News - National
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02-Aug-2011
Australia's hung parliament is a major threat to aged care reform and could possibly jeopardise the government's ability to reform the sector and provide for a rapidly ageing population, according to Catholic Health Australia, reports the Australian Ageing Agenda.
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02-Aug-2011
An independent inquiry into dozens of suicides among victims of child sexual abuse by priests and brothers in Victoria would achieve little, said the Bishop of Ballarat, Peter Connors, according to an AAP report in the Age.
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01-Aug-2011
The Victorian government looks set to keep its human rights charter, following submissions from dozens of groups, including a critical one from the Church, reports the Age.
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01-Aug-2011
The Catholic community in Morwell, Victoria will soon have a parish priest for the first time in eight years after the resolution of a dispute surrounding the removal of the incumbent in 2003, reports the Latrobe Valley Express.
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28-Jul-2011
A long-running dispute in Victoria between a Morwell priest and his former bishop over the running of the parish has ended with the Vatican judging in favour of the bishop, a Catholic Media Gippsland statement said.
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04-Aug-2011
A $25 million Parramatta arts precinct promised by the previous NSW government may be axed by Premier Barry O'Farrell, reports the Parramatta Advertiser.
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03-Aug-2011
Catholics must "stand-up" and express "strong opposition" to any proposal to amend the Commonwealth Marriage Act to provide for same-sex marriage, said NSW Legislative Council MP Greg Donnelly in the Catholic Weekly.
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02-Aug-2011
Claire Brown from St Finbar's Parish in Glenbrook, NSW will be part of a small group of young pilgrims who will have a private lunch with His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI during the upcoming World Youth Day in Madrid, reports the Catholic Diocese of Parramatta.
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31-Jul-2011
The NSW government has bowed to pressure from the Christian Democratic Party's Fred Nile and will consider removing ethics classes from schools only months after they began, reports the Sydney Morning Herald.
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03-Aug-2011
Archbishop John Bathersby of Brisbane has been feted at a farewell reception hosted by Queensland premier Anna Bligh, following his recent 75th birthday and the submission of his resignation to the Pope, reports the Catholic Leader.
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31-Jul-2011
A James Cook University student in Queensland is being treated in hospital and others are taking antibiotics after their friend died of meningococcal disease in his room at the Catholic College on Wednesday, reports skynews.com.au.
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31-Jul-2011
The feast day of Saint Mary MacKillop will be celebrated next Monday to mark the anniversary of her death, the first since her canonisation, reports the Advertiser on AdelaideNow.
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02-Aug-2011
The remains of the first Catholic bishop of Perth, John Brady, were carried through the streets of the city on Monday night, on the eve of his reinterment, reports the West Australian.
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01-Aug-2011
A man from south Canberra has been charged with defrauding the Catholic Education Office of $1.2 million, reports the ABC.
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News - International
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03-Aug-2011
It "shouldn't bother anybody" that a group of young people are gathering for a festival and paying their own way, said the executive director of World Youth Day 2011, Yago de la Cierva, in response to criticism of the event, reports the Catholic News Agency.
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03-Aug-2011
The Vatican cardinal in charge of the Mass wants to the faithful to go back to the practice of receiving communion on the tongue while kneeling, reports the Australian.
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03-Aug-2011
More than 3000 Catholic pastoral musicians from around the United States, Canada and Mexico have gathered ;to prepare for the implementation of the new translation of the Roman Missal, said a Catholic News Service report on NCR.
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02-Aug-2011
US bishops have criticised federal rules requiring nearly all new health plans, including those of most religious agencies, to cover all government-approved methods of contraception as well as surgical sterilisation, reports the Catholic News Agency.
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28-Jul-2011
A group representing atheists in America says the installation of a cross-shaped beam at the September 11 museum is unconstitutional, according to an AP report in the Washington Post.
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04-Aug-2011
Preparations for World Youth Day in Madrid this month include the installation of 200 novelty portable, flat-pack confessional boxes, reports Round Town News.
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02-Aug-2011
A website in Germany now allows web users to rate their priests, for their performance at church services, on projects for youths and the elderly, on their credibility and on how up to date they are, said a Reuters report in the West Australian.
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01-Aug-2011
Some 4,000 young people with disabilities are expected to participate in World Youth Day Madrid, reports the Catholic News Agency.
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01-Aug-2011
A Eucharistic Congress planned in Ireland next year will go on as planned, despite calls for postponement following the Cloyne Report, according to the Catholic News Agency.
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31-Jul-2011
Pope Benedict's trip to Spain will focus on celebrating the youthfulness and vigor of Catholic faith in a country where the Catholic majority often seems to have little impact on public life, reports the Catholic News Service.
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31-Jul-2011
The papal nuncio to Ireland is set to deliver a strong response to the Cloyne Report before the end of August, rebuffing Prime Minister Enda Kenny's accusation the Vatican undermined child protection guidelines, reports the Irish Independent.
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03-Aug-2011
Catholic lay groups have threatened to take legal action against the Cultural Centre of the Philippines unless it closes a controversial art exhibit which includes a crucifix with a phallic symbol, according to various reports in a story published on ucanews.com.
