News - National
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09-Jun-2011
A total overhaul for Disability Care and Support in Australia is needed, as the current system is under-funded, crisis driven and generally unco-ordinated, CatholicCare chief executive officer Bernard Boerma told the Catholic Weekly.
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07-Jun-2011
Catholic Social Services Australia has told Prime Minister Julia Gillard it will be forced to cut or potentially close services unless it receives extra funding to cover the cost of pay rises flowing from last month's landmark equal pay case, reports the Australian.
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07-Jun-2011
The Federal government's plan to exchange asylum seekers with refugees detained in Malaysia would violate the UN Convention on the Rights of Children, the Archdiocese of Sydney said in a statement reported by Fides.
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06-Jun-2011
The Australian Government must stop punishing asylum seekers and detaining children, the St Vincent de Paul Society's National Council of Australia said in a media release.
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05-Jun-2011
The influence of a "militant minority" conservative Catholics, dubbed the "temple police", is experiencing a resurgence in the Australian church, said a report in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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05-Jun-2011
Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd will sleep rough, on a piece of cardboard, in Melbourne for a night as part of the Vinnies CEO Sleepout this month, reports the Sydney Morning Herald.
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02-Jun-2011
There is a tremendous groundswell for action on climate change in Catholic congregations, said Sister Geraldine Kearney, one of the representatives from all major religions who met politicians in Canberra yesterday to discuss the subject, according to a report in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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02-Jun-2011
The new Australian pilgrim centre in Rome, Domus Australia, has begun taking bookings for July onwards, reports the Catholic News Agency.
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08-Jun-2011
The Archbishop of Melbourne Denis Hart has blessed the foundation stone of a new Catholic Leadership Centre in East Melbourne that will train teachers and leaders in the Catholic sector, the archdiocese's Catholic Education Office said.
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08-Jun-2011
Sydney's new Auxiliary Bishop Peter Comensoli was ordained last night at St Mary's Cathedral and said he is looking forward to "30 years of hard work upfront and centre", reports the Australian.
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07-Jun-2011
Parishioners in Shellharbour, south of Sydney, will have to wait at least a year to move into their new church, following a suspected arson attack last month on a new building that was nearly ready, reports the Illawarra Mercury.
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06-Jun-2011
The general manager of the Calvary Mater Hospital in Newcastle said he is confident a statement provided to patients in a cancer drug trial provides adequate information regarding pregnancy, reports the ABC.
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05-Jun-2011
A Catholic hospital in Newcastle has banned doctors from recommending contraception to patients in a drug trial, reports the Sydney Morning Herald.
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05-Jun-2011
St Monica's Primary at North Parramatta has a mega classroom in which 197 students worked in different-sized groups at a range of tasks at the same time, seemingly without disturbing each other, reports the Sydney Morning Herald.
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09-Jun-2011
The Queensland Catholic Education Commission has welcomed an announcement that Year 7 will become part of secondary school in the state from 2015.
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08-Jun-2011
The chaplain to the Queensland Police Service faced one of his toughest days officiating at the funeral service for slain Gold Coast policeman Damian Leeding, reports the Catholic Leader.
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News - International
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09-Jun-2011
The Catholic international development agency CIDSE is leading a new push for developed nations to introduce a Financial Transaction Tax (FTT) to finance the fight against climate change, in statements published on its website.
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07-Jun-2011
The page called Jesus Daily topped the statistics for interactivity on the social networking site Facebook, followed by a page called The Bible - ahead of Justin Bieber, Lady Gaga and Harry Potter, according to All Facebook.com.
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08-Jun-2011
Images of rainbows were being discouraged in a Catholic school in Canada because they are seen as too politically-charged for the anti-homophobia club that wants to use them, reports parentcentral.ca.
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06-Jun-2011
An Anglican parish in Maryland in the US has decided to become the first in the country to convert to Roman Catholicism, the Washington Post reports.
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05-Jun-2011
A pair of 92 year-old identical twins, from the Order of Friars Minor, died within hours of each other last week in the US, according to an AP report in the West Australian.
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09-Jun-2011
Governments should back "the exploitation of clean energy sources," Pope Benedict told a group of ambassadors at the Vatican, reports the Catholic News Agency.
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08-Jun-2011
The Vatican's Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei has clarified that girls are not allowed to serve at the Extraordinary Form of the Mass, reports the Catholic Herald.
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07-Jun-2011
An Italian art historian claims the Shroud of Turin was the creation of the Renaissance artist Giotto, based on a signature of the artist he claims to have found hidden in the burial cloth, reports the Telegraph in Britain.
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06-Jun-2011
An Australian priest based in Malta accused of abuse by a former altar boy must co-operate with investigators, the local bishop has said, reports the Times of Malta.com.
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06-Jun-2011
The first phase of the Vatican investigation into the Irish Church's response to clerical sex abuse has concluded and a report is due to be published early next year. But victims' groups have criticised the delay, say reports from the Catholic News Service and BBC.
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08-Jun-2011
Israeli authorities have been forced to rename a wheat strain named after Pope Benedict to "Binyamin" after religious local farmers refused to grow it, reports Ynetnews.
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07-Jun-2011
The proposed ordination of a Chinese bishop without Vatican approval has been postponed, just two days before the ordination was scheduled to take place, reports the Catholic News Agency and EWTN.
