News - National
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21-Jul-2011
The 2011 Project Compassion appeal raised nearly $10 million, in a year of vicious cyclones, catastrophic floods and international crises, Caritas Australia chief executive officer Jack de Groot told the Catholic Weekly.
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19-Jul-2011
Several rooms in the Domus Australia centre in Rome will be named in honour of leading Catholic figures, and the late Bishop Joseph Grech's name has been put forward for consideration, the Bendigo Advertiserreports.
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18-Jul-2011
The Executive Director of Schools in the Diocese of Parramatta, Greg Whitby, has been appointed member of a new government advisory group to provide advice on transforming teaching and learning through technology, said a Federal Gvernment media release.
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17-Jul-2011
Many Catholic hospitals and aged homes have already put in place energy, waste, and water reduction initiatives, and several innovative renewable energy programs, Catholic Health Australia said in a media release.
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19-Jul-2011
A Melbourne teacher at a Catholic secondary school is the latest target of cyber bullying, according to a Herald Sun report on PerthNow.
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18-Jul-2011
A hospital in Victoria that gave gave two newborn babies to the wrong mothers for over eight hours may have made the mistake before, said a Herald Sun report on News.com.au.
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17-Jul-2011
The Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne will adopt a new coat of arms this week, the Archdiocese says in a statement.
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13-Jul-2011
A priest in Wodonga, Victoria, has defended a Congolese refugee who felt snubbed by fellow parishioners, and was almost reduced to tears while speaking about the importance of acceptance at a weekend Mass, reports the Border Mail.
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21-Jul-2011
The Australian Catholic University has spent $53 million on a North Sydney office tower as part of its preparation for full competition for next year, when universities will be able to enrol as many students as they choose, reports the Sydney Morning Herald.
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21-Jul-2011
About 40 students from Years 7 to 12 at Patrician Brothers' College, in Fairfield, NSW have picked up knitting, meeting in the library four times a week, as part of the school's community service curriculum, reports the Catholic Weekly.
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20-Jul-2011
The Diocese of Maitland-Newcastle in NSW has paid at least $13 million in compensation to the victims of child sex abusers, says the Newcastle Herald.
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20-Jul-2011
The Anglican and Catholic churches have reversed their opposition to the introduction of ethics classes in NSW schools, with the Catholic Church saying they have ''little impact'' on the teaching of scripture, reports the Sydney Morning Herald.
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19-Jul-2011
A public meeting of parishioners in Broken Hill has called for a bishop to be appointed to properly lead the Wilcannia Forbes Diocese, reports the ABC.
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19-Jul-2011
Ethics classes in NSW schools would be rescheduled so they did not compete with special religious education classes, under a deal proposed by the Rev Fred Nile, reports the Sydney Morning Herald.
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18-Jul-2011
The Reverend Fred Nile has threatened not to support a NSW Government public sector wages policy unless it considers removing ethics classes from the state's schools, reports the Sydney Morning Herald.
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17-Jul-2011
An initiative has begun to foster positive relationships between teachers and parents in NSW, and it is being led by an associate professor of educational studies at the Australian Catholic University, reports the Sydney Morning Herald.
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20-Jul-2011
A media campaign to save the Parks Community Centre is among the winners of the 2011 SA Catholic Archbishop's Media Citations announced by Archbishop Philip Wilson, said a media release from the CathCommSA.
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19-Jul-2011
Melbourne's Auxiliary Bishop Timothy Costelloe has emerged as a dark horse among the candidates to be appointed the next Archbishop of Perth, reports the West Australian.
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News - International
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18-Jul-2011
The Vatican and Malaysia established diplomatic relations on Monday, after Pope Benedict XVI met with Malaysia's prime minister, only the second meeting between a government chief from the South-East Asian nation and a pontiff, reports the Telegraph.co.uk.
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18-Jul-2011
More US Catholics are attending Masses at fewer parishes staffed by a rapidly declining corps of priests, according to a new report on The Changing Face of US Catholic Parishes, reports the Catholic News Service.
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20-Jul-2011
Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny has launched an unprecedented attack on the Catholic Church, saying the relationship between church and state in Ireland could not be the same again following the Cloyne report, the BBC reports.
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20-Jul-2011
Domus Australia, Australia's first pilgrim centre in Rome, has officially opened, welcoming its first two guests, said the Catholic Communications Archdiocese of Sydney in a media release.
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19-Jul-2011
A priest and six handicapped people in a building confiscated from a local crime clan are challenging the mafia's power in a southern Italian town, said a report on ninemsn.
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18-Jul-2011
The Irish government may order an examination into how the Catholic Church dealt with sexual abuse allegations in dioceses across the country, the Irish Children's Minister said in the wake of the Cloyne Report released last week, reports the Irish Independent.
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17-Jul-2011
The group that represents Ireland's Catholic priests says the secrecy of confession must be protected, following government indications that confessions would not be exempt from rules on mandatory reporting of child abuse in the wake of the Cloyne abuse report, the Catholic News Service reports.
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17-Jul-2011
The Catholic Church in England is being advised to examine donations with greater care after its acceptance of a contribution from the Murdoch family towards the costs of the Papal visit to Britain last September, reports the Tablet.
