News - National
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04-May-2011
The Church expects welcome from its own ranks for migrants - not just from governments and other organisations, a Vatican official responsible for migrants issues told Chaplains during a pastoral visit to Australia, according to Fides.
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03-May-2011
Catholic Health Australia chief executive Martin Laverty has raised concerns about a plan to name and shame underperforming public and private hospitals, reports the Australian.
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02-May-2011
The Edmund Rice Centre hopes a recent Commonwealth Ombudsman investigation into detainee protests on Christmas Island will help bring more public scrutiny on to the "root causes" behind them, reports the Catholic Weekly.
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01-May-2011
Cardinal George Pell is certain Pope John Paul II will become a saint, possibly within five years, according to an AAP report in the Herald Sun.
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28-Apr-2011
A new award created by Catholic Health Australia (CHA), to recognise those who have given extraordinary service to the Church's health and aged care ministry, has been presented to a Sister of Charity who was "instrumental in establishing CHA", the organisation said in a media release.
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03-May-2011
The Catholic education sector welcomed a $240 million funding boost in Victoria for Catholic and independent schools, with the government funding those students at 25 percent of the cost of education in a government school, reports the Herald Sun.
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04-May-2011
An alliance among the Anglican and Catholic dioceses of Newcastle, along with the Catholic Diocese of Broken Bay, was renewed last night at Christ Church Cathedral in Newcastle, reports the Newcastle Herald.
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02-May-2011
NSW Catholic schools performed streets ahead of their public school counterparts, according to an updated analysis of the Federal Government's Building the Education Revolution, reports the Catholic Weekly.
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01-May-2011
Up to 1000 people gathered at St Mary's Cathedral in Sydney to watch the beatification of Pope John Paul II, watching the ceremony live via a large screen on Sunday evening, said an AAP report on SBS.
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04-May-2011
Brisbane's Archbishop John Bathersby says the Pope must have had a good reason to sack the bishop of the Diocese of Toowoomba in Queensland, but he's not been privy to the details of the case, reports AAP in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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03-May-2011
Bishop Toowoomba Bishop William Morris says he's not angry he's been forced into early retirement by the Church, reports the Courier-Mail, expressing instead a sadness for the Church.
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02-May-2011
The Auxiliary Bishop of Brisbane, Bishop Brian V Finnigan will succeed Toowoomba's newly retired Bishop William Morris, the Apostolic Nunciature in Australia has announced in a media release.
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01-May-2011
The Bishop of Toowoomba in Queensland, William Morris, has stunned parishioners by retiring after falling out with the Vatican and Pope Benedict XVI, reports The Courier-Mail.
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05-May-2011
All five MPs speaking in the South Australian Parliament yesterday indicated they would block a plan supported by Health Minister John Hill to give doctors a legal defence for providing pain-relieving drugs that hasten death, reports AdelaideNow.
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04-May-2011
A young Australian sister who founded a religious congregation focused on the charism and spirituality of Pope John Paul II proclaimed the second reading at his beatification Mass in Rome on Sunday, reports the Record.
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01-May-2011
The head of Australia's Catholic Social Justice Council says the Government must create jobs to reduce welfare dependency in remote indigenous communities, reports the ABC.
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News - International
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02-May-2011
The Catholic Church needs active members who blog, but Catholic bloggers also need the church - especially to remind them of the virtue of charity needed in their writing - said participants at a Vatican meeting, the Catholic News Service reports.
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02-May-2011
The Vatican said the killing of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden should prompt serious reflection about one's responsibility before God, not rejoicing, the Catholic News Service reports.
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01-May-2011
Pope Benedict beatified his predecessor, Pope John Paul II, in Rome on Sunday in front of a million people, said an AFP report in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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28-Apr-2011
The newly-elected Pope Benedict had considered but rejected the instant canonisation of Pope John Paul II, a Vatican correspondent says, according to a Catholic News Agency report.
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03-May-2011
A US Catholic couple is blazing a new trail in adult cardiac stem-cell research, said a Catholic News Service report in the Catholic Sentinel.
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01-May-2011
The Christian Brothers in North North America, who run schools around the US, have filed for bankruptcy because of sexual abuse claims, said a report in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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04-May-2011
A group of religious investors led by an American sister - who has challenged Goldman Sachs' executive pay - will tell every leading corporate CEO to improve their workers' wages, reports the Independent in Britain.
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03-May-2011
The devil may wear Prada, but a Sicilian bishop turned out for a Mass this week in vestments from Giorgio Armani, reports the Guardian.
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03-May-2011
Pilgrims vsiting St Peter's Basilica have been given their first glimpse of Blessed Pope John Paul II's new final resting place, reports the Catholic News Agency.
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02-May-2011
Poland is seeking the miracle, the act of healing, that will clinch John Paul II's elevation to sainthood, said a report by The Times in The Australian.
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05-May-2011
South Korean police have found the body of a man with his hands and feet nailed to a wooden cross and a crown of thorns on his head, in an abandoned quarry, said a report in the Age.
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05-May-2011
A Catholic nanny from India who saved her Jewish ward during 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai is being recognised by the International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation, reports Zenit.
