South Coast. But Claire - who was kissed as a baby by Pope Benedict at Randwick - escaped serious harm, said a report in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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24-Feb-2011
A South Australian Labor backbencher will propose a new Bill that would give doctors a defence against charges of assisting in the suicide of a patient, in a renewed push for voluntary euthanasia laws reform, reports the Advertiser on the AdelaideNow website.
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21-Feb-2011
Enrolments in Catholic schools in South Australia rose in 2010, with 48,783 students on the books, an increase from 46,665 students in 2005, reports the Adelaide Advertiser.
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23-Feb-2011
A report in the Canberra Times that ACT Catholic and independent schools receive Australian government funding that they are not entitled to is simply wrong, said the Archdiocese of Canberra and Goulburn's Catholic Education Office in a media release.
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22-Feb-2011
The Calvary Hospital management has tried to stop ACT Health Minister Katy Gallagher meeting with its doctors as the hospital's owners adopt an aggressive new stance to fight any new hospital in Canberra's north, reports the Canberra Times.
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News - International
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24-Feb-2011
The Vatican believes that its top aid agency, Caritas Internationalis, needs new leadership to build a stronger Catholic identity within the organisation, said a report by the Catholic News Agency.
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24-Feb-2011
A sailing Catholic couple killed by Somali pirates during their global cruise to distribute Bibles was a "wonderful part" of a California Catholic parish, the couple's pastor said, reports the Catholic News Agency.
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22-Feb-2011
Teen pop idol Justin Bieber was "misquoted" on the topics of abortion and rape in an interview with Rolling Stone magazine, in which the singer likened abortion to "killing a baby" and said everything, including rape, "happens for a reason", said a report in the Herald Sun.
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22-Feb-2011
The number of Catholics, deacons, priests, bishops and dioceses around the world increased in 2009, with a rise of 15 million in the global Catholic population, reports the Catholic Herald in the UK.
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22-Feb-2011
Vatican officials have rejected an application by current Caritas Internationalis secretary-general Lesley-Anne Knight, to seek a second four-year term, said reports from the Catholic News Service and the Tablet newspaper.
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21-Feb-2011
There are more practising Catholics in China than in Italy - and the country has more Muslims than in Europe, said the former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, according to a report on ucanews.com from the Real Clear Religion website.
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25-Feb-2011
The US Bishops' Office of General Counsel has criticised the US Government's decision to no longer support the country's Defense of Marriage Act in legal challenges, said a report in the Catholic News Service.
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24-Feb-2011
Pope Benedict has offered his condolences to the victims of New Zealand's earthquake and is praying for the rescue workers and survivors, said a report on Sky News.
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23-Feb-2011
The spire of the landmark Anglican Christchurch Cathedral, sheared off and strewn about as rubble, offers a dire symbol of the impact of yesterday's earthquake, said a report in The Age.
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23-Feb-2011
A new association of priests in Ireland has dismissed predictions that the Church in the country is "on the edge of collapse", and said an apostolic visitation over child sex abuse had grasped the "depth and urgency" of the crisis, reports Irish Central.com.
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23-Feb-2011
Catholic Mission Australia has asked "every Catholic in Australia join us in showing our overwhelming prayer and support" for the people of Christchurch, where at least 65 people are confirmed deead after yesterday's earthquake, reports Independent Catholic News.
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23-Feb-2011
A Lutheran convert was ordained as a Catholic priest in Germany this week and is being allowed to remain married to his wife who is already a Carmelite nun, said a Fox News report.
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22-Feb-2011
Cardinal Sean O'Malley of Boston and Archbishop Diarmuid Martin of Dublin lay prostrate before a bare altar as the packed cathedral watched in silence, during a Liturgy of Lament and Repentance held at St Mary's Pro-Cathedral in the Irish capital, reports the Boston Globe.
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21-Feb-2011
A Spanish nun has been expelled from her convent where she lived in seclusion for 33 years because she spent too much time on Facebook, said a report from 9News on ninemsn.
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25-Feb-2011
A court in Egypt upheld the death sentence of a man convicted in the killings of six Christians as they left their church, but acquitted suspected accomplices - drawing condemnation from the Church, reports Christian Today Australia.
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Regulars
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25-Feb-2011
Jennifer Knust's book Unprotected Texts: The Bible's Surprising Contradictions About Sex and Desire, says things about premarital sex and abortion and gay marriage that make conservatives shudder. Stephen Prothero talks to Knust (picturerd) about her work, in the Huffington Post.
