News - National
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14-Apr-2011
A non-denominational service is scheduled to be held on Easter Sunday deep underground at Jenolan Caves west of Sydney, in the renowned Cathedral Chamber of the Lucas Cave, said a report on Christian Today Australia.
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14-Apr-2011
Pope Benedict XVI has sent his prayers in a video message for the Third National Family Gathering, which begins today in Melbourne, urging families to become "protagonists of a new humanity" that embraces a culture of love and life, reports Zenit.
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13-Apr-2011
The editor of the priests' magazine The Swag has attacked Cardinal George Pell over his argument in his criticism of theological extremism, reports the Australian.
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12-Apr-2011
Cardinal George Pell has hit back at an article published by retired Melbourne priest Father Eric Hodgens, which attacked - among others - the credentials of the church's bishops, reports The Australian.
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11-Apr-2011
The official biography of St Mary MacKillop, which draws on historical records and the saint's own letters, has proved so popular it has been republished, the Josephite Sisters said in a media release.
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10-Apr-2011
The Vatican's head of Pontifical Council for Migrants is scheduled to visit Australia in May, and aims to encourage migrant chaplains and communities living here, the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference said in a media release.
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13-Apr-2011
CatholicCare Victoria has backed a call from Victoria's police Chief Commissioner Simon Overland for stronger parenting, which the commissioner said has become a "lost skill", reports the Herald Sun.
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08-Apr-2011
Grieving families will be discouraged from using photo presentations and popular music during funerals in the Diocese of Sale in Victoria, under new guidelines set by its bishop, reports the ABC.
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14-Apr-2011
Waiting times in emergency departments and elective surgery waiting lists could be reduced if the NSW Government proceeds with plans to contract non-government hospitals to treat more public patients, said a report in the Catholic Weekly.
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13-Apr-2011
A girls' Catholic school in Sydney will have to pay damages to a former student after the Supreme Court found it had failed to address the ongoing bullying she experienced, reports the Sydney Morning Herald.
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13-Apr-2011
The new Bishop of the Maitland-Newcastle Diocese, Father William Wright, will be ordained on June 15 at Newcastle's Sacred Heart Cathedral, reports the ABC.
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12-Apr-2011
Holy Cross student Liam Van Deth has won a major award in the Sydney religious art competition, the Clancy Art Prize, for his painting of St Mary MacKillop, reports the Northern District Times.
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11-Apr-2011
Claims that refugees who have settled in the Newcastle area are living in squalid conditions have prompted the Immigration Minister Chris Bowen to announce an independent inquiry, reports the ABC.
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10-Apr-2011
A religious sister who works with refugees in the Hunter in NSW said refugee families in the region are living in squalor, reports the ABC.
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12-Apr-2011
More than 50 students from a Brisbane Catholic boys' college have been suspended after rating their female teachers according to appearance on a social networking site created by students, report the Sydney Morning Herald and the Courier Mail.
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11-Apr-2011
Queensland's Catholic Education Commission predicts the state government's plan to move Year 7 into high school will cost Catholic schools alone around $250 million, reports the ABC.
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News - International
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13-Apr-2011
The Vatican will distribute corrections in translations of the YouCat, as reports of additional concerns - related to wording about euthanasia and the church's view of other religions - emerged, report the AP in the Herald Online and the Catholic News Service.
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12-Apr-2011
Distribution of an Italian edition of a new youth catechism has been temporarily suspended because of a translation error concerning the church's teaching on contraception, reports the Catholic News Service.
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11-Apr-2011
The Italian version of the Vatican-sponsored World Youth Day catechism says that Christian couples "can and should" use "contraceptive methods" - apparently caused by a problem in the original German text - reports the Catholic News Agency.
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10-Apr-2011
The Vatican has invited bloggers from across the globe to Rome next month for an unprecedented meeting to foster "informal exchange and contact", said the Catholic News Agency.
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11-Apr-2011
The Church in the US and its insurers paid $124 million last year to settle allegations of child sexual abuse, up from $104 million in 2009, Reuters reports from a church-commissioned audit.
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10-Apr-2011
An American priest who founded a global TV ministry network has taken leave of absence from his public ministry after admitting to an affair, reports the Catholic News Agency.
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12-Apr-2011
An Irish nun said she has seen a letter by Mother Teresa that proves that she was forced out of Ireland by the church 40 years ago, reports the Irish Independent.
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11-Apr-2011
The remains of Pope Innocent XI were moved last week from the altar in the Chapel of San Sebastian to make way for the soon-to-be beatified Pope John Paul II, reports the Catholic News Agency.
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10-Apr-2011
A judge has cleared the way for Ireland to publish a new report into decades of Church cover-ups of child abuse, including how a Cork bishop kept crimes in his diocese secret long after the Irish church issued orders to start telling police, said a report on bigpondnews.com.
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08-Apr-2011
The number of Catholics leaving the Church rose by 40 percent in 2010 over the previous year - a rise partly blamed on trust lost over abuse scandals, said reports by Reuters in the National Post, and AFP on Google News.
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12-Apr-2011
A Puertan Rican cardinal wants singer Ricky Martin to refrain from promoting homosexuality and to set a good example for young people, reports the Catholic News Agency.
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10-Apr-2011
Archbishop Orani Joao Tempesta of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil has expressed deep sadness over the worst school shooting in the country's history.
