News - National
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26-Apr-2011
The arrangement that maintains funding for about 60 percent of Catholic schools had "reached its use-by-date", according to Schools Education Minister Peter Garrett, reports the Australian.
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26-Apr-2011
Lapsed Catholics and those who only come to Mass at Christmas and Easter outnumber practising Catholics, with only one in seven Australian Catholics going to Church every Sunday, reports the Age.
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27-Apr-2011
A former staff member of a NSW Catholic school has denied sexually assaulting boys, describing accusations made against him as "absolutely repulsive", said an AAP report in the Herald Sun.
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20-Apr-2011
Pope Benedict has hand-picked a 47-year-old priest from Wollongong in NSW for the role of auxiliary bishop to Sydney's Cardinal George Pell, said the Illawarra Mercury and ACBC media releases.
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26-Apr-2011
Thieves stole $19,000 in collection money during a robbery at a church in a Canberra suburb on Easter Sunday, reports the Canberra Times.
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News - International
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27-Apr-2011
Italian Cardinal Camillio Ruini has told journalists that he was given a signed petition at the conclave that elected Pope Benedict to push for fast-track sainthood for Pope John Paul II, said a La Stampa/Worldcrunch report.
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26-Apr-2011
American scholar and papal biographer George Weigel has countered criticism of John Paul II's speedy canonisation process, saying accusations that he was responsible for scandals that took place under his watch are ultimately unfounded, reports the Catholic News Agency.
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27-Apr-2011
Church and civil authorities in Rome are putting the finishing touches on logistical plans to handle potentially massive crowds for the beatification of Pope John Paul II, as the date draws closer, reports the Catholic News Service.
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26-Apr-2011
In a Vatican first, Pope Benedict responded to seven questions from people on a Good Friday Italian television program, including a Japanese child traumatised by the earthquake, a persecuted Iraqi Christian, and a mother of a comatose man, said reports in Zenit and the Sydney Morning Herald.
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20-Apr-2011
Residents in Lubeck, Germany take pride in four native sons who were murdered by the Nazis, but a plan to beatify three of them who were Catholics - leaving out the fourth, a Lutheran pastor - may divide the community, said a Religion News Service report in the Huffington Post.
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27-Apr-2011
The Vatican has sent its first representative to Vietnam since 1975 on a "historic" visit to the communist nation, said an AFP report on Google News.
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26-Apr-2011
Chinese police have detained at least a dozen Christians from an unregistered Beijing church as they gathered for Easter services, said an AP report in the Australian.
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Regulars
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27-Apr-2011
Pope Benedict XVI isn't alone in his apartment at the Vatican. Four "guardian angels" help him, and recently there has been an addition to the personnel at his service, reports La Stampa in an article that looks at the Pope's daily life in the Vatican, translated and published in Time magazine.
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26-Apr-2011
Members of Perth’s Ukrainian Greek Catholic community (pictured) joined other private citizens to raise enough money last month to fund over 20 university healthcare students to help orphans in their homeland for four years, reports The Record.
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27-Apr-2011
Catholic Schools Week starts on Sunday, May 1 and runs until May 7. It will involve the communities of all 615 Catholic primary and secondary schools across NSW and the ACT. The theme for 2011 is 'a learning adventure, a journey of faith'.
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26-Apr-2011
In 2002 an Australian band called Lifeboat 14 performed a song for John Paul II called Hey John Paul, for which they received an apostolic blessing. To celebrate his beatification this week, they have posted a clip of the song on Youtube.
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26-Apr-2011
Thor is a movie that brings a popular comic book hero vividly to life. There are Nordic Gods everywhere, and it brings action and adventure energetically to the screen. Relatively weak on drama, it is strong on entertainment.
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27-Apr-2011
Many of the arguments of private school critics are based on misuse of data and selective examples that portray the non-government sector as the preserve of privilege and the social elite. Nothing could be further from the truth, writes Scott Prasser (pictured), executive director of the Public Policy Institute at ACU, in the Canberra Times.
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26-Apr-2011
At one level, the important thing about Pope Benedict’s Good Friday Q & A isn’t so much what he said, but the fact it happened. The Pontiff's appearance reflects the fact that the Vatican has a communications problem, and is trying to do something about it, writes John Allen in NCR Online.
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27-Apr-2011
After very successful Open Days in the past two years, the Sisters of St Joseph will again open the doors of Mary MacKillop Place in North Sydney for the 2011 Open Day on Sunday, May 1.
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