News - National
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30-Jun-2011
While the number of religious sisters, brothers and clerical priests is decreasing, their ministries and roles have significantly broadened, according to a survey on religious life, said the Catholic Weekly.
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30-Jun-2011
The best-performing Australian superannuation fund up until the end of May, Catholic Super, should achieve double digits returns, after posting a 12 percent return for the 11 months to the end of May, reports the Australian.
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29-Jun-2011
A priest on special secondment from Sydney's Rose Bay will celebrate the wedding Mass for Australian bookmaker Tom Waterhouse and fiancee Hoda Vakili in the Italian town of Taormina, reports the Daily Telegraph.
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27-Jun-2011
A Dominican religious sister will receive a National Aboriginal Islander Day Observance Committee (NAIDOC) award for her services to the Aboriginal and Catholic community, said a report from the Advertiser on AdelaideNow.
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28-Jun-2011
A former Catholic school teacher who says she saw priests grooming students in her classroom has told an inquiry that Victoria's child protection system is failing victims of clergy sexual assault, said an AAP report on news.com.au.
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23-Jun-2011
Bishop Vincent Long Van Nguyen OFM Conv was ordained in Melbourne last night, saying he ventures ahead "trusting in the sustaining power of God and the support of many", the Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne said in a statement.
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28-Jun-2011
Residents in the Sydney suburb of Croydon, protesting a six-storey housing development proposed by Catholic Healthcare, have written to Planning Minister Brad Hazzard for a review of the project's handling, reports the Inner West Courier.
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27-Jun-2011
Muslim activist Diaa Mohamed and Anglican Reverend Ian Powell will take part in a panel discussion on extremism and religion tomorrow, their first appearance together since communication via a series of billboard signs, reports the Australian.
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27-Jun-2011
Repair works needed on Bathurst's St Michael and John's Cathedral - a part of the city's heritage - are expected to cost at least $2.5 million, reports the Western Advocate.
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26-Jun-2011
It is impossible to put a price on the damage to a young woman's mental health from bullying at a Catholic girls school, her lawyer says, according to an AAP report in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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23-Jun-2011
St Vincent de Paul has labelled as "completely unreasonable" for low-income households a proposed increase of $265 per year on retail electricity pricing for the average customer in NSW, the Catholic Weekly reports.
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26-Jun-2011
A shared mortuary owned by the Catholic Church has complained about a Brisbane funeral operator, who is being accused of failing to refrigerate bodies and letting them decompose before burial or cremation, said a Sunday Mail report on news.com.au.
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26-Jun-2011
The remains of the first Catholic bishop of Perth, John Brady, are back in WA, to be re-interred to a new crypt under the city's St Mary's Cathedral in August, reports the West Australian.
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29-Jun-2011
The Archbishop of Canberra and Goulbun, Mark Coleridge, has blessed a new mosaic honouring Caroline Chisholm on the wall of the Saints Peter and Paul's Old Cathedral in Goulburn, said an AAP report in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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News - International
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30-Jun-2011
The trend to abort baby girls shows that the cultural crisis leads to a demographic one - and ultimately economic woes, according to the director of the European Centre for Law and Justice, reports Zenit.
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29-Jun-2011
Christian missionaries should renounce all "deception and coercive means" of winning converts, according to an agreement released this week by a broad coalition of evangelicals, the World Council of Churches and the Vatican, said a Religion News Service report in the National Catholic Reporter.
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29-Jun-2011
Celebrating Mass with archbishops from 25 countries on the feast of Sts Peter and Paul, Pope Benedict reflected on his 60 years as a priest, calling it a demanding and "awe-inspiring" ministry that brought him closer to God, reports the Catholic News Service.
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28-Jun-2011
On the vigil of the feast of Sts Peter and Paul, and his 60th anniversary of priestly ordination, Pope Benedict launched the Vatican's new Web portal with a tweet from an iPad, according to Zenit and Rome Reports.
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28-Jun-2011
The Vatican is studying a possible document on the relationship between clergy and laity, touching upon the sensitive issue of the administration of the church's goods, the Catholic News Service reports.
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26-Jun-2011
Pope Benedict may himself put the new Vatican news portal online with a click from the Apostolic Palace in its launch this week, said an AP report on the US ABC News website.
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27-Jun-2011
The Catholic bishops of New York have voiced their concern about new legislation allowing gay marriage in the state, saying "this tragic presumption of government" could undermine "both marriage and family", said a Catholic News Service report in the National Catholic Reporter.
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26-Jun-2011
The city of New York can thank its Catholic governor for the newly acquired legal status for same-sex marriages, said a New York Times report in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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29-Jun-2011
A 1,400-year-old fresco of St Paul has been discovered in an ancient Roman catacomb, the Telegraph.co.uk reports.
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28-Jun-2011
A French woman who claims to have been brainwashed by Opus Dei is suing the organisation for allegedly keeping her illegally as a domestic servant, said an AFP report in the West Australian.
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27-Jun-2011
There is no "fundamental obstacle" from "a theological perspective" for women to say the Mass from the altar, the Patriarch of Lisbon in Portugal said, according to a Vatican Insider report picked up by ucanews.com and a report on NCR.
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27-Jun-2011
The Polish government has asked the Vatican to censure an outspoken priest after he described the country as uncivilised and governed by a "totalitarian" regime, reports the Telegraph.co.uk.
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26-Jun-2011
Israel's ambassador to the Vatican has recanted over his praise of Pope Pius XII, saying his personal judgment on the wartime pontiff's role in the matter of Jews in Rome was "premature", said an AP report on Forbes.com.
