News - National
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10-Aug-2011
The Australian Bureau of Statistics has undermined the census as a "true record" of marriage in the country by allowing anyone to nominate a husband or wife - regardless of gender or marital status, the auxiliary Bishop of Sydney said in the Catholic Weekly.
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10-Aug-2011
A group of disabled young Australians was greeted by Pope Benedict XVI during an audience at Castelgandolfo, with nine individually greeted and blessed by the pontiff, reports the Catholic Weekly.
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09-Aug-2011
Priest and lawyer Father Frank Brennan SJ has savaged the Gillard government's Malaysia Solution, saying it appeared to have been driven by a desire to hatch a policy "more ruthless" than Nauru, according to the Australian.
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09-Aug-2011
The High Court has stopped the federal government flying asylum seekers out of the country for at least another fortnight, putting the brakes on a deal with Malaysia, reports the Age.
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08-Aug-2011
A painting that portrays Jesus, Mary and Joseph as orangutans is one of the finalists in this year's Blake Prize for religious art, reports the Australian.
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08-Aug-2011
Catholic Health Australia has endorsed the Productivity Commissions's report on funding aged care and urged the Federal government to quickly adopt the plan, according to the Australian.
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07-Aug-2011
Catholic Health Australia, Anglicare and the Salvation Army see financial danger in the Productivity Commission's draft proposal that would allow accommodation bonds for aged care to be replaced by smaller weekly accommodation charges, reports the Australian.
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08-Aug-2011
Christian Brother Robert Charles Best has been sentenced to prison for 14 years and nine months, reports the Age.
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08-Aug-2011
The parish priest of East Ballarat believes the community can outlive the shadow cast by the crimes of religious brother Robert Best, reports the Courier.
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10-Aug-2011
About 3000 people marked the first Feast Day of Australia's first Saint at Mary Mackillop Place, North Sydney, on August 8, attending Mass and visiting the chapel and museum, reports the Catholic Weekly.
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04-Aug-2011
The Australian Catholic University aims to bring new life to the North Sydney CBD with its expansion into a 22-storey office tower, reports the Mosman Daily.
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08-Aug-2011
Brisbane artist Luke Roberts' entry in this year's Blake Prize for religious art includes a depiction of the crucifixion that has a lesbian academic kneeling at the feet of a Christ figure played by a drag queen, reports the Sun-Herald.
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11-Aug-2011
The South Australian government is to crack down on serial graffiti offenders, with the harshest penalties planned for those who deface memorials, cemeteries or places of worship and religious significance, AdelaideNow reports from the Advertiser.
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09-Aug-2011
The South Australian town where Mary MacKillop began her journey to sainthood is expanding its tourist facilities, with visitor numbers on the rise after the canonisation last October, said a report on ninemsn.
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08-Aug-2011
Hundreds of people descended on Penola in South Australia yesterday to celebrate the first feast day since the canonisation of Saint Mary MacKillop, reports the ABC.
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09-Aug-2011
Perth's Archbishop Barry Hickey believes children should be allowed to recite the Lord's Prayer in State schools because it is a part of Australian culture, reports The West Australian,
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08-Aug-2011
Bishop Christopher Saunders of Broome in the Kimberley has appealed for calm of tensions over a plan to build a $30 billion land-based facility to process gas from the giant Browse field in WA, reports the West Australian.
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10-Aug-2011
A Canberra man accused of defrauding the Catholic Education Office is facing so many charges that a magistrate has had to postpone formally charging him until a special court sitting today, reports the ABC.
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News - International
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10-Aug-2011
The Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers in the US have notified an excommunicated priest that he will be dismissed from their order unless he renounces his "defiant stance" against Catholic teaching on the ordination of women, reports the Catholic News Agency.
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11-Aug-2011
Sydney's Cardinal George Pell will address a pro-life festival next week, organised to coincide with the World Youth Day in Madrid, reports LifeSiteNews.
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11-Aug-2011
The first people to arrive for World Youth Day, from Zimbabwe, have reached Toledo, south of Madrid, reports the Vatican Insider from the L'Osservatore Romano.
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10-Aug-2011
Morale among Irish priests in the diocese of Cloyne has been shattered by a lack of leadership since a report on the cover-up of clerical sex abuse was published, a clergyman from the Association of Catholic Priests has claimed, reports Kerryman.ie.
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09-Aug-2011
Pope Paul VI gave serious thought to stepping down when he turned 80 in 1977, reports Vatican Insider. The reasons were that he was tired and weary, but also because he would have liked to follow his own decree that cardinals should leave their effective duties at that age.
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09-Aug-2011
The Lisbon patriarch who recently said there was no fundamental theological obstacle to women's ordinations was summoned by the Papal Secretary of State, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, said a report in Vatican Insider.
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09-Aug-2011
More than 100 priests from Madrid's poorest parishes have added their voices to a growing protest at the cost of Pope Benedict's visit to Madrid next week, estimated at $85m, reports the Guardian.
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09-Aug-2011
England's most senior Catholic cleric has condemned widespread rioting across the country as "shocking", reports the Catholic News Agency.
