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14-Mar-2011
Priests must not preach "Christianity 'a la carte'" and should be willing to approach uncomfortable aspects of the Gospel, Pope Benedict said in a meeting with priests in Rome, reports the Catholic News Agency.
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News - National
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17-Mar-2011
Ricky Macourt had never read a book when he arrived for boarding school in Sydney as a 12-year-old about eight years ago. Now, he is about to graduate with a law degree and is a published author - thanks to the education received at the St Joseph's Catholic boys school, reports The Australian.
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17-Mar-2011
If we want to give extremely disadvantaged people a better opportunity to live a decent life, we need to do more than threaten them with destitution, Catholic Social Services Australia executive director Frank Quinlan told The Catholic Weekly.
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16-Mar-2011
Sister Julianne Murphy of the Sisters of St Joseph will be channelling the spirit of Saint Mary MacKillop when she embarks on a national road trip this week, said an AAP report on 9News.
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15-Mar-2011
The Bishop of Broome, Christopher Saunders, says more asylum seekers are having their visa applications rejected at the Curtin Detention Centre, reports the ABC.
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14-Mar-2011
A confidential Vatican document sent to trusted clergy and a few laypeople to research possible bishops may breach Australian anti-discrimination laws, reports the Age.
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14-Mar-2011
Cardinal George Pell has rebuffed the head of the Bureau of Meteorology, who had said Australia's highest-ranking Catholic was ''misled'' in his views on global warming, the Sydney Morning Herald reports.
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14-Mar-2011
The Australian Catholic Bishops Conference has urged prayer and offered practical support to the victims of the largest earthquake to hit Japan in 140 years, the ACBC said in a media release.
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17-Mar-2011
One complaint over an illuminated cross atop a water tower in Warrnambool in Victoria has resulted in a decision to remove the annual display, which began in 1967, reports the Herald Sun.
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16-Mar-2011
Australian Catholic University students in Ballarat got a taste of Spain yesterday to celebrate upcoming World Youth Day, reports The Courier.
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18-Mar-2011
Aboriginal Catholic Social Services, which provides support and assistance to the indigenous, is to build a new Aboriginal Cultural Centre at Emerton in Sydney's west, according to a Labor Party press statement published in the Penrith City Star.
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11-Mar-2011
The Church is considering flying priests and bishops around western New South Wales to reach people in isolated areas, reports the ABC.
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15-Mar-2011
A Brisbane Franciscan parish pastor has been honoured with an award for "Outstanding Service to Franciscans International" (FI) at a regional meeting of the order's leadership in Bangkok, according to a media release.
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15-Mar-2011
Research from the University of Queensland has found that a little bit of self-inflicted pain goes a long way to relieving the psychological burden of immoral behaviour, reports the ABC.
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18-Mar-2011
The new St Patrick's Catholic Cathedral has been consecrated in Bunbury in Western Australia, six years after the old cathedral was destroyed by a tornado, reports The West Australian.
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16-Mar-2011
The Catholic Archdiocese of Canberra and Goulburn is poor but not insolvent, said its Archbishop, Mark Coleridge, according to the Canberra Times.
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News - International
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14-Mar-2011
The Vatican is set to unveil a Facebook page this week dedicated to the upcoming beatification of Pope John Paul II, said an AP report in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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17-Mar-2011
A recent grand jury report alleging past sexual abuse by clergy and other church personnel in the Philadelphia Archdiocese in the US "puts a cloud over everything" the church is doing to prevent abuse, said a report by the Catholic News Service.
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16-Mar-2011
The parents of a terminally-ill Canadian boy have transferred him to a US Catholic hospital after a court ruled that doctors could remove a breathing tube keeping him alive, said an AP report in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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18-Mar-2011
The European Human Rights Court will issue a ruling today on whether crucifixes should be present in Italian public schools, reports the Catholic News Agency.
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17-Mar-2011
About 900 prospective members of the new ordinariate, including 61 former Anglican clergy, prepared for their reception into the Catholic Church in England and Wales over the weekend, said a report by the Catholic News Agency.
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16-Mar-2011
Britain has defended its foreign policy this week after the leader of the Roman Catholic Church in Scotland accused the government of pursuing an "anti-Christian" agenda by increasing aid to Pakistan without demanding a pledge for religious freedom, said an AFP report in The West Australian.
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17-Mar-2011
The Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines said its opposition to nuclear power has been vindicated in the light of the nuclear disaster Japan is facing, reports the Independent Catholic News.
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15-Mar-2011
A church that was cleared for use after a lengthy court battle in West Java in Indonesia has remained locked up by local authorities, forcing worshippers to break in to hold Sunday Mass, reports ucanews.com.
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18-Mar-2011
Japanese church officials are setting up an emergency centre to co-ordinate humanitarian aid operations in Sendai, the area most devastated by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, said a Catholic News Agency report in the National Catholic Reporter.
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16-Mar-2011
Caritas Japan said the response it has received over the earthquake and tsunami disaster was "filled with words of compassion and prayer", reports the Catholic News Service.
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15-Mar-2011
Japanese bishops will hold an emergency meeting in Sendai to respond to the earthquake and tsunami disasters that have inflicted "a strong emotional impact on society" and left people "exhausted and disorientated", reports Fides.
