News - National
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16-Aug-2011
The report into the effectiveness of government spending on indigenous programs should be a wake up call to get it right, the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Catholic Council (NATSICC) said in a statement.
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14-Aug-2011
The Victorian Attorney-General says he hopes to make a decision on whether to hold an inquiry into sexual abuse at Catholic schools in coming weeks, reports the ABC.
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14-Aug-2011
Catholics in the Melbourne suburb of Collingwood are bracing themselves to battle to save their fire-gutted heritage church, with the Melbourne Archdiocese making a new application to pull down the shell, reports the Age.
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16-Aug-2011
Politics in Australia has become a popularity contest at the expense of ethical and moral standards - and in some cases at the expense of humanity, says former Liberal leader Dr John Hewson, the Catholic Weekly reports.
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15-Aug-2011
The Sydney Catholic schools system will introduce a teacher transfer program to remote schools similar to the one likely to be ditched by the state government when it gives state school principals the right to hire staff, reports the Daily Telegraph.
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15-Aug-2011
A coalition of religious, ethnic, health and community groups - whose backers include Cardinal George Pell - will be launched in Sydney next month, aiming to prevent the kind of violence that occured in London this month, reports the Sydney Morning Herald.
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14-Aug-2011
Nearly 300 young people from the Catholic diocese of Parramatta are gearing up for the experience of a lifetime as they prepare for World Youth Day, reports the Parramatta Advertiser.
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14-Aug-2011
Perth's retiring Archbishop Barry Hickey said he regrets not having been more outspoken on social issues because of fears grants to the Church could have been cut if it was too critical of government policies, reports the West Australian.
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11-Aug-2011
An ACT man accused of defrauding his former employer, the Catholic Education Office, of more than $1 million, is facing 153 criminal charges, reports the Canberra Times.
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News - International
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17-Aug-2011
The Vatican has published online more than 70 pages of documents which, it said, prove the Vatican had no knowledge of a priest's sexual misconduct in the US until he and his religious order petitioned for his laicisation, reports the Catholic News Service.
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17-Aug-2011
Cardinal George Pell is certain that the Church in Spain will benefit from the World Youth Day, because "God is at work", reports the Catholic News Agency.
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17-Aug-2011
Archbishop Philip Wilson linked the World Youth Day theme, ‘Planted and built up in Jesus Christ, firm in the faith’ with the life of St Mary of the Cross MacKillop on the first day of WYD catechesis in Madrid, reports the Catholic Weekly.
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17-Aug-2011
Spanish police have arrested a Mexican chemistry student for allegedly plotting to gas anti-Pope protesters at Madrid's World Youth Day, reports BBC.
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16-Aug-2011
Hundreds of thousands of pilgrims crammed into central Madrid for a giant open-air Mass Tuesday, launching a million-strong World Youth Day, said an AFP report in the West Australian.
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16-Aug-2011
Australian pilgrims in wheelchairs "strolled the cobblestone alleys of the old city (of Jerusalem), pushing wheelchairs and dodging potential pickpockets", under the guidance of Cardinal George Pell, reports the Catholic Weekly.
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16-Aug-2011
Over 3,000 Australians, 24 bishops and performers including Gary Pinto and Fr Rob Galea gathered at Madrid's sports stadium for the Australian gathering for World Youth Day, the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference said in a statement.
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15-Aug-2011
More than 130,000 young people from across the world are in Spain's 65 dioceses, for the "Days in the Diocese" program that preceded the start of World Youth Day later today, reports the Catholic News Agency.
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15-Aug-2011
Ireland wants the Church to hand over cash and real estate towards a A$1.9 billion child-abuse compensation, said a Bloomberg report in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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15-Aug-2011
The average age of 480,000 students from across the globe registered for the World Youth Day is 22 and they will join at least as many Spaniards at the event, reports Vatican Insider.
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14-Aug-2011
Young people can find themselves at the margins in the local church but at World Youth Day they can meet peers and reflect on how God wants them to live, reports the Catholic News Service.
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14-Aug-2011
More than a million young Catholics are expected to crowd into Madrid this week to celebrate World Youth Day, ahead of the Pope's arrival on Thursday, reports the Telegraph.co.uk.
