News - National
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25-Mar-2011
The National Catholic Education Commission has said it expects "funding maintained" provisions will not survive the school funding review being led by David Gonski, according to reports in the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.
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24-Mar-2011
The Edmund Rice Centre has called for a major policy overhaul of Australia's management of asylum-seekers, proposing that the country implements the community supervision method adopted by western nations, the Centre said in a media release.
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24-Mar-2011
More than 4000 Australian youth are expected to travel to Spain in August for World Youth Day in Madrid, reports The Catholic Weekly.
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23-Mar-2011
Australia's major churches have met at a national forum in Canberra to launch the Australian Churches Gambling Taskforce, urging for gambling reform, said a report on the Christian Today Australia website.
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22-Mar-2011
Prime Minister Julia Gillard has moved to broaden her appeal to people of faith, jesting about challenging Tony Abbott to a contest in reciting scripture, said the Australian.
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21-Mar-2011
Anthony Thornton, a Shanghai-born Canberran, has been elected the new President of the St Vincent de Paul Society's National Council, said a media release.
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21-Mar-2011
The Australian Catholic Migrant and Refugee Office has described the response to the protests at the Christmas Island immigration detention centre as "highly inappropriate", according to a report on AdelaideNow.
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23-Mar-2011
Victoria's biggest charities and employers in the community sector have called on the Bailieu government to honour its promise to fund an equal pay case, reports the Age.
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25-Mar-2011
A 41-year-old has told a jury that he was sexually abused as a teenager, by a member of the Vincentian order counselling him over a previous attack by a different man, said AAP reports in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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24-Mar-2011
Catholic school families and staff must make their vote count in the upcoming NSW election, by being aware of the educational policies of the major political parties, says the Diocese of Parramatta's Catholic Education.
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23-Mar-2011
NSW Premier Kristina Keneally has released a plan outlining the look of the new $24 million arts and education precinct for the old King's School site in western Sydney, reports the Parramatta Advertiser.
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18-Mar-2011
The bishops of New South Wales have issued a statement advocating close scrutiny and criticism of the Greens, saying the party's policies are "of grave concern".
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22-Mar-2011
A rare school holiday timetable problem will force some parents to find four weeks of care for their children over Easter in Queensland, reports the Courier-Mail.
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23-Mar-2011
South Australia's Catholic education sector would be happy to keep its proportion of students constant rather than push for more enrolments, new Catholic Education director Dr Paul Sharkey told AdelaideNow.
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21-Mar-2011
The ACT should consider following the lead of Sweden by recriminalising prostitution and jailing men who pay for sex, said the Archdiocese of Canberra and Goulburn, according to a report in the Canberra Times.
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News - International
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25-Mar-2011
More than a million Catholic youths are expected to attend World Youth Day in Madrid this August, with organisers promising a 'Spanish fiesta', said a Catholic News Service report in The Catholic Leader.
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24-Mar-2011
Studies for priests and theologians face a renewed emphasis on metaphysics, according to a newly-published Decree on the Reform of Ecclesiastical Studies of Philosophy from the Vatican Congregation for Catholic Education, say reports by the Vatican Information Service and Zenit.
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23-Mar-2011
Pope Benedict's new book on Jesus has entered the The New York Times bestseller list, at 10th place in the non-fiction category, said the Ignatius Insight Scoop website.
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23-Mar-2011
There is a growing trend of vilifying those who criticise gay sexual relations for religious or moral reasons, a Vatican diplomat told the United Nations Human Rights Council, according to a Reuters report in the West Australian.
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22-Mar-2011
Japan's nuclear disaster has "raised questions that cannot be neglected", said Vatican spokesman Father Federico Lombardi, reports Zenit.
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18-Mar-2011
The Superior General of the Society of Jesus, Spanish priest Fr Adolfo Nicolas, has sent a letter to Jesuits worldwide, announcing a revision to the order's General Curia, reports the Catholic News Agency.
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22-Mar-2011
An American order of nuns is suing the Archbishop of Boston, Cardinal Sean O'Malley, after years of trying, in vain, to withdraw from a church-run pension fund, said a Boston Globe report on Boston.com.
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25-Mar-2011
A relic claimed to be a thorn from Jesus' crown is to go on display at the British Museum, after having been kept safely in a British Jesuit school for 200 years, reports the Daily Mail.
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21-Mar-2011
The Irish Bishops Conference has published a pastoral letter denouncing child sexual abuse by clergy, which also outlined new and existing initiatives of support available to survivors of abuse, said a report on Vatican Radio.
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21-Mar-2011
The Vatican has welcomed a ruling by the European Court of Human Rights that displaying crucifixes in schools does not breach the rights of non-Catholics, said an AAP report on news.com.au.
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24-Mar-2011
About 500 Catholics representing various organisations and parishes in Indonesia staged a rally yesterday over the torture of Catholic youths - one of whom died, reports ucanews.com.
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24-Mar-2011
Malaysian authorities have backed off from a plan to stamp serial numbers on Malay-language Bibles, as Christians threatened to lodge mass police reports against the government over the matter, reports ucanews.com.