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14-Apr-2011
The Vatican has confirmed that Paul Liang Jiansen has been ordained as bishop of the Chinese city of Jiangmen, the first such ordination in China since relations with the Holy See broke down last year, reports the Catholic News Agency.
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13-Apr-2011
At least three "underground" priests in China's northern Hebei province have been detained in the Chinese crackdown on human rights activists and Christians not affiliated to the government-sanctioned Church, reports ucanews.com.
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Regulars
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14-Apr-2011
Mgr Hugh O’Flaherty’s duel with the Gestapo leader in Rome during world War II is legendary. But then the priest did something more amazing: he changed his enemy's faith, writes Stephen Walker, author of a new book on the story, Hide and Seek, in the Catholic Herald.
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13-Apr-2011
When hundreds of thousands of people converge on the Vatican for the beatification of Pope John Paul II next month, a Jewish orchestra conductor from New York will have an honoured place among them, the JTA Global Jewish News service reports.
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12-Apr-2011
The grassy hill in Rome where Galileo changed the world 400 years ago is now part of the American Academy, which recently celebrated its connection to Galileo with a number of events, including a discussion of faith and science with a Vatican astronomer (pictured), reports CNS.
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11-Apr-2011
After 27 years building Broadway and movie sets, Ron Daisomont is now working with a new material, and he is learning patience. His art is biblical sculpture. His medium: bars of Dial soap. You might say he has cleaned up his act, reports the Catholic News Agency.
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10-Apr-2011
Justice Kevin Duggan has been a Supreme Court Judge in South Australia for the past 23 years. Now he has been charged with helping Catholics think about life after death, and how they might wish to leave their worldly possessions behind. He outlines some of his ideas to Rebecca Digirolamo in Southern Cross.
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14-Apr-2011
Monsignor Anthony Figueiredo, now an official at the Pontifical Council Cor Unum, was a friend of Mother Teresa’s and worked for a time with Pope John Paul II in the Vatican. In the lead-up to John Paul's beatification on May 1, Msgr Anthony recalls, in an audio link, the close relationship between the two blessed.
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13-Apr-2011
Sacred Destinations is an ecumenical guide to more than 1,250 sacred sites, holy places, pilgrimage destinations, religious architecture and sacred art in over 60 countries around the world. In includes photo galleries plus detailed maps and lots of practical travel information.
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12-Apr-2011
From April 15, in the Rafael Room of the Vatican Museums, visitors can admire the exhibition Fabergé. The Sacred Images. Over 140 works of art are on show, from the famous Easter Eggs belonging to the Czars to precious icons from the Imperial period.
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11-Apr-2011
This website describes itself as "Not always happy but happy to be Catholic". It contains everything from book and film reviews to bible studies and prayers, favourite posts and superheroes.
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10-Apr-2011
The National Leadership Roundtable on Church Management is an American organization of laity, religious, and clergy working together to promote best practices in the management and human resource development of the Catholic Church in the US - through tapping into the expertise of the laity.
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12-Apr-2011
Julie Taymor’s Titus(1999) is one of the best film adaptations of a Shakespearean play. Powerfully made, it can be seen as a commentary on the 1991-2001 Balkans War. Taymor takes a similar approach with her latest film The Tempest, which brings fresh insight to the Shakespeare play.
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11-Apr-2011
Some of this film is played for laughs. Some of it is serious. It is the story of a con man. It is a love story. What makes it different from the usual movie is that the two central characters, played by Jim Carrey and Ewan McGregor, are gay men.
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10-Apr-2011
This is a deeply humane film that repays viewing. The English translation of the title might suggest far more than the film delivers in terms of trysts and romance. But, in terms of a friendship between a 60-year-old man and a 95-year-old woman who encounter each other in a public park, it is very rich indeed.
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13-Apr-2011
Today, many people follow a calling after they have lived out a career-based vocation. Compass meets a former Catholic nun who has just been ordained an Anglican priest; a former naval officer training to be a Franciscan brother; and, a former lawyer and federal politician who is now a Catholic priest.
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14-Apr-2011
The secular world is killing us, says David Tacey in this program, titled Spiritual Sickness. The Jungian scholar and author believes that living an entirely rational existence seeks its opposite in intoxicants and other forms of escape, which lead to depression and self-harm.
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14-Apr-2011
Liturgy has always aroused strong passions. In the 19th century, some London churches served by Anglican priests who wore lace were stoned. So it is not surprising that the introduction of a new translation of the Catholic Mass should be turbulent, writes Andrew Hamilton in Eureka Street.
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13-Apr-2011
Spain has become Ground Zero in the European contest between Catholicism and the dictatorship of relativism, with secularist radicals seeking to impose their concept of freedom through coercive state power and intimidation, writes George Weigel in Ethics and Public Policy Center.
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12-Apr-2011
There is a new agenda to remedy the teacher problem: make them better and make them feel better by raising their "prestige" instead of paying them more, writes Greg Craven, Vice-Chancellor of ACU, in the Australian.
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11-Apr-2011
Now is the time for Catholic clubs to exercise leadership by actively distancing themselves from the upcoming advertising campaign of Clubs Australia/Clubs NSW, writes Michael Mullins in Eureka Street.
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10-Apr-2011
The problem with the current debate about teaching religion in schools is that instead of seeking education as a formation of the whole person, it presents education in a limited and technical sense as the formation of a certain kind of mind that functions in some of scientific, technical fashion, writes Joel Hodge (pictured) in ABC Online.
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