News - National
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01-Jun-2011
Pope Benedict received the Governor-General of Australia, Quentin Bryce, yesterday at the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican, reports Vatican Radio.
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31-May-2011
The Chair of the National Catholic Education Commission (NCEC) has welcomed the Government's re-statement that it won't pre-empt the findings of the Gonski Review of Funding for Schooling, according to an NCECmedia release.
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29-May-2011
Families who choose a Catholic education will spend close to $250,000 in the 13 years of schooling, according to a new study reported by the Sunday Telegraph.
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29-May-2011
Cardinal George Pell said the early retirement of Toowoomba's Bishop William Morris is "a tragedy" but added that Rome had been "very patient" with the bishop for more than a decade, in an interview with the Catholic News Agency.
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29-May-2011
The man in charge of Australia's national curriculum has warned that any moves to axe religion classes could drive parents out of the public system and into private schools, said a report from the Sunday Age in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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26-May-2011
The Church has welcomed the draft R18+ Computer Games Guidelines by the Minister for Home Affairs and Justice, the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference said in a statement.
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01-Jun-2011
The Victorian government has cast the rules of parliament aside to reintroduce a bill that will allow faith-based groups to discriminate on grounds such as religion, marital status and gender, said an AAP report in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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01-Jun-2011
The parish priest of St Mary's Basilica in Geelong said money used defending sex offenders should be given instead to compensate victims of the crime, reports the Geelong Advertiser.
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30-May-2011
A religious brother has been found guilty of abusing 11 children at three schools across Victoria, the Herald Sun reports.
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31-May-2011
Parishioners and faithful were given the chance to have their say on the future of NSW's Wilcannia-Forbes Diocese at a special meeting held in Forbes Monday night, reports the Forbes Advocate.
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30-May-2011
Factional forces linked to the conservative Catholic group Opus Dei are making a push for power in Liberal veteran Philip Ruddock's safe northern Sydney seat of Berowra, reports the Australian.
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30-May-2011
Bishop Julian Porteous has criticised as "provocative and offensive" billboards by a Muslim group that calls Jesus a prophet, said an AAP report in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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29-May-2011
Church committee investigating the future of the struggling Wilcannia-Forbes Diocese in NSW will visit Forbes today, but not Broken Hill, reports the ABC.
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29-May-2011
A billboard carrying the slogan ''Jesus: a prophet of Islam'' has been vandalised one day after it was posted on one of Sydney's busiest roads, reports the Sydney Morning Herald.
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31-May-2011
A Brisbane parish priest has been stood down from his position and all public duties pending legal proceedings over "serious and disturbing" allegations, Archbishop John Bathersby of Brisbane said in a media statement.
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26-May-2011
The new ACT Chief Minister Katy Gallagher has met with Prime Minister Julia Gillard to urge her to support controversial territories' legislation - which could pave the way for legalised same-sex unions, reports the Australian.
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News - International
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02-Jun-2011
Pope Benedict has re-addressed the opportunities within the digital media in his message for the 45th World Communications Day, to be celebrated by the Church on Sunday, according to a media statement by the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference.
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30-May-2011
The Red Cross and the Vatican helped thousands of Nazis escape justice after World War II, according to a new book by a researcher from Harvard University, reports the Telegraph in Britain.
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30-May-2011
The Church has reiterated its oppositon to condoms in the fight against HIV, again labelling them an ineffective prevention tool that encourages immoral behaviour, reports PBS Newshour.
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29-May-2011
Caritas Internationalis must be guided by bishops and the official teaching of the church, Pope Benedict XVI said, because it acts in the name of the Catholic Church in its works, reports the Catholic News Service.
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02-Jun-2011
A lavishly jewelled cross and a ring once owned by Pope Paul VI sit under lock and key in a North Carolina jewellery shop, awaiting transfer to an eBay auction, said an AP report on NorthJersey.com.
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01-Jun-2011
The Archbishop of New York, Catholics and supporters of traditional marriage are mounting their own campaigns to beat a push to legalise same-sex marriages in the US state of New York, said a report in the National Catholic Reporter.
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01-Jun-2011
An expert in abuse prevention strategies said the report examining the causes of clergy sexual abuse in the US was over-simplified by media reports, reports the Catholic News Service.
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31-May-2011
A pair of robbers dressed as nuns are suspects in a bank hold-up in Chicago, in a scene eerily reminiscent of the movie The Town, said a report on news.com.au.
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02-Jun-2011
An Italian court has released $31 million it seized from the Vatican bank last year amid an inquiry into allegations of money-laundering, said an AP report in the Australian.
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01-Jun-2011
A former employee of a Catholic credit union in New Zealand allegedly stole "at least a six-figure sum, if not a seven-figure sum" from its members over a number of years, an investigator told the NZ Herald.
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31-May-2011
A Spanish judge has charged 20 Salvadoran soldiers with the killing of six Jesuit priests and two women during El Salvador's civil war, reports the BBC.
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30-May-2011
William Shakespeare was probably a Catholic, the Archbishop of Canterbury said in an exploration of spirituality and secularism in the Bard's plays, reports the Telegraph in Britain.
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02-Jun-2011
The Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association is preparing to ordain another bishop, with a priest who lacks Vatican backing as the leading candidate, said an AP report in the Washington Post.
