News - National
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20-Apr-2011
A loophole in federal laws passed under then-Prime Minister John Howard could allow states and territories to pass laws to allow gay marriage, ACT Chief Minister Jon Stanhope says in an AAP report in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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19-Apr-2011
Aged and Community Services Australia (ACSA) has announced that a former Franciscan priest, Patrick McClure, will take the helm at ACSA's new national headquarters, said a report on the Australian Ageing Agenda website.
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18-Apr-2011
Archbishop John Hepworth from the Traditional Anglican Communion says he has been negotiating ways to allow Anglican priests to be accepted by the Catholic Church, which the Vatican is likely to approve later this year, the ABC reports.
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17-Apr-2011
The quality of the education that non-government schools provide contributes significantly to a more equitable society, according to a report by Australian Catholic University's Public Policy Institute, the university said in a media release.
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14-Apr-2011
The money that schools collect in fees and donations should be considered in calculating their government funding, to compensate schools that choose to charge low fees, the National Catholic Education Commission has told a review of school funding, reports the Sydney Morning Herald.
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18-Apr-2011
More than 800 people attended a weekend of lectures and workshops on marriage and family life in the Third National Catholic Family Gathering in Melbourne, the Archdiocese of Melbourne said in a media release.
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17-Apr-2011
The Catholic Education Office in Victoria has warned parents about their children approaching a man dressed in a monkey suit promoting a text messaging service outside schools, reports the Age.
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20-Apr-2011
A larger than life statue of St Mary MacKillop created by Adelaide sculptor Judith Rolevink is about to be tested by fire as part of the bronze casting process, said a media release on behalf of the Sisters of St Joseph.
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18-Apr-2011
Sydney residents will be able to participate in the first Chinese re-enactment of the Passion of Jesus Christ in a northern suburb on Easter Saturday, reports the Rouse Hill Times.
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19-Apr-2011
Bishop Pat Power was the principal celebrant at the Archdiocese of Canberra and Goulburn's Chrism Mass this week, in recognition of his 25th anniversary of ordination as a bishop, reports the archdiocese.
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News - International
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20-Apr-2011
The Easter Triduum marks the "the three holy days in which the Church commemorates the mystery of Jesus' passion, death, and resurrection", Pope Benedict said in a Vatican Information Service report on Independent Catholic News.
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18-Apr-2011
The Pontifical Council for Social Communications has published a list of 150 bloggers who are invited to attend a meeting in Rome next month, according to its website.
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17-Apr-2011
Technological advances are "liberating and contribute to the progress of mankind" only if coupled with a genuine search for God, Pope Benedict told pilgrims gathered at St Peter's Square for Palm Sunday Mass, according to an AFP report on the ABC.
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17-Apr-2011
The Last Supper is commemorated a day late, a Cambridge University physicist claims in his new book, according to reports in the Sydney Morning Herald and the Belfast Telegraph.
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14-Apr-2011
A prominent English music director has attacked modern Church music, saying it is "low quality material" and that the practice of a lone cantor leading the singing was like "an ecclesiastical karaoke", reports the Catholic News Agency.
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20-Apr-2011
Lady Gaga is "talentless and boring", said the US-based Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, reports the Sydney Morning Herald.
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19-Apr-2011
The chairman of the US Bishops' Committee on Doctrine has written to the country's bishops outlining a fresh relationship between them and theologians, following the recent debate about a theologian's book, said the National Catholic Reporter.
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19-Apr-2011
An artwork by US artist Andres Serrano, which shows a crucifix submerged in a glass of the artist's urine, was vandalised at a French gallery where it is on display, said reports in the Sydney Morning Herald, SBS and the Catholic News Agency.
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19-Apr-2011
An Italian film about a panic-prone pope who needs a psychoanalyst has opened in Italian cinemas to mixed response, with an editorial in the bishops' newspaper calling for its boycott - but no official condemnation from the Vatican, said reports in the Sydney Morning Herald and The Guardian.
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19-Apr-2011
A local man walked into the sacristy of the iconic Sagrada Familia basilica in Barcelona, sprayed it with flammable liquid and set fire to priest's robes stored there, report the Guardian and the Canadian Press.