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06-Jun-2011
Pope Benedict has honoured Croatia's late controversial World War II Cardinal Alojzije Stepinac as a "defender of Jews, the Orthodox and of all the persecuted", according to an AFP report on the European Jewish Press website.
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05-Jun-2011
Pope Benedict spoke about "disintegration" of the family and urged couples not to give in to a "secularised mentality" of living together instead of marrying, in a Mass attended by tens of thousands in the Croatian capital, Zagreb, reports the BBC.
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Regulars
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09-Jun-2011
A childhood connection with the Salesian priests in the Middle East has played a part in arousing a Catholic woman's compassion in later life for Sudanese refugees in Egypt, reports the Catholic Leader.
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08-Jun-2011
The Archbishop of Canterbury suggested recently that Shakesepare "probably had a Catholic background". But how are we to interpret this? Jesuit historian Thomas McCoog looks at the literary and historical quest to determine the Bard's religious identity, in Thinking Faith.
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07-Jun-2011
Coffee, chocolate and Catholicism are three words that rarely appear in conjunction with one another, but the fair-trade division of Catholic Relief Services manages to tie them together to promote solidarity with workers around the world, reports the Catholic News Service.
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06-Jun-2011
Maria Tiimon, a shy, middle-aged Kiribati woman who now lives in Sydney, is the Pacific outreach officer for the Edmund Rice Centre. Tiimon, whose job to alert the world to the plight of her homeland, is the central figure in a new documentary about climate change in the Pacific, reports the Sydney Morning Herald.
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05-Jun-2011
A bitter international battle is raging over which nation has the biggest Jesus Christ, reports the Sunday Herald Sun.
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09-Jun-2011
CIDSE is an international alliance of 16 Catholic development agencies, mainly from Europe and north America. Its website has a rich and diverse array of articles, news and programs about the alliance's work.
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08-Jun-2011
The Sisters of Charity undertakes a wide range of ministries in the community, ranging from prison, rural and remote, to Aboriginal education and social justice. The website offers a comprehensive digest of news, information and links to their work.
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07-Jun-2011
Catholic Social Services Australia advances the social service ministry which is integral to the Mission of the Catholic Church in Australia. The CSSA website carries an interesting range of papers and news about human rights issues, including refugee advocacy and social welfare.
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06-Jun-2011
On June 29, the pope will celebrate his 60th anniversary as an ordained priest. The Congregation for the Clergy invited Catholics from all over the world to offer 60 hours of Eucharistic adoration in honour of the clergy and priestly vocations. Rome Reports has a video report of the Pope as a younger man and plans for the celebration.
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05-Jun-2011
June means it's time for the St Vincent de Paul Winter Appeal, plus the annual CEO Winter Sleepout, which will take place on June 16. The Vinnies website has full details of the appeal and the sleepout.
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09-Jun-2011
This Australian film tells the story of a British social worker who almost single-handedly confronted the UK Government on its relocation scheme that forcibly moved more than 130,000 children to other countries during the 1940s-70s. This is a powerful film that considers a particularly dark chapter of Catholic history in this country, and shows events that must never be allowed to happen again.
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08-Jun-2011
This sub-titled Spanish thriller film begins with a young woman, Sara, who is blind, and filled with fear, stumbling through her house to its basement. There she attempts suicide while her imaginary tormentor stands watching. The film is filled with gothic images, the acting is melodramatic but gloriously intense.
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05-Jun-2011
Not a sequel, the title declares, it is just part 2 where, as the characters keep reminding us, it is happening all over again. This time in Bangkok. There are a couple of laughs, but this time the central characters seemed more crass than before.
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07-Jun-2011
Angels Be Damned is a novel that centres on the life of Bernadette Mary O’Shea, a devout Irish Catholic who was born in Australia in 1915. Later, in 1938, when she finished secretarial college she left Australia to join her brother in France.
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09-Jun-2011
When I started on what the Americans would call the “religion beat” a good friend took me aside and told me I would see so much of the Church’s dark side that I would be in grave danger of losing my faith. Rather surprisingly, it has had the opposite effect, writes Anna Arco of her time at the Catholic Herald.
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08-Jun-2011
Here's a confession: I was biased when I saw Terrence Malick's astonishing new film, The Tree of Life. Very biased, wrtites the Rev James Martin in Huffington Post.
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07-Jun-2011
The sacking of William Morris as bishop of Toowoomba raises more than a few theological questions about the relationship between bishops and the Bishop of Rome, writes Richard McBrien in NCR Online.
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06-Jun-2011
The Archbishop of Dublin, Diarmuid Martin has criticised the Vatican’s glacial pace on reform and chided the church and he has mourned the lack of faith among young people in Ireland. In return, he has been ostracised by fellow bishops in Ireland and snubbed by the Holy See, writes Maureen Dowd in the New York Times.
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05-Jun-2011
There appear to be three elements at work in the troubles at Caritas: a turf war between it and the Vatican department which deals with charitable activity, a personality conflict and a difference of emphasis over policy, writes The Tablet.
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06-Jun-2011
At 12pm tomorrow a new web-based teaching and learning resource on the Eucharist, Together at One Altar, will be launched. The launch will be held at Parramatta Marist High at Westmead (NSW) and will be available across the country by web streaming
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