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11-Aug-2011
A new report is expected to reveal how 20 priests abused hundreds of children in a diocese in Ireland's County Donegal over 40 years, reports the Irish Examiner.
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16-Aug-2011
In less than two weeks, car bomb attacks have hit three churches in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, and the city's archbishop laments that Christians' security concerns are not a priority for the government, reports the Catholic News Agency.
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15-Aug-2011
The Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro will host the World Youth Day in 2013, the Vatican spokesman has confirmed, reports the Catholic News Agency.
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Regulars
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17-Aug-2011
I was a Columban seminarian studying in Chicago when I was asked to go to Taiwan for two years. The purpose of this overseas assignment was for me to live and work side by side with experienced Columban missionaries and learn about their life and faith, writes Taaremon Matauea in St Columbans Mission Society newsletter.
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16-Aug-2011
A recent American study looked at why young adults are leaving the church, and the first reason the study gave was poor preaching. A symposium in New Orleans has examined how to improve this key aspect of the Catholic experienece, reports the Catholic News Service.
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15-Aug-2011
The late Formula One driver Ayrton Senna, a Brazilian Catholic, is the subject of an acclaimed new documentary. Senna dedicated some of his most incredible drives to God and the epitaph on his gravestone reads: "Nothing can separate me from God", reports the Australian.
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14-Aug-2011
Life for women religious in the United States is in labor, undergoing birth pangs from which new life will emerge. That was the message Dominican Sr Barbara Reid (pictured)delivered last week to more than 600 sisters gathered here for the annual assembly of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, reports NCR Online.
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17-Aug-2011
WYD 2011 has its own Youtube channel, with a broad and entertaining range of videos that capture the joy and passion of the world-wide gathering Madrid.
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16-Aug-2011
Campion College is Australia's only liberal arts tertiary college, offering a higher education in the Catholic tradition. Campion began teaching its bachelor of arts in the liberal arts program in 2006.
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15-Aug-2011
In August and September, Caritas supporters right around Australia will take a stand in solidarity with the world’s poor. This website has a video from the South Pacific, plus details of petitions and other activities.
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14-Aug-2011
Today is the Feast of the Assumption of Mary. This Youtube video presents a tribute and story of this Feast.
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17-Aug-2011
There have been many attempts to bring Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre to the big screen. Now there is an adaptation of Jane Eyre which is truly cinematic: it dispenses with reliance on the spoken word, and depends instead on the power of pictures.
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17-Aug-2011
Inter-faith dialogue is essential to life, writes Fr Brian Vale in the St Columbans Mission Society newsletter.
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16-Aug-2011
The media coverage leading up to nearly every World Youth Day follows a pretty similar trajectory. It certainly has for each of the WYD events I’ve covered, and it’s happened again with Madrid, writes Tim Drake in the National Catholic Register.
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15-Aug-2011
Sometimes it is the unwelcome passage of years, or the banal paraphernalia or the unbridled consumerism of children's birthday parties today which make us dread or despise birthdays and anniversaries, writes Anna Krohn (pictured) in Catholic Women's League Australia.
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14-Aug-2011
If two people do deeply love each other, why should they not have the lifelong security marriage gives, irrespective of sex? While that is a difficult proposition to refute respectfully, it may be more rationally refined, writes James Foley, the Catholic Bishop of Cairns, in the Australian.
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16-Aug-2011
This Sunday a Festival of Refugees will be held in St Kilda, Melbourne to celebrate the positive and creative contributions made by refugees and asylum seekers to Australian society. The festival is a joint initiative of Act for Peace and the Victorian Council of Churches, in partnership with Port Phillip Council.
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15-Aug-2011
At 10am today a rally in support of marriage will be held at Parliament House, Canberra. Organised by the Australian Family Assoication, the rally is being timed to coincide with a call for MPs to report to Parliament on the views of their electorate on same-sex marriage, due to be heard tomorrow.
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14-Aug-2011
Tomorrow night, Social Policy Directions presents a public forum in Melbourne on Australian Aid and its effectiveness. The forum is presented by Marc Purcell, Executive Director Australian Council for International Development.
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