News - National
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14-Jul-2011
The St Vincent de Paul Society has welcomed the announcement of $18 billion in compensation to Australian households to offset the impact of the Federal Government's carbon pricing scheme, reports the Catholic Weekly.
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13-Jul-2011
Australia should "consider alternatives to prison and ways to reintegrate people into community life as responsible fellow citizens", Australian Catholic Bishops Conference (ACBC) president Archbishop Philip Wilson said, the Catholic Leader reports.
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12-Jul-2011
In an open letter to the Pope and Australian bishops, a Catholic lobby group has asked bishops to do more listening to their flock, reports the Sydney Morning Herald.
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12-Jul-2011
The Edmund Rice Centre has called on all political leaders to support the government's carbon policy and Catholic Social Services Australia commended the priority given to assisting low-income Australians who will be hit by the carbon price.
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10-Jul-2011
The Federal Government has provided only a 1.9 percent increase in aged care funding for the next 12 months, despite the Consumer Price Index running at almost twice that amount, according to Catholic Health Australia (CHA), the Catholic Weekly reports.
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07-Jul-2011
An Australian youth leader has been elected as the International Secretary-General of the International Young Catholic Students (IYCS), the Australian Young Christian Students said in a statement.
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11-Jul-2011
Purple and black balloons were released yesterday at the funeral of a Melbourne woman who was stabbed to death last week after confronting boys who had thrown eggs at her home, said an AAP report in the Australian.
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10-Jul-2011
The diocesan administrator in the Victorian Diocese of Sandhurst called upon the community to look beyond euthanasia in seach of answers for terminal illness, following a weekend seminar by euthanasia advocate Philip Nitschke, reports the Bendigo Advertiser.
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14-Jul-2011
Three Sydney men have been awarded Papal honours at a ceremony conducted by the Archbishop of Sydney, George Cardinal Pell, reports the Catholic Weekly.
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11-Jul-2011
The Catholic Education Office of Sydney supports moving away from the current Year 10 School Certificate model, reports the Catholic Weekly.
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10-Jul-2011
The St Vincent de Paul Society and the Hilton Sydney have entered into a three-year partnership worth more than $100,000 which will provide support for Vinnies homeless services, reports the Catholic Weekly.
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14-Jul-2011
Deacon Peter Zwaans, 30, is to be ordained into the priesthood at St Francis Xavier Cathedral in Adelaide, making him the youngest-serving Catholic priest in South Australia, said a report on AdelaideNow from the Advertiser.
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12-Jul-2011
A former Catholic teacher, university lecturer and charity worker has been convicted in South Australia of unlawful sex acts but will appeal the verdict, said a report on AdelaideNow by the Advertiser.
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10-Jul-2011
Monsignor David Cappo's blueprint for disability services in South Australia due this month has been delayed because of the amount of work involved, said a report on AdelaideNow from the Sunday Mail.
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13-Jul-2011
Eighteen couples in a parish near Perth will renew their vows in a Special Wedding Anniversary Mass to be held in August this year, reports the Record.
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07-Jul-2011
A priest who raised concerns over the asylum seekers held at a detention centre in Queensland said the Diocese of Cairns has been told he is no longer welcome to visit the centre, reports the Cairns Post.
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News - International
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11-Jul-2011
New York's Archbishop Timothy Dolan has warned that allowing same-sex marriage in the state could lead to a further redefinition that accepts multiple partners and infidelity, Catholic News Agency reports.
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14-Jul-2011
Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny has attacked the Church over its role in a clerical sex abuse scandal, as Dublin called in the Vatican ambassador, said an AFP report in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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13-Jul-2011
The Church's hierarchy in Ireland continued to conceal abuse by clergy even after it introduced rules in the mid-1990s to protect minors, an Irish government-sponsored report said, according to a Reuters report in the West Australian.
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13-Jul-2011
The Church in Germany said it would open its archives to independent researchers in a bid to shed light on all aspects of cases of sexual abuse by priests, said a report on BigPond News.
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12-Jul-2011
The recent phone hacking scandal involving British tabloid News of the World shows the need for better ethics in the field of journalism, says the editor-in-chief of the Vatican paper L'Osservatore Romano, reports the Catholic News Agency.
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12-Jul-2011
The Pontifical Council for Promoting New Evangelisation has unveiled a new project to re-evangelise some of Europe's major cities, reports the Catholic News Agency.
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11-Jul-2011
A German court has reduced the fine for an ultra-traditionalist Bishop Richard Williamson for publicly denying the Holocaust in 2009, said a Reuters report in The West Australian.
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11-Jul-2011
The Church of England is coming under pressure to withdraw its nearly A$6 millon investment in Rupert Murdoch's News Corp after the News of the World phone-hacking scandal in the UK, reports the Independent Catholic News.
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10-Jul-2011
Pope Benedict has begun his month-long summer vacation at Castel Gandolfo in Italy, and hopes to fill his time with studying and writing the third and final volume of Jesus of Nazareth, reports the National Catholic Register.
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13-Jul-2011
Senators have exonerated seven Catholic bishops who accepted donations of money and vehicles from the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office, said a report in the National Catholic Reporter.
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12-Jul-2011
Amnesty International has called on Pope Benedict to press Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak on human rights issues when he visits Rome next week, said a MalaysiaKini report on Yahoo.
