News - National
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18-Aug-2011
The Government should listen to public sentiment and scrap its Malaysian and Manus Island deals before more refugees suffer needlessly in mandatory detention, the St Vincent de Paul Society National Council of Australia said in a statement.
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18-Aug-2011
Police are investigating 10 more cases of alleged abuse by convicted and jailed Christian Brother Robert Best, who taught at St Joseph's College in Geelong in the 1980s, reports the Geelong Advertiser.
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17-Aug-2011
Father Chris Sheehy, parish priest in the Sydney suburb of Rosebery, Judicial Vicar of the Regional Tribunal of Sydney (NSW and ACT) and director of the Tribunal of the Archdiocese of Sydney, was mourned at a funeral Mass last week, reports the Catholic Weekly.
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News - International
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17-Aug-2011
Theologians can be a "curse and affliction upon the church," according to the US bishops' top official on doctrine, if their work is not grounded in church teaching and an active faith life, and ends up promoting "doctrinal and moral error", reports the National Catholic Reporter.
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18-Aug-2011
The Independent Catholic News has published the World Youth Day 2011 financial data, showing a spend of around $69 million which it said was "completely self-financed".
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18-Aug-2011
The best way to maintain a strong faith is to acknowledge that it is weak, New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan told pilgrims gathered for World Youth Day catechesis, reports the Catholic News Service.
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Regulars
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18-Aug-2011
A vocations fair at WYD has opened many young pilgrims' minds to new ways of thinking about the calling. As one pilgrim said, it includes both single and married life. Catholic News Service reports.
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18-Aug-2011
Almost 50 years ago there was the absurdly specific title, Santa Claus vs the Martians. Now we have the A-budget entertainment that takes the old conventions of the western and 1950s alien invasion melodramas. Put them together and, presto, Cowboys and Aliens.
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18-Aug-2011
Sending asylum seekers to be processed in another country is politically sanctioned people-trafficking and it is a failure in the moral credibility of a wealthy nation, writes Clare Condon SGS in the Good Oil.
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18-Aug-2011
The Bishop of Parramatta, Most Rev Anthony Fisher OP, speaks about the Australian World Youth Day Gathering in Madrid on August 16.
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