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24-Feb-2011
The most sustaining aspect of life is the need to believe, deep within us, that what we are doing at any given time is right. That we act for the right reasons. That, ultimately, God is overseeing everything we do. It’s what Maura Luxford would call ‘a God moment’, reports Australian Catholics.
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23-Feb-2011
Marie Field is a floral artist, grandmother of 21, and Mum to the blue Wiggle, Anthony,and his siblings. She talks about the musical household that inspired her son, reports the
Catholic Weekly.
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22-Feb-2011
The Anglican Ordinariate which aims to be established in Australia by Pentecost is about evangelising, not preserving some pure form of Anglicanism, Bishop Harry Entwistle (pictured) said, reports the Record.
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21-Feb-2011
The revised New American Bible that will be released on Ash Wednesday, March 9, may seem most notably different to casual readers for its efforts at providing context and clarity in how the passages fit together, according to the coordinator of its publication, reports the Catholic News Service.
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25-Feb-2011
Tarella Spirituality uses the everyday language of heart, relationships, space and story to explore the presence of God in our lives.
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24-Feb-2011
The National Association of Deacons (NAD) represents all of the Catholic deacons of Australia and is associated with the National Council of Priests (NCP). This newly-launched website includes everything from news items, pastoral and liturgical stories, profiles of memberd and discussion of Canon Law.
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23-Feb-2011
Giving Voice to Values is an innovative business curriculum and educational approach. GVV focuses on ethical implementation and asks the question: What would I say and do if I were going to act on my values? It was created by US academic Mary Gentile, who will be giving a talk on the subject this Thursday at Notre Dame university in Sydney.
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22-Feb-2011
Catholics in Coalition for Justice and Peace is a coalition of individuals and groups, working for the emergence of just social structures in Australia and overseas. The website carries details of campaigns, letters and other activities, including a speech by leading human rights advocate Julian Burnside QC (pictured) at its AGM on Sunday.
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21-Feb-2011
This website has all the details of the new iphone application that makes confession easier. With password protected profiles and a step-by-step guide to the Sacrament, the site invites Catholics to prepare for the Rite of Penance.
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23-Feb-2011
If thrillers about lost or stolen identities appeal to you, then Unknown may be for you. The taut script and interesting cast will keep viewers awake and wondering until the end. But those wanting greater plot plausibility and character depth may be disappointed.
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24-Feb-2011
In this episode of Life's Big Questions, comedian and television producer Julian Morrow reflects on his beliefs, background and his work in television. Julian, the executive producer of The Chaser, discusses some of the show’s more controversial sketches, his Catholic upbringing and experiences that have changed his life.
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25-Feb-2011
The afterlife is a common topic of discussion for a religious brother in Santa Paula, California, since the publication of his book, Proof of the Afterlife - The Conversation Continues, a book of hope, forgiveness and mercy, reports the Catholic News Service.
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22-Feb-2011
Several years ago Paul Badde, the Rome and Vatican correspondent for Die Welt, heard about a unique image of Jesus in the town of Manoppello near Pescara, Badde decided to make a visit to the shrine in Manoppello where the image is kept. This book began to take shape from that moment.
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25-Feb-2011
A bomb attack on January 1 against Coptic Christians in Egypt which left 23 dead and almost a hundred wounded, may have been orchestrated by an official in the former Mubarak regime in order to justify strengthening police controls, according to the head of the country’s Coptic Catholic church, writes John Allen in NCR Online.
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24-Feb-2011
In trying to convince my atheist god-daughter to embrace her Catholic schooling, I found an unlikely role model. I'd never thought of Greer as a chip off the old block of a convent education. Now I realised that that's exactly what she was, writes Gregory Day in Eureka Street.
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23-Feb-2011
There is a Catholic church in New York City called St Francis Xavier, after the 16th-century Jesuit missionary who preached the Gospel from East Africa to India to Japan and who finally died off the coast of China, writes Rev James Martin SJ in the Huffington Post.
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22-Feb-2011
There are three compelling reasons to believe that Christianity, and the Catholic church in particular, could play an important supporting role in the Egyptian drama, writes John Allen in the National Catholic Reporter.
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21-Feb-2011
Few great public figures of late modernity have been so misunderstood in their lifetime or revered at their death as Ronald Reagan - with the exception of another man who was never supposed to become the titanic figure he became, Pope John Paul II. The two had strikingly parallel biographies, despite the obvious differences in their backgrounds and interests, writes George Weigel in Public Policy Center.
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21-Feb-2011
Notre Dame University in Sydney will host a public discussion on Thursday with Dr Mary Gentile, the creator of Giving Voice to Values, an innovative educational and leadership program.
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