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21-Jul-2011
Religious freedom has been seriously infringed in both North and South Koreas, said a senior media executive in Seoul, reports ucanews.com.
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20-Jul-2011
A mosque in Amman, Jordan has become the first in the Arab world to be named after Jesus, reports the Vatican Insider.
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17-Jul-2011
A Chinese bishop ordained without papal approval has been excommunicated by the Vatican for accepting his new post, according to a New York Times report published in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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Regulars
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21-Jul-2011
Their labourers may be few but their outreach is to many. Meet new congregational leader for Our Lady's Nurses of the Poor - affectionately known as the "Brown Sisters" - Brisbane-born Sr Margaret Mary Birgan, reports the Catholic Leader.
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20-Jul-2011
Disaster could yet unfold in South Sudan unless serious issues are addressed quickly, according to leading bishops in the region. Sometimes, it will come down to a decision: What must I give us that this person might eat, says one bishop, reports the Independent Catholic News.
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19-Jul-2011
When I go to exhibitions, I want to feel transported, involved, educated. All of which happened to me at the British National Gallery's Devotion by Design, a quiet examination of the function and form of the Italian altarpiece before 1500. writes Waldemar Januszczak in the Sunday Times, in an article republished in the Australian.
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18-Jul-2011
For three years, the quaint old city of Dordrecht has watched in amazement as a local businessman's dream of building a real-life Noah's ark, stocked with thousands of plastic animals, became a reality, says an AFP report in the Australian.
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17-Jul-2011
Brother Guy Consolmagno laughs when asked whether people ever express surprise that the Catholic Church runs and staffs two observatories, one in Italy and the other in the United States. "All the time," he replies- "One of the reasons we exist is to surprise people," reports Australian Catholics.
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21-Jul-2011
Enjoy Loyola Press's Three-Minute Retreat on this website.
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20-Jul-2011
The Liturgical Commission of the Archdiocese of Brisbane aims to encourage the full, conscious and active participation of all people in liturgical rites. Its efforts are directed to education and consulting for the parishes of the archdiocese, and publishing liturgical resources for the Australian Church.
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19-Jul-2011
Domus Australia is a religious and cultural centre for pilgrims to Rome, providing the opportunity for visitors to Rome to learn more about the history of the Church and the many places of religious significance they should see while in Rome.
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18-Jul-2011
Cafod is the official Catholic aid agency for England and Wales, working with partners in more than 40 countries across the world. The agency's website has a broad range of projects and links to other social justice issues.
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17-Jul-2011
The CHA website carries a broad range of information and polciy submissions on various aspects vof health and aged care issues.
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18-Jul-2011
Almost universally panned by reviewers. Almost universally liked by its audiences. This third in the series made over $200 million in the US in about ten days. As they say, a popular cultural phenomenon. And, as the reviewers say, there’s no accounting for tastes.
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20-Jul-2011
'Godly Play' encourages school children to 'think big' and deepen their spiritual response to the world. The concept has just been launched in Australia, although Jeanette Acland has been using it successfully in a Melbourne independent Christian school for ten years.
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21-Jul-2011
There is a new buzz in mission circles about the energizing possibilities being opened for the whole Church by a wider understanding of the missionary task. We now have books like Francis Oborji’s Concepts of Mission to help steer through the various dimensions identified, rites Fr Hugh MacMahon in the St Columbans Mission Society newsletter.
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19-Jul-2011
The Diversity of Christianity, by Mario D'Andrea, sets out to explore some of the main events of Christianity and present them in their historical context. Many of us know something about the main Christian events but are not always sure how these fit together.This book has been written to help readers do that, reports the Independent Catholic News.
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21-Jul-2011
As one who has long yearned for the Anglican and Catholic Churches to take a more robust role in defence of the vanishing Palestinian Christian population, I was delighted to find a new, joint, concerted strategy in this week's conference on the subject, writes Austen Ivereigh in America magazine..
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20-Jul-2011
The significance of the appointment of Charles Chaput (pictured) as archbishop of Philadelphia is his place as one of the most vigorous exponents of Evangelical Catholicism, whose credo is ;"the Gospel without compromise, joyfully lived", writes George Weigel in the National Review online.
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19-Jul-2011
The latest attempt to stem the flow of asylum seekers arriving in Australia by boat, the so-called 'Malaysian solution', is causing great angst in the community and with our political leaders, writes Fr Frank Brennan in Eureka Street.
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18-Jul-2011
I recently listened to a BBC interview with an Australian journalist over the phone-hacking scandal. He had known Murdoch for many years and he said that for Murdoch there was never a general discussion of journalistic principle; it was profits that mattered to the exclusion of anything else, writes Francis Phillips in the Catholic Herald.
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17-Jul-2011
At the moment, a gripping Vatican mystery centres on the Congregation for Religious, and here’s a nominee for the right question: Is Ronald Reagan or Sigmund Freud the better template for Benedict XVI’s management style? writes John Allen (pictured) in NCR Online
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17-Jul-2011
Social Policy Connections will host a day-long forum titled The Churches and Public Policy, in Melbourne tomorrow. Speakers include Dr Robert Fitzgerald and John Falzon (pictured), and other leaders in public policy.
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