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04-May-2011
Pakistan Church leaders want the government to boost security for their communities in the wake of Osama bin Laden's death, fearing it will shatter the peace they have enjoyed for 10 years, said the Catholic News Service, citing a ucanews.com report.
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05-May-2011
Brazil's high court has formally opened deliberations on recognising "stable unions" regardless of the sexual orientation of the couples, said an AFP report on the ABC.
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Regulars
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05-May-2011
The killing of Osama bin Laden has raised complex moral questions about the nature of justice and retribution, according to Catholic bishops and theologians, reports the Catholic News Service.
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04-May-2011
Lending support in flood-ravaged Victoria then hitting Penola before crossing the Nullabor and ending up in disaster-stricken Queensland is an epic journey in itself. Add two Josephite nuns in a van spreading the message of Mary MacKillop to school children along the way and that's one interesting road trip, reports the ABC.
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03-May-2011
As the details of bin Laden’s death emerged, dozens of Facebook friends chimed in to share the news and their candid thoughts. There were variations of “Got him!” but soon, more nuanced and thoughtful comments began appearing, writes Cathleen Falsani (pictured) on Religion News Service.
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02-May-2011
Mary Corita Kent was a Catholic sister who was one of the leading artists reflecting the American social and political upheavals of the 1960s and '70s. A new exhibition of her silk screens in Melbourne focuses a fresh light on her mix of creativity and spiritualism, reports the Sydney Morning Herald.
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01-May-2011
Sharing Aussie mateship was the order of the day when more than 80 refugees from south of Brisbane were invited to a day at the beach on the Gold Coast recently, reports the Catholic Leader.
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05-May-2011
Theology on Tap is a relaxed and casual forum for young Catholics in Sydney to meet and exchange ideas. Organisers are trialling a new home for the monthly gathering of young people after it outgrew two previous venues.
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04-May-2011
Having started out as the John Paul II sisters, a Perth-based group is now called the Missionaries of the Gospel. This is the group that Sr Bernadette Pike, whoce voice was heard at the beatification ceremony of John Paul II in Rome, belongs to.
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03-May-2011
The national conference of the Australian Association of Catholic Adult Faith Educators is open to anyone from parishes and dioceses involved in adult faith education. The web site provides background information to the conference, workshop choices and an online registration form.
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02-May-2011
The newly-formed Australian Pastoral Musicians Network comprises clergy and other pastoral leaders, musicians and singers, teachers and educators, parishes and dioceses, composers and publishers. The APMN website carries details of workshops, internet resources, events and other items of interest.
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01-May-2011
This is the Catholic Diocese of the Australian Defence Force which has been charged with the pastoral care of the uniformed members of Australia's navy, army and air force, their families and of the civilians employed by the Department of Defence.
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05-May-2011
The target audience of Something Borrowed is women. While Kate Hudson has top billing, this is really a Ginnifer Goodwin film. Kate is Darcy, an extrovert and party animal off the page, the best friend since childhood of Ginnifer’s Rachel, now a reputable lawyer.
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03-May-2011
Mad Bastards should be seen by as many Australians as possible. It entertains, but it also reveals a great deal about Aboriginal life in Western Australian communities in recent decades.
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02-May-2011
Rio is a lively animated entertainment that should reach across all ages. The film has ecological undertones for the serious-minded with the critique of the illegal bird smugglers. But, it is also quite funny.
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01-May-2011
It’s 30 years since Dudley Moore was the cheerful, alcoholic ne’er-do-well, Arthur, the New York billionaire. It’s 30 years since John Gielgud’s Oscar-winning performance as Arthur’s butler and nanny, Hobson. No reason not to have an update.
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04-May-2011
Eamonn Holmes (pictured) returns to Northern Ireland to host a special program for Mothering Sunday - hymns recorded at St Michael's Church, Enniskillen. Burn victim Melaine Higgins describes the joy of being a new mother. Interview with Dana, 1970 winner of Eurovision Song Contest.
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05-May-2011
In all of the coverage given to John Paul II's beatification, another recent Pope seems to have been neglected. Pope Paul VI will go down in history as one of the truly great pontiffs, writes Michael Winters in NCR Online.
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04-May-2011
One of the blessings of Catholicism is that it offers such a wide-screen vision upon the ironies of history, the paradoxes of culture, upon human foibles and upon God’s boundless mercy, writes Anna Krohn in The Record.
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03-May-2011
Universal attention given to the royal wedding belies the theory that marriage as an institution is dying. Prince William and Catherine Middleton are typical of their generation in many respects, writes The Tablet.
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02-May-2011
Jesuit Social Services recently set up a project in Alice Springs to resource the local parish and local Aborigines who want to take more control of their own lives. If we are to get our teeth into issues of acute injustice, we need to eyeball both the decision-makers and those affected by those decisions, writes Fr Frank Brennan in Eureka Street.
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01-May-2011
Now that Pope Benedict XVI has beatified John Paul II, and canonisation seems a foregone conclusion, the question becomes: What will be the simple idea, or ideas, associated with John Paul II, which define how he’s recalled by future generations, asks John Allen in NCR Online.
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