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04-Aug-2011
The Jesuits have sold the historic St Cuthbert Gospel - believed the oldest intact book produced in Europe - to the British Library for A$14 million, reports the Catholic News Service.
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08-Aug-2011
Pope Benedict has called for peace in Syria and urged the government there to respect "the legitimate aspirations" of its citizens, reports the Catholic News Agency.
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11-Aug-2011
A Colombian court has ordered the Church to pay the parents of two children abused by a priest $240,000, a first in the devoutly Catholic country, said an AFP report in the West Australian.
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08-Aug-2011
The Archdiocese of Rio de Janeiro has clarified a recent claim by the city's mayor that the 2013 World Youth Day will be held in Rio, saying he was simply expressing the wishes of the people in the city, reports the Catholic News Agency.
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Regulars
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11-Aug-2011
As the Church and aid agencies from around the world grapple with how they can respond to the plight of people facing starvation in East Africa, one woman tells what it was like for her and her family walking from Somalia to Kenya for survival, reports the Catholic News Service.
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10-Aug-2011
Ted Richardson first noticed how tough life was for foreign seafarers when he saw a group of them catching catfish and scavenging for shellfish around Brisbane's Fisherman Islands, reports the Catholic Leader.
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09-Aug-2011
Ben Frize from near Newcastle has just returned from 15 months teaching in a secondary school in Tanzania. While this experience was significantly different from teaching in the Hunter Valley or England, it was, in some ways, the same, reports Tracey Edstein in Aurora.
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08-Aug-2011
This year is the 90th anniversary of the founding of the Legion of Mary,a lay apostolate whose members – “legionaries” – actively commit themselves to the spiritual welfare of their neighbours. It was begun in Dublin in 1921 by a group of like-minded friends but it was a civil servant, Frank Duff, who formed it into its distinctive apostolic endeavour, reports the Catholic Herald.
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07-Aug-2011
After decades of studying iconic paintings and hundreds of works of fine art, British art historian and author Sr Wendy Beckett said her two recently published books are her most explicitly Catholic works to date, reports NCR Online.
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11-Aug-2011
Today is International Youth Day and Fr Chris Riley's Youth off the Streets has called on Australians to remember the 36,000 homeless children in Australia. The website carries details of special programs the organsiation has planned to mark today.
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10-Aug-2011
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09-Aug-2011
Professor Scott Prasser, Executive Director of the Public Policy Institute at the Australian Catholic University, talks about how to keep Parliament accountable.
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08-Aug-2011
The Mary MacKillop Foundation is hosting its annual fundraising dinner on Thursday night. This website has full details of the foundation's activities and plans, including the Travelling Sisters Roadshow.
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07-Aug-2011
Catholic Mission has uploaded an interview with Sr Maureen Elliott on the famine in East Africa, to help raise funds for its appeal to help the starving people of this region.
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11-Aug-2011
This is a marvellous, British-French, animated movie, based on a script written in 1956 by the famed director and actor, Jacques Tati. It brilliantly recreates Tati’s life in imaginary form, and is not to be missed.
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09-Aug-2011
This is a serious film about Depression. We are introduced to Walter Black, married with two children, who has sunk into depression and cannot find a way out. Many will be absorbed by the struggle of a man trying to deal with his inner conflicts and his alternate self by the use of a toy beaver puppet.
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08-Aug-2011
This American science fiction film returns us to some time before the The Planet of the Apes (1968), which was the title of the ground-breaking fiction film that ended with victorious apes leaving humans with the remnants of their civilization. This film is a prequel to it, but also relates historically to the series that has followed. However, it has an original tale to tell.
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10-Aug-2011
Latin is a practical language well suited to the engineers and soldiers of the Roman empire. But how has this pragmatism influenced Western Christianity? Encounter delves into the language, it's history and its place in the Christian story.
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11-Aug-2011
When I wrote a few months ago about the enduring legacy of Blessed John Paul II, in particular the WYD that he began to hold every three years around the world during his pontificate, several posts that followed were severely critical, writes Francis Phillips in the Catholic Herald.
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10-Aug-2011
When a letter appeared in the SMH last month claiming that all Catholics are creationists and are guilty of rejecting "the overwhelming weight of scientific evidence against creationism," I felt compelled to respond,writes Neil Ormerod in ABC Online.
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09-Aug-2011
The Census will play a central role in the planning of the next Federal election. Past results show that while much of Labor's working class base has abandoned it, a solid base of Catholics remains. But many of these supporters are now standing near the door bemused or angry, writes Brian Lawrence in Eureka Street.
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08-Aug-2011
The Gillard government is now in very stormy waters over its "Malaysia Solution", simply because the rule of law and the separation of powers do not readily yield to the sound bites of populist sentiment and the fear tactics of politicians. The wheels of the law turn slowly, writes Fr Frank Brennan in Ucanews.
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07-Aug-2011
I cannot simply ignore George Weigel's recent article on Ireland and the Church. It starts with an opening sentence which, though certainly striking, is quite simply wildly untrue, writes William Oddie in the Catholic Herald.
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07-Aug-2011
A pictorial souvenir of the canonisation of St Mary MacKillop will be launched today in North Sydney by the Sisters of St Joseph and St Paul's Publications.
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