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15-Mar-2011
Pope Benedict says he is horrified by the images of the death and destruction caused by the earthquake and tsunami in Japan, and has invited people to join him in praying for the victims, reports the Catholic News Service.
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14-Mar-2011
Damage from the massive earthquake and ensuing tsunamis were preventing church officials in Japan from assessing needs, said a report on the Catholic News Service.
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14-Mar-2011
The Catholic diocese of Sendai was the first victim of Japan's tsunami following the earthquake, said reports by the Catholic News Agency and Independent Catholic News.
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Regulars
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18-Mar-2011
Kathmandu priest Fr Silas Bogati will be baptising his Hindu parents into the Catholic faith at Easter. His own conversion began when he left his native village as a nine-year-old boy to board in the city to improve his education, reports the Catholic Leader.
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17-Mar-2011
Dr Christopher Kaczor's latest book argues against abortion through reason alone, without reference to the author's Catholic faith. But his inspiration in writing the book came from a canonized saint, reports the Catholic News agency.
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16-Mar-2011
Oral historian Siobhan McHugh has in her sights what she sees as an increasing tendency to lump the Irish in with the English and gloss over Australia's recent sectarian past. "It might make sense to a demographer but it distorts social history,"reports the Australian.
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15-Mar-2011
Anthony Hopkins' role as an exorcist in The Rite brings to mind other movies with memorable members of the clergy. So here is a list of the 10 best priests (and assorted holy men) in cinema, writes Cine Topia in SMH Online.
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14-Mar-2011
Sixteen thousand kilometres is a long way for the Vatican's highest judicial officer, second to the Pope, to travel for a lecture organised by students. But American Cardinal Raymond Burke was delighted to address the Australian Catholic Students Association on "The fall of the Christian West" in Sydney on Friday night, reports the Australian.
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18-Mar-2011
In the wake of the Libyan refugee crisis, the catastrophic earthquake and tsunami in Japan, Caritas is working on two fronts at once. The website carries extensive coverage of its efforts, and information about how to help, plus details of its Easter appeal.
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17-Mar-2011
Religion News Blog (RNB) provides busy religion professionals, academics, cult experts, reporters and others with a daily round-up of religion news. It has a particular focus on issues dealing with ‘cults,’ ‘sects,’ ‘abusive churches,’ and related issues - including religious persecution and human rights.
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16-Mar-2011
John Paul II's Facebook is now available online, in the lead-up to his beatification in May.
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15-Mar-2011
The Archdiocese of Hobart has launched a site for the reception of the new translation of the Roman Missal. This site will provide up to date news, information and resources to assist communities during the period of transition.
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14-Mar-2011
The Sisters of the Good Samaritan, affectionately known as the Good Sams, have launched a new website which offers a window in the rich spirituality, life and mission of Australia's first home-grown religious congregation.
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17-Mar-2011
Written and directed by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman (The Celluloid Closet), Howl is a dramatised documentary of the life and times of Alan Ginsberg, a central figure of the San Francisco-based Beat generation of the late 1950s and early 1960s.
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16-Mar-2011
The Rite is remarkably respectful of priesthood and vocational choices. Not everyone will want to watch a film about possession. But it is interesting to see a film from Hollywood that respects the Catholic Church whether the film-makers actually believe in faith and the Church or not
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15-Mar-2011
This subtitled French-Italian production returns us to the world of The Last Kiss, a film, which was directed by the same director and released in 2001. Using mostly the same cast, the director continues to use his characters , now in their forties, as a sounding board for life’s complexity.
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14-Mar-2011
Those who saw The Inside Job and were impressed by the way it explained the Global Financial Crisis, will also be enlightened by The Company Men, a powerful, well-acted drama which exposes the impact of the global meltdown on men who see themselves as distinct and immune in the upper echelons of corporate America.
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18-Mar-2011
Four women who chose to follow St Mary MacKillop's calling, 50 years ago, embarked on a life of adventure, professional training and community work that would not otherwise have been easily available to them. On their Golden Jubilee they speak to Rachael Kohn.
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18-Mar-2011
A new definition of discrimination is taking hold. Anyone who projects judgements on situations is viewed as being judgmental. Rather than being discriminating, the person is considered discriminatory. How has this happened, asks Bishop Julian Porteous, in The Record.
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17-Mar-2011
Our family didn’t do the traditional First Friday Devotion when I was a kid. Instead we had First Wednesdays, writes Heidi Schlumpf in NCR Online.
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16-Mar-2011
Catholic priests have been much in the news this month, with much discussion of a new book by Chris McGillion and John O'Carroll on Catholic priests working in parishes, writes Andrew Hamilton in Eureka Street.
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15-Mar-2011
One of the most attractive and productive approaches in biblical studies in recent years goes by the German term Wirkungsgeschichte:the history of the Bible’s influence or effects. The books covered in this survey illustrate in various ways the influence of the Bible and its interpretation throughout the centuries and today, writes Daniel Harrington in America magazine.
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14-Mar-2011
In The Joys of Yiddish, Leo Rosten defined chutzpah as: "that quality enshrined in a man who, having killed his mother and father, throws himself on the mercy of the court because he is an orphan." Leo Rosten should have lived to experience German Catholic theologians of the early 21st century, writes George Weigel in Ethics and Public Policy Center.
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