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17-Apr-2011
A former bishop who has admitted abusing two of his nephews in Belgium has disappeared from a French religious community where the Vatican ordered him to seek "spiritual and psychological treatment", said an AFP report in the West Australian.
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18-Apr-2011
A traditional Filipino recitation of a day-long prayer of Jesus Christ's passion is now the Internet, thanks to a website by the country's bishops, said an AFP report in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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17-Apr-2011
Philippine President Benigno Aquino said he will push for the passage of a reproductive health bill in Congress, to fight poverty, despite risking excommunication from the Church, said a Reuters report in the West Australian.
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18-Apr-2011
American Sister Michael Marie has travelled to Japan to rescue animals affected by the tsunami, earthquake and radiation from damaged power plants, according to a report in the Columbus Dispatch.
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Regulars
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20-Apr-2011
Ninety-year-old Kokoda Trail veteran Colin Richardson never got to thank the army chaplain who anointed him as he lay bleeding from a massive chest wound partly held together with safety pins, reports the Catholic Leader.
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19-Apr-2011
Perth's Voice of the Voiceless ministry that prays for and financially assists seminarians and the poor around the world has spread to Melbourne, London and Nigeria, reports the Record.
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18-Apr-2011
A Sri Lankan priest (pictured) who is living in self-imposed exile visited Australia recently to plead on behalf of his people, reports the Catholic Leader.
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17-Apr-2011
Throughout the 41 years of Communist rule in the former Eastern bloc country, an underground network of groups and individuals kept the Catholic faith alive, even to the point of ordaining married men and women. Last week, their achievement was belatedly honoured, reports the Tablet.
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20-Apr-2011
The Vatican's newspaper, L'osservatore Romano, has launched its online edition. Readers can now go straight to the site for all the latest news and details from the Vatican.
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19-Apr-2011
Language expert, Professor Roly Sussex (pictured), discusses the origins and meanings of the words of Easter, on ABC radio's daily interview show with Richard Fidler. Here is the transcript and audio file.
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18-Apr-2011
This BBC photo gallery has a colourful array of images of Palm Sunday celebrations from across the world.
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17-Apr-2011
The Australian Confraternity of Catholic Clergy website has just been launched. The ACCC is a membership organization for diocesan clergy. However, the Confraternity welcomes and encourages lay and religious associate members
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20-Apr-2011
Incendies is a film that is emotionally very powerful. Its story-line unfolds haphazardly, but the pieces of its puzzle come together with amazing force, helped greatly by the realistic and poetically inspired imagery of a country ravaged by war.
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19-Apr-2011
Potiche is the kind of comedy with serious undertones that the French do so well - with some Gallic behaviour, especially in relationships, that other cultures are more reticent about.
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18-Apr-2011
The new film version of Graham Greene’s 1939 novel, Brighton Rock, brings an old way and style of Catholicism to centre screen in a drama that is powerful, giving audiences something to question.
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20-Apr-2011
How can we hear something new in the Passion narratives of the gospels each time we listen to them? Scripture scholar, Peter Edmonds SJ chooses three voices from the Passion narrative of St Matthew, in Thinking Faith.
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19-Apr-2011
While personal anecdotes about why people leave the Church can be helpful, formal research provides a more realistic picture. Surveys in America shows that half those who leave become unaffiliated and the other half become Protestant, writes Thomas Reese in the National Catholic Reporter.
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18-Apr-2011
One of the repeated justifications for euthanasia is that it relieves the burden of the suffering as an act of compassion and love. Yet this “compassion” or “love” is largely left undefined in modern discourse, including by those who advocate for euthanasia, writes Joel Hodge in ABC Online.
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17-Apr-2011
Tensions surrounding Catholic identity are very much in the air these days. People who regard themselves as authentically Catholic rarely enjoy being told they’re not, or that they’re only selectively so, writes John Allen (pictured) in the National Catholic Reporter.
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17-Apr-2011
This Good Friday, the Franciscan Friars will stage the 75th anniversary of the Stations Of the Cross at “Maryfields”, Campbelltown, the former home of the Franciscan Novitiate, in Sydney's west.
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