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31-May-2011
The Archbishop of Tijuana in Mexico has confirmed the death of a priest who disappeared last month, reports the Catholic News Agency.
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Regulars
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02-Jun-2011
I grew up in South Africa. I think that South Africans generally believe that there is a God. I was baptised Catholic and my sister was baptised Methodist to keep our respective Catholic and Methodist grannies happy, writes Ingrid Geldart in The Record.
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01-Jun-2011
Ernesto Cardenal (pictured) was a Nicaraguan poet who became a Catholic priest, championed Marxism and the Sandinistas and evolved into a pillar of the liberation theology movement. At 86, he is still causing trouble, reports the Washington Post.,
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31-May-2011
Young Franciscan Fr Lukasz Kwiatkowski joined the Order as he was drawn to its founder’s connection with nature. He’ll get plenty of it when he embarks on his first mission to Papua New Guinea, a 26km hike to the nearest airport, reports the Record.
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30-May-2011
The American Archdiocese for the Military Services, the church structure that serves the men and women of its armed services, has seen a dramatic increase in the number of soldiers and former soldiers who want to serve as military chaplains, reports NCR Online.
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29-May-2011
Anti-Catholicism might be the last acceptable prejudice in society today, but Canadian author and journalist Michael Coren (pictured) isn't going to take it lying down. In his recently published book, Why Catholics Are Right, he examines a number of common criticisms of the Church, reports Zenit.
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02-Jun-2011
Benedict XVI met with the Governor General of Australia, Quentin Bryce, in the Vatican. Rome Reports, a television news agency, has video footage of the meeting, which includes Australia's Ambassador to the Holy See, Tim Fischer.
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01-Jun-2011
Ethica Accessories is a not-for-profit organisation specialising in quality fair trade products from Peru. Tomorrow it will hold a Winter Warmer at the Isabel Menton Theatre, 7-11 Mount St, North Sydney, from 12.30pm-8pm. Details at (02) 8912 2716 or email: gina.bradley@sosj.org.au
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31-May-2011
The National Catholic Education Commission maintains effective liaison with the Commonwealth Government and other key national education bodies. The website contains a copy of its submission to the Government's Review of Funding for Schooling.
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30-May-2011
Pax Christi is a gospel-based lay-inspired, peacemaking movement. Founded in the Catholic Church, its membership is open to individuals, groups and organisations of all faiths who are in sympathy with its aims and values. It is affiliated to Pax Christi International.
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29-May-2011
French architect Matthieu Lehanneur has converted the choir at St Hilaire church in Melle in the Deux-Sèvres department in France, to create a topographic, geological feeling. To reinforce that the church was built there, the Romanesque building has been infused with a mineral feeling and look with white marble.
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29-May-2011
Sinclair Lewis once wrote an important American novel about an ordinary American town – what better than to call it Main Street? This is not a version of Lewis’ novel, but it is in his spirit. This seems an extraordinarily ‘old-fashioned film’ with not a swear word or sex scene to be seen or heard. But it is interesting all the way through.
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02-Jun-2011
This Compass special edition features an extended interview with Bishop Bill Morris conducted by Geraldine Doogue, following his recent sacking as bishop of the Toowoomba Diocese.
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01-Jun-2011
Kevin Hart has been described as the "most outstanding Australian poet of his generation" and "one of the major living poets in the English language." He's also an internationally recognised philosopher, theologian and literary critic.
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31-May-2011
Ever since the promulgation of Nostra Aetate in October 1965, the Catholic Church has led the way in what has come to be known as the theology of religions, writes Michael Barnes in Thinking Faith.
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30-May-2011
This biography of the Jesuit priest Matteo Ricci explains his grasp and appreciation of Confucianism as it was understood and appreciated within the late Ming intellectual world. Ricci’s knowledge of classic Confucian texts, Western mathematics and science, along with his fabled memory, opened many doors, writes Thinking Faith.
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02-Jun-2011
There is something I can’t stand to see when I’m in a museum: religious art imprisoned. It’s so depressing when I come upon a work (obviously forged in a fit of pious ecstasy) now confined by the secular chains of an art museum - even one so grand as the Metropolitan Musuem of Art in New York, writes Kevin Kirby in Busted Halo.
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01-Jun-2011
Hell’s grip on the religious imagination is weakening, in part due to the growth of pluralism, writes Ross Douthat in the New York Times.
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31-May-2011
To work for a Catholic charity, a Christian charity, you have to believe that the "added extra" of your employer's faith dimension is not just optional, a line to be added to copy at the last minute, but integral to that charity's mission. It's not easy, writes Abigail Frymann in the Tablet.
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30-May-2011
The Australian press brushed aside the findings of the recent US study into the causes of sexual abuse by the church as somehow tainted, inherently flawed or otherwise implicated in some malign Catholic apologetic, writes Scott Stephens (pictured) in The Drum, on ABC Online..
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29-May-2011
No-one wants to diminish the ugliness of the Nazis during World War II, most importantly their hideous and unconscionable treatment of Jewish people and the people of Poland. Within this context I am still confronted with the baffling question of whether someone in the German military chain decided to spare Rome, writes Thomas Melady, former US ambassador to the Holy See, in NCR Online.
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