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11-Jul-2011
The Philippines Bishops' Conference has admitted that allegations some bishops received gifts from a government agency have hurt the Church and Catholics, reports ucanews.com.
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14-Jul-2011
The Church in India strongly has condemned a series of blasts that rocked Mumbai, leaving at least 21 dead and 131 injured, ucanews.com reports.
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10-Jul-2011
Pope Benedict named an official delegation to represent him at the independence celebrations in Southern Sudan and charged members with conveying his hopes for "peace and prosperity" to citizens of the world's newest nation, reports the Catholic News Service.
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14-Jul-2011
Eight Vatican-approved bishops attended an ordination in China not approved by the Holy See, of Father Joseph Huang Bingzhang of Shantou city, in southern Guangdong province, reports ucanews.com.
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Regulars
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14-Jul-2011
Fancy having not one, not two, but an extraordinary three brothers ordained to the priesthood. That's the reality for Irish sisters Mary and Catherine Dooley, recent visitors to Brisbane archdiocese, reports the Catholic Leader.
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13-Jul-2011
This year marks the twentieth anniversary since the Sisters of the Good Samaritan first arrived in Kiribati. What began as a ministry placement for one sister has grown into something much more, reports The Good Oil.
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12-Jul-2011
Josephite Sister Niesha Allport, the principal of Mary MacKillop Memorial School, talks to the Southern Cross about the opportunities and challenges of being a religious woman and school leader in the small rural, but historically pivotal, Catholic community of Penola.
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11-Jul-2011
Vee and Rene Pols’ mantra for a happy, healthy marriage is, literally, team-work. For the past five years, the Catholic couple from Adelaide’s southern suburbs have held the title of Super Regional Couple for Teams – A Married Couples Movement, reports the Southern Cross.
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10-Jul-2011
The recent ordination of Bishop Vincent Long is historic in more than one sense. First, it is a signal of the Asian church come of age in Australia. But more importantly, it is also a signal of the changing face of the Australian Catholic church, which is becoming increasingly non-European, reports NCR Online.
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14-Jul-2011
Michaela Guthridge, Justice Development Manager at Good Shepherd Australia New Zealand and a Social Policy Connections Board member, discusses the importance of victim-centred terminology when dealing with "sham" marriages. Her talk can be seen on Youtube.
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13-Jul-2011
The newly ordained Bishop of Maitland-Newcastle, Bishop Bill Wright, has invited the Hunter community to join him this Monday night as he guest speaks at Theology on Tap. The Newcastle branch of this popular initiative has a Facebook page, which has details of past events and photos.
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12-Jul-2011
The Vatican newspaper has given a positive review of the final Harry Potter film, which is to open in cinemas worldwide shortly. The paper's website carries the review.
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11-Jul-2011
The National Church Life Survey is preparing for its 2011 survey of Australian church life. Its website has a link for those who wish to participate in the 20-minute questionnaire, as well as a rich array of other information about trends and patterns in church-going.
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10-Jul-2011
This website from the North Sydney region has a wide range of links and stories, at a grassroots level and more generally, about how Catholics can think and act about the environment.
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14-Jul-2011
The finale of the Harry Potter movie series consists of two films: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1 (2010) and this film, released in 2011. This film lives up to expectations extraordinarily well. It is a very satisfying climax to the most commercially successful series in the history of film.
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12-Jul-2011
The idea is probably more successful than the execution in Special Treatment. Not that it is not an interesting film with some fine performances, especially from Isabelle Huppert, but it is more than bit schematic in its structure and the characters are often more enigmatic than real.
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11-Jul-2011
For once Wolfgang Amadeus is a supporting character. This film is about his sister, a player and composer. It is above all, a portrait of deep regret that she has been forgotten, and a lament at the restrictions placed on women in the 18th century.
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13-Jul-2011
The scope of Professor David Alvarez’s fascinating and learned volume is the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, so no bellicose popes appear, only pontiffs and their secretaries of state who were opposed to the use of force by their troops, writes Michael Walsh in The Tablet.
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14-Jul-2011
A year ago, why would an octogenarian German theologian with little practical experience of political and economic life have anything interesting or important to say about "the future of the West"? Pope Benedict XVI's Westminster Hall address last September ought to have put paid to at least some of that cynicism, writes George Weigel in Ethics and Public Policy Centre.
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13-Jul-2011
The debate on euthanasia is underpinned by a fear of suffering, but in our modern consumerist society we can't make sense of suffering because we can't adequately make sense of life and death, writes Joel Hodge in ABC Online.
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12-Jul-2011
Australia is an accepting society which formally outlaws discrimination on the basis of race or gender and disapproves of intolerance towards minorities. Except, it seems, Jews and Catholics, writes Gerard Henderson in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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11-Jul-2011
The News of the World should not be missed by anyone. Its gossip stories invaded people’s privacy and were never justified by the public interest, writes Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith in the Catholic Herald.
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10-Jul-2011
Fifty years after Vatican II, in the midst of the church’s continued invitation for lay people to lead holy lives, why are there still relatively few role models for the laity? writes James Martin SJ in America magazine.
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10-Jul-2011
Love's Body - The Eucharist in Our Lives, is a photographic exhibition in Melbourne being held in Fairfield Victoria. This rich collection of images on the theme of the Eucharist features photos and people from a wide range of countries.
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