News - National
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28-Jul-2011
Private schools will not be forced to divulge their assets, trust accounts and profits on the My School website next year, despite federal School Education Minister Peter Garrett saying he wanted it done, reports the Age.
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27-Jul-2011
The Malaysia deal over refugees presents a false and demeaning picture of their plight, says John Falzon, the CEO of St Vincent de Paul's National Council. "The last thing we should be doing is to reinforce the myth of "deserving" versus "undeserving" asylum seekers," he said in a release.
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27-Jul-2011
Australia's bishops have urged all Catholics to declare and affirm the importance of their faith for their life and identity in this year's Census, reports the Catholic Weekly.
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26-Jul-2011
Perth Archbishop Barry Hickey says he has "little evidence" of forced adoption practices in Catholic hospitals despite a national apology delivered by the health arm of the Catholic Church yesterday for "unethical or unlawful" adoption practices of the past, reports the West Australian.
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26-Jul-2011
The Australian Catholic University is one of two tertiary institutions chosen for a pilot program to free up"bottleneck" subjects by using instructional software and other web-based learning resources, reports the Australian.
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26-Jul-2011
The welfare of all migrants is paramount and outweighs any policy which punishes 800 asylum seekers who in desperation turn to people smugglers for help, the Australian Catholic Migrant and Refugee Office (ACMRO) Director Father Maurizio Pettenà said in a media statement.
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25-Jul-2011
The gunman responsible for the Norway massacre cited several Australian leaders in his rambling 1,500-page manifesto, including Sydney's Cardinal George Pell.
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24-Jul-2011
Catholic Health Australia will today issue an apology to the victims of forced adoption practices from the 1950s to 1970s and offer those affected counselling and a pathway for complaints, reports the Australian.
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21-Jul-2011
The secretary of the Australian Catholic Bishops' Conference, Father Brian Lucas, said Senator Nick Xenophon's proposal - for laws that could require priests to disclose confessions - was misinformed, reports the Herald Sun.
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27-Jul-2011
A lawyer representing a group of victims said the Christian Brothers will be sued in relation to abuse by Robert Charles Best, reports the Geelong Advertiser.
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25-Jul-2011
A victim testifying against religious brother, Robert Best, who has pleaded guilty to sex offences against former students, said he had destroyed their lives, said an AAP report in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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24-Jul-2011
The Church and doctors want Victoria's charter of human rights overhauled to protect the rights of unborn children and the rights of health professionals to object to abortions, reports the Age.
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24-Jul-2011
A priest from Geelong in Victoria has called for the overhaul of the Melbourne Response for dealing with victims of clerical abuse and the $75,000 cap on compensation, reports the Herald Sun.
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28-Jul-2011
The New South Wales Opposition has raised concerns the State Government may abandon plans for a major arts precinct in Sydney's west, at the old Kings School site, reports the ABC.
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27-Jul-2011
More than 60 priests attended a dinner to celebrate priestly jubilees, ranging from 25- to 60-year anniversaries of ordination, at the former St Patrick's Seminary at Manly last week, reports the Catholic Weekly.
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27-Jul-2011
A former chief executive of the Hunter area Health Service has defended medical staff who delivered babies that were put up for adoption between the 1950s and 1970s, reports the Newcastle Herald.
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24-Jul-2011
Teen girls are turning to destructive behaviour such as binge-drinking, extreme dieting and self-harm because of the pressures of being forced early into an adult world, a conference of Catholic parents has been told, said a report in the Newcastle Herald.
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24-Jul-2011
Pope Benedict has dismissed former Hunter priest John Denham from the clerical state following convictions of sexual assaults against children, according to a statement from the Bishop of Maitland-Newcastle, William Wright.
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25-Jul-2011
More than 1,000 people have signed a petition over the forced retirement of Catholic Bishop William Morris from the Toowoomba diocese on Queensland's Darling Downs, reports the ABC.
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25-Jul-2011
After half a century as a priest and 19 years as head of the Archdiocese of Brisbane, Archbishop John Bathersby will celebrate his 75th birthday today by writing to the Pope asking for a well-earned retirement, reports the Courier-Mail.
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25-Jul-2011
A new Calvary Centre for Palliative Care Research at Barton in Canberra will focus on the care needs of people nearing the end of their life, reports the ABC.
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News - International
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25-Jul-2011
In an exceptional move, the Vatican has recalled its nuncio to Ireland, reports the Catholic News Service. The Holy See said this would allow him to participate in meetings aimed at drafting the Vatican's formal response to the Cloyne Report on abuse.
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28-Jul-2011
After Pope Benedict's visit to the UK last year, the number of people reporting that they had been abused in the past by priests more than doubled, reports the Independent Catholic News.
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28-Jul-2011
An extensive online manifesto by Anders Behring Breivik criticises Pope Benedict for defending the rights of immigrants, especially Muslims, reports the Catholic News Agency.
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27-Jul-2011
A member of the ruling Fine Gael party has said an international Catholic conference in Dublin next year should be postponed, in light of the row over the Vatican's attitude to clerical child sex abuse inquiries in the republic, reports the Guardian.
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26-Jul-2011
Unique works of art created by 100 celebrities - including a signed photograph of Pope Benedict - will be auctioned off in September to aid the children of Darfur, reports looktothestars.org.