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22-Mar-2011
A shortage of churches has prompted the bishop of Urumqi in China to urge his faithful to build shrines for the whole family to pray at home, reports ucanews.com.
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22-Mar-2011
Missionaries and their leaders are grappling with whether to remain in Japan or leave - either to other parts of it or out of the country entirely - following the earthquake, tsunami and potential threat of radiation, reports the Religion News Service.
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21-Mar-2011
Japanese Christians are uniting in response to the emergency in the aftermath of the earthquake and tsunami, interacting and planning through the web and especially through social networks such as Facebook, reports Fides.
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Regulars
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25-Mar-2011
The ongoing nuclear plant disaster in Japan raises not only environmental and health issues, but ethical questions about energy use and the future of nuclear power, according to Catholic scholars and other ethicists, reports NCR Online.
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24-Mar-2011
Renata Botelho worked as a sports journalist in Brazil and in 2006 moved to Germany for the World Cup where she met her Australian husband Andreas. They moved to Melbourne and after hearing about the work of Jesuit Social Services, Renata was keen to engage with the organisation, reports Province Express.
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23-Mar-2011
Robert Palladino writes the words of theologians and spiritual masters, usually short, memorable quotes people can live by. He has engraved the texts and notes of ancient chant, which he admires greatly. The 78-year-old priest and calligraphy master plans to write until he dies, reports the Catholic Review.
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22-Mar-2011
Being the co-ordinator for promoting a sainthood cause requires the combined qualities of a private investigator, a theologian, a lawyer, a historian and a medical examiner, reports the Catholic News Service.
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21-Mar-2011
J Wilson has vowed to fast on beer this Lent. The 38-year-old from Iowa is following the example of 17th-century Bavarian friars who did not allow solid food to pass their lips during the penitential season but kept going on strong, dark specially brewed beer, reports Anna Arco in the UK Catholic Herald.
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24-Mar-2011
The Franciscans in the Holy Land, who have preserved Catholic sanctuaries in the area throughout the last 800 years, have launched a new website offering more information about the sacred sites as well as pilgrimages to the region.
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23-Mar-2011
New Liturgical Movement is a website dedicated to Sacred Liturgy and Liturgical Arts. It carries a rich array of articles, commentary, artwork, photos and drawings around the theme of liturgy.
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22-Mar-2011
A young American couple has started a blog about their courtship, engagement and preparation for Catholic marriage. Their preparations can be seen on For Your Marriage, an initiative of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.
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21-Mar-2011
New research published by Georgetown University in the United States has found the membership of the Society of Jesus is moving from the developed world to the developing world. Full details of the research can be found on the website.
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25-Mar-2011
This is not a close encounter of the friendly kind. Aliens have been targeting earth in the last few decades, and not with kind intentions. Think War of the Worlds, Independence Day, Monsters, Skyline. In fact, this looks and sounds like a bigger and louder version of Skyline.
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23-Mar-2011
Set in a sleepy coastal town in Queensland, A Heartbeat Away is a good-natured tale about corporate greed and the generation gap that may appeal to audiences looking for old-style Aussie entertainment in the mould of The Castle and The Dish.
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22-Mar-2011
Griff is a pathologically shy, reclusive young man, who works at a shipping company somewhere in Sydney, where he is bullied by his fellow co-worker, Tony. Then he meets Melody. Together they create characters, caught in their own madness, who instill oddness with warmth, and appeal.
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21-Mar-2011
This American thriller film is about an unemployed writer, who is an alcoholic and takes drugs. He is accidentally introduced to a new wonder-drug, which gives him super-human powers, and it allows him access to every part of his brain. Philosophically, the film raises a number of thought-provoking issues.
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25-Mar-2011
The Vatican's spokesman was wrong when he said the European Court of Human Rights' decision to allow Italian schools to display crucifixes recognises that “the culture of the rights of man must not be in opposition to the religious foundations of European civilisation”, writes William Oddie in the Catholic Herald.
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24-Mar-2011
It has been a turbulent start to 2011 with tragic natural disasters, political uprisings and most recently, the devastating tsunami in Japan, writes Anne Derwin, President of Catholic Religious Australia in the CRA March newsletter.
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23-Mar-2011
The Prime Minister has offered her fullest exposition for rejecting both euthanasia and same-sex marriage. Ms Gillard is not the social progressive many Labor followers have wrongly assumed. In fact, she has deep roots as a cultural conservative and traditionalist, writes Paul Kelly in the Australian.
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22-Mar-2011
For Catholics eager for signs of positive energy, next week should offer a welcome boost. In Paris, the Vatican’s Pontifical Council for Culture will stage The Courtyard of the Gentiles - a new forum for dialogue between believers and non-believers, writes John Allen in NCR Online.
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21-Mar-2011
Australia's cultural-left education establishment has embarked on a well-orchestrated and concerted campaign against Catholic and independent schools, and parents should not underestimate the degree of antagonism of these critics, writes Kevin Donnelly in ABC Online.
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24-Mar-2011
Cardinal Pell will speak on Catholic Intellectual Life and the Universities at Notre Dame University in Sydney on March 29. The lecture, hosted by Notre Dame's Centre for Faith, Ethics and Society, will be the first of the Bishops Speaking Out series.
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