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01-Aug-2011
Rights groups and at least two governments – the United States and Canada – are voicing concern over the re-arrest last week of the Vietnamese activist Catholic priest Father Thadeus Nguyen Van Ly, reports ucanews.com.
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31-Jul-2011
Pope Benedict has urged the world not to be "indifferent" to famine, as some 12 million people in the Horn of Africa face starvation amid the worst drought in decades, said an AFP report on the ABC.
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04-Aug-2011
A young priest in northern Hebei province in China has been released back to his home town, nearly four months after being detained, Church sources told ucanews.com.
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04-Aug-2011
Ten of Japan's s 16 bishops are gathering Aug. 6 to mark humanity's first use of an atomic bomb in an act of war, reports the National Catholic Reporter.
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Regulars
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04-Aug-2011
Father Paul Glynn and his brother Tony have spent their entire lives deeply committed to reconciling the relationship between Australian and Japanese people post-WWII, He has come home to Lismore to try and raise money for Japanese tsunami victims, reports the Northern Rivers Echo
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03-Aug-2011
Expectations for the Pope's visit to his homeland next month are ratcheting upwards. When a special Mass was moved to Berlin's Olympic stadium, the system distributing tickets for this and other events during his visit crashed due to heavy demand, reports the Religion News Service in an article published the Huffington Post.
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02-Aug-2011
The "digital age" generation flocking to Madrid for World Youth Day in a couple week's time will be made aware of one of the darker sides of digital culture: the flourishing business of Internet pornography, reports Zenit.
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01-Aug-2011
Archbishop Denis Hart tells Debbie Warrier, from the Record, how he got to where he is today, the head of the Archdiocese of Melbourne.
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31-Jul-2011
A new chapter in the history of Joseph Ratzinger this will be revealed in September when a book about the pope by his brother, titled My Brother, the Pope, will be published. The elder Ratzinger spoke with the historian Michael Hesemann in Germany for the book. Zenit spoke with Hesemann about their sessions together.
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04-Aug-2011
The Stewardship Network is an association of representatives from nine Australian Catholic dioceses who have agreed to participate in regular teleconferences to advance the growth of stewardship across Australia and New Zealand.
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03-Aug-2011
This week is National Homelessness Week and St Vincent de Paul is at the forefront of fighting the problem. Its website carries a range of responses, links and activities.
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02-Aug-2011
More Than Gold is a one-stop shop organised by UK churches to enable them to engage with the 2012 Olympic Games. The website carries details of all its activities and how the church is engaging in this special project.
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01-Aug-2011
Keen pilgrim walkers from across the Archdiocese are invited to try out a new and improved version of the “Australian Camino”. The Western Australian route, titled the Camino Salvado, is less physically demanding than its Spanish inspiration, stretching from Subiaco to New Norcia.
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31-Jul-2011
The text for the Masses and Liturgy for the Feast of St Mary MacKillop next Monday, August 8, are now available on her website.
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04-Aug-2011
Frank Lotito’s Big Mamma’s Boy tagline is ‘a comedy about life, love and lasagna’, a clear sign that its creator and lead actor is poking fun at multicultural Australia in the well-worn tradition of Nick Giannopoulos’ Wogboys, the television sit-com Acropolis Now, and Paul Fenech’sFat Pizza.
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02-Aug-2011
This sci-fi, adventure film is based on a comic book character that dates back to the 1940s. Captain America was the first Marvel Comics character. He was created from Steve Rogers, who fought as a soldier in World War II, and was found decades later frozen in ice.
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01-Aug-2011
Which five days of war, in which August? The answer is early August, 2008, when Russia and Georgia were involved in a short war over the region of Southern Ossetia and whether it belonged to Russia or to Georgia. The Russians invaded – and are still in occupation.
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31-Jul-2011
Robert Redford's latest film as a director, The Conspirator, is a finely wrought, memorably cinematic Civil War court-room drama that relates uncomfortably to the post-9/11 world that America lives in today.
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03-Aug-2011
John Beaumont's study of a guide to notable converts may be based on the notion that British Catholicism has entered as 'third spring', writes Thomas M McCoog SJ, in Thinking Faith.
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04-Aug-2011
Ireland has become the most stridently anti-Catholic country in the Western world and the Church needs to import new Catholic leadership from overseas to restore its credibility, writes George Weigel in Ethics and Public Policy Centre.
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03-Aug-2011
Catholics should think carefully before having cosmetic surgery, writes Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith in the Catholic Herald.
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02-Aug-2011
An anti-Genetic Modification alliance of concerned citizen groups has published a paper on field trials of Genectically Modified (GM) wheat underway in most Australian States. The well-argued paper is important reading for any informed Catholic, writes Fr Charles Rue, Coordinator of Columban Justice Peace Integrity and Creation, in its most recent newsletter.
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01-Aug-2011
A new class war is being fuelled by the belief that the biggest difference between people on high and low incomes is how talented they are and how hard they're willing to work, writes Paul O'Callaghan, executive director of Catholic Social Services Australia, in The Drum on ABC online.
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31-Jul-2011
The Gillard Government's "Malaysia solution" has the approval of UNHCR — the world's pragmatic, resource-stretched agency charged with advocating for refugees. The deal has some upsides, and some downsides, writes Fr Frank Brennan in Eureka Street.
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