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26-Jul-2011
Archbishop Gianfranco Girotti, of the Vatican's Apostolic Penitentiary, has slammed the suggestion by Irish officials including Prime Minister Enda Kenny that priests should break the secrets of the confessional box and reveal details of clergy accused of child sex abuse, reports the Irish Central website.
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24-Jul-2011
Pope Benedict has condemned the shooting massacre and bomb attack in Norway that killed at least 93 and urged people to "abandon forever the path of hatred", reports the Telegraph.co.uk.
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21-Jul-2011
The Archbishop of Dublin has launched an emotional attack on church leaders in Ireland over the cover-up of child abuse, saying he is "angry, ashamed and appalled" at the behaviour of those who had deliberately ignored Vatican policy to combat child abuse, reports the Telegraph.co.uk.
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26-Jul-2011
An outspoken Hong Kong Catholic priest said he has been denied entry into China due to an escalating row between the Vatican and Beijing over the ordination of bishops, reports AFP in the West Australian.
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Regulars
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28-Jul-2011
Mary Glowrey combines the determination and shining charity of Mother Teresa with the organisational genius of the Rev Dr John Flynn and Fred Hollows,writes Anna Krohn in the newsletter of the Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne.
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27-Jul-2011
A retired English couple living in France were so drawn to the story of Bishop John Brady through their involvement helping Perth researchers, they decided to eventually become Catholics, reports the Record.
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26-Jul-2011
Since the revolution in Egypt earlier this year, the presence of Christians in the country is "alive and effective" and a ;new attitude of hope has taken root, says the Catholic Coptic bishop of Luxor (pictured), reports Zenit.
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25-Jul-2011
A comic book entitled Habemus Papam!, chronicling the life of Pope Benedict XVI, will be distributed to pilgrims during World Youth Day, reports the National Catholic Register.
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24-Jul-2011
The main causes for the shift in relations between the Vatican and Beijing may have little to do with Rome but rather in geopolitical events in other regions of the globe, and deep social changes within China itself, reports the Religion News Service in an article published in NCR Online.
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28-Jul-2011
Sister Margaret Madden has just returned to Australia after 16 years running a teacher training college in Karachi, Pakistan. Sister Madden is the official Ambassador for Qld Catholic Education Week this year and is visiting Catholic schools and Dioceses across the state to share her experiences of social change in Pakistan.
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27-Jul-2011
When Benedict XVI visits Spain for WSYD in August, the pope will have a very special defence team.The group is called the Young Swiss Guard. About 60 children, dressed in the unique and traditional uniform are hoping they'll make the pope feels welcome.
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26-Jul-2011
XT3, the Catholic Social Network website, has details of a pro-life film contest. The competition asks entrants to consider and to include the words from St Paul to the Romans “…the life and death of each of us has its influence on others”.
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25-Jul-2011
The worst droughts across the Horn of Africa in 60 years have left at least 10 million people in need of food, water and basic facilities. Half of those are children. Caritas Australia has launched an appeal to deliver life-giving support to those most in need.
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24-Jul-2011
CWLA is the national peak body representing the League's seven member organisations. It is dedicated to upholding the dignity of women through education and encouraging their participation in social and public life.
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27-Jul-2011
Bad Teacher is like an unwashed shaggy dog story about a completely self-centred, unscrupulous teacher (Cameron Diaz), manipulating people, ignoring students and being rude to everyone.
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25-Jul-2011
This French, sub-titled film is a romantic comedy about a mother and daughter falling for the same man. Emilie (Audrey Tautou) manages a hair salon in a rural town in the south of France, where Jean, a handyman, works as her employee.
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24-Jul-2011
This is an American comedy-drama starring two of Hollywood’s stellar stars. This movie aims for the heart and mind by offering a conventional, but likeable, romance story about two people caught up in their own mid-life crises. It is co-written, as well as directed, by Tom Hanks.
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26-Jul-2011
Soul Matters: The Spiritual Dimension within Healthcare explores the spiritual aspects of wellbeing and how these can be addressed in healthcare practice. It arises from a practical and personal engagement with both hands-on medicine and an active prayer life, writes Sister Janet Fearns in Thinking Faith.
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28-Jul-2011
Soon after the Oslo massacre, it emerged that the man responsible, Anders Breivik, resented Islamic immigrants and was a self-confessed Christian. My instinctive response was one of relief. But why should it have mattered who had done these terrible things? writes Andrew Hamilton in Eureka Street.
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27-Jul-2011
Many Irish parents and grandparents would find astonishing the acidly anti-clerical views expressed in the Republic of Ireland today, writes Mary Kenny in the UK Telegraph.
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26-Jul-2011
Same-sex marriage creates a clash between upholding the human rights of children with respect to their coming into being and the family structure in which they will be reared, and the claims of homosexual adults who wish to marry a same-sex partner, writes Professor Margaret Somerville in the Australian.
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25-Jul-2011
Laws that break the seal of Confession could be counter-productive for child protection, writes Bill Uren, Rector of Newman College at the University of Melbourne, in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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24-Jul-2011
For the thousands of Australian pilgrims going to Madrid for World youth Day, the greatest gift they will receive is the experience of knowing more deeply what life is all about, more than they have ever known before, writes Archbishop John Bathersby, of Brisbane.
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28-Jul-2011
This Sunday night, Fr Richard Leonard will be the profile guest on John Cleary's Sunday Nights program on ABC Local Radio. Fr Leonard will speak about how he has come to terms with the family tragedy that was inflicted on him, and which prompted him to write a book last year, Where the Hell is God?
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