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29-Jun-2011
A software developed by an Israeli team is teasing out the possible different authorships found in the Bible, said an AP report in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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30-Jun-2011
Police in China have reportedly detained a Vatican-backed bishop-elect and blocked his ordination as a bishop, while ordaining an unapproved bishop in another province, said an AFP report in the Australian, and reports on ucanews.com.
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28-Jun-2011
China's Leshan diocese is scheduled to ordain a bishop without papal mandate today, on the feast of Saints Peter and Paul, reports ucanews.com.
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Regulars
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30-Jun-2011
Raised Catholic by Jewish and Catholic parents, Msgr Robert Stern loved his faith but never planned on becoming a priest. The outgoing head of the international Vatican agency Catholic Near East Welfare Association had his eyes on becoming a nuclear physicist, reports the Catholic News Service, in an article published by NCR Online.
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29-Jun-2011
Standing barefoot on the mudflats 5km from Beagle Bay, one hand on a white cross marking the last resting place of Sister Bernadette O'Connor, Dr Richard Reid gazed over the austere landscape in quiet reflection, reports the West Australian.
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28-Jun-2011
A Perth student will use his recent scholarship to continue his research at Oxford University into an era when the act of composing sacred music endangered lives, reports The Record.
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27-Jun-2011
As part of this year's Refugee Week activities, three Jesuit Social Services participants last week helped Victorian school children experience the trials and tribulations faced by many people around the world today, reports Province Express.
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26-Jun-2011
When journalist Mark Reidy travelled to France in March he went not to take in the traditional tourist sites this remarkable country has to offer but to learn about a new approach to dealing with one of the most difficult to solve of all social problems: drug addiction, reports The Record.
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30-Jun-2011
The Vatican newspaper is celebrating its 150th anniversary and the Pope has given it a special blessing. The newspaper's website carries a special report about the 150th celebrations.
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29-Jun-2011
Catholic Religious Australia has just held its annual national assembly in Brisbane. The website carries details of CRA's activities. It has released an overview of the national assembly, which can be read on the media release portal of CathNews.
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28-Jun-2011
The Vatican's recently launched news portal has a wide range of stories about the Church, with a user-friendly interface that includes video clips. Today shows the Pope tweeting.
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27-Jun-2011
Friday, July 1, is the annual World Day of prayer for priests. This website carries a range of information and links, including details of an annual global rosary relay.
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26-Jun-2011
Catholic educators in Queensland met last Friday to have a discussion about "What makes a Catholic school Catholic?" Rev Dr Richard Leonard, the Director Australian Catholic Office for Film and Broadcasting, an agency of the ACBC, spoke on ABC radio to answer the question. An audio file of the interview can be heard here.
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30-Jun-2011
Mr Popper’s Penguins began life as a book about a dreamy housepainter in a small American town who one day receives a wooden box with air holes that contains a penguin from the South Pole. Now a film starring Jim Carrey, there is just enough of the book’s originality to make it moderately amusing.
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26-Jun-2011
This movie won the Palme d’Or at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival, and attempts no less than to film the meaning of existence, viewed through the experiences of a Texas family, living in the US in the 1950s.
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29-Jun-2011
For over 30 years, Dave, an Irish Catholic from Newcastle and Bess, a Walpiri woman from Yuendumu, have been married, raising a family, and working for the betterment of Aboriginal Australians in the Northern Territory. Their bi-cultural marriage has been a learning curve from both sides.
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28-Jun-2011
Jim Manney, a senior editor for Loyola Press, makes a very good case for the Examen being the ‘simple, life-changing prayer’ he claims it to be in this book’s title, reports Thinking Faith.
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30-Jun-2011
It has been a hard decade for the Catholic priesthood and for Catholic priests. Pope Benedict's homily on his diamond jubilee reminds the Catholic Church of just what is at stake in the ongoing reform of the priesthood: nothing less than deepening a sense of the ordained priest as an icon of Christ, writes George Weigel in Ethics and Public Policy Centre.
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29-Jun-2011
What we do becomes who we are. This is pretty obvious when we speak about individuals. But what applies to individuals can apply just as easily to institutions and organizations, says Archbishop Charles Chaput in the National Catholic Register.
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28-Jun-2011
It’s no wonder New York's Archbishop Timothy Dolan (pictured) and Brooklyn's Bishop Nicholas D’Marzio are feeling especially troubled. One look at key players in the road to the same-sex marriage victory reveals a strikingly Catholic roster, writes Jamie Manson in NCR Online.
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27-Jun-2011
When the Israeli ambassador to the Holy See (pictured with the Pope) praised the role of Pope Pius XII in saving Jews during World War II, he managed to upset a lot of people - hardly surprising, given the way an entire academic industry has been built on the idea that Pius XII failed to raise his voice against the Holocaust, writes Austen Ivereigh in America magazine.
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26-Jun-2011
The fact there are many things about my own religious belief I don't fully comprehend is also not the least bit troubling intellectually. But there's one aspect of orthodox Christian belief I have found strange and mysterious in ways that almost make me uncomfortable, and that is the doctrine of the bodily resurrection, writes Greg Sheridan in the Australian.
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27-Jun-2011
Social Policy Connections is hosting a forum on Thursday night in Melbourne on Human Trafficking. Titled Traffickers have no regard for race, gender...even age, the forum will be presented by Michaela Guthridge, from the Good Shepherd Mission & Justice Unit.
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